The Colgate University department of political science and the program in international relations will sponsor a forum on the possibility of a U.S.-led war in Iraq on Tuesday evening, October 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Love Auditorium (Olin Hall) on campus. A panel of Colgate professors will give brief individual presentations, followed by an open forum for questions and discussion. The event is free and open to the public.
Expert Panelist Profiles:
Daniel Lieberfeld is a visiting assistant professor of political science. He holds a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He is the author of Talking With the Enemy: Threat Perception and Negotiation in South Africa and Israel/Palestine (Praeger Publishers); and articles in Negotiation Journal, Mediation Quarterly, Middle East Policy, Politikon: Journal of the South African Political Science Association and others. Lieberfeld was Theodore Lentz Post-doctoral Fellow in Peace and Conflict Resolution Research at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Lieberfeld has been awarded fellowships by Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation and by The United States Institute of Peace. His research interests include: international conflict; mediation and negotiation; identity and culture in international relations; and Middle East politics.
Fred Chernoff is associate professor of political science and director of the international relations program. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University. He is author of After Bipolarity: The Vanishing Threat, Theories of Cooperation, and the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, coeditor of Arms Control and the Arms Race, and contributor to Journal of Conflict Resolution, Strategic Studies, International Affairs and other journals. He has held research posts at the Rand Corporation, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. His main interests are strategic studies, security policy, and foundations of international relations theory.
Bruce Rutherford is an assistant professor of political science. He holds a Ph.D. from Yale University. His special interests include: Middle Eastern politics, Islam and politics, comparative politics, political economy, and democratization.
Stanley Brubaker is a professor of political science. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. His articles have appeared in The Public Interest, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, The Political Science Reviewer, Constitutional Commentary, Journal of Politics, Polity, Review of Politics, The Public Interest Law Review, and Interpretation. His special interests include judicial review and democratic politics.
Nancy Ries is an associate professor of anthropology. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University. Among her teaching specialties and research interests are: the anthropology of conflict and peace and the social and cultural transformation in contemporary Russia.
Andrew Rotter, a professor of history, received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. He is the author of Comrades at Odds: Culture and Indo-U.S. Relations, 1947-1964, (Cornell University Press, 2000) and The Path to Vietnam (Cornell University Press, 1987). His teaching specialties focus on U.S. diplomatic history as well as recent U.S. history. Rotter's articles have been published in The International History Review, Journal of American History and Diplomatic History among others.
Nigel Young is a professor in the sociology department and also the director of the peace studies program. He has written many books and articles on war resistance and peace movements. His areas of expertise are: peace education, Anglo-American and European movements and the role of non-governmental relationships in promoting peace and global society. He is currently finishing a book on war resistance and the nation state.
Founded in 1819, Colgate University is a nationally ranked, highly selective, residential, liberal arts college. Situated on a rolling 515-acre campus in central New York State, Colgate University attracts motivated students with diverse backgrounds, interests and talents.
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