The UNM International Studies Institute and Center for Science, Technology, and Policy present “Regime Change: U.S. Strategy through the Prism of 9/11,” with Robert S. Litwak of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Tuesday, Feb. 27 from 4 to 5:15 p.m. in Dane Smith Hall, rm. 126.
The 9/11 terrorist attacks starkly recast the U.S. debate on “rogue states.” In this new era of vulnerability, should the United States counter the dangers of weapons proliferation and state-sponsored terrorism by toppling regimes or by promoting changes in the threatening behavior of their leaders?
In his new book, Regime Change: U.S. Strategy through the Prism of 9/11 (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), Litwak examines the contrasting precedents set with Iraq and Libya and provides incisive analysis of the pressing crises with North Korea and Iran.
Litwak is director of the Division of International Security Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He formerly served as director for nonproliferation on the National Security Council Staff.
Litwak is also the author of Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy: Containment After the Cold War (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000); and a co-editor of Nuclear Proliferation after the Cold War (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1994, co-editor).
For more information contact Andrew L. Ross, professor of Political Science and director, Center for Science, Technology, and Policy (the program formerly known as “OPST”), at aross@unm.edu or 277-7391, or Stephanie Grant, CSTP program administrator, at slgrant@unm.edu or 277-1391.