 | Thomas Schelling |
The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization is sponsoring back-to-back programs on the nuclear challenge.
The first, on Monday, April 3, is a talk titled "An Astonishing 60 Years: The Legacy of Hiroshima" by Nobel laureate Thomas Schelling. The second, on Tuesday, April 4, is titled "A New Era of Nuclear Proliferation? The Collapse of the Old Regime," and will feature a presentation by H.E. Javad Zarif, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations (U.N.), and a panel of experts on global nuclear tensions.
Both events will take place at 4 p.m. in Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave., and both are free and open to the public.
In awarding the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics to Schelling, the Royal Academy of Swedish Sciences cited him for "having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis." Schelling's work was instrumental in game theory, which became the dominant tool for analyzing the age-old question of why some groups, organizations and countries succeed in fostering cooperation, while others suffer from conflict.
A prolific scholar whose interests cover a wide range of issues, Schelling has published on military strategy and arms control, energy and environmental policy, climate change, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, organized crime, foreign aid and international trade, conflict and bargaining theory, racial segregation and integration, the military draft, health policy, tobacco and drug policy, and ethical issues in public policy and in business.
Schelling is Distinguished University Professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, a position he assumed after 20 years at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy. He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The recipient of the NAS' Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War, he has held positions in the White House and the Executive Office of the President.
"A New Era of Nuclear Proliferation? The Collapse of the Old Regime" will begin with a presentation by Zarif, who has been the permanent representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the U.N. since 2002.
Zarif, who holds a Ph.D. in international law and policy from the University of Denver, has taught human rights, international law, and multilateral diplomacy at the University of Tehran.
His talk will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Ernesto Zedillo, director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and former president of Mexico.
The participants will discuss the nuclear challenge facing the world today. The international crisis precipitated by Iran's nuclear program and its potential to develop nuclear weapons will be explored, as will the recent agreement with India and the broader questions such as the viability of nuclear non-proliferation as a policy, and the relationship of disarmament to non-proliferation.
The panelists will be:
Joseph Cirincione, director for non-proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Cirincione is an expert on biological weapons, missile proliferation, terrorism and national security, as well as nuclear weapons and U.S. foreign policy with regard to Iran, India and the Middle East.
Carla Robbins, senior diplomatic correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. Robbins has written extensively on the current situation in Iran in the Wall Street Journal. She was part of the team that won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for "revealing stories that question U.S. defense spending and military deployment in the post-Cold War era and offer alternatives for the future."
Jonathan Schell, author of "The Fate of the Earth." The author of numerous books and articles about nuclear proliferation, Schell was the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization Distinguished Visiting Fellow for 2005 and currently teaches a course at Yale on the moral, political and strategic dilemmas of the nuclear age.
Nina Tannenwald, director of the International Relations Program at Brown University. Tannenwald has written extensively about the nuclear taboo and national missile defense. She holds a faculty research position at Brown's Watson Institute for International Studies.
The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization is devoted to examining the impact of our increasingly integrated world on individuals, communities and nations. More information on the event is available at (203) 432-1900 or globalization@yale.edu.
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Events to explore legacy of
Hiroshima, nuclear proliferation
"Legacy of Hiroshima"
"A New Era of Nuclear Proliferation"
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