Charles W. Hostler Institute on World Affairs Speakers

2020 Assistant Secretary Ellen McCarthy, State Department, Bureau of Intelligence and Research ​ “Intelligence at the Point of Diplomacy: Ensuring all sides are heard”

Brett McGurk, former Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, “Three Presidents at War”

2019 Ambassador Daniel Fried, former Ambassador to Poland, Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow, ​ ​ ​ ​ Atlantic Council, “The Fall of the Wall- 30 Years Later” ​

British Consul General Michael Howells, “Navigating Business in a Post-Brexit UK” ​ ​ ​

Four-Star Admiral Eric Olson, U.S. Navy (Retired), “The World at Night” ​ ​

2018 In the Name of God: Religion in Ethnic Conflict, Genocide, and Terrorism ● Dipak K. Gupta, San Diego State University. “In Our Own Image: Religion in the ​ ​ Context of Political Action” ● Benjamin Ajak, “Lost Boy” of Sudan, “When Religion Fills Refugee Camps: The Case of ​ ​ Sudan” ● David Rapoport, UCLA, “Religion and Modern Terrorism” ​ ​ Mohammed Hafez, University of Missouri at Kansas, “Suicide Bombers in Iraq” ​ ​ ● Peter Balakian, Professor, Colgate University, "Lessons of the Armenian Genocide" ​ ​ ● Lawrence Baron, San Diego State University, "Christianities of Complicity and of ​ ​ Compassion: Religious Reasons for Persecuting and Protecting Jews during the Holocaust." ● Richard English, Queens University, London, "For God and Ireland: Religion, Terrorism ​ ​ and Nationalism in Modern Ireland" ● The Honorable Mahmud Ali Durrani, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ​ to the (Invited) ● Partha Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, "Limits of Religious Politics in India" ​ ​ ● Chris Soper, Pepperdine University, "Muslims in Europe: Singing God’s Song in a ​ ​ Strange Land" ● Common Chords A musical celebration exploring the common roots of Muslim and Jewish music

● The Honorable Dr. Naser M.Y. Al Belooshi, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain to ​ the United States ● Ahmet Kuru, SDSU, “Islam and the Secular State: Turkey between French and ​ ​ American Models" ● Azim Khamisa and Brian Loveman, Professor, Department of Political Science, SDSU, ​ “The Importance of Restorative Justice and Forgiveness: From Personal Tragedy to National Strategy” ● William Headley, Dean, Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, USD; Rebecca Moore, ​ ​ ​ Professor of Religious Studies, SDSU; Khaleel Mohammed, Professor of Religious ​ ​ Studies, SDSU. Roundtable wrap-up discussion.

2017 ● Ambassador Kathleen Stephens, “Lessons from Korea” ​ ​ ​

Featured forums on some of today’s most compelling issues and regions ● Ambassador Nicholas Burns- Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and former U.S. ​ Ambassador to Greece; Professor, , John F. Kennedy School of Government ● Ambassador John Bass - Current U.S. Ambassador to Turkey; Former U.S. ​ Ambassador to Georgia

2016 ● Ambassador Earl Anthony "Tony" Wayne, “Building a Partnership with Mexico” ​ ​ ● Lia Tarachansky, “Collective Denial, Moral Responsibility and the Nakba of 1948” ​ ​ ● Peter Beinart, “Can Zionism be Saved? Lessons from the Past” ​ ​ ● Amira Hass, “New Forms of Dissent in Israel-Palestine” ​ ​ ● Avner Gvaryahu, “Breaking the Silence on the Realities of Israel’s Military Occupation” ​ ​ ● Yuval Evri, “Mizrahi political alternatives to mainstream Zionism in early 20th Century ​ ​ Palestine/Land of Israel”

2015 ● Seyom Brown, “Faces of Power: Obama’s Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective” ​ ​ ● Ambassador Peter Dorman, “The Challenges of the U.S. Higher Education Model in a ​ ​ Dynamic, Contentious Middle East” ● Fredy Peccerelli, Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala, “Truth from the ​ ​ graves, the power of identification, and history clarified” ● Trita Parsi, “Avoiding War and Nuclear Armageddon in the Middle East: Iran, Israel, and ​ ​ Regional Unrest”

● Harold Koh, “Human Rights, U.S. Foreign Policy, and International Law” ​ ​ ● Ambassador Mark G. Hambley, “Morality V. Reality in U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle ​ ​ East” ● Harriette Williams Bright, “Engendering Peace, Empowering Women in Africa” ​ ​ ● Nick Turse, “Kill Anything That Moves: Reviewing the US War on Vietnam” ​ ​

2014 ● Clara Long and Everard Meade, “Migration and Violence in Central America: A ​ ​ Conversation between Trans-Border Institute and Human Rights Watch” ● Almudena Bernabeu, “Genocide on Trial in Spain: Prosecuting ex-Guatemalan Dictator ​ ​ and Former U.S. Ally Ríos Montt” ● Theodore Postol, “Syria and the Use of Chemical Weapons: Reasons to Distrust US ​ ​ Government Claims” ● Palestine and the Right to Education Under Occupation, Two Palestinian students ​ from Birzeit University: Discussion on the impact of Israel’s occupation on their ability to receive a proper university education. ● Pamela Yates and Paco de Onis, “Beans, Bullets and Bitter Fruit” ​ ​ ● Josef Olmert, “Historical Narrative: Political Solutions, and the Israeli-Palestinian ​ ​ Conflict” ● Huwaida Arraf, “International Solidarity on Behalf of Palestinian Human Rights and ​ ​ Self-Determination” ● Katherine Gallagher, “Making the World’s Superpower and the Military-Industrial ​ ​ Complex Accountable for War Crimes” ● Richard Falk, “Building a Global Framework for Human Rights and Justice: Looking ​ ​ Back, Moving Forward” ● Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, “Responsibility to Protect and the U.S. Role in the World” ​ ​ ● Tod Lindberg, “The United States and Moral Accountability” ​ ​ ● Mouin Rabbani, “How to Resolve the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict” ​ ​

2013 A Forum on Syria and Intervention ○ Dr. Michael Provence, Department of History, University of California-San Diego ​ "Historical and Contemporary Developments in Syria" ○ Dr. Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Department of History, California State University-San ​ ​ ​ Marcos, "Weapons Proliferation in the Middle East" ​

○ Dr. Jonathan Graubart, Director of ISCOR and Hostler Institute for World ​ ​ ​ Affairs, SDSU, "Legal and Normative Assessment of Intervening in Syria" ​ ○ Dr. Farid Abdel-Nour, Political Science Department, SDSU, Moderator ​ ​ ​ ● Chase Madar, "Cluelessness, National Security, and Chelsea Manning: Why the ​ ​ Biggest Security Breach in US History is Good for You" ● Ambassador Bruno de Rísios Bath, Consul General of Brazil in Los Angeles, "Brazil: ​ ​ A Current Perspective" ● Dr. William B. Quandt, "The Prospects for Peace in the Holy Land” ​ ​ ​

2012 ● Dr. David Price, "The Covert Return of the Military-Intelligence Complex to Campus: ​ ​ Why Universities Should Be Very Afraid" ● Irakli Kakabadze, "The Role of Transformative Political Theater in Bringing About the ​ ​ Rose Revolution in Georgia"

International Law and Global Justice: Friends, Acquaintances, or Enemies? ● Pierre-Richard Prosper ● Noura Erakat ● Balakrishnan Rajagopal ● Ramesh Thakur ● Elise Keppler ● Richard Goldstone

2011 American Foreign Policy and the Challenges of the New Century ● Galia Golan, Professor, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, ​ Herzliya, Darwin Professor Emerita, Hebrew University, “Is there a chance for ​ Israeli-Palestinian peace?” ● Roberto Toscano, Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, ​ Former Italian Ambassador to India and Iran, former Head of Policy Planning, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “Iran and Democracy” ​ ● Michael Klare, Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, and ​ Director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS), Hampshire College, “Power Struggles: Energy, Resource Scarcity, and Global Security” ​ ● Arif Ali Khan, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Homeland Security at the National ​ Defense University's College of International Affairs, Former Assistant Secretary,

Department of Homeland Security, former Deputy Mayor for Homeland Security and Public Safety for the City of Los Angeles, “From Foreign Insurgencies to Transnational ​ Terrorism in the United States: Reducing Violence and the Importance of Community-Oriented Strategies” ● Rajiv Chandrasekharan, National Editor of , best-selling author of ​ the critically lauded, Imperial life in the Emerald City, “The Longest War: A journalist's ​ ​ ​ front-line assessment of America's entanglement in Afghanistan” ● Dipak Gupta, Fred J. Hansen Professor of Peace Studies, Department of Political ​ Science, San Diego State University, “Trapped! US foreign policy in the era of terrorism” ​ ● Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law, Princeton ​ University, Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, “Can Soft Power Resolve the Israel/Palestine ​ Conflict?” ● Bruce Cumings, Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Professor of History, ​ University of Chicago, “Dominion From Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American ​ Power” ● Jorge Heine, CIGI Chair of Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International ​ Affairs, Distinguished Fellow at CIGI and Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University, Former Ambassador of Chile to India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, former Ambassador to South Africa, “Looking Sideways: Latin America, Emerging Powers and ​ the U.S. in the New Century” ● Brian Loveman, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, San Diego State ​ University, “No Higher Law: American Foreign Policy in Myth and Practice” ​ ● Mike Shuster, Award-winning diplomatic correspondent and roving foreign ​ correspondent NPR News, “Combating the Spread of Nuclear Weapons: Is it a losing ​ battle?”

2010 Killing for a higher cause: Political violence in a world in crisis ● Farhana Ali, Senior Analyst, RAND corporation [M. C. Madhavan Lecture] ​ "Radical Islam: An Examination of the Global Threat" ● Marc Sageman, Sageman Consulting LLC, Adjunct associate professor, School of ​ International and Public Affairs, , "The Turn to Political Violence" ​ ● Mike Ramsdell, Director, "The Anatomy of Hate" (Documentary film) ​ ​ ​ ● Ignacio Sanchez-Cuenca, "The Causes of Terrorist Violence" ​ ​ ● David Gibbs, Associate Professor of History and Government, University of ​ "The Srebrenica Massacre: Evaluating its significance for Post-Cold War International Relations"

● Ariel Merari, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University. Israel ​ "In their own voice: Interviews with, and psychological tests of suicide bombers, their commanders and families" ● Lee Ann Fujii, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George ​ Washington University, "Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda" ​ ● Richard English, Queen’s University , "Terrorism: How should we respond" ​ ● Zachariah Mampilly, Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, Vassar ​ College, "Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life During War" ● Shampa Biswas, Chair, Department of Politics, Whitman College, ​ "Re-thinking political violence: Torture, democracy, and complicity" ● Nick Beams, International Editorial Board, World Socialist Web Site ​ "Imperialism and the political economy of the Holocaust"

2009 Foreign Policy Challenges for the Obama Administration ● John Stoessinger, University of San Diego. “Why Nations Go To War: Perspectives of ​ ​ A Holocaust Survivor” ● Christine Fair, Georgetown University “Why the U.S. Cannot Help Pakistan” ​ ​ ● Ambassador Jeffrey Davidow, "US and Mexico: Challenges for the Obama ​ ​ Administration" ● David Rapoport, UCLA, Professor Emeritus, “Waves of International Terrorism” ​ ​ ● Tony Perry, LA Times, “Into the War Zone: Iraq and Afghanistan” ​ ​ Walt Oechel, SDSU “Global Climate Change” ​ ​ ● Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University, “India” ​ ​ ● Barnett Rubin, Council on Foreign Relations and , “Afghanistan” ​ ​ ● Andranik Migranian, Institute for Democracy and Cooperation, New York, “Russia” ​ ​ ● Michael Provence (UCSD), Farid Abdel-Nour (SDSU), Uri Ben-Eliezer (Haifa ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ University). “Israeli/Palestinian Conflict” ​ ● Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University, “Africa and Darfur: Humanitarian ​ ​ intervention” ● Dali Yang, University of Chicago, “” ​ ​ ● Eli Berman, UCSD, “Constructive Counterterrorism: Theory and Evidence” ​ ​ ● Ambassador Reno Harnish, Assistant Secretary (acting) for Oceans Environment and ​ Science, “Energy and Climate Policy: Getting the Balance Right” ​