Fall 2013 International Relations Seminar Series
Department of Political Science
Rosenkranz Hall, Room #202, 115 Prospect St.
11:45 – 1:20 PM on Wednesdays
September
4th
11th
Erica De Bruin (Yale)
Benny Miller (Haifa/Princeton)
18th
Matthew Longo (Yale)
25th
Emilie Hafner-Burton (UCSD)
“War and Coup Prevention in Developing States”
“Between Warm Peace and Hot War: The ‘Arab Spring’ and
the Post-Cold War International Order”
“Sovereignty in the Age of Securitization: A Study of Borders
and Bordering in the US after 9/11”
“Transparency of Investor-State Arbitration”
October
2nd
9th
16th
21st
30th
“Hungry for Change: Urban Bias and the Political Economy
of Autocratic Sovereign Default”
Robert Trager (UCLA)
“A Preference for War: How Fairness and Rhetoric Influence
Leadership Incentives in Crises”
James Morrow (Michigan)
“The Domestic Foundations of International Norms: NonIntervention versus Territorial Integrity”
Giovanni Facchini (Nottingham) “The Rhetoric of Closed Borders: Quotas, Lax Enforcement
and Illegal Migration”
MONDAY SESSION: Joint with Leitner PE Seminar
Phil Arena (SUNY Buffalo)
“The Distribution of Capabilities, War Onset, and War
Expansion”
Cameron Ballard-Rosa (Yale)
November
6th
13th
Bear Braumoeller (OSU)
Charlie Glaser (GW)
18th
Stergios Skaperdas (UC Irvine)
“Is War Disappearing?”
“Taking China’s Rise Seriously: Competition, Unilateral
Concessions or a Grand Bargain?”
“Nation-Building through War: Military Victory and Social
Identification after the Franco-Prussian War”
MONDAY SESSION: Joint with Leitner PE Seminar
December
4th
9th
Vincent Pouliot (McGill)
“The Many Ontologies of Multilateral Pecking Orders”
Layna Mosley (UNC-Chapel Hill) “Categories, Creditworthiness and Contagion: Investors’
Shortcuts and Sovereign Debt Markets”
MONDAY SESSION: Joint with Leitner PE Seminar
Faculty Coordinator: Nuno P. Monteiro (nuno.monteiro@yale.edu)
Student Coordinator: William G. Nomikos (william.nomikos@yale.edu)