February 13–14, 2004
Dodds Auditorium, Princeton University

Program

Friday, February 13

9:00 Welcome

Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Miguel A. Centeno, Director, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), Princeton University
9:30 Panel 1: The Local and the Global

Charles S. Maier, Department of History, Harvard University

Linda Weiss, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney

Commentators: Nancy Bermeo, Department of Politics, Princeton University; Gilbert F. Rozman, Department of Sociology, Princeton University; Stephen Kotkin, Department of History, Princeton University
2:00 Panel 2: Growth and Inequality

Ravi Kanbur, Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University

François Bourguignon, World Bank

Commentators: Alejandro Portes, Department of Sociology, Princeton University; Jeremy I. Adelman, Department of History, Princeton University; Atul Kohli, Department of Politics, Princeton University


Saturday, February 14

9:00 Panel 3: Particular Identies and Universal Rights

Amy L. Chua, Yale Law School, Yale University

Samantha Power, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Commentators: Lawrence Rosen, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University; Christopher L. Eisgruber, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; Deborah J. Yashar, Department of Politics, Princeton University
2:00 Panel 4: Liberalism and Empire

G. John Ikenberry, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Michael Mann, Department of Sociology, UCLA

Commentators: Jeffrey I. Herbst, Department of Politics, Princeton University; Ezra Suleiman, Department of Politics, Princeton University; Harold James, Department of History, Princeton University
4:00 Closing Remarks

Miguel A. Centeno, Director, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), Princeton University


Speakers

Jeremy I. Adelman is the Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor in Spanish Civilization and Culture and Professor of History at Princeton University. His most recent works include Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World from the Mongol Empire to the Present (2002), coauthored with Stephen Aron, Stephen Kotkin, Suzanne Marchand, Gyan Prakash, Robert L. Tignor, and Michael Tsin; Trading Cultures: The Worlds of Western Merchants: Essays on Authority, Objectivity, and Evidence (2001), coedited with Stephen Aron; and a working paper for Princeton University’s Program in Latin American Studies on “Capitalism and Democracy in South America” (2000).

Nancy Bermeo is Professor of Politics at Princeton University. She is the author of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy (2003); has edited and contributed to the volumes Unemployment in the New Europe (2001) and Civil Society before Democracy: Lessons from 19th Century Europe (2000), with Phillip Nord; and has been published recently in Global Governance, the Journal of Democracy, and South European Society and Politics.
François Bourguignon is Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of Development Economics at the World Bank, Professor of Economics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), and editor of the World Bank Economic Review. Bourguignon’s published work includes several books, in particular the Handbook of Income Distribution (2000), coedited with A. Atkinson, and numerous articles in economic journals, including the Journal of Economic Theory, Econometrica, and the Review of Economic Studies.
Miguel A. Centeno is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) at Princeton University. He is the author of Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America (2002), coeditor (with Fernando Lopez-Alves) of The Other Mirror: Grand Theory through the Lens of Latin America (2001), and has written several recent book chapters on war and peace in Latin America.
Amy L. Chua is Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where she teaches about contracts, international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law. Her most recent book is World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (2003).
Christopher L. Eisgruber is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and in the University Center for Human Values, as well as Director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs, at Princeton University. He is the author of Constitutional Self-Government (2001).
Jeffrey I. Herbst is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Chair of Department of Politics at Princeton University. He is the author of States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control (2000) as well as books on politics in Ghana and Zimbabwe, and has recently published book chapters analyzing the history of U.S. intelligence estimates of South African apartheid regimes and the nature of South African democracy.
G. John Ikenberry is the Peter F. Krogh Professor of Geopolitics and Global Justice at Georgetown University, with an appointment in both the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Government Department. He is also the director of the Mortara Center for International Affairs at Georgetown University, which was inaugurated in January 2003. Ikenberry's most recent books are American Unrivaled: The Future of the Balance of Power (2002) and After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (2001), which won the 2002 Schroeder-Jervis Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book in international history and politics.
Harold James is Professor of History at Princeton University. He also serves as Chair of the Editorial Board for World Politics, a quarterly political science journal published under the editorial sponsorship of the Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) at Princeton. James’s recent works include Europe Reborn: Our Common European Home in the Twentieth Century (2003), as well as the edited volumes Enterprise in the Period of Fascism in Europe (2002), with Jakob Tanner, and The Interwar Depression in Historical Context (2002).
Ravi Kanbur is T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Applied Economics and Management in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Department of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences. Kanbur is the author of over ninety articles on such topics as risk taking, inequality, poverty, structural adjustment, debt, agriculture, and political economy, and is a coauthor of the forthcoming Economics for an Imperfect World: Essays in Honor of Joseph Stiglitz.
Atul Kohli is the David K.E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Politics and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is the editor of recent works such as States, Markets and Just Growth: Development in the Twenty-First Century (2003), with Chung-in Moon and George Sorensen; The Success of India's Democracy (2001); and Community Conflicts and the State in India (1998), with Amrita Basu.
Stephen Kotkin is Professor of History and Director of the Program in Russian Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970–2000 (2001) and editor of several other recent works, including The Cultural Gradient: The Transformation of Ideas in Europe, 1789–1991 (2003), with Catherine Evtuhov, and Political Corruption in Transition: A Skeptic’s Handbook (2002), with András Sájo.
Charles S. Maier is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, where he also has served as the director of the Center for European Studies and as the chair of the undergraduate Social Studies Program. The author of Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany (1997) and The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity (1988), Maier is currently collaborating with William Kirby on a world history of the twentieth century and writing a history of the rise and decline of territoriality as a resource for state organization in the modern era.
Michael Mann is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he teaches comparative/historical sociology, political sociology, and theory. Mann’s publications include The Sources of Social Power (vol. 1, 1986; vol. 2, 1993; vol. 3, forthcoming) and two forthcoming books, Fascists (2004) and The Dark-Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing (2004).
Alejandro Portes is the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Department at Princeton University. His most recent works include “The Cuban-American Political Machine: Reflections on its Origins and Perpetuation” (2002), a working paper for Princeton University’s Center for Migration and Development; Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation (2001), coauthored with Rubén G. Rumbaut; and Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America (2001), coedited with Rumbaut.
Samantha Power is a Lecturer in Public Policy and was the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. She is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (2002) and is the editor, with Graham Allison, of Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact (2000).
Lawrence Rosen is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. He is the author of recent works such as The Culture of Islam (2002) and The Justice of Islam: Comparative Perspectives on Islamic Law and Society (2000).
Gilbert F. Rozman is the Musgrave Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. He has authored and edited a wide variety of books, book chapters, and articles on U.S.-Asian, Sino-Russian, and Russo-Japanese relations, including the edited volumes Japan and Russia: The Tortuous Path to Normalization, 1949–1999 (2000) and Russia and East Asia: The 21st Century Security Environment (1999), with Mikhail G. Nosov and Koji Watanabe. Rozman has also focused on Korean foreign relations, organizing a seminar series last year on “Korea and the Great Powers” for Princeton University’s Center of International Studies.
Anne-Marie Slaughter is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. She is the author of International Law and International Relations (2001), coeditor (with Alec Stone Sweet and J.H.H. Weiler) of The European Court and National Courts—Doctrine and Jurisprudence: Legal Change in its Social Context (1998), and coauthor (with Walter Mattli) of Constructing the European Community Legal System from the Ground Up: The Role of Individual Litigants and National Courts (1996).
Ezra Suleiman is the IBM Professor in International Studies, Professor of Politics, and director of the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society at Princeton University. His recent works include Dismantling Democratic States (2003) and The Making and Unmaking of Democracy: Lessons from History and World Politics (2003), coedited with Theodore K. Rabb. Suleiman has also been published recently in a number of leading French newspapers and periodicals on topics such as France’s role in the world and its relations with the United States.
Linda Weiss is on the Faculty of Economics at the University of Sydney, where she teaches about globalization and governance, comparative capitalism, and developmental states in East Asia. Her books include Creating Capitalism (1988); States and Economic Development (1995), with John Hobson; The Myth of the Powerless State (1998); and States in the Global Economy: Bringing Domestic Institutions Back In (2002).
Deborah J. Yashar is Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She is the author of Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s–1950s (1997), and has written articles in Comparative Politics, World Politics, and for several edited volumes. Yashar is currently writing a book, tentatively titled, “Contesting Citizenship: Ethnic Movements, Post-Liberal Politics, and the State in Latin America,” that analyzes the intersection of indigenous movements, state formation, and democratization.



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