SDF-Net: Tweeters, Hackers and Drones: Critical Discussions on Contemporary Technologies of Security
22 March 2012
10:30am - 4:00pm
626 York Research Tower
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‘Explaining the Iraq War: Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence’ (POSTPONED)
Frank P. Harvey
23 March 2012
11:30am – 1:00pm
956 York research Tower
The almost universally accepted explanation for the Iraq war is very clear and consistent - the US decision to attack Saddam Hussein's regime on March 19, 2003 was a product of the ideological agenda, misguided priorities, intentional deceptions and grand strategies of President G. W. Bush and prominent 'neoconservatives' and 'unilateralists' on his national security team. Frank P. Harvey argues that this narrative remains an unsubstantiated assertion and an underdeveloped argument without a logical foundation. He offers an alternative analysis of the events and strategies which pushed the US-UK coalition towards war.
Frank P. Harvey is Professor of International Relations at Dalhousie University. He has published numerous articles on nuclear and conventional deterrence, strategic stability, coercive diplomacy, proliferation, crisis decision-making, protracted ethnic conflict and national missile defence. His Commentaries have appeared in the Globe and Mail, National Post and Chronicle-Herald (Halifax).
The Edges of War and Sanctuary: Genealogy of a Border
This talk aims to historicize a highly contested border - that between Somalia and Kenya - and in so doing show how the border might be seen as moving and/or as multiple in the ways it excludes, contains, and claims. The emergent meanings and purposes attached to it change over time , from the colonial period to the Cold War to the present, but not as much as one might expect. In a preliminary vein, this talk shows spatialities of power struggles and how they produce borders, many of them unofficial and invisible at first glance. These exist at the intersection of repeated war, drought, racism, and nationalism in Kenya and Somalia.
Jennifer Hyndman
Department of Social Sciences and Geography, York University
29 March 2012
1:30—3pm
305 York Lanes
