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Panels Assess Prospects on Korea Peace Day
One scholar says the United States needs to adopt an approach that allows North and South Korea to normalize relations quickly.
Posted: 12/10/2007
The Social Bases of Reform and Anti-Reform: A Comparative Study of Ukraine and Russia
A public lecture by DAVID LANE, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
Posted: 12/10/2007
Last US Ambassador to USSR Makes Case for Cooperation
Ambassador Jack Matlock says that, on the most pressing global issues, the United States still needs Russia. Speaking ahead of parliamentary elections, he calls U.S. discussion of Putin's autocratic tendencies "overblown."
Posted: 12/4/2007
Hope, Economic Transformation in Iraqi Marshlands
Peter Reiss, director of a USAID program to restore the world's second-largest wetlands, explains how Saddam Hussein's drainage of the area has altered an ancient culture.
Posted: 11/28/2007
Al-Qaeda and Anarchism: A Historian's Reply to Terrorology
A lecture by James Gelvin, UCLA, delivered at the conference/workshop on Jihadi Islam held at the UCLA Faculty Center on Tuesday, November 13, 2007.
Posted: 11/27/2007
Jihad in Modern Shi'a Thought
A lecture by Rola El-Husseini, Texas A and M University, delivered at the conference/workshop on Jihadi Islam held at the UCLA Faculty Center on Tuesday, November 13, 2007.
Posted: 11/27/2007
The Wahhabi Factor in Jihadi Islam
A lecture by David Dean Commins, Dickinson College, delivered at the conference/workshop on Jihadi Islam held at the UCLA Faculty Center on Tuesday, November 13, 2007.
Posted: 11/27/2007
Former Thai Foreign Minister Back at UCLA, with Stories to Tell
Kantathi Suphamongkhon, Thailand's UCLA-educated former 39th foreign minister, shares his experiences with students in a lecture delivered as part of International Education Week. Suphamongkhon is a senior fellow at UCLA's Burkle Center and a UC Regents' Professor.
Posted: 11/20/2007
Why Invasion is the Wrong Answer to Turkey's Problems by Gen. Clark
Financial Times, Nov. 15, 2007
Posted: 11/16/2007
Panel Speaks on Oil Politics
The panel featured journalist Steve LeVine and discussion centered around oil in the Caspian region, where LeVine spent 11 years reporting. [The event was sponsored by the UCLA Center for International Business Education & Research and cosponsored with the UCLA International Institute and the Center for European and Eurasian Studies, among others.]
Posted: 11/7/2007
The Gifts of the Tibetans: Sparking New Directions in the Arts and Sciences
In the last of three events aimed at establishing a UCLA endowed chair in Tibetan Buddhist studies, Columbia University's Robert Thurman says that Tibetan perspectives are, or at least ought to be, very much at home in the university. Listen to a podcast of his talk.
Posted: 11/6/2007
The Iran-U.S. Conflict and Its Effects in Iran: Internal, Foreign and Gender Policies
A public lecture by Maziar Behrooz, San Francisco State University and Nikki Keddie, UCLA on Monday, October 22, 2007
Posted: 11/2/2007
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Possibility of a Two-State Solution
A public lecture by Galia Golan, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel
Posted: 11/1/2007
At UCLA, Mongolia's First Lady Seeks Ties with 'Third Neighbor'
Tsolmon Onon Enkhbayar addresses UCLA scholars and members of L.A.'s Mongolian community.
Posted: 10/30/2007
Myanmar, the Latest Petro Bully
Sky-high oil prices allow the junta, and other bad actors, to thrive and buy political protection, writes Michael L. Ross in The Los Angeles Times. (Photo courtesy of Thompson/Essential Science Information)
Posted: 10/26/2007
First Steps for Peace in the Middle East
Steven Spiegel, a professor of political science and director of the Center for Middle East Development, is a leading expert on U.S. policy in the Middle East. A longer version of this article recently appeared in the Israeli paper Ha'aretz. (Photo courtesy of pbs.org)
Posted: 10/23/2007
A Time to Lead, for Duty, Honor and Country - Part I
Gen. Wesley K. Clark, (ret.), former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and Burkle Center Senior Fellow.
Posted: 10/15/2007
A Time to Lead, for Duty, Honor and Country - Part II
Gen. Wesley K. Clark, (ret.), former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and Burkle Center Senior Fellow.
Posted: 10/14/2007
Former Cape Verdean President Sees Africa Standing Up
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro, who served two five-year terms as Cape Verde's first president elected under a multiparty system, tells a UCLA audience that Africa is no lost cause, but a continent striving towards peace and democracy. He discusses Cape Verde's relations with China and other emerging powers.
Posted: 10/10/2007
Sputnik Launch Turns 50, Russia Yawns
Andrew L. Jenks, an assistant professor of history at California State University, Long Beach, explains that the Sputnik moment was a moment for Americans, not Russians (who also had Yuri Gagarin). And the moment could repeat itself.
Posted: 10/3/2007
Get Out of Iraq Within a Year, Urges Former US Defense Official
Larry Korb, a former assistant defense secretary under Reagan, wants to keep a regional military presence and to keep intervening in Iraq, but he thinks that continuing the occupation does more harm than good. He and Phillip Carter, a UCLA alum and Iraq war veteran, take questions on the war and Gen. Petraeus's strategy.
Posted: 10/1/2007
Petraeus' Optimistic Take on Iraq War Not a Consensus
The Daily Bruin, September 27, 2007
Posted: 9/27/2007
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