CISSM Forum

The CISSM/ISEP/Development Circle Forum is a weekly brown bag discussion group for those in the University community interested in international issues. Forums are held on Thursdays from 12:15pm - 1:30pm in Rm. 1107, Van Munching Hall, School of Public Policy. If you would like to receive weekly CISSM Forum updates via email, please e-mail the CISSM Coordinator or call (301) 405-7601.

Upcoming Forums

Nov 12, 2009, "Better Process, Better Outcomes: Bipartisanship in U.S. National Security and Foreign Policy", Matt Rojansky, Executive Director, Partnership for a Secure America

Nov 19, 2009, "Three New Ways to Think About International Migration and Development", Michael Clemens, Research Fellow, Center for Global Development

Nov 26, 2009, No CISSM Forum - Thanksgiving, Anja Kuznetsova

Dec 03, 2009, TBD, P. Terrence Hopmann, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Dec 10, 2009, TBD, Greg Thielmann, Senior Fellow, Arms Control Association

Past Forums

Nov 05, 2009, Private Investment and the Institutionalization of Collective Action in Autocracies: Ruling Parties, Militaries, and Bureaucracies, Phil Keefer, World Bank Development Research Group

Oct 29, 2009, "The Problem of Geoengineering", John Steinbruner, CISSM Director and Professor of Public Policy

Oct 22, 2009, "War Crimes Justice at Home and Abroad: The Promise and Peril of Justice After Atrocities", Adam M. Smith, Associate, Covington and Burling, LLP

Oct 15, 2009, "Lessons in Bureaucratic Warfare: Institutionalizing New Approaches to Reconstruction and Stabilization Operations", Laura Hall, Division Chief, Response Strategy and Training, Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, U.S. Department of State

Oct 08, 2009, "Restoring the Balance: Funding U.S. National Security", Gordon Adams, Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center and Professor of U.S. Foreign Policy, American University

Oct 01, 2009, "Cyber Attack: The Opaque Dimension of Cyber Security", Herbert Lin, Chief Scientist, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, The National Academies

Sep 24, 2009, "Issues in Science, Engineering and Public Policy", William (Bill) C. Ostendorff, Director, Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy, The National Academies

Sep 10, 2009, A "Trade Time-out?", I.M. "Mac" Destler, Saul I. Stern Professor, School of Public Policy, and Susan C. Schwab, Professor, School of Public Policy

Sep 03, 2009, CISSM Open House, Anja Kuznetsova

May 07, 2009, "Russia's Role in Global Energy Security", Clifford Gaddy, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institute

Apr 30, 2009, "Do Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation Go Together?", Daniel Byman, Associate Professor and Director of the Security Studies Program and the Center for Peace and Security Studies at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

Apr 23, 2009, "Renewing America’s Image in the World, Especially the Muslim World", Steven Kull, Director, PIPA

Apr 16, 2009, "Care and Counterinsurgency", Daniel Levine, Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy and Assistant Research Scholar, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy

Apr 09, 2009, "Climate Policy Challenges", William A. (Billy) Pizer, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment and Energy

Apr 02, 2009, "Obama's New Nuclear Policy", Joseph Cirincione, President, Ploughshares Fund

Mar 26, 2009, "International Policy: A Serious Moment", Max Kampelman, Ret. Diplomat

Mar 19, 2009, No CISSM Forum, Spring Break

Mar 12, 2009, “A Plan B for Nuclear Waste Disposal in the U.S.: Implications for the Future of Nuclear Energy”, Allison Macfarlane, Associate Professor, George Mason University

Mar 05, 2009, "Protective Oversight of Biotechnology", John Steinbruner, Director, CISSM

Feb 26, 2009, "Centralization or Decentralization in Iraq? In Search of the Elusive Sweet Spot", Mike Fitzsimmons, Research Staff Member, Institute for Defense Analysis

Feb 19, 2009, "Prompt Global Strike: Silver Bullet or Shot in the Dark?", Steve Fetter, Dean, Maryland School of Public Policy

Feb 12, 2009, "Conventional Arms Control", Steve Olejasz, Lieutenant Colonel, US Army Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director for Global Security Affairs

Feb 05, 2009, "Closing the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Where do We Stand", Thomas Cotton, Vice President of JK Research Associates

Jan 29, 2009, "The President's National Security Adviser and the Making of American Foreign Policy", I.M. Destler, Director, ISEP Program, MSPP and Ivo H. Daalder, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution

Dec 11, 2008, "Don't Belittle the Bear: Georgia's Attack, Russia's Aggression, and the U.S.'s Apoplexy", Kevin Jones, Research Assistant Professor, Georgetown University

Dec 04, 2008, "Project on National Security Reform", Job C. Henning, Director of Presidential Affairs, Project on National Security Reform

Nov 27, 2008, No CISSM Forum, Thanksgiving

Nov 20, 2008, "Rebuilding the U.S. Military: Focusing on the Needs of Our Troops", Jason Forrester, Director of Policy, Veterans for America

Nov 13, 2008, "Will Americans be Able to Compete for Jobs in the Global Economy?", Norman R. Augustine, The University System of Maryland, Board of Regents, former chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin

Nov 06, 2008, "Disarmament and the Nuclear Industry", James Acton, Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Oct 30, 2008, "Defense Budget Challenges for the Next Administration", David Morrison, Chair, The Podesta Group's National Security and International Policy Practice

Oct 23, 2008, "A Nuclear Family Vacation", Sharon Weinberger, Knight Science Journalism Fellow, MIT

Oct 16, 2008, "U.S. Nuclear Posture in the Next Administration", Jeffrey Lewis, Director, Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative, The New America Foundation

Oct 09, 2008, "Agency-Focused Global Development", David Crocker, Senior Research Scholar, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, and Director, College Park Scholars in Public Leadership

Oct 02, 2008, “Limited Access Orders in the Developing World: A New Approach to the Problem of Development”, Steven B. Webb, Latin America and the Caribbean Public Sector and Economic Policy, The World Bank

Sep 25, 2008, "Exporting the Bomb", Matthew Kroenig, Assistant Professor, Department of Government and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University

Sep 18, 2008, "Georgia and South Ossetia: Territory, People and Politics", Valery Dzutsev, Muskie Fellow, MSPP

Sep 11, 2008, "Oversight of Coalition Operations in Afghanistan", David Auerswald, Senior Research Fellow, Defense Department's Institute for National Strategic Studies

Sep 04, 2008, CISSM Open House, VMH 1107

May 08, 2008, Contracting in Iraq, Jacques S. Gansler, Professor and Roger C. Lipitz Chair in Public Policy and Private Enterprise, Director, Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise

May 01, 2008, "The Place of History Education in Post-Conflict Political Reconciliation", Elizabeth 'Lili' Cole, Program Officer, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program, United States Institute of Peace

Apr 24, 2008, Relativism and Human Rights, James Nickel, Professor, Arizona State University

Apr 17, 2008, Sudan - Identity Politics at the Crossroads, Linda Bishai, Senior Program Officer, International Education and Training Center, USIP

Apr 10, 2008, Transatlantic Relations on the Eve of the Presidential Election: Waiting to Exhale, Catherine Kelleher, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland

Apr 03, 2008, Muslim Public Opinion on US Foreign Policy: What Are They So Angry About? : Findings from Polling and Focus Groups in Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan and Indonesia, Steve Kull, Director, PIPA

Mar 27, 2008, Global Microscale Estimation of GDP, Tim Gulden, CISSM Research Scholar

Mar 13, 2008, Rethinking Justice and Accountability After Conflict and Atrocity, Helena Cobban, columnist, Christian Science Monitor, contributing writer, Boston Review

Mar 06, 2008, Twilight War: The Folly of U.S. Space Dominance, Mike Moore, Research Fellow, The Independent Institute

Feb 21, 2008, Voter Rationality and Politician Incentives: Exploiting Luck in India and Pakistani Election, Madiha Afzal, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics, Yale University

Feb 14, 2008, Global Strike and U.S. Strategic Planning, Hans M. Kristensen, Nuclear Information Project, Federation of American Scientists

Feb 07, 2008, Nuclear Weapons Designers After the Cold War, Hugh Gusterson, Prof. of Anthropology and Sociology, George Mason University

Jan 31, 2008, "Disability and Poverty: A Review of World Bank Poverty Assessments", Jeanine Braithwaite, Senior Economist, World Bank

Dec 06, 2007, Coast Guard is an Instrument of National Security, Rear Admiral Jody A. Breckenridge, Director, Strategic Transformation Team, U.S. Coast Guard

Nov 29, 2007, How to Achieve a Palestinian State Within the Next Twelve Months, Jerome M. Segal, Research Scholar, CISSM/MSPP

Nov 15, 2007, "How Terrorism Ends", Audrey Kurth Cronin, Professor, U.S. National War College

Nov 08, 2007, Financing Gender Equality and the Millenium Development Goals: Debates and New Estimates, Caren Grown, Economist-in-Residence, American University

Nov 01, 2007, The United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement, Lee Tae-sik, Korean Ambassador to the U.S.

Oct 25, 2007, Ungoverned Areas and Threats From Safe Havens, Robert Lamb, Civil Violence Project Manager, CISSM

Oct 18, 2007, Advising the Iraqi Army, A. Raymond Dwight, Colonel, U.S. Army

Oct 11, 2007, Japan's Shifting Strategy Toward a Rising China, Mike Mochizuki, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, The Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

Sep 27, 2007, Integrating Policy Challenges of Small-Structure Sciences and Emerging Threats, Barry Kellman, Professor of International Law, Director of the International Weapons Control Center, DePaul University College of Law

Sep 20, 2007, Entrapped Conflict Managers: Intervening in the Balkans and Beyond, Marta Vrbetic

Sep 10, 2007, Did Star Wars Help End the Cold War? Soviet Response to the SDI Program, Pavel Podvig, Researcher, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University

Sep 05, 2007, Introducing: The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, Gary LaFre, Director, National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)

Aug 29, 2007, CISSM Open House, Anja Kuznetsova

May 10, 2007, "Rage Against the Machines: Mechanization and the Determinants of Victory in Counterinsurgency Warfare", Jason Lyall (Princeton University) and Ike Wilson (U.S. Military Academy, West Point)

May 03, 2007, Stansfield Turner and the Strategy of Terrorism, Marianna M. Yamamoto, MSPP, PhD Student

Apr 26, 2007, Cooperative Non-Proliferation: Getting Further Faster, Brian Finlay and Elizabeth Turpin, Senior Associates and Co-Directors, Cooperative Non-Proliferation Program, Henry L. Stimson Center

Apr 19, 2007, Breaking the Stalemate of Global Governance Reform, Johanes Linn, Senior Fellow and Executive Director, Wolfensohn Center for Development, The Brookings Institution

Apr 12, 2007, Agricultural Biotechnology and Biosecurity, Shanthu Shantharam, President, Biologistics International

Apr 05, 2007, Managing After Conflict: American Failures and Challenges, Carlos Pascual, Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy Studies Program, The Brookings Institution

Mar 29, 2007, Norm Enforcement Under Social Discrimination, Karla Hoff, Senior Research Economist, The World Bank

Mar 16, 2007, Terror Financing, Jim Walker, Military Police Officer, U.S. Army

Mar 08, 2007, Learning From Iraq, Nathan Freier, Lieetenant Colonel, U.S. Army, Director of National Security Affairs, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College

Mar 01, 2007, Equality and Adequacy in American Education, Rob Reich, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

Feb 22, 2007, Is Being 'Partial to the Peace Agreement' the Same as 'Protecting the People', Daniel Levine, CISSM/MSPP

Feb 15, 2007, Learning and Climate Change, Brian O'Neill, Leader, Population and Climate Change Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Feb 08, 2007, Public Opinion in Iran: findings of an Unprecedented Poll of Iranians, on Iran's Nuclear Program, the NPT, Iran-U.S. Relations, Islam and the West, Al Qaeda, Terrorism ..., Steven Kull, Director, Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA)

Feb 01, 2007, Sverdlovsk Revisited: Modeling Human Inhalation Anthrax, Dean Wilkening, Director, Science Program, CISAC, Stanford University

Jan 25, 2007, Violence in Iraq: The Numbers and What They Can Tell Us, Tim Gulden, Research Fellow, CISSM

Dec 30, 2006, List of CISSM Forum Speakers, Fall 2006, Anja Kuznetsova

May 15, 2006, List of CISSM Forum Speakers, Spring 2006, Anja Kuznetsova

May 04, 2006, Afghanistan:The Challenge of Development, Robert W. Gerber, U.S. State Department

Apr 27, 2006, Iraqi and American Public Attitudes on the Situation in Iraq, Steve Kull, Director, PIPA (CISSM Forum)

Apr 06, 2006, The Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: An Essential Element of U.S. Nonproliferation Policy, Steve Fetter, Dean, Maryland School of Public Policy (CISSM Forum Presentation)

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