|  |  |  | Mon 1/23 | Introduction to the Course
Harry Kreisler, Executive Director, Institute of International Studies |
| | | | Mon 1/30 | Terrorism: The Problem of Nuclear Weapons
Harold Smith, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, UCB |
| | | | Mon 2/6 | Terrorism: Preparing for the Next Attack
Daniel Benjamin, Co-Author of "The Next Attack" and Former Staff Member of the National Security Council |
| | | | Thu 2/16 | Terrorism: Suicide Terrorism (Thursday Lecture 5:00pm Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall)
Robert Pape, University of Chicago, Author of "Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism" |
| | | | Thu 2/16 | U.S. - Africa Relations (Thursday Lecture at 12:00 noon in Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall)
Princeton Lyman, Senior Fellow Council of Foreign Affairs and former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa
Stephen Morrison, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations |
| | | | Mon 2/20 | Presidents Day |
| | | | Mon 2/27 | Homeland Security
Martin Smith, Frontline Producer/Reporter
Showing of Documentary "The Battle of New Orleans: Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security" - Video will not be shown |
| | | | Mon 3/6 | Foreign Policy and the Press (video drops out for 30 seconds at 52:35)
Pamela Constable, Deputy Foreign Editor, The Washington Post
This Lecture is Cosponsored by Mass Communications |
| | | | Mon 3/13 | Midterm |
| | | | Thu 3/16 | A War Like No Other: The Peloponnesian War, Then and Now
Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
This is the 2006 Chester W. Nimitz Memorial Lecture in National Security Affairs |
| | | | Mon 3/20 | Translating Climate Change Science into Public Policy (Lecture is in Dwinelle 155)
Panel with: Lars-Erik Liljelund, Director-General of the Swedish Environmental protection Agency (Naturvardsverket)
Arild Moe, Deputy Director of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo, Norway |
| | | | Tue 3/21 | Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq (Lecture will be held in IIS Conference Room in 223 Moses at 2:00pm)
Michael Gordon, Chief Military Correspondent of the New York Times and co-author of Cobra II |
| | | | Mon 3/27 | Spring Break |
| | | | Mon 4/3 | The US and Iran
Dariush Zahedi, Lecturer in Political Economy of Industrialized Societies |
| | | | Mon 4/10 | IGS Annual Review of the Presidency (Lecture is in Dwinelle 155 at 6:00 p.m)
Panel with: Michael Barone, Columnist, U.S. News and World Report
Janet Hook, Columnist, Los Angeles Times
Michael Kinsley, Columnist, Washington Post
Nelson Polsby, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley |
| | | | Mon 4/17 | Health and the Global Agenda (Lecture is in Dwinelle 155)
Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google
This Lecture is the 2006 Sanford S. Elberg Lecture in International Studies |
| | | | Mon 4/24 | What Went Wrong with U.S Foreign Policy
Steve Walt, Academic Dean, Kennedy School, Harvard University |
| | | | Mon 5/1 | U.S. Foreign Policy and the War on Terrorism
Ian Lustick, Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania |
