Center for Social Theory and Comparative History
Colloquium Series for Winter-Spring 2004
American Empire?
Meetings are on Mondays 2:00pm to 5:30pm in the History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche
Empire versus Nation-States?
2 February
1 March
Michael Mann
Ellen Wood
Department of Sociology
UCLA
Author of Empire of Capital
London
Is the New US Imperialism Economically Driven?
Co-sponsored with Department of Geography
David Harvey
Department of Anthropology
CUNY
Discussant: Robert Brenner, Department of History, UCLA
15 March
Cyrus Bina
Department of Economics
University of Minnesota
12 April
Oil and Empire
Michael Klare
Michael Watts
Peace and World Security Studies
Hampshire College
Department of Geography
UC Berkeley
Militarism and Empire
Carl Boggs
Chalmers Johnson
Department of Humanities
National University
Author of Sorrows of Empire
San Diego
The Bush Offensive:
American Nationalism or Grand Strategy?
3 May
Anatol Lieven
Walter Russell Mead
Senior Associate
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Council on Foreign Relations
New York
7 June
US Foreign Policy Today: Continuity or Discontinuity?
Andrew Bacevich
Department of International Relations
Boston University
Discussants: Ronald Steel, School of International Relations, USC
Marc Trachtenberg, Department of Political Science, UCLA
CENTER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Robert Brenner, Director • Perry Anderson, Assistant Director
Richard Ashcraft (1938-1995) • Ivan Berend • Rogers Brubaker • Saul Friedländer • Carlo Ginzburg • Michael Mann • Carole Pateman • Maurice Zeitlin
Tom Mertes, Administrator
The Center for Social Theory and Comparative History, 4355G Public Policy Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Phone: (310) 206-5675.
Fax: (310) 206-4453. E-mail: Mertes@ucla.edu, World Wide Web: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/issr/cstch