Press Releases 2005
U.S. Consulate Hosts Speaker Program on U.S. Foreign Policy
October 17, 2005
Jeffrey Coker, Professor of History at the Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee, participated in a speaker program consisting of a series of lectures on U.S. foreign policy in Montenegro from October 10-14.
Over 250 students of the University of Montenegro in Podgorica, Bijelo Polje, Niksic and Budva, and young politicians from all parliamentary political parties took this opportunity to learn about U.S. history and foreign policy. The speaker shared his views about the complexity of conducting foreign policy by the U.S., presenting its idealistic and realistic aspects and motives. Coker spoke about humanitarian, philanthropy and human rights aspects of a foreign policy action and interest-oriented, politically and economically driven motives. In a moderate, scientific way, he also spoke about concrete historic periods and actions of U.S. foreign policy including the war in Iraq and the NATO campaign in Yugoslavia.