Mershon Center for International Studies Guest Speakers 2008 - 2009

Gendered Bodies Gendered Wars - Iraqi Women Refugees in Jordan

Evo Morales, Bolivian Democracy, and U.S. Policy: Still on the Brink?

Ethnic Bargaining - The Paradox of Minority Empowerment

Negotiating Democracy in Muslim West Africa - Sahelian Trajectories

Neither Global nor National: Novel Assemblages of Territory, Authority and Rights

The Neglected Taipei Treaty: A New Perspective of Taiwan's Legal Status

The Perils of Intimacy: Harry Hopkins as Franklin D. Roosevelt's National Security Adviser

Reconsidering Presidential Elections in the MIddle East

The Nuremberg Trials and the Making of the Soviet Union as an International Power

A Simple Political Economy of International Relations Between Democracies and Autocracies

Contracting States: Incomplete Contracts in International Relations

Electoral Observation - A Tool for Democratization and Peace in Latin America

The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Regimes In Transition Economies

A Peaceful Europe? European Exceptionalism in the 20th Century

Political and Cultural Citizenship: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation in Iran

Changing Course - A New Direction for US Relations with the Muslim World

An Historian Looks at the Future Environment

How Red is the Pink Tide in Hugo Chavezs Venezuela?

The Powers to Lead

Living Apart Together: Segregation vs. Mixing as Sources of and Solutions for Intergroup Conflict"

Can Islam be French? Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State

Security in South Asia After the Mumbai Terror Attacks

British Colonial Violence and the End of Empire

They Came From the North: The War for Korea 1950-51

Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960

Are You Talkin' to Me? The Domestic Politics of Government Signaling in International Conflicts

Killing Civilians in War

Getting the Worst of Both Worlds: John F. Kennedy and Decolonization

Inside the Soviet Alternate Universe

Can Ayatollah Sistani's Alternative to Khomeinism Survive?

What Way Forward for Offensive Realism?

The New Militarism