2004-05 Mershon Center Speakers and Conferences

Distributive Politics and Social Protection in the 21st Century

Rudra, Nita; Nooruddin, Irfan; Simmons, Joel; Kaufman, Robert; Scanlon, T. M.; Cook, Linda; Wilson, Sarah; Haggard, Stephan; Brooks, Sarah; Béland, Daniel; van Wijnbergen, Christina; Weyland, Kurt; Kurtz, Marcus ( 2004-10-29 )

Dramatic economic and demographic transitions have prompted societies around the world to renegotiate the social bargains underpinning national social protection systems. In the process, social welfare reforms have ...

The Pathology of War Plans: The Lessons of 1914

Hamilton, Richard; Herwig, Holger; Foerster, Stig; Gooch, John; Kronenbitter, Guenther; Menning, Bruce; Neilson, Keith; Porch, Douglas ( 2005-03-05 )

The major European powers, Austria-Hungary , Britain , France , Germany , Italy , and Russia , developed war plans in the years prior to the August 1914 outbreak. These plans, all of them, proved to be seriously flawed. ...

America in East Asia: Symposium on American Cultural Influences in China, Japan, and Korea

Yu, George; Tsutsui, William; Cumings, Bruce ( 2005-02-05 )

Cultural Circulations: The Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas

Shuman, Amy; Anagnostu, Georgios; Gottlieb, Esther; Horowitz, Amy; Noyes, Dorothy; Wyszomirski, Margaret ( 2005-01-28 )

Bridging the Gap Between Social Science and Leadership Studies

Kubicek, Brett ( 2004-12-03 )

Brett Kubicek (PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Political Science whose inter-disciplinary research draws on a wide variety of sub-fields, including comparative politics, leadership ...