Conference on Foreign Policy followed by a reception to celebrate the center's 5 years anniversary.

The Obama Era in the United States has begun. What does it mean for the foreign policies of the Americas? The Center for the Study of the Americas has invited three dynamic, internationally recognized scholars to discuss relations between the United States, Latin America, and Canada within a larger global context. This half-day conference will assess the legacies and trends of recent international relations with the possibilities and emerging patterns that will shape the future.

If you wish to participate, please send an email to csa.eng@cbs.dk no later than April 21st. All are welcome, no registration fee.

The Speakers

Jeremi Suri is Professor at University of Wisconsin. His research examines the interactions between states, peoples, and cultures -- especially in the twentieth century and with special interest in the decisions of leaders and institutions, as well as the influence of ideas and social movements.
Through multiarchival research Jeremi Suri hopes to "globalize" our understanding of relations among societies and America's often contested place in the world. Suri teaches courses in the history of American foreign relations since the eighteenth century, the global upheavals of the 1960s, great power relations since 1815, the global history of the Cold War, and the history of imperialism.

Jeremi has received the 2001 John Addison Porter Prize for the best dissertation in the humanities, Yale University, the 2004-2007 Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer and 2006 Class of 1955 Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Wisconsin, among others.

His most recent books include: Henry Kissinger and the American Century (Harvard University Press, 2007). The Global Revolutions of 1968 (W.W. Norton, 2006). Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente (Harvard University Press, 2003).
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Alan McPherson is ConocoPhillips Petroleum Chair of Latin American Studies and Associate Professor of International and Area Studies at University of Oklahoma. He teaches courses in Latin American Studies and U.S. international relations and specializes in U.S.-Latin American relations.

Professor McPherson’s books include Yankee No! Anti-Americanism in U.S.-Latin American Relations (Harvard University Press, 2003), which won the A. B. Thomas Award for Best Book of the Year from the Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies and was named Outstanding Academic Title for 2004 by Choice Magazine, Intimate Ties, Bitter Struggles: The United States and Latin America since 1945 (Potomac Books, 2006) , Anti-Americanism in Latin America and the Caribbean (Berghahn Books, 2006), and The Anti-American Century (Central European University Press, 2007).

He has also appeared as a commentator on television and has published op-ed pieces, book chapters, and book reviews broadly. He has presented at over two dozen national and international conferences ranging from Prague, Budapest, and Beirut to San Juan, Veracruz, and Santo Domingo and now also in Copenhagen.
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Dr. Marc J. O'Reilly is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Heidelberg College. He is originally from Montreal, Canada, and earned his PhD at the University of Connecticut. He specializes in international relations, comparative politics, and American, Canadian, and Middle Eastern foreign policies.
Dr. O'Reilly teaches courses on Global Politics, The European Union, Human Rights, International Organizations, U.S. Foreign Policy, Quebec/French Canada, Canadian Politics, International Studies, Politics of the Middle East, and Empires.
Dr. O'Reilly's research interests include U.S. foreign policy vis-a-vis the Middle East since World War II, empires, and Canadian Foreign Policy since 1945.

Dr. O'Reilly’s book include Unexceptional: America's Empire in the Persian Gulf, 1941-2007 (Lexington Books, 2008) and he has co-edited Handbook of Canadian Foreign Policy (Lexington Books, 2006), with Patrick James and Nelson Michaud. He has published articles in International Studies Perspectives, The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, The Middle East Journal, Middle East Policy, and the American Review of Canadian Studies.

In addition to his professoral duties, Marc O'Reilly serves as Heidelberg College's Director of International & Multicultural Academic Programs.
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