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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 2:30-4:30 pm 621 Mackinnon Building, Rm 621

Allison McQueen, Assistant Professor Stanford University

Hans Morgenthau and the Postwar Apocalyptic Imaginary

This paper situates Hans Morgenthau's political realism in the context of the apocalyptic imaginary that developed in postwar America. Concerned primarily with the secular apocalypticism that underpins strains of liberalism and rationalism, Morgenthau's early work offers a tragic response that emphasizes the ongoing and undecided struggle of political life. However, with the development of thermonuclear weapons, Morgenthau rejects this tragic response, turning instead to a strategy of imagining the apocalypse in order, to prevent it.

 

Thursday March 28 2013, 2:30 –3:30pm MACKINNON BLDG, RM 621

 Mark Mitchell, PhD Candidate, University of Guelph

 USAID and Democratization in Azerbaijan,  Afghanistan and the Ukraine: 1991-2011

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