Mershon Center for International Studies Guest Speakers 2006 - 2007

Firm Responses to Politics

Oil and Democratic Prospects in the Persian Gulf States

Can Positive Group Experiences Shift Attitudes Toward Group Work?

Inside the CIA

Panel 3: Innovative Endeavors to Move Peace and Conflict Studies Forward on U.S. Campuses

Panel 2: Retaining Coherence and Focus in a Multidisciplinary Peace and Conflict Studies Program

Panel 1: Core Curriculum and Fundamental Knowledge in the Field of Peace Studies

Imperial German Warfare: Colonial or European?

Is God Subject to Vote? Islam, Democracy and Religious Pluralism in Indonesia

Orientalism in Times of War: Why 'Small Wars' Have Big Consequences

Democracy in the Middle East: Is It Happening?

Realism and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Primacy of Power

Islamists and Non-Islamists: Prospects for Coalition Building

Public Law and the Emergence of a Multi-Layered Constitution in Europe

The Elusive Rudyard Kipling

Reforming the United Nations: Mission Impossible?

How the Second World War was Won

Iraqi Women Between Dictatorships, Wars, Sanctions and Occupation

National Identity and Foreign Policy Attitudes of the South Korean Public

New Thinking and Practice in China's Diplomacy

The Role of the International Labor Organization in a Globalizing World

Parable of Seeds: The United States and the Transformation of Rural Asia

Peer and Leadership Effects in Academic and Athletic Performance

Empire's Workshop: The Latin American Roots of the Bush Doctrine

Furniss Book Award Lecture: War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe

Structure and Contingency in the Transformation of India's Foreign Policy

The Political Economy of 'Lawfare'

Is Democracy for Everyone?

The Cost of War in Iraq versus Containment

The Viscosity of Global Governance

Social Interactions with Endogenous Associations

A 'Small War' That Wasn't: How U.S. Marines Tripped into the First Battle of Fallujah

Joseph J. Kruzel Memorial Lecture

The End of Humanitarian Intervention? Norms and International Politics after 9/11

Gendered Insecurities, Religion and Contemporary International Theorizing

The U.N. Security Council as World Legislator

The Contest: Hearts, Minds, and the History of U.S. Public Diplomacy in the 'Third World'

Could the British Have Won the American War of Independance?

Preventive Self Defense

Prosperity and Crisis in the World Economy: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

The End of Poverty

Rethinking Moderation: The Politics of Participation in the Middle East

Voice and Inequality: The Transformation of American Civic Democracy