Browsing 2013-14 Mershon Center Speakers and Conferences by Title
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Anarchy is not an Ordering Principle, Anarchy Has No Effects: Rethinking the Elements of International Structures
Donnelly, Jack ( 2013-09-12 )Donnelly presents a multidimensional framework of the elements of social and political structures that dispenses with anarchy – which he shows was in fact the norm in International Relations prior to the 1970s. Structural ... -
Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea
Miyoshi Jager, Sheila ( 2013-10-24 )More than 60 years after North Korea invaded South Korea, the first major hot war of the Cold War has yet to end. Today, the essentially continuous war between the Koreas threatens to reach beyond their borders, as North ... -
Business for Peace Collaborative: Panel Discussion on USIP Public Education for Peacebuilding Support Progtram
Fisher, Ann; McMahon, Patrice; Gelpi, Chris; Haftel, Yoram; Ye, Mason ( 2014-03-25 )This event will bring together scholars, students, policymakers and the business community. The goal is to think strategically on how economic development and business affects peace, and how peace building and end of ... -
The Causes of Extinction: Setting the Modern Biodiversity Crisis in Context
MacLeod, Norman ( 2013-10-08 )This talk will delve into the basis of the linkage between the causes of ancient extinctions in the context of the modern biodiversity crisis. With its decidedly biblical overtones, the phenomenon of extinction has intrigued ... -
Chasing Ghosts: The FBI and Counter-Terrorism
Mueller, John ( 2014-01-13 )After September 11, 2001, the Federal Bureau of Investigation greatly increased its efforts at, and changed its approach to, counter-terrorism. This talk explores the abrupt rise and continuing persistence of official fears ... -
China-North Korea Relations in the Kim Jong-Un Era
Cathcart, Adam ( 2014-01-09 )Like the U.S.-Japan relationship, China’s Gordian knot with its only Northeast Asian ally, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, remains fundamentally stable even as it sits on the cusp of irreversible change. This ... -
The CIA: Its Origins, Its Transformation, and Its Militarization
Immerman, Richard ( 2014-01-16 )The contemporary CIA more closely resembles Hollywood's fictional portrayal than the institution envisioned by the Truman administration and Congress in 1947. During the initial Cold War years, a confluence of bureaucratic ... -
Climate Justice in Latin America
Flora, Cornelia Butler; Buechler, Stephanie ( 2013-10-04 )The Center for Latin American Studies is pleased to announce the interdisciplinary series Climate Justice in Latin America, which will take place over the 2013-14 academic year. The first event, Gender, features sociologists ... -
Coercive Institutions and State Violence under Authoritarianism
Chestnut Greitens, Sheena ( 2013-11-07 )How do autocrats construct their coercive apparatus, and why do these institutions engage in different levels of violence and repression? Despite a wave of recent interest in authoritarian politics, the origins, design, ... -
The Confirming U.S. Presidential Election of 2012
Weisberg, Herb ( 2013-10-11 )This conference will examine the 2012 presidential campaign and election, analyzing factors that affected voting, including the impact of domestic, foreign, and military policy debates. -
Critical Foreign Policy Decisions: Continue or Change Course?
Hermann, Charles ( 2014-04-15 )When government leaders have made major investments to a foreign or security policy, how do they respond to signals that the policy is failing? Exploration of four cases involving Lyndon Johnson (Vietnam), MacKenzie King ... -
Crude Ambitions: The Internationalization of Emerging National Oil Companies
Jones-Luong, Pauline ( 2013-10-17 )The burgeoning literature on the internationalization of emerging country NOCs asserts that the combination of technology transfer in the 1970s-80s and sustained high oil prices in the 1990s created an unprecedented ... -
Cybersurveillance, Privacy and Security Panel
Mansoor, Peter; Mueller, John; Rudesill, Dakota; Shane, Peter M. ( 2013-10-03 )This panel will highlight key aspects of the current public discussion about the various privacy and security implications stemming from federal surveillance practices. Panelists will address differing points of view, such ... -
Democracy, Elections, and the Changing Dynamics of Partisan Competition on Five Continents
Gunther, Richard; Beck, Paul; Magalhães, Pedro; Moreno, Alejandro ( 2013-10-18 )This workshop will present and discuss the findings of the Comparative National Elections Project. This is the Mershon Center’s longest-running research project, and it has become one of the largest survey-based research ... -
Efforts to Control Terrorism in the Middle East
Laura, Dugan ( 2013-09-16 )When considering counter-terrorism, most imagine policies aimed at punishing terrorists and deterring potential terrorist acts. This is understandable because repressive policies attract media attention and help politicians ... -
Explaining Political Violence Against Citizens in Northern Ireland: A Contention-Oriented Approach
Maney, Gregory ( 2014-02-20 )In contrast to prevalent theories of "terrorism," Maney will present a contention-oriented approach to understanding political violence against civilians. To illustrate and to support this approach, the speaker will present ... -
Fixing American Democracy: The Quandaries of Political Reform
Cain, Bruce ( 2013-09-27 )In this symposium, Bruce E. Cain responds to interdisciplinary perspectives by Ohio State scholars on his new book Fixing American Democracy: The Quandaries of Political Reform. Cain is professor of political science at ... -
Free French Africa in World War II
Jennings, Eric ( 2014-02-24 )This presentation focuses upon the contribution of African colonies to the Free French war effort of General Charles de Gaulle. Jennings contends that in its early years, between 1940 and 1942, the heart of Free France was ... -
Future of America's All-Volunteer Force
Laich, Dennis; Mansoor, Peter; Mueller, John ( 2014-03-24 )"The United States has maintained an All-Volunteer Force (AVF) for its armed services for nearly 41 years. However, changes in demographics, military costs, and the national security environment raise the issue of whether ... -
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change, and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
Parker, Geoffrey ( 2014-03-19 )Global Crisis examines how a fatal synergy between climate change and human inflexibility eradicated one-third of the planet's human population and unleashed an unparalleled spate of wars, invasions, and revolutions. ...