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Upcoming Department Event

“The Global Financial Crisis and Its Implications”

David J. Lynch, author of When The Luck Of The Irish Ran Out: The World’s Most Resilient Country and Its Struggle to Rise Again, an account of modern Ireland’s journey from rags to riches and back again.  Mr. Lynch will be speaking Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 4 pm in Corns 312.  This event is sponsored by the International Studies Program.

Eddy Lecture

Robin Wright

Award winning journalist and author

7:00 pm March 27th in the Benes Rooms

Robin Wright is an award winning journalist and author.  Her most recent book   Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World was published in July of 2011.  Wright has been a fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Brookings Institution, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Yale, Duke, Stanford and others. Among many awards, she won the U.N. Correspondents Association Gold Medal for coverage of foreign affairs, the National Magazine Award, and the Overseas Press Club Award for "best reporting in any medium requiring exceptional courage and initiative." The American Academy of Diplomacy selected her as the journalist of the year in 2004. She has authored five books.

Department News

Dr. Kay will be on sabbatical Fall 2011, and will be returning in the spring to teach a travel component Sagan class on the Irish financial crisis. 

Dr. Kay also recently published two books:

Celtic Revival: the Rise, Fall, and Renewal of Global Ireland

Praise for Celtic Revival: 

"'The Great Country Known as Ireland' was brought low by incompetent bankers, greedy property developers, and short-sighted politicians. Sean Kay is quite persuasive that Ireland will be back. But he also illustrates in many ways that the human cost of this financial disaster is beyond measure. Other peoples should and must learn the hard lessons imposed upon Ireland by its political elite. Read this book and avoid the fate of the Irish--before you too follow in their footsteps."

--Simon Johnson, MIT Sloan School of Management, former economic counsellor and director of the research department of the IMF

Global Security in the Twenty-first Century: The Quest for Power and the Search for Peace 
Second Edition

About Global Security in the Twenty-first Century:

"This thoroughly updated edition of Global Security in the Twenty-first Century offers a balanced introduction to contemporary security dilemmas in the world. Sean Kay assesses the impact of the global economic crisis on international security and considers how the range of thinking about power and peace has evolved in relation to major flashpoints including in the Middle East, Asia, and Eurasia. Kay focuses especially on the implications of the election of Barack Obama and the changing role of the United States in global security.....Writing in an engaging style, Kay integrates traditional and emerging challenges in one easily accessible study that gives readers the tools they need to develop a thoughtful and nuanced understanding of global security."