Columbia University International Politics Seminar (CUIPS) presents
May 3 - The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies presents: "Healing the Wounds of War and Personal Trauma: Lessons from South Africa" a lecture by Father Michael Lapsley.
Father Michael Lapsley was born and raised in New Zealand. He went to South Africa in 1973 as a young Anglican priest determined to oppose the racism and oppression of apartheid. In 1976 at the insistence of the apartheid government he left South Africa. For many years he served as a chaplain and spiritual advisor to the anti-apartheid movement in exile. In 1990, while living in Zimbabwe, he was sent a letter bomb from South Africa. He survived an immense explosion which was intended to kill him but lost both hands and the sight of one eye.
With the fall of apartheid, Father Michael returned to South Africa and eventually became Chaplain of the Trauma Centre for Survivors of Violence and Torture in Cape Town. In 1998 he became the founding director of the Institute for Healing of Memories, an organization which conducts healing and reconciliation workshops in South Africa and other conflict ridden societies worldwide.
Nelson Mandela has said, "Michael's life represents a compelling metaphor:...a foreigner who came to our country and was transformed....(His) life is part of the tapestry of the many long journeys and struggles of our people."
Father Michael has been a visiting professor at Manhattanville College and the New School University.
Date: May 3, 2006 Time: 12:30-2:00PM Location: Room 1302, International Affairs Building
April 28 - The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and the South East Asia Students' Initiative present: "Security and Islam in Southeast Asia: The Insurgency in Southern Thailand" a lecture by
Professor Zachary Abuza (Ph.D. Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1998).
Professor Abuza specializes in security issues and politics in Southeast Asia. He is the author of Militant Islam in Southeast Asia: Crucible of Terror (Lynne Rienner, 2003) a study of the Jemaah Islamiyah and Al Qaeda networks in the region and their links to other militant groups. He is also the author of Renovating Politics in Contemporary Vietna (Lynne Rienner, 2001), an analysis of intra-communist party dissent and the limits to political reform in Vietnam. He has published numerous articles in Asian Survey, Problems of Post-Communism and Contemporary Southeast Asia on terrorism, Vietnamese elite politics and foreign policy, the Khmer Rouge movement in Cambodia, and regional security issues. He is the lead author of a forthcoming study for the National Bureau of Asian Research, Uncivil Islam: Radical Islam and Politics in Indonesia and has completed a survey of terrorist financing in Southeast Asia that is also published by the National Bureau of Asian Research.
Date: Friday, April 28, 2006 Time: 12:00-2:00PM Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1302
April 17- "A WORLD OF REGIONS: NATIONAL SECURITY POLICIES IN ASIA AND EUROPE"
PETER KATZENSTEIN Professor of International Studies, Cornell University
Peter J. Katzenstein is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. His research and teaching lie at the intersection of the fields of international relations and comparative politics. Katzenstein's work addresses issues of political economy, security and culture in both Europe and Asia, with specific focus on Germany and Japan. His current research interests focus on the role of anti-Americanism, religion and popular culture, and regionalism in world politics, as well as changes in German politics. Recent and forthcoming books include: "Anti-Americanism in World Politics," co-edited with Robert O. Keohane and in preparation for Cornell University Press (2006), "Religion in an Expanding Europe," co-edited with Timothy A. Byrnes, (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and "Beyond Japan: East Asian Regionalism," coedited with Takashi Shiraishi (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006). He is also author of "Rethinking Security in East Asia: Identity, Power, and Efficiency" (Stanford University Press, 2004) and "A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American Imperium" (Cornell University Press, 2005). He is the author, coauthor, editor and coeditor of another 18 books and has written over 80 papers and book chapters. A copy of the about 30 pages of the latter reading will be available for advance reading from the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.
Monday, April 17, 2006 12:30pm-2pm Room 1512 International Affairs Building, 15th Floor School of International and Public Affairs 420 W. 118th Street New York, NY
April 14 - "Debating IR Theory: The Rockefeller Foundation and the Shift Toward a Discipline-Approach to International Politics"
a lecture by Nicolas Guilhot This presentation will address the impact of the Rockefeller Foundation on the subsequent development International Relations theory, and in particular its role in bringing together a network of IR scholars, including Morgenthau, Rusk, Nitze, Niebuhr, Fox, Wolfers, Lippman, Fosdick and others, who successfully used their connection with the Rockefeller Foundation to establish the boundaries of the nascent discipline.
Date: April 14, 2006 Time: 12:00-2:00PM Location: 1302 IAB
April 14 - Torture on Trial: Morality, Law and the Utility of Torture"
Two panels:
9:30am-11:00am - "The Morality of Torture and International Law" 11:15am-1:15pm - "Walking the Line, Balancing Detainee Treatment With Military Necessity"
Torture: Does it make us safer? Is it ever ok? Do national security priorities, by definition, clash with the imperatives of human rights law? Major names in the torture debate will discuss these questions and more.
Speakers include: - Janis Karpinski, former Brigadier General and commander of Abu Ghraib prison; - Heather MacDonald, the Manhattan Institute and conservative commentator; - Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch; - Hina Shamsi, senior counsel of Human Rights First and lawyer for several ex-detainees who were tortured by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan; - Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst - Professor Jeremy Waldron, Columbia Law School - Professor Peter Rosenblum, Columbia Law School And more...
Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Working Group and the International Security Policy concentration. With support from the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, the Conflict Resolution Working Group, the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute, ACLU, Rights Link, CUPID, DIPA, President and Provost Fund.
Friday April 14th. Columbia Law School, Room 104 GJH
April 12 - "Preemption vs. Preventive War in Light of Some History"
a lectureby George Quester
Currently at the University of Maryland, Professor Quester (Ph.D. Harvard, 1965) has taught at taught at Cornell, Harvard, UCLA, the National War College, and as the John M. Olin Visiting Professor at the United States Naval Academy. His publications include "Nuclear Diplomacy: The First Twenty-five Years," "The Politics of Nuclear Proliferation" and, most recently, "Nuclear Monopoly."
Date: April 12, 2006 Time: 12:00-2:00PM International Affairs Building, Room 1302 420 W. 118th Street
April 11 - "Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy"
Moises Naim
Editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine, one of six members of Time magazine's board of international economists a former executive director at the World Bank, Moisés Naím is an expert in international economics His most recent book, Illicit describes the ways in which illegal enterprises distort the economy of entire countries and industries, enable terrorists and even take over governments. From pirated movies to weapons of mass destruction, from human organs to endangered species, drugs, or stolen art, Illicit reveals the inner workings of these amazingly efficient international organizations and shows why it is so hard—and so necessary—to contain them.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006 4:00 - 5:30pm Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs Room 707, 7th Floor 420 W. 118th Street
April 10 - "Revolution in Intelligence Affairs?"
DEBORAH BARGER Deputy Assistant Director of National Intelligence
As the global war on terrorism continues to expand and the post-Cold War security environment remains in flux, both the strengths and weaknesses of U.S. intelligence have been thrust into the public spotlight, leading to renewed recognition of the importance of intelligence and the need for improvements in intelligence operations. Barger is a career intelligence officer, now in one of the top positions at the center of the intelligence reform process. In 2004 she wrote a study at the RAND Corporation outlining the case for revolutionary change. She will discuss the evolving reform process.
Monday, April 10, 2006 4pm-6pm Room 707 International Affairs Building (Lindsay Rogers Room) School of International and Public Affairs 420 W. 118th Street New York, NY
April 6 - The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies' International Security Policy Speaker Series presents:
MONICA DUFFY TOFT Associate Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government
"PEACE THROUGH SECURITY: THE DURABLE SETTLEMENT OF CIVIL WARS"
Monica Duffy Toft is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and the Assistant Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard. Her research interests include international relations, nationalism and ethnic conflict, civil and interstate wars, the relationship between demography and national security, and military and strategic planning. She is the author of "The Geography of Ethnic Violence: Identity, Interests, and Territory," (Princeton University Press, 2003), and an edited volume with Talbot Imlay, "The Fog of Peace: Strategic and Military Planning Under Uncertainty" (Frank Cass, forthcoming 2006). She holds a PhD and MA from the University of Chicago.
Thursday, April 6, 2006 4pm-6pm Room 707 International Affairs Building (Lindsay Rogers Room) School of International and Public Affairs 420 W. 118th Street New York, NY
April 4 - The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, International Security Policy Concentration, and Human Rights Working Group present "Understanding the Iraqi Insurgency"
A lecture by Professor Ahmed S. Hashim of the U.S. Naval War College.
As a part of the semester-long series "Human Rights, Security and the War on Terror" Professor Hashim will be discussing the Iraqi insurgency's roots, organizational structure, motivating factors, and goals.
Ahmed S. Hashim is Associate Professor of Strategic Studies at the United States Naval War College where he specializes in Middle Eastern and Central/South Asian security issues. He is the author of the soon to be released Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006). Professor Hashim received his B.A. in Political Science and International Studies from the University of Warwick in Coventry, England and his Ph.D. in Political Science and Security Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Additional publications include "Civil-Military Relations in the Islamic Republic of Iran," in Joseph Kechichian (ed.), Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Gulf States (New York: Palgrave, 2001) and "The World According to Osama Bin Laden: An Islamic Philosophy in Action," in the Naval War College Review, 2001.
Date: April 4th, 2006 Time: 12:00-2:00PM Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1302 School of International and Public Affairs 420 W. 118th Street
April 4 - The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies Presents: Belarus After the Presidential Elections
The recent elections in Belarus saw incumbent president Alexander Lukashenko win with 83% of the vote in an election that was broadly seen as neither free nor fair. Demonstrations and protests and Minsk were met with police harassment and arrests. Join us for a discussion on the future of democratic reform in the Former Soviet Union and the prospects for change in “Europe's last dictatorship."
Margarita M. Balmaceda - Associate Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, and Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center, Harvard University Arkady Cherepansky - former Senior Belarusian diplomat, Reagan-Fascell Democracy fellow, producer of weekly radio broadcast “Belarusian Forum” for the Russian Service of the Voice of America Sam Gejdenson - United States House of Representative (1981-2000) and ranking Democrat on the House International Relations Committee 1995-2000 Robert Legvold - Marshall D. Shulman Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
Tuesday, April 4, 2006 1 pm – 3 pm 7th Floor, Lindsay Rodgers Room, Int’l Affairs Building School of International and Public Affairs 420 West 118th Street New York City
15th Floor, Room 1512 International Affairs Building School of International and Public Affairs 420 West 118th Street New York City
"Tying the Gordian Knot: Targeted Killings and the Ethics of Prevention"
A talk by Ariel Colonomos CNRS Research Fellow at Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Lecturer at Sciences Po, Visiting Professor SIPA
Israel and to a lesser extent the United States, have adopted “targeted killings” as a mode of fighting terrorist groups. These measures aim at eliminating individuals Israel and the United States consider a threat to their security. The practice of targeted killings, along with the rules, codes, and norms they are associated with, constitute a major shift in the justification of the use of force. Politics, law, and ethics are now tied in to what can be characterized as a Gordian knot. In a world deprived of the sharp and astute talents of Alexander, targeted killings are the paradigmatic case of a paralysis in the regulation of the international system. Targeted killings mirror the transformation of the international system, its material, political and normative structures–essentially both its evolution and paralysis. They are the cornerstone of a radically new normative framework that needs to be thoroughly understood and assessed. Tuesday, March 7, 2006 12:10 – 2:00 pm
Room 1302, 13th Floor School of International and Public Affairs 420 W. 118th St. New York City
“Civil Affairs: Winning the Peace and National Security Strategy”
A talk by Colonel Christopher Holshek
Christopher Holshek, Colonel, U.S. Army (Reserve) Civil Affairs is currently attending the resident U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, PA. A Civil Affairs officer for more than two decades, he commanded the 402nd Civil Affairs Battalion during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He deployed previously to HQ KFOR (J9) in 2000 to serve as a KFOR CIMIC Liaison Officer to UNMIK Civil Administration (Pillar II) and the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General (O/SRSG). As a civilian, he is a peace and civil-military operations consultant, associated with Potomac Strategies International, LLC, the Institute for Defense Analyses, and the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Civil-Military Relations. He specializes in civil-military and interagency stability and peace operations, information operations, and interdisciplinary training and education.
Moderated by Dr. Stephanie Neuman Director, Comparative Defense Studies Program
Thursday, February 16, 2006 2:00 – 4:00 pm Room 1302, 13th Floor School of International and Public Affairs 420 W. 118th St. New York City
