2000-01 Lectures

Sept 28, 2000

Bruce G. Blair, President, Center for Defense Information, Washington, D.C. "Nuclear War: A Status Report on the Unthinkable"

Oct 11, 2000  

George Quester,  Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland -- "Taiwan, the PRC and the US"

Oct 12, 2000

William Stevenson, Head of the Victims Liaison Unit, Northern Ireland Unit, Belfast -- Northern Ireland Victims of Political Violence"

Oct 13, 2000

Symposium on "Water for the Future: Exploring the Intersections: Focusing on the Nexus Between Water and Energy, Privatization, and Shared Water Basins" with remarks by Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Former President of the USSR and founder and President of the Gorbachev Foundation, Moscow. Sponsored by: Global Green USA, the American Affiliate of Green Cross International, with the Institute of the Environment, UCLA; the Burkle Center for International Relations, UCLA; the RAND Corporation; Heal the Bay; and Mono Lake Committee as cosponsors

Oct 26, 2000

Peter Gourevitch,University of California San Diego Globalization and Governance: Corporate Governance and Global Convergence"

Nov 1, 2000

21st Annual Bernard Brodie Lecture: Jimmy Carter, Former President of the United States -- "Talking Peace"

Nov 6, 2000

Jack Goldsmith, School of Law, University of Chicago "Moral and Legal Rhetoric in International Relations: A Rational Choice Perspective"

Nov 8, 2000

Edward P. Djerejian, Former US Ambassador to Israel and to Syria -- Memo to the New President: Middle East Policy"

Dec 11, 2000

Gary Hart, Former United States Senator and former Presidential Candidate -- "Memo to the President: A New National Security Policy"

Jan 16, 2001 

Stephen Krasner, Department of Political Science, Stanford University -- "Problematic Sovereignty"

Jan 17, 2001 

The 2000-2001 Arnold Harberger Lecture on Economic Development Thomas Friedman, Foreign Affairs Columnist for The New York Times -- "The Impact of Globalization on World Politics"

Jan 19, 2001 

Raju George C. Thomas, Department of Political Science, Marquette University -- Exploring India's Nuclear Labyrinth"

Feb 22, 2001 

Peter Haas, Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "Multilateral Environmental Governance: Lessons from the Last 30 Years"

Feb 26, 2001 

Seyed Hossein Seifzadeh, Teheran University and Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs -- "The Iranian Approach to International Relations"

Feb 26, 2001 

Anne-Marie Slaughter, Professor of Law, Harvard University "Getting Political About International Law: NGO's in International Lawmaking"

Feb 27, 2001 

Sayed Rahmatullah Hashimi, Ambassador at Large, Government of Afghanistan -- Current Views of the Taliban"

March 5, 2001 

Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor of Peace, Department of Political Science, University of Maryland and the Brookings Institution US Policy in the Middle East: What is Old and What is New"

March 6, 2001 

Scott Sagan, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University -- The Risks of Nuclear War in South Asia"

March 7, 2001 

Kal Raustiala, Law School, UCLA "Form and Substance in Multilateral Agreements"

March 12, 2001 

Center for Social Theory and Comparative History, Annual Colloquium Series -- "After the Cold War: Democratic Peace or US Hegemony" 
John Mearsheimer, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
Chalmers Johnson, Japan Policy Research Organization

March 13, 2001 

Roger Morgan, Visiting the UCLA Department of Political Science from the European Institute and the London School of Economics and Political Science -- "European Defense Cooperation: The End of NATO As We Know It"

March 15, 2001

Kenneth Abbott, School of Law, Northwestern University "Hard Law Versus Soft Law in International Relations"

March 16, 2001 

Eric Hamburg, Visiting Scholar, Burkle Center for International Relations -- "President Nixon: Film and Foreign Policy"

March 21, 2001 

Barbara Koremenos, Department of Political Science, UCLA "Loosening the Ties That Bind: Flexibility and International Cooperation"

March 22, 2001 

Gitty Amini, Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Burkle Center for International Relations, UCLA -- Rewards and Sanction in Strategic Relations"

April 4, 2001 

Amin Tarzi, Senior Research Associate, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute for International Studies "Ethnic, Religious Conflicts and Arm Proliferation in Central Asia and Caucasus"

April 6, 2001 

Michael Intriligator, Professor of Economics, Political Science and Policy Studies, UCLA and Director of the Burkle Center for International Relations, UCLA
"Globalization of the World Economy: Potential Benefits and Costs and a Net Assessments"

April 18, 2001 

Adam N. Stulberg, Visiting Fellow, Monterey Institute for International Studies -- "Moving Beyond the Great Game: Agenda Control and Russia's Leverage in the Caspian Basin"

April 23, 2001 

Conference on "Foreign and Defense Policy of the New Bush Administration"
Keynote Presentation by Michael Nacht, Dean, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

April 24, 2001 

Michael Nacht, Dean, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley -- "Missile Defense: An Issue in US-Russia-China Relations"

April 25, 2001 

Judy Goldstein, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
"Building the GATT/WTO Regime: The Hegemon’s Problem"

May 3, 2001 

George Quester, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland -- "What If Nuclear Weapons are Used Again?"

May 4, 2001 

William C. Potter, Director, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies
Nuclear Proliferation Challenges in the New Millennium"

May 7, 2001 

Ariel Levite, Visiting Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) -- "The Challenges Limited Conflicts Pose for Western Democracies: Israel and Palestinians as a Case Study"

May 10, 2001 

Richard L. Garwin, Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations -- Missile Defense: Where Do We Go From Here?"

May 21, 2001 

Rashid Khalidi, Professor of Middle East History, University of Chicago; Director of the Center for International Studies, University of Chicago --
Steven Spiegel, Professor of Political Science, UCLA; Associate Director of the Burkle Center for International Relations, UCLA --
 "Muslim-Jewish Relations: Harmony and Discord Throughout History"

June 4, 2001

Aaron Miller, Senior Advisor for Middle East Negotiations, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
Pursuit of Arab-Israeli Peace: A Retrospective"

June 6, 2001 

Amy Zegart, UCLA Law Organizational Evolution of Nonproliferation Policy"
12:00-1:30 p.m. 3333 Public Policy
Cosponsored by the Burkle Center for International Relations