Secret Story: The Gulag Archipelago 

written by Jean Crépu and Nicolas Miletitch 

On May 19, Hall Gardner spoke on the subject, « Immigration, la guerre contre la drogue et l'escalade de la crise américano-mexicaine" based on Chapter 9 of his book, Averting Global War (New York : Palgrave, 2010) at the Forum du Futur conference, "Les relations entre les Etats-Unis et l'Amérique latine : une nouvelles donne ?" held atFrance-Amériques. On May 18, Hall Gardner was interviewed byDeutsche Welle on the “European Bailout Protection Act” that is currently being introduced in House of Representatives by Republicans. His article, "Afghanistan: An Ever Widening War?" was published in Geostrategiques No. 27 2eme trimester, La Géostratégie de l'Afghanistan. http://www.strategicsinternational.com/ On May 21, he was invited by Mikhail Gorbachev to participate in the first meeting of the New Policy Forum, held in Luxembourg, as a member of the advisory board. The New Policy Forum aims to bring together current political leaders, veterans of international politics, intellectuals and civil society representatives in a common effort to develop new ideas and new policies for the XXI century. http://gorbachev.crmm.ru

Hall Gardner's work explores the origins of war and conflict, deliberating the phenomenon of war’s eruption and its regional and global ramifications, with an eye toward conflict resolution. His research blends a historical and theoretical approach with contemporary international affairs, concentrating on questions involving NATO and European Union enlargement, the collapse of the Soviet Union and its impact upon China and Eurasia in general, as well as the global ramifications of the “war on terrorism.” In essence, he seeks to analyze the global dynamics of geopolitical, economic and socio-cultural/ideological conflict that results from the "dialectics of insecurity and security" and that could lead to systemic conflict, somewhat comparable to previous major power wars in history--- that is, if more innovative national and international policies aimed conflict transformation, resolution, as well as prevention, are not soon implemented.

He is author of Averting Global War: Regional Challenges, Overextension and Options for American Strategy (Palgrave, 2007), forthcoming in paperback in December 2009; American Global Strategy and the “War on Terrorism” (Ashgate, 2005,  revised paperback 2007); Dangerous Crossroads: Europe, Russia and the Future of NATO (Praeger, 1997); Surviving the Millennium: American Global Strategy, the Collapse of the Soviet Empire, and the Question of Peace (Praeger, 1994). He is general editor and contributor, NATO and the European Union: New World New Europe New Threats (Ashgate, 2004); co-editor and contributor, The New Transatlantic Agenda: Facing the Challenges of Global Governance, Ashgate, 2001; general editor and contributor, Central and Southeastern Europe in Transition: Perspectives on Success and Failure Since 1989 (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999). (See CV).

A participant in numerous conferences and seminars, he was invited by Mikhail Gorbachev to speak at the World Political Forum conferences in 2003, 2006 and 2008. He was additionally invited by the former  Prime Minister of France, Edouard Balladur, to speak on “US policy toward Iraq and Iran,” at the Commission des affaires étrangères, Assemblée Nationale in France in February 2007. He organized the Second Annual Presidential Conference of the American University of Paris, held at UNESCO, May 26, 2004, and spoke on the topic, “From the Egyptian Crisis of 1882 to Iraq of 2003: Alliance Ramification of the British and American Bids for World Hegemony.” He also organized and spoke at the conference, NATO and the European Union: New World, New Europe, New Threats, held at the French Senate in December 2001. He has published widely in the field of international politics, in journals such as Politique Américaine (Spring 2008); the Harvard International Review (Winter 2003) and European Affairs (Summer, 2002), along with numerous articles in the journal Géostratégiques, as member of the Conseil Scientifique, and he contributes review essays and book reviews to the journal, The European Legacy.

Gardner is frequent commentator on FRANCE 24, among other international news media, and has written many editorials and articles on international politics, US foreign policy, global security issues and conflict resolution. (See showcase: Some of his interviews,  speeches and poems, are available on the video page or in the showcase.)

He is also an internationally published poet. His first book of poems, The Wake-Up Blast, was published by Narcissus Press, Rhinebeck, NY, in July 2008. A second book of poetry, Barbecue Meltdown, is searching for a publisher. He is working on a long prose poem, Dolphin Legends and the Man of War, and a novel, Defying the Celestial Millennium (formerly Tie Dyed in Blood), based on his experiences in China in 1988-89, plus at least three other books of poetry and two novels. He believes that poetry and literature can work to supplement, but not supplant,  so-called "objective" or "scientific" analysis--- in that poetry and literature can help bring together differing social, psychological and natural experiences into new relationships and understandings. 

Hall Gardner received his B.A. in English Literature from Colgate University and his M.A. (1982) and Ph.D. (1987) in Global Theory and History from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He taught at the Johns Hopkins SAIS-Nanjing Center in China (1988-89) and then at Johns Hopkins SAIS-Washington (1989-90). He is a professor at The American University of Paris (from the Fall of 1990 to the present). 

Please look at his blog and showcase for brief statements or articles about international politics and examples of his poetry. See also his American University of Paris website and his author's page on amazon.com/

 http://www.aup.edu/faculty/dept/icp/gardner_h.htm

http://www.amazon.com/Hall-Gardner/e/B001HPAN6S/ref=sr_tc_2_0

 

 

 I have made a number of new additions to my showcase:

 

1) My spring 2005 speech to the graduating students of the American University of Paris, "Class of Civilizations," who had entered AUP the year of the attacks on September 11, and which critiques Huntington's "pop" political science.

 

2) My speech “The Future of Transatlantic Relations” in French at a "Forum du Futur" conference held at the French National Assembly, ‘Valeurs européennes, valeurs atlantiques’ on 21 June 2005, in which I discussed disputes between the US and Europeans and critiqued Ariel Sharon’s unilateral retreat from Gaza, among other transatlantic issues. (Speakers included Simone Veil, Pierre Lellouche and Hélène Carrère d'Encausse.) See also my videos on Gaza....

 

3) My essay "Toward a Euro-Atlantic Compromise" a critique of the Clinton Administration's decision to expand NATO membership, published by Susan Eisenhower's Center for Political and Strategic Studies in November 1997.

 

4) My article, "China and the World After Tiananmen Square" written immediately after teaching at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing in 1988-89, and published in the SAIS Review, Winter 1988-89.

 

5) I have added a speech "Transatlantic Relations" by Michel Rocard, Former French Prime Minister under Mitterrand, and then Deputy to the European Parliament, to my Quick Links section. I had invited Rocard to speak at AUP in October 2004; many of his remarks are relevant in helping to explain France's decision to re-enter NATO's integrated command in March 2009 under President Sarkozy.

US Foreign Policy and global security issues

World Politics, Global Governance, Origins and Prevention of War, American Strategy and foreign policy

Origins and Prevention of War, Conflict Resolution and Management, Global Strategy

International Relations, Security Studies, Conflict Transformation and Resolution, Energy and Ecology Issues

Statement on Gaza

by Hall Gardner

 

As it is impossible to say everything in an 8 minute interview, I feel it necessary to make the following comments after my Top Story interview, “Gaza One Year After” on 28 December, 2009 (see videos): I had publicly warned against the unilateral Israeli retreat from Gaza in my speech at “The Future of Transatlantic Relations” at a Forum du Futur conference held at the French National Assembly, ‘Valeurs européennes, valeurs atlantiques’ on 21 June 2005. See blog...

 

Join us for our kick-off 2009-2010

FIRST TUESDAY

 

Understanding Copenhagen! 

What IS going on?

 

Come join us for an in-depth assessment of issues and policies

connected to climate change.

 

Panel of guest speakers:

 

Jan Corfee-Morlot, PhD

Acting Head - Climate Change

Biodiversity and Development Division

OECD Environment Directorate

 

Professor Hall Gardner

American University of Paris

Department of International and Comparative Politics  

 

Moderator:  Karen Weisblatt  

Tuesday, December 1st,  2009

7-11 pm

Restaurant Chez Luigi

96 Boulevard de Grenelle Paris 15è 

Donation: 35€

(includes cocktail, dinner and wine)

  

RSVP required by November 28^th 2009 at the latest:

DemocratsAbroad_France@democratsabroad.org

 

Precondition for Abolition: Five Factors for Consensus Building

Hall Gardner: There are five points political leaders must be convinced of if a consensus is to emerge on disarmament. Global proliferation destabilizes the political economy of whole regions and nuclear warfare is undeniably genetically genocidal. This is not to mention that empirical proof shows that nuclear weapons pose little deterrent to engaging in conventional warfare.

It may be possible to make deeper cuts in both strategic and tactical nuclear weaponry, leading to the total abolition of nuclear weaponry, under the following circumstances. See my blog

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Recent Events

Hall Gardner spoke on the potential future for a new “Euro-Atlantic Security Community” on Tuesday June 23 in Brussels at the EastWest Institute, after working with a high level group of Russia, European and American experts, on the report, EURO-ATLANTIC SECURITY: ONE VISION, THREE PATHS

 

His speech, Toward a Euro-Atlantic Confederation (A Proposal for Kant, Hugo and Tolstoy to Shake Hands in Kaliningrad, Paris and Sebasatopol), was published on the EWI website:

 

http://www.ewi.info/system/files/Gardner_Speech.pdf

 

http://www.ewi.info/euro-atlantic-security-seminar-brussels-0

 

http://www.ewi.info/eastwest-institute-launches-debate-future-euro-atlantic-security

http://docs.ewi.info/EuroAtlantic.pdf

 

 

On Saturday June 20, he spoke with Steve Erlanger, Bureau Chief of the NY Times, at the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale in Ecole Militaire on American security policy..

He debated the parallels and differences between China and Tiananmen Square in 1989 and Iran today on France 24 on Monday June 22

http://www.france24.com/en/20090622-history-iranian-elections-repression-demonstrations

http://www.france24.com/en/20090622-iranian-elections-repression-history 

On Monday, June 15^th, read poems from his first book The Wake Up Blast with Nina Zivancevic at Shakespeare and Co…

The paperback version of his book, Averting Global War (Palgrave, 2009) is to appear in December.

http://www.amazon.com/Averting-Global-War-Challenges-Overextension/dp/0230600867/ref=ed_oe_p

 

 

 

On Monday June 15 at 7pm at Shakespeare and Co  Hall Gardner and Nina Zivancevic will be reading extracts from their books.

Hall Gardner’s first book of poems is The Wake-Up Blast—30 years of poetic dissent and protest. http://www.narcissuspublications.com/books.html.  He has written extensively on international political issues and is the author of Averting Global War and American Global Strategy and the War on Terrorism. He is a frequent commentator on France 24. His poetry and prose has appeared in Paris Atlantic, The Paris Times, FireReadings, Poems for Madrid, among other journals. He is a professor at The American University of Paris.

Serbian born, Nina Zivancevic has published 12 books of poetry, three books of short stories, two novels and a book of essays. She is also a playwright, art critic, translator and contributing editor to NY ARTS. The recipient of three literary awards, she has edited and participated in numerous anthologies of contemporary world poetry and as editor and correspondent she has contributed to New York Arts Magazine, Modern Painters, American Book Review, East Village Eye, Republique de lettres.

 

The East West Institute is putting together a high-level group of Russian, European, and American experts to debate the future of transatlantic security, partly prompted by the proposal of Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev to re-examine the security “architecture.” Professor Hall Gardner of the American University in Paris, a member of the group, argues that the U.S. and Europe badly need a new Transatlantic Security Council, which would also more closely involve Russia, Ukraine and other countries.

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The Future of Russian-American Relations
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 6:30 PM

At the American University of Paris
6 rue du Colonel Combes
75007 Paris

Thomas Friedman recently said 'Is there any problem in the world today that we can solve without the Russians?'  His answer was NO.  From the military supply routes to Afghanistan to the Georgian war and NATO enlargement, to the installation of the missile shield purported to be against Iran in Poland, to the supply of gas to our European allies, and to Russia's participation in the 'quartet' working on  a solution for the middle East, nothing can effectively be resolved without entering into a relationship with Russia that will benefit both the US and the Russians.  Many important foreign policy problems will be facing President-elect Barack Obama, but this is one of the pivotal ones.  

To present their various points of view of this topic, Anne Kraatz has organized a debate on behalf of both Democrats Abroad and the American University of Paris with the following speakers:  

Artem Studennikov, First Political Counselor for the Russian Federation Embassy

Professor Hall Gardner,  author of many books on the enlargement of NATO, most recently, Averting Global War: Regional Challenges, Overextension and Options for American Strategy (Palgrave, 2007), is a professor at the American University of Paris. During the Fall 2008, he worked in collaboration with the East-West Institute Policy Study Group on Russia, Europe and the United States in developing a policy brief for political leadership in Washington, Brussels and Moscow.

Bruce Aitken, American lawyer with offices in New York, Washington D.C. and Kiev, Ukraine, President and CEO of Homeland Security Industries Association. His expertise includes government contracting/homeland security, international trade, and government relations/lobbying.

 

 

Hall Gardner’s article, “Obama’s Options-Security Review 2008 and Perspectives for a New Year,” was published in Safety and Security International (Edition VI, 2008).  Professor Gardner took part in Géopolitique le débat on the program of Marie France Chatin on Radio France International on January 17, along with Jacques Mistral, directeur des études économiques à l’Ifri; Ronald Hatto, professeur de relations internationales à Sciences-Po; et Aymeric Chauprade, titulaire de la chaire de géopolitique du Collège interarmées de défense.  On January 16, Gardner analyzed the Israeli intervention in Gaza as the “War of Four Elections” on France24. Likewise on France24, he participated in debates on Russia and Ukraine, and commented on the Obama inauguration on January 20.  On December 22, he was interviewed on the question of prisoners held in Guantanamo and human rights.

On 6-7 November, Hall Gardner spoke at The World Political Forum, invited by Mikhail Gorbachev for the conference “Human Rights and Democracy in a Globalized World…” He spoke on the subject: Human Rights: Lessons of the 20th Century–Catastrophes, Hopes, Breakthroughs” with panelists: Danielle Mitterrand, President of the Foundation France Libertés, Doudou Diène, former Special UN’s Rapporteur on Racism and Xenophobia, and Federico Mayor Zaragoza, former Director General of UNESCO.

The East West Institute has asked Hall Gardner to participate in its Policy Study Group “Russia, Europe and the United States” that will prepare a report on the present crisis in NATO-Russian relations, to be presented to Moscow, Washington and other governments. EWI is an international non-governmental organization that works in conflict prevention and global security issues. Nobel Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari served as co-chairman of EWI’s Board of Directors from 2000 to 2005 and he continues to serve on the board (learn more). On September 23, Professor Gardner was invited to speak to senior NATO officers at the NATO School (Oberammergau, Germany) on “US-NATO- EU relations and the ‘global war on terrorism.’”

Hall Gardner’s first book of poems, The Wake-Up Blast, has been published by Narcissus Press, Rhinebeck NY. It is available on Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and Borders, as well as the AUP bookstore (Learn more). Over the summer, he participated in discussions and debates on the crisis in Georgia and the US presidential elections on FRANCE 24. His analyses on Ukraine and secessionism in the Balkans and the Caucasus were published on the Atlantic Community website prior to the Russian-Georgian crisis (Link 1 | Link 2 | Link 3) On September 8, Hall Gardner was interviewed on the crisis in Georgia and its global ramifications.

Hall Gardner's article, "L'action militaire en 2008: bras de fer au Congrès," was published in Politique Américaine, No. 10, Spring 2008, as was a very positive review of his book, Averting Global War: Regional Challenges, Overextension, and Options for American Strategy (Palgrave: New York, 2007): 
http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=0230600859  He was interviewed on the April NATO Summit in Bucharest on France 24:
http://www.france24.com/en/20080404-russia-nato-putin-missile-shield-vladimir&navi=MONDE?q=node/1090400  Professor Gardner spoke on US and EU approaches to the "Global War on Terrorism" at the Cicero Foundation on April 4.  He also participated in the 8th Doha Forum for Democracy, Development and Free Trade in Qatar from April 13 to April 15. Other Doha Forum participants included Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan; former US Defense Secretary William Cohen; former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin; and Israeli Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Tzipi Livni.

Hall Gardner contributed to the collective statement of the UBUNTU World Forum of Civil Society Movements, published in the International Herald Tribune on March 14, 2008, for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. See the entire statement and signatures: http://www.ubuntu.upc.edu/index.php?lg=eng&pg=2&ncom=24  On March 3, Hall Gardner participated in the debate, "Russian election: more of the same?" on FRANCE 24: http://www.france24.com/en/20080303-debate-russia-presidential-elections-medvedev-putin. His book review of The Global Legitimacy Game: Civil Society, Globalization and Protest by Alison Van Rooy appeared in The European Legacy (Haifa), Vol. 13, No. 1, 2008. pp. 101-138.

On 21 December 2007, Hall Gardner was invited to speak at the French Sénat at the Palais du Luxembourg for the conference, L'Iran et la France; Aujourd'hui, hier et demain, sponsored by l'Institut Européen de Recherches Stratégiques sur l'Iran et l'Université de Téhéran under the patronage of Monsieur le Président Christian Poncelet. His article, "Iran: pourquoi une diplomatie de négociations sans conditions?" was published in "La crise iranienne : mythe ou réalité" Géostratégiques No. 18, January 2008 (http://www.strategicsinternational.com). An extract of the article is to be published in Milieux des Empires. He was interviewed in December 2007 by Digital Gulan, one of the major newspapers in Iraqi Kurdistan (four pages in Kurdish!). Over the past two months, he has debated US policy toward Iran, discussed the implications of the Russian parliamentary elections, and was interviewed twice on the US presidential elections on France24. His book, Averting Global War has been listed as a "hot new release" on amazon.com