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.
Speaker Series Faculty Coordinators:
J. Lawrence Broz (Associate Professor, Political Science) web site
Erik Gartzke (Associate Professor, Political Science) web site
2008-09 PIA Events
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Project on International Affairs will have more lectures in the fall 0f 2009. Thank you for the support of IICAS PIA Events
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More events coming in Fall 2009
Sponsored by the Project on International Affairs (PIA) at the
Institute of International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).
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2008-09 Past Events
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 Download Paper
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 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 DepartmentDownload Paper
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 DepartmentDownload Paper
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 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 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
