Mission

The Buffett Center sponsors and facilitates collaborative interdisciplinary scholarship on crucial problems facing the world. Our activities promote dialogue on international affairs enriching the educational program at Northwestern. Working with a variety of organizations and communities we contribute to preparing exemplary global citizens.

Events

Public events resume in fall 2009.

Stephen Kinzer Op-Ed: Democracy, made in Iran
Faculty affiliate Stephen Kinzer argues in The Guardian that by using images of Muhammad Mossadeq Iran's protesters are signalling they want to win reform without US intervention.
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Brian Hanson Awarded Community Building Award
Brian Hanson, Associate Director of the Buffett Center, has been awarded the Community Building Award in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.
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NU GO Website Will Profile International Programs
The Buffett Center is building a comprehensive profile of international programs at Northwestern: the Northwestern University Global Opportunities (NU GO) website.
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	Remembering Tiananmen Keynote Wang Dan, a key leader of the 1989 student movement, discusses the lessons of the Tiananmen Square events and today's China.
	The Democracy Deficit and the Middle East John Waterbury, the former president of the American University of Beirut, discusses the alleged resistance of Islam to democracy.
	Global Energy Series » The Political Economy of Resource Nationalism and Energy Security in Latin America David Mares analyzes how Latin American countries altered their energy policies with changes in energy markets since 1973.
	The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One David Kilcullen, former advisor to General Petraeus in Iraq, discusses modern warfare, illuminating the "War on Terrorism" and the associated "small wars" across the globe.
	Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery Siddharth Kara investigates the mechanics of the global sex trafficking business across four continents and takes stock of its devastating human toll.

New Faculty Publications

		Contracting States: Sovereign Transfers in International Relations by Hendrik Spruyt, Political Science & Alexander Cooley (Princeton University Press, 2009)
		The Balkans in World History by Andrew Wachtel, Slavic Languages and Literatures (Oxford University Press, 2008)
		European Union and the Deconstruction of the Rhineland Frontier by Michael Loriaux, Political Science (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
		New Landscapes of Inequality: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of American Democracy co-edited by Micaela di Leonardo, Anthropology (Santa Fe: School of Advanced Research Press, 2008)
		Shaping Strategy: The Civil-Military Politics of Strategic Assessment by Risa Brooks, Political Science (Princeton University Press, 2008)
		A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It by Stephen Kinzer, Political Science (Wiley, 2008)
		The Time of the Crime: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Italian Film by Domietta Torlasco, French & Italian (Stanford University Press, 2008)
		Tree of Liberty: Cultural Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World edited by Doris L. Garraway, French & Italian (University of Virginia Press, 2008)
		The UN Security Council and the Politics of International Authority co-edited by Ian Hurd, Political Science (Routledge, 2008)