A TROUBLED WORLD
THREE MONDAYS , NOON – 1:30 P.M.
NOVEMBER 3, 10 AND 24
THE MENIL COLLECTION, 1515 SUL ROSS
ONE THURSDAY, 7 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.
NOVEMBER 20
(PLACE TO BE ANNOUNCED)
The world's foremost trouble spots will be discussed by international
political experts. The speakers will interpret up-to the minute information
and present differing viewpoints. There will be time for questions at
each session.
NOVEMBER 3 - DR. JAMES BILL: THE POLITICS OF INCOHERENCE: UNITED
STATES AND THE MIDDLE EAST
James Bill, professor of government and director emeritus of the Reves
Center for International Studies, College of William and Mary, will
focus on challenges and changes in Iran, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf.
He is the author of Politics in the Middle East and The Eagle and the
Lion: The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations.
NOVEMBER 10 - DR. USSAMA MAKDISI AND DR. MELVIN J. HINICH: CONVERSATION
ON THE ISRAELI/PALESTINIAN ISSUE
Melvin J. Hinich, Mike Hogg Professor of Government at the University
of Texas, Austin, and Ussama Makdisi, professor of history, Rice University,
will converse on problems and possible solutions in the troubled area.
Hinich is author of Empirical Studies in Comparative Politics, and Analytical
Politics. Makdisi is author of The Culture of Sectarianism: Community,
History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon.
NOVEMBER 20, 7 P.M. - TARIQ ALI: ONE VIEW: WAR, EMPIRE, RESISTANCE
Historian, novelist, journalist, and filmmaker, Tariq Ali, who lives
in London, England, will give us his perspectives on the perils in our
complex world. A leader in the anti-war movement for 40 years, he has
written over a dozen books on international topics. Born in Lahore,
Pakistan, Ali was educated in Pakistan and at Oxford. He writes for
The Guardian and London Review of Books. A recent best-selling book
is The Clash of Fundamentalism: Crusades, Jihad, and Modernity. The
Lannan Foundation provided additional support for this lecture.
NOVEMBER 24 - DR. PETER TRUBOWITZ: AMERICAN PRIMACY AND ANTI-AMERICANISM
An expert on foreign policy, Dr. Trubowitz, associate professor of government
at The University of Texas, wrote Defining the National Interest: Conflict
and Change in American Foreign Policy. This book received the 1998 Greenstone
Award from the American Political Science Association as the best book
on politics and history. He spent the past year as distinguished lecturer
on U.S. foreign policy at the Beijing Foreign Studies University.
