Stephen Macekura is a scholar of U.S. and international history who focuses on political economy, international development, U.S. foreign relations, and environmentalism. He is the author of Of Limits and Growth: The Rise of Global 'Sustainable Development' in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, 2015). The book analyzes how environmental NGOs struggled to implement environmental protection measures in the developing world in the 1950s and 1960s and then critiqued and reformed the development policies of the U.S. government, World Bank, and UN system in the 1970s and 1980s. At this event, Macekura will explore critiques of economic growth by revealing how reformers have challenged the ways in which the concept of "growth" has been defined, assessed, and measured. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/macekuras

The Mershon Center invites you to a lecture and discussion in honor of John Carlarne, his contributions to both the study and practice of peace making, and his contributions to the Peace Studies program at the Mershon Center and in central Ohio. We will listen to John's TEDxOhioStateUniversity talk on his experiences in in the war in Bosnia and their implications for peace building and reconstruction. Then we will discuss John's work and its impact on the central Ohio community. Please join us to honor our colleague. Refreshments will be available. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/carlarnememorial

Layna Mosley is professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the connections between the global economy and domestic policy outcomes. Some of her work examines the effect of multinational production on workers' rights in developing countries, as well as the ways in which U.S. trade policies might affect workers' rights abroad. Another stream of research focuses on the politics of sovereign debt, and on how professional investors evaluate and react to political institutions and government policy choices. This presentation will investigate how governments structure their borrowing portfolios: when taking on new debt, do governments seek to borrow from commercial banks, on the sovereign bond market, or from official creditors? Read more and register at go.osu.edu/mosleyl

William Hitchcock is Randolph P. Compton Professor at the Miller Center at University of Virginia. His work and teaching focus on the international, diplomatic and military history of the 20th century, in particular the era of the world wars and the cold war. He is the author of The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe (Free Press, 2008), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a winner of the George Louis Beer Prize, and a Financial Times bestseller. His most recent book is the New York Times bestseller, The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s. In this event, Hitchcock will discuss Eisenhower's grand strategy for waging the Cold War that can best be described as "strategic patience." Read more and register at go.osu.edu/hitchcockw

The Alexander Hamilton Society at Ohio State is excited to announce our final debate event for the semester, "Israel and the US: The Relationship and Its Future." This event will discuss the U.S.-Israel relationship and what American policy should be going forward. This debate will feature Steven David (left), professor of international relations at Johns Hopkins University, whose work focuses on security studies, politics of the developing world, and American foreign policy in the Middle East, debating with John Quigley, professor of international and comparative law at Ohio State, whose work focuses on international human rights and the Arab-Israeli conflict. The debate will be moderated by Peter Mansoor, Gen. Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair in Military History at Ohio State. As always, free pizza and Coke products will be provided. Read more and register

Jan-Werner Müller is professor of politics at Princeton University. His research interests include the history of modern political thought, democratic theory, constitutionalism, religion and politics, and the normative dimensions of European integration. He is the author of Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth Century Europe (Yale, 2011),  Constitutional Patriotism (Princeton, 2007), A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought (Yale, 2003), and Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity (Yale, 2000). In addition, he has edited German Ideologies since 1945: Studies in the Political Thought and Culture of the Bonn Republic (Palgrave, 2003) and Memory and Power in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past (Cambridge, 2002). 2016 saw the publication of What is Populism? which has been translated into more than 20 languages. Read more and register