Abstract/Syllabus:
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Instructor Harry Kriesler
IAS 180 - Issues in Foreign Policy after 911 - This course provides an opportunity to study and discuss issues and events having recent international impact and/or interest. The course will present a multidisciplinary perspective on specific subjects with the intent of linking students with the scholars and scholarship involved in understanding and explaining current international issues, events, and crisis. The subjects will vary from semester to semester.
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Mon 8/27 |
IAS 180 - Lecture 1 (clips played during lecture have been removed) |
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Wed 8/29 |
Islam, Global Politics and U.S. Foreign Policy (webcast only) |
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Mon 9/3 |
Labor Day |
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Mon 9/10 |
IAS 180 - Lecture 3 - Film, No Webcast |
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Mon 9/17 |
What Terrorists Want. Guest: Louise Richardson, Radcliff Institute, Harvard |
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Mon 9/24 |
The Rise of Al Qaeda - Guest: Peter Dale Scott, Emeritus Professor of English, UC Berkeley |
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Mon 10/1 |
Frontline - Al Qaeda's New Front - Guest: Lowell Bergman, Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley - Film, No Webcast |
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Mon 10/8 |
War Clouds Over the Persian Gulf: U.S. Iranian Relations - Guest: Karim Sadjadpour, Carnegie Endownment for International Peace |
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Mon 10/15 |
The Liberal Mind, Counterterrorism, and the Neo-Conservatives - Guest: Tom Farer, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver |
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Mon 10/22 |
The Imperial Temptation of America - Guest: Josef Joffe, Hoover Institution, Stanford University |
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Tue 10/23 |
God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World - Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations (webcast available shortly) |
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Mon 10/29 |
System Change or More of the Same - Guest: Steven Krasner, Professor of International Relations and Former Director, CDDRL |
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Mon 11/5 |
Strategic Options for U.S. Foreign Policy - Edward Luttwak, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies (Special Event - Lipman Room) |
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Mon 11/12 |
Veterans Day |
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Fri 11/16 |
Day of Empire - Amy Chua, John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law, Yale Law School (Special Event - Dwinelle 145) |
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Mon 11/26 |
Iraq: Status Report and Options - Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Advisor to the Central Command in Iraq (Special Event - Lipman Room) |
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Mon 12/3 |
IAS 180 - Lecture 15 - Film, no webcast |
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Mon 12/10 |
IAS 180 - Lecture 16 - Film, no webcast |
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