Guest speakers and conferences hosted by the Mershon Center covering a variety of topics during 2009 and 2010.
Mershon Center for International Studies at The Ohio State University

Mexico: Drug Trafficking Organizations and Political Change

International Security in Practice: The Politics of NATO-Russia Diplomacy

Right to the City, Right to Rights, and Insurgent Urban Citizenship

It's The Region, Stupid: The Real Dangers of U.S. Failure in Afghanistan-Pakistan

The United States and the Global Human Rights Imagination

Military Intervention and the Protection of Civilians in Afghanistan

Multiple Masculinities in U.S. Military Culture

International Institutions as Signaling Devices

Why We Fight? Past and Future Motives for War

State Failure and Regional Containment - The Case of Afghanistan

Causal Mechanisms and the (Transnational) Dynamics of Civil War

Trafficking and Civil Society: Denial, Distress, Danger

Trafficking and Civil Society: Denial, Distress, Danger

Recipe for Success: Basic Ingredients for Undergraduate Research

The Mad Pursuit of a World Bill of Rights - International Legal Norms and the Senate after Nuremberg

What Cosmopolitans Can Learn From Classical Realists

Mershon and Humanities Institute Faculty Panel

The Emotional Politics of Transnational Crime

The Politics of IO Accountability - Transparency and Evaluation in the International Monetary Fund

Inside Afghanistan and Pakistan - Political Connections, Pashtun Nationalism and the Taliban

West Africa and the U.S. 'War on Terror'

West Africa and the U.S. 'War on Terror'

West Africa and the U.S. 'War on Terror'

West Africa and the U.S. 'War on Terror'

West Africa and the U.S. 'War on Terror'

West Africa and the U.S. 'War on Terror'

Imperial Reputations - How Sovereignty and Self-Determination Norms Have Altered the Politics of Empire

Disciplining an Unruly Field - Terrorism Studies and the State, 1972-2001

Session II: Race and Voting in 2008, Discussion

Session II: Race and Voting in 2008, Papers

Session I: Election Administration, Discussion

Session I: Election Administration, Papers

Critical Infrastructure Protection - Are We Spending Too Much on Counter-Terrorism?

America's Relative Decline and Its Consequences

Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in Chinese Foreign Relations

The War on Drugs in Mexico: Chronicle of a Failure Foretold

Ethos of Independence Across Regions in the United States: The Production-Adoption Model of Cultural Change

Narratives of Bombing: Tokyo and Hiroshima, 1945

Narratives of Bombing: Tokyo and Hiroshima, 1945