Michael Butler, associate professor of political science, has long been preoccupied with the question of “why we fight” and how America’s political leaders justify going to war with other countries; he shares his thinking on this question in his recent book “Selling a ‘Just’ War: Framing, Legitimacy, and US Military Intervention” (Palgrave Macmillan 2012). “The…
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Esteemed political scientist Lake’78 lectures about U.S. in Middle East
As countries in the Middle East and North Africa roil with political upheaval, the United States is faced with the dilemma of choosing which regimes to back and which to abandon. Countries that have traditionally earned U.S. military and political support have conceded some control to America, but that reality is being challenged by global…
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Bland-Lee history lectures to focus on Cold War, hot topics
Historian Marilyn Young will deliver this year’s Bland-Lee lectures, “Necessary Wars of Choice: Counterinsurgency and the American Way of War” and “Korea: Turning up the Heat on the Cold War,” respectively at Clark University on Wednesday, March 17, and Thursday, March 18, at 4 p.m. in the Grace Conference Room of the Higgins University Center,…
