Feb 15, 2013 Symposium: The U.S.-Iranian Relationship & the Future of International Order

Professor Daniel Joyner of the University of Alabama and Ambassador Richard Butler debate Iran and the Future of Nuclear Nonproliferation

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Feb 15, 2013 Symposium: The U.S.-Iranian Relationship & the Future of International Order

Professor Flynt Leverett offers remarks on The Iranian Nuclear Issue, the End of the American Century, and the Future of International Order

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Feb 15, 2013 Symposium: The U.S.-Iranian Relationship & the Future of International Order

Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell of Notre Dame University and Vice Admiral James Houck debate the Iranian Case and Use of Force Doctrine as a Constraint on State Behavior

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Feb 15, 2013 Symposium: The U.S.-Iranian Relationship & the Future of International Order

The program will feature Hillary Mann Leverett, Daniel Joyner, Richard Butler, Mary Ellen O’Connell, James Houck, Flynt Leverett, and other distinguished scholars discussing the future of nuclear non-proliferation and the use of force doctrine as a constraint on state behavior.

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JLIA Partners with the Folke Bernadotte Academy

Members of the Folke Bernadotte Academy Working Group on Conflict Mediation met in May 2012 to discuss JLIA’s third issue, which will examine the policy implications of analytical research on peacemaking and dispute mediation.

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JLIA Partners with the Folke Bernadotte Academy

Members of the Folke Bernadotte Academy Working Group on Conflict Mediation met in May 2012 to discuss JLIA’s third issue, which will examine the policy implications of analytical research on peacemaking and dispute mediation.

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JLIA Partners with the Folke Bernadotte Academy

Members of the Folke Bernadotte Academy Working Group on Conflict Mediation met in May 2012 to discuss JLIA’s third issue, which will examine the policy implications of analytical research on peacemaking and dispute mediation.

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International Politics and Zombies

Daniel Drezner, Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, examines the most prominent theories of international relations by imagining zombies as the existential threat to the world order in his new book.

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Global Order After the Financial Crisis

Harold James, Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University, challenges policy makers to recognize the emergence of a new financial nationalism and the real possibility of a deglobalized world.

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A Perfect Storm in Cyberspace

Ronald Deibert, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, discusses emerging threats to cyberspace and how to prepare for them.

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Counterstrike

Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker, reporters for The New York Times, examine the Pentagon’s new strategy to fight the war on terrorism and its impact on the United States’ relationship with the Middle East in their much acclaimed new book.

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A Smart Power Approach to International Law and National Security

Harold Koh, Legal Advisor to the U.S. Department of State, discusses how a smart power approach will redefine the national security legal regime and affect the responses and accountability mechanisms used to assess threats to international security on January 26, 2012.

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Energy, Economics, & the Lost Art of Grand Strategy

Flynt Leverett discusses the changing nature of U.S. foreign policy strategy in Energy, Economics, and the Lost Art of Grand Strategy: American Policy Toward the Persian Gulf and Rising Asia in the 21st Century on April 3, 2012.

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Beyond Hot Spots & Crises in Our Interconnected World

Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter, of Princeton University, discusses the impact of global interconnectedness on diplomatic and international security efforts in The Big Picture: Beyond Hot Spots & Crises in Our Interconnected World on March 15, 2012.

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Perilous Seas: Piracy in the 21st Century

Vice Admiral James Houck joined two other distinguished speakers to discuss the law, politics, and history of piracy at “Perilous Seas: Piracy in the 21st Century” on Sept. 26, 2011.

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Wikileaks: One Year Later

Philip J. (PJ) Crowley, Omar Bradley Chair in Strategic Leadership, gives the first lecture in a series on the evolving national security legal framework and accompanying policy narrative.

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The Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (JLIA) is a digital, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, jointly published by Penn State's School of Law and School of International Affairs. The journal promotes academic and public discourse at the intersection of law and international affairs, featuring contributions in the areas of public and private international law, international relations, comparative law and politics, geography, economics, history, and policy issues in the various sciences. It is available online and indexed by LEXIS and Westlaw.

The journal’s most recent issue, published in April 2013 and available below, is a collaborative effort with the Folke Bernadotte Academy. It explores the policy implications resulting from analytical research on peacemaking and dispute mediation, and features contributions from Victor Asal, Kyle Beardsley, David Cunningham, Stephen Gent, Scott Sigmund Gartner, J. Michael Greig, Birger Heldt, Dennis Jett, Molly Melin, Isak Svensson, Jonathan Wilkenfeld and others.

2013 Symposium. On Friday, February 15, 2013, JLIA hosted The U.S. Iranian Relationship and the Future of International Order, a symposium examining the nature of current U.S.-Iranian relations and exploring how the two state’s strategic choices will affect the international order in the future. The program featured Hillary Mann Leverett of American University’s School of International Service, Ambassador Richard Butler AC of Penn State's School of International Affairs, Daniel Joyner of the University of Alabama School of Law, Vice Admiral James Houck of Penn State's School of Law and School of International Affairs, Mary Ellen O’Connell of the University of Notre Dame Law School, Flynt Leverett of Penn State's School of International Affairs, and other distinguished scholars. Click here to view the webcast and for more information.

Each year, JLIA sponsors a number of lectures and symposia. Recent programs have included The U.S.-India Strategic Relationship in the 21st Century: Cross-Sector Collaboration to Promote Sustainable Development (with Dickinson College and the Strategic Studies Institute of the United States Army War College), Geographies of Powers: Justice, Revolution, and Cultural Imagination (with The Center for Global Studies (CGS) at Penn State University), and a year-long lecture series on the evolving national security narrative, which included contributions from Anne-Marie Slaughter, Harold Koh, P.J. Crowley, Ronald Deibert, Harold James, and other distinguished scholars and policymakers.

JLIA's next issue, to be published in the fall of 2013, will examine the evolution and future of the role of international criminal justice in international relations, as well as the structural challenges facing the International Criminal Court in the coming decades.

JLIA's 2014 symposium is scheduled for February 2014 and will explore the nexus between global resource scarcity, law and security. Registration and other details will be posted shortly.

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