Browsing 2008-09 Mershon Center Speakers and Conferences by Title
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An Historian Looks at the Future Environment
Murray, Williamson ( 2009-02-18 )Williamson Murray is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Defense Analyses. He studies military and diplomatic history and is currently working on a project that investigates the ability of military institutions to adapt ... -
How Red is the Pink Tide in Hugo Chávez's Venezuela?
Hellinger, Daniel ( 2009-02-16 )President Hugo Chávez has made it his goal to create "21st Century Socialism" in Venezuela. Critics and sympathizers alike wonder just what the president means by this phrase. Chávez has resisted any sweeping definition ... -
Inside the Soviet Alternate Universe
Combs, Dick ( 2008-10-22 )Dick Combs was one of a core group of U.S. foreign service officers who specialized in Soviet and Eastern European affairs during the last three decades of the Cold War. He is author of Inside the Soviet Alternate Universe: ... -
Killing Civilians in War
McMahan, Jeff ( 2008-10-29 )Jeff McMahan is professor of philosophy at Rutgers University. He specializes in normative ethics; practical ethics, including bioethics and international ethics; and political philosophy. He also works occasionally in ... -
The Limits of Empire in the Early Modern World: A Conference in Honor of Geoffrey Parker
Mann, Melanie ( 2009-02-27 )Conference on Diplomacy and Imperial Limitation, Information, Rumor and the Practice of Power -
Living Apart Together: Segregation vs. Mixing as Sources of or Solutions for Intergroup Conflict
Hewstone, Miles ( 2009-02-09 )Miles Hewstone is Professor of Social Psychology and Director of the Oxford Centre for the Study of Intergroup Conflict at Oxford University. His research interests include attribution theory, social cognition, social ... -
Madison's Nightmare: How Executive Power Threatens American Democracy
Shane, Peter M. ( 2009-01-21 )Peter Shane spoke about his book, "Madison's Nightmare: How Executive Power Threatens American Democracy" -
Military Frontiers: A Graduate Symposium
Mann, Melanie ( 2009-05-15 )Military Frontiers: A Graduate Symposium brings together leading graduate students engaged in national academic debate within military history. The conference seeks to revive discussions of the successful "Theatrum ... -
Mirrors and Compasses: An 85th Birthday Symposium for Erika Bourguignon
Mann, Melanie ( 2009-02-20 )Known for pioneering work on the relationship of religious trance to gender roles and social change, Erika Bourguignon set long-term agendas in psychological and psychiatric anthropology, religious studies, women's studies, ... -
The Neglected Taipei Treaty: A New Perspective of Taiwan's Legal Status
Lin, Man-houng ( 2009-04-20 )Man-houng Lin has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica since 1990 and Professor of History at National Taiwan Normal University since 1991. In 2008, she was named president of ... -
Negotiating Democracy in Muslim West Africa: Sahelian Trajectories
Villalon, Leonardo ( 2009-04-28 )Leonardo A. Villalón is Director of the Center for African Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. His research specialization is in contemporary African politics, and he has ... -
Neither Global nor National: Novel Assemblages of Territory, Authority and Rights
Sassen, Saskia ( 2009-04-21 )Saskia Sassen is Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and a member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Her new books are A Sociology of Globalization (W.W. Norton, 2007) and Territory, Authority, ... -
The New Militarism
O'Connell, Mary Ellen ( 2008-10-03 )O'Connell's primary research focuses on international legal regulation of the use of force and conflict and dispute resolution, especially peaceful resolution of disputes prior to an escalation to armed conflict. -
The Nuremberg Trials and the Making of the Soviet Union as an International Power
Hirsch, Francine ( 2009-04-13 )Francine Hirsch is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her interests include Russian and Soviet history, modern European history, and comparative empires. Hirsch is author of Empire ... -
Ostpolitik, 1969-1974: the European and Global Response
Fink, Carole ( 2009-05-11 )Fink will be speaking about her most recent book, Ostpolitik, 1969-1974: European and Global Responses (Cambridge University Press, 2009), edited with Bernd Schaeffer. The book examines the worldwide effects of West German ... -
A Peaceful Europe? European Exceptionalism in the 20th Century
Nehring, Holger ( 2009-03-04 )Holger Nehring teaches contemporary European History at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. His research interests lie in the social, political and cultural history of post-World War II Western Europe, with a ... -
The Perils of Intimacy: Harry Hopkins as Franklin D. Roosevelt's National Security Adviser
Costigliola, Frank ( 2009-04-17 )Frank Costigliola is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut specializing in 20th century U.S. history and U.S. foreign relations. His recent publications include "Broken Circle: The Isolation of Franklin ... -
Political and Cultural Citizenship: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation in Iran
Moallem, Minoo ( 2009-02-24 )Minoo Moallem is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at University of Califorina-Berkeley. She is the author of Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Cultural Politics of Patriarchy ... -
The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Regimes In Transition Economies
Frieden, Jeffry ( 2009-03-06 )Jeffry Frieden is Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University. He specializes in the politics of international monetary and financial relations. Frieden's most recent book is Global Capitalism: Its ... -
A Political-Institutional Model of Real Exchange Rates, Competitiveness, and Division of Labor
Iversen, Torben ( 2009-01-30 )Torben Iversen is Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Government at Harvard University. Iversen's research and teaching interests include comparative political economy, electoral ...