Cette conférence sera en anglais.
This public lecture will be in English.
The Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
presents
Civil Resistance and Power Politics: Reflections on the Collapse of European Communist Regimes in 1989
Professor Sir Adam Roberts
Ph.D.
Friday, November 20, 2009
3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Desmarais Building, room 12110
This lecture will be based on the book co-edited by Adam Roberts and Timothy Garten Ash: Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present (Oxford Univ. Press, 2009).
Professor Sir Adam Roberts is President of the British Academy and Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for International Studies in Oxford University's Department of Politics and International Relations. He was the Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University from 1986 to 2007. He is an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics & Political Science, and of St Antony's College Oxford. He was a member of the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London (2002-8). He is a member of the UK Defence Academy Advisory Board (2003- ). His main research interests are in the fields of international security, international organizations, and international law (including the laws of war). He has also worked extensively on the role of civil resistance against dictatorial regimes and foreign rule, and on the history of thought about international relations.
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