The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.The Mershon Center received a $98,000 grant from the National Science Foundation and led a three-day workshop on the causes and consequences of global tensions caused by extremist movements and political violence in the Middle East. The workshop was held in Istanbul at Bogazici University in late June and convened scholars from around the world to study topics such as the influence of religion and ideology and tensions between global and local cultures.Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security StudiesEvent webpage, event summar

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       Conference Participants      Said Arjomand, SUNY-Stony BrookMohammed Farid Azzi Karima Bennoune, Rutgers Laurie Brand, USC Pervais Iqbal Cheema Martha Crenshaw, Weselyan Christian Davenport, University of Maryland Yilmaz Esmer, (Conference Organizer-Turkey) Gregory Gause, University of Vermont Deborah (Misty) Gerner, University of Kansas Joshua Goldstein, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University Rick Herrmann, OSU (Conference Organizer) Barbara Ibrahim, Population Council Saad Eddin Ibrahim Mark Juergensmeyer, UC Santa Barbara Zeev Maoz, Tel Aviv University John Meyer, Stanford University Katherine Meyer, OSU (Conference organizer) Mansoor Moaddel, Eastern Mich University Valentine Moghadam Richard Augustus, Norton Boston University Umut Ozkirimli, Bilgi University Helen Rizzo, The American University in Cairo Roland Robertson Mahmood Sariolghalam, National University of Iran Phil Schrodt, University of Kansas Jillian Schwedler, University of MD Mark Tessler, University of Michigan Mary Ann Tetreault, Trinity    Page 1 of 2Understanding Global Tensions12/25/2007file://C:\Documents and Settings\becker.271\My Documents\Old website files from Julie\...       Papers (Password Protected)      Sovereignty vs. Suffering: Re-examining Sovereignty and Human Rights through the Lens of Iraq (article) (questions) Karima Bennoune Rutgers University Nonstate Actors and the Spread of Terrorism: Linkages Among Local, Regional, and Global Tensions Martha Crenshaw Wesleyan University  Towards a Middle Eastern Research Agenda: Understanding Conflict and Regime Type Christian Davenport University of Maryland Tensions in Sovereign Statehood in the Middle East F. Gregory Gause, III University of Vermont The Political Economy of Rights & Resources in the Middle East: Reflections on Water? Deborah J. Gerner University of Kansas Gender, Men, and War in Anthropology Joshua S. Goldstein Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University Ideologies, Religion, and Globalization Richard K. Herrmann The Ohio State University/Mershon Center Youth Transitions and Social Disruption Barbara Ibrahim Population Council, Egypt  The Struggle for Muslims Souls Saad Eddin Ibrahim Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies Globalization and Political Instability J. Craig Jenkins The Ohio State University Comments on National Sovereignty in World Society John W. Meyer Stanford University Democracy, Democratization, Local Contexts and Individuals’ Attitudes Katherine Meyer The Ohio State University Gender and Global Tensions in the Middle East Valentine M. Moghadam    Page 1 of 2Understanding Global Tensions12/25/2007file://C:\Documents and Settings\becker.271\My Documents\Old website files from Julie\...Illinois State University/ UNESCO  The Elephant outside the Circle Augustus Richard Norton Boston University Understanding Nationalism Umut Özkirimli Istanbul Bilgi University  Global and Local Gender Regimes: Some Preliminary Thoughts Helen Rizzo The American University in Cairo Changes in the Global Balance of Power:  Everything we know is wrong (or at least irrelevant) Philip A. Schrodt University of Kansas What We Know—and Don’t Know—About Political Islam Jillian Schwedler University of Maryland Religion, Politics, and Tensions in the Muslim Middle East: Reflections on What Islam Does and Does Not Explain about the Region’s Problems and Some Implications for Social Science Research Mark Tessler University of Michigan  Political Economy of Rights and Resources Mary Ann Tétreault Trinity College Global Demographic Change, Transnational Migration, and Shifting Boundaries of Self, Family, and Community Kathryn M. Yount Emory University     Page 2 of 2Understanding Global Tensions12/25/2007file://C:\Documents and Settings\becker.271\My Documents\Old website files from Julie\...      International Workshop on Understanding Global Tensions  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, U.S.A. AND  BU/UNDP HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER AND OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY/MERSHON CENTER  June 21-22, 2004 Bogaziçi University Istanbul, Turkey Program and participants Instutional Organizers The Mershon Center, Ohio State University and  UNDP Human Development Center, Bogaziçi University Conference Organizers: Yilmaz Esmer, Director, UNDP Human Development Center, Bogaziçi University Richard K. Herrmann, Director, The Mershon Center, Ohio State University Katherine Meyer, Department of Sociology, Ohio State University Conference Assistant: Gizem Arikan, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Bogaziçi University  Conference Rapporteur: Zachery Mears, Department of Political Sicence and The Mershon Center, Ohio State University Student Assistants: Özlem Bekâr Bahar Bilgen Serra Hakyemez Bayram Sen Dilek Yankaya Conference Venue:  Rector’s Conference Hall, Bogaziçi University, Bebek, Istanbul  WORKSHOP ON UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL TENSIONS Co-sponsored by The National Science Foundation and  Bogaziçi University The purpose of this workshop is to assess the state of social science knowledge Page 1 of 4Understanding Global Tensions12/25/2007file://C:\Documents and Settings\becker.271\My Documents\Old website files from Julie\...   as it relates to understanding the role of global-level institutions and processes in shaping the character, causes, and consequences of global tensions broadly defined, but with an emphasis on extremist movements and political violence. The workshop will focus on the Middle East—as both a site and a source of global tensions. Workshop sessions will center on the global system itself: what is its structure, how is it changing, and how do its features and trajectory affect global tensions? An international group of social scientists conducting research on different aspects of globalization and global conflict will work together to articulate research priorities that will provide the basis for future collaboration and especially the formation of international research teams.  Monday, June 21   Welcome 9:15-9:30 Sabih Tansal, Rector, Bogaziçi University Engin Bermek, President, Turkish Academy of Sciences 9:30-10:00 Introduction: The Global System and Global Tensions Session I 10:00-11:20 Remapping Global Geopolitics Questions to be addressed:  How has the balance of power changed in the post-Soviet era? How have these changes contributed to a change in the frequency, intensity, shape and organization of global tensions? Chair: Richard K. Herrmann, Ohio State University Panelists: Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema, Islamabad Policy Research Institute, Pakistan Sule Kut, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey Zeev Maoz, Tel Aviv University, Israel Roland Robertson, University of Aberdeen, UK Mahmood Saiolghalam, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran Phil Schrodt, University of Kansas, USA Shibley Telhami, University of Maryland, USA 11:20-11:30 Coffee Break Session II 11:30-12:40 Political Economy of Rights and Resources Questions to be addressed: What are the important current trends and issues in the global economy, the structure of global inequalities, and the availability and management of global resources relevant to understanding global tensions? Chair: Katherine Meyer, Ohio State University Panelists: Mine Eder, Bogaziçi University, Turkey Deborah Gerner, University of Kansas, USA Mary Ann Tetrault, Trinity University, USA 12:40-1:00 Break Sandwiches and refreshments 1:00-2:20 Turkey: Culture, Politics, Economics and International Relations Moderator and Introduction: Yilmaz Esmer Speakers: Ambassador Yalim Eralp Prof. Baran Tuncer 2:20-2:30 Coffee Break Session III 2:30-3:25  Demographic Destinies and Destinations Questions to be addressed: What are current trends in the structure and growth of the global population, migration flows, regional and national gender and age compositions, the formation of diasporas and refugee populations? How are global tensions   Page 2 of 4Understanding Global Tensions12/25/2007file://C:\Documents and Settings\becker.271\My Documents\Old website files from Julie\...linked to these demographic trends? Chair: Joane Nagel, University of Kansas Panelists: Farid Mohammed Azzi, University of Oran, Algeria Barbara Ibrahim, Population Council, Cairo, Egypt Kathryn Yount, Emory University, USA 3:25-3:35 Coffee Break Session IV 3:35-4:45  Ideologies, Religions, and Global Movement Questions to be addressed: What are the main ideational structures characterizing the global system? Which beliefs and norms are shared and how broadly? How and to what extent has Islam become a vehicle for articulating and organizing anti-globalization sentiments? How does this compare to earlier eras where socialist critiques and anti-colonial discourses framed resistance movements and extremist politics? Chair: Yilmaz Esmer, Bogaziçi University Panelists: Saad Eddin Ibrahim, American University in Cairo, Egypt Richard Herrmann, Ohio State University, USA Richard Norton, Boston University, USA Umut Özkirimli, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey Jillian Schwedler, University of Maryland, USA  4:45-5:30 Summary and General Discussion Tuesday, June 22 9:15-9:45 Introduction: Global and Local Synergies and Flashpoints Session V 9:45-11:00  Tensions Between Global and Local Cultures Questions to be addressed: How important and extensive is the clash of values when local social systems confront non-local, often Western or “global” involvement? What values to Western or global forces bring to the local scene and how are these understoodby the local communities? Is there popular objection to what is seen as a consumer culture and externally imposed economic reforms and re-structured regimes? What role do globally advocated political reforms, globally-defined notions of human rights and gender rights play? How does the rhetoric of rights translate into meaningful choices and what conflicts are there between the local and global at this operational level? To what extent do these so-called “clashes of civilizations” account for global tensions?  Chair: Joane Nagel, University of Kansas Panelists: Christian Davenport, University of Maryland, USA Yilmaz Esmer, Bogaziçi University, Turkey Mark Tessler, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Katherine Meyer, Ohio State University, USA Mansoor Moaddel, Eastern Michigan University, USA 11:00-11:10 Coffee Break Session VI 11:10-12:20 Global and Local Gender Regimes Questions to be addressed: Why do women figure so centrally in national debates and radical movements? How have women become the symbolic terrain upon which globalization is judged and resisted? What role do women play in conceptions of the national and local community and what role do these communities play in the identities of women as they manage local and global expectations? What is the role of local masculine cultures and global masculinity in understanding global tensions? Chair: Katherine Meyer, Ohio State University Panelists: Joshua Goldstein, University of Massachusetts, USA Valentine Moghadam, Illinois State University, USA Page 3 of 4Understanding Global Tensions12/25/2007file://C:\Documents and Settings\becker.271\My Documents\Old website files from Julie\...Helen Rizzo, American University in Cairo, Egypt   12:30-2:00 Lunch at Kennedy Lodge, Bogaziçi University Session VII 2:00-3:15  Sovereignty and International Law Questions to be addressed: To what extent are sources of global tension situated at the boundaries where state sovereignty meets international law? Is international law seen as constraining all states or only weak ones and how do these understandings of the rule of law and norms affect global-local tensions? Do notions of citizenship, legitimacy, and rights embedded in international law conflict with local practices and state prerogatives? How to these disjunctures contribute to global tensions in some instances, and the resolution of conflicts in others? Chair: Yilmaz Esmer Panelists: Karima Bennoune, Rutgers University, USA Gregory Gause, University of Vermont, USA John Meyer, Stanford University, USA 3:15-3:25 Coffee Break Session VIII 3:25-4:45 Local and Transnational Radicalisms Questions to be addressed: What is the relationship between local politics, political unrest, and political movements on the one hand and global politics, unrest and movements on the other? How are global tensions built on the backs of local tensions, local organizations, local ideologies, and local movements? How do the linkages between local and transnational political movements affect identities and conceptions of loyalty to the local community, and, in turn local conflict and global tensions? Chair: Richard Herrmann, Ohio State University Panelists: Said Arjomand, University of Chicago, USA Laurie Brand, University of Southern California, USA Martha Crenshaw, Wesleyan University, USA Craig Jenkins, Ohio State University 4:45-5:15 Summary and Discussion 5:15-6:45 Developing a Research Agenda for Understanding Global Tensions 7:00-9:00 Rector’s Reception, Kennedy Lodge, Bogaziçi University  Page 4 of 4Understanding Global Tensions12/25/2007file://C:\Documents and Settings\becker.271\My Documents\Old website files from Julie\...             All receipts for reimbursement should be sent to: Viki Jones Mershon Center 1501 Neil Avenue Columbus, OH 43201 questions? 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