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Abandoning Values Only Brings Defeat
Gen. Wesley K. Clark, (ret.), former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and Burkle Center Senior Fellow.
Posted: 5/22/2007
Promises in AIDS Fight Not Met
Focusing on Africa, former UN envoy Stephen Lewis expresses amazement at the passivity of the international community as the HIV/AIDS epidemic traumatizes women, creates orphans, and continues on its decades-long path of devastation. Listen to a Podcast of his speech.
Posted: 5/22/2007
Roots of Epidemic Still Go Unaddressed
Debrework Zewdie, the director of the Global HIV/AIDS Program at the World Bank, argues that efforts to fight the pandemic will come up short as long as "fundamental drivers" such as poverty, gender inequality, and the marginalization of high-risk groups are not dealt with. Listen to a Podcast of her speech.
Posted: 5/22/2007
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
Wesley K. Clark: Abandoning Values Only Brings Defeat
Renewal of respect for international law, open justice, human dignity, and the Bill of Rights is the key to victory in the struggle against terrorists, explains former NATO commander and UCLA Burkle Center Senior Fellow Wesley K. Clark in this video op-ed. Torturing enemies is not merely wrong, he says, but "represents a path for defeat for the United States."
Posted: 5/21/2007
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
Ann Carlson: US Ruling May Let States Fight Global Warming
In this video op-ed, UCLA Professor of Law Ann Carlson, director of UCLA's Environmental Law Center, explains how the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Massachusetts v. EPA is likely to affect California's efforts to regulate some important causes of global climate change.
Posted: 5/7/2007
The Origin of Language Families
U of Texas-Arlington linguist Jerold A. Edmondson, whose doctorate is from UCLA, explains what the field of linguistic history might stand to gain from advances in population genetics and archaeology.
Posted: 5/3/2007
A World of Conflict
Listen to a UCLAradio story about a documentary screening by Kevin Sites, a pioneering solo journalist for Yahoo! News, on war zones around the world. The event was presented by AsiaMedia, sponsored by the UCLA International Institute, Latin American Center, African Studies Center and Asia Institute.
Posted: 5/1/2007
Online Conflict Reporting Hits the Big Screen
Pioneering solo journalist Kevin Sites screens his film about the civilian cost of war.
Posted: 5/1/2007
Q&A: Nina Sylvanus
A UCLA Global Fellow discusses West African women's longstanding influence on a global market in textiles, and the emerging role of Chinese manufacturers. Sylvanus is organizing an April workshop at UCLA on China's role in Africa.
Posted: 4/24/2007
'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
Tackling an Invisible Invader
A local center of excellence could not only diagnose and treat patients with Chagas disease, but also focus on other imported infections unfamiliar to most area physicians.
Posted: 3/26/2007
U.S. Entry Process Frustrates Students, Scholars
A survey conducted by research director Shideh Hanassab of the Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars found widespread frustration with U.S. visa and immigration processes.
Posted: 3/26/2007
UCLA Faculty Craft 2 New Research Fields
Under proposals submitted by Professors Andrew Apter and Rogers Brubaker, each with a collaborator at another campus, the Social Science Research Council will steer dissertation writers towards "Black Atlantic Studies" and "Rethinking Europe."
Posted: 3/15/2007
Challenges for the Next Administration
Streaming video and audio podcast from the closing plenary panel of the conference, Nuclear Weapons in a New Century: Facing the Emerging Challenges.
Posted: 3/14/2007
Is Proliferation Inevitable? And Do We Need a New Regime to Manage it?
Streaming video and audio podcast from the opening plenary panel of the conference, Nuclear Weapons in a New Century: Facing the Emerging Challenges.
Posted: 3/14/2007
Nonproliferation and the Nuclear South
Nuclear powers India and Pakistan were once on the brink of war, but India is now finalizing a civil nuclear deal with the United States. Speakers at a conference on nuclear challenges discussed how the South Asian nations are breaking the nonproliferation mold.
Posted: 3/14/2007
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
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