Project on International Affairs (PIA)

The Project on International Affairs (PIA) Seminar Series brings outside speakers to UC San Diego to discuss their research in the field of international relations. These seminars are intended for faculty members and graduate students but are open to all interested members of the academic community and the general public. The calendar is updated frequently, so please check back on this web page for the most current information on upcoming PIA speakers and other special events.

IICAS PIA & IR/PS ILAR 2009-2010 Joint Speaker Series

The Project on International Affairs (PIA) at the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) and The International Law and Regulation Laboratory (ILAR) at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) are pleased to present their first annual joint speaker series. Combining PIA and ILAR efforts, the series will feature speakers discussing research in the field of international relations, and a wide array of issues, from environment and energy to human rights, and trade and security, to explore when and why international laws actually work.

Speaker Series Faculty Coordinators:
J. Lawrence Broz (Associate Professor, Political Science) web site
Erik Gartzke (Associate Professor, Political Science) web site
Emilie Hafner-Burton (Associate Professor, International Relations / Pacific Studies) web site
David Victor (Professor, International Relations / Pacific Studies) web site

 

 

2009-10 PIA Events


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Professor Peter Rosendorff

New York University

"Domestic Politics and the Accession of Authoritarian Regimes to Human Rights Treaties"

Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB)
Room 107


To register and for more information,
click here.

The IICAS PIA and IR/PS ILAR 2009-2010 Joint Speaker Series at UC San Diego is sponsored by the Project on International Affairs (PIA) at the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), and the International Law and Regulation Laboratory (ILAR) at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS).


Professor Robert Keohane

Princeton University

"Social Norms and Agency in World Politics"

Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
IR/PS Dean's Conference Room
For directions, click here.

To register and for more information,
click here.

The IICAS PIA and IR/PS ILAR 2009-2010 Joint Speaker Series at UC San Diego is sponsored by the Project on International Affairs (PIA) at the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), and the International Law and Regulation Laboratory (ILAR) at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS).


2009-10 PIA Past Events


Professor Robert Trager, University of California, Los Angeles
"Managing the Maddening Crowd:
Presidential Approval After International Crises"

Thursday, October 15, 2009, 12:30- 2:00 PM, SSB 107
Sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs & the International Law and Regulation Laboratory (ILAR) at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS)

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2008-09 PIA Past Events


2008-09 Speaker Series Faculty Coordinators:
J. Lawrence Broz (Associate Professor, Political Science) web site
Erik Gartzke (Associate Professor, Political Science) web site

Dr. David Stasavage, New York University
"The Conscription of Wealth: Mass Warfare and the Demand for Progressive Taxation"
Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 12:00- 1:30 PM, SSB 107
Sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs & UCSD Political Science, Comparative Politics
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Professor Michael Ward, University of Washington
"Empirical Network Models of International Commerce and International Conflict"
Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 2:00- 3:30 PM, ERC 115
Sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs & UCSD Political Science, Comparative Politics

Professor Gary Goertz, University of Arizona
"Ceilings and Floors: When Theories and Data are About Boundaries Not Central Tendencies"
Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 2:00- 3:30 PM, IR/PS Conference Room 1428
Sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs
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Professor Randall Stone, University of Rochester
"Informal Governance: International Organizations and the Limits of U.S. Power"
Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 3:00- 4:30 PM, SSB 107
Sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs
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Professor Michael Ross, University of California, Los Angeles
"Oil and Democracy Revisited"
Thursday, March 5, 2009, 12:30- 2:00 PM, SSB 107
Sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs
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Professor Erik Voeten, Georgetown University
"Borrowing and Non-Borrowing Among International Courts"
Thursday, May 14, 2009, 12:30- 2:00 PM, SSB 107
Sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs

2007-08 PIA Past Events


Judith Goldstein , from Stanford University:
"Producer, Consumer Family Member: The Relationship Between Trade Attitudes and Family Status"
Thursday, May 15, 2008, 3:00 - 4:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
Co-sponsored by IICAS and the Political Science Department
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Robert Rauchhaus, from the University of California, Santa Barbara:
"Evaluating the Nuclear Peace Hypothesis: A Quantitative Approach"
Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 3:00 - 4:30 PM
IR/PS Deans Conference Room
Co-sponsored by IICAS and the Political Science Department
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Christopher Gelpi, from Duke University:
"Let's Get a Second Opinion: International Institutions and American Public Support for War"
Thursday, November 15, 2007, 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 104
Co-sponsored by IICAS and the Political Science Department

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Michael Tomz, from Stanford University:
"The Credibility of International Commitments"
Tuesday, February 12, 2008, 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107

Co-sponsored by the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), the Department of Political Science, and the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS).

Richard Steinberg , from UCLA School of Law:
"The Rise of Judicial Liberalization at the WTO"
Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 4:00 - 5:30 PM
IR/PS Gardner Room
Co-sponsored by the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), the Department of Political Science, and the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS).

 

2006-07 PIA Past Events


Robert Walker, from Washington University in Saint Louis
"Institutional Democracy Need Not Limit the Abuse of Human Rights"
Thursday, February 8, 2007, 3:00 - 4:30PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 101

Robert Trager, from the University of California, Los Angeles
"Power and Agency: How Past Diplomacy Determines the Choice of Sides"  
Thursday, March 1, 2007, 3:00-4:30PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107

Ahmer Tarar, from Texas A&M
"War and Incomplete Information"
Friday, March 9, 2007, 3:00 - 4:30PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 104

Mia Bloom, from the University of Georgia in Athens
"Sectarian Killings in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq: The Metamorphosis of Suicide Terrorism"
Thursday, March 15, 2007, 3:00 - 4:30PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 107

Kati Suominen
"Regional Trade Agreements and Global Cooperation"
Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 3:00 - 4:30PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 105

Scott Gartner, from the University of California, Davis
"Casualties and Public Opinion in War: An Experimental Approach"
Friday, June 8, 2007, 12:00 - 1:30PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 101

 

 

2005-06 PIA Past Events


Nathan Jensen, Department of Political Science, Washington University, Global Fellow at the UCLA International Institute, 2005-06
"Measuring Risk: Political Risk Insurance Premiums and Domestic Political Institutions."
Wednesday, November 2, 2005, 3:00 - 4:30PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 103

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S. Brock Blomberg, from the Department of Economics, Claremont McKenna College
" How Much Does Violence Tax Trade?"
Wednesday, November 30, 2005, 3:00 - 4:30PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 104

Ron E. Hassner, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
"The Path to Indivisibility:  Time and the Entrenchment of Territorial Disputes."
Wednesday, January 11, 2006, 3:00 - 4:30PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 102
Co-sponsored by IICAS and the Political Science Department

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James Fearon, Department of Political Science, Stanford University
"Self-Enforcing Democracy"
Monday, March 20, 2006, 3:00 - 4:30PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 104
Co-sponsored by IICAS and the Political Science Department

Andrew Kydd, Department of Government, Harvard University
"Strategies of Terrorism"
Friday, March 24, 2006, 3:00 - 4:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 104
Co-sponsored by IICAS and the Political Science Department

Eiko Thielemann, from the London School of Economics and Political Science
"International Trade in the Provision of Transnational Collective Goods"
Tuesday, April 4, 2006, 3:00 - 4:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 104
Co-sponsored by IICAS and the Political Science Department

Jeffrey Friedan, Harvard University
"The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy"
Monday, April 17, 2006, 3:00 - 4:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 104
Co-sponsored by IICAS and the Political Science Department

Marc Trachtenberg, Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
"Preventive War and U.S. Foreign Policy"
Wednesday, April 26, 2006, 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 102

James Morrow, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
"Patterns of Compliance with the Laws of War"
Friday, April 28, 2006, 3:00 - 4:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 101
Co-sponsored by IICAS and the Political Science Department


 

 

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