Blowing Stuff Up: Globalization and the Political Geography of Insurgents, Pirates, and Terrorists in Southeast Asia

Thursday, December 7, 2006
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
(Pacific)
Reuben W. Hills Conference Room
Speaker: 
  • Justin Hastings

Justin Hastings is a fifth-year PhD student in political science at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in East and Southeast Asian politics, nuclear weapons policy, and nontraditional security issues. He has been a Boren Graduate Fellow, and a Public Policy and Nuclear Threats Fellow with UC's Institute on Global Cooperation and Conflict. In 2005 he was a visiting associate at the Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies in Singapore. During the course of his graduate studies he has worked in the Department of Defense on East Asian security issues, and at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on nonproliferation issues. He has an MA in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in public and international affairs from Princeton University.