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

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

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

Oct 23, 2008, "A Nuclear Family Vacation", Sharon Weinberger, Writer (international security issues)

Nov 06, 2008, "Disarmament and the Nuclear Industry", James Acton

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

Nov 27, 2008, No CISSM Forum, Thanksgiving

Past Forums

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)

Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland
4113 Van Munching Hall, School of Public Policy
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 405-7601

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