Miles Kahler Speaks at Political Economy Lecture Series
Palomar College students catch political economy lectures
04/07/2011
Deborah Sullivan Brennan,
The North County Times
Palomar College students got a taste of real-world issues at a series of political economy lectures the college held this week.
On Wednesday and Thursday, 20 professors from colleges and universities throughout the county weighed in with talks on topics ranging from emerging economies in Asia to protests in the Arab world and reforming California's government.
The aim, said political science professor Peter Bowden, who coordinated the event, is to provide students with exposure to "topics and material that is typically beyond lower division curriculum."
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Miles Kahler is Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations at IR/PS and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at UC San Diego. His principal areas of research are international relations and international political economy, particularly international institutions and global governance, Asian regional institutions, the evolution of the nation-state, and the political economy of international finance.
