Student representatives will answer questions and share their knowledge about opportunities and resources at CMC’s centers over Chipotle burritos. Mingle with students from Keck, Mgrublian, Salvatori, and Rose.

Kravis South 4th Floor Patio

Join us for a discussion on how to make the best out of your study abroad experience. Hear from students about their experiences and opportunities abroad, their advice, and the transition back to campus. Some Crust cookies will be provided!

Keck Library, Kravis 321

It’s hard to turn on the news today without hearing about the war in Ukraine. However, in the age of sound bites and dramatic headlines, sometimes it’s difficult to understand the broader context of the violence and where this war could be headed. Please join us for a Zoom event with the faculty director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, Hilary Appel, and the Chair of the Keck Center’s Board of Governors, General (Ret.) William Crouch '63, to discuss the war in Ukraine. In addition to their leadership roles at the Keck Center, Professor Appel is the Podlich Family Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow and has widely published on the politics of Russia and Eastern Europe. General Crouch is a retired United States Army four-star general who served as the Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Army in Europe, and Commander of NATO Troops in Bosnia.

Together we will gather as a community of alumni and students to learn about the war from the director and board chair of CMC’s Keck Center.

Virtual: Registration Closed

Join us for a Lunch Talk with Robert Carlin, former CIA chief of Northeast Asia at the Bureau of Intelligence Research, and political advisor at the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization.

Join us for a talk with:

Christian Oestlien - VP of Product Management at YouTube

Laura Eise - Director of Security, Strategy, and Analytics at Expedia Group

Stephanie Goldberger - Optimization Strategy Lead at Yahoo

Virtual Event: Registration Closed

Join us for a lunch talk with Dr. Jennifer Merolla on her work as a Professor of Political Science at the University of California: Riverside, Researcher of Public Opinion and Political Behavior, and Author of several books.

Keck Library, 345

Join us for a talk with Lingling Wei, WSJ Chief China Correspondent.

Join us for a talk with 2022 Arthur Adams Family Distinguished Speaker, Fiona Hill, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution Former Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs, National Security Council.

Professional development event on workplace strategies for women aiming to work in the field of security, covering topics like speaking with authority (and without apologizing), learning the language of the room, strategies for resisting interruption, responding to inappropriate comments, projecting confidence, etc.

Kravis 321

RSVP Form: Closed

Join us for a Hot Topic talk with Professor Hillary Appel, moderated by Professor Lisa Koch.

Pickford Auditorium, Bauer Center

Join us for a lunch talk with Professor Alev Cinar from Bilkent University (Turkey), EU Marie Curie Fellow, Stanford University.

Join us for a Hot Topic Event with Professor Hilary Appel, Director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies. 

Location: Kravis 4th Floor Patio South

Dr. Tun Myint will share his observations and analysis of the Myanmar Crisis through the lens of a professor of Political Science at Carleton College and as a former student in the 1988 democracy movement in Myanmar.

The Claremont International Relations Society organized this hot topics event, and invited Professor Koch to speak on China’s recent nuclear weapons advances.

Almost two decades after Al Qaeda's 9/11 attacks on the American homeland, the United States has—for now —disengaged militarily from Afghanistan. A surge of 100,000 U.S. troops into Afghanistan in 2010 was unforeseeable in 2001, as was a Taliban victory twenty years hence. Karl Eikenberry, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and commander of Coalition forces there, will assess America's strategy in Afghanistan and the implications of the U.S. military withdrawal for international security. 

The Keck Center invited Grace Park, an Israel Country Director Office of the Secretary of Defense U.S. Department of Defense, to speak at the Women in Security Studies Workshop.

The Keck Center invited Professor Lenka Bustikova, Associate Professor in European Union and Comparative East European Politics, in association with St Antony's College, University of Oxford.

The Keck Center invited Dr. Bridget L. Coggins Associate Professor of Political Science, UC Santa Barbara Advisor to U.S. State Department's Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, on behalf of the Women in Securities to speak to women on the topic of women in politics.

Panel 1: Mexican Politics: Pressures from Below (10:00-11:45) – Founders Room, Bauer Center
Chair: Steve Wuhs, Interim Dean, Professor of Political Science, University of Redlands
Presenters:
Peter Ward – “Looking Back (in order) to Look Forwards: Forty Years of Shanties, Squatters and Citizens: An Aging Scholar’s Retrospection and Introspection”
Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs and Sociology, University of Texas at Austin

Miguel Basanez – “Two Critical Days of 1988 for Polling in Mexico: Rod Camp and the NYT”
Former Mexican Ambassador to the U.S.

Andrew Selee – “Mexico’s Changing Role on Migration: From Sending Country to Pass-Through, Destination, and Barrier”
President, Migration Policy Institute

Keynote Lunch Address (12:00-1:10pm) – Lunch served at noon, Talk begins at 12:30pm at the Athenaeum
Professor Roderic Ai Camp – "Conversations with Mexican Elites, the Life of an American Academic" 

Panel 2: Mexican Political Elites: Exploring Gender & Class (1:30-3:10pm) – Founders Room, Bauer Center
Chair: Joseph Klesner, Professor of Political Science, Kenyon College
Presenters:
William Beezley – “Embroidering Domestic and Humans Rights: Women’s Voices”
Professor of History, University of Arizona

Caroline Beer – “Gender and Political Recruitment in Mexico”  
John G. McCullough Professor of Political Science, Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies University of Vermont

Victoria Rodriguez – “Latin America’s Women Presidents: Governance and Policymaking”   
C. B. Smith, Sr. Centennial Chair Emeritus in United States-Mexico Relations, University of Texas at Austin

Coffee Break – Founders Room Patio

Panel 3: Violence and Security in Mexico (3:30-5:10pm) – Founders Room, Bauer Center
Chair: David Pion Berlin
Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of California, Riverside
Presenters:
Shannan Mattiace – “Yucatán as an Exception to Rising Criminal Violence in México”
Professor of Political Science & International Studies, Allegheny College

Sallie Hughes – “Journalism at Risk: How Mexican Journalists Cope and Carry On” 
Professor of Journalism, University of Miami

David Carey – “Gender-Based Violence through the Lens of Feminicide:  Violence, Gender, and Society in Mexico and Guatemala”
Doehler Professor of History, Loyola University Maryland

Too often, we are told that Russia plays a weak hand well. But, perhaps the nation’s cards are better than we know. Russia ranks significantly behind the U.S. and China by traditional measures of power: GDP, population size, over-all health, and military might. Yet 25 years removed from its mid-1990s nadir following the collapse of the USSR, Russia has become a supremely disruptive force in world politics. Kathryn Stoner, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, professor of political science (by courtesy) at Stanford University, and incoming Mosbacher Director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law assesses the resurrection of Russia and argues for looking beyond traditional measures of power to assess Russia’s strength in global affairs. Accounting for how Russian domestic politics under Vladimir Putin influences its foreign policy, Stoner explains how Russia has battled its way back to international prominence. 

Join us for a discussion with Professor Appel, Professor Taw, and former US Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry.

Join us for a discussion with Professor Appel, Professor Taw, and former US Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry.