Speaker Topics

Below are a list of our speakers and their topics of choice. To find out more about them, click on their names.

To find out about how to line up one of the speakers, go to How the Speakers' Bureau Works.

Michael Allsep, Dept. of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

      • War and Society

      • Globalization

      • The Transformation of the American Army

Jerrold Berke, United Nations (Retired)

        • The U.N. and the U.S. in World Affairs: Room Enough for Two?

        • Development, Peace, and War: The U.N. and Development Assistance

        • The U.N.: Organized for Peace, Is it still Relevant?

Jonathan Berkey, Dept. of History, Davidson College

        • Islam

        • Religion and Society in the Near East

Anna Bigelow, Dept. of Philosophy and Religion, North Carolina State University

        • Islam and South Asia

        • Religion and Conflict

Frederick H. Black, U.S. Army (Retired)

        • National Security Decision Making

        • Civil- Military Relations

        • African Americans in the Military

William A. Boettcher III, Dept. of Political Science, North Carolina State University

      • U.S. Foreign Policy

      • U.S. National Security Policy

      • Homeland Security

      • Truman's Adventures Abroad: Iran, Greece, Korea

      • Kennedy's Baptism of Fire: Laos, Congo, Vietnam

      • Risk-Taking in International Relations

Joseph W. Caddell, Dept. of History, North Carolina State University

      • Pearl Harbor: A Failure of Warning

      • Air Power

      • Clausewitz

      • Nuclear Strategy and Arms Control

      • Vietnam: The Logic of Restraints

Peter Coclanis, Dept. of History, UNC-Chapel Hill

      • Technology and American Economic Growth

      • America's Economic Competitiveness

      • The Economic Impact of the American Civil War

      • Globalization and History
      • Head to Head: China vs. India

Michael Cotter, U.S. Foreign Service (Retired)

      • The Foreign Service

      • The Foreign Policy Making Process

      • Central Asia

      • Chile: Dictatorship to Democracy

      • Security and Military Assistance Programs

      • Turkey

T. Frank Crigler, Ambassador, U.S. Foreign Service (Retired)

        • The Changing Role of America's Diplomats

        • The Role of American Ambassadors in Overseas Conflict Situations

        • Conflicts in Central Africa and Somalia

Cori Dauber, Dept. of Communications Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill

      • The Media and Terrorism

      • The Military and the Media

Jeffrey M. Elliot, Dept. of Political Science, North Carolina Central University

        • The Bush Foreign Policy

        • The Politics of Terrorism

        • The U.S. - U.N. Relationship: Troubled Past, Uncertain Future

        • Fidel Castro: The Man, the Myth, and Washington's Hard Line

        • The United States and the Developing World

        • The Challenge of Globalism: A Mixed Record

Peter Furia, Dept. of Political Science, Wake Forest University

        • U.S. Foreign Policy

        • The Causes of War

Christopher Gelpi , Dept. of Political Science, Duke University

        • Civil Military Relations

        • Norms in Crisis Bargaining

        • The Use of Force

David Gilmartin, Dept. of History, North Carolina State University

      • South Asia

      • Pakistan and Water Rights

      • The Partition of India

David Griffiths, Dept. of History, UNC-Chapel Hill

      • What Ever Happened to Communism?

      • The Strange Career of Marxism-Leninism

      • Russia: Where is it Headed?

      • European Union: Why does it Matter?

Heidi Hobbs, Dept. of Political Science, North Carolina State University

      • International Law and the International Criminal Court

      • Local Responses to Globalization
      • Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals: Inequality in the Global Arena

      • The Cultural Implications of Globalization

Robert Jenkins, Dept. of Sociology, UNC-Chapel Hill

        • Post-Conflict Development and Reconstruction in the former Yugoslavia
        • International Organization and the Balkans
        • Social and Political Change in Eastern Europe and Russia

Curtis Jones, U.S. State Department (Retired)

      • The Middle East

      • Arab-Israeli Relations

      • U.S. Foreign Policy

      • The Palestine Question
      • Intelligence Techniques and Utilization
      • Terrorism

Akram Khater, International Programs, History Department, North Carolina State

University

      • Islam

      • Conflict in the Middle East

Louisa Kilgroe, Dept. of History, North Carolina State University

        • U.S. Foreign Relations

        • Sino-American Relations

        • U.S. - East Asian Relations

        • Twentieth Century U.S. History

Robin Kirk , Director, Duke's Human Rights Initiative

        • Human Rights, Drugs, and South America
        • Latin America, Human Rights and U.S. Policy
        • U.S. Human Rights Policy
        • Death Penalty

     

Richard Kohn, Dept. of History, UNC-Chapel Hill

        • Civilian Control of the Military in the United States
        • The "War" on Terror        

Henry Landsberger , Emeritus, Department of Sociology, UNC-Chapel Hill

      • The Israelis and the Palestinians: Prospects for Living Together

      • Holocaust, the Jews and Germans: 1840-2004: The Dresden as Example

Sarah K. Lischer, Dept. of Political Science and International Politics, Wake Forest

University

  • International Military Intervention, including wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Ethics on Laws of War

  • The Conflict in Darfur, Sudan

  • Humanitarian Aid, Human Rights, and the Military

  • Child Soldiers

  • Genocide

  • Refugees and International Security

 

Douglas MacLean, Dept. of Philosophy, UNC-Chapel Hill

        • Military Ethics

Timothy McKeown, Dept. of Political Science, UNC-Chapel Hill

      • The Politics of International Trade

      • The Politics of North-South Relations

      • The Political Economy of Military Spending

      • The History of US Aid to Less Developed Countries

Julius Nyang'oro, Dept. of African/Afro-American Studies and Political Science,

UNC-Chapel Hill

      • Peacekeeping in Africa

      • Globalization and African Development

      • Democratization and Development in Africa

      • Ethnicity in Africa

      • Regional Security in Africa

      • Reflections on Current Developments in U.S. - African Relations

James Peacock, Dept. of Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill

        • Southeast Asia

Carolyn Pumphrey, Dept. of History, North Carolina State University

      • 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

        • Terrorists: The New Barbarians

        • American Military Strengths and Weaknesses in Afghanistan and Iraq

David H. Schanzer, Director - Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland    

   Security, Duke University

        • Terrorism and Homeland Security

Scott L. Silliman, Center on Law, Ethics, & National Security, Duke University

School of Law

      • Military Law

      • International Humanitarian Law

      • The Law of Armed Conflict

      • National Security Law

Roland Stephen, Dept. of Political Science, North Carolina State University

      • Globalization and North Carolina

      • Economic Development

      • Europe Today: Challenges

Michael J. Struett, Dept. of Political Science, North Carolina State University

        • The International Criminal Court and other War Crimes Trials

        • The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in the United Nations System

        • The Politics of International Law

John Sylvester, Jr. , U.S. State Department (Retired)

      • Intelligence

      • Japan

      • Vietnam

      • East Asia

       

F. Peter Wagner, Dept. of Political Science, North Carolina State University

  • Romania: Historical Legacies and the Pathways to a New Europe
  • A Crisis of Europeanization? The failure of the Constitutional Treaty and the future of European integration
  • Security: Cosmopolitan and European
  • Europe and Turkey: Histories, Problems, and Perspectives
  • The Balkans after Yugoslavia: What is left of the "First Europe?"

Gerhard L. Weinberg, Emeritus, Dept. of History, UNC-Chapel Hill

      • The Future of the Armed Forces of the USA

      • Unified Germany in Europe

      • The Prospects for Peace in the Middle East

      • Research Problems in Working on World War II