On October 20, 2009, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs will honor Mark A. Wallace, President and Chief Executive Officer of Texas Children's Hospital, with its prestigious Houston Leadership Award. Mr. Wallace will be the 17th recipient of JINSA's Houston Leadership Award, created to honor and recognize outstanding Houstonians. U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Edward G. Winters, III, will deliver the keynote address. Admiral Winters is the commander of the Naval Special Warfare Command, home of the famous SEAL naval commandos that are one of our country's greatest assets in the Global War on Terrorism.

This widely attended event will take place October 20, 2009 beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Westin Galleria, 5060 W. Alabama, Houston, Texas. For further information, contact Jennifer Naedler at 713-818-2607.

The Fall 2009 issue of The Journal of International Security Affairs will hit bookstores, newsstands and (for all subscribers) your mailbox the second week of October. This issue features 11 powerful articles covering the subjects of "Revitalizing Public Diplomacy" and "Eurasia, Revisited." The articles cover a range of issues from the lack of substance in America's broadcasting to majority Muslim states to Russia's inevitable decline. Highlights include an article by former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Colleen Graffy on the necessity for America's public diplomacy efforts to keep up with changes in the global media environment. We have an exclusive adapted chapter from the latest book by George Friedman, the founder and chief executive officer of the global intelligence company STRATFOR - The Next Hundred Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Doubleday, 2009). Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies makes a case for targeting terrorist media operations. Jeff M. Smith of the American Foreign Policy Council examines the struggle for influence in the "post Soviet space." Other authors of note include Helle Dale of the Heritage Foundation, J. Michael Waller of the Institute of World Politics. Discussing India's relations with the United States, Pakistan and the fight against terrorists is Amb. Meera Shankar, India's ambassador to the United States and the subject of this issue's "Perspective" interview.

Three articles from The Journal of International Security Affairs will be used in course material for the 2010 academic year.  Two of the articles, Adm. Eric T. Olson's "A Balanced Approach to Irregular Warfare" and Brian Mazanec's "The Art of (Cyber) War", are from the Spring 2009 issue.  "Nuclear Deterrence for a New Century" by Dr. Keith B. Payne from the Spring 2006 issue will also be used.

On July 7, Ilan Berman, vice president for policy at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, D.C., briefed a private audience of JINSA members on the troubling situation inside Iran.

Click here to listen to the briefing