Announcement - December 6
The final session for Conceptual Foundations will be held this Monday,
December 11th.
Discussion Panel on Globalization
Moderated by Jim Hoagland
Time: 2:10-4:00
Place: 417 IAB Altschul Auditorium
Panelists include:
John Mearsheimer:
Professor John Mearsheimer, Political Science, University of Chicago
(Ph.D., Cornell, 1980) specializes in international relations theory,
national security policy, war and international systems, and deterrence
theory. He is author of Conventional Deterrence and Liddell Hart and
the
Weight of History and among other articles, one that appeared in the
Atlantic Monthly in 1990 called "Why We Will Soon Miss the Cold
War."
Leslie Sklair:
Dr. Leslie Sklair is a Reader in Sociology at the London School of
Economics. He has been a visiting professor at New York University,
San
Diego State University, and Honk Kong University, and has lectured on
globalization all over the world. His Sociology of the Global System
(1995) has been translated into Japanese, Portuguese, Persian, Chinese,
and
Spanish. He has conducted fieldwork on transnational corporations in
Mexico, China, Honk Kong, Egypt, Australia, and in Europe and North
America.
Meghnad Desai:
Meghnad Desai, Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics
and
Political Science, is currently the Director of the Center for the Study
of
Global Governance, LSE. He received his Ph.D. from the University of
Pennsylvania. He has written extensively on a wide range of subjects.
From
1984-1991, he was co-editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics.
Felix G. Rohatyn:
Felix G. Rohatyn has been the United States Ambassador to France since
September 11, 1997. Prior to his appointment as Ambassador in Paris,
Ambassador Rohatyn was a Managing Director of the investment bank Lazard
Frères and Company in New York, which he joined in 1948, becoming
a partner
in 1961. From 1975 to 1993, he was Chairman of the Municipal Assistance
Corporation (MAC) of the City of New York, where he managed the
negotiations which enabled New York to pull itself out of its financial
crisis in the late seventies. He served as a member of the Board of
Governors of the New York Stock Exchange from 1968 to 1972. He served
on
the Board of Directors of several NYSE listed corporations.
Announcement - November 16
Videos of lectures from this semester are now available online through
the following links:
September
11
September
18
September
25
October
2
October
9
October
16
October
23
October
30
November
13
November
27
December
4
Announcement - November 16
The "web resources" area (available from the link left of
here) now holds an archive of course announcements.
Announcement - November 14
The debate assignment (assignment
#4) has now been posted to the assignments page.
Announcement - November 11
The John Hall reading has been updated to include pages 18 and 19 which
had been missing. You can either download the new version of the entire
article
Hall, John A. 1993. "Nationalisms:
Classified and Explained," Daedalus, vol. 122, no. 3, pp.
1-28. (Available Online)
or download pages 18 and 19 by clicking
here
Announcement - November 8
The first three pages of the article by V. Spike Peterson "Whose
Rights? A Critique of the "Givens" in Human Rights Discourse"
were found to be problematic (the first page was fuzzy and misaligned,
the second two just fuzzy). The article has now been corrected. In addition
you can download just the
updated first three pages of the article.
Announcement - November 6
The interview that Courdier Fellow Samir Awad conducted
with Professor Ira Katznelson earlier in the semester has been edited
into a new format. You can look at the interview, question by question
here.
Materials ancillary to Professor Bhagwati's October 30th
lecture have been posted
to the syllabus.