Spring Semester, 2009
Seminar Room, 201 North Indiana Avenue
2:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
The predominant conception and approach to international security has undergone profound change since the early 1990s. Despite some elements of continuity, the differences greatly outweigh these. This seminar will look at the theoretical underpinnings of the revised conception and approach, but it will focus primarily on the major new challenges deemed to confront the world. These include proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, internal conflicts of political, ethnic or religious types, challenges to human rights, transnational criminal networks, pandemics like AIDS and SARS, economic insecurity stemming from things such as International financial instability and economic inequality, international migration, environmental conditions like degradation of water, air, and land resources and climate change, disruptions of complex information systems, and scarcity of vital resources such as oil, water, and food.
Four visiting scholars will be in residence at IU for a week each and work in the course:
- Sabelo Gumedze, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Strategic Studies in Pretoria, South Africa
- Dr. John Gearson, Reader in Terrorism Studies and Director of the Center for Defense Studies in the Department of War Studies at King's College, London, and former principal defense policy adviser to the Defense Select Committee of the House of Commons in the United Kingdom
- Dr. Andre de Mello e Souza, Assistant Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro specializing in International Relations and International Political Economy
- Dr. Ahmad Shikara, Researcher at The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
There will also be interactive video sessions with a number of analysts and policymakers in the United States and abroad. Among these will be:
- Dr. Philippe Moreau Defarges, Senior Fellow at the French International Food Policy Research Institute in Paris, France
- Dr. Greg O'Hayon, analyst at Canada's Criminal Intelligence Service in Ottawa, Canada
- Dr. Susan Martin, former Director of Research and Programs at the Refugee Policy Group and Executive Director of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform and current Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
- Marc Cohen, Research Fellow in Food Consumption and Nutrition at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Henning Riecke, Head of European Foreign and Security Policy Program, German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin
If you are interested in learning more about this seminar, contact:
Dr. David Albright, Instructor of Record
(O) 856-0532
daalbrig@indiana.edu |
This seminar examines the extent to which globalization has affected interrelationships between religion and politics in the modern world. It looks at transnational religious institutions, ideologies, religious movements, and how they are challenging the existing world order, nation-state structures, and secular political ideologies, and shaping our personal identities, loyalties, and ways of looking at the world. Is the world heading towards a "Clash of Civilizations" based on religious conflicts, a New International Religious Order based on tolerance and religious pluralism, or something in-between! The seminar explores distinctions between fundamentalist and liberal theologies; the extent to which religion supports democratization movements throughout the world, the impact of the explosion of missionary movements geared towards Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and that of mass migrations of people with different faith traditions to the western world.
If you are interested in learning more about this seminar, contact:
Sheldon Gellar
(O) 855-8082 (H) 331-7039
sgellar@indiana.edu
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