University of Washington International Security Colloquium (UWISC) is the only academic colloquium devoted to international security in the Pacific Northwest. The colloquium, which is interdisciplinary and open to the public, sponsors nine speakers a year from the across the U.S., Europe, as well as from UW faculty and students.
Schedule 2007-2008
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All seminars will take place in Gowen 1A from 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Fall 2007
Oct 12
Martha Crenshaw
Senior Fellow
Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)
Stanford University
Title: “The debate over ‘new’ and ‘old’ terrorism”
Discussant: Ashley Thirkill-Mackelprang, Dept of Political Science, UW
Oct 26
Yuko Kawato
Ph.C. Dept of Political Science, UW
Title: "Bases of Power: Military Effectiveness, Alliance Politics, and
Protests against U.S. Military Bases in Asia"
Discussant: Mike Strausz, Lecturer, Dept of Political Science, UW
Nov 9
Joost Hiltermann,
Director of the Intl Crisis Group's Middle East Program
Title: "Democracy Equals Civil War: A Middle Eastern
Paradox?"
Discussant: Matt Goldman, The Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Near &
Middle Eastern Studies
Winter 2008
January 11
Etel Solingen
Professor of Political Science, UC Irvine
Title: Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East
Discussant: Jason Scheideman, Dept of Political Science, UW
January 25
Emanuel Adler
Professor & Charles Bronfman Chair, Department of Political Science, University
of Toronto
Title: "Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don't, Performative Power, and
the Strategy of
Conventional and Nuclear Defusing."
Discussant: Jon Acuff, Dept of Political Science, UW
February 22
Christopher Darnton
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Politics, Princeton University
Title: "Overcoming International Security Rivalry: Argentine-Brazilian
Rapprochement in Comparative Perspective"
Discussant: Rebecca Szper, Dept. of Political Science, UW
Spring 2008
April 18
William Wolforth
Professor of Political Science, Dartmouth
Title: “Unipolarity and Status Competition”
Discussant: Christi Siver, Dept of Political Science, UW
May 9
Pascal Vennesson
Professor of Political Science, European University Institute, Florence
Professor of Political Science, University Panthéon-Assas, Paris II
(on leave)
Title: "Force in the Global Village: Landpower and the Politics of Army
Adaptation"
Discussant: Brian Greenhill, Dept of Political Science, UW
May 30
Jeremy Weinstein
Assistant Professor, Stanford
Title: “Dynamics of Civil War”
Discussant: Steven Zech, Dept of Political Science, UW
For more info, please contact UWISC's chair, Stephan Hamberg, Ph.D.
student, political science
shamberg@u.washington.edu
UWISC is sponsored by UW Institute for National Security Education and
Research (INSER), The Marc Lindenberg Center for Humanitarian Action,
International Development and Global Citizenship (MLC), Henry M.
Jackson Foundation, Center for Global Studies at the Jackson School of
International Studies and the Department of Political Science.
2006-2007 Schedule
Organized and chaired by Jeff Wolf.
Coercive Diplomacy: Theory and Practice
Peter Viggo Jakobsen,
Assoc. Professor, Political Science,
Discussant
October 13.
Mahan, Dreadnought, and National Identity
Robert Farley, Assistant Professor, Patterson School of Diplomacy,
Discussant: Jeff Wolf, Ph.D. student, UW
November 9.
International Relations Theory and the New Historiography of World War I
Keir Lieber, Assistant
Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Notre Dame
Discussant: Brian Greenhill, Ph.D. student, UW
December 1.
The Politics and Psychology of the Iraq WMD Intelligence Failure
Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics, Columbia
University
Discussant: Jason Scheideman, Ph.D. student, UW
January 26.
The Dark Side of the Band of Brothers: the Commission and Reporting of War
Crimes
Christi Siver, Ph.D. student, UW
Discussant: Jonathan Acuff, Ph.D. student,
UW
February 9.
Changing Norms regarding
Ward Thomas, Associate Professor, Political Science, College
of the Holy Cross
Discussant: Christi Siver, Ph.D. student,
UW
March 9.
Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Recruitment: Evidence from a Survey in Colombia
Stathis N. Kalyvas, Arnold
Wolfers Professor of Political Science, Yale (with Ana Arjona)
Discussant: Jason Scheideman, Ph.D. student, UW
April 20 in Mary Gates Hall, Room 420
Peace through Security: The Durable Settlement of Civil Wars
Monica Duffy Toft, Associate Professor, Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard
Discussant: Stephan Hamberg, Ph.D. student, UW
May 11 in Mary Gates Hall, Room 420
Watching for Democracy: International Electoral Monitoring and Cheating
Jason Scheidemen, Ph.D. student, UW
Discussant: Umut Aydin.
May 25.
The
talks for the 2006-2007 Academic Year are normally held at noon in Smith 40.
For more information, please contact UWISC’s
chair, Jeff Wolf, Ph.D. student, Political Science:
jeffwolf@u.washington.edu, or visit www.polisci.washington.edu/uwisc.htm.
For the 2006-2007 Academic Year, UWISC is sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson Foundation; the Center for International Studies at the Jackson School of International of Studies; and the Departments of Political Science and Scandinavian Studies.
2004-2005 Schedule
Organized and chaired by Christi Siver.
October 22
Michael Kenney
Penn State, School of Public Affairs and the Center for International Security
and Cooperation, Stanford
“Traffickers, Terrorists and Competitive Adaptation"
Discussant: Darcy Noricks, PhD Student, University
of Washington
12-00 - 1:30 pm – Gowen 1A
October 28
Paul Kramer
Johns Hopkins University
The Blood of Government: Colonial War and Race-Making in the U. S. Empire
4-6 pm – Location Smith 205
(Co-sponsored with Institute for Transnational Studies and UW History Department)
November 12
Steen Nordstrom
Danish Institute for International Affairs
"Decision-making in Natural Resource Conflicts"
Discussant: Kate Marshall, PhD Student, University of Washington
12-1:30 pm – Gowen 1A
January 14
Jeffrey Herbst
Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
“African Armies and African Guerrillas: Understanding the Dynamics of Conflict”
Discussant: Jason Scheideman, PhD Student, University
of Washington
12-1:30 pm – Gowen 1A
January 24
Jeff Checkel
University of Oslo
“Social Constructivism in International Relations Theory”
Discussant: Kristen Bakke, PhD Student, University
of Washington
4:30-6:00 pm – Gowen 1A
February 11
David Bachman
University of Washington
"China's Ascendance, Asia's Accommodation, America's Challenge."
12-1:30 pm – Gowen 1A
April 29
Richard Price
University of British Columbia
“Hegemony and Multilateralism”
Discussant: Theresa Squatrito, PhD Student, University
of Washington
12-1:30 pm – Gowen 1A
May 19
Leslie Vinjamuri
Georgetown Univeristy
"The Globalization of Justice: Strategies of Justice and Postwar Settlements
since 1945"
4:30-6:00 pm - Gowen 1A
June 3
Ian Beckett
University College - Northhampton (UK)
"Insurgency in Iraq: A Historical Perspective"
Discussant: Misti Williams, PhD Student, University
of Washington
12-1:30 pm - Smith 40
2003-2004 Schedule
Organized and chaired by Terence Lee.
October 24, 2003
Robert Farley
PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Washington
Transnational Determinants of Military Doctrine
Discussant: Yoav Gortzak
November 7, 2003
Deborah Avant
Associate Professor, Political Science and International Affairs,
George Washington University
"The Market for Force: Private Security and Political Change"
Discussant: Yuko Kawato
January 23, 2004
David Holloway,
Professor, Political Science and International History, Stanford University
NUCLEAR DETERRENCE: THE ROLE OF COMMON KNOWLEDGE
Discussant: Christi Siver
March 3, 2004
Stephen Biddle
Associate Research Professor, US Army War College
"Afghanistan and the Future of Warfare"
Discussant: Rob Farley
May 28, 2004
Barbara Walter
Associate Professor, UC-San Diego
REPUTATION AND WAR: Government Responses to Self-determination Challenges
Discussant: Kristin Bakke
2002-2003 Schedule
Organized and chaired by Yuko Kawato.
Nov 1: Page Fortna
Assistant Professor,
"Does Peacekeeping Help Keep Peace? And If So, How?"
Nov 8: Jonathan
Acuff
Ph.D. Student,
“Cultures of War and Peace: National Liberalism and the Social Construction
of the Scandinavian Peace”
Nov 22: Lynn Eden
Senior Research Scholar, Center for International Security and Cooperation,
"Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation."
Jan 24: Christopher Jones
Associate Professor, Jackson School, University of Washington
“Strategic Deception: the Case of the Warsaw Pact”
Feb 7: Michael Barnett
Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Eyewitness to Genocide: the United Nations and Rwanda"
Mar 4: Yuen Foong
Khong
Faculty Fellow, University of Oxford
“ASEAN’s Post-Cold War Security Strategy: Soft Balancing and Institutions
in the Wake of Strategic Uncertainty”
April 18: Turan Kayaoglu
Ph.D. Student, University of Washington
“State Building and the Abolition of Extraterritoriality in Japan, Turkey,
and China: An Institutional Approach”
April 25: Stephen Krasner
Professor, Stanford University
“Dilemmas of American Power: Broken Polities and Enhanced Sovereignty”
May 9: Gary Bass
Assistant Professor, Princeton University
“Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War rimes Tribunals”
June 2: Derek Leebaert
Professorial Lecturer, Dept of Government, Georgetown University
“America’s Exercise of Power, 1945-2002: The Price of Power”
June 6: Mary Callahan
Assistant Professor, Jackson School, University of Washington
“Temples of Doom: Military Museums in Indonesia, Thailand, and Burma”
2001-2002 Schedule
Organized and chaired by Jason Scheideman.
January 25 - Stephen Rosen
Harvard University
“The DNA of Strategy: Stress, Distress, and War Termination”
Discussant: Robert Farley, Ph.D. student, UW
March 12 - Thomas Risse
Free University of Berlin –
“Arguing and Communicative Processes in Multilateral Negotiations – Insights
from Empirical Research”
Discussant: Turan Kayaoglu,
Ph.D. student, UW
April 12 - Hendrik Spruyt
Arizona State University
“Stumbling to the Exit: Territorial Challenges and Modes of Dissolution”
Discussant: Jonathan Acuff, Ph.D. student, UW
April 26 - Hein Goemans
Duke University
“What and Where is the "Homeland"? Explaining the Size and Shape
of States.”
Discussant: Yuko Kawato, Ph.D. student, UW
May 10 - Scott Sagan
Stanford University
“On the Strategic Consequences of Indian and Pakistani Nuclear Weapons”
Discussant: Jason Scheideman, Ph.D. student, UW
May 20 - Kathryn Sikkink
University of Minnesota
“On Identity and Interest in U.S. Human Rights Policy Towards Latin America”
May 31 - Jack Snyder
Columbia University
"Principle and Pragmatism in International Justice"
Discussant: Kristin Bakke, Ph.D. student, UW