WHERE
IN THE WORLD ARE WE GOING?
(World Problems)
Four Mondays, November 7, 14,
21, 28, 12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m.
The Rothko Chapel, 1409 Sul Ross at Yupon
Is the world edging toward democracy or
careening toward more conflict? How is America's influence regarded?
Can peace and understanding ever be realized? Eminent scholars will
delve beyond headlines to analyze world problems.
NOVEMBER 7: DEVELOPMENT, DEMOCRACY, AND REVOLUTION: THE LATIN
AMERICAN PROSPECT
John
Booth, Regents "Professor of Comparative Politics"
at the University of North Texas, is author of The End and the Beginning:
The Nicaraguan Revolution and Costa
Rica: Quest for Democracy and co-author of Understanding
Central America. A risk analyst for the U.S. Department of
State, he is associate editor of the Journal of International Studies.
NOVEMBER 14: CHANGING CONTEXT IN U.S. - CHINA RELATIONS
Peter
Trubowitz is a member of the department of government
at the University of Texas in Austin. He is author of the award-winning
book, Defining
the National Interest - Conflict and Change in American Foreign Policy.
He is now writing a book on electoral politics and foreign policy and
has been studying China closely.
NOVEMBER 21: WHY DEMOCRACY FALTERS IN RUSSIA
Martha
Merritt is an associate director of the Joan B.
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre
Dame. She is an expert on Russian politics and explores the tensions
in democratic state building particularly regarding accountability and
nationalism. Her Ph.D. is from Oxford University.
NOVEMBER 28–PROSPECTS FOR DEMOCRATIZATION IN THE MIDDLE
EAST:
A COMPARATIVE VIEW ON IRAN AND IRAQ
Shiva
Balaghi is associate director of the Kevorkian Center
for Near Eastern Studies at New York University, where she teaches courses
on womem's studies and the cultural history of the Middle East. She
is author of Saddam
Hussein: A Biography (Greenwood Press, 2005). She is completing
a book on culture and the state of Iran from the nineteenth century
to the present.
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