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3/6/06

'GLOBALIZATION & WAR' TOPIC FOR LECTURE AT SLU

CANTON - Tarak Barkawi, a lecturer in international security at the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge, will give a lecture titled "Globalization and War" on Thursday, March 9, at 4:30 p.m. in Herring-Cole at St. Lawrence University. The event is open to the public, free of charge.

A Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford University, Barkawi conducts research on the historical evolution of "North/South warfare," including European imperialism, the Cold War in the Third World, peacekeeping and the place of armed force in contemporary North/South relations. His Ph.D. dissertation, which he is revising for publication, was on political and military sociology of British imperial forces in the Far East in the Second World War, which he is revising for publication. Barkawi recently published Globalization and War, part of the Rowman & Littlefield Globalization series. Additionally, he has written on aspects of international relations theory, including critiques of the "democratic peace"; neglect of the concepts of empire and imperialism; and the relationship between Max Weber and Hans Morgenthau. Future projects include a sociology of the South Vietnamese Army.

For more information, contact global studies at 315-229-5661.

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