CARTSS

The Center to Advance Research & Teaching in the Social Sciences

and the Albert E. Smith Fund

Introduce an Initiative on

Sustainability, Security, and Survival in a New Nuclear Age

Monday, April 28, 2008

OLD MAIN CHAPEL

10:00 AM

CARTSS and the Tocqueville Initiative host

Prof. Jolyon Howorth, Yale University, speaking on

“Nuclear Modernization: A Franco-British Perspective”

Jolyon Howorth is Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics at the University of Bath ( UK) and Visiting Professor of Political Science at Yale University (2002-2010). Previous appointments were at: University of Paris III-Sorbonne-Nouvelle, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Aston University (UK). He has held Visiting Professorships at Harvard University, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris), the University of Washington, Columbia and New York Universities. He has held a Senior Research Fellowship at the European Union’s Institute for Security Studies. He is a Senior Research Associate at the Institut Français des Relations Internationales (Paris), a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (UK), Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques ( France), and Member of the Advisory Boards of the European Institute for Public Administration ( Netherlands), and the Centre for the Study of Security and Diplomacy (UK). He has published extensively in the field of European politics and history, especially security and defense policy and transatlantic relations - fourteen books and over one hundred and thirty journal articles and chapters in books. Recent books include: Security and Defence Policy in the European Union, Palgrave 2007; Defending Europe: the EU, NATO and the Quest for European Autonomy, Palgrave, 2003 (edited with John Keeler); European Integration and Defence: the Ultimate Challenge? Paris, WEU-ISS, 2000.

CARTSS is drawing on the Albert E. Smith Fund to support innovative social science research on issues associated with sustainability, security, and survival in a new nuclear age . We anticipate this will include a broad range of questions associated with a new generation of nuclear energy, e.g. risk and uncertainty, collaborative policymaking, communicating to publics and policymakers, energy security policy, social movements supporting peaceful alternatives, sustainable development, framing strategies, environmental tradeoffs, and other salient concerns.