Lectures and Talks

Past Events

• Community Development Requirements in Mining Laws, 1993-2012 (Kendra Dupuy (University of Washington)) - Fri, Mar 14 2014
• Springs and Their Offspring: The International Consequences of Domestic Uprisings (John Owen, Professor, Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics, University of Virginia) - Fri, Mar 7 2014
• Harnessing the Diaspora: The Political Economy of Migrant Dual Citizenship (David Leblang (UVA)) - Fri, Feb 21 2014
• Islamic States and the Securitization of the Muslim Self (Matthew Nelson, Reader, Department of Politics and International Studies, School of African and Oriental Studies (London, UK)) - Fri, Feb 14 2014
• Asian Designs: Risen Powers and the Struggle for International Governance (Saadia Pekkanen, Job & Gertrud Tamaki Professor at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington) - Fri, Jan 17 2014
• Engaging Democracy: Information & Agendas in Participatory Budgeting Reforms (Carolina Johnson (University of Washington)) - Fri, Dec 6 2013
• Exiting Anarchy: Militia Politics after the Post-Soviet Wars (Jesse Driscoll (UC San Diego)) - Fri, Nov 22 2013
• Strategic Export Controls: Explaining Divergence among Similar Countries on Similar Strategic Goods (Crystal Pryor, UW Ph.D. student, Political Science Department) - Fri, Nov 15 2013
• The Chongqing Story and the Rule of Law in China (He Weifang (Peking University)) - Fri, Nov 15 2013
• Electoral Violence in New Democracies: Institutionalizing Peaceful Transitions (Stephan Hamberg, UW Ph.D. student, Political Science Department) - Fri, Nov 1 2013
• Secessionism and Civilian Targeting (Tanisha Fazal, Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame) - Fri, Oct 18 2013
• Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics (Zhu Tianbiao (Peking University)) - Fri, May 17 2013
• Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics (Jennifer Noveck (UW)) - Fri, May 10 2013
• Norms and Torture (William d’Ambruoso (UW Ph.D. student, Political Science Department)) - Fri, May 3 2013
• Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics (Teri Caraway (Minnesota)) - Fri, Apr 19 2013
• Why and Under What Conditions Do Civilians Oppose Groups Who Brutalize Them? (Emily Gade, UW Ph.D. student, Political Science Department) - Fri, Mar 8 2013
• Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics (Melanie Manion (Wisconsin)) - Fri, Mar 1 2013
• Verification Mechanisms in International Agreements (Kristan Seibel (UW Ph.D. student, Political Science Department)) - Fri, Feb 8 2013
• Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics (Amanda Fulmer (UW)) - Fri, Feb 1 2013
• Friends Under Fire: Blame Attributions in the Fog of War - Fri, Jan 18 2013
• Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics (Catherine Boone (UT Austin) ) - Fri, Jan 11 2013
• Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics (Will Murg (University of Washington) ) - Fri, Dec 7 2012
• Evangelicals and Insurgents: Narratives and Violence in the Peruvian Civil War (Steven Zech (UW Ph.D. student, Political Science Department)) - Fri, Nov 30 2012
• Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics (Daniel Ziblatt (Harvard University) ) - Fri, Nov 16 2012
• The Collapse of Soviet Deterrence Theory, 1979-1989 (Christopher Jones (UW Professor, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies)) - Fri, Nov 2 2012
• Development of Democracy in the Middle East (Matthew E. Goldman (UW Ph.D. student, Near and Middle East Studies)) - Fri, Oct 12 2012
• The Strength to Concede: Ruling Parties and Democratization in Developmental Asia (Dan Slater (Chicago) ) - Fri, Oct 5 2012
• Land Without Opportunity: State-Peasant Relations and Land Privatization in Mexico (Adrian Sinkler (Post-doctoral Fellow in Political Science, University of Washington)) - Fri, Jun 1 2012
• From 'Open-Secrets' to the Secret Ballot: The Economic & Political Determinants of Secret Ballot Reform (Isabela Mares (Associate Professor of Political Science, Columbia University)) - Fri, May 18 2012
• Aid Under Fire: How Development Projects Impact Civil Conflict (Patrick Johnston, Associate Political Scientist, RAND Coorporation) - Fri, May 11 2012
• International Politics: The Rules of the Game (Yuen Foong Khong (Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford)) - Fri, Apr 27 2012
• Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics/UWISC Lecture on Regional Security in Asia (Barry Buzan (Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science)) - Fri, Apr 6 2012
• Natural disasters and civil conflict (Joshua Eastin, UW Political Science Ph.D student) - Fri, Mar 9 2012
• Electoral Violence in New Democracies: Institutionalizing Peaceful Transitions (Stephan Hamberg, UW Political Science Ph.D student) - Fri, Feb 3 2012
• Power & Authority in International Relations: Evidence from a Non-Western Case (David Kang (Professor of International Relations & Business, University of Southern California)) - Fri, Jan 13 2012
• Explaining the Transnational Advocacy Agenda: Insights from Human Security Practitioners (Charli Carpenter, Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst) - Fri, Nov 18 2011
• Reframing Energy Security: How Oil Dependence Influences U.S. National Security (Charles Glaser, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University) - Fri, Oct 28 2011
• The Development of Philanthropy in Contemporary China (Madame Yang Lan (Chairwoman, Sun Culture Foundation) ) - Tue, May 31 2011
• The Rhetoric of Power Politics: Hitler’s Legitimation Strategies, British Policies, & World War II (Stacie Goddard, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College) - Fri, May 20 2011
• Types of Security Threats and National Strategies: An Exploratory Case of China under Mao (David Bachman, Professor, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington) - Fri, May 13 2011
• Climate Wars? Security Implications of Climate Change (Halvard Buhaug, Senior Researcher at the Center for the Study of Civil War, Peace Research Institute Oslo) - Fri, Apr 29 2011
• Dynamic Deterrence in Civil War: Evidence from (Simulated) Airstrikes in Afghanistan (Jason Lyall, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale) - Fri, Apr 15 2011
• Don't Stop Thinking about Yesterday: An Experiment with Conflict Narratives in the Caucasus (or “Let ‘baijans be ‘baijans”) (Scott Radnitz, Assistant Professor of International Studies,Jackson School, University of Washington) - Fri, Mar 4 2011
• The Puzzle of Rwanda's Genocide (Alan Kuperman, Associate Professor of Government, University of Texas, Austin) - Fri, Feb 11 2011
• Peacekeeping and the Security Dilemma - Fri, Dec 3 2010
• Assessing Intentions in International Politics (Keren Yarhi-Milo, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Princeton) - Fri, Nov 12 2010
• War and the Religious Calendar (Ron Hassner, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley) - Fri, Oct 15 2010
• The Social Construction of Strategy (Nicolas Jabko, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for International Studies and Research, Sciences Po) - Fri, Apr 30 2010
• Nuclear Power without Nuclear Proliferation? (Scott Sagan, Co‐director, Center for International Security and Cooperation, and Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University) - Fri, Apr 16 2010
• Democratic Transitions and Violence (Stephan Hamberg, Ph.D. Student, University of Washington) - Fri, Mar 5 2010