Browsing 2012-13 Mershon Center Speakers and Conferences by Title
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The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade, the Corps Ethos, and the Korean War
Hammes, T. X. ( 2012-11-29 )T.X. Hammes is a senior research fellow with the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University and a retired colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps. He has lectured widely and published on insurgency, ... -
America Abroad: The United States' Global Role in the 21st Century
Wohlforth, William ( 2013-03-22 )William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He has research interests in international relations theory, international security, Russian foreign policy, and the Cold War. -
American Jews, Israelis, Palestinians, and the U.S. Presidential Election
Sylvan, Don ( 2012-10-24 )This interactive session will begin with some empirically based observations about internal Israeli politics, as well as a few about internal Palestinian politics. The majority of the talk will concentrate on preference ... -
Behavioral Traits and Preferences for International Legal Cooperation
Hafner-Burton, Emilie ( 2013-02-27 )Emilie Hafner-Burton is associate professor and director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her ... -
Beneath Compliance: The Limits of Transnational Private Regulation
Bartley, Timothy ( 2013-03-26 )Global industries are increasingly littered with standards — claiming to promote fair labor conditions, sustainability, community development, and environmental justice around the world. In the past two decades, many NGOs ... -
The Challenge of Political Compromise
Thompson, Dennis ( 2013-04-02 )Dennis F. Thompson is professor of public policy and Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy at Harvard University. He is also founding director of Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. -
China Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections
Cassel, Pär ( 2012-10-29 )CHINA Town Hall is a national day of programming on China involving 50 cities throughout the United States. Preceding the webcast will be a presentation by Pär Cassel, associate professor of history at the University of Michigan. -
China's Fear of Contagion: Tiananmen Square and the Power of the European Example
Sarotte, Mary ( 2012-12-06 )The Tiananmen Square massacre of June 1989 remains a taboo topic in the People's Republic of China (PRC); the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) still detains participants and suppresses online, popular, and scholarly ... -
Choosing Terror: Rebels' Use of Terrorism in Civil Wars
Fortna, Page ( 2013-01-10 )Page Fortna is professor of political science at Columbia University and a member of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. Her research focuses on the durability of peace in the aftermath of both civil and ... -
Climate Change, Disease, and the State: Lessons from History
Price-Smith, Andrew ( 2012-09-28 )Andrew T. Price-Smith is director of the Energy, Environment and Security Program, director of the nascent Global Health Program, and associate professor of political science at Colorado College. He held previous appointments ... -
Constitutional Islam: Genealogies, Transmissions, and Meanings
Stilt, Kristen ( 2013-04-11 )Kristen Stilt is professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law and an affiliated faculty member in the History Department. Her research interests are the historical development and practice of Islamic law as ... -
Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda
Schmitt, Eric; Shanker, Thomas ( 2013-02-07 )Eric Schmitt is a terrorism correspondent for The New York Times. He is co-author of Counterstrike: the Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2011). Schmitt has twice been a ... -
The Dokdo Islets: A Critical Issue between Korea and Japan
Kim, Byung-Ryull ( 2012-10-17 )Kim Byung-Ryull is professor of international relations at Korea National Defense University and a 2011-12 visiting scholar at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies. -
Domestic Cultural Diplomacy and Soviet State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Cold War
Tsipursky, Gleb ( 2013-02-11 )Gleb Tsipursky is assistant professor of history at The Ohio State University. His research is in the field of modern Russian and Eurasian history, with a particular interest in socialist modernity, youth, consumption, ... -
Entangled Bodies of Learning: Gender, Islam, and Secularism in the Modern Turkish Republic
Hassan, Mona ( 2013-02-18 )Two striking educational trends with their roots in the early Turkish republic have fostered the unexpected emergence of Turkish state-sponsored female preachers. The social engineering of religious education and the ... -
Equitable Water Allocation, Eco-Cultural Restoration, and Social Justice in the Tigris-Euphrates Watershed
Stevens, Michelle ( 2012-10-03 )This panel will highlight one of the world's most volatile sources of international conflict — the scarcity and equitable allocation of water — by discussing current efforts to deescalate potential conflicts over water, ... -
Everyday Modernity, Urban Space and Citizenship: Public Beaches in Early Republican Istanbul
Bozdogan, Sibel ( 2013-02-04 )After more than a decade of relative insignificance in the shadow of the new capital Ankara, the first efforts to renew Istanbul's crumbling urban infrastructure and to transform the city from an oriental, imperial capital ... -
The Evolution of the Global Climate Regime
Thompson, Alexander ( 2012-10-04 )Alexander Thompson is associate professor of political science at The Ohio State University and co-director of the Globalization Speaker Series at the Mershon Center. He has research and teaching interests in international ... -
The Family Channel: Migrant Remittances and Government Finance
Singer, David ( 2013-01-25 )This paper argues that migrant remittances can ease government access to capital, generate tax revenue through household consumption, and ultimately allow governments to expand their size. The paper offers three empirical ... -
Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation
Scott, Rebecca ( 2012-09-14 )Rebecca J. Scott is the Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.Her most recent book, coauthored with Jean M. Hébrard, is Freedom Papers: An Atlantic ...