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Project on International Affairs Lecture Series Presents:
"Power and Agency: How Past Diplomacy Determines the Choice of Sides"
with Robert Trager
University of California Los Angeles
Thursday, March 1, 2007
3:00-4:30PM
Location: Social Sciences Building (SSB) 107,
UCSD Main Campus
 Biography: Robert F. Trager is an assistant professor in the political science department at the University of California Los Angeles. His research focuses on how states form beliefs about the intentions of other states, and in particular on the role of diplomacy. He also works on the determinants of coercive success and international terrorism. Mr. Trager taught for a year at Oxford University and held an Olin Fellowship at Harvard University. He received his BA from Middlebury College and an MSc from the London School of Economics. Before beginning his PhD at Columbia University, he worked in the Investment Banking Division of Lehman Brothers in New York.
Abstract: The paper analyzes the effect of threats on the ongoing relations between states, and in particular on long-term alignment decisions of threatened states. The statistical analysis of states' choices of sides in ongoing wars is consistent with a substantial long-term impact of threat-making on alignment decisions. The estimated effect of threat-making is not the result of involvement in previous armed conflict and is robust to the inclusion in the statistical model of sets of variables to control for balance of capabilities hypotheses and domestic political explanations for which data was available. In order to determine whether decisions to threaten have an independent effect on choices of sides, rather than being merely the result of long running conflicts that also determine the choice of sides, the paper examines one case of threat-making in detail. By comparing Russian foreign policy towards Austria in nearly identical international contexts before and after the Crimean War, the paper demonstrates that Austria's threatening behavior towards Russia during the war had a decisive impact on Russian foreign policy choices for decades to come. One implication of the general finding is that, in rationalist models, private, "costless" threats can affect state beliefs about levels of resolve.
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Parking: The closest parking is Pangea Parking Structure.
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Sponsored by the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) and the Political Science Department at the University of California, San Diego.
For questions regarding the event please contact Melissa LaBouff
(858) 822-5297 or at mlabouff@ucsd.edu
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International Law Speaker Series Presents:
"Preserving the Peace Through Force and Belief"
with Mary Ellen O'Connell
Notre Dame Law School
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
4:00-6:00PM
Location: Weaver Center, Institute of the Americas, UCSD Main Campus
 Biography: Mary Ellen O'Connell is the Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School where she teaches contracts as well as a number of courses in the area of international law. O'Connell's primary research focuses on international legal regulation of the use of force and conflict and dispute resolution, especially peaceful resolution of disputes prior to an escalation to armed conflict. She continues to examine the processes by which international law is made, applied, and enforced.
Professor O'Connell comes to us from the Moritz College of Law of Ohio State University, where she was the William B. Saxbe Designated Professor of Law. She earned her B.A. in History, with highest honors, from Northwestern University in 1980. She was awarded a Marshall Scholarship for study in Britain. She received an MSc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics in 1981, and an LL.B., with first class honors, from Cambridge University in 1982. She earned her J.D. from Columbia University in 1985, where she was a Stone Scholar and book review editor for the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. After graduation, she practiced with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. She then taught at Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington; at The Bologna Center of The Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna, Italy; and the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany; and the University Of Cincinnati College Of Law.
Abstract: A large part of the history of international law is about the development of ever-greater restraints on the right to resort to force between societies. Today states may use force only in self-defense to an armed attack or with Security Council authorization. Even in cases of self-defense or authorization, states may only use force as a last resort and then only if doing so will not disproportionately harm civilians, their property, and the natural environment. These rules are found in the United Nations Charter, customary international law, and the general principles of law. They are binding owing to the belief placed in the system of international law generally by the members of the international community-belief so great that each rule of international law is backed by a forceful sanction. The rules on the use of force prohibited the invasion of Iraq in 2003. They prohibit the use of force against Iran today.
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Parking: The closest parking is Pangea Parking Structure.
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Sponsored by the California Western School of Law and the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) at the University of California, San Diego.
For questions regarding the event please contact Melissa LaBouff
(858) 822-5297 or at mlabouff@ucsd.edu
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South Asian Studies Lecture Series Presents:
"Economics and Politics of Land Reform in India" with Pranab Bardhan
University of California, Berkeley
Thursday, March 8, 2007
3:30-5:00PM
Location: International Relations Pacific Studies (IRPS) Dean's Conference Room,
UCSD Main Campus
 Biography: Pranab Bardhan is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-chair of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance. He has done theoretical and field studies research on rural institutions in poor countries, on political economy of development policies, and on international trade. A part of his work is in the interdisciplinary area of economics, political science, and social anthropology. He was Chief Editor of the Journal of Development Economics for 1985-2003.
Pranab Bardhan usually teaches in the areas of international trade theory and runs both the graduate and undergraduate seminars in Economic Development. A graduate-level textbook by Pranab Bardhan and Christopher Udry, Development Microconomics, Oxford University Press, was published in 1999. In 2000 MIT Press published a two-volume Readings in Development Economics, edited by Bardhan and Udry.
In September 2000, Pranab Bardhan gave ILO's Nobel Peace Prize Lecture in Cape Town, South Africa, entitled "Social Justice in the Global Economy."
Abstract: The effect of land reform on productivity is an old question in development economics, but rigorous and detailed micro-empirical studies are still scarce. Major institutional reforms in rural West Bengal in the 1970's and 80's, carried out by a Left government, followed by substantial resurgence in agricultural growth, provided an opportunity to study the effect at a disaggregated level. We collected data from about 90 villages in different parts of West Bengal at the farm level, at the village level, and at the level of local government, spanning several years. We find the program of decentralized distribution of inputs and credit and provision of irrigation to have more substantial effects than land reform. In land reform, programs of securing tenancy rights for sharecroppers in a village had a positive effect on average farm productivity, but the estimated impact for the entire sample was not different from the subsample of farms not directly affected by the programs. This suggests a new interpretation of the effect of the land reforms, in terms of a village-wide general equilibrium or governance impact, rather than partial-equilibrium incentive effects commonly stressed in the sharecropping literature. Contrary to a common presumption, we also find that political competition plays a more important role in explaining variations in extent of land reform across villages than the redistributive ideology of the local governments.
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Parking: The closest parking is Pangea Parking Structure.
1 day pass for $6.00, metered spots 15 minutes for 25 cents, maximum 2 hours
Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to contact Melissa La Bouff 822-5297 or mlabouff@ucsd.edu two weeks in advance.
Sponsored by the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) at the University of California, San Diego.
For questions regarding the event please contact Melissa LaBouff
(858) 822-5297 or at mlabouff@ucsd.edu
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South Asian Studies Lecture Series Presents:
New Date!
"Structure and Agency in the Transformation of India's Foreign Policy"
with Sumit Ganguly,
Indiana University
Monday, March 12, 2007
3:30- 5:00 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 104,
UCSD Main Campus
 Biography: Sumit Ganguly holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations and is a Professor of Political Science at Indiana University in Bloomington. He has previously been on the faculty of James Madison College of Michigan State University, Hunter College of the City University of New York and the University of Texas at Austin. He has also been a Fellow and a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. His research and writing, focused primarily on South Asia, has been supported by grants from the Asia Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the W. Alton Jones Foundation and the United States Institute of Peace. He serves on the editorial boards of Asian Affairs, Asian Survey, Current History, the Journal of Strategic Studies and Security Studies. He is the founding editor of both the India Review and Asian Security, two refereed journals published by Taylor and Francis, London. Professor Ganguly is the author, editor or co-editor of a dozen books on South Asia. His most recent books are Fearful Symmetry: India and Pakistan Under the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons (co-authored with Devin Hagerty) jointly published by Oxford University Press (New Delhi) and the University of Washington Press (Seattle) and More Than Words: U.S.-India Strategic Cooperation Into the Twenty-First Century (co-edited with Brian Shoup and Andrew Scobell) published by Routledge, London. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York and the International Institute of Strategic Studies, London. He is currently at work on a single authored book, India Since 1980, under contract with Cambridge University Press, New York and an edited work (with Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner), The State of India's Democracy, to be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2007.
Abstract: "India's foreign policy has undergone a fundamental transformation in the aftermath of the Cold War. What factors explain this metamorphosis? Neither structural shifts in global power nor individual choices any fully account for the radical reorientation that took place. A more complete explanation must aggregate evidence from both international and domestic levels."
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Parking: The closest parking is Pangea Parking Structure.
1 day pass for $6.00, metered spots 15 minutes for 25 cents, maximum 2 hours
Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to contact Melissa La Bouff 822-5297 or mlabouff@ucsd.edu two weeks in advance.
Sponsored by the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) at the University of California, San Diego.
For questions regarding the event please contact Melissa LaBouff
(858) 822-5297 or at mlabouff@ucsd.edu
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Upcoming Events
"Nuclear Weapons in a New Century: Facing the Emerging Challenges"
Tuesday and Wednesday, March 6 and 7, 2007
Location: Covel Commons, University of California Los Angeles
This conference aims to explore the breadth of the nuclear challenges facing the international order today and to recommend key azimuths for further study. As North Korea and Iran dominate the headlines, we think this is a propitious time to examine both existing threats and those still emerging on the horizon.
Project on International Affairs Lecture Series
Ahmer Tarar
Friday, March 9, 2007 3:30-4:00PM
Location: Social Sciences Building (SSB) 104
Sponsored by the Political Science Department of the University of California San Diego, and the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) at UCSD
"Imminence and Proportionality: The U.S and U.K Response to Global Terrorism"
Todd Landman
Thursday, March 29, 2007 12:10-2:00PM
Location: CAL Western School of Law
Sponsored by the Cal Western School of Law and the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) |
