Faculty Feature: Global Affairs

Mark Beissinger, Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics and Director, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, discusses the conflict in Ukraine and how it emerged as well as its global repurcussions and impact on world politics. Presented during the 2014 Academic Mini Reunions program.

Anne Case *83 *88, Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, presents data on the growth of HIV and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, the impact on the region’s health care systems, and the consequences of premature parent death from AIDs on children’s futures throughout the region. Presented as part of Alumni Day 2012.

Barbara Bodine, Diplomat-in-Residence and Lecturer in Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, discusses the events of the Arab Spring from her perspectives as a practitioner, scholar, and former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen. Considering the issues of revolution, reform, democracy, liberalization and Islamism in the Middle East, she describes the interplay between these issues and technology/social media, and the resulting development of a transnational consciousness in that region. Included topics are the demography, politics, economics, and fundamental social contract of the Middle East, spanning Yemen, Egypt, and Tunisia to Bahrain, Libya, Syria, and beyond. Presented during the 2011 Fall Football Lectures series.

Evans Revere ’76 *94, Diplomat-in-Residence, Woodrow Wilson School discusses the foreign policy challenges associated with the Korean peninsula, its history, and the nuclear threat of North Korea. Revere concludes his lecture with insights into possible negotiating strategies to resolve the situation in North Korea and prevent proliferation. Presented as part of Alumni Day 2011.

Michael Cook, Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies, explains the origins and evolution of the Islamic state, the Muslim ideologies of monotheism and political egalitarianism, and their application to present-day Middle Eastern politics. Presented as part of the Alumni Studies course, "Religion Today," Spring 2009.

Miguel Centeno, Professor of Sociology, discusses his involvement in the ongoing Growing Knowledge of Globalization project and some of its findings. Presented during the 2005 Fall Football Lectures series.