Dankwart A. Rustow Memorial Lecture

The Dankwart A. Rustow Memorial Lecture, named for the late Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Sociology, is presented annually by the Ralph Bunche Institute and The Graduate Center's Department of Political Science. This lecture commemorates Professor Rustow's range of interests and stimulates expert discussion in these subject areas.

The 2007 lecture, "Inclusive Diplomacy and the Search for Middle East Peace" was delivered by Alvaro de Soto on November 13.

Sponsored by the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies and the Ph.D. Program in Political Science. Please click here to download the speech.

Previous lectures have been given by:

  • 2006: Gareth Evans, President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Crisis Group, "A Rule-Based International Order: Illusory or Achievable?"
  • 2005: Michael Walzer, Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, "The Paradox of National Liberation"
  • 2004: Mary Robinson, Executive Director of the Ethical Globalization Initiative, "Renewing the Commitment to Rule of Law and Human Rights: The Way Forward"
  • 2003: The Honorable Suleyman Sami Demirel, Former President and Prime Minister of Turkey, "Turkey's Relations With It's Neighbors and the U.S. after the War in Iraq"
  • 2002: Michael Ignatieff, Carr Professor of Human Rights and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and author of numerous other works. “Human Rights and Terror”
  • 2001: Richard J. Goldstone, Visiting Professor at the New York University Law School; formerly Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, chair of South Africa's Commission of Inquiry Regarding Public Violence and Intimidation (the "Goldstone Commission"), and co-chair of the Independent Commission on Kosovo. "Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and Chancellor of the University of Witwatersrand.
  • J.C. Hurewitz, Columbia University, "Ottoman Diplomacy and the European State System"
  • Bernard Lewis, Princeton University, "Some Cultural Aspects of Westernization in the Middle East"
  • Arthur Hertzberg, New York University, "A Dead Language Comes Alive Before 1917"

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