2023-2024 Schedule

MacMillan International Relations Seminar Series - AY 2023-24

Fall 2023

September

6th: Changwook Ju (Yale University), “Conscription and Battlefield Effectiveness in the Modern Era” *** To be held in RKZ 005

13th: Dana Stuster (Yale University), “The Power and Peril of Regional Hegemony” *** To be held in RKZ 005

27th: Cleo O’Brien-Udry (University of Pennsylvania), ”The Political Economy of Greening Foreign Aid” *** To be held in RKZ 005

October

5th (Thurs): Felipe Balcazar (Yale University), “Embedded liberalism, unions and robots: The effects of automation on the power of labor and policy” *, *** Note: this joint session with Leitner will be held Thursday in Luce Hall 202.

November

29th: Leonardo Baccini (McGill University), “Why Different Economic Shocks Have Different Political Effects” Talk moved to April 3rd to accomodate job talk

December

5th (Tues): Nina Tannenwald (Brown University), “Will the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime Survive? Contestation and Self-Undermining Dynamics” **

Spring 2024

January

24th: Christopher Fariss (University of Michigan), “Counting Crowds: Measuring Contentious Political Actions across the United States” with Kevin Reuning and Jay Ufelder Rescheduled to May 8th, 2024

31st: Edmund Malesky (Duke University), “Do Better Managers Engage in Less Corruption? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Vietnam”

February

6th (Tues): Caitlin Talmadge (MIT), “Peacetime Military Doctrine and Nuclear Escalation Risk” **

14th: Beth Simmons (University of Pennsylvania), “From Physical Barriers to Physical Abuse: Border Hardening and Torture Allegations”

28th: Aditi Sahasrabuddhe  (Brown University), “The Limits of Economic Statecraft: China’s Bilateral Swap Agreements and the External Security Environment”

March

7th: Dustin Tingley (Harvard University),  “Credibility and Climate Transitions” *

April

3rd: Leonardo Baccini (McGill University), “Why Different Economic Shocks Have Different Political Effects”

10th: Scott Sagan (Stanford University), “Atomic Arguments and Counter-Arguments: How Exposure to Conflicting Information Influences Public Support for the Use of Nuclear Weapons” **

25th: Susan Hyde (UC Berkeley)  Rescheduled to next academic year*

May

1st: Helen Milner (Princeton University), “The Deep Roots of Populism: Globalization and the Resurgence of Populism in the US Rescheduled to next academic year

8th: Aila Matanock (UC Berkeley) Rescheduled to next academic year

8th: Christopher Fariss (University of Michigan), “Counting Crowds: Measuring Contentious Political Actions across the United States” with Kevin Reuning and Jay Ufelder

Notes: * – Joint with the Leitner Political Economy Workshop, ** – Joint with International Security Studies and the Nuclear Security Program,
       *** – Practice Job Talk