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Wednesday Seminars, Fall 2008
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| 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 |
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| October 29 | CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT |
Analytical Tools for the Next Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) |
| November 5 | ALEXANDER DOWNES Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Duke University |
Are Democracies as Smart as We Think They Are? Reassessing the Selection Effects Theory of Democratic Victory in War |
| November 19 | DALE R. HERSPRING University Distinguished Professor, Kansas State Univ. Retired US Diplomat and Navy Captain |
Russian Military Reform and Anatoly Serdyukov |
| December 3 | WILLIAM S. RENO Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University |
Prewar Patronage and Patterns of Wartime Violence |