LECTURE SERIES

Charles W. Hostler Institute on World Affairs & Fred J. Hansen Distinguished Lecture Series 2009

Foreign Policy Challenges for the Obama Administration

January      

22  Introduction and Overview - Ronald Bee, Director, Charles Hostler Institute on World Affairs,SDSU. John Stoessinger, University of San Diego. “Why Nations Go To War: Perspectives of A Holocaust   Survivor.”

29   Christine Fair, Georgetown University “Why the U.S. Cannot Help Pakistan” 

February     

5   Ambassador Jeffrey Davidow,  "US and Mexico: Challenges for the Obama Administration."

12   David Rapoport, UCLA, Professor Emeritus, “Waves of International Terrorism.”

19    Tony Perry, LA Times,  “Into the War Zone: Iraq and Afghanistan.”.

26    Walt Oechel, SDSU “Global Climate Change.”

March         

5    Sumit Ganguly , Indiana University. “India”
Cosponsored by: M. C. Madhavan Distinguished Lecture Series. 

12   Barnett Rubin, Council on Foreign Relations and New York University. “Afghanistan”

19   Andranik Migranian, Institute for Democracy and Cooperation, New York. “Russia”

26   Michael Provence (UCSD), Farid Abdel-Nour (SDSU), Uri Ben-Eliezer (Haifa University). “Israeli/Palestinian Conflict”

April            

2   Spring Break - no lecture

9  Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University.  “Africa and Darfur: Humanitarian intervention” Cosponsored by: The Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies.

16    Dali Yang, University of Chicago. “China”

23  Eli Berman, UCSD. “Constructive Counterterrorism: Theory and Evidence.”

30  Ambassador Reno Harnish, Assistant Secretary (acting) for Oceans Environment and Science. “Energy and Climate Policy: Getting the Balance Right” 

May           

7   Synthesis: Mikhail Alexseev, Latha Varadarajan, Adam Branch, Lei Guang, and Jonathan Graubart