Event Date: October 11, 2012 - 4:00 pm
Location: FSS4007, University of Ottawa, 120 University, Ottawa

TARAK BARKAWI, New School for Social Research.

Presented by the Security Studies Network at CIPS.
Free. In English. Registration is not required.

Tarak Barkawi is associate professor in the Department of Politics, New School for Social Research. He specialises in the study of war, armed forces and society with a focus on conflict between the West and the global South. He has written on colonial armies, ‘small wars’ and imperial warfare, the Cold War in the Third World, and on counterinsurgency and the War on Terror. More generally, he is interested in the place of armed force in histories and theories of globalization, modernization and imperialism, especially from a postcolonial perspective. He has worked extensively with the UK and US armed forces in advisory and educational capacities. He is a regular contributor to Al Jazeera English online.

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