Randall Robinson "The American Role in the Fall of Haitian Democracy" January 23, 2008 |
Randall Robinson, a lawyer, author, and activist, discussed his recent book "An Unbroken Agony" on Wednesday, January 23, 2008. The event was co-sponsored with the Sociology/Anthropology Dept., the International Studies Program, and other academic programs. His lecture was part of the annual B. A. Jones Lecture on Race and Society. |
Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon "Can Cities Survive? Global Threats to Urban Globalization" October 2, 2007 |
Dr. Homer-Dixon is the George
Ignatieff Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Trudeau Centre for
Peace and Conflict Studies at University College, University of Toronto.
Homer-Dixon discussed his research and new book entitled The Upside
of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the
Renewal of Civilization. The event was co-sponsored with the Sagan National Colloquium. |
Dr. Marty Kalb, "Understanding the Holocaust through Art: Reflection on a Career in Art and World Engagement." April 11, 2007 |
Professor Emeritus of Art; Ohio Wesleyan University
Dr. Kalb offered a presentation entitled "Understanding the
Holocaust through Art: Reflection on a Career in Art and World Engagement." This event was sponsored by the International Studies Program and included a presentation of
an artwork entitled "Holocaust Portraits: Victims, Perpetrators, Witnesses" |
Dr. Charles Lipson, "China in World Politics" March 5, 2007 |
Charles Lipson is Professor of Political
Science, specializing in international relations and
international political history. He is Co-Director of the
Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security
(PIPES) and its workshop for graduate students. Dr. Lipson has a
PhD from Harvard University.
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Dr. Greg Grandin "Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism" |
Professor of History; Director of Graduate Studies New York University
Greg Grandin
received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1999. Grandin's
Teaching and research interests include Central America and Latin America;
the Cold War and Nationalism. |
Professor Andrew Cottey "The End of Humanitarian Intervention? Norms and International Politics After 9/11" November 14, 2006
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Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of
Post Graduate Programmes, College of Business and Law, University College Cork
Andrew Cottey's research and teaching interests include international relations and global governance, foreign, security and defense policy, European security , including NATO, EU's common foreign, security and defense policy, Central and Eastern Europe, conflict prevention and management, the problems of international military intervention, civil-military relations and democracy. He has been a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a visiting researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), and a NATO research fellow. He is a member of the governing council of the British American Security Information Council (BASIC). |
Dr. Peter W. Singer Robotics and Warfare October 10, 2006
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Senior Fellow and Foreign Policy
Studies Director of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings
Institution
Peter Singer received
his B.A. from Princeton University in 1997 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in
2001. Dr. Singer is an expert in contemporary warfare, foreign policy, national
security, peacekeeping, terrorism, and U.S. relations with the Islamic world. His
previous positions include: Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University; Action Officer, Balkans
Task Force, Office of the Secretary of Defense; Special Assistant, International Peace
Academy; Instructor, Teaching Assistant, Duke University Talent Identification Program. |
Alexander Wendt Sovereignty and the UFO March 29, 2006
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Ralph D. Mershon Professor of International Security, The Mershon Center Professor of Political Science Professor Wendt has research and teaching interests in international relations theory, global governance, political theory, and the philosophy of social science. His current research focuses on the inevitability of a world state, and on the idea of a quantum social science. He is the author of Social Theory of International Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1999), and articles in International Organization, American Political Science Review, Review of International Studies, European Journal of International Relations, International Security, and Politics and Society. He has taught previously at Yale University, Dartmouth College, and the University of Chicago. |
John M. Owen IV "Iraq, Democracy, and American Power" February 22, 2006 |
(Ph.D.,
Harvard University), Associate Professor, Undergraduate Director Field: International relations (theory, U.S. foreign policy, international security, and the effects of ideologies and cultures on world politics). John M. Owen IV is the author of Liberal Peace, Liberal War (Cornell, 1997) and a contributor to International Organization, Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Perspectives on Politics, Foreign Affairs, and several edited volumes. Professor Owen is the recipient of fellowships from the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard, and the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford, and the Center of International Studies at Princeton. He is a member of the editorial board of International Security. |
Michael Desch "America's Illeberal Liberalism" February 16, 2006 |
Michael Desch was named the first holder of the Robert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence and National Security Decision-Making at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University in 2004. Prior to that, he was Professor and Director of the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky. From 1993 through 1998, he was Assistant Director and Senior Research Associate at the Olin Institute. He is the author of When the Third World Matters: Latin American and U.S. Grand Strategy (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), Civilian Control of the Military: The Changing Security Environment (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), co-editor of From Pirates to Drug Lords: The Post-Cold War Caribbean Security Environment (Albany: State University Press, 1998), editor of Soldiers in Cities: Military Operations on Urban Terrain (Carlisle, PA: U.S. Army War College, 2001. He has served on the editorial boards of International Security and Security Studies. He has published opinion pieces in The Christian Science Monitor and The American Conservative and appears frequently on radio and television. He has worked on the staff of a U.S. Senator, in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research at the Department of State, and in the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division of the Congressional Research Service. He teaches courses in national security policy, political theory and international relations, and democracy and American foreign policy. |
Dr. Scott D. Sagan "The US, the Muslim World, and the Perils of Nuclear Proliferation" Thursday, November 3, 2005 |
Scott D. Sagan is professor of Political Science at Stanford University, Co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), and a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for International Studies (IIS). During 1985-1986, he served as a consultant for the Strategic Nuclear Policy Branch, Nuclear and Chemical Division, Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Stanford Institute for International Studies. Sagan has authored Civil Military Relations and Nuclear Weapons, edited by Scott D. Sagan (1994), The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons ( 1993, Winner of the 1993/1994 Best Book Award from the Science, Technology, and Environmental Studies Section of the American Political Science Association), and Moving Targets: Nuclear Strategy and National Security (1989). He has also co-authored Planning the Unthinkable: How New Powers Will Use Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Weapons(2000), The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate (1995, 2002), and Living with Nuclear Weapons (1983). He is a member of the Distinguished Advisory Panel for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control and Sandia National Laboratory. |
Dr. Michael Kraig "Forging a New Security Reality for the Persian Gulf and Greater Middle East" Tuesday, October 15, 2005 |
Dr. Michael Kraig is a program officer in Policy Analysis and Dialogue at the Stanley Foundation in Muscatine, Iowa (www.stanleyfoundation.org). Kraig has a Ph.D. in political science from the University at Buffalo, New York, with a concentration on international relations and US foreign policy. He has presented talks on US national security strategy, WMD proliferation, and US nuclear policies at policy institutes in Germany and Italy and at the United Nations 2000 NPT Review Conference in New York. Kraig has also interned with the US General Accounting Office on nuclear weapons issues. His current work on Gulf security strategies involves extensive travel and outreach in the greater Middle East. Kraig has published numerous articles and reports in Security Studies, Middle East Policy, YaleGlobal Online, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Journal of Peace Research, and India Review. He is also the author of numerous policy briefs and reports for Stanley Foundation and chapters for books. |
Dr. Ali Mazrui "The African Renaissance and Seven Pillars of Wisdom" Monday, October 10. 2005 |
Ali A. Mazrui is Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies and Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He also holds the titles of Albert Luthuli Professor-at-Large, University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria; Ibn Khaldun Professor-at-Large, School of Islamic and Social Sciences, Leesburg, VA; Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large Emeritus and Senior Scholar in Africana Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and Walter Rodney Professor, University of Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana. Professor Ali A Mazrui obtained his BA degree from Manchester University and his Doctorate from the Centre for the Study of Islam and Democracy, Oxford University. He spent 10 years teaching at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. He is a world's leading expert on the study of the relationship between Islam, Christianity, and politics in Africa. He has written some 20 books and 100 articles focusing on issues of identity and its relation to religion and politics. He focuses on the intermingling of various levels of identity of African peoples, and he often emphasizes the centrifugal and centripetal forces in defining someone's identity within a nationalistic paradigm. |
Dr. Jessica Stern "Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill" Tuesday, September 27, 2005 |
Jessica Stern, Lecturer in Public Policy, is a faculty affiliate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. From 1994-1995, she served as Director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council, where she was responsible for national security policy toward Russia and the former Soviet states and for policies to reduce the threat of nuclear smuggling and terrorism. Stern earlier worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In 1998-1999, she was the superterrorism Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and, in 1995-1996, she was a national Fellow at Hoover Institution at Stanford University. She is the author of Terror in the Name of God (HarperCollins, 2003), The Ultimate Terrorists (Harvard University Press, 1999), and of numerous articles on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. She received a bachelor's degree from Barnard College in chemistry, a master's of science degree from MIT, and a doctorate in public policy from Harvard. |
Dr. David Kang "China Reassures Asia: Rising Power and U.S. Foreign Policy" Thursday, April 7th, 2005 |
Dr. David Kang is an associate professor at Dartmouth College and an expert on international relation in Asia. His books include: Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies (Columbia University Press, 2003) (co-authored with Victor Cha) and Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Development in South Korea and the Philippines (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He is currently working on a project dealing with "Hierarchy and International Relations in Asia." This research project explores hierarchy as an organizing principle in international relations, arguing that Asian international relations is more stable than the conventional wisdom predicts. A book-length manuscript is in progress for the EWC-Stanford University Press series on Asian Security. |
Dr. Ronald Tiersky "France, Europe, and the U.S." Thursday, March 31st 2005
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Ronald Tiersky is Eastman professor of political science at Amherst College. He was Director of the Johns Hopkins SAIS Bologna Center, 1980-82. He earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1973 and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Ecole pratique des hautes études in Paris. He has written and taught in several fields: Contemporary Europe; French domestic and foreign policy; the history, present and future of European Integration; Europe's Role in the World Order; European-American Relations; Problems of War and Peace. He has been a State and Defense Department consultant and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, the Foreign Policy Association and the Societe des amis de Raymond Aron. He is the general editor of the "Europe Today" series of textbooks and monographs with Rowman & Littlefield Pubs. His foreign languages are French, Italian and German. Among his books are FRANÇOIS MITTERRAND: A VERY FRENCH PRESIDENT (2003); EUROPE TODAY, 2nd ed.(2004); EURO-SKEPTICISM: A READER (2001); FRANCE AND THE NEW EUROPE: CHANGING YET STEADFAST (1994); ORDINARY STALINISM (1985); FRENCH COMMUNISM, 1920-1972 (1974); and GLI STATI UNITI FRA PRIMATO E INCERTEZZA (ed.) (1983). He has published scholarly and general reader articles and op-ed pieces in, among other publications, Foreign Affairs, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, Le Monde, Liberation, the International Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal-Europe.
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2004-2005 Annual Eddy Lecture This year's Eddy Lecture was proud to bring General Anthony Zinni to campus to discuss the current situation in the Middle East. General Zinni succeeded Norman Swartzkoph as the commander of American forces in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia (Central Command). The prestigious post put General Zinni in charge of the U.S. relations throughout the region. After his duty he served as the special envoy for President Bush to the Arab-Israeli peace process. This experience has given him a unique outlook on the region as a whole and America's role. The lecture touched on the need for encouragement and support of reform throughout the region and the impact American politics and policies has on reform. General Zinni was adamant that the key to stability in the region is the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. By supporting the leaders and the majority of the people to look for reasonable, sustainable solutions the U.S. can play a positive role in creating stability and encouraging peace. General Zinni believes the region is facing the challenge of adapting to modernity and that until this process is finished the U.S. needs to be there to support and help the countries as they work through these growing pains.
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Retired Four-Star General Anthony Zinni "American Grand Strategy and the Future of the Middle East" Wednesday, February 16, 2005
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Dr. Andre Mejia-Acosta "Party Breakers or Party Brokers: Legislative Politics in Latin America" Wednesday, November 3, 2004 |
Dr. Ander Mejia-Acosta is a Killam Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Center of International Relations at the Liu Institute in British Columbia. He recently finished his doctoral work at the Kellogg Institute at the Univerity of Notre Dame. His research explores the role of informal institutions on policy making and how they are used by both legislators and presidents. His lecture on November 3rd explored the instances in Ecuador of political parties dealing as intermediaries between their members and the president who is trying to pass legislation. In Ecuador, Dr. Acosta showed that the strong party cohesion is due less to ideology and more to the way informal deals work to buy support. Dr. Acosta has published a book on Democratic Governance in Ecuador (Gobernabilidad Democratica. Quito: Knrad Adenauer Foundation. 2002) and several journal articles on electoral systems, political parties, legislative politics, and Christian Democracy, in Mexico, Argentina, Sweden and Ecuador. |
Dr. Andy Aleinikov is the founder and president of Mega-Innovative Mind International Institute & School of Geniuses. Born in the USSR, Dr. Aleinikov rose through the ranks of the Soviet military to become a Colonel. Along the way he became known for his sharp intellect as an amazing scholar and top researcher. He was the first Russian to be allowed to attend the United States Air Force Air War College. He is the author of a number of books including Mega-Creator (1999) and Skyjack 911: The Post September 11 Survival Manual (2001). He is also the founder of two new sciences: Novology (1991), the science of newness, and Creative Linguistics (1988). His lecture was on Tuesday, September 14th in the Benes rooms of the Hamilton- Williams Campus Center at 7:30PM. the topics he discussed include: MegaCreativity and genius, unleashing creativity, mega-accelerated learning, motivation, verbal and non-verbal communication, psychology of creativity, creative and innovative education, and perspectives on Russia and contemporary international relations. |
Dr. Andrei Aleinikov 2004 Visiting Woodrow Wilson Fellow "MegaCreativity and Genius" Tuesday, September 14, 2004
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Professor Peter M. Haas "Science Policy for Multilateral Environmental Governance" University of Massachusetts at Amherst Thursday, April 22 |
Peter M. Haas is a professor of
political science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He received a Ph.D in
political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published widely
on international environmental subjects, including pollution control in the Mediterranean,
pollution control in the Baltic and North Seas, UNEP's regional seas programs,
stratospheric ozone protection, and international environmental institutions. He has also
published works on international relations theory, focusing on the interplay between
knowledge and power in international policy coordination. His recent work has focused on the interplay between international institutions and scientific involvement in the creation and enforcement of international regimes addressing transboundary and global environmental risks. He is writing a book on the evolution of multilateral environmental governance since 1972. He is the author of Saving the Mediterranean: The Politics of International Environmental Cooperation (1990, Columbia University Press), the edited Knowledge, Power and International Policy Coordination (1997: University of South Carolina Press), Institutions for the Earth: Sources of Effective International Environmental Protection (edited with Robert O. Keohane and Marc A. Levy MIT Press, 1993), and a contributing author to Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks (2 volumes, 2001, MIT Press) as well as 13 peer reviewed articles in journals such as International Organization, Millennium, Global Governance, Environment Global Environmental Politics, and Marine Policy, and 32 chapters and encyclopedia entries. He has consulted for The Commission on Global Governance, the United Nations Environment Programme, United States Department of State, United States Environmental Protection Agency, United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the World Resources Institute. He has received grants from the National Science Foundation, German Marshall Fund, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Institute for the Study of World Politics, and the Gallatin Foundation. |
OWU's Inaugural Corinne Lyman Lecture Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renee Bleeder Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was previously Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he also served as Master of the Social Science Collegiate Division and Deputy Dean of Social Sciences. Professor Walt received his B.A. in International Relations from Stanford University and his M.A. and Ph.D in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Origins of Alliances (Cornell, 1987), which received the 1988 Edgar S. Furniss National Security Book Award; Revolution and War (Cornell, 1996); and numerous articles on international politics and foreign policy. |
Dr. Stephen Walt "Life with the 800 lb Gorilla: Global Responses to American Primacy" Thursday, April 8, 2004
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Mr. Charles L. Barry "Rebuilding US-Europe Relations After the Iraq War" Thursday, February 12, 2004 |
Charles Barry is a
consultant on defense policy and management information systems in Washington, D.C. He
heads his own consulting firm and is also affiliated with the Center for Technology and
National Security Policy and the National Defense University (NDU). He has been associated
with NDU since 1993 as a military analyst specializing in transatlantic relations, defense
technologies, military strategy, and force structure. Mr. Barry has been a qualified military strategist for more than 20 years and is considered an expert on military strategy and transatlantic relations. His areas of concentration include transatlantic defense industrial cooperation/consolidation, NATO transformation, NATO’s Command & Control architecture, and the EU’s policies on security and defense. At present he is conducting research on organizational applications of information systems in the military and on the force structure of the US Army. Mr. Barry completed a career in the United States Army, including operational leadership positions and nine years as a high level strategic planner in Europe and Washington. His military service spanned assignments in Europe, Asia and the United States. Mr. Barry is currently studying for a doctoral degree in Information Resource Management at the University of Baltimore. Mr. Barry writes, teaches and speaks on military topics, U.S.- European affairs, and operational-strategic solution concepts for both the public and private sectors. His papers on solutions to the conflict in Bosnia have been presented in Washington, Stockholm, London, Paris, Madrid, Moscow, and at Harvard University. In 1997 he presented papers on the implications of the Balkans conflicts for NATO crisis response in Madrid, Washington, Athens and Paris. More recently he co-authored an article in Current History entitled, "Completing the Transatlantic Bargain: The United States and European Security," in March 2001. His books include The Search for Peace in Europe (1993), Security Architecture for Europe (1995), and Reforging the Trans-Atlantic Relationship (1996). His latest book, Accelerating on the Run – Business Improvement from the War Room to the Boardroom, published in August 1998, deals with military strategy, e-business management concepts, and best business practices from American industry. His most recent publications include a chapter on NATO interoperability (in Transforming America’s Military, NSU Press), a Defense Horizons paper on the future of Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAV) and a Defense Horizons paper on Transforming NATO Command and Control. He is presently working on a paper on Army force manning alternatives for Stability and Reconstruction operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and on a book chapter on NATO and information technology. |
| John Mueller holds the Woody Hayes
Chair of National Security Studies, Mershon Center, and is professor of Political Science,
at Ohio State University where he teaches courses in international relations. He is the author of a book analyzing public opinion during the Korean and Vietnam Wars, War, Presidents and Public Opinion (Wiley, 1973) (called "a classic" by the American Political Science Review) and of Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War (Basic Books, 1989) which deals with changing attitudes toward war. In a front page review of this latter book in the Sunday book section of the Washington Post, McGeorge Bundy commented, "Mueller makes you think, and his method of argument combines fresh insights with trenchant prose in a way that makes thoughtful reading agreeable." He has also published Policy and Opinion in the Gulf War (University of Chicago Press, 1994) and Quiet Cataclysm: Reflections on the Recent Transformation of World Politics (HarperCollins, 1995). His most recent book is Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery, published in 1999 by Princeton University Press. In his review in The Weekly Standard, David J. Silver writes, "Mueller's provocative book deserves a wide audience. . . . Mueller writes sharp, brisk, and witty prose that is unfailingly lucid." Mueller is currently completing a book about ethnic and other civil wars entitled, The Remnants of War, to be published by Cornell University Press in 2004. Mueller has published dozens of articles in such journals as International Security, American Political Science Review, Orbis, American Journal of Political Science, National Interest, Foreign Affairs, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Foreign Policy, as well as many editorial page columns and articles in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, the New Republic, Reason, and New York Times. He has been a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the Nobel Institute in Olso, Norway. Mueller is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has been a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, and has received grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has also received several teaching prizes. |
"Public Opinion
and the Wars of the Bushes"
Tuesday, November 11th |
| Dr. John Mueller
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| Woody
Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Mershon Center and Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University |
| Dr. John J. Mearsheimer
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The Department of Politics and Government Announces 2003-2004 John Kennard Eddy Memorial Lecture on World Politics "The Flawed Logic of Bush Administration Foreign Policy" Thursday, October 23rd at 7:30 p.m. Benes Rooms H.W.C.C. |
| Research Activities John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He then started graduate school in political science at Cornell University in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in 1980. He spent the 1979-1980 academic year as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs from 1980 to 1982. During the 1998-1999 academic year, he was the Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, and in 2003 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Mearsheimer has written extensively about security issues and
international politics more generally. He has published three books: Conventional
Deterrence (1983), which won the Edgar S. Furniss, Jr., Book Award; Liddell Hart and the
Weight of History (1988); and The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), which won the
Joseph Lepgold Book Prize. He has also written many articles that have appeared in
academic journals like International Security, and popular magazines like The Atlantic
Monthly. Furthermore he has written a number of op-ed pieces for The New York Times
dealing with topics like Bosnia, nuclear proliferation, American policy towards India, and
the failure of Arab-Israeli peace efforts. |
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| Professor of Political Science, Co-Director, Program on International Security Policy University of Chicago |
"The Global Environment: Challenges, Opportunity, and Action" |
Wednesday, October 8th: Open Lecture Corns Rm. 312 @ 7:30 p.m. |
International Coordinator, Earthday 2000 & 1990 Founder of Worldwise, Grassroots Campaign for International Bank Reform |
"Food Security: Global and Local" |
We were fortunate to host Hon. Donald Winkelmann the week of September 22-26, 2003. Dr. Winkelmann is an internationally recognized expert in economic and political develoment with a specialty in agrucultural and social issues. He will be speaking in this year's National Colloquium program on
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Donald Winkelmann has his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska, and M.S. in Agrucultural Economics from the University of Nebraska, and a Ph.D. in Econopmics from the University of Minnesota. His professional experience includes: 1995-1999 Chairman, Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of the consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (GIAR). The goals of this institution are to alleviate poverty and protect the environnment in developing countries through improved agrucultural technologies. From 1985-1994, Winkelmann was was director General, Inernational Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico which focuses on develping new technologies for developing country producers of maize and wheat. From 1972 he served as this organizations Director, Economics Program. He has also been a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Iowa State University and worked with El Colegio de Postgraduados in Mexico. Donald Winkelmann has worked directly in farming, business, and served in the United States Air Force. He has been awarded the Condecoracion del Aguila Azteca (1994) whi is Mexico's highest award to foreigners for service to Mexico in addition to an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Punjab Agricultural University (Inda) and Colegio de Posgraduados (Mexico). He serves on the board of the North American Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico and is the President of the Santa Fe Council on Foreign Relations. Donald Winkelmann speaks fluent Spanish and has lived in Mexico for 29 years in total; worked extensively in developing countries for some 30 years, working to forge strong ties with agriculture's academic, private and public sectors; and has collaborated widely with professionals conserned with poverty, productivity, and environmental sustainability in developing countries. |
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| Tuesday, March 4, 2003 Dr. Ronald D. Asmus, Woodrow Wilson "Can NATO Survive the 21st Century?" Dr. Ronald D. Asmus is a Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund where he focuses on how the U.S. and Europe can define a new strategic agenda addressing a number of broader regional and global issues. He also serves as a senior advisor on a number of strategic and developmental issues. In addition, he is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations as well as a consultant for the Downey McGrath Group (DMG). He is the author of Opening NATO’s Door: How the Alliance Remade Itself for a New Era (New York: Columbia University Press, November 2002). He served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs in the Clinton Administration from 1997-2000. He has worked as a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, RAND and Radio Free Europe. Dr. Asmus has written widely on European security issues in academic journals and newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic. He was one of the earliest advocates and intellectual architects of NATO enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe in the early 1990s and subsequently served as a top aide to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Deputy Secretary Strobe Talbott, responsible for European security issues. He was involved in the key negotiations that led to NATO’s decision to extend invitations to Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, the signing of the NATO-Russia Founding Act, and finally, the U.S. Senate’s ratification of enlargement. Dr. Asmus is the holder of the U.S. Department of State's Distinguished Honor Award; the Republic of Poland’s Commander’s Cross, Order of Merit; the Republic of Lithuania’s Order of the Grand Duke Gediminas (Second Class); and the Republic of Estonia’s Order of the Cross of St. Mary’s Land (Third Class). He is a member of the Board of the Committee on NATO and the U.S. Baltic Foundation. He is married to Barbara C. Wilkinson and has one son, Erik. His hobbies include mountain hiking, cooking and yoga. |
Tuesday, February 11, 2003 William M. Drennan "Crises on the Korean Peninsula" |
Mr. Drennan is the Deputy Director of the Research and Studies program at the United States Institute of Peace. He joined the Institute upon his retirement from the U.S. Air Force as a colonel in 1998. His last military assignment was as an analyst with the National Defense University's Institute for National Security Studies from 1995 to 1998, where he concentrated on Korea and Northeast Asia security issues. Prior to that he was a professor of national security policy at the National War College. From 1990 to 1991 he was a Military Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City. He was stationed in the Republic of Korea from 1988 to 1990 as the chief of the strategy and policy division, J-5, U.S. Forces Korea. In the mid-1980s he served as a squadron commander, and later as the deputy commander for operations of a USAF flying training wing. From 1981 to 1984 he was assigned to the White House as the Air Force Aide to President Ronald Reagan. A command pilot, he accumulated 3300 flying hours during his military career, including over 800 in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam war.
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| The 2003 Eddy Lecture speaker was Robert Keohane, professor of Political Science at Duke University. At the discussion, Dr. Keohane will be speaking on “September 11th and Its Impact on International Relations.” Prior to his work at Duke, Dr. Keohane taught at Swarthmore College, Stanford University, Brandeis University, and Harvard University where he was the Stanfield Professor of International Peace. He is the author of After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (Princeton University Press, 1984), for which he was awarded the second annual Grawemeyer Award in 1989 for Ideas Improving World Order. He is the author of International Institutions and State Power: Essays in International Relations Theory (Westview, 1989), co-author (with Joseph S. Nye, Jr.) of Power and Interdependence: World Politics in Transition (Little, Brown, 1977, third edition, Addison-Wesley, 2001), and co-author (with Gary King and Sidney Verba) of Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research (Princeton, 1994). He is editor or co-editor of, and contributor to, eleven other books. Between 1974 and 1980 he was editor of the journal, International Organization. He was president of the International Studies Association, 1988-89, and of the American Political Science Association, 1999-2000. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the National Humanities Center. |
2003 Eddy Lecture, Thursday, February 6, 2003 Dr. Robert Keohane "September 11th and Its Impact on International Relations" |
Tuesday, September 24, 2002 Stan Sloan "A New American Empire?: The U.S. and the War on Terrorism" |
Stan Sloan is founder and Director of the Atlantic
Community Initiative. He is also President of VIC - Vermont, a private consulting firm
established to provide research, analysis, and other services to U.S. and European firms,
governments, international organizations, think tanks and universities. Stan is a Visiting
Scholar at the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs at Middlebury College. His most
recent book entitled NATO, the European Union and the Atlantic Community: The
Transatlantic Bargain Reconsidered was published by
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers in November 2002. Stan was educated at the University of Maine (BA), Columbia's School of International Affairs (MIA), and American University's School of International Service. He is a Distinguished Graduate of the Air Force Officers' Training School and served as a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force. Stan began his more than three decades of public service at the Central Intelligence Agency in 1967, serving as NATO and European Community desk officer, member of the U.S. Delegation to the Negotiations on Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions, and as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Western Europe. Stan was employed by the Congressional Research Service from 1975-1999. In April 1999, he retired from his position as Senior Specialist in International Security Policy. Before assuming this position, he served as Division Specialist in U.S. Alliance Relations, Specialist in European Affairs and head of the Europe/Middle East/Africa Section in the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division of CRS. During 1987-1988 he was Study Director for the North Atlantic Assembly's Committee on "NATO in the 1990s." During 1991-1992, he served as deputy and then head of the Office of Senior Specialists. During 1997-98, Stan was the rapporteur for the North Atlantic Assembly's special presidential report on "NATO in the 21st Century." From 1997-1999, he was the advisor to the Senate NATO Observer Group. During 1998-99, Stan served as principal author for Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy project on Congress and foreign policy. He has lectured widely on European security and U.S. foreign policy before European and American audiences. |
Ms. Williams received the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for her work on the campaign to ban landmines. Currently she is the ambassador and strategist for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. The International Campaign to Ban Landmines has grown to more than 1,300 NGOs in over eighty-five countries. Working in an unprecedented cooperative effort with governments, UN bodies and the International Committee of the Red Cross, the ICBL achieved its goal of an international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines during the diplomatic conference held in Oslo in September 1997. Prior to beginning the ICBL, Mrs. Williams worked for eleven years to build public awareness about U.S. policy toward Central America. From 1986 to 1992, she developed and directed humanitarian relief projects as the deputy director of the Los Angeles-based Medical Aid for El Salvador. In that capacity she developed a network of hospitals in twenty cities across the U.S. that donated medical care to Salvadoran children wounded in the war in that country. From 1984 to1986, she was co-coordinator of the Nicaragua-Honduras Education Project, leading fact-finding delegations to the region. Previously, she taught English as a Second Language (ESL) in Mexico, the United Kingdom, and Washington, D.C.. |
Wednesday, September 4, 2002 Jody Williams "The Global Dimensions of Security" |
| Thursday, April 11, 2002: Dr. Reza Afshari
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Professor of History and Human Rights at Pace University, author of Human Rights in Iran: The Abuse of Cultural Relativism, and participant in many National Academic Conferences, will spoke on "Human Rights in the Muslim World: Culture or Cultural Relativism?" |
Wednesday, April 3, 2002: Dr. Richard Ned Lebow |
Professor of Political Science, History and Psychology at The Ohio State University and Director of the Mershon Center, an interdisciplinary research institute that works on problems of national security and public policy, presented "Combating Terrorism: The Intelligence Dilemma" as a surprise guest speaker. Professor Lebow’s research is in the interstices of history, psychology and political science; he uses historical evidence and psychological concepts to address substantive political questions, and the findings of his research to evaluate historical interpretations and psychological theories. He is the author or co-author of six books, the editor of six others and author of numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals. |
| Program Manager with Conflict Management Group (CMG), a Cambridge, MA based nonprofit organization that provides consulting and training services in the areas of negotiation, consensus building, mediation and dispute resolution, will spoke about "Crisis in Colombia: Preparing for Negotiation." | Friday, March 22, 2002: James W. Tull |
Thursday, February 28, 2002: Robert Gilpin |
Professor Emeritus of Princeton University, one of the most distinguished political scientists in the area of international politics, and one of the leading experts on the relationship between international economic and politics, spoke on "Economics and Security in an Age of Globalization" as the Spring 2002 Eddy Lecturer. |
| Editor-in-Chief of Eksta Bladet, a leading daily newspaper in Denmark, presented "Sport as Metaphor for Politics" as the Spring 2002 Woodrow Wilson Scholar and the German Marshall Fund Visiting Scholar. Mr. Madsen was previously Managing Editor, Head of Copenhagen Edt. Dept for news, current affairs, and politics for TV2 in Denmark (the most popular Danish TV channel). | Tuesday, February 26, 2002: Poul Madsen |
Tuesday, October 30, 2001: Hans Binnendijk |
"National Missile Defense: Intersection of
Science, Politics and National Security" National Missile Defense has become the highest-level foreign and security policy priority of the Bush Administration. Dr. Hans Binnendijk, former Special Assistant for Defense Policy and Arms Control to President Bill Clinton, will address the relationship between technology, strategy, and politics surrounding this controversial security initiative. Dr. Binnendijk will also place these issues within the context of the changing international system since September 11. He is the current Roosevelt Chair in National Security and Technology at the National Defense University. |
| President/Executive Director of American Jewish World Service, presented a lecture on "AIDS in Africa" as part of OWU's Sagan National Colloquium Public Affairs Series and as Woodrow Wilson speaker for the Fall of 2001.Messinger manages and participates in the program's outreach and political/economic development programs in underdeveloped countries. She has developed a particular interest and expertise in the AIDS crisis in Africa. Her organization provides humanitarian aid, technical assistance and skilled volunteers to local grassroots groups in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Russia and the Ukraine in projects involving health, education, agriculture, economics development and human rights. | October 2, 2001: Ruth Messinger |
February 8, 2001: General Wesley Clark |
Recently retired supreme allied commander, Europe, presented "U.S. National Security in a New Era" at Ohio Wesleyan's John Kennard Eddy Memorial Lecture on World Politics. During his former position, Clark was in overall command of NATO's military forces in Europe from July 1997 through May 2000, including the Kosovo crisis. |
| January 29-February 2, 2001: Professor Frederic Bozo The Woodrow Wilson and German Marshall Fund Fellow presented a lecture titled "The U.S. and the European Union: What Future for the Atlantic Alliance?". |
| October 31, 2000: Theresa Hitchens A veteran writer for several defense-oriented publications, including Inside the Pentagon and Defense News, Hitchens spoke concerning "From Infowar toCyberterrorism: Implications for US National Security."
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| September 20, 2000: Robert Peck Director of Legal Affairs for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, presented on "Free Speech and Cyberspace." Part of the Sagan National Colloquim at OWU. |
| February 24, 2000: Susan Eisenhower President of the Eisenhower Group, Inc. (EGI), a Washington, DC-based consulting firm that provides political, economic, trade, marketing and investment analysis to Fortune 500 companies, non-profit organizations and entrepreneurs. Susuan Eisenhower is the 1999-2000 John Kennard Eddy Memorial Lecture and spoke on "United States - Russian Relations after Clinton and Yeltsin." |
| February 16, 2000: Daniel Vernet The diplomatic editor of "Le Monde," the largest newspaper in France and one of the most respected newspapers in the world, and the Spring 2000 Woodrow Wilson speaker, spoke on "Europe in the 21st Century." |