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39 Years of SIR

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  Thirty-Nine Years of SIR: A Retrospective

 

 In 1969, when the League of Women Voters of Connecticut and YaleUniversitybegan their co-sponsorship of our annual “SIR,” the letters stood for “School of International Relations.” Today, under the aegis of the LWVCT Education Fund, the Albert Schweitzer Institute at Quinnipiac University, and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, they stand for “Symposium on International Relations.” This prestigious collaboration allows us to attract fine scholars and knowledgeable experts, such as those listed below who donated their time for the education of our audiences on various topics of international interest.

1969

United States and Japan: A Time of Crisis?
 Yashushi Akashi, Robert W. Barnett, Edwin O. Reischauer, James Voss

1970

Riches and Responsibility: What Role for the U.S.after Vietnam?
Gustav Ranis, Barbara Ward (Lady Jackson), Charles Yost

1971 

Fateful Middle East: Arab–Israeli Dilemma
Landrum R. Bolling, Thomas L. Hughes, Michael Messeri, Basim Musallem, Richard H. Nolte, Ogden R. Reid

1972

Science and the Statesman 
Frederick Arkhurst, Emilio Q. Daddario, Robert Gilpin, Joseph M. Goldsen, G. B. Kistiakowsky, Meredith Wilson

1973

The Eagle and the Beaver: The U.S. and Canada
William M. Johnson, George K. Kardouche, Saul Rae, Bruce Rankin, Robin Winks

1974 

Triangle of Giants: The U.S., Russia and China
Leon Lipson, Charles I. Rostov, Charlotte Y. Salisbury, Harrison
E. Salisbury, Gerald Tannebaum, Charles W. Yost, Chen Yuancchi

1975

Jigsaw Europe: Pattern or Puzzle?

1976

Soybeans – Oil – Survival
Harlan Cleveland, Neville Kanakaratne, Ivor Richard, Peter Riddleberger; Martha Aasen, Benjamin Cohen, Lynn Sherr

1977

South Africa: African Tinderbox
Lord Caradon

1978 

A Call to Arms Control
Lucy Wilson Benson, John J. Carson, Rikhi Jaipal, Adam Yarmolinski

1979

Mexico: Privilege, Poverty and Power
Francisco Cuevas-Cancino, Brandon Grove, Jr., Carl J. Migdail, Silvia Marina Arrom, Maria Lopez de Roux; Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Moderator

1980 

Arc of Crisis: Tempest in the Gulf
Muhammad Abdul-Rauf, John N. Gatch, Jr., Firuz Kazemzadeh, Bernard Lewis, Roger Merrick, Karl E. Meyer

1981

Refugees and Immigration: The U.S.Faces a Challenge
Donna Alvarado, Hector Alzugarary, L. Van Bey, Leon F. Bouvier, Roger Conner, Wells C. Klein, Abdul Ali Seraj, Michael S. Teitelbaum

1982

United States – Soviet Union Foreign Policy: Goals and Realities
Anthony Austin, Lucinda Garca, David Newsom, Vladimir Shustov, Chan Heng Wing

1983

The United Statesand Japan: The High Technology Challenge
Scott DeGarmo, Peter diCicco, Seiichiro Ohtsuka, Clyde Prestowitz, Yoshio Tsurumi

1984

Global Economic Interdependence
Orville Freeman, Edward Marasciulo, Robert Solomon

1985

Third World Women: The Key to Development 
Willie Campbell, Mallica Dajrathon, Kay Davies, Perdita Huston

1986 

A New Day for the Dragon? 
Liang Yu Fan ,Virginia Kamsky, John S. Major, Pierre Perrolle, John Starr

1987  

Linking Destinies in the Americas
Sr. Bernadette Desmond, Paul B. Goodwin, Jr., Isabel Letelier, Robert E. White

1988

Glasnost: Perspectives on Changes in U.S.–Soviet Relations
Jerome D. Frank, Mark Gerzon, Marshall I. Goldman, Martha C. Mautner

1989

Drugs, Pollution and Indifference
José-Juan de Olloqui Y Labastide, J. Duncan Edmonds, Phyllis Hanes, Adrian Lajous, Lansing Lamont, Joan L. Landon, Hugo B. Margain, J. Michael McCloskey, Jeffrey B. Peters, Cathryn L. Thorup        

1990

Our Global Environment: Is Earth an Endangered Species?
Julie Belaga, Jean-Claude Faby, Nicholas A. Robinson, Karl K. Turekian

1991

Eastern Europe in Transition  
John R. Davis, Jr., Heyward Isham, Béla G. Lipták, Irena Zikova

1992

The Impact of the Media on Foreign Affairs
Barbara Crossette, Brian Jenkins, James Keogh, Mitchell Krauss, Joseph A. Mehan

1993 

Africa’s Winds of Change
George E. Moose, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Barnett F. Baron, Constance Berkley, Larry W. Bowman

1994    

Nationalism: Obstacle or Opportunity
Roger Hilsman, Philip K. Oldenburg

1995

The Future of UN Peacekeeping: The Dilemma and the Challenge
Charles Hill, John W. McDonald, Bruce A. Morrison; Ruth Steinkraus-Cohen, Moderator

1996 

World Health: Human Rights and Government Policies
Joan Dunlop, Dorothy Thomas, Howard Pearson, M.D., Andrew Holtz

1997 

Troubled Water: An Impending Global Crisis 
Lynne L. Bennett, Roberto Lenton, Sandra Postel

1998

Global Migration: Coming Together or Pulling Apart?
Muzaffar A. Chishti, Demetrios Papademetriou, Gaddis Smith, Hania Zlotnik

1999 

Privilege, Poverty and Power: Dialogue Between the Rich and the Poor
Andrew B. Bernard, Timothy D. Clarke, Brigitte Schulz, Clare Brett Smith; Kay Maxwell, Moderator

2000  

The Search for a Foreign Policy for Tomorrow’s World
Derek Boothby, Admiral Eugene J. Carroll, Jr., Arnold S. Kohen , Radha Kumar; Nancy L. Ruther, Moderator

2001 

The Future of the World’s Children
Meg Gardinier, Shelley Geballe, Ilona Kickbusch, Charles MacCormack; David Nee, Moderator

2002

The Ordinary Citizen and Globalization

Shashi Tharoor, Cathy Feingold, Susan Ariel Aronson; Nancy L. Ruther, Moderator

2004

Perspectives on Nation Building

Amii Omara-Otunnu, Robert L. Barry, Kathy Gannon, Daniel N. Nelson; Kay J. Maxwell, moderator

2005

Building a Culture of Peace

Anwarul K. Chowdhury, David Adams, Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, Betty J. Burkes, Alice deV. Perry; Pauline Cantwell, moderator

2006

Poverty, Prosperity and Peace

Chapter II: Eradicating Poverty to Build a Culture of Peace

Sarah Leshner, Lucy Law Webster, Cora Weiss; Nancy Ruther, moderator

2007

Poverty, Prosperity and Peace

Chapter III: The Geopolitics of Oil:  Conflict or Cooperation

Angel Villalobos, Michael T. Klare, Gordon Feller, Steven Guveyan;  Nancy Ruther, moderator

2008

The Movement Of People:

A Global Perspective On Migrants, Refugees and Displaced Persons

Elizabeth Campbell, Peggy Levitt, Dr. Stephen Pitti;  Nancy Ruther, moderator

     §VHS tapes of 2002 and 2004 SIR can be purchased from the CT Network at  http://www.ctn.state.ct.us/contact.asp?FormName=buyvideo  

           

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