| 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.
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"
For additional information, please contact:
Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies
365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5203
New York, NY 10016-4309
Tel (212) 817-2100
Fax (212) 817-1565
|