Tuesday December 7, 2010

Professor Jim Olson, Bush School of Government, Texas A&M University
"The Ethics of Spying: How Far Are We Willing to Go?"
Co-sponsored by the Reilly Center
Geddes Auditorium, 5pm

Wednesday November 17, 2010

Professor Thomas Schwartz, Vanderbilt University
"Henry Kissinger and the Dilemmas of American Power"

Wednesday October 27, 2010

Professor John Owen, University of Virginia
"The Clash of Ideas in World Politics: Transnational Networks, States, and Regime Change 1510-2010"

Friday October 8, 2010

Admiral Philip Dur (Ret.)
"The Role of the Military Officer in National Security Policymaking"

Wednesday October 6, 2010

Professor Risa Brooks, Marquette University
"Assessing the Growing Threat of "Homegrown" Terrorism in the United States: Is the Conventional View Correct?"

Wednesday September 15, 2010

Professor Timothy Lomperis, Saint Louis University
"The Tragedy of Vietnam"
Co-sponsored by the Nancy R Druex Chair in Political Science

Wednesday February 12, 2010

Professor Neve Gordon, Ben-Gurion University
"Prospects for Peace in Israel-Palestine?"

Wednesday January 20, 2010

Professor John Schuessler, Air War College
"Can Deception Pay?"

Thursday December 3, 2009

Mr. Karl Zinsmeister, University of Antwerp
"Warriors"

Tuesday December 1, 2009

Professor Filip Reynjtens, University of Antwerp
"The Great African War"

Thursday November 12, 2009

Professor John Mueller, Woody Hayes Chair of National Security, Mershon Center, the Ohio State University
"Atomic Obession"

Tuesday November 10, 2009

Major General William F. Burns, USA (r),
"Nuclear Disarmament, Terrorism, and Global Security"

Co-Sponsored with the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Fourth Freedom Forum.

Thursday October 15, 2009

Dr. Cindy Williams, Principal Research Scientist, Security Studies Program, MIT.
"U.S. Homeland Security Eight Years after 9/11: Are We Getting Our Money's Worth?"

Wednesday April 8, 2009

Thomas E. Ricks, Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security and Contributing Editor for Foreign Affairs.
"Three Things Americans Don't Understand About the War in Iraq Right Now."

Wednesday April 8, 2009

Professor Scott Appleby, University of Notre Dame
"Preview of the Report of the Religion in US Foreign Policy Task Force of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs"

Wednesday March 25, 2009

Professor Elizabeth Saunders, George Washington University
"Transformative Choices: Leaders and the Origins of Intervention Strategy"

Wednesday February 11, 2009

Professors David Cortright and George Lopez, University of Notre Dame
"The Impact of Counter-terrorism Measures on Civil Society - A Recent Study"

Wednesday January 14, 2009

Professors Daryl Press, Dartmouth College and Keir Lieber, University of Notre Dame
"How Much is Enough? Nuclear Deterrence Then and Now"

Wednesday January 14, 2009

Professor Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University
"Eclecticism in Security Studies: A Report from the Trenches"

Wednesday November 12, 2008

Professor Daniel Philpott, Department of Political Science and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
"Victory and Ethics in Iraq: Why An Ethic of Political Reconciliation is Essential to Both"

Wednesday October 29, 2008

Professor Emeritus Walter Nugent, Department of History
"Can Americans Kick the Imperial Habit? Lessons from Habits of Empire"

Thursday October 16, 2008

Professor Peter Feaver, Department of Political Science, Duke University
"Bridging the Academic-Policy Divide as a Political Scientist in the White House"

Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008

Professor Sebastian Rosato, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
"Balance of Power Politics: A Reassessment"

Tuesday September 2, 2008

Professor Colin Kahl, Walsh School, Georgetown University
"The Other Side of the COIN: Annihilation, Restraint, and the Evolution of Counterinsurgency in Iraq"