Browsing 2014-15 Mershon Center Speakers and Conferences by Title
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The Adaptive Challenge of Climate Change: How Do We Make a Quantum Leap to Sustainability?
Leichenko, Robin; O'Brien, Karen ( 2014-04-08 )Robin Leichenko and Karen O'Brien will discuss climate change in the context of globalization and its implications for equity and human security, including the types of responses that can lead to an equitable and sustainable ... -
Aestheticizing Action: Latino Republicans and the Art of Diversity
Beltrán, Cristina ( 2014-10-27 )Situated at the intersection of Latino politics and political theory, this talk will explore the paradoxical nature of Latino conservatism and right-wing Latinidad. Arguing that conservative thought within Latino communities ... -
Back to the Future? Battlefield Nuclear Weapons in South Asia
McCausland, Jeff ( 2014-10-23 )Pakistan's decision to develop and deploy so-called "tactical nuclear weapons" is a new and dangerous development in South Asia. These weapons are in addition to the over 100 nuclear weapons in the Pakistani arsenal aimed ... -
Basic Ingredients for Undergraduate Research
Mughan, Anthony; Newell, Margaret; Carlarne, John ( 2014-10-07 )Please join a panel of Mershon Center affiliated faculty for an interdisciplinary discussion on the basic ingredients of a good undergraduate research project. This event is designed for students in Social and Behavioral ... -
"But the Germans Didn’t Want Anything from Us": The Lessons and Legacies of World War II Slovene Collaboration
Kranjc, Gregor ( 2014-10-01 )Slovene collaboration with the Axis occupiers (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Hungary) divided the Slovene nation during the years 1941-1945 and continues to cast its long shadow over Slovenia today. This talk highlights a ... -
Central Intelligence before the CIA
Cullather, Nick ( 2015-03-02 )"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free," reads the inscription in the lobby of CIA headquarters in Langley. But how does one produce truth, what constitutes knowing, and who, exactly, is Ye? These ... -
The Challenge of China's Rise
Christensen, Thomas ( 2014-09-22 )Christensen will be speaking about the challenges associated with China's rise. -
China Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections
Lardy, Nicholas R. ( 2014-10-16 )China's rapid development and Sino-American relations have a direct impact on the lives of just about everyone in the United States. CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections is a national day of programming ... -
Climate Change and National Security
White, Rear Admiral Jonathon ( 2014-10-16 )Climate change will have an impact on operations of the United States Armed Forces and the international events, both humanitarian relief efforts and arms conflicts, to which they respond. Rear Admiral Jonathan White will ... -
Climate Change Risk Assessment: Is Adaptation a Workable Solution to Climate Change?
Stewart, Mark ( 2014-09-08 )The climate change debate is often characterized by worst-case thinking, cost neglect, probability neglect, and avoidance of the notion of acceptable risk. Much of the climate change debate has focused on costly measures ... -
Climate Change: A Threat to the Waning of War
Gleditsch, Nils Petter ( 2015-02-16 )War remains a major threat to human security. However, despite many recent dramatic events, war is on the wane as a tool in human affairs. The number of ongoing armed conflicts, the lethality of war as measured by annual ... -
The Cold War's Killing Fields
Chamberlin, Paul ( 2015-03-27 )Chamberlin will examine the darker side of the superpower struggle: a vast, bloody conflict fought to prevent nuclear war, mark out the boundaries of the American and Soviet empires, and decide the fate of societies ... -
The Continent of International Law: (Im)precision and Reservations
Koremenos, Barbara ( 2015-03-12 )Barbara Koremenos is an associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Koremenos focuses on how international law can be structured to make ... -
The Crisis in Iraq: Causes, Consequences, and Options Going Forward
Mansoor, Peter; Sky, Emma ( 2014-09-11 )Following the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 2011, post-war Iraq has faced many challenges and threats that have led to the deterioration of the Iraqi state. Key causes and consequences of this deterioration include the rise ... -
Cross Border Troubles? Interstate River Conflicts and Intrastate Violence
Mitchell, Sara ( 2015-01-21 )Mitchell examines the relationship between interstate river conflicts and intrastate violence such as riots, strikes, demonstrations, and civil wars in the Western Hemisphere, Western Europe, and the Middle East. Interstate ... -
The Democratic Legitimacy of Border Coercion: Freedom of Association, Territorial Dominion, and Self-Defense
Abizadeh, Arash ( 2015-04-20 )According to the democratic borders thesis, a state's regime of border control is democratically legitimate only if the laws governing it result from political processes in which both citizens and foreigners can participate. ... -
Georgia: Why It Matters
Gegeshidze, Archil ( 2014-10-02 )Archil Gegeshidze is the ambassador of Georgia to the United States, appointed in March 2013. Prior to that, he was a senior fellow at Georgia's renowned think tank, The Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International ... -
Grounding Traffic: How the Cocaine Commodity Chain Embeds Spaces of Transit
McSweeney, Kendra ( 2014-11-13 )Illicit commodity flows are emerging from the shadows—increasingly recognized as a key part of neoliberal economic geographies. While sites of illicit commodity production and consumption gain greater attention, sites of ... -
The Iran-Iraq War: The War No One Knows About
Murray, Williamson ( 2015-02-26 )Murray will provide a brief discussion about the Iran-Iraq War in which nearly 1 million Arabs, Kurds, and Iranians perished. The talk will examine the course and consequences of the most costly war in the past 35 years. -
Islamic Extremism in Northern Africa, Case Study: Nigeria and Boko Haram
Preble, Christopher; Kalu, Kelechi; Kobo, Ousman ( 2014-10-14 )This event will feature three panelists: Christopher Preble of the CATO Institute, and Kelechi Kalu and Ousman M. Kobo of The Ohio State University, who will discuss the rise of Islamic extremism in Northern Africa, with ...