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SUMMARY:Apologies\, Recrimination\, and Failures of Reconciliation: The Politics of Collective Memory in East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kristin Vekasi\, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and School of Policy & International Affairs at University of Maine. \nShe received her PhD in political science at the University of Wisconsin\, Madison in May 2014. Her research and teaching interests include international political economy\, the political economy of Northeast Asia\, Japanese and Chinese politics and the relations between them\, game theory\, and research methodology. Her research examines the effects of political conflict risk on economic exchange and the varying strategies multinational firms use to mitigate those risks. \nKristin grew up in the national park service\, living in Glacier National Park in Montana and Acadia National Park in Maine\, attended New College of Florida as an undergraduate\, and was a Fulbright Fellow at Tohoku University in Sendai\, Japan before beginning post-graduate studies. \nLecture part of the Socialist and Marxist Studies Series.
URL:https://spia.umaine.edu/event/apologies-recrimination-and-failures-of-reconciliation-the-politics-of-collective-memory-in-east-asia/
LOCATION:Bangor Room\, Memorial Union\, University of Maine
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SUMMARY:The Contribution of Organized Crime and Narcotics Trafficking to the Global Economy
DESCRIPTION:About the Speaker: Pablo Julio Cáceres Corrales received his Law degree from Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 1968. He also holds a Ph.D. in History from the same institution\, centering his research on global criminal organizations. He has practiced law for the past forty years\, establishing a very successful career in the public sector where he served as President of the Colombian Supreme Court during the most violent period of the Drug War. He has also been a long-time Law Professor at Universidad Nacional de Colombia where he continues to teach at the present time\, and he now has his own private practice in Bogotá. Dr. Cáceres is one of the leading scholars in Constitutional Law and has published extensively on the topic including Colombia: El Estado del Derecho\, Crítica Constitucional: Del Estado Liberal a la Crisis del Estado Providencia\, and El Constitucionalismo Bolivariano.
URL:https://spia.umaine.edu/event/the-contribution-of-organized-crime-and-narcotics-trafficking-to-the-global-economy/
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium\, Barrows Hall\, ME\, 04469-5708\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160328T170000
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SUMMARY:Forty Years in the Developing World — What Worked and What Did Not
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ambassador Pamela A. White \nAmbassador Pamela A. White was officially sworn in as Ambassador to the Republic of Haiti on July 18\, 2012.  Previously\, she served in Haiti from 1985-1990. \nAmbassador White previously served as Ambassador to The Gambia from 2010-2012.  Prior to this role she served as Mission Director for United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Liberia where she managed USAID’s second largest development budget in Africa\, averaging over $200 million a year. \nAmbassador White holds the rank of Career Minister.  She has over 35 years of experience from serving mostly in Africa where she began her public service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon (1971-1973).  Ambassador White joined the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in 1981 after several years of work in education and research. \nAt USAID Ambassador White has served as: community liaison officer in Burkina Faso\, Deputy Director Executive Officer in Senegal and Haiti and Executive Officer in Haitian\, Egyptian\, and South African missions.  As Deputy Director for East Africa in Washington\, D.C.\, she coordinated the delivery of much-needed food to Ethiopia and Eritrea\, helped to develop a six-year Ugandan strategy\, and oversaw the expansion of programs in the Sudan and Congo. \nIn Mali\, Ambassador White’s work as Deputy and Mission Director for USAID is credited with tripling the number of girls in primary school\, increasing the number of elected women leaders by 200 percent\, and doubling the percentage of children receiving vaccinations.  For her extraordinary work she was awarded the highest decoration given to foreigners\, the Knight of the National Order of Merit (Ordre national du Mali).  She is one of four Americans who share in this honor. \nFollowing her work in Mali\, Ambassador White was appointed Mission Director in Tanzania where she managed a $130 million aid program focused on HIV/AIDs prevention\, malaria control\, primary education\, conservation of natural resources\, and control of corruption. \nAmbassador White\, a native of Auburn\, Maine\, studied at the University of Maine and the School for International Training where she earned a Master’s Degree in International Development.  In 1999\, she graduated from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.  In May 2012\, she received the Medal of Honor from The Gambia\, one of the only foreigners to ever receive this award.  Ambassador White is married to a member of the U.S. Foreign Service\, between them\, they have four grown children.
URL:https://spia.umaine.edu/event/forty-years-in-the-developing-world-what-worked-and-what-did-not/
LOCATION:Buchanan Alumni House\, 160 College Ave\, Orono\, ME\, 04473\, United States
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SUMMARY:International Affairs: An Interdisciplinary Study
DESCRIPTION:Wells Conference Center\, University of Maine\nA One-Day Conference\, Free & Open to the Public\nToday\, the study of International Affairs is surely a necessity\, both for public policy and civic education. Yet this study could not survive without the contributions of other disciplines. Please join us for a conference of leading scholars to discuss the ways we make sense of our global world. \n9:15 am      Coffee/Refreshments\n9:30 am      Welcome and Introduction\nDean Emily A. Haddad\, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences\, UMaine\n9:45 am      “What’s Culture Got to Do With It: The Importance of Anthropology in International Affairs”\nSarah Tobin\, Associate Director of Middle East Studies\, Brown University\n11:00 am    Break\n11:15 am    “Money\, Guns and the Study of International Affairs”\nRosella Capella\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, Boston University\n12:30 pm    Lunch (Free\, but RSVP required by March 24 – contact Peter Fandel at 207-581-1835 or\npeter.fandel@maine.edu)\n1:30 pm      “International Affairs and the Turn to History”\nBrian Schmidt\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, Carleton University\n2:45 pm      Break\n3:00 pm      Roundtable Discussion\n4:00 pm      Reception \nPresented by the International Affairs Program with significant support from the School of Policy and International Affairs \n 
URL:https://spia.umaine.edu/event/international-affairs-an-interdisciplinary-study/
LOCATION:Wells Conference Center\, University of Maine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
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SUMMARY:Russia\, Ukraine\, and Euro-Atlantic Security Conference
DESCRIPTION:October 12-13\, 2017\n57 Stodder Hall\, University of Maine\nCo-hosted by the School of Policy and International Affairs (SPIA) and the Cohen Institute for Leadership & Public Service\, this conference will take place amidst an ongoing public debate about the Russia challenge and the evolution of what has been for nearly 70 years America’s most critical defense alliance (NATO). Its aim is to enhance an understanding of those challenges. \nOur speakers include former diplomats and academics representing Russian\, European\, Ukrainian\, and American perspectives. They will address Russia and Ukraine relations\, European relations with Ukraine\, Russian-European relations\, U.S.-Russian relations\, and Euro-Atlantic security. The conference will conclude with a roundtable discussion during which participants will respond to the assertions and conclusions made during other panel sessions. \nThis event is free and open to the public.  No registration is required. \n\n\n\n\nPROGRAM\n* All conference panels will be held in the Stodder Hall Graduate Commons (Rm. 57)\nDirections may be found here \nThursday\, October 12\n8:45 AM – Russia and Ukraine Relations \nPresenter: Constantine Pleshakov\, former foreign policy analyst at the Institute of U.S. and Canada Studies in Moscow\, author of The Crimean Nexus: Putin’s War and the Clash of Civilizations \nPanelist: James W. Warhola\, Professor of Political Science and Dr. John M. Nickerson Professor of Political Science at the University of Maine \n10:30 AM – Ukraine and Europe Relations \nPresenter: Eugeniusz Smolar\, foreign policy analyst\, Senior Policy Fellow and Member of the Board\, and former President of the Centre for International Relations \nPanelist: Kenneth M. Hillas\, Jr.\, Adjunct Professor of International Affairs\, UMaine; retired Senior Foreign Service Officer \n12:00 PM – Lunch Break \n1:00 PM – Russia and Europe Relations \nPresenter: Bastian Hermisson\, Executive Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s North America \nPanelist: Ambassador (ret) Lawrence E. Butler\, Former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia \n2:45 PM – U.S.-Russia Relations \nPresenter: Jeffrey Mankoff\, deputy director and senior fellow with the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program \nPanelist: Seth Singleton\, Adjunct Professor of International Relations\, UMaine \nFriday\, October 13\n9:00 AM – Euro-Atlantic Security \nPresenter: Ambassador Alexander Vershbow\, distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security \nPanelist: ADM Gregory G. Johnson\, former commander U.S. Naval Forces\, Europe and Allied Forces\, Southern Europe \n10:40 AM – Roundtable Discussion with All Speakers\n \n12:00 PM – Conference Adjourns \n\n\n\n\nSponsors\nThe School of Policy and International Affairs and the William S. Cohen Institute for Leadership & Public Service gratefully acknowledge the generous support from the following institutional grants and contributors: \n\nThe Alton ’38 and Adelaide Hamm Campus Activity Fund\nOffice of the President\nOffice of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost\nDepartment of Political Science\nMargaret Chase Smith Policy Center\nMid-Coast Forum on Foreign Relations\nCollege of Liberal Arts and Sciences\nOffice of International Programs\nDepartment of Anthropology\nInternational Affairs Program\nHistory Department
URL:https://spia.umaine.edu/event/russia-ukraine-euro-atlantic-security-conference/
LOCATION:Stodder Hall Graduate Commons\, 5775 Stodder Hall\, Orono\, ME\, 04469-5775\, United States
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