Seminar Series
The Center for Global Security and Democracy co-sponsors three ongoing seminar series: Emerging Trends in Political Science (founded by the current Center Director, Michael Shafer); the International Relations-History Seminar; and the International Relations Seminar.
Emerging Trends in Political Science Seminar Series
2005-2006
Richard Lau, Parina Patel, Dahlia Fahmy and Robert Kaufman, Rutgers University, “Correct Voting Across Thirty Democracies”
Jeff McMahan, Rutgers University, “The Law and the Morality of War”
Nancy Hirschmann, University of Pennsylvania, and Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers Univerity, “Feminist Freedom, Social Construction, And Kant: (Almost) All Things to All Women, Or, Is There a Non-Metaphysical Foundation in This Class?”
Barbara Walter, University of California, San Diego and Princeton, “Information, Uncertainty and the Decision to Secede”
Cas Mudde, University of Antwerp, “Are the Populist Radical Right the Real Anti-Globalists?”
Christian Davenport, University of Maryland, “The Puzzle of Abu Graib: Understanding State Torture and Political Democracy”
Atul Kohli, Princeton, “Politics of Economic Growth in India, 1980-2005”
2004-2005
Rebecca Morton, New York University, “All Style, No Substance? The Strategic Calculus of Campaign Advertising”
John Lapinski, Yale, “Direct Election and the Emergence of the Modern Senate”
Christopher Achen, Princeton, “What Is the Most Powerful Explanatory Framework for Predicting Governmental Policymaking? A Comparative Test of Several Dozen Formal Models Using a Large New Sample of European Union Decisions”
David O. Sears, UCLA, “On Acorns and Oaks: Revisiting the Partisan Realignment of the White South”
Martha Crenshaw, Wesleyan, “Old versus New Terrorism”
2003-2004
Michael Hagen, Eagleton Institute of Politics, “Advertising in the 2000 Presidential Campaign”
Philip G. Cerny, University of Manchester, “Reinventing the Social in a More Open World: Mapping Varieties of Neoliberalism”
Stephen Skowronek, Yale, “The Search for American Political Development”
Wendy Schiller, Brown, “Climbing and Clawing Their Way to the U.S. Senate: Political Ambition and Career Building, 1880-1913”
Frank R. Baumgartner, Pennsylvania State University, “The Evolution of American Government”
Eric Davis, Rutgers, “Historical Memory and the Transition to Democracy in Iraq: Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives”
Jack Snyder, Columbia, “’Is’ and ‘Ought’ in International Change”
David Laitin, Stanford, “Civil War Narratives”
Francis Fox Piven, CUNY, “The War at Home: Domestic Causes and Consequences of America’s New Wars”
Michael Oren, Shalem Center, Jerusalem, “USS Liberty: Case Closed?”
Drucilla Cornell and Gordon Schochet, Rutgers, “John Rawls and the Law of Peoples”
2002-2003
Tom Tyler, University of New York, “The Psychology of Legitimacy”
R. Douglas Arnold, Princeton, “Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability”
Arlene W. Saxonhouse, University of Michigan, “The Tale of Two Gyres: Shame, Community and the Public/Private Self”
Helen Milner, Columbia, “Why the Rush to Free Trade? Democracy and Trade Policy in Developing Nations”
John Gerring, Boston University, “Social Science Methodology: A Criterial Approach”
John Geer, Vanderbilt and Princeton, “Negative Democracy: The Role of Personal Attacks in Presidential Elections”
Timothy Frye, Ohio State University, “Slapping the Grabbing Hand: Credible Commitment and Property Rights in Russia”
International Relations-History Seminar Series
2005-2006
Alex Danchev, University of Nottinghan, “The End of the Affair”
2004-2005
Jeremy Black, University of Exeter, “The Transformation and Future of War”
Lloyd Gardner, Rutgers, “Blest Be the Tie that Binds: The Thatcher Quote and Bush and Blair in Iraq”
Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania, “Neo-Conservatism and the Imperial Project”
2003-2004
Craig Campbell, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, “Charles Beard and the Logic of American Free Security”
Marilyn Young, New York University, “Permanent War”
Thomas Christensen, Princeton, “Worse than a Monolith: Alliance Disunity and U.S.-PRC Conflict, 1949-1969”
Michael Adas, Rutgers, “Technopower in the Persian Gulf and America’s Elusive Quest for a New World Order”
2002-2003
Myra Jehlen, Rutgers, “The Historical Aesthetic: Flaubert, Polybius and Michelet”
Klaus Larres, Queens University, Belfast, “Churchill’s Cold War Diplomacy”
Edward Rhodes, Rutgers, “Onward, Liberal Soldiers: The Crusading Logic of Bush’s Grand Strategy and What Is Wrong with It”
Lloyd Gardner, Rutgers, “Angel in the Whirlwind: The Search for Independence in American Foreign Policy”
Col. Jay M. Parker, United States Military Academy and Princeton, “Asian Journeys: The Pre-Presidential Travels of John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon”
2001-2002
Jeffrey M. Ritter, Rutgers, “19 th Century European Alliances: Lessons from the Signaling Model”
Barbara Farnham, Columbia, “Reagan and the Gorbachev Revolution: Perceiving the End of Threat”
Jeremy Black, University of Exeter, “The Past, Present and Future of War”
Mia Bloom, Princeton, “Rationality of Suicide Bombing in the Middle East”
2000-2001
Gabriel Gorodetsky, Tel Aviv University, “Stalin’s Foreign Policy: Ideology v. Pragmatism”
R. Daniel Keleman, Rutgers, “The Politics of Supernational Courts”
Marilyn Young, New York University, “Korea: The Postwar War”
Bruce Cumings, Chicago, “The American Ascendancy”
Anders Stephanson, Columbia, “War and Diplomatic History”
Robert K. Brigham, Vassar, “The Search for Peace in Vietnam”
Andrew J. Rotter, Colgate, “Saidism without Said: Orientalism and U.S. Diplomatic History”
David Reynolds, Cambridge, “Losing Power and Making History: Winston Churchill, the ‘Iron Curtin’ Speech, and the War Memoirs, 1945-1946”
Jeremy Black, Essex University, “War and the Rise of the West Reconsidered: Global History Since 1450”
Walter LaFeber, Cornell, “The American Response to the Boxer Rebellion”
George C. Herring, “Vietnam: The Failed Peace Initiatives of 1966-68”
International Relations Seminar Series
2004-2005
R. Brian Ferguson, Rutgers-Newark, “Debates in the Anthropology of War”
Tanisha M. Fazal, Columbia, “Power and Proximity: Why Some States Fight for Survival…and Others Give Up”
2003-2004
Page Fortna, Columbia, “Peacekeeping and the Peacekept: Maintaining Peace in the Aftermath of Civil Wars”
2002-2003
Uri Bar-Joseph, Haifa University, “The Psychology of Intelligence Failure: Israel and the 1973 Yom Kippur War”
Anne E. Sartori, Princeton, “Reputations for Honesty and the Success of Diplomacy”
Brett Ashley Leeds, Rice University, “Alliances and the Expansion and Escalation of Militarized Interstate Disputes”
2001-2002
Martin S. Edwards, University of Michigan, “Understanding the Failures of IMF Conditionality”
2000-2001
Dan Reiter, Emory, “Why Democracies Win Wars”
Martin S. Edwards, Rutgers, “Crime and Punishment: Understanding IMF Sanctioning Practices”
Kenneth A. Schultz, Princeton, “Risking Peace: Contesting Foreign Policy under Threat and Uncertainty”
Andrew Moravcsik, Harvard, “Explaining the Emergence of Human Rights Regimes: Liberal Democracy and Political Uncertainty in Postwar Europe”
William Roberts Clark, New York University, “Capitalism, Not Globalism: Mobile Capital, Domestic Institutions, and Electorally-Induced Monetary and Fiscal Policy”
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