PROJECT ON INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (PIA)
SEMINAR SERIES AY 2007-08
Coordinators: Peter Gourevitch (IR/PS), Megumi Naoi (Political Science), and Branislav Slantchev (Political Science)
Staff Support: Melissa LaBouff, IICAS Events Coordinator (858) 822-5297
Funding: Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS)
Current Schedule AY 2007-08
Department of Political Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
"Evaluating the Nuclear Peace Hypothesis: A Quantitative Approach."
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
3:00 - 4:30 PM
IR/PS Dean's Conference Room
Department of Political Science
Duke University
"Let's Get a Second Opinion: International Institutions and American Public Support for War."
Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Social Science Building, Room 104 (SSB 104)
Department of Political Science
Stanford University
"The Credibility of International Commitments"
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
4:00 - 5:30 PM
IR/PS Dean's Conference Room
AY 2006-07
Department of Political Science and Program in Applied Statistics and Computation
Washington University in Saint Louis
"The Dynamics of Democracy and Human Rights Abuse: History Matters in a First-Order Markov Model, 1976-2003."
Thursday,
February 8th, 2007
3:00PM-4:30PM
Social Science Building 101
Robert Trager
Department of Political Science
University of California, Los Angeles
"Power and Agency: How Past Diplomacy Determines the Choice of Sides."
Thursday, March 1, 2007
3:00 - 4:30 PM
Social Science Building 107
Department of Political Science
Texas A&M University
"War and Incomplete Information.”
Friday, March 9, 2007
3:00 - 4:30 PM
Social Science Building 104
Mia Bloom
Department of Political Science
University of Georgia
"Sectarian Killings in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq: the Metamorphosis of Suicide Terrorism."
Thursday, March 15, 2007
3:00 - 4:30 PM
Social Science Building 107
Kati Suominen
Inter-American Development Bank
"Regional Trade Agreements and Global Cooperation."
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
3:00 - 4:30 PM
Social Science Building 105
Department of Political Science
University of California, Davis
"Casualties and Public Support for War: An Experimental Approach."
Friday, June 8, 2007
12:00 - 1:30 PM (lunch provided)
Social Science Building 101
AY 2005-2006
Department of Political Science, Washington University
Global Fellow at the UCLA International Institute, 2005-06
"Measuring Risk: Political Risk Insurance Premiums and Domestic Political Institutions."
Wednesday, November 2, 2005
SSB 103, 3:00-4:30 pm
Department of Economics, Claremont McKenna College
"How Much Does Violence Tax Trade?"
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
SSB 104, 3:00-4:30 pm (note room change)
Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
"The Path to Indivisibility: Time and the Entrenchment of Territorial Disputes."
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
3:00-4:30 pm, SSB 102
Department of Political Science, Stanford University
"Self-Enforcing Democracy."
Monday, March 20
3:00-4:30 pm, SSB 104
Department of Government, Harvard University
"TBA"
Friday, March 24, 2006
3:00-4:30, SSB 104
"International Trade in the Provision of Transnational Collective Goods.”
Tuesday, April 4
3:00-4:30, SSB 107
Department of Government, Harvard University
"The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy." (This talk relates to a larger project. For background, please see these two papers: Paper 1, Paper 2).
Monday, April 17, 2006
3:00-4:30, SSB 104
Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
"Preventive War and U.S. Foreign Policy”
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
3:30 - 5:00, SSB 102
Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
"Patterns of Compliance with the Laws of War”
Friday, April 28, 2006
3:00 – 4:30, SSB 101
AY 2003-2004
Department of Political Science, Yale University, and Global Fellow at the UCLA International Institute.
"Why Governments enter into the UN Convention Against Torture." (New draft dated 10-27-03)
Monday, November 10, 2003 @ 3:00-4:30 pm
Social Science Building Room 104
Department of Political Science, Brigham Young University
"A Problem of Principals: Common Agency and Social Lending at Multilateral Development Banks”
Wednesday, November 12, 2003 @ noon-1:30 pm (lunch will be provided).
Social Science Building Room 102
Barbara Koremenos (co-sponsored by IR/PS)
"International Law for an Uncertain Environment."
Department of Political Science, UCLA
Wednesday, December 3, 2003 @ 4:00-5:30 pm
Social Science Building Room 104
Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
"Could Humphrey Have Gone to China? Measuring the Electoral Costs and Benefits of Making Peace."
Wednesday, December 10 @ 3:30-5:00 pm
Social Science Building Room 104
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS)
"Generating State-Size Distributions: A Geopolitical Model"
Monday, January 12, 2004 @ 3:00-4:30 pm
Social Science Building Room 104
Hein Goemans - CANCELLED!
Department of Political Science, Duke University
"Leaders and War."
Thursday, January 15, 2004 @ noon-1:30 pm (lunch will be provided).
Social Science Building Room 104
Department of Political Science, Stanford University
"Membership Has its Privileges: Understanding the Effects of GATT and the WTO on World Trade."
Thursday, March 11, 2004 @ noon-1:30 (lunch will be provided).
Social Science Building Room 104
Department of Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Elections, Partisan Politics and Stock Market Performance: Theory and Evidence from a Century of American and British Returns."
Monday, March 15, 2004 @ 3:00-4:30
Social Science Building Room 104
Department of Government, Harvard University
"Competing for Capital: The Diffusion of Bilateral Investment Treaties, 1960-2000."
Thursday, April 29, 2004 @ 4:00-5:30
Social Science Building Room 107
Department of Political Science, Northwestern University
"Civil-Military Relations and Strategic Assessment."
Thursday, May 20, 2004 @ 4:00-5:30
Social Science Building Room 107 (NOTE ROOM CHANGE!)
AY 2002-2003
Donald Wittman
Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz
"War or Peace?"
Wednesday, October 23, 2002 @ 4:00 pm
Social Science Building Room 104
Peter Rosendorff
School of International Relations and Department of Economics, University of Southern California
"Democracy and the Supply of Transparency."
Wednesday, November 20, 2002 @ 4:00 pm
Social Science Building Room 104
Mark Hallerberg
Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
"Forms of Fiscal Governance.”
Tuesday, November 26, 2002 @ 12:00 pm
Social Science Building Room 102 (Lunch is provided)
Jack Levy
Department of Political Science, Rutgers University
"Hegemonic Threats and Great Power Balancing in Europe, 1494-2000."
Wednesday, December 4, 2002 @ 4:00 pm
Social Science Building Room 104
Suzanne Werner
Department of Political Science, Emory University
"Bargaining and Fighting: The Impact of Regime Type on War Onset, Duration, and Outcomes."
Wednesday, January 8, 2003 @ 4:00 pm
Social Science Building Room 104
Department of Government, Dartmouth College
"Does Backing Down Reduce Credibility?
Wednesday, January 22, 2003 @ 4:00 pm
Social Science
Building Room 104
Benjamin Fordham
Department of Political Science, University at Albany-SUNY and Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
"The Influence of Military Capabilities on Decisions to Use Force."
Wednesday, February 19, 2003 @ 4:00 pm
Social Science Building Room 104
John Mueller
Department of Political Science
Ohio State University
"The Remnants of War: Thugs as Residual Combatants.”
Friday, March 21, 2003 @ 2:00 pm (SPECIAL DAY/TIME/ROOM)
Social Science Building Room 107
Richard Ned Lebow
Department of Government, Dartmouth College
"Counterfactuals for Fun or Profit?"
Wednesday, April 9, 2003 @ 4:00 pm
Social Science Building Room 104
Barbara Walter
Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, UCSD
"Explaining Cycles of Terrorist Violence.”
Wednesday, June 11, 2003
Social Science Building Room 104
AY 2001 – 2002
Robert Staiger (co-sponsored by the Applied Micro Workshop)
Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin
"The International Organization and Enforcement of Labor Standards."
Thursday, October 25, 2001 @ 4:00 PM
Dean's Conference Room, IR/PS
Gene Grossman (co-sponsored by the Applied Micro Workshop)
Department of Economics, Princeton University
"International Protection of Intellectual Property."
Wednesday, November 14 @ 4:00 PM
Dean's Conference Room, IR/PS
Barry O'Neill
Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
"Resolving Conflicts Between Honor-Based Societies." [See Chapter 6 of Symbols, Honor and War. For an printable version click here]
Friday, February 15, 2002 @ 2:00 PM
Social Science Building Room 104
Richard Ned Lebow ***CANCELED***
Department of Political Science, Ohio State University; Director of the Mershon Center
"Counterfactuals for Fun or Profit?"
Friday, March 1, 2002 @ 2:00 PM
Social Science Building Room 104
Jon Pevehouse
Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin
"Democracy from Above? Regional Organizations and Democratization.”
Friday, March 8, 2002 @ 2:00 PM
Social Science Building Room 104
Erik Gartzke
Department of Political Science, Columbia University
"Alliances, Perceptions, and International Politics"
Friday, March 15, 2002 @ 2:00 PM
Social Science Building Room 104
Todd Sandler
International Relations and Economics, University of Southern California
"An Economic Perspective on Transnational Terrorism."
Friday, April 19, 2002 @ 2:00 PM
Social Science Building Room 104
Robert L. Powell
Department of Political Science, University of California at Berkeley
"Bargaining While Fighting."
Wednesday, May 1, 2002 @ 2:00 PM
Social Science Building Room 103 (note day and room change)
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Department of Politics, New York University
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
"When Bad Policy is Good Politics."
Friday, May 17, 2002 @ 2:00 PM
Social Science Building Room 104