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 ...
Washington stubbornly sticks to national security policies that don't work, are devoid of moral considerations, and rob future generations, says Andrew J. Bacevich
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 ...
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. ...
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: ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...