Dr. Gaubatz presented a paper on European integration at the 2008 meeting of the International Studies Association in San Francisco. He also co-authored a paper on teaching modeling and simulation for the 2008 Ottawa Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim) of the Society for Modeling and Simulation.

Additionally, Dr. Gaubatz received a fellowship from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies to attend a seminar on counter-terrorism in Tel Aviv this summer.

Dr. Serfaty's Architects of Delusion: Europe, America and the Iraq War (University of Pennsylvania Press) was released in January 2008. Pre-publication praises for Architects of Delusion were provided by Wesley K. Clark, former NATO commander, and Harvard Professor Joseph E. Nye, author of Soft Power.

On February 27, the CSIS Press released A Recast Partnership: The Institutional Dimensions of Transatlantic Relations, which Dr. Serfaty edited with contributions by leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, including Vivien Schmidt (Boston College), Hans Binnendijk (NDU), and Michael Brenner (Pittsburgh), as well as Julian Lindley-French (The Hague), Ivan Krastev (Sofia), and Jolyon Howorth (Bath/Yale). Dr. Serfaty wrote the opening and closing chapters: "America and Europe in a Multipolar World" (pp. 3-31) and "Recasting the Euro-Atlantic Partnership" (with Frank Kramer, pp. 191-213).

Dr. Serfaty has also published two recent essays in peer-reviewed journals, "A Bad War Gone Worse," The Washington Quarterly (Spring 2008): and "Globaliser l'OTAN", Politique Étrangère (March 2008).

Dr. Serfaty also was a recent guest speaker for events in Washington, DC organized by The Young Professional Foreign Policy (YFPP), on "Recasting the Atlantic Partnership"; The Atlantic Treaty Association, "Thinking About NATO: The Short-Term, The Mid-Term, and the New Term"; A Consortium of American Colleges, American University, "Architects of Delusion: After Bush and Beyond Iraq"; Transatlantic Policy Network, "Toward A Euro-Atlantic Security Strategy"; Heritage Foundation, "Russia and the West: What Next"; and was a co-speaker with former French prime minister Edouard Baladur for a discussion/debate on US-EU relations at the French National Assembly in Paris (co-sponsored by the Robert Schuman Foundation and the European Ideas Network).

Dr. Robert Holden be giving two talks at the University of Calgary, one on Latin American public violence and the rule of law, and a second on the surge of a new kind of public violence in Central America since the 1980s.

This summer, Dr. Holden will present a paper on the Central American borderlands as Cold War sites of public violence at the meeting of The Historical Society in Baltimore.

Two recent publications of Dr. Holdent include: "De la mujer invisible al feminismo ineludible: Política y antropología en la historiografía de la mujer," (Memoria y Civilización (9) 2006: 109-138); and coming out this year: "The Public University's Unbearable Defiance of Being," Educational Philosophy and Theory, an extended version of a talk presented at ODU in 2007.

In Fall 2007 Dr. Holden taught a new graduate seminar, "Introductory Seminar in Latin American History." In Fall of 2008, he will teach a new graduate seminar, "U.S.-Latin American Relations in the Cold War."