Scholars’ Circle – Lasting Quality Peace Making -/- Big Money Influences Science and Industry – November 27, 2016

November 26, 2016 host

First, beyond ending war what does it take to make a lasting quality peace? Peter Wallensteen is the author of Quality Peace: Peacebuilding, Victory and World Order.[ dur: 28mins. ]

Peter Wallensteen is a Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, Sweden and research Professor of peace studies at Joan B Kroc Institute for Peace Studies at University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Quality Peace: Peacebuilding, Victory and World Order, Understanding Conflict Resolution, contributor to The Scientific Study of Peace and War: A Text Reader and editor of Regional Organizations and Peacemaking: Challengers to the UN?.

Then, the birth of what we know as big science. The big money supported, cross institution collaborations that have supported both medicine and weaponry. How did science and government get so entrenched with industry, and one another? And what have been the results? Michael Hiltzik is the author of Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention That Launched the Military Industrial Complex. [ dur: 30mins. ]

Michael Hiltzik is a Pulizer Prize winning journalist and author. He has been writing for the Los Angeles Times for three decades and is currently the Times’ Business Columnist. He is the author of many books including, The New Deal: A Modern History; The Plot Against Social Security, and his latest Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention That Launched the Military Industrial Complex.

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Scholars’ Circle – Making of a Scandal -/- US election 2016 affects on climate, economy and foreign policy – November 20, 2016

November 19, 2016 host

First, the makings of a scandal. Why are some perceived as big scandals, while a rash of other wrongs are ignored? [ dur: 21mins. ]

Robert Entman is a Professor of Media and Public Affairs and Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University. He is the author of, Scandal and Silence: Media Responses to Presidential Misconduct, Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion and US Foreign Policy, and The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America.

Then, what might the 2016 election mean for the future on climate, the economy, foreign policy and democracy in the US? [ dur: 37 mins. ]

Sean Theriault is a Professor in the Department of Government at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Power of the People: Congressional Competition, Public Attention, and Voter Retribution, Party Polarization in Congress, and The Gingrich Senators: The Roots of Partisan Warfare in Congress.
William F. Grover is a Professor of Political Science at Saint Michaels’s College. He is the author of The Unsustainable Presidency: Clinton, Bush, Obama and Beyond, The President as Prisoner: A Structural Critique of the Carter and Reagan Years, and co-editor of Voices of Dissent: Critical Readings in American Politics.
Keith T. Poole is a Professor of the Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the co-author of Political Bubbles: Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy, Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches, and Ideology and Congress.

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Scholars’ Circle – GMO promotion by US State Department -/- Insight into US election of 2016 – November 13, 2016

November 12, 2016 host

Is the US State Department using its diplomatic efforts to push genetically modified foods into other countries? Our guest says yes. She traced US multi-pronged effort to persuade Mexico to allow genetically modified foods.[ dur: 23mins. ]

Yadira Ixchel Martínez Pantoja, PhD candidate in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland. Her recent paper is titled, United States promotion of GM foods: the use of public diplomacy strategies and instruments to target government agencies in Mexico.

How do we make sense of the 2016 US election politically and historically? [ dur: 35mins. ]

David P. Redlawsk is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He is the author of The Positive Case for Negative Campaigning, Why Iowa? How Caucuses and Sequential Elections Improve the Presidential Nominating Process and Reforming Presidential Nominations: Rotating State Primaries or a National Primary?
Henry E. Brady is a Dean of Policy and a Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-editor of Rethinking Social Inquiry, Capturing Campaign Effects, and The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology.
Dr. Paul Michel Taillon is a Professor of History at The University of Auckland. He is a contributing author of Good, Reliable, White Men: Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877-1917.

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Scholars’ Circle – Ultraconservative Media -/- Election affected by polls, demographics and laws – November 6, 2016

November 5, 2016 host

First, the roots of the ultraconservative media movement. Nichole Hemmer is the author of Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics. [ dur: 28mins. ]

Nicole Hemmer is Assistant Professor of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. She is the author of, Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics.

How accurate are the polls? Who will vote and who won’t? What election laws affect who votes? And what will ultimately determine the presidential race? Two political scientists join us to analyze. [ dur: 30mins. ]

Jonathan Nagler is Professor of Politics at New York University. He is the Director of the Politics Data Center and a principal investigator at the NYU Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) Lab. He is the co-author of, Who Votes Now? Demographics, Issues, Inequality, and Turnout in the United States.
Jan Leighley Is Professor of Political Science at American University. She is the co-author of, Who Votes Now? Demographics, Issues, Inequality and Turnout in the United States, Strength in Numbers? The Political Mobilization of Racial and Ethnic Minorities and Mass Media and Politics: A Social Science Perspective.

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Monthly Archives: November 2016

Scholars’ Circle – Lasting Quality Peace Making -/- Big Money Influences Science and Industry – November 27, 2016

Scholars’ Circle – Making of a Scandal -/- US election 2016 affects on climate, economy and foreign policy – November 20, 2016

Scholars’ Circle – GMO promotion by US State Department -/- Insight into US election of 2016 – November 13, 2016

Scholars’ Circle – Ultraconservative Media -/- Election affected by polls, demographics and laws – November 6, 2016

By Maria Armoudian