Leading-Matters Seattle Suggested Readings

Suggested Readings

Session 1 Panels

Big Plans for a Small Planet: Can We Feed the World Without Wrecking the Oceans?

Swimming in Circles: Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans, by Paul Molyneax, (Thunder's Mouth Press, December 19, 2006).
"Environmental Safeguards for Open-Ocean Aquaculture," by Rosamond Naylor, Issues in Science and Technololgy, Spring 2006.
"Aquaculture and Ocean Resources: Raising Tigers of the Sea," by Rosamond Naylor and Marshall Burke, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Volume 30, 2005.

Emerging Superpowers: Influence and Supremacy in the 21st Century

Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower, by Zbigniew Brzezinski, (Basic Books, March 5, 2007)
"A World Free of Nuclear Weapons," Wall Street Journal, by George P. Shultz, William. J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, and Sam Nunn
"The Myth of the Authoritarian Model: How Putin's Crackdown Hurt Russia," (with Kathryn Stoner-Weiss) Foreign Affairs, Vol. 87, No. 1 (Winter 2007) pp. 68-84
"The Right Way to Engage Iran," (with Abbas Milani) The Washington Post, December 27, 2007

Your Brain on Art

Session 2 Seminars

Healing Wounds, Curing Cancer and Breathing Easier: Engineering Therapies for Human Health

"Helical Peptoid Mimics of Magainin-2 Amide," by James A. Patch and Annelise E. Barron, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 9 VOL. 125, NO. 40, 2003
"Helical Peptoid Mimics of Lung Surfactant Protein C," by Cindy W. Wu, Shannon L. Seurynck, Ka Yee C. Lee, and Annelise E. Barron, Chemistry & Biology, Vol. 10, 1057Ð1063, November, 2003
"Simple, Helical Peptoid Analogs of Lung Surfactant Protein B," Shannon L. Seurynck, James A. Patch, and Annelise E. Barron, Chemistry & Biology, Vol. 12, 77Ð88, January, 2005

The First Great Divergence: China and Europe

"Capitalism and Democracy in 2040: Forecasts and Speculations," by Robert W. Fogel, unpublished paper, 2007
"The Rise of the West—or Not?," by Jack Goldstone, Sociological Theory 18 (2000) pp. 175-192
"The First Great Divergence: China and Europe, 500-800 CE," by Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel, and Mark Lewis, proposal to the Mellon Foundation, 2006.

Presidential War Powers

The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration, by Jack L. Goldsmith (W. W. Norton, September 10, 2007)

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