What are the real motives behind the Bush administrationís plans to invade Iraq? What are the likely consequences of the war for Iraq and the Middle East, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Why has the Bush administration taken a different approach toward North Korea? Does Bush administration policy depart significantly, and dangerously, from recent U.S. foreign policy?
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Speakers:
Chris Toensing Editor, Middle East Report; coauthor, Why Another War?
Zachary Lockman Middle Eastern Studies, NYU; author, Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948
Hyun Ok Park Departments of Sociology and East Asian Studies, NYU
Marilyn Young Department of History, NYU; author, The Vietnam Wars
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Silver 703 (formerly the Main Building) [100 Washington Sq East, Manhattan] Thursday, March 6, 2003, 7-9 pm
Sponsored by the Departments of East Asian Studies, History, Middle Eastern Studies, and Sociology, and the International Center for Advanced Studies (ICAS).