Time: Thu, December 5, 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Location: 1203 Van Munching Hall
Link: https://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/cissm-forum-world-through-arab-eyes-arab-public-opinion-and-reshaping-middle-east
Shibley Telhami is the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, College Park, and non-resident senior fellow at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution. Before coming to the University of Maryland, he taught at several universities, including Cornell University, the Ohio State University, the University of Southern California, Princeton University, Columbia University, Swarthmore College, and the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his doctorate in political science.
Professor Telhami has also been active in the foreign policy arena. He has served as Advisor to the US Mission to the UN (1990-91), as advisor to former Congressman Lee Hamilton, and as a member of the US delegation to the Trilateral US-Israeli-Palestinian Anti-Incitement Committee, which was mandated by the Wye River Agreements and has served as an advisor to the United States Department of State. He also served on the Iraq Study Group as a member of the Strategic Environment Working Group. He has contributed to The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times and regularly appears on national and international radio and television. He has served on the US Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World, which was appointed by the Department of State at the request of Congress, and he co-drafted the report of their findings, Changing Minds, Winning Peace. He has also co-drafted several Council on Foreign Relations reports on US public diplomacy, on the Arab-Israeli peace process, and on Persian Gulf security.
His best-selling book, The Stakes: America and the Middle East (Westview Press, 2003; updated version, 2004) was selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the top five books on the Middle East in 2003. His other publications include Power and Leadership in International Bargaining: The Path to the Camp David Accords (1990); International Organizations and Ethnic Conflict, ed. with Milton Esman (1995); Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East, ed. with Michael Barnett (2002), The Sadat Lectures: Words and Images on Peace, 1997-2008, ed. (2010), The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989-2011, co-authored with Dan Kurtzer, et al. (2012), The World Through Arab Eyes: Arab Public Opinion and the Reshaping of the Middle East (2013) and numerous articles on international politics and Middle Eastern affairs. He has been a principal investigator in the annual Arab Public Opinion Survey, conducted since 2002 in six Arab countries.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of the Education for Employment Foundation, several academic advisory boards, and has served on the board of Human Rights Watch (and as Chair of Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch/Middle East). He has also served on the board of the United States Institute of Peace. Professor Telhami was given the Distinguished International Service Award by the University of Maryland in 2002 and the Excellence in Public Service Award by the University System of Maryland Board of Regents in 2006.
Timothy
Gulden is a Research Assistant Professor with the Center for Social
Complexity in the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason
University. His research focuses on modeling complex systems in the
context of empirical data. He holds a PhD from the University of
Maryland School of Public Policy where he explored agent-based modeling
as a tool for policy analysis. He has been a research scholar at CISSM, a
visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution's Center for Social and
Economic Dynamics (CSED) and attended the Santa Fe Institute's Complex
Systems Summer School. During the 1990’s he was the technical director
of the GIS program for Westchester County, New York. His interests
include the quantitative study of conflict dynamics, modeling adaptation
to a changing climate, understanding the human and economic flows
driving changes in the global urban system, and the development of novel
urban metrics based on nighttime lights.
Vladimir
Tismaneanu is a Professor of Politics at the University of Maryland,
College Park, and author of numerous books, including Stalinism for All Seasons: A History of Romanian Communism (University of California Press,), Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism and Myth in Post-Communist Europe (Princeton University Press), and Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel (Free
Press). In 2006 he chaired the Presidential Commission for the Analysis
of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania. His new book is The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century. Published by University of California Press in 2012, the book was reviewed in Wall Street Journal, Times Literary Supplement, Times Higher Education, Daily Beast, Foreign Affairs, and the New York Review of Books.
Since
March 2010, Felipe LarraÃn Bascuñán is the Minister of Finance of the
Government of President Sebastián Piñera. PhD (1985) and Master of Arts
(1983) in Economics from Harvard University, and Bachelor of Arts in
Economics from Universidad Católica de Chile (1981), he has a vast
experience as an international consultant, academician, editor and author of more than 10 books and 120 professional articles, both published in Latin America, U.S.A., Europe and Asia. Since 1996, he has been a Professor of Economics at Universidad
Católica de Chile in Santiago, where he previously served as Associate
and Assistant Professor. From 1997 to 2002 he was affiliated to Harvard
University, first as the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin
American Studies (1997-99), then as Faculty Fellow (1999-2002). Since
1985, he has served as economic advisor to several American governments,
including Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico,
Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela.
