EPIIC 2012 Syllabus
EPIIC 2011-12
Conflict in the 21st Century
EXP 91F
SYLLABUS
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Orientation to EPIIC 2011-12
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Tuesday, September 13
Killing the Cranes
Guest Lecturer: Edward Girardet
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Thursday, September 15
Guest Lecturer: Justine Hardy
Listen to the class lecture.
Listen to the evening lecture.
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Tuesday, September 20
Guest Lecturers: Yair Hirschfeld and Samih Al-Abed
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Thursday, September 22
Guest Lecturer: Ervin Staub
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Tuesday, September 27
Guest Lecturer: Kemal Kerkuki
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Thursday, September 29
No Class
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Tuesday, October 4
Exam 1
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Thursday, October 6
Guest Lecturer: Daniel Drezner
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Tuesday, October 11
Guest Lecturer: Lowell Schwartz
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Wednesday, October 12 and Thursday, October 13
“Non-Proliferation in the Middle East”
Guest Lecturer: Eli Levite
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Friday, October 14
“Counterinsurgency” Brown-bag lunch
Guest Lecturer: Dave Kilcullen
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Tuesday, October 18
Guest Lecturer: Brittany Gleixner-Hayat
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Thursday, October 20
Guest Lecturer: William Martel
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Tuesday, October 25
“Conflict in Nigeria: Resources, Religion and Youth”
Guest Lecturers: Samuel James and Darren Kew
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Thursday, October 27
“Arab Spring”
Guest Lecturer: Vali Nasr Brownbag lunch
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Thursday, October 27
Guest Lecturers: Physicians for Human Rights
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Tuesday, November 1
“Covering Conflict”
Guest Lecturer: Gary Knight
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Thursday, November 3
Guest Lecturer: Yvonne Wakeford, IRB
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Tuesday, November 8
No Class, Friday Schedule
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Thursday, November 10
Midterm
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Tuesday, November 15
“Counterterrorism and the National Security Council”
Guest Lecturer: Audrey Tomason
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Wednesday, November 16
"The Afghan Solution"
Guest Lecturer: Lucy Morgan Edwards
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Thursday, November 17
"Winning the War on War : The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide"
Guest Lecturer: Joshua Goldstein
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Tuesday, November 22
"Peru"
Guest Lecturer: Peter Winn
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Thursday, November 25
No class, Thanksgiving
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Tuesday, November 29
"21st Century Security Paradigm"
Guest Lecturer: Richard Shultz
Director, International Security Studies Program
Professor of International Politics
The Fletcher School
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Thursday, December 1
"Sudan"
Guest Lecturer: Alex de Waal
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Tuesday, December 6
"Afghanistan"
Guest Lecturer: Pashtoon Atif
Guest Lecturer: Colonel William Ostund
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Thursday, December 8
Simulation based on Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
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Welcome Back! Spring Semester begins!
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Guest Lecturer: William Moomaw
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Film Series: Battle of Algiers, introduced by Hugh Roberts
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Individual meetings with Lucas Kello.
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Panel Discussion: Prosecution or Peace? International Law in Conflict Zones
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Guest Lecturer: Abbas Maleki
