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I) "Jews, Israel & History of the Middle Eastern Conflict From Its Beginning To The Present Situation in Israel "

2) "Russia 2000. The Evil and The Saint. On tire Brink Of Tire 21st Century -- Case-study "

" Russia 2000. The Evil and The Saint. On the Brink Of The 2Ist Century - Case-study " This course is based on a documentary film and literary project with a concept developed by me and widely supported by the Hudson Institute. Hudson Institute is an internationally recognized public policy research organization that forecasts trends and develops solutions for governments, businesses and the public. Founded in 1961 by the late Herman Kahn, the Indianapolis-based not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization has more than 70 researchers and employees at its eight offices worldwide. Hudson Institute is the United States' political think tank. Herman Kahn, along with Max Singer and Oscar Rubenhausen, established Hudson Institute as a research organization dedicated to thinking about the future from a contrarian point of view. From 1961 to 1983, Kahn maintained and depended on a research staff committed to engaging in intellectual exchange and analyses that offered predictions about the future. Trained as a physicist, Kahn applied his skills and unconventional thinking to examine issues in economics, national security and international affairs.

Since his death, Hudson Institute has continued to conduct research that reflects Kahn 's interest in the future while addressing the most significant challenges facing America and the world. The institute's founder Herman Kahn, then, one of the country's leading defense intellectuals -- certainly ifs most notorious, established the institute around the concept of the nuclear deterrence against Russia. Early in the institute's life, Kahn wrote Thinking About the Unthinkable, his treatise on nuclear war that challenged a generation of Americans to confront one of the greatest threats to mankind - thermonuclear war:

During his years at RAND, Kahn, whose academic training was in physics and mathematics, had progressed from nuclear-weapons design to a broad array of military-strategy projects. His briefings on nuclear war mad U.S. national security policy were legendary in the defense community. In 1959-60, while at Princeton University, he adapted the transcripts of these briefings into his first and probably most famous book On Thermonuclear War. It created a sensation. In 1960, detailed examinations of the conduct and consequences of nuclear war were performed only under tight secrecy by small groups of senior military officers and civil defense consultants. Operated by the Board of Trustees, the original members included leading intellectuals such as Raymond Aron, Daniel Bell, Freeman Dyson, Henry Kissinger, Max Lerner, Hans Morgenthau, and Edwin O. Reischauser, Hudson Institute has always worked with the intellectual mavericks.

At that time Hudson also received significant funding from the Office of Civil Defense, eventually being selected to carry out the majority of the office's fundamental policy studies, and at that time one-quarter of Hudson's operating budget came from that office. Another major research project undertaken in Hudson was a study of the changing international security environment which was sponsored by a continuing contract from the Advanced research Project Agency of the Department of Defense (ARPA). Since that time and on, the Institute has been exploring changes in international economics and politics affecting the national security of the United States, as well as many other significant issues that affect the world and shape what the Hudson's concerns me. Thus, helping to shape our international policy, as well as being concerned with many other crucial issues to the public, Hudson has been working with the leading military and civilian policymakers, business executives, journalists and academics, prominent Congressmen, Department of Defense officials, Pentagon generals and members of the foreign diplomatic corps.

The institute has directed such projects as for the government Of Colombia exploring a dramatic idea for the country's future economic development, projects in Algeria, Thailand, France, and New York City's Welfare Island In 1985, Hudson's Europe and the World study, directed by former U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig, produced publications and major conferences in Indianapolis and Paris, France. The study and conferences rejected the "Europessimism" then in vogue and argued for cautious optimism about the Atlantic Alliance and Western Europe 's economic future. In 1989, Hudson opened its Center for Global Food Issues as an independent forum on global food and agricultural policies.