Wednesday Seminars, Fall 2006
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| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| September 13 | RICHARD SAMUELS Director, Center for International Studies, MIT |
Japanese Grand Strategy: Past and Future |
| September 20 | ROBERT JERVIS Professor of International Politics, Columbia University |
Intelligence Failures and Intelligence Reform: Why We Were Wrong about Saddam and Why We're Not Likely to Do Much Better in the Future |
| September 27 | PETER VIGGO JAKOBSEN Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen |
Coercive Diplomacy: Theory and Practice |
| October 4 | NORA BENSAHEL Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation |
After Saddam: Prewar Planning for Postwar Iraq |
| October 11 | CHAIM KAUFMANN Associate Professor of International Relations, Lehigh University |
How to Evaluate Communal Partitions |
| October 18 | JOHN BRENNAN President and CEO, The Analysis Corporation |
Intelligence Transformation and the Impact on Counterterrorism Programs |
| October 25 | STEPHEN DAGGETT Specialist in National Defense, Congressional Research Service |
The Defense Budget—What's Driving It and Where |
| November 1 | SHIBLEY TELHAMI Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland |
Terrorism and Deterrence: Lessons from Iraq, Lebanon, and Gaza |
| November 8 | RICHARD LANZA Senior Research Scientist, Dept. of Nuclear Science and Engineering , MIT |
Long Range Ship-based Detection of Nuclear Materials and Clandestine Weapons |
| November 15 | MARTIN KLINGST, Political Editor, DIE ZEIT | Europe's Chance: the Middle East and European Foreign Policy (Talk co-sponsored by MISTI) |
| December 6 | BRUCE BLAIR President, World Security Institute |
U.S. Conventional Primacy and the Threat to Russian and Chinese Nuclear Forces |