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Dateline: 4/5/2007

GONZAGA UNIVERSITY NEWS RELEASE
Dale Goodwin, Director
Peter Tormey, Associate Director

Jeannot to Talk Non-Proliferation Treaty April 9

Tom Jeannot, professor of philosophy at Gonzaga University, will discuss “The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Its Honorable Past and Precarious Future” at the next meeting of the United Nations Association, Spokane Chapter, at 7 p.m., Monday, April 9 at Unitarian Universalist Church (4340 W. Fort Wright Dr.) in Spokane.

The UNA meeting is free and open to the public.

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was extended indefinitely in 1995. Jeannot notes that its fabric is beginning to tear and he will address the following questions that he has framed: Will it weather the storm of what Jeannot calls "American imperialism" as the world grows hotter? What lessons can it teach the world about stepping back from the brink of nuclear war and the logic of nuclear brinkmanship? If North Korea is a “rogue state” in the sense that it broke its treaty obligations, is Iran a “rogue state” as well? Is NATO in violation of the treaty, as the non-aligned nations contend? What about Israel, India and Pakistan — nuclear weapons countries that never signed the treaty? Will the world permit South Africa and Libya, which abandoned their nuclear weapons programs, to be the harbinger of a better future for world peace? How do things stand with the Treaty today? The UNA notes that these are the questions that Jeannot will touch upon in his remarks.

Jeannot earned his Ph.D. from St. Louis University and has been a philosophy professor at Gonzaga since 1986. Among his areas of interest are Marxism, classical American philosophy, ethics, 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy, and the history of philosophy. He is currently working on the ethics of rational freedom, especially in conjunction with the thought of Karl Marx. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Philosophy and Social Criticism, and other publications. With Wil Elder, he co-hosts the program “On the Clock” on KYRS LP FM Saturdays at 5 p.m. and Thursdays at 9 a.m.

For more information, contact Rod Stackelberg at (509) 747-2077.