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Time for a Revival of Disarmament?
Hans Blix, Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission.
Posted: 4/3/2008
Burkle Center Senior Fellow Gen. Clark on the Future of NATO
Newsweek, March 24, 2008
Posted: 3/24/2008
Danish Ambassador Touts 'Dangerous' Example
How Denmark stays progressive, pro-U.S., and thoroughly multilateral, as explained by Ambassador Friis Arne Petersen, the country's top representative in Washington.
Posted: 3/14/2008
Blind Eye in Burma
Multinational corporations that partner with the Burmese military and military-led government share the responsibility for human rights abuses, argue two representatives of EarthRights International at UCLA.
Posted: 3/12/2008
Hungry for Practical Approaches, Students Attend 'Rogue States' Policy Gathering
Students at the Burkle Center's March 11 conference add their voices to the debate over how best to wield the tools of foreign policy when dealing with governments seen as U.S. adversaries.
Posted: 3/12/2008
Bill Richardson: Personal Relationships at Heart of Diplomacy
Listen to the New Mexico governor's March 11 keynote address at UCLA on "U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Rogue States," a conference organized by the Burkle Center. Richardson says the "bad guys" of international relations often crave recognition from the United States and respond to personal connections.
Posted: 3/4/2008
Bill Richardson to Keynote March 11 Conference
UCLA event on "Rogue States" features Gen. Wesley K. Clark and other foreign policy experts.
Posted: 3/3/2008
Former Bugandan PM: National Land Policy Needed
Uganda needs a national land policy that ends legalized seizures of territory, former Bugandan Prime Minister (Katikkiro) Daniel Muliika tells a UCLA audience in this podcast.
Posted: 2/26/2008
How America Can Cope with the Rise of Asia
Asia's most famous diplomat, Kishore Mahbubani, has been going around the world outlining just why the United States needs to pay attention to Asia.
Posted: 2/22/2008
Gen. Clark: U.S. Response to "Rogue" States
At the Burkle Center's 2008 Annual Conference, "Rogue States: Engage, Isolate or Strike?", Burkle Senior Fellow Wesley K. Clark, other prominent leaders, analysts, diplomats, and academics explored the way the United States responds to countries that constitute a threat to the security of their neighbors and the world. This video features Gen. Clarks response.
Posted: 2/21/2008
Can People Power Change Kenya?
Resolving the election crisis of 2007-08 is one thing, argues GRCA Research Associate Stephen Ndegwa, and addressing underlying injustices is quite another. Ndegwa and an engaged UCLA audience debate the likelihood of significant change from below.
Posted: 2/14/2008
Blackwater and Democracy
Americans are not less sensitive to the deaths of private soldiers in wars than they are to those of regular U.S. troops, UC-Irvine political scientist Deborah Avant and a colleague discovered. But the use of security contractors in combat zones has other implications for a democracy, she tells a UCLA audience. Listen to a podcast of her talk.
Posted: 2/7/2008
Why US Spy Agencies Failed to Adapt
Former CIA agent Larry Johnson interviews Amy Zegart, an associate professor in the UCLA School of Public Affairs and a Burkle Center senior fellow, on her recent book "Spying Blind: The CIA, The FBI, and the Origins of 9/11." Watch the video, produced by UCLA Spotlight.
Posted: 1/14/2008
Making Sense of Osama
A daylong conference recently attempted to clear some of the fog surrounding the real Osama bin Laden, who, if he's still alive, turns 50 this month. Titled "Jihadi Islam," the Nov. 13 event was sponsored by the Center for Near Eastern Studies and held at the UCLA Faculty Center.
Posted: 12/18/2007
Panels Assess Prospects on Korea Peace Day
One scholar says the United States needs to adopt an approach that allows North and South Korea to normalize relations quickly.
Posted: 12/10/2007
Last US Ambassador to USSR Makes Case for Cooperation
Ambassador Jack Matlock says that, on the most pressing global issues, the United States still needs Russia. Speaking ahead of parliamentary elections, he calls U.S. discussion of Putin's autocratic tendencies "overblown."
Posted: 12/4/2007
Hope, Economic Transformation in Iraqi Marshlands
Peter Reiss, director of a USAID program to restore the world's second-largest wetlands, explains how Saddam Hussein's drainage of the area has altered an ancient culture.
Posted: 11/28/2007
Al-Qaeda and Anarchism: A Historian's Reply to Terrorology
A lecture by James Gelvin, UCLA, delivered at the conference/workshop on Jihadi Islam held at the UCLA Faculty Center on Tuesday, November 13, 2007.
Posted: 11/27/2007
Jihad in Modern Shi'a Thought
A lecture by Rola El-Husseini, Texas A and M University, delivered at the conference/workshop on Jihadi Islam held at the UCLA Faculty Center on Tuesday, November 13, 2007.
Posted: 11/27/2007
The Wahhabi Factor in Jihadi Islam
A lecture by David Dean Commins, Dickinson College, delivered at the conference/workshop on Jihadi Islam held at the UCLA Faculty Center on Tuesday, November 13, 2007.
Posted: 11/27/2007
Why Invasion is the Wrong Answer to Turkey's Problems by Gen. Clark
Financial Times, Nov. 15, 2007
Posted: 11/16/2007
Panel Speaks on Oil Politics
The panel featured journalist Steve LeVine and discussion centered around oil in the Caspian region, where LeVine spent 11 years reporting. [The event was sponsored by the UCLA Center for International Business Education & Research and cosponsored with the UCLA International Institute and the Center for European and Eurasian Studies, among others.]
Posted: 11/7/2007
The Gifts of the Tibetans: Sparking New Directions in the Arts and Sciences
In the last of three events aimed at establishing a UCLA endowed chair in Tibetan Buddhist studies, Columbia University's Robert Thurman says that Tibetan perspectives are, or at least ought to be, very much at home in the university. Listen to a podcast of his talk.
Posted: 11/6/2007
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