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"Understanding the US National Security State" Video Premiere and Discussion with Professor Michael Klare on the Eve of the US elections.
DATE: Monday, November 4, 2024
TIME: 4 p.m. EDT/10 p.m. EEST
Please join us for a live and exclusive online event hosted by the e-zine Jadaliyya, where we will premier an original SiC animated video, written and narrated by Professor Michael Klare. In this video Professor Klare provides a primer on the US National Security State, also known as the US War Machine. What is the US National Security States size and reach? What are its main components? What are the overarching principles it seeks to achieve?
After the video screening, Bassam Haddad Professor at George Mason University will moderate a discussion between Michael Klare and Omar Dahi, Director of Security in Context to discuss the US National Security State in light of the US elections the following day. Join us for both the video and following discussion and submit your questions to Michael.
You can follow the event at the links below:
YouTube.com/@Jadaliyya/Streams
Bassam Haddad is Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2021). Bassam is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute. He serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal and the Knowledge Production Project. He is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and director of the acclaimed three-part documentary series Arabs and Terrorism. Bassam served on the Board of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences and is Executive Producer of Status Audio-Visual Podcast. He is also the is the Executive Editor of the Knowledge Production Project and Director of the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI). He received MESA's Jere L. Bacharach Service Award in 2017 for his service to the profession. Currently, Bassam is working on his second Syria book titled Understanding The Syrian Tragedy: Regime, Opposition, Outsiders (forthcoming, Stanford University Press)
Michael Klare, Five College professor emeritus of peace and world security studies and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association at Hampshire College, holds a B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the Union Institute. He has written widely on US military policy, international peace and security affairs, the global arms trade, and global resource politics. He has written fifteen books, including Resource Wars (Holt, 2001), Blood and Oil (Gardners, 2004), The Race for What's Left (Holt, 2012), and All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change (Holt, 2019). His articles have appeared in many journals, including Arms Control Today, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Current History, Foreign Affairs, Harper's, The Nation, The National Interest, Newsweek, Scientific American, and Technology Review.
Omar S. Dahi is Professor of Economics at Hampshire College and Founding Director of Security in Context, a research network on peace, conflict, and international affairs. Dahi serves as an associate editor of the Review of Social Economy as well as the e-zine Jadaliyya and is a founding member of the Beirut School of Critical Security Studies within the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS). Dahi has served as a lead expert on the United Nations Economic and Social Commission of West Asia's National Agenda for the Future of Syria program.
