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Wednesday Seminar Series

The SSP Wednesday Seminar Series runs from 12 to 1:30PM in E38-615 every Wednesday during the Spring and Fall semesters. All talks are open to the public.

Date	Speaker	Topic
September 10	STEVEN MILLER Director, International Security Program, Belfer Center, Harvard University	Iran and the Diplomacy of Nuclear Confrontation: Ambitions, Accusations, Ambiguities
September 17	PAGE FORTNA Associate Professor of Political Science, Columbia University	Terrorism, War Termination and Post-War Stability
September 24	CHRISTOPHER KIRCHHOFF Lead Writer, SIGIR (Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction)	Iraq Reconstruction: Lessons Learned
October 1	KARL KAISER Director, Program on Transatlantic Relations, Weatherhead Ctr., Harvard University	Recalibrating European Security (seminar co-sponsored by MISTI Germany)
October 15	GEOFFREY KEMP Director, Regional Strategic Patterns, Nixon Center	Asia's Growing Footprints in the Middle East: What it means for America
October 22	LTC JOHN NAGL Commander, 1-34 AR	Learning to Do ISR with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan
October 29	CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT National Security Studies Fellow, Johns Hopkins University	Analystical Tools for the Next Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR)
November 5	ALEXANDER DOWNES Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Duke University	Targeting Civilians to Win? Examining the Military Effectiveness of Civilian Victimization in Interstate War
November 19	tba
December 3	WILLIAM S. RENO Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University	tba

 

Archive of Wednesday Seminar Series Schedules and Reports

• Spring 2008 Seminar Schedule and Reports
• Fall 2007 Seminar Schedule and Reports
• Spring 2007 Seminar Schedule and Reports
• Fall 2006 Seminar Schedule and Reports
• Spring 2006 Seminar Schedule and Reports
• Fall 2005 Seminar Schedule and Reports
• Spring 2005 Seminar Schedule and Reports
• Fall 2004 Seminar Schedule and Reports
• Spring 2004 Seminar Schedule and Reports
• Fall 2003 Seminar Schedule and Reports
• Spring 2003 Seminar Schedule and Reports
• Fall 2002 Seminar Schedule and Reports
• Spring 2002 Seminar Schedule and Reports
• Fall 2001 Seminar Schedule and Reports
• Spring 2001 Seminar Schedule and Reports
• Fall 2000 Seminar Schedule and Reports
• Spring 2000 Seminar Schedule and Reports
• Fall 1999 Seminar Schedule and Reports
• Spring 1999 Seminar Schedule and Reports
• Fall 1998 Seminar Schedule and Reports
• Spring 1998 Seminar Schedule and Reports

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