Political Science 299D
Theories of International Conflict
Schedule for Papers and Presentations
For dates that you are assigned to be the "discussant" you should come to class with comments and questions that will begin our discussion of the readings. As the discussant you need not present all the issues raised in your commentary paper, but you may use that as a basis for starting the discussion if you wish.
If upon doing the readings you find that you do not wish to write a commentary paper for that session, you are free to change your due date. Please notify me by email about which session you plan to write a paper for instead. If you are signed up as a discussant and choose not to write a paper, it is still important that you have some questions to ask in order to start the discussion. Any questions? Feel free to ask in class or by email.
August 25 - Organization
August 27 - The Causes of Alliances
September 1 -The Consequences of Alliances
Papers: Priska Stamminger
September 3 - What is System Structure?
September 8 - System Structure and War
September 10 - International Institutions
September 15 - International Norms
Discussant: Nazli Avdan
Papers: Nazli Avdan, Camber Warren
September 17 - Conventional Deterrence and Crisis Decision Making
Discussant: Damon Palmer
Papers: Damon Palmer
September 22 - Deterrence and Crisis Decision Making Revisited
Discussant: Eliza Losensky
Papers: Eliza Losensky
September 24 - Nuclear Deterrence
Discussant: April Young
Papers: April Young
September 29 - Nuclear Proliferation
Discussant: Kristin Thompson
Papers: Kristin Thompson
October 1 - Arms Races and War
Discussant: Nick Troester
Papers: Nick Troester, Christian Saederl
October 6 - Preventive War and Power Transitions
Discussant: Amber Diaz
Papers: Amber Diaz, Seongil Choi
October 8 - Culture and International Conflict
Discussants: Priska Stamminger and Camber Warren
Papers: Sefan Dolgert, Nazli Avdan, Camber Warren, Christine Lee, Priska Stamminger
October 13 - The Clash of Civilizations?
Discussant: Mark Dubois
Papers: April Young, Mark Dubois
October 15 - The Liberal Peace Debate
October 20 - The Nature of the "Liberal Peace"
October 22 - Regime Change and War
Discussant: Seongil Choi
Papers: Seongil Choi
October 27 - Diversionary War?
Papers: Amber Diaz
October 29 - The Democratic Peace Debate
Discussant: Christine Lee
Papers: Joel Schlosser, Christine Lee
November 3 - Sources of the Democratic Peace
Discussant: Stefan Dolgert
Papers: Stefan Dolgert
November 5 - World War I and the Cult of the Offensive
Discussant: Christian Saecherl
Papers: Damon Palmer, Christian Saecherl, Nick Troester
November 10 - The Offense Defense Balance
Papers: Mark Dubois
November 12 - American Public Opinion and War
Papers: Kristin Thompson
November 17 - Terrorism and War
Discussant: Joel Schlosser
Papers: Joel Schlosser, Eliza Losensky