Monthly Archives: February 2009

Marc Ross wins award for latest book

At the 2009 International Studies Association in New York, Marc Ross’s recent book, Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict (Cambridge University Press)  received the Best Book Award in Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration from the Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration Studies Section.
Here is a link to the book on the publisher’s web site: http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521690324

Kaufmann on partition

Chaim Kaufmann, from Lehigh University’s International Relations department, spoke at Asch on February 24th.  Here is a brief summary:
Academia, human rights organizations, and governments agree: partition is no solution to communal conflict. Indeed partition is just another name for ethnic cleansing   Chaim Kaufmann has a radically different view, based on years of study of dozens [...]

Political Radicalization: Are We Winning the War of Ideas Against Jihadi Terrorism?

President Jane Dammen McAuliffe
cordially invites you to a lecture by
The Rachel Hale Professor in
Science and Mathematics
Clark R. McCauley
“Political Radicalization:
Are We Winning the War of Ideas
Against Jihadi Terrorism?”
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
4 p.m.
Thomas 110 - Bryn Mawr College

Reception to follow in The London Room, Thomas Hall
Clark McCauley uses a pyramid model of radicalization to argue that sympathy [...]

Asch director Clark McCauley’s essay on the Psychology of Terrorism, for the Social Science Research Council, has recently been translated into Arabic by Abdullah Housein.

Chaim Kaufmann on Iraq after U.S. occupation

Expectations for what will happen if U.S. troops leave Iraq on schedule in 2011 range from a functioning federal Iraq to a client state of Iran to an even larger civil war to genocide. These expectations are based on different understandings of Iraq’s path from the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in April 2003 [...]

Sri Lankan War Nears End, but Peace Remains Distant

Asch Summer Fellow Alan Keenan, who lives in Colombo and works for the International Crisis Group, is quoted in a February 18 New York Times article by Thomas Fuller.

TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka — Just north of here, after a string of recent victories, the Sri Lankan military is closing in on separatist rebels in what it [...]

Stephen Zunes at Swarthmore College, Feb 19

Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco will deliver a talk, “After the Gaza War: Human Rights, International Law, and U.S. Policy toward Israel and Palestine,” on February 19, 2009 at 4:15 in Upper Tarble (Clothier).
Dr. Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the [...]

Insider information on the Gaza War

The author of this Jerusalem Post column is Gershon Baskin, Co-CEO of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information. Excerpt:

Several weeks ago I wrote that the war in Gaza “may have really been a ‘war of no choice.’” Following the recent leaks from the talks about the “imminent” release of Gilad Schalit, I have decided [...]

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