Upcoming Events

We are in the last full week of courses for this semester, but there are still plenty of events for you to attend:

Tuesday, April 24

• Sustaining the Gains in Malaria: A Focus on Pregnant Women
• Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience: A Conversation with Bassam Haddad

Wednesday, April 25

• Climate Impact and Food Security
• Nuclear Policy Talks: Revolution in Nuclear Detection Affairs

Thursday, April 26

• European Energy Security and Turkey: The EU View
• Middle East Policy Forum: Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions
• Asian Film Series: Summer Time Machine Blues

Friday, April 27

• The Politics of Tough Budgets: Fiscal Responses to Crisis in Ireland, Spain, Portugal, and Greece

Saturday, April 28

• Rising Tides: A Simulation of Crisis in the Taiwan Strait

Monday, April 30

• Taiwan and Asia Pacific Economic Integration: ECFA, TPP, and Beyond
• Nuclear Policy Talks: Book Event: Ambassador Tom Graham on Unending Crisis
• Middle East Policy Forum: Ultimate Allies: Israel and the United States

Wednesday, May 9

• Security Policy Forum: Human Security and the New Rules of War and Peace

 

Additional CGI U Speakers Announced

From GW Today, March 8, 2012

A former secretary of state, the co-founder of Twitter and a top entertainer will be among the speakers at George Washington when the university hosts the Clinton Global Initiative University later this month. Previously announced speakers include Chelsea Clinton and The Daily Show host Jon Stewart.

“CGI U gives students an opportunity to get involved and become more effective global citizens,” said President Clinton. “Since our first meeting in 2008, young leaders from around the world come together each year. Their passion and commitments continue to inspire me and each other.”

Program sessions the following day will examine issues in five focus areas: education, environment and climate change, peace and human rights, poverty alleviation and public health. Topics will include the transformation of the Middle East, the global economic crisis and its impact on young people, recruiting and retaining teachers, the famine in the Horn of Africa, cost-effective campus sustainability programs and the youth movement for global health.

At a closing plenary session on March 31, Mr. Stewart will join President Clinton for a conversation addressing some of the most pressing domestic and international issues facing the next generation.

View the full agenda for CGI U 2012.

Upcoming Events

Spring has sprung in DC!  The cherry trees and daffodils are blooming, and the students are enjoying their spring break this week.  We hope you will be able to visit GW soon.  While you’re here, be sure to attend a few of our amazing events.  See the full calendar of Elliott School events with descriptions here.

Thursday, March 15

Uses of History and Regional Diversity in Ukraine’s Elections: The Contested Past as an Electoral Resource, 2004-12

Friday, March 16

Panel Discussion: Aftermath of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Accident

Russia’s Energy Policy: Domestic and Foreign Dimensions

Monday, March 19

Myanmar in Transition: New Dynamics Between ASEAN and Yangon

Tuesday, March 20

Facilitating Nuclear Disarmament: Verified Declarations of Fissile Material Stocks and Production

Conversations with Scholars: Red Vengeance: Political Inequality and Maoist Violence in India

Gendering Gender: Rethinking Sexual Violence in war and Peace

Holocaust Angst: The Federal Republic of Germany and Holocaust Memory in the United States, 1977 – 90

China, India, and Water Security in the Greater Himalayas

Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement

Wednesday, March 21

Innovations in Inclusiveness and Accountability: How the Asian Development Bank Ensures Responsible Development Investment in Asia

Palestine’s Prospective Path: A Discussion with the Chief Representative of the PLO to the United States

Thursday, March 22

Ukraine’s Energy Security: Geopolitics, Economics, and Governance

The 2012 Annual Kuwait Chair Lecture: Gulf Monarchies: Facing Change

Friday, March 23

Kazakhstan and Global Nuclear Politics

Monday, March 26

U.S. Government Decision Making Process: Strengths and Weaknesses

Wednesday, March 28

After the Earthquake and Tsunami: Japan’s Nuclear, Economic, and Political Challenges — One Year Later

International Women’s Day

Women’s and gender issues are very near and dear to my heart. It’s what I study at the Elliott School and the bulk of my professional experience has been with women in international contexts. March 8^th is International Women’s Day and many organizations around Washington DC have decided to celebrate the important contribution women make to all aspects of society. Below are some of the events taking place in our neck of the woods.

• The Elliott School’s own Global Gender Program is hosting a day-long symposium with many impressive speakers addressing subjects such as addressing sexual violence in war, peace operations and improving gender equality through research in the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond. The keynote address will be delivered by Maria Otero, Under of Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights.
• CARE will be celebrating International Women’s Day with a conference centered on advocacy on Capital Hill. The organizers will also be screening the film Pray the Devil Back to Hell, a story of how grass roots activism, carried out by Liberian women, helped end the vicious civil war.
• On Sunday March, 4^th thousands of women from across the country will make the journey to Washington to be part of a celebration of women’s leadership with a rally on the National Mall
• American Women for International Understanding will host their annual International Women of Courage Celebration at the National Press Club.
• Women of Vision will be hosting their biannual conference “ Every Woman Has A Story.”
• The Women’s Foreign Policy Group is hosting an International Women’s Day Luncheon with Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO and Lakshmi Puri, Assistant Secretary-General of UN Women.
• Women Thrive Worldwide will be hosting a breakfast and discussion on ending violence against women. Distinguished speakers include: Judy Woodruff, Co-Anchor of PBS Newshour; Maria Bello, Actor and Activist; Edna Adan Ismail, Somali FGM Activist and one of Newsweek’s 150 Women Who Shake the World, and more.  

-Danielle

2011 faculty books and articles

I recently attended a book party celebrating some of the great work of our faculty, and I wanted to share links for you to learn more about their publications from this year.  Take a look through the list and perhaps you’ll find some to put on your personal reading list.

Hossein Askari, Risk Sharing in Finance: the Islamic Finance Alternative

Michael Barnett, Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism;Humanitarianism Contested: Where Angels Fear to Tread

Michael E. Brown (ed.), Do Democracies Win Their Wars? An International Security Reader

Nathan J. Brown, When Victory is Not an Option: Islamist Movements in Arab Politics; (ed.) The Dynamics of Democratization

Robert Eisen, The Peace and Violence of Judaism: From the Bible to Modern Zionism

Amitai Etzioni, Law in a New Key: Essays on Law and Society

David Alan Grier (ed.), The Machines of Charles Babbage

Henry Hale (ed.), Russia in the 2000s: A Stereoscopic View

Hope Harrison, Ulbrichts Mauer. Wie die SED Moskaus Widerstand gegen den Mauerbau brach (Ulbricht’s Wall: How the SED Broke Moscow’s Resistance to Building the Wall)

Peter L. Hays, Space and Security: A Reference Handbook; (ed.) Toward a Theory of Spacepower: Selected Essays

James G. Hershberg, Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam

Norman Hicks, The Challenge of Economic Development

Benjamin Hopkins, Fragments of the Afghan Frontier

Gina M.S. Lambright, Decentralization in Uganda: Explaining Successes and Failures

John M. Logsdon, John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon

Marc Lynch (ed.), Revolution in the Arab World: Tunisia, Egypt, And the Unmaking of an Era

Barbara Miller, Cultural Anthropology, 6th Edition

Kimberly Morgan, The Delegated Welfare State: Medicare, Markets, and the Governance of Social Policy

Henry R. Nau, Perspectives on International Relations: Power, Institutions and Ideas

Joseph Pelzman, The Economics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Elizabeth N. Saunders, Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military Interventions

John Schmidt, The Unraveling: Pakistan in the Age of Jihad

David Shambaugh (ed.), Charting China’s Future: Domestic and International Challenges

Robert Shepherd, Partners in Paradise: Tourism Practices, Heritage Policies, and Anthropological Sites

Stephen C. Smith, Economic Development, 11th Edition

Robert Sutter, U.S.-Chinese Relations: Perilous Past, Pragmatic Present

Emmanuel Teitelbaum, Mobilizing Restraint: Democracy and Industrial Conflict in Post-reform South Asia

Articles and Chapters

The Global Gender Initiative

Today, we would like to recognize an innovative and important program created at the Elliott School last year. The Global Gender Initiative (GGI)  is “dedicated to improving the health, education, rights, and security (HERS) of women and girls internationally and reducing gender-based exclusion and discrimination in these four areas.” Barbara Miller (left) is Director of the GGI as well as Professor and Associate Dean here at the Elliott School.

A great thing about the initiative is that it involves students, faculty and staff, who all work together, keeping the program’s ideals at the forefront. Through classes, forums, outreach programs, and international partnerships, the GGI is expanding their reach throughout the Elliott School, and the world! Check out some videos from a few of their forums to get a feel for what they’re all about.  You may also enjoy following this initiative on Facebook, Twitter, or though their blog: http://globalgendercurrent.com/.