Department of Political Science

Security, Peace, and Conflict Workshop

Spring 2011 SPC Speakers

All Meetings are Wednesday's from 11:55-1:10 in 201 Flowers unless otherwise noted

January 19 - Joe Grieco. "Nuclear Weapons and State Bellicosity: Should We Worry about Iran?"

January 31 - Jason Lyall (Yale University). "Dynamic Deterrence in Civil War: Evidence from Airstrikes in Afghanistan"
NOTE: Presentation is on a MONDAY and will be in the BREEDLOVE ROOM.

February 16 - Amber Diaz. "Bumbling, Bluffing, and Bald-Faced Lies: Mis-Leading and Domestic Audience Costs in International Relations"

March 2 - Dan Reiter (Emory University). "State Power, Paramilitary Forces, and Internal Conflict"

March 23 - Nils Metternich (Duke University) and Julian Wucherpfennig (ETH Zurich). "Institutional Change We Can Believe In: Democratization, Commitment, and Civil War Recurrence."

April 6 - Katja Favretto (University of Wisconsin). Title- TBA

April 13 - Matt Fuhrmann (University of South Carolina). "Atomic Assistance: Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation, International Institutions, and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation"
NOTE: Special Date. Presentation will be in the BREEDLOVE ROOM.

April 20 - Eugene Walton. "International Crises and Militant Non-State Actors: Group Mobilization and Crisis Management."