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Outsourcing War and Peace
A talk by Laura Dickinson, Arizona State University, with special remarks by Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.). This event was co-sponsored by the International Human Rights Law Program at the UCLA Law School.
Posted: 4/22/2011
Lessons for the US from Fukushima
UCLA experts agree that the United States must do more to plan for worst-case scenarios when it comes to nuclear power.
Posted: 4/20/2011
UCLA Professor Jonathan Stewart Researches Japan Devastation
The civil and environmental engineering professor traveled to Japan with a team seeking to understand why structures in the area failed, reports The Daily Bruin.
Posted: 4/20/2011
Experts: What's Behind Decision to Intervene in Libya?
Two skeptics of the no-fly zone mission in Libya, Burkle Center Senior Fellow Gen. (ret.) Wesley K. Clark and Acting Professor of Law Asli Bali, identified a range of mixed motives behind the move to intervene and speculated on what will happen next.
Posted: 4/13/2011
Fading Friendships: Alliances, Affinities and the Activation of International Identities
In international politics "friends'' co-ally. But friendship is relational and contextual. Countries are more likely to act on common interests on a given dimension if few other actors share that identity. In contrast, new cleavages are likely to emerge as an identity becomes ubiquitous.
Posted: 4/12/2011
10 Questions for Russia Expert Daniel Treisman
Drawing on memoirs, personal interviews and other sources, Professor of Political Science Daniel Treisman, who first traveled to Russia in 1988, has written a sweeping study that covers roughly the period he's spent watching the country. Instead of pondering Russia's dark side or its "soul," Treisman in "The Return: Russia's Journey From Gorbachev to Medvedev" looks at Russia as a typical, though important, country facing everyday 21st-century social, political and economic challenges.
Posted: 4/8/2011
Who May Be Killed? Anwar al-Awlaki as a Case Study in the International Legal Regulation of Lethal Force
A lecture by Robert Chesney, Charles I. Francis Professor in Law, University of Texas School of Law. This event was co-sponsored by the International Human Rights Law Program at the UCLA Law School.
Posted: 3/24/2011
Who May Be Killed? Anwar al-Awlaki as a Case Study in the International Legal Regulation of Lethal Force
A lecture by Robert Chesney, Charles I. Francis Professor in Law, University of Texas School of Law. This event was co-sponsored by the International Human Rights Law Program at the UCLA Law School.
Posted: 3/24/2011
UC Suspends Travel in Japan, Bruin Experts Lend Assistance
Three UCLA experts with family ties to Japan are among the Bruins who have rushed to aid Japan after that country’s devastating March 11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis.
Posted: 3/22/2011
Burkle Center Fellow Amy Zegart contributes to National Research Council Intelligence report
A new report from the National Research Council recommends that the U.S. intelligence community adopt methods, theories, and findings from the behavioral and social sciences as a way to improve its analyses. To that end, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) should lead a new initiative to make these approaches part of the intelligence community’s analytical work, hiring and training, and collaborations.
Posted: 3/21/2011
Senior Burkle Center Fellow Gen. Wesley Clark (ret.) discusses what comes next for Libya on CNN
Gen. Wesley Clark discusses the United Nations Security Council's decision to approve a no-fly zone over Libya, and says that the coalition needs to know how military action will impact the ultimate political goal in Libya. Aired on CNN Newsroom on March 18, 2011.
Posted: 3/21/2011
Bruins Join Japan Disaster Relief Efforts, Study Abroad Suspended
UCLA professors and campus groups are joining relief efforts, including a pediatrician who is part of a medical team trying to reach the devastated areas, a computer mapping expert who is assembling information to aid U.N. relief workers, and an earthquake engineer who will inspect damaged structures.
Posted: 3/18/2011
UCLA News|Week: Faculty Experts Examine Libya No-Fly Zone
In this webcast by the UCLA Broadcast Studio, faculty members from UCLA centers for Near Eastern Studies and Middle East Development weigh in on the ramifications of a U.S.-backed no-fly zone on the civil war in Libya.
Posted: 3/17/2011
US Interrogator Who Decried Torture Joins Burkle Center
Matthew Alexander, an 18-year Air Force and Air Force Reserves veteran and author of books about effective, non-coercive interrogation methods, is bringing his on-the-ground perspective about counterterrorism policies to UCLA as a Burkle Center fellow.
Posted: 3/17/2011
Food and Survival in Her Books and Her Life
Peek into Judith Carney’s background and you can understand her interests. "In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World," co-written with her husband, is one of two winners of the most recent Douglass prize, awarded to the best book written in English on slavery or abolition.
Posted: 3/4/2011
Israeli Minister Discusses Disruptions in the Middle East
Minister of National Infrastructure Uzi Landau speaks on national resources and the unrest in Arab countries, in a talk sponsored by UCLA's Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies.
Posted: 3/3/2011
UCLA Hosts Peace Corps’ 50th Anniversary Celebration
Tonight, more than 1,000 attendees are expected to gather in Royce Hall to welcome a panel of former Peace Corps volunteers, including director Aaron Williams, former National Public Radio director Frank Mankiewicz and MSNBC 'Hardball' host Chris Matthews. The Daily Bruin reports.
Posted: 3/2/2011
UCLA Hosts Peace Corps’ 50th Anniversary Celebration
Tonight, more than 1,000 attendees are expected to gather in Royce Hall to welcome a panel of former Peace Corps volunteers, including director Aaron Williams, former National Public Radio director Frank Mankiewicz and MSNBC 'Hardball' host Chris Matthews. The Daily Bruin reports.
Posted: 3/2/2011
Leon Wieseltier delivers the 2011 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture
"Peace Process or War Process? The Defeat of Reason in the Middle East:" Leon Wieseltier delivers the 2011 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture
Posted: 2/17/2011
Leon Wieseltier delivers the 2011 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture
"Peace Process or War Process? The Defeat of Reason in the Middle East:" Leon Wieseltier delivers the 2011 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture
Posted: 2/17/2011
Behind Egypt’s Revolution Is a History of Worker Discontent, Expert Says
Stanford University's Joel Beinin, who directed Middle Eastern studies at the American University in Cairo from 2006 to 2008, tells a UCLA audience that the generals who made Mubarak go took seriously the threat of large labor strikes.
Posted: 2/16/2011
Professors Explain How Uprisings in Middle East All Stand Apart
UCLA History Professor James Gelvin and Gabriel Piterberg resist the temptation to view democracy as a wave and Middle Eastern countries as dominoes, the Daily Bruin student newspaper reports.
Posted: 2/16/2011
Professors Explain How Uprisings in Middle East All Stand Apart
UCLA History Professor James Gelvin and Gabriel Piterberg resist the temptation to view democracy as a wave and Middle Eastern countries as dominoes, the Daily Bruin student newspaper reports.
Posted: 2/16/2011
Newly Appointed Burkle Center Fellow Matthew Alexander Discusses Harsh Interrogation Techniques on NPR's Fresh Air
Matthew Alexander was a senior military interrogator in Iraq. In 2006 he led an interrogation team that tracked down Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq.
Posted: 2/15/2011
Leon Wieseltier Delivers Daniel Pearl Lecture
Wieseltier, literary editor of The New Republic and a prominent observer of the Middle East, said that a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an idea worth defending, for the sake of the region. The Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture Series is hosted annually at UCLA by the Burkle Center for International Relations.
Posted: 2/11/2011
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