The Democracy Establishment

A Global Currents Lecture Discussion with: Sarah Bush Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Political ScienceTemple University Tuesday March 31, 2015, 12:15 p.m.Tinkham Veale University Center, Senior Classroom ACase Western Reserve University When U.S. government democracy assistance was launched three decades ago, it fostered real change, as in Poland and Chile, by supporting dissidents. Since...

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High-Risk Activism and Popular Struggle Against the Israeli Occupation in the West Bank

Professor Joel Beinin, Stanford University March 2nd, 2015, 4:30 pmTinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom A Scholars have longed distinguished between normal political protest and what can be termed “high-risk activism,” best exemplified in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964. The International Solidarity Movement consciously invoked the precedent of Mississippi Freedom...

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Political Science Senior Project ColloquiumNovember 24, 2014 5:45 – 8:00 p.m.

Clark 302 5:45 – 6:00: Introduction, setting up powerpoints 6:00 – 6:20: Bowen He - Anti-Corruption Campaigns in China after Reform Advisor: Paul Schroeder 6:20 – 6:40: Kassie Stewart - Getting Back to Grassroots? Advisor: Paul Schroeder 6:40 – 7:00: Robert Zimmermann - Possible Solutions to the Western Sahara Conflict Advisor: Pete Moore BREAK...

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Women in the Club: Democratic Women, Republican Women, and the Politics of Women’s Issues

Michele L. Swers Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University   Keynote Address for the Conference on   Women, Gender, and Conservative Parties in the 21st Century October 9, 4:30 p.m. Senior Classroom in Tinkham Veale University Center Professor Swers is an expert on Congress, Congressional elections, and Women and Politics. Her most recent book,...

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