Browsing 2007-08 Mershon Center Speakers and Conferences by Title
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The Credibility of International Commitments
Tomz, Michael ( 2008-02-01 )In this lecture, Tomz will present material from "The Credibility of International Commitments," a multi-year project supported by an NSF CAREER grant in which he examines what makes threats and promises believable ... -
Deliberative Democracy in Action: The Case of the Citizens Assembly
Thompson, Dennis ( 2007-11-09 )Thompson is the author with Amy Gutmann of Why Deliberative Democracy? (Princeton, 2004), which explores the most widely debated conception of democracy in recent years -- the idea that citizens or their representatives ... -
'Each Algerian Must Feel Palestinian': 1967, 1968, and Muslim/Jewish Relations in France
Mandel, Maud ( 2008-05-09 )Maud Mandel is an Associate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at Brown University. She specializes in modern Jewish history and has focused particularly on the 20th-century French Jewish experience. -
Economies of Affect: Memory, Emotion and International Politics
Ross, Andrew A. G. ( 2007-10-17 )Ross is working on a book, Economies of Affect: Memory, Emotion, and International Politics, which puts forward a new perspective on passion in international politics. He sees political passion as emotion-laden environments, ... -
Environmental security expert to speak at Ohio State
Becker, Cathy ( 2007-09-25 )Growth, crisis and renewal of societies is the topic of a lecture by a leading expert in environmental security on Tuesday, October 2, at noon at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave., on ... -
Explaining Variation and Persistence: Asia’s Cultural Approach to International Cooperation
Jetschke, Anja ( 2007-11-01 )Jetschke, an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Freiberg, is working on her second book, Explaining Variation and Persistence: Asia’s Cultural Approach to International Cooperation. The ... -
The Flows of Authority in Intergovernmental Organizations
Peterson, M.J. ( 2008-05-06 )M.J. Peterson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Her interests include world politics, international institutions, international political economy, and technology and ... -
For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War
Leffler, Melvyn ( 2008-02-08 )He is author most recently of an analysis of the Cold War, For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War. Drawing on extensive research in American and Soviet archives, Leffler offers ... -
Forbidden Fruit: Counterfactuals and International Relations
Lebow, Richard Ned ( 2008-02-18 )Richard Ned Lebow is the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. His research is in the intersections of history, psychology and political science, and he uses historical evidence ... -
The Future of Islamist Militancy: A Theoretical and Historical Footnote
Gerges, Fawaz ( 2008-04-03 )Fawaz Gerges holds the Christian A. Johnson Chair in International Affairs and Arab and Muslim Politics at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. He is author of the recently published paperback edition Journey of the ... -
The Global Cold War
Westad, Odd Arne ( 2008-01-08 )Odd Arne Westad is Professor of international History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and one of the world's leading experts on the history of the Cold War. His main fields of interests are ... -
Have Governments Gone Too Far?
Rudra, Nita ( 2008-05-23 )Nita Rudra is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at University of Pittsburgh. Her teaching and research interests include international political ... -
Historical Origins of U.S. Intelligence
Bucknam, Anita ( 2008-03-06 )Anita Bucknam is the CIA Officer in Residence for 2006-07 and 2007-08 at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies. She is teaching a variety of intelligence-related courses during her time here, including ... -
International Commercial Arbitration in China: CIETAC Practice and Procedure
Walker, Galal; Li, Ruiyue ( 2007-12-06 )The China International Economic Trade and Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) is the most important arbitration institution in China. CIETAC independently and impartially resolves economic and trade disputes by means of ... -
International Conference on Women in War
Hashamova, Yana; Goscilo, Helena ( 2007-10-26 )The International Conference on Women in War explores the role of women in war from World War II to the present. The conference focuses geographically on Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and the Soviet Union, and the ... -
Iranian Politics and U.S.-Iranian Relations
Yazdi, Ebrahim ( 2008-04-21 )Ebrahim Yazdi is Secretary-General of the Freedom Movement of Iran, which has been declared illegal by some Iranian officials. He has a long history of involvement in Iranian politics, and has been equally praised and ... -
Islam and Democracy: Are They Compatible?
Hunter, Shireen ( 2008-04-08 )Shireen T. Hunter is a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. From September 2005 to August 2007 she was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University and adjunct ... -
'It’s Not a Telescope, It’s a Telephone': Encounters with the Telephone on Early Commercial Sound Recordings
Bauman, Richard ( 2008-04-04 )Richard Bauman is Distinguished Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Communication & Culture, and Anthropology at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is an eclectic scholar, with degrees in English (B.A., ... -
Just Deserts in Iraq: Vengeance for 9/11 and American Public Support for the Iraq War
Liberman, Peter ( 2008-01-24 )Peter Liberman has taught at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York since 1998. He is the author of Does Conquest Pay? The Exploitation of Occupied Industrial Societies (Princeton, ... -
Legal Support in Wartime: Reflections of a Judge Advocate
Warren, Marc ( 2008-02-11 )Marc Warren was appointed as Deputy Chief Counsel for Operations at the Federal Aviation Administration in November 2007. He assists the Chief Counsel in overseeing all aspects of the FAA’s legal activities with ...