The relaunching of a Global Security Seminar Series at the Watson Institute in 2012-2013 is part of an effort to expand the Institute's engagement with pressing contemporary security issues and policy debates. Bridging the divide between academia and the policy world, the series includes prominent security scholars, journalists, and practitioners.
Past Events
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 David Rhode '90 -- Beyond War: Technology, Economic Growth, and American Influence in a New Middle East
Thursday, February 7, 2013 Daniel Deudney -- The Sky is the Limit: The Errors and Dangers of Space Expansionism
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 UN Sanctions: Are Coercive Tools Effective?
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Stephen Flynn -- Coping with Disasters and Terrorism: The Case for Building Societal Resilience
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 Tim Weiner -- Book Talk & Signing -- ENEMIES: The FBI at War
Wednesday, September 26, 2012 Stephen M. Walt -- International Studies and the Public Sphere: Some Personal Reflections
Thursday, September 13, 2012 Elisabeth Wood -- Wartime Rape: How It Happens, When It Doesn't
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 Francis J. 'Bing' West -- Why Iraq Turned Around, & What It Means for Afghanistan
Thursday, November 15, 2007 Taylor Seybolt -- Protecting Civilians During Wartime
Thursday, February 8, 2007 Anders Kruse -- Understanding European Foreign Policy: EU Decision-Making and Sanctions against North Korea and Iran
Thursday, May 4, 2006 Whose Capitalism is Crony? Competing Explanations of Corporate Governance the World Around
Tuesday, May 2, 2006 Tactics of Surveillant Literacy
Wednesday, April 12, 2006 'Where are human rights ...?' Reading a jihadist communiqué from Iraq
Thursday, February 16, 2006 US Overseas Military Bases and Democratic Change: The Limits of Engagement
Monday, November 7, 2005 Critical Global Policy Studies Seminar
Tuesday, November 1, 2005 The Proliferation Security Initiative: A Regime by Any Other Name
Thursday, October 27, 2005 From Old Wars to New Wars and Global Terrorism
Thursday, April 14, 2005 The Paradox of War: The Social Construction of Destruction.
Thursday, March 17, 2005 Spiritual Insecurity and the Cultural Dynamics of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in South Africa
Thursday, February 17, 2005 Why the United States is Targeted by Terrorism
Tuesday, May 4, 2004 Peter Andreas?Redrawing the Line: Borders and Security in the 21st Century
Thursday, April 22, 2004 Princeton Lyman?Religion, Poverty and Failed States: The Security Threat in Africa
Tuesday, April 13, 2004 James Lindsay?America Unbound CANCELLED
Thursday, April 8, 2004 Lawrence Scheinman?Changing Dimensions of Nuclear Proliferation: Challenge and Response
Thursday, March 25, 2004 Lene Hansen?Security as Discourse: Theoretical Advances and Methodological Challenges
Tuesday, March 16, 2004 David Sylvan?Too Soon to Tell: The Long-Term Effectiveness of Great Power Intervention
Tuesday, February 17, 2004 Herbert Kelman?Adventures in Interactive Problem Solving
Thursday, February 12, 2004 Annick Wibben?Human Security: Concept or Strategy?
Tuesday, February 10, 2004 Katherine H.S. Moon?Sex and Allies Revisited
Thursday, February 5, 2004 Karen Smith?International Security After the Iraqi War: Perspectives from an Enlarging European Union
Tuesday, February 3, 2004 James Der Derian?The State of the Discipline after 9/11
Thursday, December 4, 2003 Sean Molloy?Freud, Nietzsche, and the War on Terror
Thursday, November 20, 2003 Andrew Hurrell?The Empire of Insecurity: Imperialism, Justice and Security
Thursday, November 6, 2003 Hayward Alker?Twentieth Century World Order Debates: From Geopolitics to Biopolitics
Tuesday, October 28, 2003 J. Anne Tickner?Feminist Methodological Perspectives of Human (In)security
Tuesday, October 21, 2003 Joseph Cirincione?Weapons, War, and Strategy: Nuclear Proliferation Policy in the Bush Administration
Thursday, October 9, 2003 Fernando Cardoso?Democracy and Security
Thursday, September 25, 2003 Critical Issues in Global Security
Wednesday, April 23, 2003 Raymond Cohen?Israel and Terrorism: A Balance Sheet Since 9.28
Wednesday, April 9, 2003 Timothy D. Hoyt?The Impact of the War on Terrorism on Regional Politics in South Asia
Monday, March 31, 2003 Gail W. Lapidus?Is the War in Chechnya a War Against Terrorism?
Wednesday, February 26, 2003 Catherine Kelleher—Are the U.S. and Europe Growing Apart? A Look at the Challenges of Global Security and Terrorism
Wednesday, February 12, 2003 Jessica Stern?What Terrorists Say
Thursday, April 11, 2002 John Mueller—The Remnants of War: Thugs as Residual Combatants
Wednesday, February 13, 2002 Phil Williams—Transnational Criminal and Terrorist Networks
