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2003-2004 ISERP and SIWPS present a CUIPS event: "Identifying Paths to War, 1816-1945" JOHN VASQUEZ John A. Vasquez is Harvey Picker Professor of International Relations at Monday, May 3rd, 2004 The South Asian Graduate Students Association "Paths to Peace-The Kashmir Conflict" Introductions and Welcome Remarks by: Professor Richard Betts Ambassador Frank Wisner Mr. Gautam Adhikari Professor Ainslee Embree Mr. Hussain Haqqani Mr. Nauman Naqvi Friday, April 23rd
The Student Council on Islamic World Affairs in cooperation with "The Islamic Bomb and Global Nuclear Proliferation" Featuring AMBASSADOR AHMED KAMAL and DR. ROBERT JERVIS Moderated by April 12, 2004 For further information contact: The Institute for the Study of Europe, the UN Studies Program, and the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, LASZLO MOLMAR "Containing Weapons of Mass Destruction: the U.N. April 8, 2004 The Conflict Resolution Working Group, The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, STEPHEN STEDMAN "Securing Tomorrow: Collective Security in the 21st Century" Introduction by Professor Richard Betts Wednesday, April 7, 2004 for more info contact Rebecca Jovin at raj2105@columbia.edu ISERP and SIWPS present a CUIPS event: BARBARA KOREMENOS Dept. of Political Science UCLA "International Law for an Uncertain Environment" Monday, March 29th, 2004 Barbara Koremenos is an assistant professor of political science at University of California - Los Angeles. She completed her doctoral dissertation, "On the Duration and Renegotiation of International Agreements," at the University of Chicago. Professor Koremenos studies how international cooperation can emerge in agreements like the Antarctic Treaty and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, despite uncertainties about future benefits. She has undertaken a large-scale data gathering project on international agreements with the help of a major career development award from the National Science Foundation. She recently co-edited a special issue of International Organization on the rational design of international institutions. A copy of the paper is available at: http://www.iserp.columbia.edu/news/calendars/cuips.html The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and the Comparative Defense Studies Program, DR. SHMUEL SANDLER Bar-Ilan University "The Religious Dimension in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" Moderator: Dr. Stephanie Neuman Thursday, March 25, 2004 Dr. Shmuel Sandler is currently The Sara and Simha Lainer Professor in Democracy and Civility at Bar-Ilan University. He is also an Associate at The Begin-Sadat Center For Strategic Studies. His research interests include Religion and International Relations, International Politics and Comparative Government; The Arab-Israeli Conflict; Israeli Politics and Foreign Policy; and Ethnonational Politics and Foreign Policy. Dr. Sandler has authored numerous books, articles, and reviews. His most recent book, in collaboration with Jonathan Fox, is Bringing Religion Back to International Relations. The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS) Columbia University Security Policy Speaker Series presents: RACHEL BRONSON "With Us or Against US: The Making of US Policy Toward Saudi Arabia, 1945-Present" Wednesday, March 24th, 2004 Rachel Bronson is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and works on the Middle East and U.S. national security policy. She earned her Ph.D. at Columbia and worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies before coming to the Council. Her talk draws on a book she is finishing, to be published by Oxford University Press.
ISERP and SIWPS present a CUIPS event RISA BROOKS "Civil-military relations and Strategic Assessment" Monday, March 8th, 2004 Risa Brooks (PhD UCSD) is assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University. Her research is on civil-military institutions, coalitional models of politics, patterns of international conflict, and economic sanctions. Her prior professional experiences include visiting assistant professor in the government department at Mills College (2000-01), consulting for the Rand Corporation (2001), a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University (1999-2000), a term as a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London (1997-98), and affiliation with Harvard University's John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies (1996-97). A copy of the paper is available at: The Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) and The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS), Columbia University, present PAUL MACDONALD "Hierarchy and Great Power Grand Strategy: Monday, March 1st, 2004 Paul MacDonald is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, He is currently a pre-doctoral research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.His work has been published in the American Political Science Review and International Security. He has taught various international relations courses at Columbia. Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) and The ROBERT TRAGER "The Prologue to Peace or War: Monday, February 23rd, 2004 Robert Trager is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, and a fellow of the Public Policy Consortium, the Center for Conflict Resolution, and the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy. His research interests include international cooperation in the areas of economic and security affairs, and international terrorism. His dissertation, titled, "The Role of Diplomacy in Power Politics," uses game theoretic techniques to examine how communication between leaders shapes the international environment of states. Mr. Trager received his BA from Middlebury College and his MSc with Distinction from the London School of Economics. Before returning to graduate school, he worked in the Investment Banking Division of Lehman Brothers in New York. Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Middle East "Occupying Iraq: Lessons and Comparisons Drawn from the Featured speakers include: Phebe Marr, Council on Foreign Relations John Dower, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jack Snyder, Columbia University Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University Moderator: Thursday, February 19th, 2004 Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS) Columbia University WILLIAM E. ODOM "Fixing Intelligence" Thursday, February 12th, 2004 Lt. Gen. William Odom is currently at the Hudson Institute and teaches at Yale and Georgetown. He was director of the largest intelligence agency in the world, the National Security Agency, in the 1980s. He earned his Ph.D. at Columbia and in his military career before NSA served as a Soviet specialist, intelligence collector in East Germany, attache in Moscow, West Point faculty member, assistant to National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, and head of U.S. Army Intelligence. He is author of The Soviet Volunteers (Princeton University Press, 1970), The Collapse of the Soviet Military (Yale University Press, 1998), several other books, and articles in World Politics, Foreign Affairs, Problems of Communism, Washington Quarterly, Foreign Policy, National Interest, and other journals.
The East Central European Center and The Saltzman Institute of War and DR. GEORGE MAIOR Romanian First Deputy Minister and Head of the Euro-Atlantic Integration Speaking on "The New Allies and Security Dynamics in the Black Sea Area" Moderator: Dr. Stephen Sestanovich Monday, February 2, 2004 After receiving his Ph. D. in International Law from University of Cluj, Dr. Maior has worked at various position at the Romanian Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense. He is the author of several books on European security and European Law, and numerous articles published by European and US journals.
The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies International Security Policy Speaker Series Presents BARRY R. POSEN "European Union Security and Defense Policy-- Monday, January 26 Barry R. Posen, professor at MIT, is author of Sources of Military Doctrine: France, Britain, and Germany Between the World Wars (Cornell Univesity Press, 1984), which won both the Woodrow Wilson and Furniss Awards, and Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear Risks (Cornell University. Press, 1991), as well as numerous articles in International Security, Survival, and elsewhere. He served previously on the Princeton faculty, worked in the Pentagon's Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation, and recently spent a year of research in Brussels, home of NATO.
Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS) BEAR BRAUMOELLER Assistant Professor -- Harvard University "Updating Systemic Theory: Nested Politics and the Origins of Monday, December 8th, 2003 Bear F. Braumoeller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government, and a Faculty Associate at both the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Davis Center for Russian and East European Studies. Professor Braumoeller's interests include the sources of war and conflict, political methodology (tailoring statistical methodology to fit the particular needs of students of world politics), international relations theory (in particular,
The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies PAUL R. PILLAR "Terrorism After al-Qa'ida." Wednesday, November 19 Pillar is the National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asia. He has specialized in analysis of terrorism in a long career at the Central Intelligence Agency and served previously as deputy director of the Counter-Terrorism Center of the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), executive assistant to DCI William Webster, and Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) KEITH DARDEN Assistant Professor -- Yale University "Economic Ideas and Institutional Choice: Explaining the International Monday, November 17th, 2003 Keith Darden, Ph.D., University of California Berkeley, is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. His research interests include the formation of international institutions, alliances, and trade blocs; the political economy of post-Communism; and the role of economic, religious and national ideas in shaping political order. He has been a Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum in Berlin and a Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies in 2000-2001.
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) HOLGER SCHMIDT PhD Candidate in Political Science -- Columbia University "Regime Type and Attitudes Toward Conflict Management by International Monday, November 10th, 2003 HOLGER SCHMIDT is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University and National Security Fellow at Harvard's John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies. His dissertation, tentatively entitled "When Does Bias Hurt? Impartiality and the Effectiveness of Third-Party Intervention in Violent Conflict," argues that the relationship between impartiality and intervention success is not fixed but instead varies depending on the nature of the underlying bargaining problem and the conflict management strategy employed by the intervener. Before joining the Ph.D. program at Columbia, Mr. Schmidt received a Master's in International Relations from the Paul H. Nitze School of International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, where he was a fellow in the North American Studies Program of the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD). The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies DANIEL BYMAN Assistant Professor - Georgetown University School of Foreign Service "Al Qa'ida as an Adversary" Wednesday, November 5 Before joining Georgetown, Dr. Byman was aHe is Before joining Georgetown, Dr. Byman was a Professional Staff Member with the Joint 9/11 Inquiry Staff of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. He has also worked as the Research Director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the RAND Corporation and as an analyst of the Middle East for the U.S. government. Dr. Byman has written widely on a range of topics related to terrorism, international security, and the Middle East. He is the author of Keeping the Peace: Lasting Solutions to Ethnic Conflict and The Dynamics of Coercion: American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military Might, as well as numerous monographs and articles. Dr. Byman received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.A. from Amherst College.
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) present IRWIN WALL Professor of History, Emeritus University of California, Riverside Visiting Professor, Columbia University, Department of History "The French-American War over Iraq" Tuesday, October 28, 2003 Although France and the United States have never fought a war against each other, the recent clash between the two countries over the Iraqi conflict is just one chapter in a long saga of strong disagreements. In his lecture, Irwin Wall will question whether the new departure in recent American policy has fundamentally altered the parameters of a historic friendship. Irwin Wall is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California Riverside and a graduate of Columbia University (Ph.D., 1968), where he is a Visiting Professor this year. He is the author of The United States and the Making of Postwar France, 1945-1954 and France, the United States, and the Algerian War, 1954-1968.
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) HEIN GOEMANS Assistant Professor of Political Science "Territory and War: the Making of a Homeland" Monday, October 27, 2003 Hein Goemans (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Duke University and works in international relations, specializing in security studies. His research focuses on the nexus between domestic politics and conflict. His book titled "War and Punishment, the Causes of War ermination and the First World War" has been published by Princeton University Press (2000). He was a John M Olin National Security postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs and Edward Teller National Security Fellowship at the Hoover Institution, at Stanford University. He is currently working on a research project on territory, and in particular, conceptions of the homeland, and international politics.
The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies' International CLARK MURDOCK Senior Fellow -- Center for Strategic and International Studies “New Bases and Allies for Old? The Pentagon's Plans for Future Tuesday, October 7 Dr. Murdock specializes in strategic planning, defense policy and national security affairs. His expertise spans U.S. national security and defense strategy, military transformation, use of force issues, defense policy formation, defense reform, nuclear strategy and force modernization, strategic planning, and the U.S. Air Force. He co-directed (with Michele Flournoy) the study entitled "Revitalizing the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent" in June 2002 and is now directing a study on building a sustainable strategy for 21st Century America. He will also be the lead investigator on a two-year study on Defense Department organization ("Goldwater-Nichols Revisited: Defense Reform for a New Strategic Era"). Dr. Murdock has taught courses at the National War College and served as the deputy director of the Air Force's headquarters planning function. He was also employed at the Central Intelligence Agency as an analyst and manager of African issues. THE Satlzman Institute of War and Peace Studies "Iraq: Any Way Forward?" MICHAEL DOYLE Harold Brown Professor for Security Policy GARY SICK Senior Research Scholar RICHARD BETTS Arnold A. Saltzman Professor Commentator: Adlai E. Stevenson Professor Thursday, October 2
The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies' International Security Policy Speaker Series presents ANDREW KREPINEVICH Director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments “Gulf War II: Lessons of the War and the Challenge of Winning the Peace.” Monday, September 29 Andrew Krepinevich is Director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington, D.C., an influential defense policy think tank. He is the author of the award-winning and controversial book, The Army and Vietnam (Johns Hopkins Press, 1986) and numerous articles. Krepinevich was an officer in the U.S. Army for twenty years, received a Ph.D. from Harvard, taught on the West Point faculty, worked in Andrew Marshall’s Office of Net Assessment in the Pentagon, and served as member of the 1997 National Defense Panel. In recent years he has been one of the most prominent commentators on the Revolution in Military Affairs and defense “transformation.” MARK A. GROOMBRIDGE Special Assistant to John R. Bolton "The Proliferation Security Initiative and the U.S. Policy on North Korea: Wednesday, September 17 Mark A. Groombridge joined the Bush Administration in October 2001 to serve as Special Assistant to John R. Bolton, the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security and serves as his principal advisor on Asian affairs. Before joining the Administration, Groombridge was a research fellow at the Cato Institute and the Abramson Research Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and associate director of its Asian Studies program. He is the author (with Claude Barfield) of Tiger by the Tail: China and the WTO (The AEI Press, 1999). In addition, Groombridge has written widely on international issues in academic, legal, and public policy journals and newspapers. In addition to speaking engagements around the world, Groombridge has been featured regularly on ABC News, CNN, the BBC, and Fox News. Groombridge received his B.A. in international relations and Chinese from the University of Minnesota (magna cum laude) and his Ph.D. in political science (distinction) from Columbia University. | Spring 2005 May 2 April 25 April 20 April 19 April 18 April 14 March 30 March 29 March 28 Feb. 28 Feb. 22 Feb. 8 Feb. 7 Feb. 1 Fall 2004 Dec. 13 Dec. 6 Dec. 2 Nov. 29 Nov. 23 Nov. 22 Nov. 17 Nov. 16 Nov. 15 Nov. 11 Nov. 10 Oct. 6 Oct. 4 Sep. 28 Sep. 20 Archives 2003-4 | |
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