Purdue News

November 14, 1997

'Spoils of War' author to speak Nov. 24 at Purdue

The lecture is based on Tirman's book "Spoils of War," which is an examination of the United States' policies in the Middle East. He says U.S. officials have stumbled from one debacle to another in the Middle East -- Iran, Iraq and now Turkey -- by making the same mistake: backing "friendly" Islamic regimes that ruthlessly violate human rights.

Tirman has been executive director of the Winston Foundation since 1986. He is the author, co-author or editor of five books on international security issues. Tirman earned his doctorate in political philosophy from Boston University and has served on the staffs of Time magazine, the New England Governors Council and the Union of Concerned Scientists. He was co-chairman of the Foundation for National Progress and served as editor of Nuclear Times from 1989 to 1992.

The Winston Foundation was created in the early 1980s by Robert Winston Scrivener, a philanthropist looking for peaceful resolution to the Cold War. It financially supports programs and services dealing with conflict prevention and resolution, cooperative security and nonproliferation of weapons.

The lecture is sponsored by the Global Governance and Human Rights Global Studies Program, the Department of Political Science, and the International Agriculture Seminar of International Programs in Agriculture.

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