
Rockin’ the Free World: How the Rock and Roll Revolution Changed America and the World
Sean Kay will present his new book which uses interviews with more than 60 American and international rock and roll performers, songwriters,...
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Guest speakers and conferences hosted by the Mershon Center covering a variety of topics.

Sean Kay will present his new book which uses interviews with more than 60 American and international rock and roll performers, songwriters,...

Considering the importance of East Asia and the seriousness of the emerging challenges in the area, it is imperative that scholars evaluate...

From 1979 to 1989, Soviets occupied Afghanistan to prevent its client state form collapsing. Currently Russia is treating Syria as a client...

Max Boot is a historian, best-selling author, and foreign-policy analyst who has been called one of the “world’s leading authorities on arme...

While the modern literature on environmental security dates back to the late 1980s, the study of climate change and security began in the mi...

What are the conditions under which public supports military intervention abroad? The research on use of force abroad has extensively focuse...

This conference is part of a series of national events examining the all-volunteer force and democracy in America. In April 2016, the Center...

This conference is part of a series of national events examining the all-volunteer force and democracy in America. In April 2016, the Center...

This conference is part of a series of national events examining the all-volunteer force and democracy in America. In April 2016, the Center...

This conference is part of a series of national events examining the all-volunteer force and democracy in America. In April 2016, the Center...

Scientists have long thought that the bizarre and fantastic world of non-locality, indeterminacy, and wave/particle duality that physicists...

Scientists have long thought that the bizarre and fantastic world of non-locality, indeterminacy, and wave/particle duality that physicists...

Scientists have long thought that the bizarre and fantastic world of non-locality, indeterminacy, and wave/particle duality that physicists...

Scientists have long thought that the bizarre and fantastic world of non-locality, indeterminacy, and wave/particle duality that physicists...

Scientists have long thought that the bizarre and fantastic world of non-locality, indeterminacy, and wave/particle duality that physicists...

Although "post-truth" became Oxford Dictionary's word of the year only in 2016, the concept is endemic to the history of Western thought, al...

During the 1960s and 1970s, a wide range of environmental activists began searching for new ways to understand and measure development. They...

President Dwight Eisenhower developed a grand strategy for waging the Cold War that can best be described as “strategic patience.” Emphasizi...

The Mershon Center invites you to a lecture and discussion in honor of John Carlarne, his contributions to both the study and practice of pe...

Election observers are an important component of transatlantic democracy promotion efforts. Prior research has sought to understand the rise...

"The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan convinced many policymakers and scholars that the United States should pull back in international affairs...

Arms are useful not only for deterrence or taking territory, but also because they influence the resolution of a set of disputed issues. It...

"The 2016 U.S. presidential election was marked by sharp contrasts between the major party candidates on domestic policies, as well as both...

"The 2016 U.S. presidential election was marked by sharp contrasts between the major party candidates on domestic policies, as well as both...

"The 2016 U.S. presidential election was marked by sharp contrasts between the major party candidates on domestic policies, as well as both...

"The 2016 U.S. presidential election was marked by sharp contrasts between the major party candidates on domestic policies, as well as both...

The judicial bodies of the World Trade Organization (WTO) operate virtually free from direct government influence. Yet they are also politic...

The study of “teen-combatants” is a growing subfield in the history of children at war, the history of war violence in general, and World Wa...

Every day the news is littered with stories about the implications of profound demographic shifts faced by the world's states and regions. F...

Sean Kay will present his new book which uses interviews with more than 60 American and international rock and roll performers, songwriters,...

Many Western analysts have been reticent to use the term civil war to describe conflict in Ukraine. The obvious harm is that the term reprod...

In the last three months of 1918 the Western Allies finally defeated the Central Powers. Over the years, historians have been divided over t...

The public’s ability to form attitudes and opinions that may guide decisions to use military force is among the most important duties of cit...

The public’s ability to form attitudes and opinions that may guide decisions to use military force is among the most important duties of cit...

For the past decade, the world has been in a modest but persistent recession of freedom and democracy. As more democracies in recent years h...

Democratic rule is maintained so long as all relevant actors in the political system comply with the institutional rules of the game – democ...

The “Report from Iron Mountain,” was published in 1967 as an alleged leaked study by an unnamed U.S. government task force regarding the “po...

Produced by soldiers and veterans, the materials through which we seek to understand war carry war’s antagonisms; they are shaped by fightin...

International humanitarian law on prisoners of war and other issues has grown extensively over the last century and a half. I lay out a gene...

In both developed and developing states, challenges to the liberal order are converging on a single main competitor, populist nationalism, w...

Regimes deal with armed groups in remarkably diverse ways: in some contexts they wage total wars of annihilation, in others they cut live-an...

How are defense cooperation and economic cooperation related? Research into this important question has focused primarily on trade and milit...

This talk considers the case of the 1975 UN International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City to discuss the ways that 1970s feminism and...

Where and when do we find the origins of today’s planetary crisis? In this lecture, Moore argues that rise of capitalism in the centuries af...

King believed that racial injustice and economic injustice have always been linked in America. Tommie Shelby takes up the race-class nexus b...

In this talk, Hurd introduces the central argument of her book, Beyond Religious Freedom. The book is a study of state-sponsored global effo...

Colin F. Camerer is the Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance and Economics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Ca...

After the Soviet Union’s dissolution, the Kura-Araks Basin became an international river basin with respect to the South Caucasus states of...

How do American Jews envision their role in the world? Are they tribal — a people whose obligations extend solely to their own? Or are they...

Why do politicians in some democracies redistribute more than in others? I examine this question in the context of particularistic economic...