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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"
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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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,
"Strategic
Challenges in the
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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