Workshops

Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security: Speaker Series Archive

Spring 2010 Speaker Series

April 1	JENNA JORDAN, University of Chicago “Why Decapitation Doesn't Work” Discussant: John Stevenson
April 8	BRANISLAV SLANTCHEV, University of California, San Diego “War Finance and Coercive Bargaining” Discussant: Kentaro Hirose
April 15	QIANG ZHOU, University of Chicago "Globalization Needs More Than Compensation: A Cross-National Analysis of Inter-Industry Labor Mobility" Discussant: Kazu Kimura
April 22	ADAM LEVINE-WEINBURG, University of Chicago “What's a State To Do? Power Maximization and Power Optimization in International Relations” Discussant: Ahsan Butt
April 29	ALEXANDER THOMPSON, The Ohio State University "A Domestic Logic for International Delegation: U.S. Support of WTO Legislation" Discussant: Adam Dean
May 6	JONG HEE PARK, University of Chicago "Partisan Politics and International Commitment" Discussant: Faisal Ahmed
May 13	ETHAN KAPSTEIN & JONATHAN CAVERLY, Center for Global Development, Northwestern University "Why Does the United States Subsidize Arms Collaboration?" Discussant: Kevin Ruby
May 20	ADAM DEAN, University of Chicago "Why Can't We Be Friends? Capital Labor, and the Institutional Foundations of Economic Preferences" Discussant: Youn Ki
May 27	JOHN STEVENSON, University of Chicago "After Recognition: Weathering Modern Transitions to Independence" Discussant: Megan Furman
June 3	VERNAL VENTILATION Faisal Ahmed, Megan Furman, Sebastian Schmidt, Ye Tien, Felicity Vabulas

Winter 2010 Speaker Series

January 7	KEVEN RUBY, University of Chicago “Fearing Fear Itself: Public Emotions as Threat to National Security” Discussant: David Benson
January 14	MARK COPELOVITCH, University of Wisconsin, Madison “Sore Losers? GATT/WTO Disputes and Exchange Rate Policy Choice” Discussant: Qiang Zhou
January 21	ROBERT JERVIS, Columbia University "The Iraq WMD Intelligence Failure: What Everyone Knows Is Wrong" WITH PISP – Harris School Lecture Hall
January 28	EFRAIM INBAR, Bar-Ilan University “The Rise and Demise of the 2-State Paradigm: What Next?” Discussant: Gene Gerzhoy WITH PISP – Harris School Lecture Hall
February 4	BARBARA KOREMENOS, University of Michigan "An Economic Analysis of International Rulemaking" Discussant: Anne Holthoefer
February 11	DANIEL PHILPOTT, Notre Dame University "God's Century: How Resurgent Religion is Transforming Global Politics" Discussant: Sebastian Schmidt
February 18	FROZEN PIPES Bowling
February 25	IAN HURD, Northwestern University "States and Rules, Norms and Interests" Discussant: Christopher McIntosh
March 4	WILLIAM HOWELL & JON ROGOWSKI, University of Chicago "War, Presidential Power, and Legislative Behavior" Discussant: Chad Levinson
March 11	NO SESSION

Fall 2009 Speaker Series

October 1	WHAT’S NEW AND EXCITING IN IR? Organizational Meeting Ahsan Butt; Adam Levine-Weinburg Adam Dean; Matthias Staisch
October 8	CHRISTINA SCHNEIDER, University of California, San Diego "International Political Business Cycles" Discussant: Karen Ellis
October 15	ANU BRADFORD, University of Chicago "Global Climate Change Treaty and the Credibility of Enforcement" Discussant: Kentaro Hirose
October 22	FAISAL AHMED, University of Chicago "Unearned Foreign Income and Autocratic Survival" Discussant: Qiang Zhou
October 29	JAMES VREELAND, Georgetown University "The Costs of Favoritism: Is Politically-driven Aid Less Effective?" Discussant: Faisal Ahmed
November 5	MICHAEL TIERNEY, College of William and Mary "TBD: Testing Alexander Thompson’s UNSC Theory with British Public" Discussant: Felicity Vabulas
November 12	SARAH CROCO, University of Maryland "Audience Costs and International Conflict" Discussant: John Stevenson
November 19	BURAK KADERCAN, University of Chicago "Political Survival and Bargaining Models of War: Exploring Territorial Wars from 1648 'til Present" Discussant: Jonathan Obert
November 26	THANKSGIVING
December 3	HOLIDAY PARTY Duncan Snidal's Home

Spring 2009 Speaker Series

April 2	RACHEL EPSTEIN, University of Denver "Uneven Integration: Economic and Monetary Union in Central and Eastern Europe" Discussant: Karen Ellis
April 9	Lindsey O'Rourke, University of Chicago "Making Friends: Strategies for Turning Foreign Adversaries into Allies" Discussant: Ahsan Butt
April 16	Anne Holthoefer, University of Chicago "Crime and Punishment: Building an International Criminal Court" Discussant: Sebastian Schmidt
April 23	BENJAMIN VALENTINO, Dartmouth College "An Army of the People? National Guard and Reserve Casualties and Public Support for War" Discussant: David Benson
April 30	CAROL ATKINSON, Vanderbilt University "Who Cares About Biological Warfare?" Discussant: Lindsey O’Rourke
May 7	JOHN STEVENSON, University of Chicago "Civil-Military Relations During "Late" State-Making: Theorizing Escalation to Mass Killing" Discussant: Marie Louise McLetchie
May 14	HEATHER SMITH, Lewis and Clark University "Explaining Ratification of Human Rights Treaties: NGO Pressures and Unanticipated Effects" Discussant: Felicity Vabulas
May 21	SOON JOO SUH, University of Chicago "Leadership, Hegemony, and International Organizations: Is Hegemony Necessary or Replaceable for Public Goods?" Discussant: Hye Young You
May 28	MATTHIAS STAISCH, University of Chicago "Status Differentiation Among Joint Leaders in International Society" Discussant: Burak Kadercan
June 4	VERNAL VENTILATION, University of Chicago "Speed Dating" Special Session
TBD	Spring BBQ Special Session

Winter 2009 Speaker Series

January 8	Faisal Ahmed, University of Chicago "Leadership, Size, and the Postwar International Economy: Hegemonic Stability Revisited" Discussant: Sebastian Schmidt
January 15	Jong Hee Park, University of Chicago "Partisan Politics and the Protection of Agriculture in the United States, 1973-2002" Discussant: Adam Dean
January 22	Jelana Subotic, Georgia State University "Coerced Justice: International War Crimes Tribunals, Conditionality, and Compliance" Discussant: TBD
January 29	Kentaro Hirose, University of Chicago "Diplomacy and National Wealth" Discussant: John Thomas III
February 5	Frozen Pipes
February 12	Siba Grovougi, Johns Hopkins University TBA Discussant: TBD
February 19	Tana Johnson, University of Chicago "The Role of IGOs in Institutional Design" Discussant: Hye Yong You
February 26	Anu Bradford, University of Chicago "International Antitrust Regime, TRIPs, and Different Paths to Regulatory Convergence" Discussant: Faisal Ahmed
March 5	Nuno Monteiro, University of Chicago "The Hidden Side of Deterrence: Polarity and the Credibility of Assurances" Discussant: Jonathan Olbert
March 12	Dan Drezner, Tufts University TBA Discussant: Felicity Vabulas

Fall 2008 Speaker Series

October 2	Organizational Meeting Student Discussion on IR "What’s New and Exciting in International Relations Research Today?"
October 9	Sebastian Rosato, University of Notre Dame "Balance of Power Politics? The Cold War Case" Discussant: Matthias Staisch
October 16	Hyeyoung You, University of Chicago "How to Protect the Protected? Special Protections Policymaking in the US" Discussant: Kentaro Hirose
October 23	Todd Hall, Princeton-Harvard "China in the World: Sympathetic States" Discussant: Anne Holthoefer
October 30	Jennifer Tobin, Georgetown University "Political Economy of Investment and Development" Discussant: Hyeyoung You
November 6	Joe Ford, University of Chicago "Tight Passage: Chinese Maritime Energy Imports as the Powder Keg of Interdependence" Discussant: Gene Gerzhoy
November 13	Ahsan Butt, University of Chicago "Anarchy and Hierarchy: Explaining South American's War-Prone Decade, 1932-1941" Discussant: Adam Levine-Weinberg
November 20	Aaron Hoffman, Purdue University "Terrorism" Discussant: John Stevenson
November 27	Thanksgiving No session.
December 4	Holiday Party Special Session

Spring 2008 Speaker Series

April 3	Jack Jacobsen, University of Chicago "Psychoanalysis and IR, Revisited" Discussant: Jacob Schiff
April 10	Jack Donnelly, University of Denver "Ordering Principles and Political Structures: Hierachy, Autarchy, Heterarchy, and International Political Orders" Discussant: Ahsan Butt
April 17	Rosemary Kelanic, University of Chicago "Carl Schmitt, the Friend-Enemy Distinction, and International Relations Theory" Discussant: Sebastian Schmidt
April 24	Douglas Gibler, University of Alabama "Outside-In: The Effects of External Threat on State Centralization" Discussant: John Stevenson
May 1	M.J. Peterson, University of Massachusetts-Amherst "The Authority of Intergovernmental Organizations" Discussant: Hye Young You
May 8	Alex Wendt, Ohio State University "Flatland: Quantum Mind and the International Hologram" Discussant: Chris McIntosh
May 15	Emily Meierding, University of Chicago "Conflict, Cooperative, Dormant, or Dead? Natural Resources and Territorial Dispute Dynamics" Discussant: Joe Ford
May 22	Burak Kadercan, University of Chicago "War For Territory: State Preferences and Territorial Conflict" Discussant: Matthias Staisch
May 29	Vernal Ventilation Speed Dating - Special Session
June 5	Spring BBQ Special Session

Winter 2008 Speaker Series

January 10	Jaeyeon Yim, University of Chicago "From the Actor’s Perspective: Making Sense of Identity, Belief, and Security" Discussant: Ian Storey
January 17	Arman Grigorian, College of William and Mary "Third Parties, Commitment Problems, and State-Minority Conflicts" Discussant: Sarah Parkinson
January 24	Sherry Forbes, University of Chicago TBA
January 31	Jennifer Mitzen, Ohio State University "Collective Intentionality and Global Governance" Discussant: Anne Holthoefer
February 7	Frozen Pipes
February 14	Henry Nau, George Washington University "Conservative Internationalism: An Alternative Between Realism and Liberal Internationalism" Discussant: Rosemary Kelanic
February 21	Kyle Beardsley, Emory University "Expecting Mediation to Fail: Devious Objectives in Intrastate Conflict" Discussant: Burak Kadercan
February 28	Judith Kelley, Duke University "International Election Monitoring" Discussant: Felicity Vabulas
March 6	Nuno Monteiro, University of Chicago "The Hidden Side of Deterrence: Power and the Credibility of Assurances" Discussant: Negeen Pegahi
March 13	Rose Kelanic, University of Chicago "Carl Schmitt, the Friend-Enemy Distinction, and International Relations Theory" Discussant: Sebastian Schmitt

Fall 2007 Speaker Series

September 27	Organizational Meeting Student Discussion on IR "What's New and Exciting in International Relations Research Today?"
October 4	Heiner Schultz, University of Pennsylvania "Foreign Direct Investment and Political Institutions: Does the Sector Matter?" Discussant: Chris Haid
October 11	Aysegul Aydin, University of Colorado-Boulder "Strategic Decision-Making in Civil War Intervention" Discussant: Jaeyeon Yim
October 18	Yoram Haftel, University of Illinois-Chicago "The Effect of U.S. Investment Treaties on FDI Inflows to Developing Countries: Signaling or Credible Commitment?" Discussant: Burak Kadercan
October 25	Lord of the Flies Student Only Discussion "The Israel Lobby"
November 1	Susan Hyde, Yale University "Catch Me if You Can: Why Leaders Invite Election Monitors and Cheat in Front of Them" Discussant: John Stevenson
November 8	Ari Barbalat, University of Chicago "Major Problems in Israeli-American Relations: Beyond Mearsheimer-Walt" Discussant: Jeremy Menchik
November 15	Keven Ruby, University of Chicago "Managing Fear: State, Society, and the Politics of Threat Construction" Discussant: Daragh Grant
November 22	Thanksgiving No session
November 29	Chris Haid, University of Chicago "Explaining Authoritarian Regime Type" Discussant: Ahsan Butt

Spring 2007 Speaker Series

March 29	Seth Jolly, Duke University "Continuity and Change in Public Support for European Integration: the Effects of National Contextual Factors Across Time and Space" Discussant: Emily Meierding
April 5	Jaroslav Tir, University of Georgia "Domestic Level Diversionary Theory of War: Targeting Ethnic Minorities" Discussant: John Stevenson
April 12	Kier Lieber, University of Notre Dame "International Relations Theory and the New Historiography of WWI" Discussant: Rose Kelanic
April 19	Chris McIntosh, University of Chicago Discussant: Ian Storey
April 26	Lora Viola, University of Chicago "International Membership and the Production of Sovereign Inequalities" Discussant: Matthias Staisch
May 3	Giacomo Chiozza, University of California, Berkeley "Anti-Americanism in Times of Crisis" Discussant: Jonathan Caverley
May 10	Emily Meierding, University of Chicago "The Rational Politics of State Suicide" Discussant: Daragh Grant
May 17	Daniel Drezner, Tufts University "Institutional Proliferation and World Order: Is there Viscosity in Global Governance?" Discussant: Sherry Forbes
May 24	Richard Price, University of British Columbia "Moral Limit and Possibility in World Politics" Discussant: Jacob Schiff
May 31	IR Student Conference

Winter 2007 Speaker Series

January 4	Beth Simmons, Harvard University "International Human Rights: Law, Politics, and Compliance" Discussant: Tana Johnson
January 11	Lord of the Flies Student Only Discussion (subject TBA)
January 18	Nuno Monteiro & Keven Ruby, University of Chicago "Science all the Way Down: Why IR Scholars Should Stop Debating the Philosophy of Science" Discussant: Ian Storey
January 25	Frozen Pipes Bowling!
February 1	Deborah Avant, George Washington University "Private Security, Democratic Processes and Trust: Implications for the Democratic Peace?" Discussant: Jonathan Caverley
February 8	Matthias Staisch, University of Chicago "The Transatlantic Relationship as an Enduring Hierarchy" Discussant: Rose Kelanic
February 15	Ashley Leeds, Rice University "Interests, Institutions, and Foreign Policy Consistency" Discussant: John Stevenson
February 22	Craig Parsons, University of Oregon "Closing the Weberian Divide: Constructivism as Causal Explanation" Discussant: Michelle Murray
March 1	Thomas Risse, Freie Universität Berlin "End of the West? The Crisis of the Transatlantic Security Community" Discussant: Keven Ruby
March 8	Burak Kadercan, University of Chicago "Two Faces of Territorial Sovereignty and the Myth of the Modern State System: Westphalian State Revisited" Discussant: Daragh Grant

Fall 2006 Speaker Series

September 28	Organizational Meeting Student Discussion on IR Research "What is New and Exciting (or not) in International Relations Research Today?"
October 5	Sebastian Rosato, University of Notre Dame "Balancing Act: the Power Politics of European Integration" Discussant: Daragh Grant
October 12	Gary Goertz, University of Arizona "The Evolution of Regional Economic Institutions (REIs) or The Demise of Realist Military Alliances" Discussant: TBA
October 19	Jacob Schiff, University of Chicago "Political Disasters and the Problem of Responsiveness" Discussant: Chris McIntosh
October 26	Lord of the Flies Student Only Discussion (subject TBA)
November 2	Anne Sartori, Princeton University "Leadership Incentives, International Rivalry, and War" Discussant: Felicity Vabulas
November 9	David Lake, University of California, San Diego "Hierarchy in International Relations: Authority, Sovereignty, and the New Structure of World Politics" Discussant: Mattias Staisch
November 16	Vaidya Gundlupet, University of Chicago "Facade of Mutual Abstinence: Security Institutions between Equal Powers" Discussant: TBA
November 23	Thanksgiving No Session
November 30	Negeen Pegahi, University of Chicago "When 'Bad' States Get 'Bad' Weapons: The Impact of Nuclear Acquisition on State Sponsorship of Terrorism" Discussant: Ian Storey

Spring 2006 Speaker Series

March 30	Christina Davis, Princeton University "Who Files: Developing Country Participation in WTO Adjudication" Discussant: Soon Joo Suh
April 6	John Schuessler, University of Chicago "Explaining Deception" Discussant: Lora Viola
April 13	Hendrik Spruyt, Northwestern University "Between Hierarchy and Anarchy: Incomplete Contracts and Negotiations over Sovereign Rights" Discussant: John Stevenson
April 20	Lord of the Flies Student Only Discussion (subject TBA)
April 27	Duncan Snidal & Lora Viola, University of Chicago "The Evolutionary Design of International Institutions" Discussant: Frank Smith
May 4	Hein Goemans, University of Rochester "Leaders and International Conflict" Discussant: Burak Kadercan
May 11	Roland Paris, University of Colorado, Boulder "International machinery for State-Building: The Dilemmas of Coordination"
May 18	Zeynep Bulutgil, University of Chicago "Borders, Identity, and Ethnic Cleansing" Discussant: Jenna Jordan
May 25	Anne Sartori, Princeton University "The Origins of Private Information and War" Discussant: Jon Caverley

Winter 2006 Speaker Series

January 5	Judith Goldstein, Stanford University "Institutions and International Relations: Understanding the Effects of the GATT and WTO on Workd Trade" Discussant: Tana Reisenaur-Johnson
January 12	Chris McIntosh & Ian Storey, University of Chicago "Why Nuclear Terrorism Will Not Happen" Discussant: Negeen Pegahi
January 19	Lord of the Flies Student only discussion - topic TBA
January 26	Daniel Nexon, Georgetown University "Transformations from Anarchy to Hierarchy: A Systemic-Constructivist Approach" Discussant: Matthias Staisch
February 2	Frozen PIPES Bowling!
February 9	Jon Pevehouse, University of Wisconsin "While Dangers Gather? Congresional Checks on Presidential War Powers"
February 16	Tana Reisenauer-Johnson, University of Chicago "A Resumption of Disbelief: Do We Really Know that States Maintain Power over International Organizations?"
February 23	Katja Weber, Georgia Institute of Technology "Governance Theories, Regional Organization and EU External Relations: Where to Go From Here? Discussant: Vaidya Gundlupet
March 2	Jon Caverley, University of Chicago "Blood and Treasure: The Political Economy of War Prone Democracies" Discussant: John Schuessler
March 9	Jenna Jordan, University of Chicago "Deciding When to Give Up Territory: Attachments to Land and Interstate Conflict"

Fall 2005 Speaker Series

October 6	Organizational Meeting Student Discussion on IR Research "What is New and Exciting in International Relations Research Today?"
October 13	Patrick Jackson, American University "The Missing Link: Legitimation, 'Western Civilization,' and the Origins of the Cold War" Discussant: Chris McIntosh
October 20	Lord of the Flies Student discussion of Robert Pape's "Dying to Win: the Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism"
October 27	Eric Helleiner, Trent University "Misinterpreting Bretton Woods: Global Institutions, Development, and the Neglected Origins of Embedded Liberalism"
November 3	Alexander Wendt, Ohio State University Raymond Duvall, University of Minnesota "Sovereignty and the UFO" Discussant: Jacob Schiff
November 10	Lora Viola, University of Chicago "Constructing States as Members: Diplomacy and the Origins of Sovereign Equality"
November 17	Todd Hall, University of Chicago
November 25	Thanksgiving No session.
December 1	Jeffrey Taliaferro, Tufts University "State Building for Future War: Neoclassical Realism and the Resource Extractive State"

Fall 2004 Speaker Series

September 30	"What is New and Exciting in International Relations Research Today?" Organizational Meeting - Student Discussion on IR Research & Inauguration of PIPES' new home
October 7	"Open Covenants, Clandestinely Arrived At" Barbara Koremenos, University of California, Los Angeles Discussant: Vaidyanatha Gundlupet
October 14	"Open Questions: Do We Really Know that Globalization (Ultimately) Benefits the Poor?" Lloyd Gruber, University of Chicago Discussant: Soon Joo Suh
October 21	"Theory Across Time: IR's quest for Time-less Theory" Chris McIntosh, University of Chicago Discussant: Adria Lawrence
October 28	"A Climate for Change: Uncertainty and Flexibility in the Kyoto Regime" Alex Thompson, Ohio State University Discussant: Emily Meierding
November 4	Lord of the Flies
November 11	"The Strategic Logic of Secession" Barbara Walter, University of California, San Diego Discussant: Jenna Jordan
November 18	"Bioshield or Pandora's Box? The Impact of Defense Politics on Biotechnology" Frank Smith, University of Chicago Discussant: Keven Ruby
November 25	Thanksgiving No session
December 2	"Why Don't States Renounce Nuclear Weapons? Three Models Still Searching for a Bomb" Scott Sagan, Stanford University Discussant: Michelle Murray

Spring 2004 Speaker Series

April 1	"The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: The Evolution of Humanitarianism and the UNHCR" Michael Barnett, University of Wisconsin Discussant: Anne Holthoefer
April 8	"Realist Constructivism?" Lord of the Flies - Special Session - Students Only
April 22	"Peace Through Victory: The Durable Settlement of Civil Wars" Monica Toft, Harvard University Discussant: Zeynep Bulutgil
April 29	"Process, Identity, and Agency" Xavier Guillaume, University of Geneva Discussant: Neil Roberts
May 6	"Domestic Conditionality in International Cooperation" Milan Svolik, University of Chicago Discussant: Keven Ruby
May 13	"Unanswered Threats: A Neoclassical Realist Theory of Underbalancing" Randy Schweller, Ohio State University Discussant: Vaidya Gundlupet
May 20	"Membership has its Privileges: The Effect of GATT/WTO on World Trade" Mike Tomz, Stanford University Discussant: Milan Svolik
May 27	"The Forum Effects of Talk" Jennifer Mitzen, University of Chicago Discussant: Jacob Schiff

Winter 2004 Speaker Series

January 8	"Anarchy, Information about States' Motives, and International Politics" Charles Glaser, University of Chicago Discussant: Vaidya Gundlupet
January 15	"Intellectual Responsibility" Lord of the Flies
January 22	Bowling at Diversy Bowl Frozen Pipes - Winter Outing
January 29	"The Rule of Law in International Trade Dispute Settlements: Do the Haves Come Out Ahead?" Greg Shaffer, University of Wisconsin Discussant: TBA
February 5	"Ordering International Politics: Identity, Crisis, and Representational Force" Janice Bially-Mattern, Lehigh University Discussant: Jennifer London
February 12	"War as a Reputation Problem" Barbara Walter, University of California, San Diego Discussant: Lora Viola
February 19	"Russia's Identity and Foreign Policy Choices" Andrei Tsygankov, San Francisco State University Discussant: Michelle Murray
February 26	"International Law and the Settlement of Territorial Disputes: When and Why do States Seek Third Party Adjudication?" Paul Huth, University of Michigan Discussant: TBA
March 4	"The Humiliating Gift: Negative Reactions to International Help" Takayushi Nishi, University of Chicago Discussant: Jacob Schiff
March 11	"International Law and American Intervention in the Caribbean: 1954-1965" Joel Westra, University of Chicago Discussant: John Schuessler

Fall 2003 Speaker Series

October 2	"Police Patrols, Fire Alarms, and the Structure of Information inInternational Agreements" Kal Raustiala, University of California, Los Angeles Law School Discussant: Joel Westra
October 9	"What is New and Exciting in International Relations Research Today?" Organizational Meeting Student Discussion on IR Research
October 16	"Delegation to International Courts: Four Varieties and their Implications for State-Court relations" Karen Alter, Northwestern University Discussant: Dingding Chen
October 23	Discussion of Professor Lipson's Reliable Partners Lord of the Flies Special Session - Students Only
October 30	"Emotions in International Relations: Anger and its Impact on the State" Todd Hall, University of Chicago Discussant: Anne Holtehoefer
November 6	"Securitizing Terror: Ontological Security and the U.S. Response to 9/11" Keven Ruby, University of Chicago Discussant: Michelle Murray
November 13	"Electoral Systems and Real Prices: Panel Evidence from the OECD Countries, 1970-2000" Ronald Rogowski, University of California, Los Angeles
November 20	"Expertise and Bureaucratic Power at the International Monetary Fund" Martha Finnemore, George Washington University Discussant: Chris McIntosh
December 4	"Republican Security Theory" Daniel Deudney, Johns Hopkins University Discussant: Emily Meierding

Spring 2003 Speaker Series

April 3	"Political-Military Institutions, Strategic Assessment, and War" Risa Brooks, Northwestern University Discussant: John Schuessler
April 10	"Trust, Hegemony, and Cooperation in Europe, 1945 - 1955" Andrew Kydd, Harvard University Discussant: Milan Svolik
April 17	"Agency Matters: Toward an Agentic Approach to International Politics" Dingding Chen, University of Chicago Discussant: Takayuki Nishi
April 24	"American Hegemony" Lord of the Flies Special Session - Students Only
May 1	"Treaty Un-Signing" Ed Swaine, University of Pennsylvania Discussant: Azhar Jaimurzina
May 8	"Realizing the State Actor Assumption in International Theory" Alexander Wendt, University of Chicago Discussant: Todd Hall
May 15	"Democracy and International Trade Cooperation" Xinyuan Dai, University of Illinois Discussant: Matteo Colombi
May 22	"Recognition and the Logic of Security" Michelle Murray, University of Chicago Discussant: Keven Ruby
May 29	"Globalization of Law and the Culture of Late Capitalism" Claire Cutler, University of Victoria Discussant: Anne Holthoefer
June 5	No Meeting Annual Barbecue

Winter 2003 Speaker Series

January 9	"Military Strategy and Preventive War: The Outbreak of World War One" Dong Sun Lee, University of Chicago Discussant: Emily Meierding
January 16	"Treaties and Soft Law: A Rational Choice Approach" Jack Goldsmith / Eric Posner, University of Chicago Law School Discussant: Azhar Jaimurzina
January 23	"International Relations and Domestic Public Opinion" Lord of the Flies Special Session - Students Only
January 30	"National Humiliation in International Society" Takayuki Nishi, University of Chicago Discussant: Todd Hall
February 6	"The Displacement of Aggression: International Terrorism as the Spillover of Civil Conflict" Martha Crenshaw, Wesleyan University Discussant: Zeynep Bulutgil
February 13	"War as a Reputation Problem" Milan Svolik, University of Chicago Discussant: Joan Serra
February 20	"International Justice as Equal Regard" Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago Discussant: Anne Harrington
February 24	"Alternative Concepts of Security" Ole Waever, University of Copenhagen Discussant: Michelle Murray
February 27	"Bowling Alone" Frozen Pipes - PIPES Winter Outing
March 6	"Why Do States (Bother To) Deceive? Reflections on Realism and Its Rivals" Jack Jacobsen, University of Chicago Discussant: Jenna Jordan
March 13	"The Price of War: Economic Consequences of Wartime" Joshua Goldstein, American University Discussant: Lora Viola

Fall 2002 Speaker Series

October 3	"What is New and Exciting in International Relations Research Today?" Organizational Meeting Student Discussion on IR Research
October 10	"Victory by Duress: The Law and Morality of Bombing Civilian Infrastructure" Ward Thomas, College of the Holy Cross Discussant: John Schuessler
October 17	"The Shadow of the Future and European Weapons Production" Seth Jones, University of Chicago Discussant: Frank Smith
October 24	"Making Money, Making States: Political Development, the Greenback, and the Euro" Kathleen McNamara, Princeton University Discussant: Matteo Colombi
October 31	"Unilateralism v. Multilateralism: American Power and the New World Order" Lord of the Flies Special Session - Students Only
November 7	"Political Psychology and International Relations" Barry O'Neill, University of California at Los Angeles Discussant: Takayuki Nishi
November 14	"Does Democracy Stop at the Water's Edge? Democracy and European Integration" James Caporaso, University of Washington Discussant: Milan Svolik
November 21	"A Power-Based Theory of International Law and the Legal Prohibition of Force" Joel Westra, University of Chicago Discussant: Michelle Murray
December 5	"Legitimacy and Its Critics" Special Session - IR Theory Debate
December 6	Holiday Party

Spring 2002 Speaker Series

March 28	"Reining in the Net: How Nations Are Placing Borders on Cyberspace and Making it a Better Place" Jack Goldsmith, University of Chicago Law School Discussant: Keven Ruby
April 4	"Can Legalization Produce Efficiency Gains? The Efficiency Effects of the WTO Dispute Resolution System" Don Moon, University of Chicago Discussant: Mustafa Bilgehan Ozturk
April 11	"Understanding Globalization" Lord of the Flies Special Session - Students Only
April 18	"International 'Standards' and International Governance" Duncan Snidal, University of Chicago Kenneth Abbott, Northwestern University Discussant: Dingding Chen
April 25	"Internal Institutions and External Alliances: When Ideology Intensifies the Security Dilemma" John Owen, University of Virginia Discussant: Seth Jones
May 2	"Power Politics, Credible Commitments, and Free Trade: Explaining Major-Power Trade Flows, 1907 - 1998" Joanne Gowa, Princeton University Discussant: Sebastian Rosato
May 9	"When Are Power Shifts Dangerous? Military Strategy, Power Shifts, and War" Dongsun Lee, University of Chicago Discussant: Takayuki Nishi
May 16	"Flagging Standards: Competition and Convergence on the High Seas" Elizabeth DeSombre, Wellesley College Discussant: Joel Westra
May 23	"States and Globalization: Denationalized State Agendas and Privatized Norm-Making" Saskia Sassent, University of Chicago Discussant: Susan Pratt
May 30	"Taking 'Authority' Seriously in International Relations" Ian Hurd, Northwestern University Discussant: Michelle Murray

Winter 2002 Speaker Series

January 10	"International Legal Ramifications of the September 11 Terror Attacks" Jack Goldsmith, University of Chicago Law School
January 17	"The Evolution of Collective Identity: Construction and Contestation in the European Union" Dan Thomas, University of Illinois at Chicago Discussant: Milan Svolik
January 24	No Meeting PIPES Winter Outing
January 31	"States and INGOs: Granting Access to Multilateral Negotiations" Susan Pratt, University of Chicago Discussant: Anne Harrington
February 7	Discussion of John J. Mearsheimer's The Tragedy of Great Power Politics Lord of the Flies Special Session - Students Only
February 14	"Europe's Search for Security: Can Institutions Solve the Security Dilemma?" Seth Jones, University of Chicago Discussant: Sebastian Rosato
February 21	"Democracy from Above? Regional Organizations and Democratization" Jon Pevehouse, University of Wisconsin Discussant: Takayuki Nishi
February 28	"Modes of Separation: Domestic Politics and Territorial Disengagement" Hendrik Spruyt, Arizona State University Discussant: Matt Kocher
March 7	"The Capitalist Trilemma" Thomas Homer-Dixon, University of Toronto Discussant: Alexander Downes
March 14	"Open Regionalism in World Politics" Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University Discussant: John Schuessler

Fall 2001 Speaker Series

September 27	Welcome - New and Returning Students
October 4	"The Sources of Regional War and Peace: Integrating the Effects of Nationalism, Liberalism and the International System" Benny Miller, Duke University Discussant: John Schuessler
October 11	"Who Rules? State Power and the Structure of International Regulatory Coordination" Daniel Drezner, University of Chicago Discussant: Mustafa Ozturk
October 18	"Legalization and International Politics" Lord of the Flies Special Session - Students Only
October 25	"The Puzzle of Theory vs. Practice: National Missile Defense and Nuclear Policy Then and Now" Keir Lieber, Notre Dame University Discussant: Takayuki Nishi
November 1	"Barbarism and War: Why States Target Civilians" Alexander Downes, University of Chicago Discussant: Joel Westra
November 8	"Why There is No Theory in Democratic Peace Theory" Sebastian Rosato, University of Chicago Discussant: Seth Jones
November 15	"Do Alliances Deter Aggression?" Ashley Leeds, Rice University Discussant: Lora Viola
November 29	"Globalization and Political Conflict: The Long-Term Prognosis" Lloyd Gruber, University of Chicago Discussant: Susan Pratt

Spring 2001 Speaker Series

April 5	"Social Constructivism, Rationality, and Institutional Dynamics in International Relations" Lord of the Flies Special Session - Students Only
April 12	"Geopolitics Reconsidered: The Origins of the Sovereign State System" Deborah Boucoyannis, University of Chicago Discussant: Matthew Kocher
April 19	"European Union's Institutional Legitimacy Dilemmas: The Case of Eastern Enlargement" Milan Svolik, University of Chicago Discussant: Sebastian Rosato
April 26	"Epistemic Communities, Institutionalized Knowledge, and Multilateral Environmental Governance" Peter M. Haas, University of Massachusetts Discussant: TBA
May 3	"The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy in Latin America" Jeffrey Freiden, Harvard University Discussant: Matthew Cleary
May 10	"Dis-Integration: The Politics of Economic Self-Determination in 21st Century Europe, Asia, and Beyond" Lloyd Gruber, University of Chicago Discussant: Lora Viola
May 17	"Interlocking Regimes and the Protection of Human Rights in Europe" Imke Rissop-Nickelson, Duke University Special Joint Session with Human Rights Workshop Discussant: Michelle Murray
May 24	"Rationalism and Constructivism in International Relations Theory" Alexander Wendt, University of Chicago Discussant: Joel Westra
May 31	"State Identities and International Compliance" Daniel Thomas, University of Illinois, Chicago Discussant: Takayuki Nishi

Contact Information
Thursdays, 4:00- 6:00 p.m.
Pick Hall, Room 506
5828 South University Avenue

PIPES coordinator: John Stevenson
E-mail: hegemon@uchicago.edu
Web: cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/pipes/