Browsing 2005-06 Mershon Center Speakers and Conferences by Title
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New Systems Theories of World Politics
Wendt, Alexander; Albert, Mathias; Cederman, Lars-Erik ( 2005-09-20 )The New Systems Theories of World Politics conference brings together scholars who rarely collaborate but all work on system-level political phenomena. It is designed to address 5 questions: 1) How do you define “systems” ... -
Occupation, Empire and the Uplifting Principle of Self-Determination: Reflections on the United States
Stephanson, Anders ( 2006-04-27 )Dr. Stephanson is James P. Shenton Associate Professor at Columbia University. He specializes in 20th century American foreign relations as well as history and theory. -
On Gladiator: Does Ancient History Have Anything To Do With Modern Politics?
Allen, Danielle ( 2006-04-07 )The past few years have seen a surge of interest in ancient Greek and Roman cultures. What sparked this recent interest in ancient Greece and Rome? Allen traces American interest in the classics dates back to the Founding ... -
Ostpolitik, 1969-1974: The European and Global Response
Fink, Carole ( 2006-05-12 )Ostpolitik refers to the principle of change through rapprochement. German for “Eastern politics,” the term originated with West German Chancellor Willy Brandt's efforts to normalize relations with East Germany and other ... -
Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation?
Gibson, James ( 2006-02-03 )Gibson presents a paper that directly investigates the hypothesis that truth leads to reconciliation. Based on a survey of 3,700 South Africans in 2001, Gibson gives both “truth” and “reconciliation” conceptual and ... -
The Peacekeepers
Cowan, Paul ( 2006-04-19 )Showing of a powerful documentary about the United Nations mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Known as “Africa's first world war” because of the involvement of nine nations in the region, the fighting began ... -
Political Mobilization in the Absence of a State: Islamism, Nationalism and Sectarianism in Iraq
Dodge, Toby ( 2006-05-16 )Iraq is the first autocratic and Muslim-majority country that the United States has attempted to democratize since Sept. 11. Regime change in Iraq was part of the broader U.S. project to plant democracy in the Middle ... -
Post-Soviet In/Securities: Theory and Practice
Hopf, Ted ( 2005-10-07 )Scholars from the United States , Canada , Ukraine , and Russia will gather to present papers on a broad range of topics. These include the development of civil society in the post-Soviet space; Russia 's electoral ... -
Prelude to War: The American Regular Army in the Twenties and Thirties
Coffman, Edward ( 2006-04-26 )Dr. Coffman speaks on the U.S. regular army in the 1920s and 1930s. -
The Problem of Redundancy Problem: Why More Nuclear Security Forces May Produce Less Nuclear Security
Sagan, Scott ( 2005-11-03 )Much attention has focused since 9/11 on the risk that terrorist organizations might someday steal or purchase nuclear materials or weapons. Most scholars and policy makers assume that increasing the number of security ... -
Prophecy, Politics, and Popular Culture: American Evangelicals and the Middle East
McAlister, Melanie ( 2006-04-11 )Melani McAlister is Associate Professor of American Studies and International Affairs at George Washington University. She writes and teaches about media and popular culture, foreign policy, religion, U.S. cultural history, ... -
The Prospects for Democracy in Iran
Gasiorowski, Mark ( 2006-05-02 )Why did Iran's pro-democracy movement fail? Mark Gasiorowski, director of the International Studies Program at Louisiana State University, argues the movement failed because its leaders opted to pursue incremental, ... -
Public Diplomacy as a Global Phenomenon
Stephan, Alexander; Brown, John ( 2006-04-28 )The Public Diplomacy as a Global Phenomenon Conference took place at the Mershon Center on Friday, 28 April, 2006. The conference was organized by Alexander Stephan (Ohio State University) and John Brown (Georgetown ... -
Race Frontiers: Indian Slavery in Colonial New England
Newell, Margaret ( 2006-02-27 )Historians of slavery and the “construction of race” in America — the emergence of theories of racial inferiority and superiority and the translation of racialized categories into law and other institutions — generally ... -
Realism and Constructivism: From Debate to Dialogue
Wendt, Alexander; Jackson, Patrick; Nexon, Daniel ( 2006-01-20 )Conference on Realist and Constructivist International Relations theory held at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies. -
Redemption Through Blood: The White Line Terrorist Movement in Mississippi, 1875
Fellman, Michael ( 2005-11-07 )In contrast with the prevailing narrative, which depicts the destruction of Reconstruction as an elitist and conservative event, Fellman argues that it was a revivalist and terrorist white supremacist popular movement, ... -
Regime Change and the Balance of Power
Owen, John ( 2006-02-23 )John M. Owen IV (Ph.D., Harvard University) is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. His lecture discusses the balance of power and regime change. -
Reina Pennington lectures to the Graduate Workshop on the History of Armed Coercion
Pennington, Reina ( 2005-10-06 )Reina Pennington (Ph.D., University of South Carolina) is a former Air Force officer and specialist in Soviet aviation; she worked as an intelligence officer in F-4 and F-16 squadrons, as the Aggressor Intelligence ... -
Shiite Politics and the Future of Iraq
Cole, Juan ( 2005-10-31 )Juan R. I. Cole is Professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History at the History Department of the University of Michigan. He has written extensively about modern Islamic movements in Egypt, the Persian Gulf, ... -
Sovereignty and the UFO
Wendt, Alexander; Duvall, Raymond ( 2006-01-19 )Why it is that modern states do not take Unidentified Flying Objects seriously? Wendt and Duvall offer what they call an “epistemology of UFO ignorance” to explain why modern states systematically resist the notion that ...