Peace Meals
Peace Meals
10/19/2010 4:30 PM 66"110Anna Badkhen, Author, "Peace Meals"; Fotini Christia, Assistant Professor in Political ScienceDescription: While breaking bread around the world with friends and families suffering through war and deprivation, Anna Badkhen managed to compile not just a vivid chronicle ...
America's Path to Permanent War
Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War
Washington stubbornly sticks to national security policies that don't work, are devoid of moral considerations, and rob future generations, says Andrew J. Bacevich
Starr Forum: Yemen: Avoiding the Mistakes and Learning the ...
Starr Forum: Yemen: Avoiding the Mistakes and Learning the Lessons of Iraq ...
A Starr Forum event presented on April 8 2010 Ambassador Barbara Bodine on Yemen: Avoiding the Mistakes and Learning the Lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan About the speaker: Ambassador Bodine's over 30 years in the US Foreign Service were spent primarily on Arabian ...
A Conversation with Admiral William Fallon
A Conversation with Admiral William Fallon
ADMIRAL FALLON led U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) from March 2007 to March 2008. During that time, he was responsible for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and directed all U.S. military activities in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Horn of Africa. ...
U.S. - Iran Relations
U.S. - Iran Relations
05/05/2009 4:00 PM Ne30Jim Walsh, Research Associate, SSP MIT; Suzanne DiMaggio, Global Policy Director, Asia Society; Stephen Heintz, President, Rockefeller Brothers Fund; Barry Posen, Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT, Director Security Studies ProgramDescription: ...
Key Issues In the Department of Defense for the Obama ...
Key Issues In the Department of Defense for the Obama Administration
01/15/2009 3:30 PM 14W"111Barry Posen, Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT, Director Security Studies Program; Owen Cote, PhD '96, Center for International Studies; Harvey M. Sapolsky, Professor of Public Policy and Organization Department of ...
Global Concerns of National Importance for the Next US ...
Global Concerns of National Importance for the Next US Administration
10/28/2008 4:30 PM Wong AuditoriumAdmiral William Fallon, Former Head of CENTCOM,; Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow at MIT Center for International Studies Description: "I've drunk kava in the South Pacific and rubbed noses with natives," says William Fallon. "I've enjoyed ...
Leaderless Jihad: Radicalization in the West
Leaderless Jihad: Radicalization in the West
Marc Sageman, an expert on al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations, discusses how people end up on the path to political violence in a post-9/11 world. His talk builds upon his best-selling book, "Understanding Terror Networks" and is based upon his recent ...
So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits and the ...
So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits and the President Failed ...
05/07/2008 6:00 PM 32"141Greg Mitchell, Editor, Editor and Publisher MagazineDescription: Greg Mitchellhas found both comedy and tragedy in the shameless and near"universal complicity between the American press and the Bush Administration around the Iraq war and ...
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9"11/Iraq
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9"11/Iraq
04/07/2008 4:30 PM 32"123John Dower, Ford International Professor of HistoryDescription: The Bush administration began its "great misuse of history" shortly after 9/11, says John Dower, when it seized upon Japan's 1941 Pearl Harbor attack as a useful analogy, a way to ...
Juan Cole- Iraq's Three Civil Wars: Is the US Relevant to ...
Juan Cole- Iraq's Three Civil Wars: Is the US Relevant to Them?
Juan Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He has written extensively about Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and South Asia. After Sept. 11, he launched a Weblog, "Informed Comment," in hope of offering the public a ...
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
10/03/2007 6:00 PM 32-123John Mearsheimer, Wendell Harrison Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago; Stephen Walt, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Bruce Riedel, Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle ...
A Life in Public Service
A Life in Public Service
04/13/2007 2:30 PM 32"123Senator Edward M. KennedyDescription: Senator Ted Kennedy delivers a scathing denunciation of the Bush Administration's science and research agenda, accusing the government of "fighting a war on truth on many fronts." He lashes out at people in power "who believe that ...
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
04/02/2007 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumPhilip G. Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Stanford UniversityDescription: Perhaps no one comprehends the roots of depravity and cruelty better than Philip Zimbardo. He is renowned for such research as the Stanford Prison ...
Iran: War or Peace?
Iran: War or Peace?
03/20/2007 4:30 PM E51-345Kenneth Pollack, PhD '96, Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy StudiesDescription: The Bush administration's panic about failing in Iraq is now driving its fierce attitude toward Iran, according to Kenneth ...
Counting the Dead in Iraq
Counting the Dead in Iraq
02/27/2007 4:30 PM E51-345Gilbert Burnham, Co-director of the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins UniversityDescription: It's no wonder there was an outcry when Gilbert Burnham's group released its report on mortality in ...
Reporter's Notebook: The U.S. in Iraq
Reporter's Notebook: The U.S. in Iraq
10/03/2006 5:00 PM BartosBarbara Bodine, Visiting Scholar at the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen ; George Packer, Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Rajiv Chandrasakaran, Author, Imperial Life in the Emerald City; Inside Iraq's Green Zone; Description: As ...
The Current Crisis in the Middle East
The Current Crisis in the Middle East
09/21/2006 7:00 PM 32-123Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MITDescription: True to form, Noam Chomsky makes a sweeping and copiously detailed indictment of U.S. Middle East policy, brooking no contrary or alternate views. His history-filled lecture (interrupted by occasional applause) ...
Television's Great Writer
Television's Great Writer
04/20/2006 5:00 PM BartosDavid Milch, Creator, Executive Producer and Writer, DEADWOOD, HBODescription: This talk, by one of television's most dark-minded auteurs, may inspire some viewers to upgrade their cable service to HBO, or at least to rent DVDs of his classic police dramas. David ...
Discourses on Iraq and the Middle East
Discourses on Iraq and the Middle East
Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MIT Description: U.S. actions in Iraq get a thorough thrashing in this final chapter of the Reconstructing Iraq series. First, Yosef Jabareen sprints through editorial page cartoons from Arab print media, which represent the U.S. as immoral, abusive, greedy ...