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LOUIS MARTIN SEARS LECTURE SERIES 2007-2008
"U.S. SECURITY IN AN INSECURE WORLD"
Presented by the Department of Political Science
The biennial Louis Martin Series Lecture Series is named for the late Purdue historian Louis Martin Sears, who was a faculty member in the then joint Department of History and Political Science from 1920 until his retirement in 1956. Sears specialized in diplomatic history and biography and was the author of numerous books. The lecture series bearing his name is alternately sponsored by the Departments of History and Political Science, which are housed in Purdue's College of Liberal Arts.
All events are free and open to the public, and tickets are not required.
For more information, contact
Professor Louis Rene Beres / Department of Political Science / lberes@purdue.edu /
765-494-4189 / www.polsci.purdue.edu
CALENDER OF EVENTS
R. James Woolsey
Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
8:00 pm
Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center
R. James Woolsey has been a prominent figure in the U.S. national security policy community across several presidential administrations of both parties. He served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1993 to 1995. Mr. Woolsey also served as Ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe from 1989 to 1991, as Under-Secretary of the Navy from 1977 to 1979, and General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services from 1970 to 1973. He has also been a delegate to the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks and to the Nuclear and Space Arms Talks from 1983 to 1986, and was a military advisor to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in 1969-1970. In addition, Mr. Woolsey has served on various commissions dealing with national security issues. He was educated at Stanford (B.A.), Oxford (M.A. and Rhodes Scholar) and Yale (LL.B. and Managing Editor of the Yale Law Review). Today he is vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, a Virginia-based consulting firm.
Shibley Telhami
The Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development, University of Maryland-College Park and a
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution
"America and the Middle East: Where Are We, and Where Do We Go From Here?"
Thursday, January 24, 2008
8:00 pm
Fowler Hall, Stewart Center
Shibley Telhami is the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, College Park, and non-resident senior fellow at the Saban Center, Brookings Institution. Professor Telhami has served in a number of major policy positions, and as a member of the Iraq Study Group. He has contributed to The Washington Post, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, and appears often on national and international radio and television. Professor Telhami's best-selling book, The Stakes: America and the Middle East (2003), was selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the top five books on the Middle East in 2003. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of Human Rights Watch.
In his talk, Professor Telhami will seek to evaluate the effects of American policy in the Middle East since 2001 and the Iraq war, particularly on democracy, the prospects of settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict, regional security, and the chances of military confrontation with Iran over its nuclear program. He will draw lessons from previous diplomatic efforts, especially those undertaken by the last three American administrations.
Links:
The Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development
The Brookings Institution
Thomas Ricks
The Washington Post correspondent and author of FIASCO: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
"The Iraq War as a Failure of the American System?"
Monday, February 18, 2008
8:00 pm
Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center
Links:
Biography from The Washington Post
The New York Times review of Fiasco
Robert Pape
Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago and author of Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
"What's Wrong with the War on Terrorism?"
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
8:00 pm
Fowler Hall, Stewart Center
Links:
Biography from the University of Chicago
Louis Martin Sears Lecture Series 2007-2008
Links:
Press release
Department of Political Science
College of Liberal Arts
The Louis Martin Sears Lecture Series is presented with promotional support from Purdue Convocations.