Tom O'Donnell, Ph.D.                                              URL:  http://TomOD.com    ||     E-mail:  twod@umich.edu
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- U.S. Fulbright Scholar, Venezuela,   Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo, at Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas (CENDES-UCV).    Jan-Sept 2008.
- The New School, New York City:    Graduate International Affairs.    Part Time Faculty since 2005.
- The New School for Social Research, New York City:   Graduate Department of Econmics.   Visiting Scholar 2008/09.
- Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics (MCTP)   of The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.    Associate Member since June 2000.

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MY NEW BLOG "The Global Barrel" GlobalBarrel.com

Recent Course Syllabi Fall 2011: Revolution and War: Geopolitics of the Middle East and North Africa, 1951-2011; New School, Grad. International Affairs, NYC Latin American Development New School, Grad. International Affairs, NYC Spring 2011: Geopolitics of Global Oil New School, Grad. International Affairs, NYC Environmental Economics New School, Environmental Program, NYC From Venezuela to Saudi Arabia: Energy, Resources, Markets; The Ohio State, SocStud/Sci/Econ, Colombus Spring & Fall 2010: Latin American Development New School, Grad. International Affairs Summer 2010: Oil and the Global Economy 2010 The Ohio State, Middle East Studies Cntr

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Political economy & international affairs: Op-Ed: "China's Angst over Iran Sanctions: Beijing's go-it-alone oil security could fail during any U.S.-Iran conflict" or MEES Op-Ed; Middle East Economic Survey, MEES-Vol53n23, 7 June 2010 Book Review: "International Relations of the Persian Gulf," F. Gregory Gause III; Cambridge University Press, 2010. Reviewed by: Thomas W. ODonnell To appear in Middle East Journal, Summer 2010 Edition. Talk on "China's Energy Policy in Latin America: Investment & Geopolitics" Video recording of public forum. Click on "Audio and Video Clips" At the Hudson Institute; Washington, D.C.; September 22, 2009 Talks on the Iran Crisis, URPE website, 2006-10 Audio recordings of public forums." Click on "O'Donnell" links At the Brecht Forum, the Left Forum, etc. Talk on "PetroCaribe and PetroDiplomacy" of Bolivarian Venezuela Video recording of public forum. Click on "Audio and Video Clips" At the Hudson Institute; Washington, D.C.; September 22, 2009 Analysis: "The Political Economy of Oil in the U.S.-Iran Crisis: U.S. Globalized Oil Interests vs. Iranian Regional Interests" Preprint, June 2009 (45 pps with figures) Op-Ed: "Obama's Iran Nuclear Deadline: A Grand Bargain is Still Possible if Both Sides Honestly Define Their Interests" Submitted to Huffington Post, December 30, 2009. U.S. Fulbright Scholar Research Project, - Research in Venezuela, January-September 2008. Research Proposal: "The Political Economy of Oil: A Comparative Study of the Internal and External Policies of Venezuela and Algeria" "Understanding the Washington-Tehran Deals" "These on-again, off-again talks involve partial deals about the mutual pacification of Iraq, not a 'Grand Bargain' that would finally end th very damaging U.S. sanctions on Iran's oil sector Without such an agreement, the danger of a military conflict remains very real" PetroleumWorld.com for Latin America Sunday Feature, 17 February 2008. and, updated: Z Magazine Online April 2008. "Global Oil to 2030: A Quantitative Assessment in the Context of International Affairs" "... The paper concludes that because oil demand has become highly inelastic to price pressures and given the progressive depletion of the aging oil fields in the Northern Hemisphere, global dependence will continue to concentrate on Persian Gulf oil." International Relations and Security Network (ISN), Zurich, Switzerland 2 May 2007. Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute (MMPEI) - Research; & Workshop Talk: "The Political Economy of the New Global Oil Order and U.S. Policy" 18 January 2007. "The Political Economy of the U.S.-Iran crisis: Oil Hegemony, Not Nukes, is the Real Issue" - Full article (Before "Z" edited) 28 April 2006. - Z Magazine (On "Z" magazine website) Volume 19, Number 6. June 2006. "Report on Visit to University of Algiers." - Talk (3.5MB ppt format) given at U. Michigan's Center for Middle East & N. African Studies (CMENAS) at end-of-semester gathering. Discusses comparative study of Algerian and Venezuelan oil and gas policies. 18 April 2007. "Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Israel: The U.S.-Iran Connection" - Full article On the Israeli attack on Lebanon. 14 July 2006.

Videos and Recordings; Press Links, ... Audio File: Iran--U.S. Crisis: Geopolitical Update Talk by Tom O'Donnell [MP3, 12 MB] The Left Forum, 19 March 2011, NYC. Panel with Hamid Zangeneh, Hamideh Sedghi, Reza Ghorashi (remainder of panel and discussion available soon.) In Venezuela, Colombia (Spanish & English) & U.S. Physics peer-reviewed papers On nuclear theory and experiment (Recent. Full list ~40 in CV): New experimental approach for heavy and superheavy element production, International Journal of Modern Physics E, Vol. 18, No. 4 (2009) 10361043 Symmetry energies, pairing energies, and mass equations, Nuclear Physics A 781 (2007) 317341 Damping mechanisms of high-lying single-particle states in 91Nb, Physical Review C 75, 014311 (2007) Ph.D. Thesis: Nuclear Physics 2000: "A Superconducting-Solenoid Isotope Spectrometer for Production of Neutron-Rich Nuclei" Awarded Terwilliger Prize. "BigSol" A 7 Tesla Superconducting Solenoid Spectrometer for Collection and Identification of Neurton-Rich Isotopes. NSCL, c.1996.