Stephen D. Krasner, senior fellow at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and professor of international relations, moderated at an event last week discussing foreign affairs form the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the 2001 September 11th attacks of the WTC.

James Goldgeier, senior fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations and professor of political science at George Washington University, discussed foreign affairs in the years between 11/9/89, when the Berlin Wall fell, and 9/11/01, when the World Trade Center fell, at the kick-off meeting of the World Affairs Council of Northern California on Sunday, Sept. 28, at 3 p.m., at 75 Tuscaloosa Avenue in Atherton.

Goldgeier, who has served as foreign affairs officer at the State Department and the National Security Council, focused on how the lack of priority for foreign policy in the years between these events is shaping the election debates and the agenda for the next president.

Stephen D. Krasner, with his expertise in the area of international relations, moderated these talks.