Research Seminars – Academic Year 2007-08

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2007-08 Academic Year

8 May 2008
We The European Peoples? The Eurpeanization of Identities and Public Spheres
Thomas Risse, Director, Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universitat Berlin

17 April 2008
IGIS Lecture Series
American Liberalism and Institutional Arrangements after World War II
Geraldo Zahran, PhD Candidate, Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge; currently: Visiting Scholar, Institute for Global and International Studies, George Washington University
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10 April 2008
IGIS Lecture Series
The Hegemon's Curse: Power and the Effectiveness of Compellent Threats
Todd Sechser, Assistant Professor, Woodrow Wilson Deparment of Politics, University of Virginia; Currently, Postdoctoral Fellow in National Security, John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University
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CANCELLED; to be Rescheduled

3 April 2008
Do Investors Flee or Fight? Examining The Relationship Between Labor Protest and Foreign Direct Investment
Emmanuel Teitelbaum, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University; and Graeme Robertson, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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31 January 2008
Humanitarianism in a World of Hurt
Michael Barnett, Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota
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24 January 2008
Wars of Choice: Leadership, Threat Perception, and Military Interventions
Elizabeth Saunders, Assistant Professor of Political Science, George Washington University

6 December 2007
How to be Good: New Perspectives on NGOS
Volker Heins, Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Social Research at Frankfurt University, Germany and Visiting Professor at McGill University, Montreal

8 November 2007
Color Lines and Social Lines: Clothing as an Index of Status in Eighteenth-Century Lima, Peru
Tamara Walker, Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
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6 November 2007
An International Regime for Information and Communications Technologies: Towards a New Research Agenda
Jeffrey Hart, Professor of Political Science, Indiana University
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1 November 2007
Estimating the DPRK's Nuclear Intentions and Capacities: A Comparative Foreign Policy Approach
Jacques Hymans, Assistant Professor of Government, Smith College
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25 October 2007
Decentralized Governance: A Comparative Perspective
Louis Picard, Professor of International Development, University of Pittsburgh, currently serving as Senior Research Fellow for the African Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University
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18 October 2007
Reactions to Unipolarity: An Evolutionary Game Analysis
Serdar Guner, Professor of International Relations, Bilkent University and Visiting Professor, Columbia University
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