CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES
Research and Policy Seminar: Polina Beliakova
MONDAY, November 5, 2018
5:30-7:00pm, 703 Cabot
Polina Beliakova, PhD Senior Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Studies
Civilian Control in Intrastate Wars:
Evidence from Democratic and Democratizing Regimes
Discussant: Sidita Kushi, Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Studies
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5:30-7:00pm
Cabot 703
Marion Smith is a civil society leader and expert in international affairs, and has been executive director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation since March 2014. As Executive Director, he provides strategic leadership for VOC and spearheads its educational initiatives. He is also founding president of the Common Sense Society, an international foundation that promotes civic engagement, entrepreneurship, and leadership virtues among young professionals in the United States and Europe.
At the Asian Forum for Global Governance, Professor Monica Toft addressed the ways in which the rise of Islamist violence and terrorism is related to the global resurgence of religion, and that to both understand and combat it we need a more nuanced understanding for why and how religion becomes part of the political arena.
Read More“Our national goal should be leading the world toward a future where all peoples have a say in their government, enjoy the prospect of a fair standard of living, are subject to and privileged by due process of law, are secure from deliberate violence, and can benefit from these things, sustainably,” said Professor Monica Toft.
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