Program on International Security Policy: Workshop Archive
Fall 2011 | Spring 2011 | Fall 2010 | Winter 2010 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2009 | Winter 2009 | Fall 2008 | Spring 2008 | Winter 2008 | Fall 2007 | Spring 2007 | Winter 2007 | Fall 2006 | Spring 2006 | Winter 2006 | Fall 2005 | Fall 2004 | Spring 2004 | Winter 2004 | Fall 2003 | Spring 2003 | Winter 2003 | Fall 2002 | Spring 2002 | Winter 2002 | Fall 2001 | Spring 2001 | Winter 2001
Fall 2011 Workshops
October 4 |
"Religious Intelligence" |
October 11 |
"Calculated Aggression: Inter-Factional Competition and Strategies of Violence and Restraint in Civil War" |
October 18 |
"Social Science and Military Intervention in the 21st Century" |
October 25 |
"Bargaining with Fire: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations" |
November 1 |
"How States Form Beliefs about Intention: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Confidential Print of the British Empire, 1860-1914" |
November 8 |
"Thinking Systematically about Transnational Terrorism on the Internet" |
November 15 |
"Dueling Absurdities: Terrorism and Counterterrorism in the U.S." |
November 29 |
"War Termination as a Problem of Civil-Military Relations (Redux)" |
Spring 2011 Workshops
April 12 |
"Pakistan: A Hard Country" |
April 19 |
"Swords into Ploughshares: Policing, the Military and the Failures of Counterinsurgency" |
April 26 |
"Networks of Rebellion: The Social Origins of Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse" |
May 3 |
"'Capitol Gains': How the Quest for International Recognition Leads to Mass Killing in Newly Independent States" |
May 10 |
"The False Promise of Offshore Balancing" |
May 17 |
"The Absolute Copenhagen Temptation: Power and Prevention in the Nuclear Age" |
May 24 |
"Audience Costs: An Historical Analysis" |
May 31 |
"The Funnel: A Neoclassical Realist Framework for Analysis" |
Fall 2010 Workshops
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January 18 |
BRIAN SCHMIDT, Carleton University |
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January 25 |
BARNARD CHOI, University of Chicago |
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February 1 |
CHIARA RUFFA, Harvard University "Imagining War and Keeping Peace? Military Cultures and Force Employment in Peace Operations" |
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February 8 |
LINDSEY O'ROURKE, University of Chicago |
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February 15 |
JOE FORD, University of Chicago |
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February 22 |
CHARLES GLASER, George Washington University |
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March 1 |
MATTHLAS STALSCH, University of Chicago |
| March 8 | NUNO MONTEIRO, Yale University "Taking Down Goliath: Military Competition under Economic Hegemony" |
Winter 2010 Workshops
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January 12 |
Anne Harrington de Santana, University of Chicago |
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January 21 |
Robert Jervis, Columbia University |
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January 28 |
Efraim Inbar, Bar-Ilan University |
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February 2 |
Valerie Morkevivius, DePaul University |
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February 8 |
M. J. Reese, University of Chicago |
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February 23 |
Eric Hundman, University of Chicago |
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March 2 |
Matthias Staisch, University of Chicago |
Fall 2009 Workshops
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October 6 |
Vipin Narang, Harvard University
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October 13 |
Gene Gerzhoy, University of Chicago
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October 20 |
Risa Brooks, Northwestern University
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October 27 |
Deborah Boucoyannis, University of Virginia
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November 3 |
Yasemin Bilgel, University of Chicago
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November 10 |
Burak Kadercan, University of Chicago
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November 17 |
Martha Brill Olcott, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
Spring 2009 Workshops
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March 31 |
"Leo Strauss and Exporting Democracy" |
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April 7 |
"The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Time of Change, a Time of Hope?" |
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April 14 |
"Rethinking the Unthinkable: A New Paradigm for Thinking about Nuclear Weapons?" |
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April 21 |
"When Do Great Powers Do 'Regime Change'?" |
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April 28 |
"Curing the Power Problem: Towards a New Grand Strategy for the United States" |
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May 5 |
"Hamas: The Strategic and Social Consequences of Leadership Targeting" |
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May 12 |
"The Political Transformation of Violent Opposition Movements" |
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May 19 |
"Why Terrorism Still Does Not Work" |
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May 26 |
"The Rational Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation" |
Winter 2009 Workshops
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January 6 |
"Rwanda: From Genocide to Star of Africa?" |
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January 13 |
"Deception and the Iraq War" |
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January 20 |
"When and Why Do Refugees Join Insurgencies?" |
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January 27 |
"How Much Is Enough? Nuclear Deterrence Then and Now" |
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February 3 |
"Identifying the Oil Wars" |
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February 10 |
"Superfluous Constraints: Understanding the Regulation of Landmine Use" |
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February 17 |
ISA Annual Conference – No Session |
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February 24 |
"Black Gold and Blackmail: The Politics of International Oil Coercion" |
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March 3 |
"The Closest of Enemies: Alliance Formation in the Afghan Civil War" |
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March 10 |
"America’s Relative Decline and Its Consequences" |
Fall 2008 Workshops
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September 30 |
"The Atomic Bomb and the Onset of America’s Cold War: The Politics of Espionage and the New Logic of Nuclear Anarchy" |
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October 7 |
"Assessing the Surge in Iraq" |
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October 14 |
"Unrest Assured: Why Unipolarity Is Not Peaceful" |
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October 21 |
"Iran, Israel and America: Can War Be Avoided?" |
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October 28 |
"The Alignment Politics of Secondary States: Southeast Asian Responses to the Rise of China" |
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November 4 |
"The Unrealism of Contemporary Realism: The Tension between Realist Theory and Realists’ Practice" |
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November 11 |
"Reckless States and Realism" |
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November 18 |
"Organizing Chaos: The Transformation of Military Groups" |
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November 25 |
"Responding to Terrorism: Fear and the Politics of Security" |
Spring 2008 Workshops
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April 8 |
"Networks of Domination: Social Ties and Imperial Governance in International Politics" |
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April 15 |
"America's Liberal Illiberalism" |
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April 22 |
"Politics of Survival and Territorial Conflict" |
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April 29 |
"Exporting the Bomb: Why States Provide Sensitive Nuclear Assistance" |
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May 6 |
"Reconciling Realisms: A Dynamic Neorealist Theory of International Politics and Foreign Policy" |
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May 13 |
"Terrorism and Profiling" |
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May 20 |
"Storm on the Horizon: Why is the Marketplace of Ideas Engaged Before Some Wars but Not Others?" |
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May 27 |
"The Hidden Side of Deterrence: Power and the Credibility of Assurances" |
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June 3 |
"Writing for International Security" |
Winter 2008 Workshops
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January 15 |
"The Atomic Terrorist" |
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January 22 |
"The Minimum Means of Reprisal: New Evidence on the History of China’s Nuclear Deterrent" |
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January 29 |
"Preventing an Iranian Atomic Bomb: Sculpting Effective, Acceptable Strategies" |
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February 5 |
"Wars of Choice: Leadership, Threat Perception, and Military Interventions" |
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February 12 |
"Paths of Ruin: How Identity Shapes Military Effectiveness in Modern War" |
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February 19 |
"The Spirit of Democracy |
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February 26 |
"Israel’s War in Lebanon" |
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March 4 |
"What’s Special About Female Suicide Terrorism?" |
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March 11 |
"The American Way of Small Wars: Why the US Will Continue to Fight Them…Badly? |
Fall 2007 Workshops
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October 2 |
"The Diffusion of Military
Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics" |
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October 9 |
"What’s Wrong with
the Bush Doctrine" |
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October 16 |
"Lawfare and the War on
Terrorism" |
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Ocober 23 |
"Strategies for Security
Competition" |
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October 30 |
"Getting Beyond Toxic: American
Foreign Policy and International Institutions After Primacy’s
Demise" |
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November 6 |
"Osirak Redux? Assessing
Israeli Air Force Capabilities to Destroy Iranian Nuclear Facilities" |
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November 13 |
"Preventing an Iranian Atomic
Bomb: Sculpting Effective, Acceptable Strategies" |
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November 20 |
"The Concept of Strategy" |
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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" |
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December 4 |
"Explaining Changes in US
Grand Strategy: The Rise of Offensive Liberalism and the War in
Iraq" |
Spring 2007 Workshops
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March 27 |
"What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat" |
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April 3 |
"Unrest Assured: Why Unipolarity Is Not Peaceful" |
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April 10 |
"Conceptualizing the Asian Regional System Today" |
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April 17 |
"China's 'Assertive Pragmatism'" |
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April 24 |
"When Heads Roll: A Dynamic Model of Leadership Decapitation" |
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May 1 |
"Courts Without Borders? The Domestic Sources of Extraterritorial Regulation" |
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May 8 |
"Some Puzzles About Reputation in International Politics" |
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May 15 |
"No Blood for Oil? Natural Resources and International War" |
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May 22 |
"The 2006 Lebanon Conflict and the Future of Warfare" |
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May 29 |
"Biotechnology, Arms Control, and the State of Nature" |
Winter 2007 Workshops
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January 9 |
"Use and Abuse of the Survival Assumption in Neorealism: A Constructive Criticism" |
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January 16 |
"The Just-Deserts Motive for War Against Evil Regimes" |
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January 23 |
"Constructivists as Pessimists: Persistent Violence as Ideational" |
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January 30 |
"American Primacy: Necessary? Desirable? Sustainable?" |
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February 6 |
"Why the Dramatic Decline in Armed Conflict?" |
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February 13 |
"The Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation: What Not to Worry About" |
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February 20 |
TBA |
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February 27 |
"Rhetoric, Strategy, and War: Language, Power, and the Making of US Security Policy" |
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March 6 |
TBA |
Fall 2006 Workshops
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October 3 |
"The Nuclear Revolution and the Persistence of American Unipolar Preponderance" |
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October 10 |
"Rethinking Offense-Defense Theory: The Offense-Advantage of Terror" |
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October 17 |
"American Foreign Policy and the Changing Conditions of Energy Security" |
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October 24 |
"A Rising China and the International Reaction to It: International Circumstances and National Attributes" |
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October 31 |
"Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World" |
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November 7 |
"Creating Military Power" |
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November 14 |
"Does the Hegemon Get Its Way? Evaluating Bush Policy in the Middle East" |
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November 21 |
"Cultural Neglect? Explaining the Limits of Military Bio-defense" |
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November 28 |
"Ticking Time Bomb or Fizzle? Exploding Five Myths about the North Korean Nuclear Crisis" |
Spring 2006 Workshops
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March 30 |
"How Donald Rumsfeld Misread Saddam Hussein's Strategy and Created the Iraqi Insurgency" |
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April 4 |
"Big Sticks and Contested Carrots: Explaining International Security Institutions" |
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April 11 |
"Between Acquisition and Use: Manipulating the Improbability of Nuclear Terrorism" |
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April 18 |
"Evangelicals and American Foreign Policy: A View from the Pews and the Precincts" |
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April 25 |
"On the Table, But Would You Serve Them to Guests? The Military Options for Iran" |
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May 2 |
"Anti-Americanisms in World Politics" |
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May 9 |
"Adaptive Overconfidence and Offensive Realism" |
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May 16 |
"Theory of Rational International Politics" |
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May 23 |
"Realist Theory as Tradition: Forward is as Forward Does" |
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May 30 |
"Iran: Along the Nuclear Precipice" |
Winter 2006 Workshops
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January 10 |
"Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Iraq" |
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January 17 |
"Does Regime Type Drive Proliferation?" |
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January 24 |
"'A governing ideology whose time has come'? Realism and the Neoconservative Convergence" |
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January 31 |
"Iraq, the Press, and Self-Censorship" |
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February 7 |
"Provisions of Benefit and Harm: Making Negotiated Settlements to Civil Wars Stick" |
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February 14 |
"Building a Successful Palestinian State" |
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February 21 |
"Immigration, Nationalism, and Military Power" |
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February 28 |
"The Struggle for Recognition and German Naval Ambition Before the First World War" |
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March 7 |
TBA |
Fall 2005 Workshops
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October 4 |
"Stretched Thin: Army Forces for Sustained Operations" |
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October 11 |
"The Bush Doctrine: Dead or Just Dying?" |
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October 18 |
"Threat, Culture, and Military Doctrine" |
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October 25 |
"Counter-terrorism: Why the US has a hard time doing it well" |
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November 1 |
"The Laws of War and their Implications for Iraq" |
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November 8 |
"Is it Inevitable that Iran and North Korea will have Nuclear Weapons?" |
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November 15 |
"The End of Mutual Assured Destruction? The Nuclear Dimension of American Primacy" |
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November 22 |
"The Middle East in International Politics: States, Power, and Ideologies" |
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November 29 |
"After Saddam: Prewar Planning for Postwar Iraq" |
Fall 2004 Workshops
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October 4 |
"Understanding al Qaeda Networks" |
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October 12 |
"Strategy Under Uncertainty" |
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October 19 |
"Apologies in International Politics" |
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October 26 |
"The Stability-Instability Paradox in South Asia" |
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November 2 |
"Contestable Wars" |
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November 9 |
"Modern Air Power: A Discussion" |
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November 16 |
"America: Alone in the World" |
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November 23 |
"America the Vulnerable: Can the Homeland be Secured?" |
Spring 2004 Workshops
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March 30 |
"Steps to a Safer America" |
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April 6 |
"Proliferation Policy and
Politics in the Bush Administration" |
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April 13 |
"Is Terrorism What States
Make of It? Threat Construction and the Politics of Security
in Comparative Perspective" |
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April 20 |
"Military Transformation
Under Uncertainty" |
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April 27 |
"Lying in International
Politics" |
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May 4 |
TBA |
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May 11 |
"America and Europe: Partnership,
Amicable Separation, or Nasty Divorce?” |
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May 18 |
"Talking States: A Theoretical
Analysis of Diplomacy" |
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May 24 |
"Global Responses to US
Primacy" |
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June 1 |
"Biodefense and Biosecurity" |
Winter 2004 Workshops
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January 6 |
"International Law and the Use of Force by the Major Powers: An Initial Assessment" |
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January 13 |
"Threat Inflation and How to Get Away With It: The Case of Iraq" |
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January 20 |
"Terrorism and International Security" |
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January 27 |
"The Imperial Logic of Bush's Liberal Agenda" |
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February 3 |
"Realism, the U.S. Alliance System, and the Korean Peninsula" |
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February 10 |
"Committing Suicide For Fear of Death: Preventive War in International Politics" |
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February 17 |
"Debating War" |
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February 24 |
"Paying the Price of Victory: American Public Opinion and the War in Iraq" |
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March 2 |
"The Realignment of the U.S. Global Military Posture: Purpose and Implications" |
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March 9 |
"Al-Qa'ida as an Adversary" |
Fall 2003 Workshops
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October 7 |
TBA |
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October 14 |
"Internationalizing the Chechen Conflict" |
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October 21 |
"Rethinking 1941: American Intervention in the Second World War and International Relations Theory" |
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October 28 |
"Occupational Hazards: Explaining the Success and Failure of Military Occupations" |
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November 4 |
"Targeting Civilians in War" |
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November 11 |
"The Perils of Hegemony" |
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November 18 |
"The Structure of the Second Nuclear Age" |
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November 25 |
"Strange Peaces After Savage Wars: The Occupation of Germany and Japan and Lessons for Nation Building" |
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December 2 |
"The Logic of Integration" |
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March 9 |
Spring 2003 Workshops
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April 1 |
"The Limits of Coercive Diplomacy in South Asia" |
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April 8 |
"The Future of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process" |
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April 15 |
"Balance of Power: The International Wanderings of a Liberal Idea" |
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April 22 |
"Imperial Temptations" |
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April 29 |
"Evolutionary Psychology, Demography, and War (and Peace)" |
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May 6 |
"Nuclear Proliferation After Iraq" |
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May 13 |
"The Future of the United States and Korea in East Asia" |
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May 20 |
"The Conundrum of American Power in Today's Fractured World" |
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May 27 |
"Institutions at War: The Kosovo Conflict and Neoliberal Theory" |
Winter 2003 Workshops
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January 14 |
"What is Being (Re?)constructed in Afghanistan?" |
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January 21 |
"Israel and the Demographic Question" |
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January 28 |
"Islamism and the Roots of Terror" |
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February 4 |
"Is Kim Jong Il a Realist?" |
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February 11 |
"The Challenge of September 11th to Secularism in International Relations" |
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February 18 |
"The Role of Documents in Illegal Immigration" |
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February 25 |
"Human Ecology and Civil War" |
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March 4 |
"Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction" |
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March 11 |
"The Lessons of the Oslo Process" |
Fall 2002 Workshops
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October 8 |
"Rational Interpretations of Palestinian Suicide Bombing: Market Share and Outbidding" |
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October 15 |
"The Current Revolution in Military Affairs: One Man's View" |
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October 22 |
"The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism" |
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October 29 |
"Institutionalizing Power Politics" |
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November 5 |
"The Next Gulf War: Political Science Finally Matters" |
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November 12 |
"Afghanistan and the Future of Warfare: Implications for Army and Defense Policy" |
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November 19 |
"Defending the Homeland in the Age of Terrorism" |
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November 26 |
"Why Do They Hate Us?" |
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December 3 |
"LBJ's Gilpatric Committee and the Dilemmas of America's Non-Proliferation Policy" |
Spring 2002 Workshops
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March 29 |
"A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide" |
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April 2 |
"Delegitimizing the Bomb: The Domestic and International Origins of the Nuclear Taboo" |
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April 9 |
"The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals" |
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April 16 |
"Debating the Democratic Peace" |
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April 26 |
"U.S.-Chinese Relations Since September 11th" |
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April 30 |
"Do Arms Races Make War Unnecessarily Likely?" |
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May 7 |
"Principle and Pragmatism on International Justice" |
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May 14 |
"Nationalism, Territory, and Conflict" |
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May 21 |
"Coercive Diplomacy in the 1990s" |
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May 28 |
"Drastic Measures: The Sources of Civilian Victimization in War" |
Winter 2002 Workshops
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January 8 |
"America's War on Terrorism: Should Iraq be Next?" |
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January 15 |
"Assessing the Global WMD Threat" |
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January 22 |
"Social Democracy and the Ideological Dynamics of the 20th Century" |
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January 29 |
"The Democratic Peace and Territorial Conflict in the 20th Century" |
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February 5 |
"The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War " |
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February 12 |
"Pakistan: Redirecting Power" |
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February 19 |
"Evaluating Outside Support for Insurgencies: When Does it Work?" |
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February 26 |
"The Future of National Missile Defense " |
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March 5 |
"The Logic of Violence in Civil War" |
Fall 2001 Workshops
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October 2 |
"The Remnants of War: Thugs as Residual Combatants" |
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October 9 |
"Why States Believe Foolish Ideas" |
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October 16 |
"How States Disappear" |
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October 23 |
"The Right Thing To Do: The UN and the Rwandan Genocide" |
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October 30 |
"Future of US Military" |
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November 6 |
"Bargaining and the Nature of War" |
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November 13 |
"A Soldier's Duty" |
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November 20 |
"Rethinking Uncertainty and the Security Dilemma" |
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November 27 |
"The Future Stability of Nuclear Deterrence" |
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December 4 |
"Final Solutions: Mass Killing & Genocide in the 20th Century" |
Spring 2001 Workshops
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March 27 |
"Putin's Foreign Policy: Challenging the US with a Practical Approach" |
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April 3 |
"Ties that Bind: The Power Politics of European Integration" |
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April 10 |
"The Role of Liberals, Realists, and Revolutions in U.S.-Russia Relations in the 1990s" |
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April 17 |
"How Terrorists Mobilize: Some Preliminary Hypotheses" |
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April 24 |
"Parsing Realism: How (not) to Adjudicate Authenticity and Adjustment in IR Theory" |
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May 1 |
"The Primacy of Internal War" |
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May 8 |
"Status Competition and the Stability of the Pax Am" |
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May 15 |
"Arms Control: New Issues, New Approaches" |
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May 22 |
"Japan's Security Dilemma: Between the United States and China" |
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May 29 |
"Problems of Global Security" |
Winter 2001 Workshops
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January 9 |
"Flawed Peace: Why Spreading Democracy is not the Answer" |
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January 16 |
"Power Test: Reevaluating Realism in Response to the End of the Cold War" |
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January 23 |
"Boost-Phase Alternatives for National Missile Defense" |
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January 30 |
"QDR 2001: Making Strategy-Driven Choices for America's Security" |
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February 6 |
"Agency, Oversight, and Post-Cold War Civil-Military Relations in the U.S." |
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February 13 |
"Economic Externalities of Foreign Wars" |
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February 20 |
"The Reluctant Samurai: Japanese Civil-Military Relations and East Asian Security" |
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February 27 |
"Problems of Global Security" |
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March 6 |
"To Victory and Beyond: Explaining Variation in the Escalation of War Aims" |
Contact Information
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