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Program on International Security Policy: Workshop Archive
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Spring 2001 |
Winter 2001
January 15 |
"The Atomic Terrorist"
John Mueller
The Ohio State University |
January 22 |
"The Minimum Means of Reprisal: New Evidence on the History of China’s Nuclear Deterrent"
Jeffrey Lewis
Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative |
January 29 |
"Preventing an Iranian Atomic Bomb: Sculpting Effective, Acceptable Strategies"
David Albright
Institute for Science and International Security |
February 5 |
"Wars of Choice: Leadership, Threat Perception, and Military Interventions"
Elizabeth Saunders
George Washington University and Harvard University |
February 12 |
"Paths of Ruin: How Identity Shapes Military Effectiveness in Modern War"
Jason Lyall
Princeton University and Harvard University |
February 19 |
"The Spirit of Democracy
Larry Diamond
Institute for Science and International Security |
February 26 |
"Israel’s War in Lebanon"
William Arkin
The Washington Post |
March 4 |
"What’s Special About Female Suicide Terrorism?"
Lindsey O’Rourke
University of Chicago |
March 11 |
"The American Way of Small Wars: Why the US Will Continue to Fight Them…Badly?
Jon Caverley
University of Chicago and Harvard University |
October 2 |
"The Diffusion of Military
Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics"
Michael Horowitz
University of Pennsylvania
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October 9 |
"What’s Wrong with
the Bush Doctrine"
Ian Shapiro
Yale University
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October 16 |
"Lawfare and the War on
Terrorism"
Jack Goldsmith
Harvard Law School
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Ocober 23 |
"Strategies for Security
Competition"
Jasen Castillo
Texas A&M
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October 30 |
"Getting Beyond Toxic: American
Foreign Policy and International Institutions After Primacy’s
Demise"
Stephen Stedman
Stanford University
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November 6 |
"Osirak Redux? Assessing
Israeli Air Force Capabilities to Destroy Iranian Nuclear Facilities"
Austin Long
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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November 13 |
"Preventing an Iranian Atomic
Bomb: Sculpting Effective, Acceptable Strategies"
David Albright
Institute for Science and International Security
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November 20 |
"The Concept of Strategy"
Jonathan Obert and Ian Storey
University of Chicago
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November 27 |
"The [F]utility of Barbarism: An Inquiry
into the Contemporary Utility of Systematic Harm of Noncombatants
as a Strategy in War"
Ivan Arreguin-Toft
Harvard University and Wellesley College
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December 4 |
"Explaining Changes in US
Grand Strategy: The Rise of Offensive Liberalism and the War in
Iraq"
Benjamin Miller
University of Haifa
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March 27 |
"What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat"
Louise Richardson, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University |
April 3 |
"Unrest Assured: Why Unipolarity Is Not Peaceful"
Nuno P. Monteiro, University of Chicago |
April 10 |
"Conceptualizing the Asian Regional System Today"
David Shambaugh, George Washington University |
April 17 |
"China's 'Assertive Pragmatism'"
Minxin Pei, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
April 24 |
"When Heads Roll: A Dynamic Model of Leadership Decapitation"
Jenna Jordan, University of Chicago |
May 1 |
"Courts Without Borders? The Domestic Sources of Extraterritorial Regulation"
Tonya Putnam, Columbia University |
May 8 |
"Some Puzzles About Reputation in International Politics"
Todd S. Sechser, University of Virginia |
May 15 |
"No Blood for Oil? Natural Resources and International War"
Emily Meierding, University of Chicago |
May 22 |
"The 2006 Lebanon Conflict and the Future of Warfare"
Stephen Biddle, Council on Foreign Relations |
May 29 |
"Biotechnology, Arms Control, and the State of Nature"
Christopher Chyba, Princeton University |
January 9 |
"Use and Abuse of the Survival Assumption in Neorealism: A Constructive Criticism"
Burak Kadercan, University of Chicago |
January 16 |
"The Just-Deserts Motive for War Against Evil Regimes"
Peter Liberman, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York |
January 23 |
"Constructivists as Pessimists: Persistent Violence as Ideational"
Ian Storey, University of Chicago |
January 30 |
"American Primacy: Necessary? Desirable? Sustainable?"
Robert J. Lieber, Georgetown University |
February 6 |
"Why the Dramatic Decline in Armed Conflict?"
Andrew Mack, University of British Columbia |
February 13 |
"The Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation: What Not to Worry About"
Negeen Pegahi, University of Chicago |
February 20 |
TBA
Jim Tegnelia, Defense Threat Reduction Agency |
February 27 |
"Rhetoric, Strategy, and War: Language, Power, and the Making of US Security Policy"
Ronald Krebs, University of Minnesota |
March 6 |
TBA
Shai Feldman, Brandeis University |
October 3 |
"The Nuclear Revolution and the Persistence of American Unipolar Preponderance"
Campbell Craig, University of Southampton, United Kingdom |
October 10 |
"Rethinking Offense-Defense Theory: The Offense-Advantage of Terror"
Rose Kelanic, University of Chicago |
October 17 |
"American Foreign Policy and the Changing Conditions of Energy Security"
Flynt Leverett, New America Foundation |
October 24 |
"A Rising China and the International Reaction to It: International Circumstances and National Attributes"
Avery Goldstein, University of Pennsylvania |
October 31 |
"Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World"
Anatol Lieven, New America Foundation |
November 7 |
"Creating Military Power"
Risa Brooks, Northwestern University |
November 14 |
"Does the Hegemon Get Its Way? Evaluating Bush Policy in the Middle East"
Jeremy Pressman, University of Connecticut |
November 21 |
"Cultural Neglect? Explaining the Limits of Military Bio-defense"
Frank Smith, University of Chicago |
November 28 |
"Ticking Time Bomb or Fizzle? Exploding Five Myths about the North Korean Nuclear Crisis"
Alexander H. Montgomery, Reed College |
March 30
(12:00-2:00, Pick Lounge) |
"How Donald Rumsfeld Misread Saddam Hussein's Strategy and Created the Iraqi Insurgency"
Michael Gordon, New York Times
Co-Author of Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq |
April 4 |
"Big Sticks and Contested Carrots: Explaining International Security Institutions"
Vaidyanatha Gundlupet, University of Chicago |
April 11 |
"Between Acquisition and Use: Manipulating the Improbability of Nuclear Terrorism"
Christopher McIntosh & Ian Storey, University of Chicago |
April 18 |
"Evangelicals and American Foreign Policy: A View from the Pews and the Precincts"
John C. Green, University of Akron |
April 25 |
"On the Table, But Would You Serve Them to Guests? The Military Options for Iran"
Samuel B. Gardiner, Colonel, USAF (Retired)
National Defense University and Air University |
May 2 |
"Anti-Americanisms in World Politics"
Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University |
May 9 |
"Adaptive Overconfidence and Offensive Realism"
Dominic Johnson, Princeton University Society of Fellows |
May 16 |
"Theory of Rational International Politics"
Charles Glaser, University of Chicago |
May 23 |
"Realist Theory as Tradition: Forward is as Forward Does"
Jennifer Sterling-Folker, University of Connecticut |
May 30 |
"Iran: Along the Nuclear Precipice"
Ray Takeyh, Council on Foreign Relations |
January 10 |
"Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Iraq"
Ltc. John A. Nagl, Military Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense
Author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife |
January 17 |
"Does Regime Type Drive Proliferation?"
Robert S. Litwak, Woodrow Wilson Center |
January 24 |
"'A governing ideology whose time has come'? Realism and the Neoconservative Convergence"
Michael C. Williams, University of Wales, Aberystwyth |
January 31 |
"Iraq, the Press, and Self-Censorship"
Michael Massing, Columbia Journalism Review |
February 7 |
"Provisions of Benefit and Harm: Making Negotiated Settlements to Civil Wars Stick"
Monica Duffy Toft, Harvard University |
February 14 |
"Building a Successful Palestinian State"
Seth G. Jones, Georgetown University |
February 21 |
"Immigration, Nationalism, and Military Power"
Nikola Mirilovic, University of Chicago |
February 28 |
"The Struggle for Recognition and German Naval Ambition Before the First World War"
Michelle Murray, University of Chicago |
March 7 |
TBA
Lawrence F. Kaplan, The New Republic |
October 4 |
"Stretched Thin: Army Forces for Sustained Operations"
Lynn Davis, Rand Corporation |
October 11 |
"The Bush Doctrine: Dead or Just Dying?"
Kori Schake, Hoover Institution |
October 18 |
"Threat, Culture, and Military Doctrine"
Takayuki Nishi, University of Chicago |
October 25 |
"Counter-terrorism: Why the US has a hard time doing it well"
Timothy Naftali, University of Virginia |
November 1 |
"The Laws of War and their Implications for Iraq"
Helen Kinsella, University of Wisconsin - Madison |
November 8 |
"Is it Inevitable that Iran and North Korea will have Nuclear Weapons?"
Gary Samore, MacArthur Foundation |
November 15 |
"The End of Mutual Assured Destruction? The Nuclear Dimension of American Primacy"
Kier Lieber, University of Notre Dame
Daryl Press, University of Pennsylvania |
November 22 |
"The Middle East in International Politics: States, Power, and Ideologies"
Fred Halliday, London School of Economics |
November 29 |
"After Saddam: Prewar Planning for Postwar Iraq"
Nora Bensahel, Rand Corporation |
October 4 |
"Understanding al Qaeda Networks"
Marc Sageman, University of Pennsylvania |
October 12 |
"Strategy Under Uncertainty"
Emily Goldman, University of California, Davis;
Director, UC Davis Washington Program |
October 19 |
"Apologies in International Politics"
Jennifer Lind, Dartmouth College |
October 26 |
"The Stability-Instability Paradox in South Asia"
Paul Kapur, Claremont McKenna College |
November 2 |
"Contestable Wars"
John Schuessler, University of Chicago |
November 9 |
"Modern Air Power: A Discussion"
Merrill A. McPeak, Former Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force |
November 16 |
"America: Alone in the World"
Kenneth Waltz, Columbia University, Institute of War and Peace Studies |
November 23 |
"America the Vulnerable: Can the Homeland be Secured?"
Stephen Flynn, Council on Foreign Relations |
March 30 |
"Steps to a Safer America"
Lawrence Korb, Center for American Progress |
April 6 |
"Proliferation Policy and
Politics in the Bush Administration"
Joseph Cirincione, Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace |
April 13 |
"Is Terrorism What States
Make of It? Threat Construction and the Politics of Security
in Comparative Perspective"
Keven Ruby, University of Chicago |
April 20 |
"Military Transformation
Under Uncertainty"
Emily Goldman, Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars |
April 27 |
"Lying in International
Politics"
John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago |
May 4 |
TBA
James Dobbins, RAND Corporation |
May 11 |
"America and Europe: Partnership,
Amicable Separation, or Nasty Divorce?”
Charles Kupchan, Georgetown University |
May 18 |
"Talking States: A Theoretical
Analysis of Diplomacy"
Lora Viola, University of Chicago |
May 24 |
"Global Responses to US
Primacy"
Stephen Walt, John F. Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University |
June 1 |
"Biodefense and Biosecurity"
Jonathan Tucker, Monterey Institute of International
Studies |
January 6 |
"International Law and the Use of Force by the Major Powers: An Initial Assessment"
Joel Westra, University of Chicago |
January 13 |
"Threat Inflation and How to Get Away With It: The Case of Iraq"
Chaim Kaufmann, Lehigh University |
January 20 |
"Terrorism and International Security"
Audrey Kurth Cronin, Congressional Research Service |
January 27 |
"The Imperial Logic of Bush's Liberal Agenda"
Edward Rhodes, Rutgers University |
February 3 |
"Realism, the U.S. Alliance System, and the Korean Peninsula"
David Kang, Dartmouth College |
February 10 |
"Committing Suicide For Fear of Death: Preventive War in International Politics"
Dong Sun Lee, University of Chicago |
February 17 |
"Debating War"
John Schuessler, University of Chicago |
February 24 |
"Paying the Price of Victory: American Public Opinion and the War in Iraq"
Christopher Gelpi, Duke University |
March 2 |
"The Realignment of the U.S. Global Military Posture: Purpose and Implications"
Clark Murdock, Center for Strategic and International Studies |
March 9 |
"Al-Qa'ida as an Adversary"
Daniel Byman, Georgetown University |
October 7 |
TBA
James Steinberg, The Brookings Institute |
October 14 |
"Internationalizing the Chechen Conflict"
Matthew Evangelista, Cornell University |
October 21 |
"Rethinking 1941: American Intervention in the Second World War and International Relations Theory"
Marc Trachtenberg, University of California, Los Angeles |
October 28 |
"Occupational Hazards: Explaining the Success and Failure of Military Occupations"
David Edelstein, Georgetown University |
November 4 |
"Targeting Civilians in War"
Alexander Downes, University of Chicago |
November 11 |
"The Perils of Hegemony"
Steven Miller, Harvard University |
November 18 |
"The Structure of the Second Nuclear Age"
Paul Bracken, Yale University |
November 25 |
"Strange Peaces After Savage Wars: The Occupation of Germany and Japan and Lessons for Nation Building"
Thomas Berger, Boston University |
December 2 |
"The Logic of Integration"
Sebastian Rosato, University of Chicago |
March 9 |
April 1 |
"The Limits of Coercive Diplomacy in South Asia"
Sumit Ganguly, University of Texas at Austin |
April 8 |
"The Future of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process"
Khalil Shikaki, Bir Zeit University |
April 15 |
"Balance of Power: The International Wanderings of a Liberal Idea"
Deborah Boucoyannis, University of Chicago |
April 22 |
"Imperial Temptations"
Jack Snyder, Columbia University |
April 29 |
"Evolutionary Psychology, Demography, and War (and Peace)"
Neil Wiener, York University |
May 6 |
"Nuclear Proliferation After Iraq"
Gary Samore, International Institute of Strategic Studies |
May 13 |
"The Future of the United States and Korea in East Asia"
Victor Cha, Georgetown University |
May 20 |
"The Conundrum of American Power in Today's Fractured World"
Paul Kennedy, Yale University |
May 27 |
"Institutions at War: The Kosovo Conflict and Neoliberal Theory"
Sean Kay, Ohio Wesleyan University |
January 14 |
"What is Being (Re?)constructed in Afghanistan?"
Barnett Rubin, New York University |
January 21 |
"Israel and the Demographic Question"
Ian Lustick, University of Pennsylvania |
January 28 |
"Islamism and the Roots of Terror"
Mary Habeck, Yale University |
February 4 |
"Is Kim Jong Il a Realist?"
Leon Sigal, Social Science Research Council |
February 11 |
"The Challenge of September 11th to Secularism in International Relations"
Daniel Philpott, University of Notre Dame |
February 18 |
"The Role of Documents in Illegal Immigration"
Kamal Sadiq, University of Chicago |
February 25 |
"Human Ecology and Civil War"
Matthew Kocher, University of Chicago |
March 4 |
"Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction"
Vincent Cannistraro, Former Chief of Counter-Terrorism, Central Intelligence Agency |
March 11 |
"The Lessons of the Oslo Process"
Gerald Steinberg, Bar Ilan University |
October 8 |
"Rational Interpretations of Palestinian Suicide Bombing: Market Share and Outbidding"
Mia Bloom, Hofstra University |
October 15 |
"The Current Revolution in Military Affairs: One Man's View"
Andrew Marshall, Department of Defense |
October 22 |
"The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism"
Robert Pape, University of Chicago |
October 29 |
"Institutionalizing Power Politics"
Sebastian Rosata, University of Chicago |
November 5 |
"The Next Gulf War: Political Science Finally Matters"
Richard Andres, School of Advanced Airpower Studies, Maxwell Air Force Base |
November 12 |
"Afghanistan and the Future of Warfare: Implications for Army and Defense Policy"
Stephen Biddle, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College |
November 19 |
"Defending the Homeland in the Age of Terrorism"
Richard Falkenrath, Office of Homeland Security |
November 26 |
"Why Do They Hate Us?"
John Zogby, Zogby International |
December 3 |
"LBJ's Gilpatric Committee and the Dilemmas of America's Non-Proliferation Policy"
Frank Gavin, University of Texas |
March 29 |
"A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide"
Samantha Power, Harvard University |
April 2 |
"Delegitimizing the Bomb: The Domestic and International Origins of the Nuclear Taboo"
Nina Tannenwald, Brown University |
April 9 |
"The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals"
Gary Bass, Princeton University |
April 16 |
"Debating the Democratic Peace"
Charles Lipson, University of Chicago
Christopher Layne, University of Miami |
April 26 |
"U.S.-Chinese Relations Since September 11th"
Su Ge, China Institute of International Studies, Beijing |
April 30 |
"Do Arms Races Make War Unnecessarily Likely?"
Charles Glaser, University of Chicago |
May 7 |
"Principle and Pragmatism on International Justice"
Jack Snyder, University of Chicago |
May 14 |
"Nationalism, Territory, and Conflict"
Hein Goemans, Duke University |
May 21 |
"Coercive Diplomacy in the 1990s"
Robert Art, Brandeis University |
May 28 |
"Drastic Measures: The Sources of Civilian Victimization in War"
Alexander Downes, University of Chicago |
January 8 |
"America's War on Terrorism: Should Iraq be Next?"
James Woolsey, Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency |
January 15 |
"Assessing the Global WMD Threat"
Gary Milhollin, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control |
January 22 |
"Social Democracy and the Ideological Dynamics of the 20th Century"
Sheri Berman, Princeton University |
January 29 |
"The Democratic Peace and Territorial Conflict in the 20th Century"
Paul Huth, University of Michigan |
February 5 |
"The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War "
Stuart Kaufman, University of Kentucky |
February 12 |
"Pakistan: Redirecting Power"
Stephen Cohen, The Brookings Institute |
February 19 |
"Evaluating Outside Support for Insurgencies: When Does it Work?"
Daniel Byman, RAND Corporation |
February 26 |
"The Future of National Missile Defense "
Victor Utgoff, Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA) |
March 5 |
"The Logic of Violence in Civil War"
Stathis Kalyvas, University of Chicago |
October 2 |
"The Remnants of War: Thugs as Residual Combatants"
John Mueller, Ohio State University |
October 9 |
"Why States Believe Foolish Ideas"
Stephen Van Evera, Massachusettes Institute of Technology |
October 16 |
"How States Disappear"
Tanisha Fazal, Harvard University |
October 23 |
"The Right Thing To Do: The UN and the Rwandan Genocide"
Michael Barnett, University of Wisconsin |
October 30 |
"Future of US Military"
Andrew Marshall, Office of Net Assessment, Pentagon |
November 6 |
"Bargaining and the Nature of War"
Allan Stam, Dartmouth College |
November 13 |
"A Soldier's Duty"
Tom Ricks, Washington Post |
November 20 |
"Rethinking Uncertainty and the Security Dilemma"
Jennifer Mitzen, University of Chicago |
November 27 |
"The Future Stability of Nuclear Deterrence"
Tom Schelling, University of Maryland |
December 4 |
"Final Solutions: Mass Killing & Genocide in the 20th Century"
Ben Valentino, Stanford University |
March 27 |
"Putin's Foreign Policy: Challenging the US with a Practical Approach"
Celeste Wallander, Council on Foreign Relations |
April 3 |
"Ties that Bind: The Power Politics of European Integration"
Seth Jones, University of Chicago |
April 10 |
"The Role of Liberals, Realists, and Revolutions in U.S.-Russia Relations in the 1990s"
Michael McFaul, Stanford University, Carnegie Endowment for Peace |
April 17 |
"How Terrorists Mobilize: Some Preliminary Hypotheses"
Jessica Stern, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
April 24 |
"Parsing Realism: How (not) to Adjudicate Authenticity and Adjustment in IR Theory"
Colin Elman, Arizona State University |
May 1 |
"The Primacy of Internal War"
Steven David, Johns Hopkins University |
May 8 |
"Status Competition and the Stability of the Pax Am"
William Wohlforth, Dartmouth College |
May 15 |
"Arms Control: New Issues, New Approaches"
Morton Halperin, Council on Foreign Relations |
May 22 |
"Japan's Security Dilemma: Between the United States and China"
Michael Mochizuki, George Washington University |
May 29 |
"Problems of Global Security"
John Steinbruner, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland |
January 9 |
"Flawed Peace: Why Spreading Democracy is not the Answer"
Sebastian Rosato, University of Chicago |
January 16 |
"Power Test: Reevaluating Realism in Response to the End of the Cold War"
Randy Schweller, Ohio State University |
January 23 |
"Boost-Phase Alternatives for National Missile Defense"
Dean Wilkening, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University |
January 30 |
"QDR 2001: Making Strategy-Driven Choices for America's Security"
Michelle Flournoy, Center for Strategic and International Studies |
February 6 |
"Agency, Oversight, and Post-Cold War Civil-Military Relations in the U.S."
Peter Feaver, Duke University |
February 13 |
"Economic Externalities of Foreign Wars"
Eugene Gholz, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, University of Kentucky |
February 20 |
"The Reluctant Samurai: Japanese Civil-Military Relations and East Asian Security"
Kimberly Zisk, Barnard College, Columbia University |
February 27 |
"Problems of Global Security"
John Steinbruner, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland |
March 6 |
"To Victory and Beyond: Explaining Variation in the Escalation of War Aims"
Alex Downes, University of Chicago |
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