Wednesday Seminars

The SSP Wednesday Seminar Series runs from 12 to 1:30PM in E40-496, Lucian Pye Conference Room every Wednesday during the Spring and Fall semesters. All talks are open to the public.

Date

Speaker

Topic
February 13 MAGNUS PETERSSON
Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies		 The Current U.S. NATO Debate and its Consequences for the Alliance
February 20 MARGARET HARRELL
Rand Corporation		 Service Member, Veteran, and Family Wellness: What Is It, and Why Should We Care?
February 27 R. SCOTT KEMP
Dept. of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT		 Technology Change and the Future of Nuclear Proliferation
March 6 JAMES GRAHAM WILSON
Office of the Historian, U.S. Dept. of State		 Nuclear Weapons and the Reagan Administration
March 13 GONUL TOL
Center for Turkish Studies, Middle East Institute		 Turkey and the Arab Spring: Challenges and Opportunities
March 20 EUGENE GHOLZ
LBJ School of Public Affairs, U of Texas at Austin

The Budget Implications of the U.S. Military Defense of Persian Gulf Oil
April 10 KLAUS SCHARIOTH
Former German Ambassador to the U.S.		 Why Europe Matters for the U.S. : The Future of the Transatlantic Relationship
April 24 SUZANNE MALONEY
Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution

Sanctions and the Iranian Nuclear Standoff talk cancelled
May 1 CHRISTOPHER PREBLE
CATO Institute		 From Triad to Dyad: Rationalizing U.S. Nuclear Weapons Delivery Systems