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Saturday July 26th, 2008, 11:00AM, Yale campus.
The Ivy Scholars Program

Studies in Grand Strategy for High School Student Leaders: July 26-August 10, 2008

For further information, please contact: ISS


Wednesday April 16th, 2008, 4:30PM, William L. Harkness Hall (WLH), Room 116, 100 Wall Street. ***PLEASE NOTE change of venue.***
Prof. Mary Habeck, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, "Is the Cold War the Right Analogy for the Long War?"

Part of the International Security Studies Grand Strategy Lecture Series.


Tuesday April 8th, 2008, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Andrew Preston, Cambridge University, "The Religious Origins of Liberal Internationalism, Collective Security, and World Government in American Diplomacy"

Part of the International Security Studies Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Friday April 4th, 2008, 2:00PM, Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS), Room 211, 320 York Street
CONFERENCE: "The Origins of the Greek Phalanx: Hoplite Warfare and the Archaic and Classical Polis"

Friday, April 4: 2:00pm-7:00pm Saturday, April 5: 9:30am-7:00pm Sunday, April 6: 9:30am-12:00pm

This conference is co-sponsored by the Yale Department of Classics and International Security Studies.


Wednesday March 26th, 2008, 4:30PM, William L. Harkness Hall (WLH), Room 119, 100 Wall Street
Prof. Vali Nasr, Tufts University, "The Emerging Role of Iran in the Middle East"

Part of the International Security Studies Grand Strategy Lecture Series on "The United States and the Islamic World."


Tuesday March 25th, 2008, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Hal Brands, Department of History, Yale University, "Third-World Politics in an Age of Global Upheaval: The Latin American Challenge to U.S. and Western Hegemony, 1965-1975"

Part of the International Security Studies Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Tuesday March 4th, 2008, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Andrew Scott, Postgraduate Associate, ISS, "The U.S., Britain and the Year of Europe, 1973"

Part of the International Security Studies Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Tuesday March 4th, 2008, 4:30PM, Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Irakli Alasania, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Georgia to the United Nations, “Central Issues of Georgia’s Foreign Policy: Changing the Geopolitical Landscape in the Caucasus Region.”

The lecture is part of the Gaddis Smith Seminar Series of the International Affairs Council, and is co-sponsored by International Security Studies.


Thursday February 28th, 2008, 4:30PM, Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS), Room 211, 320 York Street
Prof. R. Howard Bloch, Sterling Professor of French and Chair, Humanities Program, Yale University, "The Bayeux Tapestry: Art and Strategy in the Norman Conquest of 1066"

Part of the International Security Studies Grand Strategy Lecture Series.


Tuesday February 26th, 2008, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Julia Irwin, Department of History of Science and Medicine, Yale University, "The Little Diplomats: Children and U.S. Internationalism in the 1920s Junior Red Cross"

Part of the International Security Studies Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Tuesday February 12th, 2008, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Debra Shulman, College of William & Mary, "Deals in Damascus: Syrian Foreign Policy during the U.S.-Led Wars against Iraq, 1990-91 and 2003"

Part of the International Security Studies Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Thursday February 7th, 2008, 4:30PM, William L. Harkness Hall (WLH), Room 208, 100 Wall Street
Jeffrey Mankoff, Henry Chauncey Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Studies, "Back to the Future?: Russian Grand Strategy after Putin"

Part of the International Security Studies Grand Strategy Lecture Series on "The Grand Strategies of the Great Powers."


Tuesday February 5th, 2008, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Paul Rubinson, Fellow, International Security Studies, "'Scientists Wearing the Cloak of Science': Activists, Expertise, and the Nuclear Arms Race during the Cold War"

Part of the International Security Studies Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Tuesday January 29th, 2008, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Gretchen Heefner, Department of History, Yale University, "Selling Deterrence: How the Air Force Convinced Americans to Stop Worrying and Love the Minuteman"

Part of the International Security Studies Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Tuesday January 22nd, 2008, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Victor McFarland, Department of History, Yale University, "This Little Crisis: The Kennedy Administration and the Yemeni Civil War, 1962-63"

Part of the International Security Studies Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Tuesday January 15th, 2008, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Nick Rutter, Department of History, Yale University, "The Better Germans: The German Rivalry at the World Youth Festival, 1951-1973"

Part of the International Security Studies Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Tuesday December 11th, 2007, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Mark Lawrence, Clay Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, "Rethinking the 1960s: The Crisis of Liberal Internationalism and the Origins of the Nixon Doctrine"

Part of the International Security Studies Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Monday December 3rd, 2007, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Erez Manela, Harvard University, "The Collaborative Intervention: The Eradication of Smallpox as a Cold War Puzzle"

Part of the International Security Studies Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Wednesday November 28th, 2007, 4:30PM, William L. Harkness Hall, Room 208, 100 Wall Street
Michael Oren, Department of History, Yale University, "From Napoleon to Nasirya: Themes in the Military History of the Modern Middle East"

Part of the International Security Studies Grand Strategy Lecture Series on "The United States and the Islamic World."


Tuesday November 13th, 2007, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Marco Duranti, Department of History, Yale University, "French Decolonization and International Human Rights Law after the Second World War"

Part of the International Security Studies Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Thursday November 8th, 2007, 4:30PM, William L. Harkness Hall, Room 119, 100 Wall Street
Dr. Stephen Cohen, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution, "How India Balances Insecurities at Home and in the World"

Part of the International Security Studies Grand Strategy Lecture Series on "The Grand Strategies of the Great Powers."


Tuesday November 6th, 2007, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Laura Robson, Department of History, Yale University, "Demanding a Voice: Christian Palestinians in the Greek Orthodox Church and the British Mandate"

Part of the International Security Studies Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Tuesday October 30th, 2007, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Helen Zoe Veit, Department of History, Yale University, "The Nicest Fellows on Earth: Winning Europe's Heart with American Food Aid in World War I"

Part of the International Security Studies Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Thursday October 18th, 2007, 4:30PM, William L. Harkness Hall, Room 119, 100 Wall Street
Prof. Charles Kupchan, Department of Government and School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, "The European Union: Past Its Prime or Emergent Pole of Power"

Part of the International Security Studies Grand Strategy Lecture Series on "The Grand Strategies of the Great Powers."


Tuesday October 16th, 2007, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Robert Berschinski, Department of International Relations, Yale University, "AFRICOM: Oil, Terror, and the Future of U.S. Security Policy in Africa

Part of the International Security Studies Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Tuesday October 2nd, 2007, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Charles Keith, Department of History, Yale University, "Internationalizing Vietnamese Catholicism: The Religious Public Sphere in Late Colonial Indochina"

Part of the International Security Studies Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Tuesday September 18th, 2007, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Daniel Sargent, Fellow, International Security Studies, "Oil, Interdependence, and the Quest for Hegemony: U.S. Middle East Policy, 1969-1974"

Part of the International Security Studies Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Sunday August 5th, 2007, 8:00AM, Yale University
The Ivy Scholars Program 2007

Registration was on Sunday, July 22, from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM, in the Davenport College Courtyard. Departure day is August 5. For information on the program, follow the above link.


Friday April 20th, 2007, 5:30PM, Event Location TBA
Prof. Donald Kagan, Department of History, Yale University, "The American Military and American Higher Education"

Annual Event for the "Friends of International Security Studies."

For further information and to reserve a seat, please contact: ISS


Thursday March 29th, 2007, 4:30PM, William L. Harkness Hall, Room 208, 100 Wall Street
Prof. Aaron Friedberg, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, "Is the Unipolar Moment Over?"

Part of the ISS Grand Strategy Lecture Series.


Tuesday March 27th, 2007, 4:30PM, William L. Harkness Hall, Room 208, 100 Wall Street
Max Boot, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, "Revolutions in Military Affairs and the War on Terrorism"

Part of the ISS Grand Strategy Lecture Series.


Tuesday March 6th, 2007, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Iryna Vushko, Department of History, Yale University, "Austrian Bureaucracy in Galicia: The Napoleonic Test, 1792-1815"

Part of the ISS Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Tuesday February 27th, 2007, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Jeffrey Mankoff, Department of History, Yale University, "Vladimir Putin and US-Russian Relations: A Retrospective and a Look Ahead"

Part of the ISS Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Wednesday February 21st, 2007, 12:00AM, Henry R. Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Prof. Robert Brigham, Vassar College, "Is Iraq Another Vietnam?


Wednesday February 14th, 2007, 4:30PM, Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS), Room 211, 320 York Street
Prof. Vali Nasr, Naval Postgraduate School, "The Regional Implications of Iraq's Sectarian Conflict"

Part of the ISS Grand Strategy Lectures Series on "The United States and the Islamic World."


Tuesday February 13th, 2007, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Prof. Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Department of History, US Naval Academy, “Guerillas, Bandits, Partisans, Insurgents, Irregulars, Savages, and Terrorists: Non-conventional Warfare in American Military History from the Colonial Period to the Present”

Part of the ISS Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Thursday February 8th, 2007, 4:30PM, William L. Harkness Hall, Room 208, 100 Wall Street
Prof. Mary Habeck, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, "Jihadist Grand Strategies in War and Peace"

Part of the ISS Grand Strategy Lecture Series on "The United States and the Islamic World."


Wednesday February 7th, 2007, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
David Ekbladh, John M. Olin Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Studies, "Liberalism's Spine: 'Modernization' to Meet the Challenge of Totalitarianism, 1933-1944"

Part of the ISS Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Tuesday February 6th, 2007, 4:30PM, William L. Harkness Hall, Room 208, 100 Wall Street
Robert Satloff, Executive Director, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, "What the West Can Do to Counter Holocaust Denial in the Arab World: A New Approach"

Part of the ISS Grand Strategy Lecture Series on "The United States and the Islamic World."


Tuesday January 30th, 2007, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Prof. Kimberly Kagan, Center for Peace and Security Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, “The Imperial Moment: the Transition from State to Empire in Comparative Perspective”

Part of the ISS Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Tuesday January 16th, 2007, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Jeffrey Morris, Yale Divinity School, "Islam in Post-Christian Europe: A View from Britain"

Part of the ISS Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Tuesday December 5th, 2006, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Justin Zaremby, Department of Political Science, Yale University, "Machiavelli's Ambition and the Culture of Advice"

Part of the ISS Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Wednesday November 29th, 2006, 4:30PM, Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211
George Weigel, Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center, "The Pope's Divisions: The Global Strategies of John Paul II"

Sponsored by the Yale Class of 1961.

Part of the ISS Grand Strategy Lecture Series.


Tuesday November 28th, 2006, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Charles Edel, Department of History, Yale University, "'A Yielding Spirit May Invite War': The Official Response to the Burning of Washington"

Part of the ISS Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Friday November 10th, 2006, 12:00AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Prof. George Levesque, Department of History, Yale University, "The Secularization of the Academy: An Historical Overview"

Part of the Niebuhr Forum on Religion and Public Life.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Tuesday November 7th, 2006, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Caitlin Fitz, Department of History, Yale University, "Nationalism and Internationalism: The United States and Latin American Independence"

Part of the ISS Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Wednesday November 1st, 2006, 4:30PM, Yale Law School, SLB 129
Prof. John Coogan, Michigan State University, "The Rise and Fall of Codified International Maritime Law of War"

Responses by Professor John Hattendorf, U.S. Naval War College, and Professor Mark Shulman, Pace Law School.

[Please note the change in venue.]


Wednesday October 25th, 2006, 4:00PM, Yale Law School, SLB 128
Angela Stent, Professor of Government and Director, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown School of Foreign Service, "Russia on the World Stage: Energy, Eurasia, and U.S.-Russian Relations"

This lecture in memory of Henry and Merwin Bayer is sponsored by Virginia Bayer and Rabbi Robert Hirt, Friends of ISS.


Wednesday October 18th, 2006, 4:00PM, MacMillan Center (Luce Hall) Auditorium
Godfrey Hodgson, Journalist, Historian, and Biographer, "Colonel Edward M. House: Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand Man"

Sponsored by the International Affairs Council and International Security Studies.


Tuesday October 17th, 2006, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Michael Morgan, Department of History, Yale University, "The Anatomy of Liberal Interventionism"

Part of the ISS Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Tuesday October 17th, 2006, 12:00AM, 8 Prospect Place, Room 119
Prof. David Rousseau, University of Albany, "Identifying Threats and Threatening Identities: The Social Construction of Realism and Liberalism"

Part of the International Relations Workshop. Co-sponsored by ISS.

Lunch will be served.


Thursday October 12th, 2006, 4:30PM, William L. Harkness Hall, Room 119
Frederick Kagan, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, "The Permanent Revolution: Institutionalizing Military Transformation Lessons from Gerhard von Scharnhorst and the 19th-Century Prussian Army"

Part of the ISS Grand Strategy Lecture Series.


Wednesday October 11th, 2006, 4:30PM, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 101
Mary Habeck, Johns Hopkins University; Frederick Kagan, American Enterprise Institute; Roman Martinez, Yale Law School; Michael Rubin, American Enterprise Institute; and Vance Serchuk, Yale Law School and American Enterprise Institute, Roundtable on “The War on Terror: Past, Present, and Future.”


Thursday October 5th, 2006, 4:30PM, William L. Harkness Hall, Room 119
Michael Green, Japan Chair, Center for International and Strategic Studies, and Former Director of Asian Affairs, National Security Council (2004-2005), "Asian Security Trends"

Sponsored by ISS and the Project on Japan-U.S. Relations.


Wednesday October 4th, 2006, 4:30PM, Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208
Jessica Faieta, Yale World Fellow and Aide to Mark Malloch Brown, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations, "U.N. Reform: How Far Have We Come?"


Tuesday October 3rd, 2006, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Elizabeth Saunders, Department of Political Science, Yale University, "Wars of Choice: Leadership, Threat Perception, and Military Interventions"

Part of the ISS Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Thursday September 28th, 2006, 4:30PM, Faculty Room, Connecticut Hall
Arthur Waldron, Lauder Professor of International Relations, University of Pennsylvania, "Can an Open China Remain Communist? Policy Implications"

Part of the ISS Grand Strategy Lecture Series.


Thursday September 21st, 2006, 4:30PM, Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211
Paul Kennedy, J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Director, International Security Studies, "HMS Dreadnought and the Tides of History"


Tuesday September 19th, 2006, 11:45AM, Allwin Hall, Room 108, 31 Hillhouse Avenue
Haydon Cherry, Department of History, Yale University, "Archaeology and Nation-Building in Communist Vietnam"

Part of the ISS Colloquium in International History and Security.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to: ISS


Sunday July 23rd, 2006, 11:00AM, Saybrook College Courtyard
The Ivy Scholars Program 2006

The program begins July 23 and ends August 6. Registration will be on Sunday, July 23, from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

For information, follow the above link.




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