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The Speakers Program

The Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense is an interdisciplinary undergraduate program that uses both a humanistic and a social science approach to examine fundamental issues of peace and war. The Curriculum hopes to engage the campus community in discussions on the complexity of human conflict, the importance of a theoretical and factual basis for progress in reducing conflict and aggression, and the need for realistic appraisals of the requirements of national security and defense. As part of its educational mission, the Curriculum also sponsors speakers for the campus audience and for the wider community. The PWAD program, which it shares with the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, (TISS) is part of this effort.

The Speakers Program provides, at no cost, faculty and other specialists to offer timely information on issues of international security. In the post-Cold War world, news concerning international security can be bewildering, complex, and overwhelming, yet few areas demand more informed analysis and discussion by thoughtful and informed citizens.

Chris Armitage
Dept. of English, UNC-CH

  • Canadian-American Relations

Bill Balthrop
Dept. of Communication Studies, UNC-CH

  • Conflict in Northern Ireland
  • Rhetoric and U.S. Foreign Policy
  • Rhetoric, Myth, and Culture as Influences on International Conflict

Samuel Baron
Emeritus, Dept. of History, UNC-CH

  • Whither the Former Soviet Union
  • Russian-American Relations

Jerrold Berke
Retired United Nations Official

  • The UN and the US in World Affairs: Room Enough for Two?
  • Development, Peace, and War: The UN and Development Assistance
  • The UN: Organized for Peace, Is it still Relevant?

Peter Coclanis
Dept. of History, UNC-CH

  • Technology and American Economic Growth
  • America's Economic Competitiveness
  • The Economic Impact of the American Civil War
  • Hong Kong: The Transition

William N. Dale
Ambassador, U.S. Foreign Service (ret.)

  • Why We Should Support the United Nations
  • US Middle East Policy and Peace
  • Lester Pearson: a Statesman for Peace
  • Three Ambassadors Who Changed US Foreign Policy: Loy Henderson, Llewelyn Thompson, and Sol Linowitz

Cori Dauber
Dept. of Communication Studies, UNC-CH

  • Lessons of Vietnam & Public Discourse on the Use of Force
  • Media Coverage of the Gulf War

Jeffrey M. Elliot
Dept. of Political Science, NCCU

  • The Third World and the New World Order in the 1990's
  • Third World Militaries: New Suppliers of Deadlier Weapons
  • Restructuring NATO after the Cold War
  • Fidel Castro: The Man, The Myth, and Washington's Hard Line
  • The Politics of Conflict Resolution

Peter Feaver
Dept. of Political Science, Duke Univ.

  • The Coming Anarchy: Facing Non-traditional Security Threats
  • US Foreign & Defense Policy
  • US Civil-Military Relations
  • Managing Nuclear Proliferation
  • Politics of the Use of Force

David Griffiths
Dept. of History, UNC-CH

  • What Ever Happened to Communism?
  • The Strange Career of Marxism-Leninism
  • Russia: where is it headed?

Peter B. Guild
Lt. Col US Army (ret.)

  • Riding Custer's Luck: A Personal Account with Slides of the 4th Squadron, 7th Cavalry in Operation Desert Storm

Nicolae Hirsanyi
Slavic,Eurasian,& East European Studies, UNC-CH

  • Ethnic Minorities and Conflicts in the Balkans

Ole Holsti
Dept. of Political Science, Duke Univ.

  • U.S. Foreign Policy
  • Domestic Aspects of U.S. Foreign Policy
  • Public Opinion and Foreign Policy

Laura A. Janda
Dept. of Slavic Studies, UNC-CH

  • Languages and People of Central & Eastern Europe
  • Language Change and Cognition
  • The History and Development of Slavic Languages and Cultures
  • The Czech Republic: its current situation
  • Czech Vernacular versus Literary Czec and "Ebonics" versus Standard English: parallels

Curtis Jones
United States Foreign Service (ret).

  • The Middle East
  • US Foreign Policy Formulation and Implementation
  • Intelligence Techniques and Utilization
  • Terrorism

Richard H. Kohn
Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense

  • Civilian Control of the Military in the United States
  • The Medal of Honor Award to Black Soldiers of World War II

Henry Landsberger
Dept. of Sociology, UNC-CH

  • The Israelis and Palestinians: Prospects for Living Together

Richard Lewis
European Union Fellow, Duke Univ.

  • The European Union
  • European Security
  • Common Foreign and Security Problems

Catherine Lutz
Dept. of Anthropology, UNC-CH

  • The Anthropological Study of War and Peace
  • What's Wrong with Human Nature Arguments for War?
  • The Missing Body in Warfare

Henry E. Mattox
United States Foreign Service (ret.)

  • The Nature and Practice of Diplomacy: A Historical Overview
  • The Foreign Service of the United States: Past, Present, and Future
  • US Presidents, Military Service, and the Electorate
  • Sports and National Identity: Waging Football

Timothy McKeown
Dept. of Political Science, UNC-CH

  • The Political of International Trade
  • The Politics of North-South Relations
  • The Political Economy of Military Spending
  • The History of US Aid to Less Developed Countries

Roy Melbourne
United States Foreign Service (ret.)

  • U.S. Evolution of the National Security Process
  • The Cold War Begins
  • National Cultures, and Foreign Affairs

Eric Mlyn
Director of Burch Programs

  • The Clinton Foreign Policy
  • The Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy

Julius Nyang'oro
African/Afro-American Studies, UNC-CH

  • Africa-Related Topics: Democratization and Development,Ethnicity,Regional Security
  • Peacekeeping in Africa

James Parker, Jr.
Retired CIA Officer and Author

  • The CIA and Challenges to the U.S. Intelligence Community in the 21st Century
  • Organization and Mission of the CIA
  • Vietnam: A Personal Account, 1965-1975
  • The CIA Paramilitary Program in Laos: A Significant Sideshow to the War in Vietnam

Douglas C. Peifer
Post-Doctoral Fellow, TISS

  • The German Military after Unification
  • Somalia, Bosnia, and the German Response

Carolyn Pumphrey
Post-Doctoral Fellow, TISS

  • Restraints on War in the Middle Ages

Alex Roland
Dept. of History, Duke University

  • Defense Spending after the Cold War
  • The Blessings of Nuclear Weapons
  • America's Future in Space

Scott L. Silliman
Director for Center on Law,Ethics,& National Security

  • Operational Law and the Law of War
  • National Security Law

Glenn Snyder
Emeritus, Dept. of Political Science,UNC-CH

  • Alliances After the Cold War
  • The Future of NATO

Russel Van Wyk
Dept. of History, UNC-CH

  • German Intelligence in the West 1914-1933
  • Historical Memory and Bosnia

James White
Dept. of Political Science, UNC-CH

  • Japanese Foreign Policy/International Behavior
  • U.S.-Japan Economic Relations
  • Security in the North Pacific/Northeast Asia

Peter D. Whitney
Diplomat in Residence, Center for International Studies, Duke Univ.

  • Foreign Service Careers, Internships, and Opportunities
  • The Menem Revolution: From Crisis to Reform in Argentina
  • The Latin American Economic Revolution
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