The Pseudo-Democrat's Dilemma: Why Election Monitoring Became an International Norm
Monday, 01 March 2010, 12:00pm
1512 International Affairs Building
Please join the Harriman Institute for a talk by Susan Hyde.
Why did election monitoring become an international norm? Why do pseudo-democrats invite international observers, even when they are likely to be caught manipulating the election? Is election monitoring an effective tool of democracy promotion or is it simply used to legitimize electoral autocracies? Hyde explains international election monitoring with a new theory of international norm formation, and employs multiple methods to test the theory and evaluate the consequences of international pressure for democracy.
Susan Hyde is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Yale University, where she is also affiliated with the MacMillian Center and the Institute for Social and Policy Studies. Her research interests include international influences on domestic politics, elections in developing countries, international norm creation, and the use of natural and field experimental research methods. She has served as an international observer with several international organizations and has worked for the Democracy Program at The Carter Center.
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“Beauty Will Save The World!": Manifestations of Normative Femininities in Yulia Tymoshenko's Political Images”
Tuesday, 02 March 2010, 12:00pm
1219 International Affairs Building
The Ukrainian Studies Program invites you to a presentation by Dr. Oksana Kis.
Dr. Kis is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She is the author of “Women in Ukrainian Traditional Culture in the Second Half of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries” (2008). For the Spring 2010 semester, she is the Petro Jacyk Visiting scholar at Columbia University.
The event is free and open to the public. For additional information, please call 212-854-4697.
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The Role of Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century: China, Russia and the United States
Tuesday, 02 March 2010, 5:00pm–6:30pm
Room 1501 International Affairs Building
Please join the Harriman Institute and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute for the Hugh Borton and Philip E. Mosely Distinguished Lecture on Eurasia, “The Role of Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century: China, Russia and the United States.”
Presented by Morton Halperin, Senior Advisor for the Open Society Institute.
Registration is required.
Click here to register.
Media must RSVP directly to dr2260@columbia.edu
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The Future of Ukrainian Energy Development
Thursday, 04 March 2010, 12:00pm
Faculty House, Garden Room 2
Please join the Harriman Institute for a talk by:
Sergei Yermilov, Former Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine, Head of National Agency of Ukraine on Ensuring of Efficient Use of Energy Resources.
Igor Yushko, Former Minister of Finance of Ukraine, Chairman of the Board of the Bank, Sberbank.
This talk is co-sponsored by Columbia University’s Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy
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The Russian Anti-Corruption Campaign: Substance or Politics/Public Relations?
Thursday, 04 March 2010, 2:15pm
1512 International Affairs Building
Please join the Harriman Institute for a talk by Ethan Burger, Georgetown University Law Center.
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Chinese Muslims in Central Asia: A Bridge to Peace In Xinjiang? Are there lessons?
Friday, 05 March 2010, 12:00pm
1219 International Affairs Building
Please join the Harriman Institute and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute for a talk by Lifan Li, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
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Elections in Semi- Authoritarian States of Eurasia: Façade or Meaningful Competition?
Tuesday, 09 March 2010, 12:00pm
1219 International Affairs Building
Please join the Harriman Institute for a talk by our visiting scholar, Fredrik M. Sjoberg.
Mr. Sjoberg will examine district level dynamics of political competition in Central Asia and argue that it is not purely a façade, but actually a fierce battle between local elites. Incumbents lose and loyalties are being re-negotiated. Competition is indeed real and the explanation for its emergence is found in the weak coercive capacity of the state and the incentive structure for local elites.
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Russia and US: Who is the Superpower, as Measured in Yachts, Residences and Expensive Watches of the Presidents
Tuesday, 09 March 2010, 2:00pm
1219 International Affairs Building
Please join the Harriman Institute for a talk by Yulia Latynina, a Russian journalist, writer and radio host. She works at the radio station Echo of Moscow, writes for Novaya Gazeta and The Moscow Times, and has authored science fiction novels and economic thrillers criticizing Russian corruption.
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A Theory of Elitocide and Its Impact on Contemporary Understandings of the Crime of Genocide
Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 12:00pm–1:30pm
1219 International Affairs Building
Please join the Harriman Institue for a talk by Dennis Gratz, Publicist, Sarajevo, BiH Visiting Scholar, Columbia University.
In the spring of 1992 British TV reporter Michael Nicholson named the fact of elimination of several tens of prominent and leading men of Bijeljina, a town at the northeast of Bosnia and Herzegovina, elitocide. Using this term, Nicholson sought to explain semantically the events that affected in an identical and coordinated manner the higher strata of the Bosniak and Croatian local communities in northern, western, and eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Namely, in the period of just a few months Serb paramilitary formations neutralized the influence of the local Bosniak and Croatian elites (by elimination, prosecution, imprisonment or rigid social and economic isolation) that had as a consequence the destruction and disintegration of the local civilian population.
In this presentation, Gratz will examine the circumstances under which local non-Serb elites in various parts of Bosnia were eliminated, the consequences for the pre-war communities, and present a theory of elitocide, defining its main characteristics and evaluating its importance for socio-legal science. Gratz will attempt to systematize elitocide as a sociological phenomenon and a certain type of criminal behavior within genocidal projects. Gratz will argue that such a scientific classification of elitocide makes proving and differentiating genocidal and potentially genocidal crimes less difficult, and also provides the basis for research of into the consequences of such activity. Finally, an examination of the relationship between elitocide (and other specific forms of organized mass crimes such as mass rape, culturocide, urbanocide etc.) and genocidal mass murder contributes to the contemporary understanding of the crime of genocide, its reformed reception and possible solutions for its future prevention. Gratz will present what he believes to be the most important components of the elitocide theory, and point out its importance to the study of genocide, mass murder and human rights abuses, especially in the world of modern, asymmetric warfare challenges.
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Host and Guest
Thursday, 11 March 2010, 7:30pm
Miller Theater
The Harriman Institute welcomes the award-winning Washington, DC-based Synetic Theater company to Columbia University’s Miller Theatre on Thursday, March 11, 2010 for a rare New York performance of its acclaimed production Host and Guest, based on the epic poem by 19th-20th century Georgian writer Vazha Pshavela. Host and Guest centers around two Caucasian men, one Muslim and one Christian, who befriend one another in a time of war despite the harsh resistance they face from their own respective communities. The Washington Post recently named Synetic's Host and Guest one of the top five theater productions of the decade.
Proceeds from this event will support Georgian studies programming at the Harriman Institute. A limited number of tickets are available to Columbia students, faculty, staff for $25.
The performance will be followed immediately by a VIP meet-the-artists reception at Terrace in the Sky.
Details and tickets for the performance and reception are available here.
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The Ecology of the Museum Sphere in Ukraine
Tuesday, 23 March 2010, 12:00pm
1219 International Affairs Building
Please join the Harriman Institute for a lecure by Dr. Ihor Poshyvailo, Deputy Director of the National Center of Folk Culture "Ivan Honchar Museum," and Fulbright Scholar at the Smithsonian Center for Folklore and Cultural Heritage.
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Morning in Southeast Europe: New Challenges for US Policy
Thursday, 25 March 2010, 12:15pm–2:00pm
1219 International Affairs Building
Please join the Harriman Institute for a talk by:
Ambassador Robert L. Barry, Head of OSCE Mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1998-2001; US Ambassador to Indonesia, 1992-95; US Ambassador to Bulgaria, 1981-1984.
Ambassador John K. Menzies, Dean, Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University; US Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1996; Chief-of-Mission, US Office in Kosovo, 1999.
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Ex uno plures: Post-Yugoslav Cultural Spaces and Europe
Friday, 26 March 2010–Saturday, 27 March 2010
1501 International Affairs Building
The goal of this conference will be to explore post-Yugoslav cultural spaces by bringing together and facilitating dialogue between an unprecedented concentration of leading intellectuals, both from the former Yugoslav territories and from the West. Alongside opening questions of difference and commonality, the conference will also address issues such as how can the post-Yugoslav spaces—and even micro-spaces—respond to the challenges of globalization?
Participants: Davor Beganovic (University of Konstantz); Marijeta Bozovic (Columbia University); Wayles Brown (Cornell University); Gordana Crnkovic (University of Washington); Dejan Djokic (Goldsmiths College, London): Robert Donia (University of Michigan); Radmila Gorup (Columbia University); Aleksandar Jerkov (University of Belgrade); Pavle Levi (Stanford University); Toma Longinovic (University of Wisconsin, Madison); Zoran Milutinovic (University College, London); Milorad Pupovac (University of Zagreb); Shinasi Rama (New York University); Jasna Dragovic-Soso (Goldsmiths College, University of London); Gayatri Spivak (Columbia University); Maria Todorova (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Mitja Velikonja (University of Ljubljana); Dean Vuletic (Columbia University); Andrew Wachtel (Northwestern University); Andrea Zlatar (University of Zagreb).
For more information, please contact the conference organizer, Prof. Radmila Gorup at rjg26@columbia.edu
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