International Relations Lectures - BYU Kennedy Center

U.S. Foreign Assistance: Why We Do It; Why It Matters; New Approaches

Aaron H. Sherinian, managing director, Public Affairs, Department of Congressional and Public Affairs, Millennium Challenge Corporation

Ossetia in Perspective: Georgia Plays Russian Roulette

Dodge Billingsley, producer/director, Combat Films & Research

Democracy and the Middle East: A View from Damascus

Sadik J. Al-Azm, visiting lecturer, Princeton University, and emeritus professor of modern European philosophy, University of Damascus

Powers to Lead

Joseph Nye, dean, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

National Security and the 2008 Presidential Election

Loch K. Johnson, author and professor of political science, University of Georgia

Carbon Trading: Solution to Climate Change or Corporate Resource Grab?

Larry Lohmann, author and founding member of the Durban Group for Climate Justice

A Global Perspective on Press Freedom Issues

Kyu Ho Youm, Jonathan Marshall First Amendment Chair, University of Oregon

Do Nuclear Weapons Promote Peace?

Robert Rauchhaus, assistant professor of political science professor, University of California—Santa Barbara

Women in Leadership

Swanee Hunt, director, Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government

Competition Between Giants: The EU as a 'New' Global Power

Birol Yeşilada, professor of political science and international studies, Portland State University

WomanStats Database

Valerie Hudson, professor of political science

U.S. Immigration, Perspectives from a U.S. Foreign Service Officer

Alexander Hawkes, vice consul, U.S. Embassy Guadalajara, Mexico

Actions Speak Louder than Words: Creating Experiences in a Global Marketplace

Christopher Liechtypresident and creative directorMeyer & Liechty

Islamic Nationalist Movements, Al-Qaeda, and the Global War on Terror

Kent Schull, visiting professor of history, BYU

Trafficking in Persons: A Modern-Day Form of Slavery

Rebecca E. Billings, G/TIP programs coordinator, Asia and Pacific Region, U.S. Department of State

Traveling with the Secretary of State

Rebecca E. Billings, G/TIP programs coordinator, Asia and Pacific Region, U.S. Department of State

From Bullets to Ballots: U.S. Economic Assistance to Iraq

Susan Merrill, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Mysteries of the Dead Cities: Early Christian Sites in Syria

Maamoun Abdul Karim, professor of archaeology, University of Damascus

Public Diplomacy and Soft Power: Governments, People and Foreign Policy

Nicholas Cull, professor and director of the master’s program in public diplomacy, USC Center on Public Diplomacy

The Jewish Priesthood of Christ in the Syriac Tradition

David G.K. Taylor, fellow and vicegerent of Wolfson College, Oxford, and university lecturer in Aramaic and Syriac

Syria's Cult of the Dead: Qatna (Syria) in the Second Millennium B.C.

Michel Maqdissi, director of archaeological sites, Department of Antiquities, Syria

Vice President Cheney and the Global War on Terror

Darren G. Hawkins, Donna Lee Bowen, Ralph C. Hancock, Scott Cooper, BYU Political Science Faculty

Intelligence, Military, and Congress: How to apply IR and Middle East Studies

Mark Morrison, deputy chief of staff to Senator Robert F. Bennett

Bagram to Baghdad: Five Years Covering the War on Terror

Dodge Billingsley, Documentary film producer and director

The Outlook for Energy in Canada and the United States: Challenges and Opportunities

Honorable Greg Melchin, Minister of Seniors and Community Supports, and Former Minister of Energy, in the Government of Alberta

Asia-Pacific Security

Eni F.H. Faleomavaega, American Samoa Representative to the U.S. Congress

Iraq and Vietnam: Lessons Learned and Mislearned

Robert Schulzinger, director, International Affairs Program, and College Professor of Distinction of History and International Affairs, Editor-in-Chief, Diplomatic History, University of Colorado

Challenges to Democratization in Latin America

Mitchell A. Seligson, Centennial Professor of Political Science and Fellow of the Center for the Americas, Vanderbilt University

U.S. Nuclear Weapons and Nonproliferation: Dispelling the Myths

Kerry M. Kartchner, foreign affairs advisor, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Advanced Systems and Concepts Office

EU and the Global Economy

Kyle A. Galler, directorate-general, General Secretariat of the Council of the EU

Diplomacy: Representing America

Casey H. Christensen, counselor for political affairs, U.S. Embassy, Stockholm, Sweden

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Valerie M. Hudson, Professor of Political Science

The Holocaust and the New Catholic Conscience

Suzanne Brown-Fleming, senior program officer, U.S. Holocaust Museum, Washington, D.C.

Securing Japan in a Dangerous Neighborhood

Richard J. Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science and Center for International Studies director, MIT

The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity

Philip Jenkins, Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies

Q&A: The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity

Philip Jenkins, Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies

Endgame in the Balkans

Elizabeth Pond, journalist and Transatlantic Internationale Politik editor

The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity

Book of the Semester Panel Discussion: Ted Lyon, panel chair, Latin American studies coordinator, and professor of Spanish; Paul Y. Hoskisson, Richard L. Evans Chair of Religious Understanding; Roger R. Keller, professor of Church history and doctrine; Richard N. Holzapfel, associate professor of church history and doctrine; and Mark L. Grover, Africa and Latin America subject specialist, Harold B. Lee Library

Secularization and its Discontents

Vincent P. Pecora, Gordon B. Hinckley Professor of British Literature and Culture, University of Utah

Protecting Soft Targets—Marriott International's Approach to Mitigating the Terrorist Threat

J. Alan Orlob, vice president of corporate security and loss prevention, Marriott International Lodging

Contemporary Issues Affecting International Religious Freedom

Elizabeth A. Sewell, associate director, BYU International Center for Law and Religion Studies

Global Hotspots—Images and Ideas

Ruth Fremson, Pulitzer prize-winning photographer, NYT

The Role of Religion in 21st Century Warfare

Father Mark Sargent, Catholic and Muslim relations in southwestern Ontario, Canada

International Law and the Use of Force: A New Analytical Approach

Davis Brown, attorney and a visiting scholar, George Washington University Law School

Marketing Fundamentals for Foreign Businesses

Dale Thompson, marketing vice president and bakery brand co-leader.

The Baltic Challenge

His Excellency Vygaudas Usackas, Lithuanian Ambassador to the U.S., His Excellency Maris Riekstins, Latvian Ambassador to the U.S., and Judith Kelley, assistant professor of political science, Duke University, and author of Ethnic Politics in Europe.

Utah's Growing Ethnic Diversity: Ethnic Challenges and Opportunities

Yvette Donosso Diaz, executive director of Community and the Arts, Utah Governor's office.

Modern American Conflicts: Perspectives of a Veteran of Five Wars

Col. Russell H. Thaden, CGSC DJMO, Deputy Director of Intelligence, Coalition Forces in Iraq.

How to Prepare for an Overseas Career—Things They Never Tell You

John Dinkelman, deputy director, Orientation Division, Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Department of State.

From Constantinople to Jerusalem: A History of the Latter-day Saints in the Near East

Blair Van Dyke, Lone Peak seminary principal, part-time instructor, BYU.

Becoming an Active Participant in the Educational Adventure

Malcolm Miguel Botto-Wilson.

Terrorism and Personal Security

William M. (Mac) Epps, vice president, international business development, Zions Bank.

'Gloca' Languages: Critial Perspectives on Interculturality, Cosmopolitanism, and Citizenship

Manuala Guilherme, senior researcher, Center for Social Studies, University of Colmbra.

The Greater Glory: Faulkner as Cold War Ambassador to Latin America

Deborah N. Cohn, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University.

The European Constitution and the Trouble with Democracy

Craig Parsons, assistant professor of political science.

The African First World War—An International Conspiracy?

Rigobert N. Butandu.

The Politics of Oil Prices

A. Jamal Qureshi, Kennedy Center alumnus and Middle East political and oil analyst, PFC Energy, Washington D.C.

Nuclear Weapons and the Future of U.S. National Security: The Emerging Debate

Kerry M. Kartchner, foreign affairs advisor, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Advanced Systems and Concepts Office.

Recent Discoveries and Controversies in Biblical Archaeology

Randall W. Younker, professor of Old Testament and biblical archaeology and director, Institute of Archaeology, Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, Andrews University.

The Post-war History of the Japanese Yen: An International View

Hiroshi Ogai, political science professor, Keiwa College, Niigata, Japan.

New Code Words for Censorship: Modern Labels for Curbs on the Press

Mark Bench, Executive Director of World Press Freedom Committee.

Transformation Strategy: Leadership and Profitability

L. Todd Budge, president and CEO of Tokyo Star Bank, Ltd.

I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go: Managing Security Risks Worldwide

J. Gregory Dunn, managing director of security for the Church.

Students for International Development: Presidential Election Faculty Panel Discussion

Chad Emmit; Lynn England; Jim Curl; Ted Lyon, and Ralph Brown.

Muscles from Brussels?: The European Union as a Global Actor

Nicholas Whyte, Europe program director, International Crisis Group in Brussels.

U.S. Foreign Service

Stephen A. Guice, U.S. Embassy, Kazakhstan.

Socially Engaged Spirituality

Sulak Sivaraksa, prominent and outspoken Thai intellectual.

Utah's Cultural and Ethnic Diversities

Phillip Notarianni, Utah Historical Society director.

Why Is the United States so Ambivalent About International Human Rights?

Father Robert F. Drinan, Georgetown University Law Center.

Comparative Research and Public Policy

Jose Joaquin Brunner, Government School graduate studies coordinator, Adolfo Ibanez University, Chile.

Chemical and Biological Weapons of Proliferation

David Allen, chemical/biological analyst, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. State Department.

American Primacy and Anti-Americanism in World Politics

Peter Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. professor of political science, Cornell University.

Book of the Semester Panel Discussion

Sally Barlow, professor of psychology, John Tanner, professor of English, Valerie Hudson, professor of political science, and Brian Hauglid, assistant professor of ancient scripture.

Entrepreneurship as Ethics: Implications for Policy

Robert G. Crawford, professor of business management, BYU.

Missile Defense and the Bush Administration's Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction

Kerry M. Kartchner, U.S. Department of State.

Perspectives on Community Aid

Jan Van Orman, assistant international vice president, BYU

Bare Branches: Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population

Valerie M. Hudson, professor of political science, BYU

Ethics and International Affairs: A Personal Journey

Stan A. Taylor, professor of political science, BYU

Islamic Mysticism

William C. Chittick, professor of comparative studies, State University of New York—Stony Brook

The Victors and the Vanquished: Liberal Dilemmas and the Ending of Wars

Andrew Williams, professor of politics and international relations, Rutherford College, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK

The Koran in Muslim Everyday Life

Abdullahi A. Gallab, assistant professor of communications, Hiram College, Ohio

Temple Building in the Most Ancient Near East and in the Bible

Richard E. Averbeck, professor of Old Testament and Semitic languages, Trinity International University

Preemptive Strikes: The Temptation and the Peril

Peter Dombrowski, associate professor of strategic research, U.S. Naval War College

The Sorbian Language in Germany: A Mother Tongue with No Fatherland

Randall L. Jones, professor of German, BYU

International Commercialization of University Intellectual Property

Leon Przybyla, associate director of technology transfer, BYU

Democracy and the Middle East

Azzedine Layachi, associate professor of government and politics, St. John's University

A Critique of Bernard Lewis' What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

Mohammad Eissa, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan

Pablo Neruda's Poetics of Nature

George B. Handley, Latin American studies coordinator, David M. Kennedy Center, and associate professor of humanities, BYU

Radical Religion and the Origins of Modern Political Organizations

Richard Y. Duerden, associate professor of English, BYU

The Macro Effects of Micromorality: Legal Law, Moral Law, and the Rights-based Approach

Scott Loveless, professor of law, BYU

Literacy in Ancient Israel

Aaron Demsky, associate professor and director of Project for the Study of Jewish Names, Bar-Ilan University, and head of Hebrew names, World Congress of Jewish Studies

The Role of a State in International Relations

His Excellency Jargalsaikhany Enkhsaikhan, Mongolian Ambassador to the UN

Challenges and Opportunities of Global HR

Lizbeth M. Claus

Abkhazia

R. Dodge Billingsley, independent film producer and director, Combat Films and Research

Africa Matters for the United States

Aubrey Hooks, special coordinator for the African Crisis Initiative and former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo

Estrada Impeachment

Senator Francisco S. Tatad, Senate Majority Leader, Republic of Philippines

Harmonizing Religious Liberties with Cultural Traditions and Values

Samuel P. Huntington, professor at Harvard University, author, the Clash of Civilizations

International Relations in Europe

David P. Called, professor of European Studies, Johns Hopkins University

The Politics of International Trade Negotiations

Lew Cramer, Director General of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

Paradox of Security, Paradox of Peace

Robert C. North, professor of political science, Stanford University

U.S. Anti–Terrorism Policy

Gregory A. Raymond, professor of political science, Boise State University