Browsing 2015-16 Mershon Center Speakers and Conferences by Issue Date
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Meeting in the Middle: Civil Discourse in the 2016 Presidential Election
Celeste, Ted ( 2016-06-13 )In contemporary American politics, it seems that name calling, personal attacks, and party polarization has led to a nearly unprecedented level of incivility in both state and federal government. With the approach of the ... -
Building Stronger Communities: Peace, Justice and Security
International Conference on Conflict Resolution in Education ( 2016-06-08 )The Ohio State University (OSU) and the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) are partnering with schools, colleges, universities, and governmental and non- governmental organizations around the ... -
Water, Culture, and Society in Global Historical Perspective
Breyfogle, Nicholas; Brown, Phillip ( 2016-05-13 )This conference is the first of two linked international conferences focused on the provision, management, use, and cultural meanings of water and its relationship to patterns of human culture, politics, technology, and ... -
The Evolution of Transboundary Water Politics in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria
Kibaroglu, Aysegul ( 2016-04-21 )The program will begin with a public address and keynote lecture by Aysegul Kibaroglu, world expert on Turkish water policy issues and the history of cooperation across political boundaries in the Euphrates-Tigris region. ... -
Patronage Explanations for the Survival of International Organizations
Gray, Julia ( 2016-04-20 )This paper argues that even ineffective international organizations can serve valuable patronage functions for their member states. Even if IOs fail in their goals, the bureaucracies surrounding them can still be used for ... -
The Rise of Security Studies and the Globalization of American Foreign Policy, 1937 to the Present
Suri, Jeremi ( 2016-04-20 )Although the United States had global trading interests before World War II, American foreign policy was largely provincial before 1937 – driven by protectionist and particularist impulses. President Franklin Roosevelt's ... -
The Water and Sanitation Crisis in Healthcare Facilities in Low-Income Countries: Status, Consequences and Challenges
Moe, Christine ( 2016-04-19 )This presentation will include an overview of the status of WASH conditions in HCF globally, results from our recent assessments of WASH in HCFs in Honduras, Ghana, Rwanda, Uganda and Cambodia; evidence on the consequences ... -
Gandhi, Yogic Self-Control, and Food Justice
Godrej, Farah ( 2016-04-18 )M. K. Gandhi is not traditionally thought of as a theorist of food politics or food justice. Yet, Gandhi had much to say about the relationship between food and power. In this essay, I will explore productive intersections ... -
The Star and the Stripes: A History of the Foreign Policies of American Jews
Barnett, Michael ( 2016-04-15 )How do American Jews envision their role in the world? Are they tribal — a people whose obligations extend solely to their own? Or are they prophetic — a light unto nations, working to repair the world? The Star and the ... -
The Art of Protest: Principles and Practices of Nonviolence
Coy, Patrick; Poe, Danielle; Hovey, Craig ( 2016-04-14 )The Student Peace Conference is an annual event started by the Peace Studies Society in 2013. This year’s conference, entitled The Art of Protest: Principles and Practices of Nonviolence, will consist of three workshops ... -
The Political Economy of Financial Reform: de Jure Liberalization vs. de Facto Implementation
Mansfield, Edward ( 2016-04-12 )Over the past 20 years, social scientists have displayed growing interest in the political economy of financial reform. Virtually all of these studies have focused on explaining policy changes resulting in the liberalization ... -
Risk and Security
Silverman, Allan; Peters, Ellen; Gelpi, Christopher ( 2016-04-08 )The Mershon Center for International Security Studies in collaboration with the Decision Sciences Collaborative at The Ohio State University present the first annual conference on Risk and Security. The goal of the conference ... -
Reactors, Russia-Centrism, and U.S. Relations with Eastern Europe
Brooks, Robin ( 2016-04-05 )This lecture will discuss how, by prioritizing competition with Russia over bilateral relations with Eastern European countries, the United States damaged both its own national interests and those of its Eastern European ... -
A Conversation on Academic Freedom in Turkey
Demirer, Yucel ( 2016-03-25 )This event will provide the occasion to share information on the Turkish situation and explore both the local roots and the international context of the assault on academic freedom (with comparisons to the recent crackdown ... -
Why China Established the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank
Chow, Daniel ( 2016-03-24 )On January 16, 2016, China officially opened the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for business, representing what might be a seismic shift in economic power from the United States to China and the culmination of ... -
When War is Oikonomia by Other Means
Owens, Patricia ( 2016-03-21 )In this talk, Patricia Owens will present a new history and theory of counterinsurgency with major implications for social, political and international thought. Retrieving the surprisingly neglected language of household ... -
Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion
Hurd, Elizabeth ( 2016-03-10 )In this talk, Hurd introduces the central argument of her book, Beyond Religious Freedom. The book is a study of state-sponsored global efforts to promote religious freedom, religious engagement and the rights of religious ... -
Symposium on Extremist Jihadi Groups
Payind, Alam; Al-Azm, Amr; Herrmann, Richard ( 2016-03-09 )The symposium addressed the complex issues related to extremist jihadi groups in the Middle East. The panelists introduced the topic by providing detailed background information on these groups as well as the on area itself. ... -
Iron Curtain Crossings: Eastern Europe and the Global Cold War
Dragostinova, Theodora; Fidelis, Malgorzata ( 2016-03-04 )The goal of this workshop is to investigate the variety of ways in which eastern Europe emerged as an important international player, by promoting its own ideas of modernity, progress, humanism, culture, and everyday life. ... -
Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation: How States Learned to Love Getting the Bomb
Narang, Vipin ( 2016-03-03 )How do states pursue nuclear weapons? The literature on nuclear proliferation has focused on the question of why states might pursue nuclear weapons, while more recent work examines how efficiently states achieve their ...