The Woodrow Wilson School’s Center for International Security Studies (CISS) has announced its 2009-10 “Research Program in International Security” seminar series. The series will bring to campus speakers whose work demonstrates the value of using rigorous social science research to inform debate over pressing security policy issues.
 
The series will launch on Wednesday, September 16 with a presentation by Michael Doran, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and a visiting professor at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. Professor Doran will speak on "Conceptualizing US-Arab Relations: Two Paradigms," and the talk will be held in Wallace Hall on the Princeton University campus from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
 
The seminar series will continue throughout the academic year with talks, all from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., by the following speakers:
 
·    Daniel Deudney, Associate Professor of International Relations and Political Theory, Johns Hopkins University, Thursday, October 22,

·    William Hitchcock, Professor of History, Temple University, Thursday, November 12,

·    Michael Reynolds, Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Studies,  Princeton University, Thursday, December 10,

·    Peter Feaver, the Alexander F. Hehmeyer Professor, Duke University, and former Special Advisor for Strategic Planning and Institutional Reform at the National Security Council, Thursday, February 4,

·    Christopher Blattman, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Economics, Yale University, Thursday, March 4,

·    Conrad Crane, Director of the U. S. Army Military History Institute, Thursday, April 1,

·    Nicholas Sambanis PhD ’99, Professor of Political Science, Yale University, Thursday, May 6.

CISS provides a home for the study and debate of national and international security at Princeton, and supports a variety of educational, research, enrichment, and outreach activities with the intent of generating new knowledge on issues of fundamental importance and educating the next generation of strategic thinkers and decision makers. Created in 1992 under the auspices of the now-defunct Center for International Studies, the Research Program in International Security at CISS is funded in part by the Smith Richardson Foundation, with additional support from the Bradley Foundation. Woodrow Wilson School Professors of Politics and International Affairs Aaron Friedberg and G. John Ikenberry serve as co-directors of CISS.

Please contact Cynthia Ernst at cernst@princeton.edu with any questions about the seminar series or future CISS events.