Browsing 2005-06 Mershon Center Speakers and Conferences by Title
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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 ... -
Stalin's Role in Ending World War II with Japan, 1945 / Japan's Role in Ending World War II, 1945
Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi ( 2006-02-01 )Dr. Hasegawa gives back-to-back lectures, first on Stalin's role in ending World War II, and second on Japan's role. -
Strained Embrace: The United States and the Arab World in the 1970s
Yaqub, Salim ( 2005-11-04 )Dr. Salim Yaqub is an assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago. His first book is Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East , which was published by the University of ... -
Sustaining U.S. Alliances and Partnerships
Flanagan, Stephen ( 2006-04-13 )Stephen Flanagan, director of the Institute for Strategic Studies at National Defense University, argued that the post-9/11 world has forced U.S. policymakers to rethink their global priorities. As such, the traditional ... -
Syria: Prospects for Reform
Lust-Okar, Ellen ( 2006-04-27 )Ellen Lust-Okar is one of a few scholars who have examined the prospects for political reform and democratization in Syria. Given the delicate stability of Syria's authoritarian regime and the weakness of the political ... -
Theorizing Suicide Terrorism: Some Preliminary Findings
Bloom, Mia ( 2006-01-30 )Bloom explained that suicide terrorism is distinct from terrorism, more generally. She suggested that suicide terrorism constitutes a “second iteration tactic” to accomplish the goals of terrorism; that it is always ... -
U.S. National Security Policy Under Eisenhower and Kennedy
McMahon, Robert ( 2006-05-04 )Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy had the same assessment of the Soviet Union during the Cold War rivalry that dominated world politics in the latter half of the 20 th century: that its implacable ... -
Understanding Hamas' Electoral Victory in Palestine: Causes and Consequences
Brynen, Rex ( 2006-05-09 )Rex Brynen, chair of the Middle East Studies Program at McGill University, argues that Hamas won an overwhelming victory in Palestine not because it ran on an Islamist platform, and perhaps contrary to conventional ... -
The US-EU Divide: Problems and Prospects
Lutzeler, Paul Michael ( 2006-02-20 )According to Paul Lutzeler, the US-EU divide can be analyzed most effectively by looking at cultural, political and economic differences. In his talk at the Mershon Center , Lutzeler examined whether, despite these ... -
Using Event Data to Test a Rational Choice Model of Aerial Hijackings
LaFree, Gary ( 2005-10-14 )Gary LaFree is a Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice and a founding member of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland, College Park. Much of his recent work has dealt with ... -
The Wartime Election of 2004
Weisberg, Herbert ( 2006-01-13 )Scholars from around the country convened on the Mershon Center to discuss the “War on Terror” and the US presidential election of 2004 that took place amidst the “war on terror.” What made this election so unique is ... -
What is Anti-Americanism: Tendency, Prejudice or Ideology?
O'Connor, Brendan ( 2006-03-02 )Brendon O'Connor is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Public Policy at Griffith University, Australia. Currently his main area of research is anti-Americanism. -
Women's Rights, Warlords, and the U.S. Occupation of Afghanistan
Joya, Malalai ( 2006-03-10 )Malalai Joya was an elected representative to the December 2003 Loya Jirga (Grand Council) convention in Kabul to create Afghanistan's new constitution. At that meeting she stood up to denounce the prominent presence of ...