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Kal Raustiala in the Los Angeles Times: A Bill of Rights Without Borders

A 50-year-old court decision on constitutional protections overseas comes into play in the war on terror, writes Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala in The Los Angeles Times.
Posted: 6/15/2007

AIDS Fight Needs Course Correction, Say Panelists

Prescriptions for combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe include increased funding, focus on local disease drivers, and reassertion of public health goals over political concerns.
Posted: 6/12/2007

Teaching Sept. 11

UCLA political scientist Marc Trachtenberg, who teaches a Burkle Center-backed course on the post-9/11 world, explains in a newspaper article that current events can be approached with detachment.
Posted: 6/5/2007

Princeton Philosopher Urges Rich to Give More to Poor

Peter Singer's message is uncomfortable: Most people follow a minimalist morality that makes them a lot more immoral than they consider themselves to be.
Posted: 6/4/2007

Geographer Entrikin Steps into Top Role at International Institute

In more than three decades at UCLA, Nicholas Entrikin has led his department, the review of faculty promotions across campus, and the Institute's Global Studies IDP. Now he's taking on two jobs in one: overseeing the growth of UCLA's global relationships and building bridges among multidisciplinary programs on campus. He and Ron Rogowski, the outgoing vice provost and dean, talk about where the Institute is heading.
Posted: 5/30/2007

Crisis Persists in El Salvador

Fifteen years after El Salvador's civil war, says Blanca Flor Bonilla, a member of the Legislative Assembly, extreme poverty is promoting organized crime, mass emigration, and the disintegration of families.
Posted: 5/28/2007

Etzioni Puts Security Before Elections

The professor and public intellectual Amitai Etzioni practices the Socratic method at UCLA, arguing for a foreign policy that proceeds from the human right to be free from harm.
Posted: 5/21/2007

China and the Developing World

Joshua Eisenman (Ph.D. student in political science) discusses his new book
Posted: 5/18/2007

Allende's Shadow Fading, Says Venezuelan Ambassador

Bernardo Álvarez Herrera, who represents Venezuela and Hugo Chávez in Washington, says his country's break from the U.S.-endorsed model of economic policy in Latin America is giving the region hope that democracies can enact "revolutionary change." He faults the United States for upholding a "double standard" on terrorism and not minding its energy consumption.
Posted: 5/17/2007

Leading Buddhist Studies Program Eyes Tibetan Gap

Center events on Tibetan Buddhism are part of an effort to create a UCLA chair in the field. On May 23, a high-ranking Buddhist abbot and a U of Michigan professor will read the poetry of a modern Tibetan monk in the original language and in English translation.
Posted: 4/30/2007

Women Politicians from Mexico Advocate Change

Representatives of four Mexican political groupings discuss the limited participation of women in politics and seek to build on reforms.
Posted: 4/24/2007

Growing EU Brings International Leaders and Issues to UCLA

Panelists from Central European countries discuss impact of integration, stability of democracies.
Posted: 4/20/2007

'American Islam Crystallized After 9/11'

CUNY's Mehdi Bozorgmehr, a sociology PhD from UCLA who directs a research center on both the Middle East and Middle Eastern Americans, explains the importance of religious identity in post-9/11 advocacy for groups affected by backlash.
Posted: 4/16/2007

Complex Issues Explored on Film

Documentary unearths different perspectives, definitions of terrorism and counterterrorism
Posted: 4/11/2007

The Roots and Global Dimension of Modern Terrorism

"Modern terror began in the 1880s. Small groups in many countries were able to terrify masses because the invention of dynamite gave them new powers, and the bomb has remained the principal weapon of terror ever since," writes David C. Rapoport.
Posted: 4/10/2007

Lebanon War Coverage Dissected at Conference

A discussion among two Los Angeles Times editors, one historian, and a UCLA audience exposes gaps in expectations about how violence gets reported.
Posted: 4/5/2007

News Accuracy in Israel-Lebanon Conflict Questioned

Because so many sources recording the war differed on reported facts, the war left international media and historians arguing over who started it and who the true victors of the war were, several speakers said. The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies was a co-sponsor of this event, organized by the Comparative Literature Graduate Student Group.
Posted: 4/4/2007

Kal Ruastiala in The New Republic Online: George W. Bush, Multilateralist.

"Obsessed with maintaining a maximally free hand, the Bush administration often finds international commitments--and even international restraints--paradoxically attractive when dealing with federal judges," writes Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala in The New Republic Online.
Posted: 3/27/2007

US Experts Address Nuclear Proliferation, Terrorism

Nuclear terrorism threatens to wreck nuclear peace, which has lasted 61 years despite the presence of tens of thousands of nuclear missiles around the world, noted Nobel laureate Tom Schelling, one of the key speakers at the conference.
Posted: 3/14/2007

Intellectual Property Rights Debate Heating Up

UCLA conference participants challenge conventional wisdom on intellectual property rights and innovation.
Posted: 3/13/2007

Divestment Was Just the Beginning

To call attention to ongoing violence in Darfur, committee plans week of events
Posted: 3/8/2007

Experts Explore Nuclear Issues

The spread of nuclear weapons is a pressing issue the United States must recognize and address, experts said during a two-day conference on campus this week.
Posted: 3/8/2007

Make Way for 'Peaceful Rise'

Bates Gill, an American expert on East Asian security issues, argues for welcoming China into a global fold. Not only is there little choice, he says, but the country's policies have taken an encouraging turn over the last decade and more.
Posted: 3/7/2007

Conference to Examine Future of Nuclear Weapons

Former Secretary of Defense William Perry is scheduled to give the keynote address this afternoon, with Wednesday featuring panels and breakout sessions on more specific subjects.
Posted: 3/6/2007

Israeli Diplomat Analyzes Mideast

The lecture by the newly appointed Israeli ambassador to Great Britain, Ron Prosor, was sponsored by the Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations, the Israel Studies Program, Stand with Us, and the Consulate General of Israel in Los Angeles.
Posted: 3/1/2007

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