http://hdl.handle.net/1811/29325 2013-05-22T10:03:08Z 2013-05-22T10:03:08Z Grimsley, Mark Herrmann, Richard O'Connell, Mary Ellen Webber, Sabra http://hdl.handle.net/1811/32014 2013-01-10T17:26:06Z 2004-05-11T00:00:00Z

The United States and Iraq: Why We're There, Where We're Going: An Educational Forum Grimsley, Mark; Herrmann, Richard; O'Connell, Mary Ellen; Webber, Sabra In April 2004, the United States suffered more casualities in Iraq than during the entire period of declared hostilities last year. Almost every aspect of American occupation remains controversial. Has the removal of Saddam Hussein helped the United States in its war on terror? What are the prospects of fostering democracy in Iraq? What are the implications under international law? How does the invasion and occupation appear to people living in other parts of the world, especially the Middle East Streaming audio requires RealPlayer.; The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.

2004-05-11T00:00:00Z Grimsley, Mark Herrmann, Richard O'Connell, Mary Ellen Webber, Sabra Derluguian, Georgi Zubok, Vladislav Brown, John http://hdl.handle.net/1811/32013 2013-01-10T17:26:06Z 2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

American Culture and Anti-Americanism in Russia Derluguian, Georgi; Zubok, Vladislav; Brown, John The Slavic Center is organizing a symposium on “American Culture and Anti-Americanism in Russia” to be held on 7 May 2004 from 2:30-5:00 at the Mershon Center. This event is part of a series of symposia exploring the impact of American culture on various regions of the world. Each of the five area studies centers at OSU, in cooperating with the Mershon Center, will host a meeting dealing with its respective region. Last quarter the Middle East Center organized such a symposium. This quarter the Slavic Center invites a former diplomat, a sociologist, and a political scientist to participate in a panel focused on the impact of American culture on Russian culture and anti- Americanism emerging since the end of the Cold War. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.

2004-05-07T00:00:00Z Derluguian, Georgi Zubok, Vladislav Brown, John Stephan, Alexander http://hdl.handle.net/1811/32012 2013-01-10T17:26:06Z 2004-04-30T00:00:00Z

Exile and Otherness Stephan, Alexander The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.

2004-04-30T00:00:00Z Stephan, Alexander Hopf, Ted Frye, Timothy Hudson, George http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31968 2013-01-10T17:26:06Z 2003-12-05T00:00:00Z

Russia's Parliamentary Elections: What is at stake on December 7th? Hopf, Ted; Frye, Timothy; Hudson, George Several of the Mershon Center’s professors, including Ted Hopf and Timothy Frye, both Political Scientists, and George Hudson, a visiting scholar from Wittenberg University, perform field research in Russia. The day before the parliamentary elections in Russia in December, these three experts discussed the political situation surrounding the elections. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.

2003-12-05T00:00:00Z Hopf, Ted Frye, Timothy Hudson, George Mershon Center for International Security Studies http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31967 2013-01-10T17:26:06Z 2003-10-31T00:00:00Z

Persecution and Conflict in Mediterranean Religions Mershon Center for International Security Studies The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.

2003-10-31T00:00:00Z Mershon Center for International Security Studies Aryal, Joseph Koontz, Thomas Robbins, Paul Sohngen, Brent Thompson, Alex http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31964 2013-01-10T17:26:06Z 2003-10-31T00:00:00Z

Conference on Adaptive Management and Global Climate Change Aryal, Joseph; Koontz, Thomas; Robbins, Paul; Sohngen, Brent; Thompson, Alex Scholars from a variety of disciplines, including Economics, Geography, Political Science, and others, came to Ohio State to discuss the human dimension of climate change during the Adaptive Research and Governance in Climate Change conference. With an eye on the policy-relevant, social scientific study of climate change and attacking the problem with an integrative approach, the conference convened scholars for two days to focus on one question: how to marry the myriad aspects of climate change to develop a policy to improve the current crisis of climate change. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.

2003-10-31T00:00:00Z Aryal, Joseph Koontz, Thomas Robbins, Paul Sohngen, Brent Thompson, Alex Mershon Center for International Security Studies http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31963 2013-01-10T17:26:05Z 2003-10-24T00:00:00Z

United Nations Association Mershon Center for International Security Studies The Mershon Center was the primary sponsor of the Columbus chapter of the United Nations Association’s two-day intercollegiate forum, which asked students to debate the relevance of the United Nations system in the twenty-first century. For two days, delegates from UNA chapters at universities throughout Ohio and neighboring states discussed various aspects of the UN system, including the security council, the role of NGOs, the World Trade Organization, and health care. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.

2003-10-24T00:00:00Z Mershon Center for International Security Studies Williams, Melissa Estlund, David McCormick, John http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31962 2013-01-10T17:26:05Z 2003-10-24T00:00:00Z

Democracy, Citizenship and Legitimacy: A Citizenship Mini-Conference Williams, Melissa; Estlund, David; McCormick, John The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.

2003-10-24T00:00:00Z Williams, Melissa Estlund, David McCormick, John Jenkins, J. Craig Gottlieb, Esther Kukielka-Blaser, Joanna Sikainga, Ahmad Spaulding, Frank Stephan, Halina http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31961 2013-01-10T17:26:05Z 2003-10-03T00:00:00Z

Deprivation, Violence, and Identities: Mapping Contemporary World Conflicts Jenkins, J. Craig; Gottlieb, Esther; Kukielka-Blaser, Joanna; Sikainga, Ahmad; Spaulding, Frank; Stephan, Halina With the collapse of the Soviet Union, many anticipated the advent of a “new world order” of global capitalism, or even an “end to history,” implying that conflicts based on ideology and competing national interests and identities would lose their political relevance in the post-Cold War era. Quite to the contrary, the 1990s saw an upwelling of ethnic and religious violence in locations as disparate as the former Yugoslavia, Central Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. Prior to the events of 9/11, the structure of international relations had still made it possible to imagine that such conflicts had local roots and were thus exclusively of regional consequence. The events of 9/11, however, rendered undeniable the global significance of local ethnic and religious-based differences. It is now an inescapable conclusion that social identities are everywhere threatened from within by local and ethnic formations, conditioned in their response by the prerogatives and ambitions of the state and its actors, and transformed from without by the global flows of capital, popular culture, and transnational ideologies and populations. As features of the contemporary world, deprivation, violence, and identities are but the local manifestations of the conflict between global systems of thought, power, and authority. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.

2003-10-03T00:00:00Z Jenkins, J. Craig Gottlieb, Esther Kukielka-Blaser, Joanna Sikainga, Ahmad Spaulding, Frank Stephan, Halina Belafonte, Harry Near, Holly Johnson Reagon, Bernice Seeger, Pete http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31960 2013-01-10T17:26:05Z 2003-09-10T00:00:00Z

Protest Music As Responsible Citizenship Belafonte, Harry; Near, Holly; Johnson Reagon, Bernice; Seeger, Pete Protest Music As Responsible Citizenship was a special event that studied how music helps to construct the political consciousness of a nation, how songs mobilize thousands of people around issues affecting American life, and how music addresses the role of America in the global context. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.

2003-09-10T00:00:00Z Belafonte, Harry Near, Holly Johnson Reagon, Bernice Seeger, Pete Mershon Center for International Security Studies http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31959 2013-01-10T17:26:05Z 2004-06-23T00:00:00Z

Understanding Global Tensions Mershon Center for International Security Studies The Mershon Center received a $98,000 grant from the National Science Foundation and led a three-day workshop on the causes and consequences of global tensions caused by extremist movements and political violence in the Middle East. The workshop was held in Istanbul at Bogazici University in late June and convened scholars from around the world to study topics such as the influence of religion and ideology and tensions between global and local cultures. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.

2004-06-23T00:00:00Z Mershon Center for International Security Studies Andrews, Julie Yu, Bin Gries, Peter http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31958 2013-01-10T17:26:05Z 2004-06-06T00:00:00Z

The Sino-American Security Dialogue Andrews, Julie; Yu, Bin; Gries, Peter Mershon Center for International Security Studies The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.

2004-06-06T00:00:00Z Andrews, Julie Yu, Bin Gries, Peter Neumann, Iver Doty, Roxanne Lynn Oren, Ido Richter, Jim Larson, Deborah Blum, Douglas Abdelal, Rawi Weldes, Jutta Hopf, Ted Noyes, Dorothy Sterling-Folker, Jennifer Kowert, Paul Sylvan, Don Klotz, Audie Herrera, Yoshiko Fierke, Karin http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31957 2013-01-10T17:26:04Z 2004-05-30T00:00:00Z

Identity Matters...And How Neumann, Iver; Doty, Roxanne Lynn; Oren, Ido; Richter, Jim; Larson, Deborah; Blum, Douglas; Abdelal, Rawi; Weldes, Jutta; Hopf, Ted; Noyes, Dorothy; Sterling-Folker, Jennifer; Kowert, Paul; Sylvan, Don; Klotz, Audie; Herrera, Yoshiko; Fierke, Karin The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.

2004-05-30T00:00:00Z Neumann, Iver Doty, Roxanne Lynn Oren, Ido Richter, Jim Larson, Deborah Blum, Douglas Abdelal, Rawi Weldes, Jutta Hopf, Ted Noyes, Dorothy Sterling-Folker, Jennifer Kowert, Paul Sylvan, Don Klotz, Audie Herrera, Yoshiko Fierke, Karin Hashamova, Yana Stephan, Halina http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31871 2013-01-10T17:26:04Z 2004-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Dark Side of Globalization Hashamova, Yana; Stephan, Halina A recent CIA report estimates that between 45,000 and 50,000 women and children are brought to the United States every year under false pretenses and are forced to work as prostitutes, abused laborers or servants. More than 700,000 people all around the world are trafficked every year for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labor. Besides being a human rights issue, trafficking in human beings is a public health concern due to the widespread infection of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. Additionally, it is a transnational organized crime and a socioeconomic issue. In Eastern Europe, a recognized “supply” and “demand” region, the practice is fed by economic disparity, corruption, lax law enforcement and is tied to global criminal economies. The estimated $15-billion international turnover from trafficking is on a par with the drug trade and an international crisis. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.

2004-05-14T00:00:00Z Hashamova, Yana Stephan, Halina Urban, Hugh http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31870 2013-01-10T17:26:04Z 2004-04-16T00:00:00Z

Religion, Secrecy and Security: Religious Freedom Urban, Hugh Mershon is funding a small conferenceon the topic of religion, secrecy and security in a global context that will offer an explicitly comparative, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach to the problems of secrecy and religion. The scholars involved will be drawn not only from the field of religious studies, but also from political science, sociology, law, anthropology and communications. Tentatively proposed for Autumn 2003, the conference will involve an intensive discussion of papers submitted by twelve participants and two public keynote lectures for the University community at large. The conference will address the following key questions: Why do some religious traditions insist that certain aspects of their beliefs and practices remain secret and closed to outsiders? Is secrecy a potentially dangerous force within religious traditions, either as a means of concealing immoral activities (such as pedophilia or other sexual crimes) or as a means of conducting subversive and violent activities (such as terrorism)? Conversely, how far should government agencies be allowed to go in order to monitor or infiltrate religious groups that may pose a threat to other individuals or to national security? And to what degree do such groups retain the rights to privacy and freedom from government surveillance? These questions have become all the more critical in the wake of recent events within the United States itself. The spread of terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda have generated a whole new wave of fears --not only the fear of infiltration by secretive and destructive religious movements, but also the fear that this will in turn lead to the loss of privacy and freedom for many alternative religious groups who now face more ever intense government scrutiny within an increasingly "surveilled" society. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.

2004-04-16T00:00:00Z Urban, Hugh Sikainga, Ahmad http://hdl.handle.net/1811/31869 2013-01-10T17:26:04Z 2004-04-16T00:00:00Z

Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Africa Conference Sikainga, Ahmad The Center for African Studies at the Ohio State University will organize a two-day conference in spring 2004 on Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Africa. The conference will bring academics from various disciplinary backgrounds, professionals, and individuals involved in the reconstruction process to examine the reconstruction efforts currently taking place in a number of waraffected African countries. Participants will have an opportunity to share their experiences, to develop strategies of intervention, and to examine and discuss approaches and theoretical paradigms for the study of conflict resolution, reconciliation, democratization, and nation building. The conference will address the following themes: Children in Conflict and Reconstruction, Gender issues in Conflict and Reconstruction, Demobilization and Reintegration of Ex- Combatants, Natural Resources and Conflict, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, and Agriculture and Other Resources During and After Conflict. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.

2004-04-16T00:00:00Z Sikainga, Ahmad