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March 2013
Friday, March 1, 2013
State Room |
Taiwan Conference - "Opportunity in Ambiguity: Issues in Taiwan's International Relations"Dean Chen, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Ramapo College RSVP: http://go.gwu.edu/taiwanmarch1 Sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies |
Friday, March 1, 2013
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602 |
Gender Equality in Asia-Pacific: Unfinished BusinessShireen Lateef, Senior Advisor (Gender), Office of the Vice President for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Shireen Lateef, Senior Advisor (Gender) in the Office of Vice President for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development, will discuss the remaining challenges and persisting gender gaps in the Asia-Pacific region and how Asian Development Bank is tackling and supporting progress on gender equality and women's empowerment. She will present ADB's gender strategies, approaches and tools to tackle persisting gender gaps using country and project specific examples. RSVP: http://go.gwu.edu/80 Sponsored by the Partnerships for International Strategies in Asia (PISA) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) |
Monday, March 4, 2013
City View Room, 7th Floor |
Global Gender Forum: International Women's Day Ending Violence Against Women: Inspiring Dialogue and ActionAruna Rao, Co-founder and Executive Director, Gender at Work The Global Gender Program (GW) and Gender at Works celebration of International Women's Day will feature keynote speaker, Jody Williams. Jody Williams is the Nobel Prize Winner on the Nobel Women's Initiative International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict. The days first panel will discuss: Is violence against women a problem with a solution? The second panel will discuss: What responses work to end violence against women? The event will end with a film screening of In the Name of the Family: Honor Killings in North America. RSVP: http://bit.ly/ZfJYnC Sponsored by Global Gender Program |
Monday, March 4, 2013
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602 |
The Sixth Annual James Millar Lecture - Russia's Political Economy Today: The Role of the FirmTimothy Frye, Professor, Political Science, Columbia University; Director, the Harriman Institute What role do firms play in Russian political life? While there is considerable debate about the connections between economics and politics, few researchers have examined these linkages in detail. Timothy Fryes lecture will draw on recent research conducted with a team of exciting young scholars based in Moscow to provide some answers. Frye will explore how firms behaved as political actors during the most recent round of elections and protests and offer insights into how relations between firms and the state might evolve in the future. Reception to follow. RSVP: http://go.gwu.edu/Millar2013 Sponsored by the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Affairs (IERES) |
Monday, March 4, 2013
Room 113 |
Escape from North Korea: Documentary Screening of Danny from North KoreaPanel discussion with representatives from Liberty in North Korea following the screening. Every year thousands of North Koreans make the dangerous journey across the border to escape oppression and poverty. In March of 2005, Danny was one of them. Danny crossed into China and escaped a life of indoctrination, routine public executions, and starvation. As Danny traveled, he saw a world he never knew existed. A world where movement was not monitored by the government, information was readily available, and most importantly at the time, there was enough food to fill his empty belly. This is his story. RSVP: www.tinyurl.com/DPEDannyNKorea Sponsored by Delta Phi Epsilon Professional Foreign Service Sorority and Liberty in North Korea |
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Voesar Conference Room, Suite 412 |
Understanding Conflict and Ethnic Violence in KyrgyzstanNeil Melvin, Director, Program Armed Conflict and Conflict Management, SIPRI Over the last two decades, Kyrgyzstan has experienced two major outbreaks of violence involving the main ethnic communities in the country: the Kyrgyz and the Uzbeks. These violent incidents have generally been viewed as ethnic conflicts and much of the response to the violence from the government, local communities, and the international community has been framed within this understanding. At the same time, Kyrgyzstan has also experienced other, less significant violent events and political crises that have often been linked temporally to the ethnic conflicts . This suggests that a full understanding of the nature of armed conflict in Kyrgyzstan and the involvement of ethnic communities in violence at a minimum requires a broader examination of the context of the violence. RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/March5-Melvin Sponsored by the Central Asia Program |
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Kendrick Seminar Room |
Railroads and American Economic Growth: A Market Access ApproachRichard Hornbeck, Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard Expansion of the railroad network and decreased trade costs may affect all counties directly or indirectly, an econometric challenge in many empirical settings. However, the total impact on each county can be summarized by changes in that county's "market access," a reduced-form expression derived from general equilibrium trade theory. We measure counties' market access by constructing a network database of railroads and waterways and calculating lowest-cost county-to-county freight routes. As the railroad network expanded from 1870 to 1890, changes in market access are capitalized in agricultural land values with an estimated elasticity of 1.5. Removing all railroads in 1890 would decrease the total value of US agricultural land by 73% and GNP by 6.3%, more than double social saving estimates (Fogel 1964). Fogel's proposed Midwestern canals would mitigate only 8% of losses from removing railroads. RSVP: http://tiny.cc/tradedevelopment2012-13 Sponsored by the Institute for International Economic Policy and the GW Department of Economics |
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Voesar Conference Room, Suite 412 |
Exporting Revolution: Why Do Only Some New Democracies Support Democratization Abroad?Tsveta Petrova, Harriman Institute, Columbia University Supporting the diffusion of democracy around the globe has become a significant element in the work of many governmental and non-governmental actors in international affairs. Therefore, a better understanding of this phenomenon is important; yet much of our knowledge about it comes from studying the activities of a handful of established Western democracies. Would fledgling non-Western democracies support democratization abroad? Ms. Petrova answers this question by unraveling the puzzle of the quick turnaround by the Eastern European members of the EU from being primarily democracy promotion recipients in the 1990s to becoming democracy promoters in the 2000s. RSVP: http://go.gwu.edu/Petrova Sponsored by part of IERESs Behind the Headlines Series |
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602 |
IMES Lecture Series - New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern IraqOrit Bashkin, Associate Professor, Modern Middle East History, University of Chicago Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community--which had existed in Iraq for more than 2,500 years--was displaced following the establishment of the state of Israel. "New Babylonians" chronicles the lives of these Jews, their urban Arab culture, and their hopes for a democratic nation-state. It studies their ideas about Judaism, Islam, secularism, modernity, and reform, focusing on Iraqi Jews who internalized narratives of Arab and Iraqi nationalisms and on those who turned to communism in the 1940s.As the book reveals, the ultimate displacement of this community was not the result of a perpetual persecution on the part of their Iraqi compatriots, but rather the outcome of misguided state policies during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sadly, from a dominant mood of coexistence, friendship, and partnership, the impossibility of Arab-Jewish coexistence became the prevailing narrative in the region--and the dominant narrative we have come to know today.Dr. Orit Bashkin is Associate Professor of Modern Middle East History at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq (Stanford, 2008). Copies of Dr. Bashkin's book, New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq will be available for sale at this event. RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/adr4r64 Sponsored by the Institute for Middle East Studies, and the Department of History |
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Harry Harding Auditorium, Room 213 |
The State of the World EconomyOlivier Blanchard, Economic Counsellor and Director, Research Department, IMF The Institute for International Economic Policy and the George Washington University Department of Economics are proud to present Olivier Blanchard, Economic Counsellor and Director, Research Department of the International Monetary Fund, to present a policy address regarding current issues in international financial policy. Mr. Blanchard is also a professor of economics at his alma mater, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a macroeconomist who has worked on a wide variety of issues including, the role of monetary policy, the nature of speculative bubbles, the nature of the labor market and the determinants of unemployment, and transition in former communist countries. He is a fellow and Council member of the Econometric Society, a past vice president of the American Economic Association, and a member of the American Academy of the Sciences. RSVP: http://tiny.cc/IIEPPolicyForumRSVP Sponsored by the Institute for International Economic Policy, the Elliott School for International Affairs, and the George Washington University Department of Economics |
Friday, March 8, 2013
Continental Ballroom, 3rd Floor |
Columbia +10: Lessons Learned and UnlearnedSandy Magnus, Executive Director, AIAA It has been ten years since the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentry. The events of February 1, 2003, shook our nation, and forced us to reexamine how the U.S. maintains its leadership in human space exploration. In the wake of this national tragedy, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board identified not only the direct cause of the accident, but also various organizational contributors to the accident, which led to significant changes to the safety protocols that are used in designing and certifying vehicles for crew safety. Lessons Learned and Unlearned will not only examine the findings of the CAIB, but will also provide firsthand accounts from the individuals who led the investigation, addressing what they learned about the organizational needs of the human space exploration program, and about the review and oversight of long-term advanced technology programs. There is no fee for attending, but registration is required. Early registration is encouraged due to limited seating space. This is a widely attended gathering for U.S. government employees. RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/b5he8um Sponsored by the Space Policy Institute, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Lockheed Martin, the Boeing Company, Dynetics, and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne |
Friday, March 8, 2013
Voesar Conference Room, Suite 412 |
Waiting for the Barbarians: Rising Powers in the Western ImaginationAyşe Zarakol, Council on Foreign Relations, University of Cambridge Ayşe Zarakol is a University Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Cambridge, Department of Politics and International Studies, and a Fellow and College Lecturer at Emmanuel College. Previously, she was Assistant Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA. She received her BA in Political Science and Classical Studies from Middlebury College, VT, and her MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West (Cambridge UP, 2011; Turkish version with a new introduction with Koc University Press, 2012). Zarakol has an International Affairs Fellowship with the Council on Foreign Relations during the 2012-2013 academic year, with placement as an analyst at the Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade section of the Congressional Research Service. Her current research focuses on East-West relations in the international system, rising powers, social dimensions of international relations, and Turkish foreign policy in comparative perspective. RSVP: http://go.gwu.edu/Zarakol Sponsored by part of IERES |
Monday, March 18, 2013
City View Room, 7th Floor |
Russia as a Global Power: Contending Views from RussiaGW's Rising Powers Initiative at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and PONARS Eurasia at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies cordially invite you to an international conference on: Russia as a Global Power: Contending Views from Russia RSVP: http://go.gwu.edu/Russia Sponsored by PONARS Eurasia and the Rising Powers Initiative |
Monday, March 18, 2013
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602 |
Sustainable Development Forum: The Global Food ChallengeDr. Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute
The Institute for International Economic Policy and the George Washington University Department of Economics are proud to present Dr. Shenggen Fan, the Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute as part of the Sustainable Development Forum. Sustainable Development is emerging as the defining challenge of our generation, and it will critically require a new kind of interaction between policy and research. This series of talks by leaders in academia and in policy will attempt to map the research agenda for sustainable development following the Rio +20 conference. What will sustainable development entail? What are the most crucial questions we need to be asking? How should academia go about searching for answers that will actually inform real action and policy changes?Dr. Fan holds a PhD in applied economics from the University of Minnesota. He joined IFPRI in 1995 as a research fellow and has served as Director General since 2009. Dr. Fan is also the Chairman of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Food Security. Lunch will be provided. RSVP: http://tiny.cc/IIEPPolicyForumRSVP Sponsored by the Institute for International Economic Policy, the GWU Department of Economics |
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602 |
Globalizing Reagan's INF Treaty: Easier Done Than Said?David A. Cooper, Professor and Chair of the National Security Affairs Department, US Naval War College
When it was concluded more than a quarter century ago, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union was hailed as a disarmament watershed, eliminating entire classes of nuclear missiles from the arsenals of the arms-racing Cold War superpowers. Over the intervening decades, there have been repeated calls to convert this legacy treaty into a new international norm against nuclear and missile proliferation by broadening it into a global prohibition on ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometers. Indeed, variations on this proposal have been knocking around for so long and with so little success that the entire concept has come to be dismissed by many knowledgeable insiders as something of a farce. Looking beyond its inauspicious pedigree, however, this viewpoint suggests that the time is opportune for Washington to give the idea a fresh look. Drawing on a detailed review of the history of "Global INF" and an analysis of the contemporary context, Cooper recommends that the Obama administration consider a simple declaratory approach that promises modest initial benefits, avoids previous and foreseeable pitfalls, and plausibly lays a solid foundation for achieving significant long-term progress. RSVP: http://go.gwu.edu/inf Sponsored by Nuclear Policy Talks |
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Room 505 |
Challenges and Opportunities for the Tibetan Administration in Exile: Reflections on a Shifting Political LandscapeLobsang Nyandak, Official Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the Americas, Office of Tibet New York Mr. Nyandak served as a Cabinet member of the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala from 2001-2006. As a Cabinet member, he headed the Department of Information and International Relations, the Department of Finance and the Department of Health. He also served as a member of the Tibetan Parliament and as the first executive director of the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, one of the premier institutions that track and promote human rights and democracy for Tibetans. RSVP: http://go.gwu.edu/tibet Sponsored by the Institute for Global and International Studies and the Tibet Governance Project |
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602 |
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
*NEW LOCATION* The Alumni House |
Ambassadors Forum: Belize - Hemispheric and U.S. RelationsAmbassador Nestor Mendez, Ambassador to the U.S. from Belize; Permanent Representative to the OAS from Belize The MIPP program is proud to present a lecture by Ambassador Nestor Mendez as part of MIPP's 15th anniversary celebration. Ambassador Mendez is a graduate of the MIPP program and will speak about US-Belize relations, Belize's place in Western Hemisphere affairs, and his experiences in the MIPP Program. Reception: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM RSVP: http://go.gwu.edu/belize Sponsored by the Master of International Policy and Practice Program (MIPP) |
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Room 505 |
Global Gender Forum: Migrant Care Work from Two Sides: Care Work in the U.S. and Families Care Workers Leave BehindSonya Michel, Professor of History, University of Maryland - College Park
The Global Gender Program (GGP) at the Elliott School for International Affairs is pleased to announce its first-year Spring Roundtable panel, which is devoted to gender issues in migration and international development. It aims at bringing together scholars, researchers, practitioners, students, and activists to educate the public on the intersections between gender, migration, international development, economics, race, ethnicity, social class, and religion across disciplines. A discussion will follow with questions and answers from the audience. Open to the public. Refreshments will be provided. RSVP: http://bit.ly/WNoKYn Sponsored by the Global Gender Program which is part of the Elliott School |
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602 |
After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies - A conversation with Christopher DavidsonChristopher Davidson, Reader in Middle East Politics, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University Christopher Davidson is a reader in Middle East Politics in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University, a former visiting associate professor at Kyoto University, and a former assistant professor at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates. He is the author of several books on the politics and international affairs of the Gulf states, including Abu Dhabi: Oil and Beyond, Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success, and The Persian Gulf and Pacific Asia: From Indifference to Interdependence.
A book signing and reception will follow. A limited number of books will be available for GW students. RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/agv2h98 Sponsored by the Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) |
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Funger Hall, Room 103 |
Book Event: Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities: Changing Our WorldZachary D. Kaufman, Adjunct Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs, GW
Zachary D. Kaufman, Adjunct Professor, The Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University, will present his work on social entrepreneurship and his work as described in his book, "Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities: Changing Our World." Three additional contributors to Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities - Conor French, Scott Ginsell, and Leah Maloney - will also serve on a panel to discuss their careers as entrepreneurs and their individual work with organizations in the field. As leaders within this field of international business, the speakers will discuss different business models as well as their challenges and successes. Following the event, there will be a reception where you will have the chance to meet and talk with the authors as well as purchase a copy of the book. RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/DPESocEntre Sponsored by the Delta Phi Epsilon Professional Foreign Service Sorority |
Friday, March 22, 2013
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602 |
Who is Bashing Whom: China, Cyber-Attack, Democracy, and RetaliationEllen Nakashima, The Washington Post
On January 31, The New York Times, America's paper of record, made front page news. Several months after it published several articles delineating the financial holdings of the families of Chinese leaders, the Times reported that the Chinese military had hacked into its computers, inserted malware and stolen its employees' e-mail account passwords. Soon thereafter, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Voice of America, and other media outlets publicly claimed their computers were attacked, allegedly also by Chinese citizens. Many Americans were outraged and expressed concerns about the importance of cyber-security for the fourth estate, which must protect the privacy of sources, ensure freedom of the press, and play such an important role in American democracy. But the incidents also raised questions of governance. How should the US respond to such cyber-attacks when it too is attacking? Congressman Mike Rogers, Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, called for retaliation. However, retaliation is unlikely to build greater support for shared international cyber norms. This free lunch event, organized by the Trade and Internet Governance Project of GWU, and the Minerva Initiative of the Department of Defense, will examine the hacking from several different perspectives: cyber-security, economics, trade, human rights, and global governance. Lunch will be provided. RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/CyberGWU Sponsored by the Institute for International Economic Policy, the Minerva Initiative of the Department of Defense, the National War College, and the Ford Foundation. |
Monday, March 25, 2013
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602 |
Central Asia Security WorkshopMarlene Laruelle, Head of the Central Asia Program, IERES, GW NATO members are exiting from Afghanistan at different speeds, dictated by pressures from their domestic public opinions. This withdrawal has re-launched debates on the security of the Central Asian region. In the years to come, the post-2014 changes in the regional landscape will intersect with domestic evolutions including changes in political leadership, in demographics, and the end of the Soviet legacy. GWs Central Asia Program seeks to participate in the policy debate on Central Asia by providing current research on the different sources of potential insecurity in the region. RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/CAPSecurity Sponsored by the Central Asia Program and Registan.net |
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Kendrick Seminar Room |
Fixed Costs, Network Effects, and the International Diffusion of ContainerizationGisela Rua, Division of Research & Statistics, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Containerization is one of the most important innovations affecting the conduct of international trade in the second half of the twentieth century. This paper analyzes its international diffusion and the factors that shaped today's container network. I construct a new dataset with information on the timing and intensity of adoption of containerization across countries. While adoption of container-port infrastructure follows an S-shaped curve, containerized trade moves more slowly and linearly. These findings guide the construction of a theoretical framework in which a transportation sector decides whether or not to build a container port. This decision is based on expectations about domestic and foreign firms' choices between two transportation technologies: breakbulk shipping and containerization. Changes in fixed costs and network effects generate the patterns observed in the data. I then estimate a two-step model derived from the theoretical framework. The empirical results, which are consistent with the theoretical predictions, show that fixed costs and network effects are the main determinants of usage of containerization. Fixed costs affect containerized trade as a result of the spread of leasing companies and changes in the domestic transportation network. Network effects operate through network size, network usage, and network income. With regards to adoption, my results show that expected future usage of containerization, institutions, a country's size in terms of trade and geographical area, and trade with Australia and the United Kingdom are the main determinants. Trade with the United States, surprisingly, has no effect. These results emphasize the importance of internal trade costs, the identity of countries' trade partners, and institutional barriers for technological diffusion, international trade, and countries' integration into the global economy. RSVP: http://tiny.cc/tradedevelopment2012-13 Sponsored by the Institute for International Economic Policy and the GW Department of Economics |
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
The Elliott School, Room 505 |
Nuclear Policy Talks: Technical Evaluation of Deployment Options for Away-from-Reactor Consolidated Interim Spent Fuel Storage InstallationsSacit M. Cetiner, Advanced Reactor Systems & Safety Group Reactor & Nuclear Systems Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory This seminar presents the results of a recent study conducted at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which aimed at applying the principles of geo-spatial data modeling on siting ISFSIs. The study identified two key factorsnamely transportation distance and population along the routeas the optimization variables to formulate the problem in a mathematical way. Application of sound siting principles and subsequent simulations revealed potentially favorable locations for ISFSIs given the current quantity and distribution of UNF as well as future quantities based on three growth scenarios for nuclear capacity. The study also addresses some key recommendations of the BRC. RSVP: http://go.gwu.edu/cetiner Sponsored by the Nuclear Policy Talks and the Institute for Nuclear Studies |
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602 |
Global Policy Forum: Big Trucks, Pop Star Politicians, and Consensus Building: The Politics of Development in HaitiRaymond Joseph, Former Ambassador of Haiti to the United States In the wake of the 2010 earthquake and the return to politics as usual in Haiti, the effectiveness of international aid has come into question. Join the panelists in a discussion of the current governmental climate in Haiti, and the opportunities to respond to current crises within the domestic and international realm. Light refreshments provided. RSVP: http://go.gwu.edu/haitipanel Sponsored by The Institute for Global and International Studies (IGIS), Culture in Global Affairs CIGA, and the Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program (LAHSP) |
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Voesar Conference Room, Suite 412 |
French Foreign Policy and the Intervention in MaliErwan Lagadec, Adjunct Professor of International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, GW PEERS invites you to a brown bag discussion with Erwan Lagadec on the implications of the intervention in Mali on France's foreign policy. RSVP: peers@gwu.edu Sponsored by Professionals in European, Eurasian, and Russian Studies |
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Voesar Conference Room, Suite 412 |
Seven Challenges Facing the Russian Protest MovementOleg Kozlovsky, Fulbright Visiting Researcher, IERES In this talk, Oleg Kozlovsky will describe some of the tests facing the Russian protest movement in 2013. These include balancing between moderates and radicals, dealing with regime defectors, reducing the influence of extremists, institutionalizing the movement, broadening its appeal to a wider public, encouraging citizens to play a more active role in politics, and developing support in the regions outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg. RSVP: http://go.gwu.edu/Kozlovsky Sponsored by part of the IERESs Visiting Scholar Roundtable Series |
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602 |
Security Policy Forum: Global Trends 2030: Alternative WorldsChristopher A. Kojm, Chairman, National Intelligence Council (2009-Present); Former Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, GW (2007-2009) National Intelligence Council (NIC) Chairman Christopher A. Kojm will discuss the NIC's Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds report. This report is intended to stimulate thinking about the rapid and vast geopolitical changes characterizing the world today and possible global trajectories over the next 15 years as well as to provide a framework for thinking about possible futures and their implications. 6:00 - 6:30 PM Reception 6:30 - 7:30 PM Program RSVP: go.gwu.edu/ChrisKojm Sponsored by the Elliott School of International Affairs |
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602 |
Japan's Disaster Diplomacy: Fostering Military to Military Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific RegionHideshi Futori, Japan Scholar, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Through strategically evolving disaster diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific region, Japan will be able to contribute to a more stable and peaceful international order in the region. Alongside principal humanitarian objectives, disaster relief operations utilize military assets and thus have the potential to institutionalize a framework for military to military cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region where there is little tradition of multilateral security cooperation. This presentation will begin with an analysis of Japan's current disaster diplomacy, focusing on cooperation with the United States and Southeast Asian countries, and explore China's growing naval capabilities in disaster-related operations. With this background in place, Mr. Hideshi Futori will discuss Japan's strategic initiative in the field and explain how international contribution through disaster diplomacy is a crucial core concept in considering Japan's future national vision and identity. RSVP: http://go.gwu.edu/hideshi Sponsored by the Rising Powers Initiative |
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602 |
Maliki's Next MovesAdeed Dawisha, Professor of Political Science, Miami University of Ohio
Iraq is scheduled to hold provincial assembly elections in April 2013 and national parliamentary elections one year later. In late December, following arrests of his major Sunni Arab rival's bodyguards, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki raised the possibility of advancing the 2014 parliamentary election to April 2013 and running for a third term. The parliament then passed a two-term limitation on the prime minister and other senior positions. Mr. Adeed Dawisha, an Iraqi scholar and professor of political science at Miami University of Ohio, and Mr. Harith al-Qarawee, author of Imagining the Nation: Nationalism, Sectarianism, and Socio-Political Conflict in Iraq and former political adviser on political and media affairs to the Iraqi Ambassador in Washington, will assess the current political environment in Baghdad and Maliki's strategic vision - or lack of one - for Iraq. The Middle East Policy Forum is presented with the generous support of ExxonMobil. RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/mepf3-28 Sponsored by the Iraq Study Group at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University and the Middle East Policy Forum. |
Friday, March 29, 2013
Voesar Conference Room, Suite 412 |
The Euro Crisis and the Erosion of Democracy: Austerity Lessons from the Gold Standard and the Dangers of Dis-embedding LiberalismMatthias Matthijs, Johns Hopkins-SAIS Professor Matthijs specializes in the politics of economic crises, the role of economic ideas in economic policymaking, international and comparative political economy, and regional integration. His current research focuses on the global financial crisis, Europe's sovereign debt crisis, the domestic and international politics of austerity, and the global battle for economic ideas. Professor Matthijs received the 2010 Samuel H. Beer Prize for Best Dissertation in British Politics by a North American Scholar awarded by the British Politics Group of the American Political Science Association. He is the author of Ideas and Economic Crises in Britain from Attlee to Blair (Routledge) and numerous journal articles. Professor Matthijs received his Ph.D. in international relations from Johns Hopkins University-SAIS. A copy of Professor Matthijs paper will be made available to those who RSVP. RSVP: http://www.google.com/url?q=http://go.gwu.edu/Matthijs&sa=D&usg=ALhdy2-fFFG9Wc8Ms4G-in6LWg2YjMuM-g Sponsored by part of the IERES European Politics Series |
Friday, March 29, 2013
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602 |
Book Launch: China Goes Global: The Partial PowerDavid Shambaugh, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, GW Citizens of nations across the globe cannot help but notice the spectacular growth of the Chinese economy in recent years. This country, the famous "workshop of the world," appears on the front page of major newspapers on a daily basis. But, while many have focused on China's politics, economic development, and social changes, few have considered how much influence China has in regional and international affairs. Is China trying to establish itself a global power, a challenger to the United States as a global leader? In his book, iCHINA GOES GLOBAL: The Partial Power (Oxford | February 14, 2013), David Shambaugh - a leading expert in Chinese studies with more than three decades of experience in China-watching - offers a comprehensive account of China's prominence in the global arena. Assessing China's activities all across the world and along six different dimensions - perceptual, diplomatic, global governance, economic, cultural, and strategic - Shambaugh argues that China lacks influence in most international domains and is not the kind of challenge to global order and the United States that many argue it is. RSVP: http://go.gwu.edu/chinagoesglobal Sponsored by The China Policy Program and The Sigur Center for Asian Studies |