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2009-2010 PROGRAM BOOKLET
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Spring 2010 Lectures
February 25 - NOON, Benes AB
"It's the Region, Stupid: The
Real Dangers of U.S. Failure in Afghanistan-Pakistan"
Jonathan
S. Landay, the senior national security and intelligence correspondent
for McClatchy Newspapers
Fall 2009 Lecture Series
September 24: Robert A. Pape, University of Chicago,
"America's Relative Decline and Its Consequences"
September 28: Nathaniel Fick, Center for a New
American Security, "The Afghanistan Inheritance"
October 8: Kori Schake, Stanford University,
"Managing American Hegemony: American Power in the Time of
Dominance"
October 29: Joshua Spero, Fitchburg State
College, "National and International Leadership Through Service"
November 3: Andrei Codrescu, National
Public Radio, "What is an Immigrant, What Makes an American?"
These speakers will be featured as part of the 2009-2010
Sagan National Colloquium,
"Renewing America for a Global Century: From Theory to Practice" at Ohio
Wesleyan University - which will be directed by International Studies
Program Director, Dr. Sean Kay.
Brown Bag Lunch Discussion
October 28: International Studies and
Department of Sociology/Anthropology will host brown bag lunch
discussion, “Post Election Iran and the Rise of a New Social Movement."
Guest speaker is Professor Akbar Mahdi. Students are welcome to bring
their lunch to the noon discussion on October 28 in HWCC, Benes room C.
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"From Sputnik to Minerva:
Education and American
National Security,"
Defense Horizons, Number 65
By Sean Kay
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By James C. Franklin
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By Michael W. Flamm and John Ehrman
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Spring
2010
International
Studies Spring 2010 Lecture

February 25, Hamilton Williams Campus Center, Benes Room, 7:30 PM
Jonathan S.
Landay is the senior national security and intelligence
correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers, has written about foreign
affairs and U.S. defense, intelligence and foreign policies for nearly
25 years.
From 1985-94,
Landay covered South Asia and the Balkans for United Press International
and then the Christian Science Monitor. Landay moved to Washington in
December 1994 to write on defense and foreign affairs for the Christian
Science Monitor and joined Knight Ridder Newspapers, now McClatchy
Newspapers, in October 1999. He writes regularly on issues such as the
Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs, the U.S. missile defense
program, U.S. intelligence matters and U.S. interrogation and detainee
policy.
He covered the
2001 U.S.-led intervention in Afghanistan, including the Battle of Tora
Bora, and in 2003 spent four months in northern Iraq covering
preparations for the U.S.-led invasion and then the invasion itself. He
returns frequently to report in Afghanistan, where he embeds with U.S.
forces, and in Pakistan.
Landay has been
nominated three times for a Pulitzer Prize for his investigative work on
the Bush administration‘s use of exaggerated and bogus pre-war
intelligence on Iraq, and the lack of post-invasion stability operations
planning.
In 2003, he and
Warren Strobel won the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for stories on the
faulty pre-war intelligence on Iraq. In 2005, he was part of a team that
won a National Headliners Award for ``How the Bush Administration Went
to War in Iraq.'' He also won a 2005 Award of Distinction from the
Medill School of Journalism for reporting on how Iraqi exiles fed false
information to the news media, and the 2007 Weintal Prize For Diplomatic
Reporting Special Citation from Georgetown University.
Landay and
Strobel’s reporting on the Bush administration’s use of exaggerated and
bogus intelligence on Iraq was showcased in “Buying the War,” a
documentary produced by Bill Moyers for PBS in 2007.
Fall 2009
"America's
Relative Decline and Its Consequences"

September 24, Hamilton Williams Campus Center, Benes Room, 7:30 PM
Robert
A. Pape is
Professor of Political
Science at the University of Chicago specializing in
international security affairs. His publications include
Dying to
Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism; Bombing to Win: Air Power
and Coercion in War, and "Why Economic Sanctions Do Not Work,” among
others. He has taught international relations at Dartmouth College and
air power strategy for the USAF's School of Advanced Airpower Studies.
He received his Ph. D. from the University of Chicago and graduated
summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pittsburgh.
His current work focuses on the causes of suicide terrorism and the
politics of unipolarity.
"The
Afghanistan Inheritance"

September 28, Hamilton Williams Campus Center, Benes Room, 7:30 PM
Nathaniel
Fick graduated with high
honors from Dartmouth College in 1999, earning degrees in Classics and
Government, and wrote a senior thesis on Thucydides' History of the
Peloponnesian War and its implications for American foreign policy.
Fick was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Marine
Corps upon graduation, and trained as an infantry officer. Fick is also
the author of “One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer”. Fick
will discuss the legacy America has created with its involvement in
Afghanistan.
"Managing
American Hegemony: American Power in the Time of Dominance"

October
8, Hamilton Williams Campus Center, Benes Room 7:30 PM
Kori Schake
is a research fellow at
the Hoover Institution and an associate professor of international
security studies at the United States Military Academy. During the 2008
presidential election, she was senior policy adviser to the McCain-Palin
campaign, responsible for policy development and outreach in the areas
of foreign and defense policy. Dr. Schake previously held senior
positions at the National Security Council and Department of State where
she worked on resourcing and organizational effectiveness issues,
including a study of what it would take to “transform” the state
department so as to enable integrated political, economic, and military
strategies.
“National
and International Leadership Through Service”

October 29, Hamilton Williams Campus
Center, Benes Room 7:30 PM
Joshua Spero, Ph.D., will
present “National and International Leadership Through Service.” Spero
is a former senior civilian strategic planner, Joint Chiefs of Staff,
and Associate Professor of Political Science, Fitchburg State College.
Spero's presentation will be followed with a discussion led by Marija
Ignjatovic '03, Dan Sharpe '06, and Lydia Spitalny
'08. Ignjatovic is currently the Desk Officer, Western Balkans Cluster,
Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS for the United Nations
Development Programme. Spitalny graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University
in 2008 and most recently completed work in Kenya with the Education
Centre for Women in Democracy.
"What is an
Immigrant, What Makes an American?"

November 3, Hamilton Williams Campus Center, Benes Room 7:30 PM
Andrei
Codrescu is a poet,
novelist, essayist, teacher, and lecturer. Codrescu is MacCurdy
Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at
Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he edits
Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Letters & Life. He is also a regular
commentator on National Public Radio and winner of the Peabody Award for
the film “Road Scholar”. This event is co-sponsored with the
International Studies Program.
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"An International
Organization for Democracies"

James Fearon, Theodore and Frances
Geballe Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and
Professor of International Relations, Stanford University, spoke at Ohio
Wesleyan University as part of the Corinne Lyman Lecture on
International Studies on April 6, 2009
"The
Powers to Lead"

Joseph
Nye, Former Dean of the Kennedy School, Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University and Sultan of Oman
Professor of International Relations, spoke at Ohio Wesleyan University on February 11, 2009 His speech
was part of the
annual Eddy Lecture.
Eddy Lecture
History
"Strategic
Challenges in the Middle East"

General John Abizaid,
a retired four star Army general and former commander of the U.S.
Central
Command, spoke at Ohio Wesleyan on Wednesday, February 20, 2008. As CENTCOM commander Gen. Abizaid was in charge of all U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Strobe Talbott

Strobe Talbott, President of
the Brookings Institution and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State,
with Ohio Wesleyan students in October 2007. Talbott was the
speaker for the 2007 Eddy Lecture.
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