Past Wednesday Seminars
Virtual Event: National Security Challenges Posed by China's Rise
Charles Glaser
George Washington University
12-1:30 Webinar via zoom
Virtual Event: Borderland Battles: Violence, Crime, and Governance at the Edges of Colombia's War
Annette Idler
Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
12-1:30 Webinar via zoom
The Strategic Challenge of Society-centric Warfare
Jonathan (Yoni) Shimshoni
Visiting Fellow and Research Affiliate, MIT Security Studies Program
12-1:30 E40-496, Lucian Pye Conference Room
The Revolution That Failed: Nuclear Competition, Arms Control, and the Cold War
Brendan Green
University of Cincinnati
12-1:30 E40-496, Lucian Pye Conference Room
New Technologies and Norms of War: Submarines and Poison Gas in World War I
Jennifer Erickson
Associate Professor, Boston College
12-1:30 E40-496, Lucian Pye Conference Room
Fighting for Tyranny: How State Repression Shapes Military Performance (co-authored work with Arturas Rozenas and Roya Talibova)
Yuri M. Zhukov
University of Michigan
12-1:30 E40-496, Lucian Pye Conference Room
The Effectiveness of a Quasi-Voluntary Regime: Cybersecurity for U.S. Critical Infrastructure
Chappell Lawson
Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT
12-1:30 E40-496, Lucian Pye Conference Room
A World Safe for Autocracy? China’s Rise and the Future of Global Politics
Jessica Chen Weiss
Cornell University
12:00-1:30pm Building E40-496 (Pye Room)
Blowback and Escalation Risks from the US Weaponization of Finance
Cynthia Roberts
Hunter College, CUNY
12:00-1:30pm Building E40-496 (Pye Room)
Killer Robots Killing the Rule of Law?
Mary Ellen O'Connell
University of Notre Dame
12:00-1:30pm Building E40-496 (Pye Room)
Autocratic Diffusion and Great Power Politics
Seva Gunitsky
University of Toronto
12:00-1:30pm Building E40-496 (Pye Room)
How to Enlarge NATO: The Debate Inside the Clinton Administration, 25 Years On
Mary Sarotte
Johns Hopkins University
12:00-1:30pm Building E40-496 (Pye Room)
The War Scare That Wasn’t: Able Archer 83 and the Myths of the Second Cold War
Simon Miles
Duke University
12:00-1:30pm Building E40-496 (Pye Room)
Wargaming "War Games": How Likely is Thermonuclear Cyber War?
Jacquelyn Schneider
Stanford University
12:00-1:30pm Building E40-496 (Pye Room)
Great expectations or nothing to lose? Socio-economic correlates of joining the Islamic State
Steffen Hertog
London School of Economics and Political Science
12:00-1:30pm Building E40-496 (Pye Room)
International Order and the Persistence of War
Bear Braumoeller
Ohio State University
12:00-1:30pm Building E40-496 (Pye Room)
It's Coming From Inside The House: The Greatest Challenges to America's National Security Is Happening At Home, Not Over There
Michael Cohen
Boston Globe
12:00-1:30pm Building E40-496 (Pye Room)
Toward New Histories of the Tet Offensive: Fifty Years Later
Lien-Hang Nguyen
Columbia University
12:00-1:30pm Building E40-496 (Pye Room)
Soldiers' Hearts: The Changing Cost of War-Induced Psychological Trauma
Tanisha Fazal
University of Minnesota
12:00-1:30pm Building E40-496 (Pye Room)
Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing From Empires to the Global Era
T.V.Paul
McGill University
12:00-1:30pm Building E40-496 (Pye Room)