CPU Newsletter

April 5, 2006

CPU EVENT: "A Nuclear Iran? Implications of Iran's Nuclear Development for International Security" (TONIGHT, 04/05)

CPU EVENT:

1. A CPU Panel Discussion: "A Nuclear Iran? Implications of Iran's Nuclear Development for International Security" (TONIGHT, 04/05)

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1. A CPU Panel Discussion: "A Nuclear Iran? Implications of Iran's Nuclear Development for International Security"

Date: TONIGHT, 04/05
Time: 7:30PM
Location: Satow Room, Alfred Lerner Hall

**NON-CUID ATTENDEES MUST RSVP AT: http://www.cupolitics.org/rsvp

Featuring:

LIONEL BEEHNER is a staff writer for cfr.org, covering a variety of international subjects, including Iraq, Europe, and former Soviet Union. He has written for the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune, Foreign Policy, Russia Journal, Seed, and Worth Magazine. His commentary has appeared on CNN International, CNBC, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, and Voice of America. He graduated from Holy Cross College and holds a master's degree in international relations from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Beehner was recently the recipient the German Marshall Fund Journalism Fellowship for a book project.

PATRICK CLAWSON is deputy director for research of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. His previous positions include five years as senior research professor at the National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies and four years each as senior economist at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the
World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. Dr. Clawson has published op-ed articles in major newspapers including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. In addition to his frequent appearances on television and radio, he has authored more than thirty scholarly articles on the Middle East in such journals as Foreign Affairs, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle East Journal, and Les Cahiers de l'Orient. He has also testified before congressional committees more than a dozen times. Currently serving as senior editor of Middle East Quarterly, he was previously editor of Orbis, a quarterly review of foreign affairs.

ALI MIRSEPASSI is the interim dean of the Gallatin School, and professor of Middle Eastern Studies at New York Uniersity. He has published in such journals as Contemporary Sociology, Radical History, Social Text, and Nepantla. He is the author of Intellectual Discourses and Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and Truth or Democracy (published in Iran, 2002 and being translated into English); and coeditor of Localizing Knowledge in a Globalizing World (Syracuse University Press, 200). He is currently completing a book entitled Social Hope and Ethics. He has received several awards and grants, including the Iranian "Best Researcher of the Year" (2001), a teaching award from Tehran University, and grants from the Ford Foundation and the NEH.

Sponsored by: LionPAC, The Columbia Iranian Students Association, The Political Science Students Association, and The Columbia Political Union.

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