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Bill Gentile, SOC: selected as one of the judges of the 38th Annual Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Awards; he will be judging the Domestic Television Broadcast category. Tamar Gutner, SIS: invited to be book review editor of the Review of International Organizations, a new journal to be published by Springer. Lectures/Presentations
Mary Garrard, professor emerita, art, CAS: “Brunelleschi’s Egg: Nature, Art, and Gender Ideology in Renaissance Italy” (overview of forthcoming book), panel presentation at the 2006 College Art Association conference, February. Adel Iskandar, SIS: “Al-Jazeera: Hero or Heretic,” Project for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, February. Kani Xulam, graduate student, SIS: spoke on the plight of the Kurds and the prospects for Turkey’s accession talks with the European Union at the conference “Global Indigenous Peoples’ Summit: A Dialogue on Land, State, and Empire,” University of Minnesota, February. Published Works
Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS and the Center for Global Peace: “Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, and Globalization, with a Special Focus on Financing,” in Exploring Conflicts and Conflict Resolution in the Contemporary Third World, Columbus, Ga.: ATWS and the Georgia Consortium, 2005. Jocelyn Johnston, SPA: “Traditional Contracts as Partnerships: Effective Accountability in Social Services Contracts in the American States,” in The Challenge of Public-Private Partnerships: Learning from International Experience, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005.
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David Rosenbloom, SPA: “Administrative Law,” in United Nations Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, February 2006. Papers Presented
Alan Kraut, history, CAS: with Deborah A. Kraut, “‘Is Your Heart with the Hospital?’ Newark Beth Israel and the Survival of the Jewish Hospital in Twentieth-Century Urban America,” Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, February. Media
Naomi Baron, language and foreign studies, CAS: quoted in the article “Write Grandma a What?” on the implications of the decline in letter writing, New York Times, March. Wendell Cochran, SOC: quoted by the Dow Jones Newswire on McClatchy Co.’s bid to acquire Knight Ridder Inc., March. Joshua Ederheimer, SPA: quoted in the article “City Tasers to Be under Tight Reins: Use Limited to SWAT Team, but Critics Still Fearing Abuse,” Fort Wayne Gazette, March.
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Amy Eisman, SOC: interviewed by ARD German Broadcasting on trends in new media and Web journalism, March. Christine Haight Farley, WCL: interviewed about copyright-trademark fair use in parody, Washington Blade, March. Gene Fidell, president, National Institute of Military Justice, WCL: quoted in the article “General Won’t Testify in Abu Ghraib Case,” Associated Press; quoted in the article “Army Ordered to Look Again at Battle Death” about the killing in Afghanistan of war hero Pat Tillman, New York Times, March. Consuelo Hernandez, language and foreign studies, CAS: cited in the article “Celebrando la vida poética de generacion a generacion,” Gaceta Iberoamericana, Washington-Maryland-Virginia, winter 2005. Alison Jacknowitz, SPA: quoted by Knight Ridder on her study revealing the negligible long-term benefits of full-day versus half-day kindergarten. William LeoGrande, dean, SPA: quoted about U.S.-Cuban cultural and sports exchanges in a Miami Herald opinion piece, March. Kathryn Montgomery, SOC: quoted in a Washington Post article on how cell phones, iPods, and the Internet have created a “ubiquitous children’s media culture.” Anna Nelson, history, CAS: quoted in the article “Nixon Library Joins the Club” on plans to use public funding for a new Nixon presidential library building, Washington Post, March.
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John Nolan, mathematics and statistics, CAS: quoted on the magnitude of the number one trillion in a Reuters article on the national debt, March. Robert Pastor, vice president, international affairs: quoted on immigration reform and the need to reduce the gap in incomes between Mexico and the United State, Miami Herald, March. Jamin Raskin, WCL: interviewed by the Wall Street Journal about the fairness of a survey measuring the public’s knowledge of First Amendment freedoms, March. Ira Robbins, WCL: interviewed by NBC Nightly News about the commencement of the death penalty hearing for Zacarias Moussaoui, March. Leonard Steinhorn, SOC: discussed his book The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy, WAMU’s The Kojo Nnamdi Show, February. Stephen Taylor, SPA: quoted in an article about senators who are considering running for president in 2008 and have not visited the Gulf Coast since it was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, The Hill, March. James Thurber, director, CCPS, and SPA: quoted by the Washington Post and Gannett News Service regarding the Abramoff bribery case, February. Emilio Viano, SPA: interviewed on TeleSur TV (Lima, Peru) on differential treatment of Brazil vs. Iran on uranium enrichment; interviewed by Reuters on the election of Rene Garcia Preval in Haiti; interviewed on Radio Caracas TV on President Bush’s decision to redirect funds for the Voice of America to specific countries, including Venezuela, February. Steve Wermeil, WCL: quoted by MSNBC on the Supreme Court’s likely reaction to South Dakota’s abortion ban.
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Finnish foreign affairs advisor discusses EU as global power
Photo by Jeff Watts
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Since its birth nearly fifteen years ago, the European Union has most often made headlines with its economic muscle, but according to Kari Mottola, Finland foreign affairs special advisor on policy and planning, it might also be an emerging military power.
On campus last week to discuss the EU as part of the SIS Europe Council Lecture Series, Mottola analyzed the 25-nation organization’s growing international influence. The EU, Mottola admitted, operates among a complex array of coalitions and competing interests, ranging from NATO to the individual governments of its members. However, he argued, it holds increasing sway over other countries through its enlargement process. By prescribing that members of the economically beneficial union conform to progressive standards on human rights and democracy, he said, the EU shapes policy throughout Europe.
Additionally, Mottola argued, with increased plans for integrating its defense industries, the EU is developing “hard power” to complement this “soft power.” “These are just the small first steps, but the capability is there,” he said, noting that the combined defense budget of EU countries is second only to the United States. “As it pursues further harmonization, the EU really is emerging as an autonomous global power.” —MG
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