JSIS 495/LSJ 491 Stephen Meyers – “A City for All?” Action-based Evaluation of Access and Inclusion in Rome
Task Force 2025
“A City for All?” Action-Based Evaluation of Access and Inclusion in Rome The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote transformative change
JSIS 495/LSJ 491 Megan McCloskey – Ensuring the Human Rights of Older Women in Humanitarian Emergencies
Task Force 2025
Ensuring the Human Rights of Older Women in Humanitarian Emergencies This Task Force/Legal Clinic will encourage students to focus on an issue of contemporary concern, namely protecting the human rights
JSIS 495A Sunila Kale – How to (Re)Develop a Slum: Dharavi, India
Task Force 2025
How to (Re)Develop a Slum: Dharavi, India What counts as a slum, and who should benefit from its redevelopment? Our Task Force starts from the observation that slum redevelopment is
JSIS 495B Saadia Pekkanen – Nuclear Politics in Outer Space
Task Force 2025
Nuclear Politics in Outer Space This task force focuses on the past, present, and future of nuclear politics in outer space. Both the United States and the then Soviet Union
JSIS 495C Anand Yang – Managing Migration: U.S. and EU Asylum and Refugee Policies
Task Force 2025
Managing Migration: U.S. and Eu Asylum and Refugee Policies Millions of people around the world have fled their homes to seek sanctuary elsewhere, often within their own countries but also
JSIS 495A Daniel Bessner – U.S. Grand Strategy in the 21st Century
Task Force 2025
U.S. Grand Strategy in the 21st Century The United States is the world’s most powerful nation, and its actions impact manifold countries in both the western and eastern hemispheres. Despite
JSIS 495B Jessica Beyer – International Information/Internet Infrastructure Security
Task Force 2025
International Information/Internet Infrastructure Security This Task Force will engage with the topic of global information/internet infrastructure security. In recent years, the international community has become increasingly concerned about the security
JSIS 495D Robert Pekkanen – Remilitarizing Japan?: American Foreign Policy and the Japanese Constitution
Task Force 2025
Remilitarizing Japan?: American Foreign Policy and the Japanese Constitution The Liberal Democratic Party’s proposed revision of the Japanese Constitution would likely also include changes in Article 9, the article that
JSIS 495B Task Force: Saadia Pekkanen – U.S.-Japan Alliance in the World
Task Force 2024
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
Task Force
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.