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 2011-2012 Joint Series: International Relations Speaker Series
The Project on International Affairs (PIA) at the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), and the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation (ILAR) at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS), are pleased to present the third annual International Relations Speaker Series. Combining PIA and ILAR efforts, the series features 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.
2011-12 Speaker Series Faculty Coordinators:
Lawrence Broz (Associate Professor, Political Science)
Christina Schneider (Assistant Professor, Political Science)
Emilie Hafner-Burton (Associate Professor, International Relations / Pacific Studies)
David Victor (Professor, International Relations / Pacific Studies)
The Project on International Affairs (PIA) Speaker Series has concluded for the 2011-12 academic year.
Please check back in the fall for upcoming events.
The IICAS PIA and IR/PS ILAR 2011-2012 International Relations Speaker Series at UC San Diego is sponsored jointly by the Project on International Affairs (PIA) at the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), and the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation (ILAR) at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS).
2011-2012 Events
2010-2011 Events
2009-2010 Events
2008-2009 Events
2007-2008 Events
2006-2007 Events
2005-2006 Events
2010-11 Speaker Series Faculty Coordinators:
Lawrence Broz (Associate Professor, Political Science)
Christina Schneider (Assistant Professor, Political Science)
Emilie Hafner-Burton (Associate Professor, International Relations / Pacific Studies)
David Victor (Professor, International Relations / Pacific Studies)
Pablo Pinto, Columbia University
"Sensitivity to Issue Framing on Trade Policy Preferences: Evidence from a Survey Experiment"
Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107.
Jointly sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs (PIA) & IR/PS Laboratory on International Law and Regulation (ILAR).
Christina Schneider, UC San Diego
"Institutional Portfolios and Delegation to Multilateral Aid Institutions"
Thursday, April 26, 2012, 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107.
Jointly sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs (PIA) & IR/PS Laboratory on International Law and Regulation (ILAR).
Thomas Bernauer, ETH Zurich
"Could More Civil Society Involvement Increase Public Support for Global Climate Change Policy?"
Thursday, April 5, 2012, 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107.
Jointly sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs (PIA) & IR/PS Laboratory on International Law and Regulation (ILAR).
Mark Copelovitch, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"'Currency Wars' by Other Means? Exchange Rates and WTO Dispute Initiation"
Thursday, March 1, 2012, 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107.
Jointly sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs (PIA) & IR/PS Laboratory on International Law and Regulation (ILAR).
Yotam Margalit, Columbia University
"Who Supports Bailing Out Other Countries and Why?"
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
Jointly sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs (PIA) & IR/PS Laboratory on International Law and Regulation (ILAR)
Mike Tomz, Stanford University
"An Experimental Investigation of the Democratic Peace"
Thursday, February 9, 2012, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
Jointly sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs (PIA) & IR/PS Laboratory on International Law and Regulation (ILAR)
Megumi Naoi, UC San Diego
"Framing Business Interests: How Campaigns Shape Firms’ Positions on Preferential Trade Agreements"
Thursday, February 2, 2012, 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
Jointly sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs (PIA) & IR/PS Laboratory on International Law and Regulation (ILAR)
Jana von Stein,University of Michigan
"The Autocratic Politics of Human Rights Agreement Ratification"
Thursday, January 19, 2012, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
Jointly sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs (PIA) & IR/PS Laboratory on International Law and Regulation (ILAR)
Nikolay Marinov, Yale University *Cancelled*
"Foreign Support and Electability"
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Jointly sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs (PIA) & IR/PS Laboratory on International Law and Regulation (ILAR)
Helen Milner, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
"Sailing the Water's Edge: Where Domestic Politics Meets Foreign Policy"
Thursday, October 27, 2011, 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, IR/PS Classroom 3201
Jointly sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs (PIA) & IR/PS Laboratory on International Law and Regulation (ILAR)
Shuhei Kurizaki, Texas A&M University
"Diplomacy, Pre-crisis Communication, and War"
Thursday, October 13, 2011,12:30 PM-2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB),Room 107.
Jointly sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs (PIA) & IR/PS Laboratory on International Law and Regulation (ILAR)
Jesse Driscoll, UC San Diego
"Commitment Problems or Bidding Wars? Rebel Fragmentation as Peace-Building"
Monday, Oct. 6, 2011, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107.
Jointly sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs (PIA) & IR/PS Laboratory on International Law and Regulation (ILAR)
2010-11 Speaker Series Faculty Coordinators:
Erik Gartzke (Associate Professor, Political Science)
Christina Schneider (Assistant Professor, Political Science)
Emilie Hafner-Burton (Associate Professor, International Relations / Pacific Studies)
David Victor (Professor, International Relations / Pacific Studies)
Nita Rudra, University of Pittsburgh
"Good for the Goose, Bad for the Flock? Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Developing Countries"
Thursday, May 12, 2011, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
Jointly sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs (PIA) & IR/PS Laboratory on International Law and Regulation (ILAR)
Marc Busch, Karl F. Landegger Professor of International Business Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service, and Professor, Department of Government Georgetown University
"Protectionism in Hard Political Times"
Thursday, Apr. 21, 2011, 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 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)
Jon Pevehouse, Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Domestic Politics and the Design of International Agreements"
Thursday, Mar. 3, 2011, 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Science Building, Room 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)
Jason Lyall, Assistant Professor of Political Science,Yale University
"Blame Attribution and Support for Combatants During Civil War: Evidence from an Experiment in Afghanistan"
Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011, 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, IR/PS Dean’s Conference Room
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)
Professor Michael Horrowitz, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
"How Prior Military Experience Influences the Future Militarized Behavior of Leaders"
Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011, 12:30 - 2:00 PM, Social Science Building, Room 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)
Jack Snyder, Professor of International Relations, Columbia University
"The Cost of Empty Threats: A Penny, Not a Pound"
Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010, 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 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)
David Cunningham, Iowa State University
“Combining Civil and Interstate Wars”
Friday, November 19, 2010, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
IR/PS Robinson Complex, Dean’s Conference Room
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)
Susan Hyde, Yale University
“Terrorizing Freedom: When Governments Use Repression to Manipulate Elections”
Thursday, November 18, 2010, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
IR/PS Robinson Complex, Dean’s Conference Room
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)
Andrew Enterline, Associate Professor of International Relations, University of North Texas
"Dyads De Novo? The Origin of State Pairs, Systems & Behavior in International Politics"
Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010, 12:30 - 2:00 PM, Social Science Building, Room 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)
Professor Michael Gilligan, Associate Professor of Politics, New York University
"Civil War and Social Capital: Behavioral-Game Evidence from Nepal"
Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010, 12:30 - 2:00 PM, Social Science Building, Room 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)
2009-10 Speaker Series Faculty Coordinators:
J. Lawrence Broz (Associate Professor, Political Science)
Erik Gartzke (Associate Professor, Political Science)
Emilie Hafner-Burton (Associate Professor, International Relations / Pacific Studies)
David Victor (Professor, International Relations / Pacific Studies)
Professor Beth Simmons , Harvard University
"Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics "
Thursday, Apr. 22, 2010, 12:30 - 2:00 PM, Social Science Building, Room 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)
Professor Christian Davenport, University of Notre Dame
"M2P (The Means to Protect): Understanding What Shortens Genocidal Violence"
Monday, Apr. 5, 2010, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, Eleanor Roosevelt College Administration Buidling (ERC), Room 115
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)
To read Davenport's paper, click here.
Professor Erik Voeten, Georgetown University
"Do Positions of Authority Increase Cooperation with International Organizations? Evidence from the International Criminal Court and the UN Security Council"
Thursday, Apr. 1, 2010, 12:30 - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 104
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)
Professor Muhammet Bas, Harvard Unversity
"Stochastic Shocks, Bargaining and War"
Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010, 12:30 - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 104
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)
Professor Tal Sadeh, Tel Aviv University
"In the Vanguard of Globalization: The OECD and International Capital Liberalization"
Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010, 12:30 - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 104
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)
Professor Ed Mansfield, University of Pennsylvania
"Regime Type, Veto Players, and Preferential Trading Arrangements"
Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, 12:30- 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 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)
Professor Robert Keohane, Princeton University
"Social Norms and Agency in World Politics"
Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009, 2:30- 4:00 PM, IR/PS Dean's Conference Room
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)
Professor Peter Rosendorff, New York University
"Domestic Politics and the Accession of Authoritarian Regimes to Human Rights Treaties"
Tuesday, November 17, 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)
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)
Erik Gartzke (Associate Professor, Political Science)
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 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
Co-sponsored by IICAS and the Political Science Department
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
Co-sponsored by IICAS and the Political Science Department
Ahmer Tarar, from Texas A&M
"War and Incomplete Information"
Friday, March 9, 2007, 3:00 - 4:30PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 104
Co-sponsored by IICAS and the Political Science Department
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
Co-sponsored by IICAS and the Political Science Department
Kati Suominen
"Regional Trade Agreements and Global Cooperation"
Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 3:00 - 4:30PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 105
Co-sponsored by IICAS and the Political Science Department
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
Co-sponsored by IICAS and the Political Science Department
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
Co-sponsored by IICAS and the Political Science Department
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
