9/11 and the Jihad Tradition
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Sohail Hashmi has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the National Resource Fellowship, the Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Foundation Collaborative Research Grant, and the W. Alton Jones Fellowship on the Nuclear Threat. He is the author and editor of numerous publications on Islam, international relations, and comparative ethics.
Hashmi earns high praise from his students and colleagues for his dedication to teaching participants to form opinions about contemporary issues and current events using a wide range of publications and data. He teaches a wide variety of classes, including an introductory world politics course and seminars such as Just War and Jihad: Comparative Ethics of War and Peace; Comparative Politics of North Africa; and International Relations.
This workshop is also sponsored by CISAC.
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Sohail Hashmi
Political Science
Speaker
Mt. Holyoke College
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Athens, a Democracy of Virtue
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Professor Balot specializes in the history of political thought.
Balot is the author of Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens (Princeton, 2001) and of Greek Political Thought (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006). He is currently at work on Courage and Its Critics in Democratic Athens, from which he has published articles in the American Journal of Philology, Classical Quarterly, and Social Research. Balot is also editor of the forthcoming Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought (Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming 2007).
Balot received his doctorate in Classics at Princeton University and his B.A. degrees in Classics from UNC-Chapel Hill and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
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Ryan Balot
Associate Professor of Political Science
Speaker
University of Toronto
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Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the New Middle East
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Robin Wright is an American journalist currently covering U.S. foreign policy for The Washington Post. She has reported for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Sunday Times (of London), CBS News and The Christian Science Monitor, and has served as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Europe, and Africa. She has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, and The International Herald Tribune.
Awards and Honors
Wright received the U.N. Correspondents Association Gold Medal for coverage of international affairs, the National Magazine Award for reportage from Iran in The New Yorker, and the Overseas Press Club Award for "best reporting in any medium requiring exceptional courage and initiative" for coverage of African wars. For coverage of U.S. foreign policy, she was named journalist of the year by the American Academy of Diplomacy for “distinguished reporting and analysis of international affairs ” and won the National Press Club Award and the Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting. Wright has also been the recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant.
Wright has been a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Brookings Institution, Yale University, Duke University, Stanford University, the University of California at Santa Barbara and the University of Southern California. She also lectures extensively around the United States and has been a television commentator on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and MSNBC programs, including "Meet the Press," "Face the Nation," "This Week," “Nightline," the PBS Newshour, "Frontline," and "Larry King Live."
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Robin Wright
Diplomatic Correspondent
Speaker
The Washington Post
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Capital Account Liberalization, Real Wages, and Productivity
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Peter Blair Henry is a Professor of Economics and Gunn Faculty Scholar in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, a faculty research fellow in the International Finance and Macroeconomics Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a CDDRL faculty member. His work focuses on international finance, economic growth and development, and macroeconomics. The National Science Foundation's Early CAREER Development Program supports his research on the effects of economic policy reform in emerging markets.
He has been on the Stanford faculty since 1997. He previously served as a consultant to the Bank of Jamaica (1995) and a consultant to the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (1994). He was a Rhodes Scholar from 1991 to 1993. He is a member of the American Economic Association and the American Finance Association, and a director of the National Economic Association.
He received a BA in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991; a BA from Oxford University in 1993; and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997. In 1999, he received the National Economic Association's award for best doctoral thesis in economics
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Peter Blair Henry
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Peter Blair Henry is the Class of 1984 Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and Dean Emeritus of New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. The youngest person ever named to the Stern Deanship, Peter served as Dean from January 2010 through December 2017 and doubled the school’s average annual fundraising. Formerly the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of International Economics at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, from 2001–2006 Peter’s research was funded by an NSF CAREER Award, and he has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles in the flagship journals of economics and finance, as well as a book on global economic policy, Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth (Basic Books).
A Vice Chair of the Boards of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Economic Club of New York, Peter also serves on the Boards of Citigroup and Nike. In 2015, he received the Foreign Policy Association Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the organization, and in 2016 he was honored as one of the Carnegie Foundation’s Great Immigrants.
With financial support from the Hoover Institution and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Peter leads the PhD Excellence Initiative, a predoctoral fellowship program in economics that identifies high-achieving students with the deepest commitment to economic research and prepares them for the rigors of pursuing a PhD in the field. For his leadership of the PhD Excellence Initiative, Peter received the 2022 Impactful Mentoring Award from the American Economic Association. Peter received his PhD in economics from MIT and Bachelor’s degrees from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead-Cain Scholar, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a reserve wide receiver on the football team, and a finalist in the 1991 campus-wide slam dunk competition.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1969, Peter became a U.S. citizen in 1986. He lives in Stanford and Düsseldorf with his wife and four sons.
Class of 1984 Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Dean Emeritus, New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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What Do the Polls Say? Predicting the Winner of the 2008 Taiwan Presidential Election
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This is a CDDRL's Special Seminar within our Democracy in Taiwan Program. In this seminar, Dr. Chia-hung Tsai will present up-to-date survey data regarding Taiwan’s 2008 presidential election. He will also discuss the dynamics of the presidential campaign and their implications for prospective voters.
Chia-hung Tsai is Associate Research Fellow of the Election Study Center at the National Chengchi University. He received his PhD in political science from the Ohio State University, 2003, and he worked at the Election Study Center since then. Chia-hung Tsai’s research interest lies in voting behavior and methodology, especially Bayesian statistics. Winner of the “NCCU Outstanding Research Award,” he has published articles in various professional journals including Party Politics, International Political Science Review, Journal of Election Studies (Chinese), and so forth. Currently, he is conducting a multi-year project on voting behavior, public opinion, and public policies in Taiwan. The main focus of this project is to examine the quality of Taiwan’s young democracy. Specifically, this project investigates the extent to which public policies respond to public opinion.
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Chia-hung Tsai
Associate Research Fellow
Speaker
Election Study Center, National Chengchi University
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Hobbes on Equality
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Kinch Hoekstra is part of a joint appointment with the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program of the Law School and Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. After beginning his undergraduate career at Deep Springs College in the high desert of eastern California, Hoekstra received a B.A. with highest honors in Philosophy and English from Brown in 1987. He subsequently received his D.Phil in Philosophy from Oxford in 1998. He has been a Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford since then and in 2005 became Senior Tutor at Balliol College (U.S. equivalent to Dean of Academic Affairs). He has also held visiting positions at Deep Springs, UCLA, and Princeton. Hoekstra is a political theorist widely recognized for his innovative and masterful scholarship on Hobbes. His major work Thomas Hobbes and the Creation of Order is expected to be published by Oxford University Press this year.
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Kinch Hoekstra
Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science
Speaker
University of California, Berkeley
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