TASK FORCE STUDY ABROAD
April 25, 2024
SPRING QUARTER 2025 TASK FORCE ROME STUDY ABROAD OPPORTUNITY!!! JSIS/LSJ Rome: Human Rights and Social Inclusion: Disability, Age, and Gender Program dates: Spring Quarter, March 31 – June 6, 2025
JSIS 495B Task Force: Saadia Pekkanen – U.S.-Japan Alliance in the World
October 10, 2023
U.S.- JAPAN ALLIANCE IN THE WORLD Given the multiple regional security challenges, the focus is on assessing how and whether the U.S.-Japan Security Alliance can play a role in stabilizing
JSIS 495A Task Force: Sabine Lang -Countering the Illiberal Drift In Europe: Assessing Regional Politics and Citizen Action
October 10, 2023
COUNTERING THE ILLIBERAL DRIFT IN EUROPE: ASSESSING REGIONAL POLITICS AND CITIZEN ACTION Radical rightwing nationalist parties have become ‘normalized’ actors in parliaments across Europe, promoting Eurosceptic, xenophobic and antidemocratic policies.
JSIS 495D Task Force: Michelle R. Koutnik – Indigenous and International Relations in a Warming Arctic
October 9, 2023
INDIGENOUS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN A WARMING ARCTIC In both Canada and the United States, China’s aspirations as a polar power are impacting the balance in Arctic international relations. In
JSIS 498A Advanced Readings: Resat Kasaba – U.S. War in Iraq
October 8, 2023
U.S. WAR IN IRAQ March 19, 2023 marks the twentieth anniversary of the start of the U.S. War in Iraq. Even though the U.S. combat troops left Iraq in 2011,
JSIS 495C Task Force: Megan McCloskey – Including Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action
October 7, 2023
INCLUDING PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN HUMANITARIAN ACTION Description: An estimated 12 million persons with disabilities are among those forcibly displaced globally. Recognizing that persons with disabilities are often among the
JSIS 495B Task Force: James Lin – Averting War: Taiwan and U.S.-China Relations
October 7, 2023
AVERTING WAR: TAIWAN AND U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS In 2021, The Economist dedicated an issue to Taiwan titled “The Most Dangerous Place on Earth.” After China’s 2022 missile launches off Taiwan’s shores
JSIS 495A Anand Yang – Partners, Allies, and China: Global Perspectives on the Indo-Pacific Strategy of the United States
October 7, 2023
Allies, Partners, and Prospects: Global Perspectives on U.S. the Indo-Pacific Strategy The United States considers the Indo-Pacific region, the area within and around the Indian and Pacific Oceans, as vital
JSIS 495C Sarah Lohmann – Hybrid Warfare, Disinformation and the NATO Response
January 25, 2023
HYBRID WARFARE, DISINFORMATION AND THE NATO RESPONSE In the months leading up to and during the 2022 Ukraine conflict, hybrid warfare and disinformation operations disabled critical infrastructure and shaped public
SPRING QUARTER: JSIS 495 Noam Pianko – Defining Antisemitism in a Global Context
October 1, 2022
DEFINING ANTISEMITISM IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT Incidents of Antisemitism, sometimes called “the longest hatred,” are rising in the United States and around the globe. From Charlottesville to Budapest, Antisemitic stereotypes and