The Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination will hold a Crisis Diplomacy lunch seminar on Thursday, November 14, 2013, at 12:00 p.m. in 012 Bendheim Hall. Benjamin Miller, currently Visiting Professor of Politics at Princeton University and Visiting Israel Institute Fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, will present, "Nationalism, War and Peace: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in a Comparative Perspective." Lunch will be served at the session. To attend, RSVP to Angella Matheney.

Benjamin Miller is Professor of International Relations at the School of Political Sciences and the Head of the International MA Program in Peace and Conflict Management at the University of Haifa. He is also the President of the Israeli Association for International Studies. Miller received his Ph. D. from the University of California at Berkeley and has been a research fellow at Harvard, MIT. McGill University, and Princeton. He was a tenured member of the department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Visiting Professor at the Department of Political Science at Duke University in 2000-2002 and at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2007-8. Among his publications are, When Opponents Cooperate: Great Power Conflict and Collaboration in World Politics (Univ. of Michigan, 2nd ed., 2002); and States, Nations and Great Powers: The Sources of Regional War and Peace (Cambridge, 2007).