Date: Wednesday 21 October 2009
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Chair: Professor Richard Steinberg

Hailed as 'the new Nostradamus', Bruce Bueno de Mesquita has been shaking the world of political science to its foundations with his predictions of world events. His systems based on game theory have an astonishing 90%+ ratio of accuracy and are frequently used to shape US foreign-policy decisions on issues such as the terrorist threat to America to the peace process in Northern Ireland. Considered by many to be the most important foreign-policy analyst there is, it is no surprise that he is regularly consulted by the CIA and US Department of Defence. In this lecture Professor Bueno de Mesquita will look at what is needed to reliably anticipate and even alter events in any situation involving negotiation in the shadow of the threat of coercion. He will demonstrate how to bring science to decision making in any situation from personal to professional.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is the Julius Silver Professor of Politics at NYU and Senior Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. He is the author of 16 books and more than 120 articles on political economy and national security. This event celebrate the publication of his newest book, Predictioneer, which is published by the Bodley Head.

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