Political Science
Samuel I. Clark Lecture
The Samuel I. Clark memorial lecture is a major annual event for IGP. Its topic rotates among the political science subfields covered in the department. The lecture is named in honor of Professor Sam Clark, who joined the faculty of the Department of Political Science in 1948. Specializing in political philosophy, he was known as a challenging and engaging professor and scholar. Dr. Clark was named the founding director of the University's new honors program in 1962. In addition to overseeing the expansion of the honors program during his 24 years as its director, he coordinated lectures and planned opportunities for other kinds of growth, such as trips abroad for students and faculty. Clark was affiliated with the National Collegiate Honors Council since its inception in the 1960s and, in 1984-1985, served as its president. Also active in University affairs, he was president of the Faculty Senate from 1971-1973 and from 1978-1979. Upon his retirement in 1986, the Faculty Senate created this lecture series in his name, to be organized by the Institute of Government and Politics and the Department of Political Science. Sam Clark in 1998.
Memorial contributions in his name may be made to the Lee Honors College.
“Liberating Libya, Strangling Syria: Intervening for Human Rights and Protection”
George A. Lopez
Theodore M. Hesburgh Professor of Peace Studies
Joan Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Notre Dame University
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Reception at 6 p.m. in the Fetzer Center lobby
Lecture at 7 p.m.
Fetzer Center, Putney Auditorium
George A. Lopez studies the problems of state violence, especially economic sanctions, gross violations of human rights, and ethics and the use of force.
He has co-authored more than 25 articles and book chapters, as well as five books His research, with David Cortwright, detailing the unlikely presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq appeared before the war in Arms Control Today and was further articulated after the war in a piece in Foreign Affairs.
Lopez has served in an advisory capacity to a number of organizations. He has served as chair of the Selection Committee of the Research and Writing Grants Committee of the MacArthur Foundation’s Program in Peace and International Cooperation, Interim Executive Director and board chair for The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, senior research associate at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, and Jennings Randolph Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace. He also served on the UN Panel of Experts for monitoring and implementing UN Sanctions on North Korea.
Professor Lopez has also been recognized repeatedly as a fine teacher by Notre Dame University. His Ph.D. in International Relations is from Syracuse University.
Past Speakers
| 2011 | Dr. Kenneth M. Goldstein | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 2010 | Dr. Stacia L. Haynie | Louisiana State University |
| 2009 | Dr. Roxanne Euben | Wellesley College |
| 2008 | Dr. Scott Pegg | Indiana University |
| 2007 | Dr. David Rhode | Duke University |
| 2006 | Dr. Lawrence Baum | Ohio State University |
| 2005 | Dr. Fred Dallmayr | University of Notre Dame |
| 2004 | Dr. Gerald C. Wright | Indiana University |
| 2003 | Dr. Peter Katzenstein | Cornell University |
| 2002 | Dr. Charles Bullock | University of Georgia |
| 2001 | Dr. Robert Huckfeldt | Indiana University |
| 2000 | Dr. Guillermo O'Donnell | University of Notre Dame |
| 1999 | Dr. Jean Bethke Elshtain | University of Chicago |
| 1998 | Dr. Arlene Saxonhouse | University of Michigan |