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Thursday, 7 Dec 1972
Oil, Guerillas: Arab Power in a World in Flux - D. A. Rustow
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Dankwart Rustow is Professor of Political Science, City University of New York, and was educated in Germany and Turkey. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, has been Vice-president of the Middle East Studies Association, and consultant to the State Department and RAND.
Part of the World Affairs Series: World Power in Flux
External Power & African Options - Donald Rothchild
3:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Donald Rothschild received his PhD in Political Science at John Hopkins University. he has been a member of the faculties at the University of California, Makerere University College (in Uganda), University College (at Nairobi) and the University of Zambia. He has written a number of other publications on the contemporary politics and international relations in Africa, particularly those of East Africa.
Part of the World Affairs Series: World Power in Flux
Emerging Crisis in the Third World - MahBub ul Haq
1:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Mahub Ul Haq, before joining the World in 1970, where he is presently serving as Director of the Policy Planning and Program Review Department, held the position of Chief Economist of the Pakistan Planning Commission and was closely associated with the formulation of Pakistan's five-year development plans.He has written and spoken extensively on the subject of development planning.
Part of the World Affairs Series: World Power in Flux
Wednesday, 6 Dec 1972
Latin America-U.S. Relations in the Seventies - Fernando Belaunde-Terry
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Fernando Terry served as President of Peru from 1963-1968. During his term, he inaugurated public works programs ranging from land reclamation to construction of hydroelectric plants. he also negotiated an international agreement among the governments of Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia in 1963 to cooperate in the construction of the marginal Forest Highway to open the interior regions of these countries for development.
Part of the World Affairs Series: World Power in Flux
Primary Energy, Political Power, & International Conflict - Robert North
3:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Robert North is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, where he earned his MA in International Relations and PhD in Political Science. He is also director of Studies in International Conflict and Integration-an interdisciplinary project of research and training.
Part of the World Affairs Series: World Power in Flux
The Soviet Union: A Global Power Flux with Melvin Croan
1:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Melvin Croan is Professor of Political Science and Chairman of the Russian Area Studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard where he also previously taught. He is the author of many studies on Soviet, East European, and German affairs and most recently has co-authored a Brookings Institution study on US Troops in Europe (1971) and contributed to a book on The Communist States in Disarray (1972). Dr. Croan has recently travelled to Eastern Europe in connection with research on Wet Germany's Ostpolitik on which he is presently engaged.
Tuesday, 5 Dec 1972
Prospects for Development Assistance - John Hannah
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - John A. Hannah is present head of the Agency for International Development. Dr. Hannah completed his education at Michigan State and has been awarded honorary Doctorate degrees from 26 American and three foreign universities. He has served on the International Development advisory Board, was Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Personnel, and was Chairman of the U.S. Section on the Permanent Joint Board on Defense, Canada-US. He has been President of Michigan State University and served as President of the Association of state Universities and Land Grant Colleges.
Part of the World Affairs Series: World Power in Flux
New Principles of University Commitment - Raga S. Elim
3:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Raga S. Elim is associate professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International and Comparative Programs at Kent State University. he obtained his L.L.B. at Ein Shams University, Faculty of Law, Cairo, and his Ph.D. at the American University, School of International Service. He has held positions of Director of International Programs: Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, Director of world Institute for Peace Foundation, and Director of International Studies, State University of New York at Binghampton,Dr. Elim has written Control of International Waterways (1957), The Necessity for Disarmament (1962), and more recently, Report of the Africa and Middle East Conference and the Quest for Peace, (Editor, 1966).
Part of the World Affairs Series: World Power in Flux
Technology and Social Change as it Affects European Arts - Antoni Marianowicz
1:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Antoni Marianowicz is an independent writer and poet from Warsaw, Poland. he was educated at the Diplomatic and Consular School. he is now a participant in the International Visitors Program of the U.S. Department of State and author of a weekly program of satire on Polish Radio. Formerly he was active in the Polish Diplomatic Corps and was also editor of the satirical weekly, Szpilki. His publications include his criticism on satirical writing dealing with books, radio, and television, and the film script of the Polish part of an international serial of films called If Hitler Had Won the War.
Part of the World Affairs Series: World Power in Flux
Monday, 4 Dec 1972
Cultural Revolution & Politics Today - Leigh Kagan
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Leigh Kagan is a Ph.D. candidate in History and East Asian languages at Harvard University. her fields of concentration are medieval and modern Chines History. She has studied and lived in Taiwan for eighteen months, 1965-67. Ms. Kagan is active in the committee of concerned Asian Scholars, a member of the editorial board of its Bulletin, 1968-71, and also a member of its Friendship Delegation to the People's Republic of China in 1972. She has co-authored America's Asia (Pantheon, 1970), "Oh Say Can You See? American Cultural Blinders on China", among other publications on Vietnamization, China, and Taiwan.
Part of the World Affairs Series: World Power in Flux