Browsing 2009-10 Mershon Center Speakers and Conferences by Title
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1989 and the Key to the Present
Engel, Jeffrey ( 2010-01-22 )Jeffrey Engel is associate professor of history and public policy at the Bush School of Government & Public Service. He is also the Evelyn and Ed F. Kruse Faculty Fellow and Director of Programming for the Scowcroft Institute ... -
Afghanistan: The Choices
Andrle, Fred; Herrmann, Richard; Mansoor, Peter; Mueller, John; Payind, Alam ( 2009-11-09 )Should we alter our strategy, stay the course, bring our troops home, increase their number? Afghanistan: The Choices is an interdisciplinary discussion of the way forward for the United States in Afghanistan, with a panel ... -
America's Relative Decline and Its Consequences
Pape, Robert ( 2009-09-25 )Robert Pape is professor of political science at the University of Chicago. His current work focuses on American grand strategy, causes and solutions to suicide terrorism, the logic of soft balancing in a unipolar world, ... -
America's Wars: The Way Forward in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq
Andrle, Fred; Herrmann, Richard; Kay, Sean; Mansoor, Peter; Mueller, John; Payind, Alam ( 2010-05-10 )The Mershon and Humanities Institute faculty panel, "America's Wars: The Way Forward in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq" will provide an in depth look at the issues surrounding America's increased military commitment in ... -
Arbitrating Identity: Courts and the Politics of Religious-Liberal Reconciliation in the Middle East
Bellin, Eva ( 2010-05-18 )Eva Bellin is associate professor of political science at City University of New York, Hunter College. She is a comparativist with specialization in the Middle East and North Africa. Her research interests center on issues ... -
Beyond War Crimes: Denazification, National Security and American Deportation and Internment of SS Agents after World War II
Messenger, David ( 2010-05-17 )David Messenger is assistant professor of history and graduate director for international studies at the University of Wyoming. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies. ... -
Blame, Italian Style
Wolf, Susan ( 2010-05-07 )Susan Wolf is Edna J. Koury Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She works chiefly in ethics and its close relations in philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, political philosophy, ... -
But What About Culture? Alexander Stephan's Interdisciplinary Project
Hermand, Jost; Lebow, Richard Ned ( 2010-02-05 )Alexander Stephan came to The Ohio State University in 2000 as the first Ohio Eminent Scholar in the Humanities. He was professor of German in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and senior fellow at the ... -
Causal Mechanisms and the (Transnational) Dynamics of Civil War
Checkel, Jeffrey ( 2010-01-20 )Jeffrey Checkel is Professor of International Studies and Simons Chair in International Law and Human Security at Simon Fraser University. In addition to his position at Simon Fraser University, Checkel is also Research ... -
The Cold War in the Third World
McMahon, Robert ( 2010-02-26 )The first generation of Cold War scholarship was overwhelmingly Eurocentric, concentrating on the Soviet-American confrontation in the heart of Europe while paying but cursory attention to non-Western areas. In recent ... -
Critical Infrastructure Protection: Are We Spending Too Much on Counter-Terrorism?
Stewart, Mark ( 2009-09-30 )Mark Stewart is professor of civil engineering and director of the Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability at University of Newcastle, Australia. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Mershon Center for ... -
Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation
Fishkin, James ( 2010-04-14 )James Fishkin holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication at Stanford University. He is also professor of political science and communication, director of Stanford's Center for Deliberative Democracy, and ... -
Disciplining an Unruly Field: Terrorism Studies and the State, 1972-2001
Stampnitzky, Lisa ( 2009-10-14 )Lisa Stampnitzky is a post-doctoral fellow at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley in 2008. Her dissertation is titled ... -
Emerging Perspectives on Intergroup Contact
Tropp, Linda ( 2010-03-10 )Linda Tropp is associate professor of Psychology and director of the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research concerns how members of different groups approach and ... -
The Emotional Politics of Transnational Crime
Bially Mattern, Janice ( 2009-11-06 )Janice Bially Mattern is associate professor of international relations at Lehigh University. Her research focuses on the social dynamics of world political orders and their transformations. She teaches courses on international ... -
Ethos of Independence Across Regions in the United States: The Production-Adoption Model of Cultural Change
Kitayama, Shinobu ( 2010-05-24 )Shinobu Kitayama is professor of psychology and director of the Culture and Cognition Program at the University of Michigan. His current research focuses on cultural variations in various psychological processes such as ... -
Extreme Vulnerability of Migrants: The Cases of the United States and Mexico
Bustamante, Jorge ( 2010-05-04 )Jorge Bustamante is Eugene Conley Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame and professor and researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, the prominent Mexican institute for the study of border issues, of ... -
Global Military Issues Symposium: Russia, China and the SCO
Mansoor, Peter; Castleton, Joseph; Pu, Xiaoyu; Wu, Joshua ( 2009-11-02 )Students, faculty and the public are invited to attend the first annual Global Military Issues Symposium at The Ohio State University. This symposium will explore the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a permanent ... -
Human Rights: Confronting Images and Testimonies
Hamilton, Ann; Hesford, Wendy; Shuman, Amy ( 2010-03-04 )This conference begins with the question "What is Evidence?" Art offers a lens through which we come to recognize the politics of power and abuse. Human Rights: Confronting Images and Testimonies brings together artists, ... -
Hybrid Warfare: The Struggle of Military Forces to Adapt to Complex Opponents
Mansoor, Peter ( 2010-05-14 )Hybrid warfare, a combination of conventional and irregular forces fighting against a common foe, has been an integral part of the historical landscape since the ancient world, but these conflicts have only recently been ...