MacMillan International Relations Seminar Series - AY 2013-14
Fall 2013
September
4th: Erica de Bruin (Yale University), “War and Coup Prevention in Developing States”
11th: Benny Miller (Haifa/Princeton), “Between Warm Peace and Hot War: The ‘Arab Spring’ and the Post-Cold War International Order”
18th: Matthew Longo (Yale), “Sovereignty in the Age of Securitization: A Study of Borders and Bordering in the US after 9/11”
25th: Emilie Hafner-Burton (UCSD), ”Transparency of Investor-State Arbitration”
October
2nd: Cameron Ballard-Rosa (Yale), “Hungry for Change: Urban Bias and the Political Economy of Autocratic Sovereign Default”
9th: Robert Trager (UCLA), ”A Preference for War: How Fairness and Rhetoric Influence Leadership Incentives in Crises”
16th: James Morrow (Michigan), ”The Domestic Foundations of International Norms: Non-Intervention versus Territorial Integrity”
21st: Giovanni Facchini (Nottingham), “The Rhetoric of Closed Borders: Quotas, Lax Enforcement and Illegal migration” (co-hosted with Leitner)
30th: Phil Arena (SUNY Buffalo), ”Costly Signaling, Resolve, and Martial Effectiveness”
November
6th: Bear Braumoeller (OSU), “Is War Disappearing?”
13th: Charles Glaser (George Washington), “Taking China’s Rise Seriously: Competition, Unilateral Concessions or a Grand Bargain?”
18th: Stergios Skaperdas (UC Irvine), “Nation-Building through War: Military Victory and Social Identification after the Franco-Prussian War” (co-hosted with Leitner)
December
4th: Vincent Pouliot (McGill), “The Many Ontologies of Multilateral Pecking Orders”
9th: Layna Mosley (UNC-Chapel Hill), Categories, Creditworthiness and Contagion: Investors’ Shortcuts and Sovereign Debt Markets (co-hosted with Leitner)
Spring 2014
January
15th: Joanne Gowa (Princeton), “Conflict and Commerce: New Data about the Great War”
22nd: David Robert Howell (Yale), ”A New Multilateralism: Resolving the Definitional Debate about the Underpinnings of International Organizations”
29th: Deborah Brooks and Stephen Brooks (Dartmouth), “Pretty Prudent Partisan Theory of U.S. Foreign Policy Opinion”
February
5th: Jessica Weiss (Yale), ”Stability Amidst Leadership Transitions in the Asia-Pacific”
10th: Alexandre Debs and Nuno Monteiro (Yale University), “An Economic Theory of Hegemonic War” (co-hosted with Leitner)
19th: Cameron Thies (ASU), ”The Spatial Dimensions of State Fiscal Capacity: The Mechanisms of International Influence on Domestic Extractive Efforts”
24th: Stephanie Rickard (LSE), ”Policy Targeting: Special Interest Politics, Geography and Electoral Institutions” (co-hosted with Leitner)
March
5th: Edward Mansfield (UPenn), ”The Political Economy of the Itching Palm: A Cross-National Analysis of Tipping”
April
2nd: Paul Huth (Maryland), ”International Law and the Consolidation of Peace Following Territorial Change”
9th: Stephen Krasner (Stanford), “State-Building: Outside In”
16th: Jennifer Lind (Dartmouth University), ”Geography, Technology, and the Coming Struggle for the Pacific”
23rd: Allan Dafoe (Yale), “Confounding in Survey Experiments with an Application to the Democratic Peace”
28th: Tim Buthe (Duke University), ”The Politics of Market Competition: Trade and Antitrust in a Global Economy” (co-hosted with Leitner)
30th: Milan Svolik (University of Illinois at Urbana‑Champaign), ”Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud” (co-hosted with Leitner)
Faculty coordinator: Nuno Monteiro
Student coordinator: William Nomikos