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The annual Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science was established by Charles T. and Kathleen Manatt together with Thomas and Elizabeth Phelps in 2002.

This prestigious lecture, usually held in the fall, brings to campus a prominent practitioner or scholar to address the ISU community on issues of significance to the United States and to Iowa in international political economy.

If Not Us, Who: Human Dignity in the 21st Century

Senator Ben Sasse

Political and Economic Transition at Home and Abroad

Ali Velshi

The Dynamics of ISIS: Its Origins and Implications for the United States

Malcolm Nance

Our Divided Political Heart: Campaign 2016

E.J. Dionne, Jr.

How Far Have We Come, What Lies Ahead?

Nirupama Rao

50 Years of French-German Friendship

François M. Delattre and Peter Ammon

American Foreign Policy after Iraq and Afghanistan

Lee H. Hamilton

Whither the Global Economy?

Kazuhide Ishikawa

U.S.-Spanish Relations in the 21st Century

His Excellency Jorge Dezcallar de Mazarrendo

A Canadian Conversation with the New U.S. President

The Honorable Lloyd Axworthy

Trends and Issues in the World Marketplace

Frederick W. Smith

Rethinking America's Future Security

Joseph Biden

A View from the Senate: Foreign Policy and Economic Issues

Chuck Hagel

The European Union and the Global Economy

Jan Eliasson

Outside Looking in: International Perspective on U.S. Foreign Policy

Luis Ernesto Derbez Bautista

Global Development, Trade Liberalization and the American Response

Charles Manatt