Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, former National Security Advisor under President Bill Clinton, enumerated and defended many of the more controversial moves of the Clinton administration's foreign policy and outlined what thought were the major challenges for the Bush administration.

"The purpose of American foreign policy in this new global age is to make the larger forces that are shaping the world work for us, not against us," he said.

Berger opened with a light reference to the announcement that Lawrence H. Summers--one of his Clinton-adminstration colleagues--was selected as the 27th president of the University.

"I'm really here as the advance man for Larry Summers," said Berger, to the laughter of audience members.

Berger quickly moved into his main topic--discussing globalization and America's role in a world that is very different from the "monolithic" mindset of the Cold War.

"There's a red blob and a blue blob, and as the red blob gets bigger the blue blob gets smaller" said Berger, explaining the mentality of the two major superpowers.

Berger said he believes that with globalization, instead of this "zero-sum" scenario, America should now be thinking in terms of "win-win."

"While globalization is inexorable--we can't stop the world, we can't get off--it's not an elixir for the world's problems" he said. "Our challenge is to harness the unique qualifications of globalization."