September 19
IR field meet and greet

October 31
Vera Mironova, "Unintended Media Effects in a Conflict Environment: Serbian Radio and Croatian Nationalism." Appendix
Discussant: Agatha Hultquist

November 21
Mark Shirk, "Pirates, Anarchists, and Terrorists:Transnational Security Threats and Changing Practices of Sovereignty"
Discussant: Maeryn Goldman

December 5
Quddus Snyder, "Unbound and Unbridled: Institutions and the Increasing Returns to Power"
Discussants: Maeryn Goldman and Jacob Aronson

March 14
Joel Simmons, “Dividing the Spoils: Party Nationalization, Credibility, and Foreign Direct Investment” (with Allen Hicken, Ken Kollman, and Irfan Nooruddin).
Discussant: William Reed

April 4
Molly Inman, Roudabeh Kishi, and Jon Wilkenfeld, “Culture and International Crisis Mediation.”
Discussant: Mark Shirk

April 6
Philip Arena, SUNY Buffalo. "Improving Inferences in the Study of Crisis Bargaining," (co-authored with Kyle Joyce)
Discussants: Kiyoung Chang and Bill Reed

May 2
Mark Shirk, "Systemic Change and the Practice of Sovereignty."
Discussant: Quddus Snyder

March 8
Dan Corstange and Nikolay Marinov (Yale University). "Does Taking Sides Encourage Radicalization in Democratic Elections? Assessing the US and Iranian Messages in Lebanon."
Discussant: Sarah Croco

April 5
Jesse-Douglas Mathewson. "Threat Dynamics and the Marginal Value of Security Cooperation."
Discussant: Jason Petrucci

April 26
Ken Conca and Jacqui Ignatova. "Transnational Contention as a Source of Global Institution Building."
Discussant: Jennifer Wallace

May 3
Scott Kastner and Margaret Pearson. "Leader or follower? Bridge or obstruction? Exploring the range of Chinese behavior in international organizations."
Discussants: Kenneth Matis and William Reed

September 28
Quddus Snyder. "Systemic Theory in an Era of Declining US Hegemony."
Discussant: Jacob Aronson.

October 26
Ken Conca. "Working in, on, and with the UN: Conflict, Peacebuilding, and the UN Environment Programme."

November 30
George Quester. "The Feasibility of Going to 'Global Zero' in Nuclear Weapons." Discussant: Jesse Douglas Mathewson

February 9
Tong Fi Kim, Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University. "Why Alliances Entangle but Seldom Entrap States."
Discussant: Ho Youn Koh

March 9
Scott Kastner. "Buying influence? Assessing the political effects of China’s international economic ties."
Discussant: Margaret Pearson

March 30
Sarah Croco. "Peace at What Price? Domestic Politics, Leadership Turnover and War Termination."
Discussant: Jason Petrucci

April 24 (Friday 2PM-4PM, 1101 Morill Hall)
Michael Hiscox, Department of Government, Harvard University. "Is There Consumer Demand for Improved Labor Standards? Evidence from Field Experiments in Social Product Labeling."

May 4
Jesse-Douglas Mathewson. "An Occupation with Democratization: Understanding Regime Duration and Political Liberalization in Foreign Imposed Democratic Regimes."
Discussant: Jacob Aronson

May 11
Jon Brown and Tony Marcum

September 10Anthony Marcum and Jonathan Brown. "Domestic Political Accountability and Concessions in Public versus Private Diplomacy."
Discussant: Sarah Croco

October 1Quddus Snyder. "Systemic Theory Revived."
Discussant: Virginia Haufler

November 5Post-Election Roundtable

December 3Jesse-Douglas Mathewson. "An Occupation with Democratization: The Correlates and Causes of Success Among Foreign-Imposed Democratic Regimes."
Discussants: Anthony Marcum and Michael McDonald.

February 25
Quddus Snyder. "Liberal Process and the Great Power Confederacy."
Discussant: Soo Yeon Kim

March 13 (Thursday 2PM - 3:15PM)
Tobias Hoffman, William & Mary College. "Ride on the Peace Train: Does Peacekeeping Help to Stay on Board?"
Discussant: Chris Sullivan

March 31
Shana Marshall.  "Free Market Mercenaries: How Neoliberal Economic Reforms have Re-Shaped Militaries Around the Globe."  
Discussant:  Shanthi Gonzalez

April 7
Scott Kastner and Phil Saunders, NDU. "Prospects for a PRC-Taiwan Peace Agreement and Likely Consequences" (Available to GVPT on Network Drive H:/IR research workshop).
Discussant: Jung-Ming Chang

April 14 (11:30 AM)
Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba (Job Talk). "Parties, Politics, and Population Aging in German Labor Policy."

April 18 (Friday 2PM - 3:15PM)
Charli Carpenter, U of Pittsburgh. "Studying Issue Adoption in Transnational Advocacy Networks."
Discussant: Cyanne Loyle.

April 21
Nick Grossman. "The Threat of Non-State Networks: A General Theory of Asymmetric Warfare."
Discussant: Jacob Aronson

May 2 (Friday 11AM - 12:15PM)
Susan Sell, George Washington. "Books, Drugs, and Seeds: the Politics of Access to Knowledge."
Discussant: Michael McDonald.

May 14 (Stamp Student Union)
International Relations Conference.

September 17
Shibley Telhami

October 1
Soo Yeon Kim. "The WTO and International Trade."
Discussants: Bartek Kaminski and Jesse-Douglas Mathewson

October 8
Quddus Snyder. "From Anarchy to Confederacy: A Liberal Theory of International Relations."
Discussant: Nick Grossman

November 26
Ben Appel. "The Liberal Peace and Dyadic Inequalities: An Assessment of Core-Periphery Relations."
Discussant: Tony Marcum

February 19
June Samuel. "The Anti-Abortion NGO Network at the UN: From Cairo to the Present."
Discussant: Jennifer Sciubba

February 26
Karol Soltan, Shibley Telhami, Nicholas Grossman. "Discussing the Next Steps in Iraq—Moving Beyond War"

March 12
Jonathan Brown. "The Negotiation and Design of Strategic Access Agreements"
Discussants: Scott Kastner and Michael Beevers

March 28
Clifford Bob, Duquesne University. "Boomerang or Market? Theorizing Transnational Contention in Small Arms and Beyond"
Discussants: Mark Lichbach and June Swinski

April 2
Daniel Deudney, Johns Hopkins University. "Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village."
Discussants: George Quester and Quddus Snyder

April 9
Guy Ziv. "Hawk-to-Dove Foreign Policy Change: The Case of Shimon Peres"
Discussant: Jesse-Douglas Mathewson

April 23
Pelin Eralp. "Military Interventions in Civil Wars: Why do Foreign Powers Intervene in Civil Wars?"
Discussants: Alyssa Prorok and Cyanne Loyle

May 3
Alexander Wendt, Ohio State University. "Quantum Social Theory."

May 7
Tony Marcum and Jonathan Brown. "Motivational Foundations of Rational Choice in International Relations"
Discussant: Scott Kastner.

May 14
Thomas Flores, University of Michigan and Irfan Nooruddin, Ohio State. "Evaluating World Bank Post-Conflict Assistance Programs"