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International Relations/Foreign Policy Faculty Working Group

Jointly sponsored by the Dickey Center for International Understanding and the Rockefeller Center

FALL 2007 - SPRING 2008

OCTOBER 19, 2007

"International Polarity and Domestic Polarization: Explaining American Disunity"

  • Speaker: Joseph Bafumi, Dartmouth College, and Joe Parent, Columbia University
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 353 Haldeman

OCTOBER 31, 2007

"The Genesis of the GATT"

  • Speaker: Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 353 Haldema

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

"Peacekeeping and War Termination"

  • Speaker: Page Fortna, Columbia University
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 353 Haldeman

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

"War and Cinema"

  • Speaker: Charles Jones, Cambridge University
  • Time: 12:30-2:00 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 353 Haldeman

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

"From NATO to ESPD: A Social Constructivist Perspective on German Strategic Adjustment since 1990"

  • Speaker: Felix Berensköetter, Dartmouth College
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 353 Haldeman

DECEMBER 12, 2007

"Unipolarity and Status Competition"

  • Speaker: William Wohlforth, Dartmouth College
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 353 Haldeman

JANUARY 16, 2008

"Forbidden Fruit: Counterfactuals and International Relations"

  • Speaker: Ned Lebow, Dartmouth College
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 353 Haldeman

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

"The Cold War and the Global Proliferations of Nonviolent Politics"

  • Speaker: Ronald Edsforth, Dartmouth College
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 353 Haldeman

February 27, 2008

"Why the US will continue to fight small wars....poorly"

  • Speaker: Jonathan Caverley, University of Chicago
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 353 Haldeman

MARCH 12, 2008

"TBA"

  • Speaker: Matthew Kocher, Yale University
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 353 Haldeman

MARCH 14, 2008

"Understanding Regime Resilience in North Korea"

  • Speaker: Jennifer Lind, Dartmouth College
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 353 Haldeman

MARCH 26, 2008

"TBA"

  • Speaker: Michael Herron, Dartmouth College
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 353 Haldeman

APRIL 9, 2008

"TBA"

  • Speaker: Jacques Hymans, Smith College
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 353 Haldeman

APRIL 23, 2008

"TBA"

  • Speaker: Jason Lyall, Princeton University
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 353 Haldeman

May 14, 2008

"TBA"

  • Speaker: Eugene Gholz, University of Texas - Austin
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 353 Haldeman

May 28, 2008

"TBA"

  • Speaker: Brent Strathman, Dartmouth College
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 353 Haldeman

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[Previous years' schedules of talks appear below.]

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FALL 2006 - SPRING 2007

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

"Resistance is Futile: The Nuclear Revolution and the Persistence of U.S. Unipolar Preponderance"

  • Speaker: Campbell Craig, University of Southampton
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 200 Baker Library

OCTOBER 25, 2006

"The Political Economy of Scale and Nation, with Special Reference to Denmark"

  • Speakers: John Campbell and John Hall, Sociology Department, Dartmouth College
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 124 Haldeman

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

"War By Other Means: Civilian Targeting and Civilian Casualties in Interstate Conflicts"

  • Speaker: Alexander Downes, Duke University
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 124 Haldeman

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

"Title TBA"

  • Speaker: Taylor Fravel, M.I.T.
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 124 Haldeman

JANUARY 24, 2007

"Domestic Institutions and War Time Casualties"

  • Speaker: Allan Stam, Dartmouth College
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 353 Haldeman

FEBRUARY 14, 2007

Discussion  "Article TBA"

  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 353 Haldeman

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

"What the Imjin War Tells Us About International Relations Theory"

  • Speaker: Dave Kang, Dartmouth College
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 353 Haldeman

MARCH 14, 2007

"Power Reconsidered"

  • Speaker: James B. Murphy, Dartmouth College
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 353 Haldeman

MARCH 27, 2007

"Sticks and Stones"

  • Speaker: Emilie Hafner-Burton, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
  • Time: 4-5:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 353 Haldeman

APRIL 25, 2007

"Unsung Humanitarian Intervention: How Small-Scale Deployment Averted a Bloodbath in Liberia"

  • Speaker: Alan Kuperman, University of Texas - Austin
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 353 Haldeman

MAY 23, 2007

"TBA"

  • Speaker: Bridget Coggins, Dartmouth College
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 353 Haldeman

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WINTER 2006 - SPRING 2006

January 11, 2006

"Fear, Interest and Honor: A Theory of International Relations" 

  • Speaker: Ned Lebow, Dartmouth College
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 206 Baker Library

January 25, 2006

"Passions within Reason"

  • Speaker: John Hall, Dartmouth College
  • Time: 3:15-4:45 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 206 Baker Library

February 22, 2006

"The Balance of Power with Farsighted Coalitions"

  • Speaker: Kris Ramsay, Princeton University
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 206 Baker Library

March 8, 2006

"Agency Matters: Toward an agentic approach to international relations"

  • Speaker: Dingding Chen, Dartmouth College
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 206 Baker Library

March 29, 2006

Discussion of "Success Matters: Casualty Sensitivity and the War in
Iraq," Gelpi, Feaver, Reifler (International Security 30:3 Winter 2005/6) and
"The Iraq Syndrome" by John Mueller, Foreign Affairs Nov/Dec 2005.

April 12, 2006

"The Cold War and International Order"

  • Speaker: Mick Cox, London School of Economics
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 206 Baker Library

April 26, 2006

"Agents of Change: Non-State Actors and Humanitarian Norms in U.S. Alliance Relationships"

  • Speaker: Will Walldorf, Dartmouth College
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 206 Baker Library

May 4, 2006

"My Experiences Working on Dick Cheney's National Security Staff"

  • Speaker: Aaron Friedberg, Princeton University
  • Time: 12:30-2 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 206 Baker Library

May 10, 2006

"Democracy, Democratization, and International Human Rights Institutions"

  • Speaker: Jon Pevehouse, University of Wisconsin
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center, 206 Baker Library

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FALL 2004 - SPRING 2005

September 29, 2004

"Threat Inflation and the Failure of the Marketplace of Ideas: The Selling of the Iraq War"  

  • Speaker: Chaim Kaufmann, Lehigh University
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center

October 27, 2004

"Presidents, Politics and Grand Strategy"  

  • Speaker: Peter Trubowitz, University of Texas, Austin
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center

November 5, 2004    ***THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED - MAY BE RESCHEDULED***  

"Powerplay: The Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia" 

  • Speaker: Victor Cha, Georgetown University
  • Time: 12:30-2 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center

November 10, 2004

"The End of Mutual Assured Destruction?" 

  • Speaker: Daryl Press, Dartmouth College
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center

December 8, 2004

"Public Opinion, the War in Iraq, and the President"  

  • Speaker: Erik Voeten, George Washington University
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center

January 12, 2005

"Democratization and Stability in East Asia"  

  • Speaker: Jennifer Lind, Dartmouth College
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center

January 26, 2005

"Strategies of Justice and Postwar Settlements, 1945-2004"   

  • Speaker: Leslie Vinjamuri, Georgetown University
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center

February 9, 2005

"The Psychology of Terror and the Politics of Fear"  

  • Speaker: Rose McDermott, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center

February 23, 2005

"The Semi-Sovereign Senate and the Decline of Institutional Competence in U.S. Foreign Affairs"  

  • Speaker: Linda Fowler, Dartmouth College
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center

March 9, 2005

Discussion of the UN report from the High-level panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, entitled "A more secure world: our shared responsibility."  This report may be down-loaded from the UN website at http://www.un.org/secureworld/.

  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center

April 8, 2005

"The Foundations of War and Peace in East Asia and the Middle East"

  • Speaker: Etel Solingen, University of California, Irvine
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center

April 13, 2005

"Power and Proximity: Why Only Some States Fight for Survival"

  • Speaker: Tanisha Fazal, Columbia University
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center

April 27, 2005

"Multilateralism in American Foreign Policy"

  • Speaker: Gene Lyons, Dartmouth College
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center

May 11, 2005

"The Education of Political Leaders and the Onset of War"

  • Speaker: Allan Stam, Dartmouth College
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center

May 25, 2005

"War By Other Means: The Fate of Civilians in Times of War"

  • Speaker:  Benjamin Valentino, Dartmouth College
  • Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Dickey Center

Please call the Dickey Center at 6-2023 to RSVP, if you plan to attend.

Last Updated: 2/19/08