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Summer Faculty Institute on World Security Affairs
June 11-14, 2002
Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.

"American Hegemony in International Perspective"

Tuesday, June 11, 2002: Framing the Issues

8:30 a.m. Registration at Lewis-Sebring Commons, Valentine Hall

10:00 a.m. Gregory Prince (President, Hampshire College): Welcoming Remarks

10:15 a.m. Michael Klare (PAWSS): Opening remarks

10:30 a.m.Paul Kennedy (Yale): American Hegemony and the New Global Agenda

12:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Commons)

1:00 p.m.Steven Miller (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard): International Reactions to U.S. Dominance: Managing Hegemony without Provoking Resistance

2:45 p.m. Coffee break

3:00 p.m. Pierre Hassner (CERI, France): European Perspectives or "Peux t-on parler d'hegemonie americaine?"

Tuesday, June 11, 2002 Evening Speaker

6:00 p.m. Reception and dinner (Dining Commons)

7:30 p.m. Tom Gerety (President, Amherst College): Introduction

7:30 p.m. Ambassador Pierre Schori, Permanent Mission of Sweden to the UN. The Role of the European Union in Promoting Peace and Stability as a Counterweight to the United States

Wed, June 12, 2002 Western and Non-Western Perspectives

7:30 a.m. Breakfast (Dining Commons)

9:00 a.m. Brahma Chellany (Centre for Policy Research, India): Indian Perspectives

10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

10:45 a.m. Arthur MacEwan (UMASS, Boston): Shaping the World Economy: International Financial Institutions and U.S. Power

12:15 p.m. Lunch (Dining Commons)

1:15 p.m. Cynthia Enloe (Clark): 'Patriarchy' and International Power Dynamics--A Feminist Perspective

2:45 p.m. Coffee break

3:00 p.m. Melani McAlister (George Washington): Culture, Media and U.S. Interests

6:00 p.m. Dinner (Dining Commons)

7:00 p.m. Movie or Discussion TBA (optional)

Thursday, June 13, 2002: Western and Non-Western Perspectives

7:30 a.m. Breakfast (Dining Commons)

9:00 a.m. Michael Chege (Univ. Florida): African Perspectives

10:30 a.m. Coffee break

10:45 a.m. Craig Murphy (Wellesley): The Perils of Hubris and Hegemonism

12:15 a.m. Lunch (Dining Commons)

1:15 p.m. Minxin Pei (Carnegie Endowment): From Ambivalence to Fear: China's Changing Perspectives on American Hegemony

2:45 p.m. Coffee break

3:00 p.m. Shibley Telhami (Univ. MD): Middle Eastern Perspectives

6:00 p.m. Dinner (Dining Commons)

7:00 p.m. Laura Reed (PAWSS): Integrating the Themes of the Institute into Undergraduate Courseson Peace and Security

Friday, June 14, 2002: Alternative Visions

7:30 a.m. Breakfast (Dining Commons)

9:00 a.m. Andrew Mack (Univ. British Colombia): Human Security: an Alternative to the Hegemony of Realism

10:30 a.m. Coffee break

10:45 a.m. Bruce Russett (Yale) Envisioning an International System without a U.S. Hegemony

12:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Commons)

1:00 p.m. Adjourn

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