Mershon Center for International Studies Guest Speakers 2009 - 2010: Recent Episodes

Mershon Center for International Studies at The Ohio State University

Guest speakers and conferences hosted by the Mershon Center covering a variety of topics during 2009 and 2010.

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Veterans Learning Community

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Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in Chinese Foreign Relations

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Plato on Action and Knowledge

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The War on Drugs in Mexico: Chronicle of a Failure Foretold

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Ethos of Independence Across Regions in the United States: The Production-Adoption Model of Cultural Change

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Narratives of Bombing: Tokyo and Hiroshima, 1945

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Narratives of Bombing: Tokyo and Hiroshima, 1945

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The Struggle of Military Forces to Adapt to Complex Opponents

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Narratives of Bombing: Tokyo and Hiroshima, 1945

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Why Yemen Now? Reassessing South Arabia's Recent Past

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Liberation: The Human Cost of Allied Victory in World War II Europe

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America's Wars: The Way Forward in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq

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Blame, Italian Style

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Running to Lose: The Muslim Brotherhood and Parliamentary Elections

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Shaded by Fear: The New Deal and its Legacies

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Extreme Vulnerability of Migrants: The Cases of the United States and Mexico

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Rise of Red Terror: The Ethics and Effectiveness of Maoist Violence in India

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The Islamic Dimension of the Insurgencies in Afghanistan and Pakistan

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Why They Succeed, Why They Fail, and Why We Should Care

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Political Aspects of Prophecy in Islamic Philosophy

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Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation

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The U.S. and the 'United States of Europe': A Comparision of the Cold War and the Post-Cold War Years

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Mexico: Drug Trafficking Organizations and Political Change

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The Rise of the Post-Cold War World

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International Security in Practice: The Politics of NATO-Russia Diplomacy

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Emerging Perspectives on Intergroup Contact

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Right to the City, Right to Rights, and Insurgent Urban Citizenship

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W(h)ither Human Rights: A Critical Reflection

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It's The Region, Stupid: The Real Dangers of U.S. Failure in Afghanistan-Pakistan

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The United States and the Global Human Rights Imagination

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Military Intervention and the Protection of Civilians in Afghanistan

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Multiple Masculinities in U.S. Military Culture

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International Institutions as Signaling Devices

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Why We Fight? Past and Future Motives for War

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State Failure and Regional Containment - The Case of Afghanistan

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1989 and the Key to the Present

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Causal Mechanisms and the (Transnational) Dynamics of Civil War

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Trafficking and Civil Society: Denial, Distress, Danger

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Trafficking and Civil Society: Denial, Distress, Danger

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Recipe for Success: Basic Ingredients for Undergraduate Research

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The Mad Pursuit of a World Bill of Rights - International Legal Norms and the Senate after Nuremberg

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What Cosmopolitans Can Learn From Classical Realists

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Mershon and Humanities Institute Faculty Panel

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The Emotional Politics of Transnational Crime

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The Politics of IO Accountability - Transparency and Evaluation in the International Monetary Fund

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Nicholas Rankin

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Inside Afghanistan and Pakistan - Political Connections, Pashtun Nationalism and the Taliban

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West Africa and the U.S. 'War on Terror'

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West Africa and the U.S. 'War on Terror'

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West Africa and the U.S. 'War on Terror'

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West Africa and the U.S. 'War on Terror'

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West Africa and the U.S. 'War on Terror'

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West Africa and the U.S. 'War on Terror'

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Imperial Reputations - How Sovereignty and Self-Determination Norms Have Altered the Politics of Empire

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Disciplining an Unruly Field - Terrorism Studies and the State, 1972-2001

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Vote Buying in Democratic Systems

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Session I Discussion

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Session II Discussion

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Session II Papers

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Session I Papers

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Session I: Election Administration, Papers

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Session I: Election Administration, Discussion

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Session II: Race and Voting in 2008, Papers

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Session II: Race and Voting in 2008, Discussion

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Critical Infrastructure Protection - Are We Spending Too Much on Counter-Terrorism?

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America's Relative Decline and Its Consequences