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Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented a paper titled "Economic and Geopolitical Dimensions of the Crisis of the Eurozone" at the International Studies Association annual convention in San Diego.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, gave a  lecture titled “Transatlantic Perspectives on the Crisis of the Eurozone” at the U.S. Consulate in Thessaloniki, Greece, on March 17.  The lecture was sponsored by the U.S. Consul General and the American College of Thessaloniki.

Professors Alan Cafruny and Ted Lehmann of the Government department have published an article in the New Left Review titled "Over The Horizon?  The United States and Iraq."  The article evaluates the retained influence of the U.S. in Iraq and the broader Gulf region in the aftermath of the troop withdrawal completed in December 2011. The piece grew out of a letter to the editor that they published in The Financial Times on Dec. 21, 2011.

Over winter break 15 students from Hamilton’s Model European Union club — as well as faculty advisor Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs — attended the 25th annual EuroSim conference in Wroclaw, Poland, from Jan. 5-8.  Each year, the EuroSim conference presents a different topic relating to European policy; the topic of this year’s conference was European asylum policy and the development of a common European asylum system.  

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Bristol Professor of International Affairs,  gave a lecture at the Department of European and International Studies at Kings College, University of London, on Oct. 18.  His talk was titled "The Global Financial Crisis and the 2012 Elections."

Recent turmoil and political upheaval in the Middle East have dominated the global news lately, with documentations of unrest in more than a dozen already unsteady nations. Ryan Karerat ’12, an Emerson grant recipient, is spending the summer with Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs Alan Cafruny researching the current state of U.S. foreign affairs in the Middle East.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented papers  at the International Studies Association annual convention in Montreal and at Linnaeus University in Sweden in March.

Alan W. Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, gave a presentation on "Europe, the Euro, and the Global Financial Crisis" at a workshop at Skidmore College on Nov. 5. The workshop was titled "After the Lisbon Treaty: Major Issues in European Union-United States Relations."

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Bristol Professor of International Affairs,  gave two public lectures in the UK.  He presented "The Obama Administration and the Mid-Term Elections: The Political Economy of Stagnation and Decline" at Kings College, University of London, on Oct. 13, and at Oxford Brookes University on  Oct. 14.

The U.S. auto industry has caused some anxiety in these tumultuous economic times. The government takeover of General Motors in 2009 was a concrete indication of earlier warning signs of the industry’s problems; meanwhile Ford Motors has been able to avoid bankruptcy. Working under Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs Alan Cafruny and through a Levitt Center grant, Jeffrey Cardoni ’11 is investigating the business practices of Ford and GM that caused the two companies to succeed and fail respectively.