The School of Politics and Global Studies and its affiliated centers, hold frequent lectures featuring faculty, graduate students, visiting scholars, and experts across the world. Many of these events are held virtually and open to the public. Upcoming public events can be found below and on our events page.
The school also runs internal workshops meant to strengthen the sense of intellectual community with the school's faculty and graduate students. The two parallel workshops are intended to align closely with the particular interests of faculty members and graduate students. Faculty and graduate students are encouraged to present scholarly work (article manuscripts, book ideas, grant proposals) at any stage of development, including relatively early on when the scope and focus of a project are still being defined.
If you want to present at the School Workshop, please contact the coordinator. Each thematic workshop will take place on a monthly basis on Wednesdays, from Noon-1 p.m.
Colloquium Chair: Victor Peskin, Victor.Peskin@asu.edu
School Workshops
- American Politics and Society Workshop: Fabian Neuner, fneuner@asu.edu
- Global Politics, Markets, and Society Workshop: Anna Meyerrose, Anna.Meyerrose@asu.edu
Spring 2023
Examining the Organizational Landscape of U.S. Latinx Interests (WS)
Date: February 1, 2023
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor Hall 6631
Speakers: Angie Bautista-Chavez
American Politics and Society Workshop
Description:
Whose interests do Latinx organizations represent (representation, policy agendas)? What strategies do Latinx organizations use in seeking policy change (targets of influence, campaigns, and coalition networks)? This study centralizes organization-level and network-level information about Latinx political organizations across key U.S. states with significant Latinx populations. Methodologically, this study combines oral histories with Latinx organizational leaders (to examine decision-making processes and difficult-to-observe dynamics and relationships within and between organizations) and the creation of organizational archives that contain an event database and campaign materials (to examine variation in organizational behavior across U.S. states and across key time periods). In doing so, this study advances research on organized interest groups in the United States (a field that often overlooks Latinx-led organizations) and Latinx politics (a field that heavily emphasizes individual-level behavioral approaches).
Margaret Hanson (WS)
Date: March 1, 2023
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor Hall 6631
Speakers: Margaret Hanson
Global Politics, Markets, and Society Workshop
The Face of War: How Anthony Shadid Changed Reporting on Conflict after 9/11 (CFW)
Date: March 2, 2023
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speakers: Philip Bennett
Center on the Future of War
Philip Bennett, ASU Future Security Fellow, is a journalist, documentary film producer and teacher. He produced 20 films on American politics and national security for the PBS documentary series FRONTLINE, including America After 9/11, America’s Great Divide: From Obama to Trump, and the Emmy award-winning The Choice 2016 and The Choice 2020. Bennett is a former managing editor of the Washington Post, and was the assistant managing editor for foreign news. He was a foreign correspondent for the Boston Globe in Latin America in the 1980s. Until 2020, he was the Patterson Professor of journalism and public policy at Duke University.
Trauma and Empire: Uprooting Psychiatry from its Colonial Origins (CFW)
Date: March 15, 2023
Time: 10:00am
Location: Zoom
Speakers: Khameer Kidia
Center on the Future of War
Khameer Kidia, ASU Future Security Fellow, is a writer, anthropologist and global health physician on the faculty at Brigham & Womenʼs Hospital and Harvard Medical School. A Rhodes Scholar from Zimbabwe, Kidia has worked on mental health research and advocacy in his home country for the last decade. His research and writing on medicine and global health have been published in outlets such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet Psychiatry, Slate, the Yale Review and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is working on a book, Empire of Madness, which explores the colonial origins of global mental health, for Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Forced migration from a European perspective: Racialized georaphies and the (im)possibility of two-way integration
Date: March 21, 2023
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor Hall 6761 and on Zoom
Speakers: Johanna Hiitola
Johanna Hiitola has a PhD in gender studies from the University of Tampere, Finland. Hiitola is the director of gender studies at the University of Oulu, Finland. She is an associate professor in social and public policy (University of Eastern Finland) and social work (University of Jyväskylä, Finland). Her research includes intersectional feminist family studies, migrant integration, interpersonal violence, forced migration studies, citizenship scholarship and most recently, research on family separation of forced migrants. She has recently conducted research as part of the EU-funded project ‘Social Empowerment in Rural Areas’ (2015–2018) and the Academy of Finland funded project ‘Family Separation, Migration Status and Everyday Security: Experiences and Strategies of Vulnerable Migrants’ (2018 ̶ 2022) and in the Academy of Finland Strategic Research Council (SRC) funded project ‘Mobile Futures’ (2021–2027). She is the first editor of the collection Family Life in Transition. Borders, Transnational Mobility and Welfare Society in Nordic Countries (Routledge 2020) and an editor of Forced Migration and Separated Families (IMISCOE, publishing date 31 March 2023). She has published in a variety of journals, including the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Population, Space and Place, Qualitative Social Work, Social Inclusion and Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture, Nordic Journal of Migration Research.
Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) 20 Years Later (CFW/MAGS)
Date: March 21, 2023
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speakers: Peter Bergen
Center on the Future of War and the School of Politics and Global Studies MA in Global Security (MAGS)
Peter Bergen is a journalist, documentary producer, vice president for global studies & fellows at New America, CNN national security analyst, professor of practice at Arizona State University, where he co-directs the Center on the Future of War and the author or editor of ten books, three of which were New York Times bestsellers and four of which were named among the best non-fiction books of the year by The Washington Post. The books have been translated into twenty-four languages. Documentaries based on his books have been nominated for two Emmys and won the Emmy for best documentary.
When women say “No more”: how policy affects women’s contentious politics (WS)
Date: March 22, 2023
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speakers: Camila Paez Bernal
Global Politics, Markets, and Society Workshop
Abstract:
Since the late 1990s, gender-related policies have been implemented in most countries of the region, with a domino effect starting in Mexico. Nonetheless, protests and demonstrations have not diminished; on the contrary, they have intensified and become more confrontational toward governments and power-holders. Today, the so-called ‘Purple’ and ‘Green’ tides have generated massive women’s mobilization to demand human rights, sexual and reproductive rights, and political participation. My research addresses the question: why are women’s mobilizations increasing and becoming more confrontational toward the state and other institutions in Latin America despite an increase in progressive gender-based legislation and policies?
I am studying the cases of Colombia and Mexico: Colombia is an interesting case because it is the country in the region with more progressive gender policy implementation in the last 17 years. Mexico is a critical case because this country has faced a more prolonged struggle and can highlight how this dynamic evolved and what has been replicated in other countries. This project has a multimethod approach that integrates quantitative and qualitative methods to identify regularities and multifactorial social dynamics, relying primarily on the case study to comprehend the exploratory question deeply and make a comparative approach. I am doing in-depth research on two case studies, Colombia and Mexico. I utilize qualitative methods and draw on interviews and an ethnographic approach in Colombia, specifically in Bogota. For the case study, this research applies the following techniques: case selection, semi-structural interviews, ethnography, and narrative identification through text analysis, sentiment analysis, and a box of words. Simultaneously, using a time-series dataset, quantitative inferences are developed through OLS to identify cross-case regularities in the region.
LGBT Rights and Public Perceptions of Judicial Bias (WS)
Date: March 29, 2023
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speakers: Matthew C. Dempsey and Joshua R. Thompson
American Politics and Society Workshop
Legitimacy is essential for the effective functioning of courts and requires, among other things, judicial impartiality. However, perceptions of impartiality are complex, and citizens may perceive judicial bias based on a judge’s real or perceived social group identity. Using experimental data collected through Amazon Mechanical Turk, this paper argues and empirically demonstrates that citizens perceive judicial decisions that expand rights for LGBT individuals as more biased when they know the judge to be a member of the LGBT community. These findings are important because they complicate notions of judicial legitimacy by showing that minority judges are disadvantaged in that they are perceived as more biased due to their real or perceived social identities. Moreover, these findings expand our understanding of how perceptions of descriptive representation for the LGBT community, and other minority groups more broadly, affect judicial legitimacy.
Afghan Female Tactical Platoon: First Person Accounts of Assisting in the Evacuation and Resettlement of Key U.S. Allies (CFW)
Date: March 30, 2023
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speakers: Katie Richardson and Arifa Naibi
Center on the Future of War
Katie Richardson is a native of Tempe, Arizona and attended Arizona State University on an ROTC scholarship and graduated with degrees in Political Science and Psychology. After commissioning, she was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division. She held various leadership positions before being selected to become a part of the Cultural Support Team program. She deployed to CENTCOM and supported Army Special Operations units on direct action raids. She was part of a small cohort that worked to evacuate the FTPs during the fall of Kabul. Katie is currently an officer in the US Army Reserve and works for a non-profit that is helping to resettle all FTPs and their families.
Arifa Naibi was born and raised in Ghazni Province in Afghanistan. After finishing secondary school, she attended the university for a semester before joining the Afghan National Army. In 2016, Arifa was selected to attend the yearlong Afghan National Army Officer Academy which was operated by the British Army. The academy was known as “Sandhurst in the Sand” after the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the United Kingdom. Following officer training she was selected by members of the US Special Operations Command to join and train to become part of the Afghan Female Tactical Platoon. As an FTP, Arifa accompanied US Special Operations forces in direct action combat missions against the Taliban. She served as an FTP until 2021 when she was evacuated to the US. Since arriving in the US, Arifa has studied English and is currently working in the security field.
Side Effects of War: Russian Emigration to Central Asia & the Caucasus (WS)
Date: March 31, 2023
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor Hall 6631
Speakers: Margaret Hanson and Gaukhar Baltabayeva
Global Politics, Markets, and Society Workshop
Abstract: Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine triggered a wave of out-migration of its own citizens, with hundreds of thousands of predominantly young, highly-educated Russians leaving the country. With international sanctions limiting migrants’ options, many of them fled to former Soviet republics in the Caucasus and Central Asia. In contrast to past waves of conflict-induced migration, however, Russian migrants did not face the direct threat of violent conflict. The movement of skilled migrants from more to less developed economies also reversed usual migratory trends; moreover, the phenomenon of citizens of a former colonial power seeking refuge in its former colonies is, to our knowledge, unprecedented on such a large scale. Together, these characteristics mean that extant theories of migration offer limited insight into why so many Russians fled, and raise questions about their future plans and impact in the region. Drawing on 45 original,
semi-structured interviews from emigres in five countries, we find that the February 2022 invasion was the proverbial ‘straw that broke the camel’s back’ for many young, liberally minded Russians who were opposed to the regime, generating a sense of alienation from Russian politics and/or society and cementing the feeling that trying to enact change within Russia is hopeless. Accordingly, the conflict has also triggered shifts in how this ‘quiet opposition’ views their connection to Russia, with many seeking to distance themselves from their Russian identities. These findings have implications for political and economic development within Russia, as the emigres who left following the war’s outbreak potentially represent significant ‘brain drain’ in key economic sectors as well as a major outflow of opposition-minded, middle-class individuals – historically, those most likely to lead internal resistance to authoritarian rule.
Weining Ai and Tim Peterson (WS)
Date: April 5, 2023
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor Hall 6631
Speakers: Weining Ai and Tim Peterson
Global Politics, Markets, and Society Workshop
Quiet Opposition: The Political Significance of Russian Migration to Central Asia and the Caucasus following the 2022 Ukraine Invasion (CFW)
Date: April 11, 2023
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speakers: Margaret Hanson and Gaukhar Baltabayeva
Center on the Future of War, co-sponsored with the Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies
Margaret Hanson is an Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies. Her research focuses on authoritarian politics and factors which stabilize or, conversely, undermine dictators’ (and aspiring dictators’) control, with an emphasis on the former Soviet Union. More specifically, she is interested in how formal and informal institutions interact to shape governance in autocracies; her work centers on the role of law, courts and corruption. She teaches classes in comparative politics, authoritarian politics, political economy and research methods.
Gaukhar Baltabayeva is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the School of Politics and Global Studies. Her areas of interest are comparative politics and international relations with a focus on international migration and brain drain.
Laine Munir (WS)
Date: April 12, 2023
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor Hall 6631
Speakers: Laine Munir
Global Politics, Markets, and Society Workshop
Rebranding the Russian Way of War: The Wagner Group's Online Networks? (MAGS/CFW)
Date: April 13, 2023
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speakers: Candace Rondeaux and Ben Dalton
Center on the Future of War and the School of Politics and Global Studies MA in Global Security (MAGS)
Candace Rondeaux directs Future Frontlines, a public intelligence service for next generation security and democratic resilience. A journalist and public policy analyst she is a professor of practice and fellow at the Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies and the Center on the Future of War at Arizona State University. She is a columnist for the World Politics Review and a contributing writer for the Daily Beast. Catalyzing the global human pursuit of dignity, justice, equity, transparency and accountability is a through line in all her work.
Ben Dalton is program manager for New America’s Future Frontlines program. Before joining New America, Dalton worked as a journalist, communications officer and producer for BuzzFeed News, World Learning, and the International Crisis Group. His work has appeared in Slate, the Daily Beast, BuzzFeed News, the New York Times, PBS NewsHour, Al Jazeera, the Diplomat, Hmm Daily, CNN.com, the Christian Science Monitor, Bedford + Bowery, and the New York Transatlantic, among other publications. He holds a dual master’s degree in Russian & Slavic studies and journalism from New York University. He earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Brown University.
James Strickland (WS)
Date: April 19, 2023
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor Hall 6761
Speakers: James Strickland
American Politics and Society Workshop
Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America (CFW)
Date: April 20, 2023
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speakers: Nadia Abu El-Haj
Center on the Future of War
Nadia Abu El-Haj is Ann Whitney Olin Professor in the Departments of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University, Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies and Chair of the Governing Board of the Society of Fellows/Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. She also serves as Vice President and Vice Chair of the Board at The Institute for Palestine Studies in Washington DC. The recipient of numerous awards, including from the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner Gren Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Harvard Academy for Area and International Studies, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, she is the author of numerous journal articles published on topics ranging from the history of archaeology in Palestine to the question of race and genomics today.
Namig Abbasov (WS)
Date: April 26, 2023
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Coor Hall 6631
Speakers: Namig Abbasov
Global Politics, Markets, and Society Workshop
Pandemic Preparedness, Response and Recovery: Complexity, Complacency and Commitment (CFW)
Date: April 27, 2023
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speakers: George Poste
Center on the Future of War
Dr. George Poste is Co-Director and Chief Scientist, Complex Adaptive Systems Network (CASN) (http://www.casi.asu.edu/), Regents’ Professor and Del E. Webb Chair in Health Innovation at Arizona State University. He assumed this post in February 2009. This program links expertise across the university in research on synthetic biology, ubiquitous sensing and healthcare informatics for personalized medicine.He founded the Biodesign Institute at ASU (www.biodesign.asu.edu/) and served as Director from 2003 to 2009. In creating this Institute, Dr. Poste designed and built 400,000 sq. ft. of new facilities, achieved cumulative research funding of $300 million and recruited over 60 faculty, including three members of the National Academies of Science and Engineering.
Fall 2022
Arizona's Lessons for Global Migration Politics
Date: September 9, 2022
Time: 12:00pm
Location: ED 320 and on Zoom
Speaker: Dr. Mike Slaven, Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Lincoln
Dr. Slaven is the author of Securing Borders, Securing Power: The Rise and Decline of Arizona's Border Politics (Columbia University Press, 2022). An Arizona native, he worked as a speechwriter in the Arizona governor’s office from 2007 to 2009 and for the U.S. secretary of homeland security from 2009 to 2011. He went to the UK as a Fulbright Scholar, and is now a senior lecturer (assistant professor) in international politics at the University of Lincoln in England, where he teaches about and researches immigration control in Europe and the USA.
Book talk: Saving the International Justice Regime
Date: September 21, 2022
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Zoom
Speakers: Courtney Hillebrecht
Co-sponsored by the School of Politics and Global Studies, and the Global Human Rights Hub
Description:
While resistance to international courts is not new, what is new, or at least newly conceptualized, is the politics of backlash against these institutions. "Saving the International Justice Regime: Beyond Backlash against International Courts" is at the forefront of this new conceptualization of backlash politics. It brings together theories, concepts and methods from the fields of international law, international relations, human rights and political science and case studies from around the globe to pose - and answer - three questions related to backlash against international courts: What is backlash and what forms does it take? Why do states and elites engage in backlash against international human rights and criminal courts? What can stakeholders and supporters of international justice do to meet these contemporary challenges?
About the author:
Professor Courtney Hillebrecht is the Hitchcock Family Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs and professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Hillebrecht also serves as the director of the Forsythe Family Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs.
Professor Hillebrecht is the author of "Saving the International Justice Regime: Beyond Backlash against International Courts" (2021) and "Domestic Politics and International Human Rights Tribunals: The Problem of Compliance" (2014), both published by Cambridge University Press. Her research also has been published in a variety of academic outlets, including, among others, Democratization, The European Journal of International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Harvard International Law Journal, Human Rights Quarterly, International Interactionsand The Journal of Peace Research.
Professor Hillebrecht received her Ph.D. in 2010 from the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and held doctoral research fellowships at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University and the School of Human Rights Research at Utrecht University in Utrecht, The Netherlands. She graduated suma cum laude from Middlebury College with a Bachelor of Arts in history and spanish in 2004.
Arizona Ballot Measures 2022
Date: September 27, 2022
Time: 3:00pm
Location: Memorial Union 230 Pima
Speakers: Moderated by Elvia Diaz, Editorial Page Editor, The Arizona Republic
Co-sponsored by the School of Politics and Global Studies, the School of Transborder Studies, and the School of Civic Economic Thought and Leadership
Description:
he Arizona Propositions Panel aims to promote civic education and engagement among students and the community. The panel will focus on general information about the propositions on the ballot this upcoming November.
Join us as we discuss: Proposition 129, 130, 309, and 310.
Full details on each proposition can be found on the State of Arizona website.
Leading Now: A Conversation with Dr. Evelyn Farkas
Date: September 29, 2022
Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm Arizona time
Location: Walton Center for Planetary Health (WCPH) 190 and Virtually on Zoom
Speakers: Dr. Evelyn Farkas, Executive Director at the McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University
Description:
The School of Politics and Global Studies is hosting Evelyn Farkas, Executive Director of the McCain Institute, for a discussion on her experience running for congress.
Dr. Evelyn N. Farkas has three decades of experience working on national security and foreign policy in the U.S. executive, legislative branch, private sector and for international organizations overseas. In 2019-2020 she ran to represent New York’s 17th Congressional District in the House of Representatives. She is currently the executive director of the McCain Institute at Arizona State University. Prior to that, she was president of Farkas Global Strategies and a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United State and the Atlantic Council and national security contributor for NBC/MSNBC.
Roundtable: U.S. Elections from a Political Psychology Perspective
Date: October 4, 2022
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speakers:
Dr. Matthew Dempsey
Lecturer
Arizona State University
Dr. Kim Fridkin
Foundation Professor
Arizona State University
Dr. Fabian Neuner
Assistant Professor
Arizona State University
Description:
Join the School of Politics and Global Studies for a roundtable discussion on the United States 2022 midterm elections from a political psychology perspective, which provides insight into the psychological underpinnings of political decision-making and behavior.
Panelists include faculty that teach for ASU Online’s Master of Arts in Political Psychology, which is offered by the School of Politics and Global Studies and the Department of Psychology.
For Years We’ve Been Preparing Our Allies for Conflict: US/NATO Special Operations Training in Ukraine Since the 2014 Russian Annexation of Crimea (CFW)
Date: October 6
Time: 5:00pm Arizona Time
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Joe Mouer, Senior Lecturer at USSOCOM's Joint Special Operations University (JSOU).
(Center on the Future of War)
Joe Mouer is a retired Special Forces officer who is currently a senior lecturer at USSOCOM's Joint Special Operations University (JSOU). He retired from the Army after 23 years of service in 2016 and, since then, he has worked on a variety of training operations around the world, including in Ukraine. Joe’s military assignments have included platoon leader and executive officer 1st Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment; Ranger Instructor, 4th Ranger Training Battalion; Detachment Commander, 10th Special Forces Group; Future Plans Officer, 1st Special Forces Group, Plans Officer, Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR), Company Commander and Battalion Operations Officer, 2nd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group; Battalion Commander, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, and Policy and Plans Staff Officer, Office of the Chairman, The Joint Staff. His operational assignments and deployments include the Balkans, Republic of Georgia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Philippines, and North Africa.
The effect of campaign rallies on misperceptions
Date: October 13, 2022
Time: 1:30pm
Location: Coor Hall 6631
Speaker: Dr. Robert Bond, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University
SPGS Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series
Robert Bond is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Ohio State University. He received a BA and MA in Political Science from Arizona State University and his PhD in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on political communication, social networks and the social context of communication, and frequently uses computational social science methods. His work has appeared in journals including Nature, Science Advances, the American Political Science Review, Psychological Science, Communication Research, and Political Communication.
Confronting Rising Antisemitism and Right Wing Hate Groups in Germany (CFW)
Date: October 13, 2022
Time: 9:00am
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Stephan Kramer, President of the State Domestic Intelligence Service in Thuringia, Germany
Center on the Future of War, Co-sponsored with the Martin Springer Institute, Northern Arizona University
Stephan Kramer from the State Domestic Intelligence Service in Thuringia, will discuss how the domestic intelligence service in the German state of Thuringia is working to combat antisemitism and right wing hate groups. As he has explained, “Right-wing extremism is the most vital threat that we face at the moment in the Federal Republic of Germany.”
Stephan Kramer is the President of the State Domestic Intelligence Service in Thuringia, Germany. He is responsible for collecting and analyzing information on extremist, terrorist, and antisemitic activity and has played a key role in multiple investigations and prosecutions. Previously he served as the Director of the European Office on Anti-Semitism of the American Jewish Committee and Secretary General of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.
It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US (CFW)
Date: October 20, 2022
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Alex Hinton, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University
Center on the Future of War
Alex Hinton is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University.
He is the author of over a dozen books including the award-winning Why did they Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide (California, 2005). His most recent books are Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer (Duke, 2016), The Justice Facade: Trials of Transition in Cambodia (Oxford, 2018), and It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US (NYU, 2021).
A book and methods talks with Dr. Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz
Date: Wednesday October 26th
Book Talk: 12-1:15pm
Methods Talk: 1:30-2:30pm
Location: Social Sciences Building, Room 204 (Tempe Campus)
Speaker: Dr. Robert Bond, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University
Co-sponsors: T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, School of Transborder Studies and School of Politics and Global Studies.
You are invited to attend a book and methods talks with Dr. Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, based on his 2021 book, Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change. Following his book talk, Dr. Rodriguez-Muniz will lead a conversation about research methods with graduate students.
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Journalism Under Fire: How Mexican Reporters Protect Themselves (CFW)
Date: October 27, 2022
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Javier Garza Ramos, independent journalist in Torreón, northern México and an expert on journalist safety
Center on the Future of War
Javier Garza Ramos, an independent journalist journalist based in northern Mexico, is co-host of Expansión Daily, one of the most popular news podcasts in México, and runs the local news platform EnRe2Laguna and the radio newscast Reporte100.
For the past 15 years, Garza Ramos has worked on journalist protection and press freedom issues. As editorial director of El Siglo de Torreón, he led a newsroom that came under fire from drug cartels operating in his city and developed safety protocols that are now used by newsrooms in several countries.
He is a contributor in El País and The Washington Post, was a Knight Fellow at the International Center for Journalists focusing on digital security, and is the recipient of a Special Citation of the 2022 Maria Moors Cabot Prize for journalism in the Americas given by Columbia University.
Myanmar's Revolutionary Situation and Political Theory
Date: October 28, 2022
Time: 11:00am
Location: Durham 240 and on Zoom
Speaker: Dr. Nick Cheesman, Associate Professor at Australian National University
Co-sponsored by The Asia Center and School of Politics and Global Studies
Synopsis
Since a coup of February 2021 armed groups in Myanmar and their political affiliates have been competing for sovereign power over the whole country. Although civil war and high stakes political contestation of military rule are nothing new there, this time things are different. This is fully a revolutionary situation, in the sense that Mona El-Ghobashy (2021), following Charles Tilly, has written of Egypt; one in which coalitions of contenders are advancing claims against the state that are endorsed by very significant parts of the citizenry in conditions in which rulers are unable to suppress them. It is an historically significant situation not only for Myanmar’s peoples but also for scholarly understandings of revolution in this century. Confronted by those facts, I ask what possibilities Myanmar’s revolutionary situation holds for collaborative political theorizing that, rather than rolling out general propositions to be tested once more in a specific case, proceeds from situated interpretations of how revolution happens so as to address the question not of why people revolt, but of what it means that they do, in the ways that they do.
Distinguished Speaker Series: Jeronimo Cortina (CLAPR)
Date: November 3, 2022
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Jeronimo Cortina, Associate Professor of Political Science Director, Faculty Research Initiatives at the University of Houston
Hosted by the Center for Latina/os and American Politics Research (CLAPR)
Location, Location, Location: The role of Geography on Public Opinion and Political Participation
Why do people react differently to similar events, with the only caveat being that one happens far away while the other happens at their “doorsteps”? How does distance shape our behaviors and opinions about an event, object, social group or situation? This talk will present my current work at geographic distance, its scope and its impact on people’s opinions and behaviors. In the talk, I will lay out how distance interacts with other attitude-determinants (e.g., partisanship and sociodemographic characteristics, among others) to understand how individuals react to similar events, places or groups of people, given how close or far away from the self these are.
Jeronimo Cortina is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of Faculty Research Initiatives at UH Population Health. He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University, where he previously earned a Master's degree in public Administration and Public Policy from the School of International and Public Affairs. Dr. Cortina specializes in Latino politics, survey research, geographic information systems, and immigration. He is the author of numerous academic journals, books, and edited volumes, and he is the co-host of Party Politics, a podcast on Houston Public Media, and the political analyst for Telemundo-Houston and Texas affiliates.
Can Democracy Be Saved?
Date: November 10, 2022
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Join the School of Politics and Global Studies for a panel event with the co-authors of Degenerations of Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2022). This interactive discussion will be moderated by Michael Hechter, Foundation Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies, and Anna Meyerrose, Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies.
In Degenerations of Democracy, three leading thinkers analyze the erosion of democracy’s social foundations and call for a movement to reduce inequality, strengthen inclusive solidarity, empower citizens, and reclaim pursuit of the public good.
Co-sponsored by the College of Global Futures
Author panelists:
Craig Calhoun
University Professor of Social Sciences
Arizona State University
Dilip P. Gaonkar
Professor and Director
Center for Global Culture and Communication
Northwestern University
Charles Taylor
Professor Emeritus
McGill University
Ukraine War Roundtable (CFW/Melikian/SPGS)
Date: November 15, 2022
Time: 11:00am
Location: Zoom
This roundtable is sponsored by:
the ASU MA in Global Security(MAGS) program in the School of Politics and Global Studies,
the ASU Center on the Future of War, and
the ASU Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies
Panelists:
Anika Binnendijk
Professor of Practice, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies
Leads research and analysis on a range of topics covering national security decision making, European defense, gray zone challenges, national resilience, and emerging defense technologies, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, and human-machine teaming
Keith Brown
Professor, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies &
Director, ASU Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies
His research has focused primarily on politics, culture and identity in the Eastern Europe and he has analyzed the nature of violence in the making and breaking of community
Candace Rondeaux
Professor of Practice, Center on the Future of War, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies
Leads research on Russian irregular warfare strategies and the role of the Wagner Group in advancing the Kremlin’s geopolitical ambitions and has reported on international security issues from the frontlines of combat zones around the world. Her research has recently taken her to Ukraine.
Democratic Erosion and the Rise of the Far Right in the U.S. and in Global Perspective
Date: November 15, 2022
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
The nature and even future prospects for democracy are one of the many issues at stake in this year’s midterm elections in the U.S. has not been alone in facing resurgent far-right populism and democratic erosion. In this roundtable event, our panelists will analyze the implications of this critical U.S. election in a broader global context.
Panelists:
Lenka Buštíková Siroky
Associate Professor
University of Oxford
Stephan Haggard
Lawrence and Sallye Krause Distinguished Professor
UC San Diego
Anna Meyerrose
Assistant Professor
Arizona State University
Fabian Neuner
Assistant Professor
Arizona State University
Moderator:
Margaret Hanson
Assistant Professor
Arizona State University
Sounding the Alarms: Using Peril and Promise to Stir Political Activism Among Latinxs (CLAPR)
Date: November 17, 2022
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Vanessa Cruz Nichols, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Indiana University
Hosted by the Center for Latina/os and American Politics Research (CLAPR)
Interest groups and campaigns intent on spurring political participation often focus on highlighting potential threats in order to engage their audiences. However, while the use of threat is largely necessary, it may not be a sufficient condition to encourage one’s political activism. By drawing on the highly contentious domain of immigration politics and activism pursued by Latinx communities, this study re-assesses the threat hypothesis, offering both theoretical and empirical advancements to our understanding of the cognitive and emotional appraisal processes behind one’s issue activism. Based on two original online survey experiments of Latinx adults in the United States, the results demonstrate a mobilizing message combining elements of threat and opportunity is a significant catalyst of various forms of political participation. The role of threatis complex and is not the only way to stir the masses into action.
Reinventing Human Rights
Date: November 17, 2022
Time: 10:00am
Location: TBD
Speaker: Mark Goodale
A book talk with Mark Goodale hosted by the Global Human Rights Hub and co-sponsored by the School of Politics and Global Studies.
Reinventing Human Rights offers a bold argument: that only a radically reformulated approach to human rights will prove adequate to confront and overcome the most consequential global problems. Charting a new path—away from either common critiques of the various incapacities of the international human rights system or advocacy for the status quo—the book offers a new vision for human rights as a basis for collective action and moral renewal. The book's proposition to reinvent human rights begins with a deep unpacking of human rights institutionalism and political theory in order to give priority to the "practice of human rights." Rather than a priori claims to universality, the book calls for a working theory of human rights defined by "translocality," a conceptual and ethical grounding that invites people to form alliances beyond established boundaries of community, nation, race, or religious identity. Reinventing Human Rights will serve as both a concrete blueprint and source of inspiration for those who want to preserve human rights as a key framework for confronting our manifold contemporary challenges, yet who agree—for many different reasons—that to do so requires radical reappraisal, imaginative reconceptualization, and a willingness to reinvent human rights as a cross-cultural foundation for both empowerment and social action.
Confronting Current and Future Cybersecurity Threats (CFW)
Date: November 30, 2022
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Rob Joyce, the Director of the National Security Agency’s Cybersecurity Directorate, moderated by Lt. Gen. (ret.) Robert Schmidle, professor of practice at the Center on the Future of War and the School of Politics and Global Studies at ASU
Center on the Future of War
Rob Joyce is the Director of the National Security Agency’s Cybersecurity Directorate, which is responsible for preventing and eradicating threats to U.S. systems and critical infrastructure. Previously he was the Special U.S. Liaison Officer in the U.K., where he served as the key interlocutor between the NSA and GCHQ, Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity Strategy to the Director of the NSA, and Special Assistant to the President and Cybersecurity Coordinator at the White House.
Lt. Gen. (ret.) Robert Schmidle is a Professor of Practice at ASU, first Deputy Commander of U.S. Cyber Command, combat fighter pilot with a Ph.D. in philosophy from Georgetown University.
Spring 2022
Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium (PRIEC) Conference (CLAPR)
Date: Jan 14
Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Location: Zoom
(Center for Latina/os and American Politics Research)
PRIEC is an ongoing series of meetings that brings together faculty and graduate students and showcases work-in-progress on racial/ethnic politics and the politics of immigration. The consortium’s main objectives are to provide a forum and a resource for graduate students seeking mentoring and advice, and for faculty to collaborate and receive feedback on ongoing projects.
“Are Quotas In Two Dimensions Better than One? Intersectional Representation & Group Relations in India” (WS)
The Art of Lawfare: The U.S., China, and Law as a Weapon of War (CFW)
Date: February 3
Time: 5:00pm Arizona Time
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Jill Goldenziel, Professor, Marine Corps University-Command and Staff College
(Center on the Future of War)
Jill Goldenziel is Professor, Marine Corps University-Command and Staff College. Her scholarship focuses on international law, U.S. and comparative constitutional law, human rights, refugees and migration, lawfare and information warfare. She is in the top 10 percent of most-downloaded authors on the Social Science Research Network and has also published essays in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and other media, and has been a commentator on NPR and Public Radio International. Goldenziel holds a Ph.D. and an A.M. in Government from Harvard University, a J.D. from the New York University School of Law and an A.B. from Princeton University.
Direct Democracy Rules: The Effect of Propositions, Initiatives and Referendums on State Immigration Legislation in the 21st Century (CLAPR)
Date: February 4
Time: 1:00pm Arizona Time
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Andrea Silva, University of North Texas assistant professor of political science
(Center for Latina/os and American Politics Research)
What explains the increasing role states are playing in state immigration legislation and what factors influence state immigration laws? The current scholarship argues that state immigration laws are affected by demographic, economic and partisan changes. However, these investigations overlook how the variation in state legislative institutions and state issue entrepreneurs affect the passage and content of subnational immigration laws. This book addresses two larger puzzles: (1) What affects the passage of state immigration laws over time and (2) what are the causal mechanisms linking state legislative institutions and state immigration policy?
Conspiracy Theories in the Arab World (CFW)
Date: February 9
Time: 5:00pm Arizona time
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Nelly Lahoud, Senior Fellow, International Security Program, New America
(Center on the Future of War)
Nelly Lahoud is Senior Fellow in New America's International Security program. Previously, she was an Associate Professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, an Assistant Professor at Goucher College, and a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Her book, The Bin Laden Papers: How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth about Al-Qaeda, Its Leader and His Family, will be published by Yale University Press later this year.
Arizona Political Climate - Tracking public opinion and voter sentiment via the Arizona Public Opinion Pulse (AZPOP)
Date: February 9
Time: 12:00pm
Location: ED 320 and on Zoom
Speaker: Mike Noble, Chief of Research & Managing Partner, OH Predictive Insights
OH Predictive Insights (OHPI) Chief of Research Mike Noble is joining Arizona State University's School of Politics and Global Studies for a deep dive into voter sentiment trends, shifting polling numbers, a predictive look at this year’s Midterm elections, and what it means for Arizonans. Plus, an animated guide to all the current and upcoming movement in office seats due to 2022’s Midterm elections and Arizona’s once-per-decade redistricting - Elected Official Musical Chairs.
In one of the nation’s most pivotal battleground states, understanding the political climate of Arizona starts with accurate, consistent tracking of statewide public opinion and voter sentiment over time. As the leading non-partisan public opinion polling, market research, and data analytics firm headquartered in Phoenix, OH Predictive Insights (OHPI) keeps a careful pulse on the opinions, perceptions, and future decisions of Grand Canyon State residents via their bi-monthly Arizona Public Opinion Pulse (AZPOP) survey.
Face coverings are required for in-person attendance. It is highly recommended to receive a negative COVID test prior to attending per ASU’s Community of Care plan. Please join virtually if you are feeling ill.
Diversity and Inclusion in America's Society and Military: Why It Matters (CFW)
Date: February 16
Time: 5:00pm Arizona time
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Bishop Garrison, Senior Adviser to the Secretary of Defense for Human Capital, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
(Center on the Future of War)
Bishop Garrison is the Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense for Human Capital and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, where he serves as a leading counselor on sexual assault response and prevention, extremism, and other priority areas. Previously, he served as the Director of National Security Outreach at Human Rights First. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and served two tours in Iraq with the U.S. Army.
The Origins of Democratic Collapse in the 21st Century: How Personalist Parties Undermine Democracy (Warren Miller Colloquium)
Date: February 21
Time: 11:00am Arizona Time
Location: ED 320 and on Zoom
Speaker: Joe Wright, Professor at Pennsylvania State University
(Warren Miller Colloquium)
In contrast to the predominant ways new dictatorships were formed in the 20th century, most new autocracies in the 21st century arise when elected leaders dismantle democracy from within. This project posits that personalist political parties – or parties that exist primarily to further a leader’s personal political career rather than advance policy – are the key mobilizing agent that enables democratic backsliding and collapse. Using original, global data on personalism in ruling political parties in the past three decades, we carefully document the process through which this occurs. We argue that personalist parties lack both the incentive and capacity to push back against leaders’ efforts to expand executive power. Without the constraint of the party, leaders of personalist parties are more likely to dismantle institutional checks on the executive in a variety of domains. We further demonstrate that such attacks on state institutions reverberate throughout society, deepening political polarization and weakening supporters’ commitment to democratic norms of behavior. Thus, the underlying cause of democratic collapse lies less with mass publics’ support for illiberal leaders, which is endogenous to backsliding itself, and instead can better be explained by the key mobilizing agent that dismantles democracy from within: personalist political parties.
Face coverings are required for in-person attendance. It is highly recommended to receive a negative COVID test prior to attending per ASU’s Community of Care plan. Please join virtually if you are feeling ill.
The Anti-Human Rights Machine: Digital Authoritarianism and The Global Assault on Human Rights Work (CFW)
Date: February 24
Time: 5:00pm Arizona time
Location: Zoom
Speaker:Richard Wilson, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Law and Anthropology, University of Connecticut School of Law
(Center on the Future of War, co-sponsored by ASU's Global Human Rights Lab)
About the Speaker:
Richard Wilson is Gladstein Distinguished Chair of Human Rights and professor of law and anthropology at UConn School of Law as well as founding director of the Human Rights Institute. He is the author and editor of 11 books on international human rights, humanitarianism, transitional justice and international criminal tribunals, including the definitive ethnographic study of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and his latest book, Incitement On Trial: Prosecuting International Speech Crimes (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (CFW)
Date: March 16
Time: 12pm Arizona time
Location: Zoom
Watch the recording on YouTube
Speaker: Samuel Moyn, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School
(Center on the Future of War, co-sponsored by the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law)
Samuel Moyn is Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and a professor of history at Yale University. He is the author of "The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History," "Christian Human Rights," based on Mellon Distinguished Lectures at the University of Pennsylvania in fall 2014, and "Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World" (2018). His newest book is "Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War" (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2021). Over the years he has written for multiple publications, including Boston Review, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Dissent, The Nation, The New Republic, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Roundtable: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Date: March 21
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Watch the recording on YouTube
Speakers:
Margaret Hanson, Timothy Peterson, Candace Rondeaux, and Thorin Wright
(Co-sponsored by the Center on the Future of War)
Eight years after annexing Crimea, and after several months of mobilization, Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. Ukrainian resistance has been surprisingly effective, as has international cooperation to impose an unprecedented suite of devastating sanctions against Putin’s regime. Join ASU School of Politics and Global Studies faculty for a discussion of the invasion, with focus on the prospects for Ukraine’s survival, consequences for Putin’s tenure in office and the effects of sanctions on Russian oligarchs and citizens.
The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion
Date: March 22
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Mark Beissinger, Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics, Princeton University
(Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies)
Understood as a mass siege of an established government by its own population with the goals of bringing about regime-change and effecting substantive political or social change, revolutions are, in Foucauldian terms, exceptional moments of “chance reversal” — when the ongoing trajectory of a political order is ruptured and potentially altered in fundamental ways by those subject to it.
But the ways in which populations go about the business of regime-change from below, the reasons they engage in such action and the social forces that mobilize in revolution have altered dramatically over the past century.
Mark Beissinger talks about that transformation — and in particular, about the impact of urbanization and the concentration of people, power and wealth in cities on the incidence, practice and consequences of political revolutions.
Dr. Beissinger is the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics at Princeton University. His new book is The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion (Princeton University Press, 2022).
Small state strategy in a post-liberal international order
Date: March 23
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Anders Wivel, Professor at the University of Copenhagen and Visiting Scholar at Arizona State University
(Workshop)
Small state strategy in a post-liberal international order
The crisis in the liberal international order presents small states with a new set of challenges and opportunities. This paper maps the increasingly complex strategic landscape faced by small states and identifies their strategic options. The paper connects the literature on small states in international relations to the current debate on the future of a US-backed liberal international order, two literatures rarely combined. Building on this discussion of the literature, the paper argues that the strategic opportunities and challenges of small states in the current crisis are best organized in a model of concentric circles with the small states most deeply integrated into the liberal international order in the inner circle and small state opponents of the liberal international order in the outer circle with other states placed in-between. I identify the challenges and opportunities faced by small states in each of the circles and discuss how they may most effectively meet challenges and take advantage of new opportunities.
Anders Wivel is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. He has published widely on foreign policy, small states in international relations, and power politics, including articles in e.g., International Affairs, International Studies Review, Ethics and International Affairs, Global Affairs and European Security. His most recent book is Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2021, co-edited with T.V. Paul, Deborah W. Larson, Harold Trinkunas and Ralf Emmers). E-mail: aw@ifs.ku.dk/awivel@asu.edu
Fading Solitudes: America and China as Rival States, Economic Partners and Alternative Civilizations
Fading Solitudes: America and China as Rival States, Economic Partners and Alternative Civilizations
Date: March 25
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Robert Bedeski, Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria , Canada
Robert E. Bedeski received his doctorate from the University of California (Berkeley). He taught at Ohio State University, Carleton University and retired from the University of Victoria in 2004. He is currently Adjunct and Emeritus Professor at University of Victoria, Affiliate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, President of the Asian Politics and History Association, holder of an Honorary Doctorate from the Mongolia Academy of Science and recipient of the Mongolia’s Presidential medal. His most recent books are:
Prolonging Existence: Lessons from Genghis Khan and a Theory of Life Security. 2018.
Dynamics of the Korean State: From the Paleolithic to Candlelight Democracy. 2021
The Unraveling of Everything: America’s Violent and Extremist Drift (CFW)
Date: March 31
Time: 5pm Arizona time
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Janet Reitman, ASU Future Security Fellow at New America
(Center on the Future of War)
Janet Reitman is ASU Future Security Fellow at New America and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, covering extremism, youth and national security. A former contributing editor at Rolling Stone, Reitman has twice been a finalist for the National Magazine Award, and her book, "Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion" (2011), was a national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book. She is currently at work on a book for Random House that presents a narrative history of the country's increasingly violent and extremist drift from the 1990s to the current day.
The Forever Wars Are Coming Home: Rising Militancy in America (CFW)
Date: April 12
Time: 5:00pm Arizona time
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Mike Giglio, ASU Future Security Fellow at New America
(Center on the Future of War)
Mike Giglio is ASU Future Security Fellow at New America and a journalist focusing on war, terrorism and national security, and current divisions in US society. He has reported from countries around the world and embedded with local forces to cover the conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Ukraine. Giglio is the author of "Shatter the Nations: ISIS and the War for the Caliphate" and is writing a book on the growing influence of U.S. militant groups and how America’s post-9/11 wars are fueling this militancy and the country's wider civic breakdown.
Agendas and Representation: Interest Group and Public Preferences in Four Western Democracies
Date: April 18
Time: 2:00pm Arizona time
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Beth Leech, Professor, Rutgers University
Beth L. Leech is professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, where her research and teaching focus on interest groups and social movements and how those organizations form, cooperate, and compete in the public policy process. She earned her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and is the author or coauthor of the books Basic Interests, Lobbying and Policy Change, Meeting at Grand Central, and Lobbyists at Work. Her current project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, is a comparative study of policy agendas in Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Money Can’t Buy You Love: Partisan Responses to Vote-Buying Offers in Modern Democracy (WS)
Date: April 20
Time: 1:00pm Arizona time
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Kenneth F. Greene, Associate Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
(Workshop)
Abstract:
Current theory on vote buying treats benefits instrumentally as income replacements that always increase utility for the machine. But many recipients react negatively. I argue that responses to selective benefits spring from partisan bias, with opponents motivated to reject a machine that attempts to buy their vote. This new partisan response model helps explain why machines target many supporters, why many opponents remain unpersuaded by selective benefits, and why the electoral return from vote buying is often lower than assumed. Tests using conjoint survey experiments in Mexico shows that initial opponents are nearly 9 percentage points less likely to vote for the machine, whereas initial supporters are almost 15 percentage points more likely to vote for it, holding benefits constant. Mediation analysis reveals that initial supporters demonstrate gratitude for selective benefits and view the machine’s actions as legitimate whereas initial opponents take offense and see machine politics as illegitimate.
Courts and Cops: Judicial Decisions and the Excessive Use of Force
Date: April 25
Time: 2pm Arizona time
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Courtenay Conrad, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Merced
How do police respond to judicial decisions?
The School of Politics and Global Studies is hosting Courtenay Conrad, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Merced, for a talk discussing the effect of judicial decisions on the use of force by U.S. police officers.
Her talk focuses on the extent to which restrictive and permissive court rulings regarding the use of electronic control devices (ECDs)—colloquially known as TASERs—make officers more hesitant to use excessive force. To test the implications of her and her co-authors’ theory, they take advantage of variance in United States Courts of Appeals rulings on the extent to which ECDs constitute excessive use-of-force in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Courtenay Conrad is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Merced. Her research and teaching center on political violence and human rights, particularly on how repressive agents make decisions in the face of domestic and international institutional constraints. Conrad’s book, Contentious Compliance: Dissent and Repression Under International Human Rights Law (with Emily Hencken Ritter), was published in 2019 by Oxford University Press.
Fall 2021
"Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Combat Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France"
Date: August 27
Time: 3:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Pauline Grosjean
(Political Economy Seminar)
Pauline Grosjean, Professor of Economics at University of New South Wales, will give the first Political Economy Working Group seminar of this semester, as previously scheduled.
Freedom and Democracy Since 9/11: Freedom and Democracy at Home (CSRC and CFW)
Date: September 8
Time: 11:00am
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Anand Gopal, Craig Calhoun, and Rozina Ali; moderated by John Carlson
( Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, in conjunction with the Center on the Future of War)
Perhaps no other event in the last twenty years has had more enduring and global repercussions than the attacks of 9/11. In response, the United States restructured the federal government, passed the USA Patriot Act, and launched the global war on terror that extended to Afghanistan, Iraq and countless other countries. “Freedom” and “democracy” served as the rallying cries of such efforts, especially in response to terrorists portrayed as enemies who “hate our freedoms.” Twenty years later, America’s—and Americans’—commitments to freedom and democracy, both at home and abroad, warrant renewed reflection and deeper scrutiny.
On the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, in conjunction with the Center on the Future of War, is sponsoring a two-part conversation on the legacy and lessons of 9/11. These panels will give particular attention to how the forces of nationalism, populism, isolationism, and nativism have shaped—and are shaping—Americans’ lives and the nation’s engagement in the world. Throughout, religion has occupied a central yet always varied place in the reaction to, and analysis of, these pivotal events and influential forces.
The first panel will consider whether and how the promise and pursuit of freedom and democracy in the United States has changed since 9/11. What do Americans mean by these terms and did U.S. responses to 9/11 undermine commitments to freedom and democracy, and if so, how? Is there a connection between the way we conceived freedom and democracy post-9/11 and the way these ideals are used today? Given the threats we face today—the Covid pandemic, the January 6 insurrection, restrictions against voting rights, and the rise of extremist hate groups—what does the future of freedom and democracy in the US look like ? What is the role religion has played—and will play—as the struggle for religion and democracy evolves.
Join John Carlson, interim director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, as he explores these topics with award-winning journalist and research professor Anand Gopal, University Professor of Social Sciences Craig Calhoun, and New York Times Magazine contributing writer Rozina Ali.
Freedom and Democracy Since 9/11: Freedom, Democracy and U.S. Foreign Policy (CSRC and CFW)
Date: September 9
Time: 11:00am
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Anand Gopal, Paul Miller, Heather Hurlburt, and Daniel Rothenberg; moderated by John Carlson
( Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, in conjunction with the Center on the Future of War)
Perhaps no other event in the last twenty years has had more enduring and global repercussions than the attacks of 9/11. In response, the United States restructured the federal government, passed the USA Patriot Act, and launched the global war on terror that extended to Afghanistan, Iraq and countless other countries. “Freedom” and “democracy” served as the rallying cries of such efforts, especially in response to terrorists portrayed as enemies who “hate our freedoms.” Twenty years later, America’s—and Americans’—commitments to freedom and democracy, both at home and abroad, warrant renewed reflection and deeper scrutiny.
On the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, in conjunction with the Center on the Future of War, is sponsoring a two-part conversation on the legacy and lessons of 9/11. These panels will give particular attention to how the forces of nationalism, populism, isolationism, and nativism have shaped—and are shaping—Americans’ lives and the nation’s engagement in the world. Throughout, religion has occupied a central yet always varied place in the reaction to, and analysis of, these pivotal events and influential forces.
The second panel will consider how U.S. foreign policy has embraced or forsaken commitments to freedom and democracy so deeply aroused by the September 11 attacks. The recent US withdrawal from Afghanistan is front and center in this conversation. Yet, other US interventions over the last two decades—in Libya, Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere—invite reconsideration of whether and how the United States has been a friend of or foil to freedom, self-determination, and human rights for other peoples. What is the relation of the global war on terror and related efforts to “counter violent extremism” to rising forms of populism, nationalism, and authoritarianism? What do the lessons of Afghanistan, Iraq, and other wars suggest about the future of freedom, democracy, and human rights in the world? Twenty years on from 9/11, what role is religion likely to play in international politics and the struggle for self-determination.
This panel features Paul Miller, professor of practice at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, Heather Hurlbut, director of New Models for Policy Change at New America, Daniel Rothenberg, co-director of the Center on the Future of War, and Anand Gopal, author of "No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes." The panel will be moderated by John Carlson, interim director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict.
The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden (CFW)
Date: October 7
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Peter Bergen, Co-Director of the Center on the Future of War and Professor of Practice at the School of Politics and Global Studies
(Center on the Future of War)
Peter Bergen is the author of seven books, three of which were named New York Times bestsellers and four of which were named among the non-fiction books of the year by the Washington Post. Bergen is a Professor of Practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies at ASU, Co-Director of the Center on the Future of War, Vice President for Global Studies and Fellows at New America, and a CNN national security analyst.
In The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden, Peter Bergen provides the first reevaluation of the man responsible for precipitating America’s long wars with al-Qaeda and its descendants, capturing bin Laden in all the dimensions of his life: as a family man, as a terrorist leader, and as a fugitive. The book sheds light on his many contradictions: he was the son of a billionaire, yet insisted his family live like paupers. He adored his wives and children, yet he brought ruin to his family. And while he inflicted the most lethal act of mass murder in United States history, he failed to achieve any of his strategic goals.
Gendered Violence and Intersectionality (GHR Hub)
Date: October 7
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Ramona Perez, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, San Diego
State University
(This talk is co-sponsored by ASU's Global Human Rights Hub, the School of Politics and Global Studies, and the program on Social Justice and Human Rights.)
Gendered Violence and Intersectionality: How it needs to be understood Violence against others is historic, cultural, structural, and real. Dr. Ramona Perez will demonstrate how current legislation that focuses on physical or emotional/mental violence limits the realities of how these forms of violence are the manifestations of much deeper and more integrated areas of everyday life that need to be addressed in our research.
Ramona L. Pérez is a Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at San Diego State University. She also is graduate faculty in the joint doctoral program in Global Health and for the Department of Women’s Studies. Her research focuses on food, nutrition, and health among marginalized populations; adolescent and youth identity and empowerment among transnational, Mexican, and Central American migrant youth; gendered and ethnic marginalization and the state; rural to urban community growth; the political economy of tourism in Oaxaca; and the gendered and moral nature of community economies in Mexico.
Her current work spans the US/Mexico border, southern Mexico, Nicaragua, and Brazil. She conducts a summer qualitative research field school, directs internship opportunities for graduate students in the border region and throughout Latin America, and coordinates the Mixtec and Zapotec language programs at SDSU.
What is Genocide? Understanding the “Crime of Crimes” through Israel’s 1950s Domestic Laws (WS)
Date: October 10
Time: 11:50am
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Daniel Rothenberg, Professor of Practice
(School workshop)
Genocide is often referred to as “the crime of crimes” and “the worst crime it is possible to commit.” Yet, genocide’s definition and application has long been contested, particularly since the 1948 Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide presents the crime in a narrow sense. The treaty also requires all States Parties to implement legislation to integrate their international obligations into their domestic law, which is significant since, for decades, enforcement of the treaty relied on national courts. Israel’s response to the Convention is notable, since it rapidly signed and ratified the treaty and passed two laws criminalizing genocide, one of which was used in the 1962 conviction of former Nazi Adolph Eichmann, widely viewed in a landmark case for the development of international law and the evolution of the legal concept of genocide. However, while Israel’s domestic genocide laws were created in response to the Genocide Convention, the legislation departs markedly from the treaty, allowing for universal jurisdiction, changing the crime’s definition, and enabling retroactive prosecutions, all issues at odds with the treaty and all specifically excluded during negotiations from its final text. This paper uses the case of Israel to explore a key tension regarding the legal meaning of genocide: is genocide a crime with a singular definition and universal application firmly bound to the text of the Convention? or, is genocide a more flexible concept whose coherence is bound to core principles expressed through the treaty which allow for diverse interpretations by States Parties? Addressing these questions has broad implications for international law, human rights, and accountability for atrocities.
Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump (CFW)
Date: October 19
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Karen Greenberg, Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law
(Center on the Future of War)
Karen J. Greenberg is the Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, an International Studies Fellow at New America, and a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Greenberg specializes in the intersection between national security policy, the rule of law and human rights. Greenberg is the author and editor of numerous books including: "Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State", "The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days", "Reimagining the National Security State: Liberalism on the Brink", and "The Torture Papers: the Road to Abu Ghraib". Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Nation, the Atlantic and other major news outlets.
For those interested in purchasing Greenberg's book, "Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump", you can use the discount code "KG30" for 30% off.
Emerging Technology and Security
Date: October 21
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Peter W. Singer, LtGen (Ret) Robert Schmidle, and Anika Binnendijk
(Center on the Future of War)
This event from the Center on the Future of War was a roundtable discussion on Emerging Technology and Security with faculty from the ASU Online M.A. in Global Security (MAGS) at Arizona State University’s School of Politics and Global Studies.
Peter W. Singer - is a futurist and strategist, ASU MAGS Professor of Practice and Senior Fellow at New America. He has been named by the Smithsonian as one of the nation’s 100 leading innovators, by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in defense issues, by Foreign Policy to their Top 100 Global Thinkers List. He is the author of several books on the topic of emerging technology and security including Like War, Ghost Fleet, and Burn In.
LtGen(Ret) Robert Schmidle, USMC - is the University Advisor on Cyber Capabilities and Conflict Studies, MAGS Professor of Practice and a Senior Fellow in the Center on the Future of War at ASU. While on active duty Dr Schmidle served as the first Deputy Commander of United States Cyber Command, responsible for standing up the command while concurrently executing full spectrum cyber operations.
Anika Binnendijk - is an ASU MAGS Professor of Practice and political scientist at the RAND Corporation. At RAND, Binnendijk leads research and analysis on a range of topics including emerging defense technologies including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, and human-machine teaming. She has served in the State Department's Office of Policy Planning, on the NSC staff as Director for Russia and in the DoD as a policy advisor.
More Than Ready: Be Strong and Be You... and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise
Date: October 25
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Cecilia Muñoz
(This event is co-sponsored with the Center on the Future of War, the Center for Latina/os and American Politics Research, and the School of Politics and Global Studies. )
Cecilia Muñoz discusses her award-winning book, which shares insights from her career as well as the careers of other notable women of color.
She is the author of “More Than Ready: Be Strong and Be You... and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise.”
Cecilia Muñoz is a national leader in public policy and public interest technology with nearly three decades of experience in the non-profit sector and 8 years of service on President Obama’s senior team. She joined New America in 2017 as a Vice President, leading local initiatives and building a team on public interest technology. She returned to New America as a Senior Advisor in early 2021 after taking leave to lead the domestic and economic policy team at the Biden/Harris Transition.
"Network Dynamics and the Effectiveness of Coercion" (WS)
Date: October 27
Time: 11:50am
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Weining Ai
(Workshop)
Abstract: Why do states resist against coercion in some cases but concede in others? Target states face a dilemma of concession or resistance in their responses to coercion, as both strategies generate domestic and international costs and benefits. The crux of this puzzle is that targets suffer from an information problem of how coercers would react to the targets’ resistances and concessions. This article develops a network explanation for how states respond to coercion in the face of this information problem. By regarding resistances and concessions as network ties, it argues that past coercion outcomes endogenously influence target states’ current responses and coercion outcomes. Specifically, states are more likely to concede to coercers who have been successful in gaining others’ full compliance, who have successfully resisted the states’ coercion, and who have gained concessions from the targets that have gained concessions from these states. The causal mechanism is an information mechanism through which past network ties (resistances and concessions) and structures (coercion outcomes) reveal coercers’ information of resolve and reputation, which helps targets’ decision-making. The Threats and Imposition of Economic Sanctions (TIES) dataset and inferential network statistical models can provide empirical observations and tools for further analysis.
100 Years Later: What Does Justice for the Tulsa Riot Look Like? (CFW)
Date: November 2
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Caleb Gayle, CEO of the National Conference on Citizenship
(Center on the Future of War)
Caleb Gayle is the CEO of the National Conference on Citizenship and a New Arizona Fellow at New America. He is also the recipient of the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award and the PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship. His writing has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Threepenny Review, and other major publications. Gayle’s forthcoming book from Riverhead Books examines the true story of the Black people who were once considered citizens of the Creek Nation. He is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma, Oxford University, as well as Harvard Business School and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
Introduction by Sybil Francis, CEO, Center for the Future of Arizona and Teniqua Broughton, Executive Director, The State of Black Arizona.
Co-sponsored with the Center for the Future of Arizona and The State of Black Arizona
Exporting Borders: The Administrative Architecture of U.S. International Migration Control (WS)
Date: November 3
Time: 11:50am
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Angie Bautista-Chavez, SPGS Assistant Professor
(Workshop)
Right-wing Mobilization and Voting in Present-Day Germany
Date: November 4
Time: 11:00am
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Alexander De Juan, Professor, University of Osnabrück
(School of Politics and Global Studies, the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, and the School of International Letters and Cultures)
ASU is hosting Alexander De Juan from the University of Osnabrück for a talk on "Right-wing Mobilization and Voting in Present-Day Germany”. This event is part of the @GermanyinUSA lecture series assisted by the German Embassy in Washington D.C.
Alexander De Juan is a Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. His current research focusses on the relationship between violent conflict, state-building and development. He also studies the long-term legacies of political institutions and collective violence. His previous work has been published in World Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies or the Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Researching the Role Social Media Played in the Storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6
Date: November 4
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Candace Rondeaux
Join the Center on the Future of War for an event with Candace Rondeaux to discuss her research on the role social media played in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th. This is part of a series of events featuring faculty from the ASU Online M.A. in Global Security (MAGS) at Arizona State University’s School of Politics and Global Studies.
Candace Rondeaux is a professor of practice at the School of Politics and Global Studies and a senior fellow with the Center on the Future of War. A veteran analyst of the conflict in South Asia and expert on U.S. and international security affairs, she has served as a strategic advisor to the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction and senior program officer at U.S. Institute of Peace where she launched the RESOLVE Network, a global research consortium on violent extremism. An expert on security sector reform, governance, and electoral politics in conflict settings, she spent five years living and working in South Asia where she served as South Asia bureau chief for The Washington Post and as senior analyst on Afghanistan for the International Crisis Group. Her research interests include the dynamics of sectarian violence, governance and political Islam in modern Muslim majority states, Soviet and post-Soviet affairs and post-conflict reconstruction.
“Latinos and American Core Values in the Era of Extreme Partisan Conflict” (CLAPR)
Date: November 5
Time: 10:00am
Location: COOR 6631
Speaker: Narayani Lasala-Blanco and Rodney Hero
(Center for Latino/as and American Politics Research)
The paper presents research which explores Latina/os’ beliefs regarding individualism, on the one hand, and support for welfare, on the other hand. More specifically, it focuses on the extent to which Latina/os’ views might differ on such values, and what factors may explain differences. A main finding is that Latina/os exhibit a mix of attitudes that are somewhat distinct and that are largely unaffected by which party they identify with. Whites’ alignment on these values are contingent on their party identification. This suggests, then, that Latina/os give more prominence to these values than to partisan identity.
Sex Trafficking in the LGBTQ+ Community (GHR Hub)
Date: November 8
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Kimberly Hogan, Social Work PhD Candidate, University of Southern Mississippi
(This talk is co-sponsored by ASU's Global Human Rights Hub, the School of Politics and Global Studies, the program on Social Justice and Human Rights, and the ASU Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research)
Kimberly Hogan, MSW, MA is the previous research project director in the Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research (STIR) at Arizona State University, and a social work PhD candidate at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Kimberly's research focus is on the intersectionality between LGBTQ youth and young adults and sex trafficking. She also has a focus on prostitution and the therapeutic needs for exiting. Kimberly works very closely with community groups including the Catholic Charities DIGNITY programs and the City of Phoenix and Las Vegas Metropolitan VICE Units. Her research work spans the prevention, detection, identification, and treatment of sex trafficking victims.
Recent research documents include the Youth Experiences Survey (YES): Exploring the Sex Trafficking Experiences of Homeless Young Adults in Arizona, Incidence of identified sex trafficking victims in Arizona: 2015 and 2016, A Six-Year Analysis of Sex Trafficking of Minors: Exploring Characteristics and Sex Trafficking Patterns, Sex Trafficking Matrix: A Tool to Detect Minors in Online Ads, Analysis of the 2014 Sex Trafficking Cases at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, and Sex Trafficking in United States Courts.
Women and War: Are They Incompatible? (CFW)
Date: November 10
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: G.L.A. Harris is Senior Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives and Professor at ASU’s Thunderbird School of Global Management
(Center on the Future of War, co-sponsored with the Thunderbird School of Global Management)
G.L.A. Harris is Senior Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives and Professor at ASU’s Thunderbird School of Global Management. Previously she was a professor at Portland State University as well as a Senior Commissioned Officer in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. Dr. Harris's research focuses on gender equity, civil rights and women in the military and in armed conflict. She is the author of Women of Color in Leadership: Taking Their Rightful Place, Living Legends and Full Agency: Implications of Repealing the Combat Exclusion Policy, and co-author of Women Veterans: Lifting the Veil of Invisibility and Blacks in the Military and Beyond. Her research has led to the creation of the Veterans Resource Center (VRC) in Oregon and her work has helped establish prototype legislation to create VRCs at higher education institutions across the U.S. Dr. Harris has a Ph.D. from Rutgers University and is a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Air Force’s junior, intermediate and senior officer schools, including Air War College.
America's New Civil War (CFW)
Date: November 12
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities, Yale Law School Director, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International
(Center on the Future of War)
Paul W. Kahn is Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities, and Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for Human Rights at Yale Law School. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University and his J.D. from Yale Law School. He served as a law clerk to Justice White in the United States Supreme Court from 1980-1982. Before coming to Yale Law School in 1985, he practiced law in Washington, D.C., during which time he was on the legal team representing Nicaragua before the International Court of Justice. He teaches in the areas of constitutional law and theory, international law, cultural theory and philosophy. He is the author of thirteen books, including most recently, Testimony and Origins of Order: Project and System in the American Legal Imagination. His newest book, Democracy in America 2020, will be out this spring.
Seeing “Someone Like Me” in Office: Symbolic Representation, Raúl Castro and the Importance of a Latino Governor
Date: November 19
Time: 1:30pm
Location: Armstrong 101 and Zoom
Speakers:
Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford, author
Rodney Hero, Raul Yzaguirre chair and professor, Center for Latina/os and American Politics research director
Lisa Magaña, professor in the School of Transborder Studies
Introduction by Alberto Ríos, ASU Piper Center director, university professor and Arizona’s inaugural Poet Laureate. Special guest presentation by playwright James E. Garcia.
(Co-hosted by the Center for Latina/os and American Politics Research (CLAPR), the School of Politics and Global Studies and the School of Transborder Studies. Co-sponsored by: The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Hispanic Research Center and the School of International Letters and Cultures.)
This event featured Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford, author of the bilingual “flip” book, "Raulito: The First Latino Governor of Arizona /El primer gobernador latino de Arizona", which recounted the life story of Raúl H. Castro, who was elected the first Mexican-American governor of Arizona in 1974.
The Contingent Value of Connections: Legislative Turnover and Revolving-Door Lobby Clients (WS)
Current Challenges in Peacebuilding in the Americas: Central America and the Andes (CFW)
Date: Dec 2
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Keith Mines, Director, Latin America Program, U.S. Institute of Peace
(Center on the Future of War)
Keith Mines is director of the Latin America program at USIP. Mines joined USIP after a career at the State Department where he was most recently director for Andean and Venezuelan affairs. In 28 years of diplomatic service he has worked on governance and institution building in Central America and Colombia; Middle East peace in Israel and the West Bank; post-conflict stabilization in Haiti, Iraq and Afghanistan; global financial stability and the environment in Brazil; security sector reform in Hungary; famine relief and tribal reconciliation in Darfur and Somalia; and creating a culture of lawfulness as the first director of the Merida Initiative in Mexico City. Mines is a former Special Forces Officer with service in Central America and Grenada. His book, “Why Nation Building Matters: Political Consolidation, Building Security Forces, and Economic Development in Failed and Fragile States,” was published in 2020. Mines has a bachelor’s in history from Brigham Young University and a master’s in foreign service from Georgetown University.
Book talk: Reimagining the Judiciary: Women’s Representation on High Courts Worldwide (GFL)
Date: December 3
Time: 10am
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Valerie Hoekstra, Miki Kittilson, Maria Escobar-Lemmon (Texas A&M), and Alice Kang (University of Nebraska)
(College of Global Futures)
Join four renowned political scientists for the launch of their book, Reimagining the Judiciary. This work examines the factors that facilitate the inclusion of women on high courts, while recognizing that many courts have a long way to go before reaching gender parity.
The authors built the first cross-national and longitudinal dataset on the appointment of women and men to high courts and showcased five in-depth case studies on the selection of justices to high courts in Canada, Colombia, Ireland, South Africa, and the US.
Keynote Remarks
Sandie Okoro(Keynote): Senior Vice President and World Bank Group General Counsel
Introductory remarks by Tea Trumbic, Program Manager, Women Business and the Law, Global Indicators Group, World Bank. Moderated by Amanda Ellis, Executive Director, Asia Pacific, ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation.
Discussants
J. Jarpa Dawuni: Associate Professor and Director, Center for Women, Gender, and Global Leadership, Howard University
Valerie Hudson: University Distinguished Professor and Director, Program on Women, Peace, and Security, Texas A&M
Susan Sterett: Professor, U Maryland Baltimore County
Spring 2021
Brexit from the ground up: Ethnographic perspectives from the Northern Ireland borderzone
Date: January 13
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Thomas M. Wilson, Binghamton University
The School of Politics and Global Studies and the Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations are co-hosting Dr. Thomas M. Wilson for a virtual talk over Zoom.
Wilson is Professor of Anthropology in Binghamton University, State University of New York. A Visiting Professor in Queens University, Belfast, 2018–2020, in 2019 he was also a Visiting Professor in the University of Eastern Finland and Lund University. He has conducted ethnographic research in Ireland, the UK, Hungary, Canada and the USA, in matters related to European integration, local and national politics and government, alcohol and identity, and international borders. His publications include Borders: Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State (co-author, 1999); Drinking Cultures: Alcohol and Identity (editor, 2005), The Anthropology of Ireland (co-author, 2006); and A Companion to Border Studies (co-editor, 2012).
Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium (PRIEC) Conference 2021
Date: January 22
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Center for Latina/os and American Politics Research
Anti-Semitism in Comparative Perspective: Recent Trends and Research Frontiers
Date: January 25
Time: 11:00am
Location: Zoom
The Lowe Family Research Workshop
The Utility of Special Operations: Facing Challenges of Great Power Competition and Compound Security (CFW)
Date: Feb 3
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Ike Wilson
(Center on the Future of War)
Col. (ret) Isaiah Wilson, III, President of Joint Special Operations University and a Professor of Practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies at ASU. Wilson is a master strategist and a leading advocate of change in America’s approaches to security and defense policy as well as a decorated combat veteran with multiple tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. He has a Ph.D. in political science from Cornell University and was a Professor and academic program director at West Point, where he created the West Point Grand Strategy Program. Wilson’s research focuses on US strategy, military planning, and special operations. He is the author of Thinking beyond War: Civil Military Relations and Why America Fails to Win the Peace.
Citizenship Reimagined: A New Framework for State Rights in the United States (CLAPR)
Date: February 5
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Allan Colbern and Karthick Ramakrishnan
(Center for Latina/os and American Politics Research)
Allan Colbern and Karthick Ramakrishnan present their newly released book, Citizenship Reimagined , where they develop a precise framework for understanding and measuring citizenship as expansive, multi-dimensional, and federated - broader than legal status and firmly grounded in the provision of rights. Placing today's immigration battles in historical context, they show that today's progressive state citizenship is not unprecedented: US states have been leaders in rights expansion since America's founding, including over the fight for black citizenship and women's suffrage. Their book invites readers to rethink how American federalism relates to minority rights and how state laws regulating undocumented residents can coexist with federal exclusivity over immigration law.
CareerTalk: Human Rights Watch (CFW and Global Human Rights Hub)
Date: Feb 10
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Sarah Holewinski
(Center on the Future of War and Global Human Rights Hub)
Sarah Holewinski is the Washington Director at Human Rights Watch, and leads the organization’s engagement with the United States government on global human rights issues, with a particular focus on national security and foreign policy. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, she was the first senior advisor on human rights in the Chairman’s Office at The Joint Staff of the U.S. Department of Defense and, prior, served as deputy chief of staff for policy at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations under Ambassador Samantha Power. For nearly a decade Sarah was executive director of Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC), leading efforts to advise warring parties on civilian protection and responsible use of force. In that role, she worked extensively with the U.S. military and its allies in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, CAR, Burma and elsewhere. Sarah was named in Top 100 Most Influential People in Armed Violence Reduction by Action on Armed Violence and received the Truman National Security Project’s award for Extraordinary Impact. She holds degrees from Georgetown and Columbia Universities, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a senior fellow at New America, a board director at Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC) and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and a professor of practice at Arizona State University.
Roundtable: The Rise in Anti-Democratic Violence in the U.S.: Perspectives on the Capitol Insurrection
Date: Feb 11
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Lenka Bustikova, Jennet Kirkpatrick, Fabian Neuner and Candace Rondeaux
The United States has been shaken by a rise in extremism and anti-democratic violence that culminated in efforts to reverse the results of the presidential election during the deadly insurrection at the Capitol in early January. Join experts from Arizona State University’s School of Politics and Global Studies for a roundtable discussion on the causes and consequences of the Capitol insurrection and the rise of anti-democratic violence in the U.S.
Inside the Walled Garden: Understanding the Chinese Internet (CFW)
Date: Feb 11
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Yi-Ling Liu
(Center on the Future of War)
Yi-Ling Liu, ASU Future Security Fellow at New America, award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, Foreign Policy, The Economist, The New Yorker, and elsewhere
The Challenge of Black Patriotism (CFW)
Date: Feb 17
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Ted Johnson
(Center on the Future of War)
Theodore (Ted) R. Johnson is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Fellows Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. His research and writing focus on black voting behavior and electoral politics, as well as the role of national solidarity in addressing racial inequality. Prior to joining the Brennan Center, Dr. Johnson was a national fellow at the New America, and he is a retired Commander in the United States Navy.
His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and several other national publications. His forthcoming book When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America will be published by Grove Atlantic in June.
Becoming the State: (Im)migration Control and the Weaponization of Brown Bodies (CLAPR)
Date: Feb 19
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: David Cortez
(Center for Latina/os & American Politics Research)
The face of immigration law enforcement has changed significantly in the last quarter-century — with Latinxs, today, comprising nearly thirty-percent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and fifty-percent of Border Patrol. Where scholars have devoted attention to this demographic shift and its implications, research has focused primarily on how Latinx agents negotiate the space between ‘who they are’ as Latinxs and ‘what they do’ as immigration agents. Key to this line of inquiry has been a single, overriding question: do Latinx agents’ ethnic identities matter ? Undoubtedly a question of great import, the resulting debate has centered solely around ‘identity as psychological self-categorization’ — obscuring the role played by the physical bodies of Latinx agents. This research represents a substantive departure from this trajectory. In this talk, I discuss how the state weaponizes Latinx immigration agents’ brown bodies (‘identity as physical, descent-based attributes’) against Latinx (im)migrants. Drawing on thirteen-months of extensive fieldwork, including interviews with one-hundred ICE agents across Arizona, California, and Texas, I demonstrate how the state, embodied in Latinxs, not only gains access to, but disarms the communities it wishes to expel.
More on our speaker:
David Cortez is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Latinx Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Professor Cortez’s research centers on ethnic and racial identity with particular focus on intersectional and situational identity salience. His current book project explores the emergence of a disproportionately-Latinx immigration law enforcement workforce as a metaphor for the minority experience in the United States. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, including interviews with and observations of more than one-hundred Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents across Texas, Arizona, and California, his research engages questions of belonging, obligation, and liminality. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and published in the Annual Review of Sociology and Political Research Quarterly.
When Does Resistance Become Insurrection? Free Speech and the Defense of the Republic (CFW)
Date: Feb 23
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Noah Feldman
(Center on the Future of War)
Noah Feldman, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, author of multiple books, including Cool War: The Future of Global Competition and Divided By God: America's Church-State Problem and What We Should Do About It.
Black History Month Distinguished Lecture: Lewis Gordon, Freedom, Justice and Decolonization
Date: Feb 24
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Lewis Gordon,University of Connecticut
Lewis R. Gordon is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut at Storrs; Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies; Honorary Professor in the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes University, South Africa; Chairperson of the American Philosophical Association Committee on Public Philosophy; and Chairperson of the Awards Committee and Global Collaborations for the Caribbean Philosophical Association, of which he was the organization’s first president. His books published by Routledge include Fanon and the Crisis of European Man, Existence in Black, Existentia Africana, Disciplinary Decadence, and, with Jane Anna Gordon, Not Only the Master’s Tools and Of Divine Warning.
Book description: The eminent scholar Lewis R. Gordon offers a probing meditation on freedom, justice, and decolonization. What is there to be understood and done when it is evident that the search for justice, which dominates social and political philosophy of the North, is an insufficient approach for the achievements of dignity, freedom, liberation, and revolution? Gordon takes the reader on a journey as he interrogates a trail from colonized philosophy to re-imagining liberation and revolution to critical challenges raised by Afropessimism, theodicy, and looming catastrophe. He offers not forecast and foreclosure but instead an urgent call for dignifying and urgent acts of political commitment. Such movements take the form of examining what philosophy means in Africana philosophy, liberation in decolonial thought, and the decolonization of justice and normative life. Gordon issues a critique of the obstacles to cultivating emancipatory politics, challenging reductionist forms of thought that proffer harm and suffering as conditions of political appearance and the valorization of nonhuman beings. He asserts instead emancipatory considerations for occluded forms of life and the irreplaceability of existence in the face of catastrophe and ruin, and he concludes, through a discussion with the Circassian philosopher and decolonial theorist, Madina Tlostanova, with the project of shifting the geography of reason.
This event is sponsored by:
School of Social Transformation;
Philosophy and the Anti-Racism Committee,
School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies;
College of Integrative Sciences and Arts;
Center for the Study of Race and Democracy;
School of Politics and Global Studies;
School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies
Who is Worthy? Immigrants in a Time of Uncertainty (CLAPR)
Date: March 5
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Maricruz Osorio
(Center for Latina/os & American Politics Research)
Maricruz Osorio will examine the puzzle of public opinion support of immigrants and refugees, with focus on competing identities and threat perceptions. Osorio uses the ANES 2016 Pilot Study to investigate how support for US entry of Syrian refugees changes, according to perceptions of the viability of local terrorist threat and other identities. Moreover, she compares support of legal migration and refugee migration to understand if Americans differentiate who is more worthy of US entry. She finds that as respondents believe that a terrorist attack in their area is possible, support for refugees decreases to a greater degree than support for legal immigration. Osorio will further analyze if some refugees have greater support for entry than others. For this, she will use a survey experiment in the 2018 CCES and find that Muslim refugees have less support for entry.
Maricruz Ariana Osorio is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Riverside. Broadly, her work looks at the political engagement and behavior of marginalized groups, with an emphasis on women and immigrants. She has published in this work academically and has contributed to other forms of publicly available scholarship, including policy reports, blogs, and encyclopedia entries. Her dissertation investigates the role of gender in forming risk assessments, whether risks are perceived to be risks themselves or risks are believed to be risks to their community at large. She analyzes how those risk assessments contribute to the political participation, in all its different forms, of marginalized immigrant communities. Her dissertation looks at how agency might manifest differently by citizenship status and hopes to add to our understanding of political participation.
Transnational Feminist Movements (CFW)
Date: March 8
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Pardis Mahdavi and Mi-Ai Parrish
(Center on the Future of War)
2020 was the year that women emerged indisputably as the world’s most successful leaders, from Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s COVID responses to German Chancellor Angela Merkel saving the eurozone and minimizing damage from Brexit. But perhaps more important was the growing success of transnational feminist movements. For more than a decade, networks of women have been sharing resources, media know-how, and strategies across mass movements. Now this transnational work is producing policy breakthroughs and societal shifts, including greater protections for survivors of sexual violence in Guatemala, more reproductive rights and legalized abortion in Chile and Argentina, the decriminalization of homosexuality in India, a crackdown on sexual harassment in South Korea, and the Greta Thunberg-inspired youth movement for stronger climate response everywhere. What is next for these movements, especially in many Middle Eastern and African countries, where progress for women has been incremental? What setbacks have the pandemic and authoritarianism caused for women and social movements?
Pardis Mahdavi, dean of social sciences in Arizona State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Mi-Ai Parrish, managing director of ASU Media Enterprise, visit Zócalo on International Women’s Day to discuss the most promising opportunities right now for transnational women’s movements to save our world.
Introduction by Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New America.
Co-sponsored with the ASU Global Human Rights Hub.
Renewal and Remaking of Democracy (CFW)
Date: March 11
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Craig Calhoun
(Center on the Future of War)
On March 11th, the Center on the Future of War hosted a discussion with Craig Calhoun, ASU University Professor of Social Sciences, former director and president of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), author of many books including the forthcoming Degenerations of Democracy
Extremism, Anti-democratic Violence, and the Second Impeachment Trial: A Conversation with Senator Jeff Flake
Date: March 15
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Senator Jeff Flake
The School of Politics and Global Studies hosted a conversation with former United States Senator Jeff Flake who will speak on the recent rise in anti-democratic violence in the U.S., the Capitol insurrection, and the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Senator Flake will be interviewed by SPGS Senior Lecturer and American government expert Dr. Gina Woodall followed by audience Q & A.
Senator Jeff Flake represented Arizona in the House of Representatives from 2001-2013 and in the U.S. Senate from 2013-2019. Senator Flake is currently a distinguished dean fellow with The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University.
Preventing Atrocity Crimes in a Violent World (CFW)
Date: March 17
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: David Schaeffer
(Center on the Future of War)
David Scheffer is Director Emeritus of the Center for International Human Rights and was the Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. From 2012 to 2018 he was the U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Expert on U.N. Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials. From 1997 to 2001, he was the first U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues and led the U.S. delegation in talks establishing the International Criminal Court. Professor Scheffer received the Berlin Prize in 2013 and the Champion of Justice Award of the Center for Justice and Accountability in 2018. Foreign Policy magazine selected him as a “Top Global Thinker of 2011.” He is Vice-President of the American Society of International Law and the Tom A. Bernstein Genocide Prevention Fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Introduction by Stephanie Lindquist, Senior Vice President of Global Academic Initiatives at ASU
Co-sponsored with the ASU Global Human Rights Hub and the Martin-Springer Institute, NAU
Naturalism of freedom of opinion and speech: reflections from overview of the Kazakh customary traditions (WS)
Date: March 24
Time: 11:30am
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Beibit Shangirbayeva
(School Workshop)
A book talk with Lauren Redniss (CFW)
Date: March 25
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Lauren Redniss, Sybil Francis, Steven Teppe
(Center on the Future of War)
The Center for the Future of Arizona, New America, and the Center on the Future of War hosted a talk with Lauren Redniss, 2017 MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient and New Arizona Fellow at New America, on her new book "Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West."
Redniss is the author of several works of visual non-fiction, including: “Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future,” winner of the 2016 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and “Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout,” finalist for the National Book Award. She has been a Guggenheim fellow as well as a fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers.
New Arizona Fellows are members of the Fellows Program at New America, a DC-based think tank, who are supported by the Center for the Future of Arizona to explore the challenges and opportunities facing the State in the 21st century
The event opened with an introduction by Sybil Francis, Ph.D. President and CEO of the Center for the Future of Arizona. The Q&A was moderated by Steven Tepper, Dean of ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.
What's Wrong with Populism?
Date: March 30
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: David Art
The ASU School of Politics and Global Studies hosted Dr. David Art, Professor of Political Science at Tufts University for a virtual talk over Zoom.
The “rise of global populism” has become a primary metanarrative for the previous decade in advanced industrial democracies, but this talk argues it is a deeply misleading one. Nativism—not populism—is the defining feature of both radical right parties in Western Europe and of radical right politicians like Donald Trump in the United States. The tide of “left-wing populism” in Europe receded quickly, as did its promise of returning power to the people through online voting and policy deliberation. The erosion of democracy in states like Hungary has not been the result of populism, but rather of the deliberate practice of competitive authoritarianism. Calling these disparate phenomena “populist” obscures their core features and mistakenly attaches normatively redeeming qualities to nativists and authoritarians.
David Art is a Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. His field is comparative politics, with a regional focus on Europe. Professor Art's research interests include extremist political parties and movements, the politics of history and memory, and comparative historical analysis in the social sciences.
He is the author of Inside the Radical Right: The Development of Anti-Immigrant Parties in Western Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and The Politics of the Nazi Past in Germany and Austria (Cambridge University Press, 2006). His articles have appeared in Comparative Politics, German Politics and Society, Party Politics, and West European Politics.
Global Asymmetries, Digital Extractivism and the Fight for Economic Justice
Date: April 6
Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: Zoom
(The Human Economies working group)
'Radical Right Parties and Uncivil Society in Ukraine' (WS)
Date: April 7
Time: 11:30am
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Lenka Bustikova
(School Workshop)
"Taming the Legislature: Pathways to Authoritarian Consolidation in Central Asia" (WS)
Date: April 12
Time: 11:30am
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Margaret Hanson
(School Workshop)
From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration
Date: April 14
Time: 11:30am
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Kiara Boone
This was a talk with Kiara Boone on the Equal Justice Initiative’s racial justice work. This School of Politics and Global Studies event was co-sponsored by the ASU Global Human Rights Hub.
Kiara Boone is the deputy director of community education at the Equal Justice Initiative. In her role, Kiara works with EJI's racial justice projects which are aimed at changing the narrative about America’s history of racial injustice through educational reports, videos, short films, local community efforts, and two new cultural spaces - The Legacy Museum and The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. With EJI’s Community Remembrance Project, Kiara helps to support community members across the country to memorialize documented victims of racial violence and foster meaningful dialogue about race and justice today.
"Germany’s Approach to Countering Antisemitism Since Reunification" (WS)
Date: April 21
Time: 11:30am
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Thomas Just
(School Workshop)
Reflection on Latinos in Arizona's University System (CLAPR)
Date: March 22
Time: 3:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Ernest Caldrón
(Center for Latina/os & American Politics Research)
Ernest Calderón is a former member of the Arizona Board of Regents and was Arizona’s first Harry S. Truman Scholar receiving that honor in 1977. He has served as an adjunct professor at Northern Arizona University and in the Maricopa County Community College District. A native of Morenci, Arizona and a sixth generation native of what was New Mexico Territory, he is a first-generation college graduate. Ernie’s parents were a copper miner and a cook. He is a graduate of Northern Arizona University, the University of Arizona College of Law and received his doctorate in organizational change and leadership from the University of Southern California. He is an AV Preeminent rated lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell, listed in Best Lawyers in America and is an elected member of the prestigious American Law Institute. Ernie clerked for U.S. District Judge Walter E. Craig and has practiced law 38 years. He served as the first Latino to be elected State Bar of Arizona president and served as president of the Arizona Board of Regents. He led the Grand Canyon Council of the Boy Scouts, the Catholic Community Foundation of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix and Valley Leadership. Ernie was the Hispanic National Bar Association’s Lawyer of the Year and Phoenix’s Man of the Year. He is a Knight Grand Cross in the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem. Ernie has four adult children who are his greatest accomplishment. He and his wife, Terri, live in Phoenix.
The mission of ASU Center for Latina/os and American Politics Research (CLAPR) is to foster and support thoughtful, objective, and innovative research on the political and policy circumstances of the nation’s Latina/o-Hispanic population, thereby creating a fuller, deeper understanding of politics and governance in the United States. This mission entails facilitating and disseminating research that emphasizes, but is not limited to, empirical and normative theoretical perspectives, historical context, institutional dimensions, and public policy issues which are especially germane to the Latina/o-Hispanic population while also having broad significance for American society and politics.
Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio versus the Latino Resistance (CFW)
Date: May 11
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Jude Joffe-Block, Terry Greene Sterling, Sybil Francis
(Center on the Future of War)
The Center for the Future of Arizona, New America, and the Center on the Future of War hosted a talk with Lauren Redniss, 2017 MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient and New Arizona Fellow at New America, on her new book "Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the
Fall 2020
The Democratic Politics of Racist Monument Removal: Failed Proceduralism vs. Effective Rioting (CLAPR)
Date: October 2
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Juliet Hooker, Professor of Political Science, Brown University
(Center for Latina/os & American Politics Research)
Juliet Hooker is Professor of Political Science at Brown University. She is a political theorist specializing in racial justice, multiculturalism, Latin American political thought, and Black political thought. She is the author of Race and the Politics of Solidarity (Oxford, 2009) and Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos
(Oxford, 2017), which was a recipient of the American Political Science Association’s 2018 Ralph Bunche Book Award and the 2018 Best Book Award of the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. She is currently working on a book project
entitled, Black Grief/White Grievance, that explores the role of loss in contemporary racial politics in the United States.
The War for Gaul: How Julius Caesar’s Ideas on Strategy Can Help Us Face Contemporary Challenges (CFW)
Date: October 6
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: James O’Donnell and Lt. Gen. (ret) Robert Schmidle
(Center on the Future of War)
James O’Donnell, ASU University Librarian and former Provost and University Professor at Georgetown University, discusses his book, The War for Gaul: A New Translation (Princeton 2019). The conversation is guided by LtGen (ret) Robert Schmidle, ASU Professor of Practice, the first Deputy Commander of U.S. Cyber Command, and a combat pilot.
Latina/os and the 2020 Elections: Local, State, and National Perspectives (CLAPR)
Date: October 8
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Eduardo Sainz, Mi Familia Vota; Lisa Magana, ASU; Lisa Sanchez, UA, Louis Desipio, UC Irvine
(Center for Latina/os & American Politics Research)
COVID-19 as a ‘Hinge Event’ and Implications for U.S. Security (CFW)
Date: October 14
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Peter L. Bergen, Daniel Rothenberg and Souad Ali
(Center on the Future of War)
James O’Donnell, ASU University Librarian and former Provost and University Professor at Georgetown University, discusses his book, The War for Gaul: A New Translati
The Voting Rights Crisis and the 2020 Presidential Election
Date: October 21
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: David Daley
On October 21st, 2020 the School of Politics and Global Studies is hosted David Daley, a senior fellow for FairVote, for a conversation on voter suppression.
David Daley is the author of the national bestseller "Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count" and "Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy." His work on voting rights has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Atlantic and many other publications. He is a senior fellow at FairVote and the former editor in chief of Salon
Corruption in Context: A question of law or normativity?
Date: October 28
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Nnamdi Igbokwe
What do we really mean by corruption? This talk will contextualize corruption by examining contestations surrounding its definitions, classifications, and typologies.
This talk is part of the "COVID and Corruption" series through Arizona State University's School of Politics and Global Studies which will explore the political economy of corruption amidst the COVID-19 pandemic examining the rise of institutional abuses of power and the renewal of various modes of rent-seeking that have emerged.
Dr. Nnamdi Igbokwe is a political economist whose area of work sits within the tradition of International Political Economy with a focus on Modernization and Development Economics. Dr. Igbokwe’s research explores how disparate development outcomes and conditions like corruption arrive at the intersection of international politics, state institutions, and global economic policy. His regional expertise includes West Africa where he investigates themes like corruption, capitalism, clientelism, liberalism, economic development policy, wealth defense, dictatorship, foreign direct investment, and transnational capital.
Corruption’s Comparative Quagmire
Date: November 10
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Nnamdi Igbokwe
What causes corruption? Can corruption analysis be compared? This talk will discuss extant methods, measurements, and modes of investigating corruption.
This talk is part of the "COVID and Corruption" series through the School of Politics and Global Studies which will explore the political economy of corruption amidst the COVID-19 pandemic examining the rise of institutional abuses of power and the renewal of various modes of rent-seeking that have emerged.
Dr. Nnamdi Igbokwe is a political economist whose area of work sits within the tradition of International Political Economy with a focus on Modernization and Development Economics. Dr. Igbokwe’s research explores how disparate development outcomes and conditions like corruption arrive at the intersection of international politics, state institutions, and global economic policy. His regional expertise includes West Africa where he investigates themes like corruption, capitalism, clientelism, liberalism, economic development policy, wealth defense, dictatorship, foreign direct investment, and transnational capital.
Mobilization for Democracy in East Germany, 1989 to the Present
Date: November 12
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Steve Pfaff
The School of Politics and Global Studies and the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies are co-hosting Dr. Steven J. Pfaff, Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, for a talk on opposition and repression in the German Democratic Republic. This event is part of the @GermanyinUSA lecture series assisted by the German Embassy in Washington D.C.
https://www.asugermany.com/
Pfaff's research focuses on social and political mobilization, and has won awards from the Social Science History Association and the European Academy of Sociology. He serves on the board of the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics and Culture. His most recent book, The Genesis of Rebellion: Governance, Grievance and Mutiny in the Age of Sail was co-authored with SPGS Foundation Professor Michael Hechter and published this year by Cambridge University Press.
Constitutional Lobbying: Democratic Dualism and the Mobilization of Interest Groups (WS)
Date: November 18
Time: 10:30am
Location: Zoom
Speaker: James Strickland
Social Pandemic and Institutional Pathology
Date: November 18
Time: 3:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Nnamdi Igbokwe
How has COVID impacted political and economic institutions? This talk will discuss corruption as a direct consequence of the pandemic and explore the institutional aftermath of rent-seeking and power abuse.
This talk is part of the "COVID and Corruption" series through the School of Politics and Global Studies which will explore the political economy of corruption amidst the COVID-19 pandemic examining the rise of institutional abuses of power and the renewal of various modes of rent-seeking that have emerged.
Dr. Nnamdi Igbokwe is a political economist whose area of work sits within the tradition of International Political Economy with a focus on Modernization and Development Economics. Dr. Igbokwe’s research explores how disparate development outcomes and conditions like corruption arrive at the intersection of international politics, state institutions, and global economic policy. His regional expertise includes West Africa where he investigates themes like corruption, capitalism, clientelism, liberalism, economic development policy, wealth defense, dictatorship, foreign direct investment, and transnational capital.
Diversity in National Security: How to Ensure More Women Hold Leadership Positions (CFW)
Date: November 18
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Heather Hurlburt, Jeannette Haynie and Camille Stewart
(Center on the Future of War)
The event addresses current challenges with diversity in U.S. national security, outlining specific ways to ensure greater women’s representation in civilian and military leadership positions with Heather Hurlburt, Laura Kupe, and Jeannette Haynie.
Hurlburt is Director of New America’s New Models of Policy Change a former senior staffer in the White House and Department of State. Kupe is Counsel on the Committee on Homeland Security, former Special Assistant at the Department of Homeland Security and Youth Ambassador for Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security, and Conflict Transformation. And, Haynie is a former Marine Corps officer with a PhD in International Relations and Founder and Executive Director of the Athena Leadership Project, which seeks to elevate the stories of female veterans and conduct research into how gender-diverse teams and leadership impact national security.
Democracy and Dictatorship in Germany: Lessons for the United States
Date: November 19
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Daniel Ziblatt
The School of Politics and Global Studies and the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies are co-hosting Dr. Daniel Ziblatt as part of the @GermanyinUSA lecture series assisted by the German Embassy in Washington D.C.
Daniel Ziblatt is Eaton Professor of Government at Harvard University and director of the Transformations of Democracy group at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. He specializes in the study of Europe and the history of democracy. His three books include "How Democracies Die" (Crown, 2018), co-authored with Steve Levitsky), a New York Times best-seller and der Spiegel best-seller (Germany) and translated into twenty two languages. He is also the author of "Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy" (Cambridge University Press, 2017), an account of Europe's historical democratization, which won the American Political Science Association's 2018 Woodrow Wilson Prize for the best book in government and international relations and American Sociological Association's 2018 Barrington Moore Prize. His first book was an analysis of 19th century state building, "Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism" (Princeton, 2006).
Evaluating Social Norms and Tolerance in the Trump Era (WS)
Date: December 2
Time: 10:30am
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Fabian Neuner and Mark Ramirez
What Now? The Future of the JCPOA and the Iranian Nuclear Program (CFW)
Date: December 2
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Joe Brazda
(Center on the Future of War)
A livestream discussion with Joe Brazda, an affiliated expert on nonproliferation at CRDF Global headquartered in Washington D.C. Mr. Brazda spent several years researching, writing and lecturing on topics such as Iran, DPRK, nuclear weapons and delivery systems at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Additionally, he has worked for the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the IAEA in Vienna, Austria. Brazda discussed the future of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and the Iranian nuclear program within the context of a changing Middle East, significant political uncertainty and shifting international and regional commitments.
Spring 2020
PRIEC
Date: January 24
(Center for Latina/os & American Politics Research)
Kramer Lecture: "Racial Profiling in US Traffic Stops: Assessing the Evidence"
Date: February 21
Time: 2:45pm
Location: CDN 60
Speaker: Frank Baumgartner
(ASU Pi Sigma Alpha Kramer Lecture)
Professor Baumgartner has written extensively on the topics of public policy, lobbying, and framing in both US and comparative perspectives. His most recent book is Suspect Citizens (Cambridge, 2018), focusing on racial differences in the outcomes of routine traffic stops. In 2019 he was recognized with the C. Herman Pritchett Best Book Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association (for Suspect Citizens), and with the Lijphart/Przeworski/ Verba Dataset Award from the APSA Section on Comparative Politics (for the Comparative Agendas Project).
"Terrorism and Democratic Backsliding: A Case Study of South Asia"
Date: February 19
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor 6607
Speaker: Chirasree Mukherjee
"Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender"
Date: March 6
Time: 10300pm
Location: Coor 6607
Speaker: Susan Fransechet
"Refugee Camps as Climate Traps?: Current and Future Climate Marginality at One Thousand Refugee Camps"
Date: Postponed
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor 5536
Speaker: Jamon Van Den Hoek
Distinguished Alumni Talk
Date: Postponed
Time:
Location:
Speaker: Robert Bond
"Misperception, Redistribution, and Transparency: Does Transparency Increase Redistribution?"
Date: April 8
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Haeyong Lim
Warren Miller Jr. Colloquium
Date: Postponed
Time:
Location:
Speaker: Milan Svolik (Yale)
Fall 2019
"More Women Can Lobby: Explaining Gender Diversity Among Lobbyists in the U.S. States"
Date: September 4
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor 6607
Speaker: James Strickland
"Individual Preferences on Pro-Western Foreign Policy Orientation: The Evidence from the South Caucasus"
Date: September 18
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor 6607
Speaker: Namig Abbasov
"Naming Evil: The Meaning, Value and Usefulness of Genocide in International Law"
Date: October 16
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor 6607
Speaker: Daniel Rothenberg
Corruption and Governance in Authoritarian Regimes
Date: November 6
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor 6607
Speaker: Margaret Hanson
Effects of Anomie and Cultural Distance on Public Attitudes toward Territorial Integrity: Evidence from the South Caucasus
Date: November 20
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor 6607
Speaker: Valery Dzutsati
Spring 2019
"Civil Society and the Ethnonationalist Politics of Trump and Brexit"
Date: January 10
Time: 12:00pm
Location: COOR 6761
Speaker: Michael McQuarrie, Associate Professor in Sociology London School of Economics and Political Science
Michael McQuarrie joined the LSE from the University of California, Davis. He is primarily interested in urban politics and culture, nonprofit organizations, and social movements. He received a B.A. in History from Earlham College, an M.A. in History from Duke University, and a Ph.D in Sociology from New York University. Prior to completing his graduate studies he worked as a labor organizer and a community organizer in West Virginia, Ohio, and New York. He has recently been awarded a Hellman Fellowship at the University of California and a Poiesis Fellowship at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University.
His research is primarily concerned with the transformation of urban politics, governance, and civil society since 1973. He demonstrates this both by showing how the meaningful content of political values and practices, such as community and participation, have been transformed, but also how these changes are linked to the changing nature of governance, changing organizational populations, and the outcome of political conflicts.
"Outcomes of Democratic Transitions"
Date: January 18
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Scott Mainwaring
This talk will present some early data and preliminary ideas for a new book project on outcomes of democratic transitions worldwide since 1974—the third wave of democratization. The book will provide the first comprehensive analysis of the regime outcomes of all 91 transitions to democracy from 1974 until 2012. The third wave of democratization transformed world politics—but creating deep democracies has been an elusive goal in most of these countries. The book will have two main goals: charting different outcomes of third wave transitions to democracy and offering explanations for the variance in these out-comes. Regimes that started off with a higher level of liberal democracy, were surrounded by democracies, and experienced better rates of economic growth were less likely to break down. Regimes that started off with a lower per capita GDP and those that experienced lower economic growth were less likely to deepen democracy.
Scott Mainwaring is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazil Studies at Harvard Kennedy School. He taught at the University of Notre Dame from 1983 to 2016. His research interests include political parties and party systems, democratic and authoritarian regimes, democratization, and political institutions in Latin American. His book, Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America: Emergence, Survival, and Fall
(with Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Cambridge University Press, 2013), won best book awards from the Comparative Democratization section of the American Political Science Association and the Political Institutions section of the Latin American Studies Association. His edited book, Party Systems in Latin America: Institutionalization, Decay, and Collapse (Cambridge University Press), was published in 2018. Mainwaring was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.
"Representation and Accountability, the Constituent’s Perspective" (Kramer Lecture)
Date: January 22
Time: 3:00pm
Location: MU 202
Speaker: Stephen Ansolabehere, The Frank G. Thompson Professor
of Government at Harvard University
(Pi Sigma Alpha Kramer Lecture)
Stephen Ansolabehere has published extensively on elections, mass media, and representation, political economy, and public opinion, especially concerning energy and the environment. He is a Carnegie Scholar, a Hoover National Fellow, and Truman Scholar, and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007. He is the director of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard, as well as principal investigator of the Cooperative Congressional Election Study.
The Kramer Lecture is made possible by the endowment from alumnus Victor Kramer who studied political science at ASU from 1958 to 1961. While at ASU, Kramer was also a member of the political science honorary fraternity Pi Sigma Alpha.
"Far Right Parties and Far Right Armed Voluntary Movements in Ukraine: Complements or Substitutes"
Date: January 30
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Lenka Bustikova
"Shared Identities: The Intersection of Race and Gender and Support for Political Candidates" (Distinguished Alumni)
Date: February 1
Time: 1:30pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Sarah Allen Gershon
(Distinguished Alumni Speaker)
Dr. Sarah Allen Gershon is an associate professor of political science at Georgia State University. Her research focuses on the incorporation of traditionally underrepresented groups (including women, racial and ethnic minorities) into the American political system. She was also named the Outstanding Graduate Director for the College of Arts and Sciences at GSU in 2017.
While back in Tempe, Gershon gave a colloquium to faculty and students titled “Shared Identities: The Intersection of Race and Gender and Support for Political Candidates”. This project was a collaboration with three other political scientist and looks at how voters feel about candidates that share their racial, ethnic and gender identities.
"Sectarianism, and Judicial Terror: The Scottish Witch-Hunt, 1563 - 1736."
Date: February 13
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Steve Pfaff
Ratification of Human Rights Treaties in the United States
Date: February 22
Time: 1:30pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Lisa Baldez
The United States lags behind much of the world in terms of ratification of human rights treaties. It is the only country in the world that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and is one of six countries that have not ratified the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)—putting America in the company of Iran, Palau, Somalia, Sudan and Tonga. The Senate voted down the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities despite strong bipartisan support and the presence of Republican Senator Robert Dole on the floor of the Senate in a wheelchair. Nonetheless, while the U.S. record is not exemplary, it has ratified three of the nine core U.N. human rights treaties—the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
(ICCPR), the Convention against Torture (CAT) and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)—as well as the Genocide Convention. What explains why the United States has ratified some of the U.N. human rights treaties but not others?
Lisa Baldez is Professor of Government and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies at Dar tmouth College. She is the author of Why Women Protest: Women’s Movements in Chile (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Defying Convention: US Resistance to the UN Treaty on Women’s (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Defying Convention won the 2015 Victoria Schuck Award for best book on women and politics and 2015 best book on human rights, both from the American Political Science Association. She is one of the founding editors, with Karen Beckwith, of Politics & Gender, the of ficial journal of the Women and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.
"Parties, Civil Society, and the Deterrence of Democratic Defection" (Warren Miller Jr. Colloquium)
Date: February 27
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Michael Bernhard
(Warren Miller Jr. Colloquium)
Can institutions incentivize political actors to respect democracy? Theoretical arguments from both early institutional and more recent distributional work suggest that they can. Yet, the empirical evidence on institutions’ role in democratic survival is uneven. The uneven evidence for robust institutions prolonging democracy may be due to the fact that prior work has focused on institutions that do not necessarily raise the costs of democratic defection.
In this paper, we focus on an under explored set of institutions, party systems and civil society organizations, arguing that each plays an important role in increasing the costs on would-be defectors, enhancing democratic surviving and thus helping to bring these two literatures together. We test our argument with newly collected data from the Varieties of Democracy (V-DEM) project and analyzing all episodes of democratic breakdown from 1900-2010. We find that these organizations exert a robust and substantial effect on the survival of democracies.
"Assessing the Potential for Renegades Among Russian Millennial Lawyers"
Date: March 15
Time: 2:30pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Dr. Kathryn Hendley
For the most part, Russian lawyers have been notable for their passivity. With the exception of a handful of public interest lawyers who have zealously defended human rights activists and others in the Russian domestic courts and in Strasbourg, Russian lawyers have contented themselves with handling routine legal problems for their clients. My work explores whether the generation of Russian lawyers who have recently joined the profession might be different. The analysis is grounded in a nationwide survey of Russian law students who graduated in 2016. It focuses more specifically on those who disapproved of the verdicts in the Pussy Riot case. This subgroup of renegade lawyers is united by a strong belief in democratic values and an equally strong skepticism of the capacity of the Putin regime to move forward on these values, especially as to the rule of law.
"Motivated Cognition on the Bench: Does Criminal Egregiousness Influence Judges’ Admissibility Decisions in Search and Seizure Cases?"
Date: March 20
Time: 11:30am
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey A. Segal
(Sponsored by Stefanie Lindquist, Deputy Provost)
Jeffrey Segal is SU NY Distinguished Professor in the Political Science Department at Stony Brook University, where he has been on the faculty since 1982. He is probably best known for being one of the leading proponents, with Harold Spaeth, of the attitudinal model of Supreme Court decision making. He has twice won the Wadsworth Award for an article or book published at least 10 years earlier that has had a lasting impact on the field of law and courts: first for “Predicting Supreme Court Decisions Probabilistically: the Search and Seizure Cases (1962-1981), 78 American Political Science Review 891 (1984), and next for The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model (with Harold J. Spaeth, Cambridge University Press, 1993). He has won an ABA sponsored award for innovation in teaching law and courts. He also won, with Lee Epstein, Andrew Martin, and Kevin Quinn, Green Bag’s award for excellence in legal writing and. He is a past Guggenheim fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and served as a visiting professor at Harvard during 2017-18.
“Talking Politics: Political Discussion Networks and the New American Electorate” (CLAPR)
Date: March 29
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Professor Marisa Abrajano, University of California, San Diego
(ASU Center for Latina/os and American Politics Research co-sponsored by Pi Sigma Alpha)
Marisa Abrajano is professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests are in American politics, particularly racial and ethnic politics, political participation, voting and campaigns, and the mass media. She is the author of several books, the most recent one entitled White Backlash: Immigration, Race and American Politics (with Zoltan Hajnal), published by Princeton University Press in 2015. It was the recipient of the American Political Science Association's Ralphe Bunche Award for the best book on Race and Politics in 2015.
Fall 2018
"Institutional Challenges to Prosecuting Sexual Assault: Assessing the Military, with Evidence from U.S. Bases in Japan"
Date: August 22
Time: 12:00pm
Location: COOR 6761
Speaker: Carolyn Warner and Mia Armstrong
“Security-civil Liberties Trade-offs: International Cooperation in Extraordinary Rendition”
Date: September 5
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Becki Cordell
"Immigration and Refugee Policy in the U.S. and Europe - The Impact of Electoral Politics"
Date: October 3
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Dr. Terri E. Givens Political Scientist, Consultanty
Terri E. Givens is a Political Scientist and a consultant to educational technology companies and educational institutions. She was the Provost of Menlo College from July 2015 to June 2018. From the Fall of 2003 until the Spring of 2015 she was a Professor in the Government Department at the University of Texas at Austin where she also served as Vice Provost for International Activities and Undergraduate Curriculum from 2006 to 2009, Director of the Robert S. Strauss Center’s European Union Center of Excellence, and Co-Director of the Longhorn Scholars Program. She directed the Center for European Studies and the France-UT Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies from 2004-2006. Her faculty appointments included the LBJ School of Public Affairs, European Studies, and she was affiliated with the Center for Women and Gender Studies, Center for African and African-American Studies and was a Fellow in the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Law and Security. She was a faculty member in the Political Science Department at the University of Washington from 1999 to 2003. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her B.A. from Stanford University. Her academic interests include radical right parties, immigration politics, and the politics of race in Europe. She has conducted extensive research in the European Union, particularly in France, Germany, Austria, Denmark and Britain. She is the author/editor of several books on immigration policy, European politics and security, including Voting Radical Right in Western Europe, Immigration Policy and Security and Immigrant Politics: Race and Representation in Western Europe. Her most recent book is Legislating Equality: The Politics of Antidiscrimination Policy in Europe (Oxford University Press, May 2014).
"Dictators Cry Too: War and Public Support for Authoritarian Leaders"
Date: October 17
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Milos Popovic
“The Degradation of Citizenship”
Date: October 26
Time: 3:00pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Patrick Deneen
(Political Theory Workshop)
Political Theory Workshop/ Brian Blanchard
Date: November 9
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Brian Blanchard
"Environmental Markets and the Distribution of Pollution"
Date: November 14
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Glenn Sheriff
Becki Cordell Workshop Talk
Date: November 28
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Becki Cordell
Spring 2018
Workshop on Latin American Politics
Date: January 12
Time: 12:15pm
Location: COOR 6761
Speaker: Fran Hagopian
The Political Costs of International Cooperation in Extraordinary Rendition
Date: January 17
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Becki Cordell
"When Change is Good: Estimating the Effects of Electoral Reform on Female Political Representation"
"When Change is Good: Estimating the Effects of Electoral Reform on Female Political Representation"
Date: January 31
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Sarah Shair-Rosenfield
“The ‘IR-ization’ of Asia-Pacific Security” (Distinguished Alum)
Date: February 28
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: See Seng Tan
Dr. Tan See Seng is Professor of International Relations and Deputy Director of the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies at RSIS. He is the author/editor of 15 books and monographs, and has published over 70 scholarly articles and book chapters. His latest books include Multilateral Asian Security Architecture: Non-ASEAN Stakeholders and The Making of the Asia Pacific: Knowledge Brokers and the Politics of Representation.
During his time visiting his alma mater, Tan spoke with the SPGS faculty and graduate students about some of his research and findings. Tan was also joined by his former dissertation chair, Sheldon Simon, for a joint lecture co-hosted by the Center for Asian Research. The colloquium featured each colleague covering topics relating to the origins and possible solutions of the South China Sea conflicts.
"Mass Repression and Political Loyalty: Evidence from Stalin's 'Hunger by Terror'"
Date: March 16
Time: 10:00am
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Arturas Rozenas
"Authoritarian Law: Signals from Above"
Date: March 28
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Margaret Hanson
"Why Do Civilians Support Rebels? Evidence from Endorsement Experiments in Dagestan, Russia"
Date: April 11
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Lenka Bustikova
"Dictators and Democrats: Elites, Masses and Regime Change"
Date: April 16
Time: 1:30pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Steph Haggard
(Warren E. Miller Junior Faculty Colloquium)
Inequality has emerged as a suspected barrier to democratic transitions, and a possible cause of reversions to democratic rule. Stephan Haggard’s book with Robert Kaufman (Princeton University Press 2016) challenges this assumption, looking at a set of institutional and more political determinants of regime change during the Third Wave. The argument has implications not only for the developing world, but for the United States as well. It also explores a particular method for studying rare events: the large-n qualitative design.
Stephan Haggard is the Krause Distinguished Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California San Diego. His work in comparative politics has centered on the political economy of development and transitions to and from democratic rule. He is the author of Pathways from the Periphery: The Politics of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries (1990) and with Robert Kaufman of The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions (1995); Development, Democracy and Welfare States (2008) andDictators and Democrats: Elites, Masses and Regime Change (2016). His Developmental States (2018) has just been published in the Cambridge Elements series.
"Starting and Stopping Repressive Spells"
Date: April 25
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Professor Christian Davenport Professor of Political Science & Faculty Associate with Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan
This paper outlines a new way of thinking about as well as analyzing state repression focused around the idea of spells/campaigns. This conceptualization leads to new findings (i.e., what leads to onset and termination) as well as new research questions. The work should shift how policy makers, activists and ordinary citizens think about stopping human rights violations.
Christian Davenport is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan as well as Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. He is the author of numerous books; his most recent, called the Peace Continuum, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. For more see: www.christiandavenport.com
The Rwandan Patriotic Front, the End of Genocide and Political (Il)legitimacy
Date: April 25
Time: 5:30pm
Location: MU room 202
Speaker: Professor Christian Davenport Professor of Political Science & Faculty Associate with Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan
Christian Davenport is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan as well as Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. He is the author of numerous books; his most recent, called the Peace Continuum, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
For more see: www.christiandavenport.com
Fall 2017
"Democratization, Elections and Urban Social Disorder in the Developing World, 1960-2011"
Date: September 6
Time: 12:15pm
Location: COOR 6761
Speaker: Henry Thomson
Climate Change and Human Migration in South Asia
Date: September 15
Time: 10:30am
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Dr. Clark Gray
Should we fear a rising tide of “climate refugees” who will overwhelm developing world cities and international borders? I will present new research that uses large-sample demographic data and high-resolution climate data from South Asia to directly address these concerns and to show that they are substantially (but not completely) unfounded. The findings reveal that, consistent with previous studies, riverine flooding has minimal impacts in population mobility in Bangladesh. Temperature anomalies do have incremental positive effects on mobility in India and Bangladesh (primarily to local destinations), but not Nepal. The implications of these results for the “climate refugees” debate will be discussed.
Clark Gray is a population and human-environment geographer interested in the interactions between rural livelihoods, household well-being, and environmental change in the developing world. Drawing on demographic and statistical methods, his research has investigated environmental influences on human migration around the world, indigenous livelihoods in the Ecuadorian Amazon, and human dimensions of soil degradation in rural Uganda. One research strand focuses on the consequences of environmental change for human migration, an issue that has gained considerable attention in the context of global climate change and recent large-scale natural disasters. Gray’s research on this topic confirms that environmental factors have important influences on migration, but the results are not consistent with Neo-Malthusian predictions that environmental degradation will universally displace permanent migrants over long distances. Instead, the majority of climate migrants are likely to move temporarily and/or over short distances, and some potential migrants are likely to be trapped in place.
"Seeing Blue in Black and White: Race and Perceptions of Officer-Involved Shootings"
Date: September 20
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Fabian Neuner
"Social Movements, Philanthropy and Lawyers: MALDEF and Building an Ethnic Identity" (CLAPR)
Date: September 29
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Benjamin Marquez, University of Wisconsin
(co-sponsored with the Center for Latina/os and American Politics Research)
Social Movements, Philanthropy and Lawyers: MALDEF and the Building an Ethnic Identity
Marquez’s teaching and research interests are in political sociology and American politics. He has published extensively on Latinos and American politics; his research has focused on Mexican American social movement organizations. He is currently the Director of the Chicano/Latino Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin. His latest book, Democratizing Texas Politics: Race, Identity, and Mexican American Empowerment, 1945-2002, was published by the University of Texas Press in 2014. His current project is a book on the Mexican American Legal Defense
and Educational Fund (MALDEF).
"Representative Budgeting: Women Mayors and the Composition of Spending in Local Governments"
Date: October 4
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Kendall Funk
"Negotiated Rights: Ratification, Accession, and Negotiating United Nations Human Rights Treaties"
Date: October 18
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Audrey Comstock
"The Human Rights Ideal, the Marginalization of Lesser Crimes, and the Politics of Establishing the New Kosovo Specialist Chambers"
Date: October 25
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Coor 4403
Speaker: Victor Peskin
The New Precariat: The United States in Comparative Perspective (Kramer Lecture Series)
Date: October 26
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Kathleen Thelen
(Kramer Lecture Series)
Professor Kathleen Thelen is a Ford Professor of Political Science at MIT and President of the American Political Science Association. She was the featured speaker at this year’s Kramer Lecture Series. She spoke with faculty on the afternoon of October 26th on “The New Precariat: The United States in Comparative Perspective”. Her public lecture with students was later that night and was titled “Regulating Uber: The Politics of the New ‘Sharing’ Economy in Europe and the United States”.
Thelen’s work focuses on the origins and evolution of political-economic institutions in the rich democracies. Her two most recent books are Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity (Cambridge, 2014), and Advances in Comparative Historical Analysis (with James Mahoney, Cambridge 2015). Her awards include the Barrington Moore Book Prize (2015), the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award of the APSR (2005), the Mattei Dogan Award for Comparative Research (2006), and the Max Planck Research Award (2003). She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015 and to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in 2009. She has been awarded degrees honoris causa at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam (2013) and at the London School of Economics (2017).
Regulating Uber: The Politics of the New ‘Sharing’ Economy in Europe and the United States (Kramer Lecture)
Date: October 26
Time: 5:00pm
Location: SCOB 228
Speaker: Kathleen Thelen
(Kramer Lecture Series)
Professor Kathleen Thelen is a Ford Professor of Political Science at MIT and President of the American Political Science Association. She was the featured speaker at this year’s Kramer Lecture Series. She spoke with faculty on the afternoon of October 26th on “The New Precariat: The United States in Comparative Perspective”. Her public lecture with students was later that night and was titled “Regulating Uber: The Politics of the New ‘Sharing’ Economy in Europe and the United States”.
Thelen’s work focuses on the origins and evolution of political-economic institutions in the rich democracies. Her two most recent books are Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity (Cambridge, 2014), and Advances in Comparative Historical Analysis (with James Mahoney, Cambridge 2015). Her awards include the Barrington Moore Book Prize (2015), the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award of the APSR (2005), the Mattei Dogan Award for Comparative Research (2006), and the Max Planck Research Award (2003). She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015 and to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in 2009. She has been awarded degrees honoris causa at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam (2013) and at the London School of Economics (2017).
Demographics are (Men's) Destiny: Immigrant Communities and Descriptive Representation in American State Legislatures (CLAPR)
Date: November 1
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Coor 6761
Speaker: Christian Phillips, Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University
(Center for Latina/os and American Politics Research)
Christian Phillips (PhD, UC Berkeley, 2017) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Ohio State University. Her research in American politics is focused on the ways in which policies and political institutions shape the behavior of political elites, and voters. Her particular interest and expertise is in race, gender, and immigrant status as simultaneous, and salient, factors in American politics.
Her current research projects include an analysis of substantive representation by elected officials from immigrant communities, and the ways in which immigration policies and processes inform gender gaps among voters.
Past Workshops & Lectures
Spring 2021
Date | Speaker | Title | Time | Location |
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13-Jan | Thomas M. Wilson, Binghamton University | Brexit from the ground up: Ethnographic perspectives from the Northern Ireland borderzone | 12:00pm | Zoom |
22-Jan | Center for Latina/os and American Politics Research | Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium (PRIEC) Conference 2021 | 8:45am - 3:10pm | Zoom |
25-Jan | The Lowe Family Research Workshop | Anti-Semitism in Comparative Perspective: Recent Trends and Research Frontiers | Zoom | |
3-Feb | Ike Wilson | The Utility of Special Operations: Facing Challenges of Great Power Competition and Compound Security (CFW) | 5:30pm | Zoom |
5-Feb | Allan Colbern and Karthick Ramakrishnan | Citizenship Reimagined: A New Framework for State Rights in the United States (CLAPR) | 12:00pm | Zoom |
10-Feb | Sarah Holewinski | CareerTalk: Human Rights Watch (CFW and Global Human Rights Hub) | 12:00pm | Zoom |
11-Feb | Lenka Bustikova, Jennet Kirkpatrick, Fabian Neuner and Candace Rondeaux | Roundtable: The Rise in Anti-Democratic Violence in the U.S.: Perspectives on the Capitol Insurrection | 12:00pm | Zoom |
11-Feb | Yi-Ling Liu | Inside the Walled Garden: Understanding the Chinese Internet (CFW) | 5:30pm | Zoom |
17-Feb | Ted Johnson | The Challenge of Black Patriotism (CFW) | 5:30pm | Zoom |
19-Feb | David Cortez | Becoming the State: (Im)migration Control and the Weaponization of Brown Bodies (CLAPR) | 1:00pm | Zoom |
23-Feb | Noah Feldman | When Does Resistance Become Insurrection? Free Speech and the Defense of the Republic (CFW) | 5:30pm | Zoom |
24-Feb | Lewis Gordon,University of Connecticut | Black History Month Distinguished Lecture: Lewis Gordon, Freedom, Justice and Decolonization | 2:00pm | Zoom |
5-Mar | Maricruz Osorio | Who is Worthy? Immigrants in a Time of Uncertainty (CLAPR) | 1:00pm | Zoom |
8-Mar | Pardis Mahdavi and Mi-Ai Parrish | Transnational Feminist Movements (CFW) | 5:30pm | Zoom |
11-Mar | Craig Calhoun | Renewal and Remaking of Democracy (CFW) | 5:30pm | Zoom |
15-Mar | Senator Jeff Flake | Extremism, Anti-democratic Violence, and the Second Impeachment Trial: A Conversation with Senator Jeff Flake | 12:00pm | Zoom |
17-Mar | David Schaeffer | Preventing Atrocity Crimes in a Violent World (CFW) | 5:30pm | Zoom |
24-Mar | Beibit Shangirbayeva | Naturalism of freedom of opinion and speech: reflections from overview of the Kazakh customary traditions | 11:30am | Zoom |
25-Mar | Lauren Redniss, Sybil Francis, Steven Tepper | A book talk with Lauren Redniss (CFW) | 5:30pm | Zoom |
30-Mar | David Art | What's Wrong with Populism? | 12:00pm | Zoom |
6-Apr | The Human Economies working group | Global Asymmetries, Digital Extractivism and the Fight for Economic Justice | 1:00pm to 3:00pm | Zoom |
7-Apr | Lenka Bustikova | 'Radical Right Parties and Uncivil Society in Ukraine' (WS) | 11:30am | Zoom |
12-Apr | Margaret Hanson | "Taming the Legislature: Pathways to Authoritarian Consolidation in Central Asia" (WS) | 11:30am | Zoom |
14-Apr | Kiara Boone | From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration | 12:00pm | Zoom |
21-Apr | Thomas Just | "Germany’s Approach to Countering Antisemitism Since Reunification" (WS) | 11:30am | Zoom |
22-Apr | Ernest Caldrón | Reflection on Latinos in Arizona's University System (CLAPR) | 3:00pm | Zoom |
11-May | Jude Joffe-Block, Terry Greene Sterling, Sybil Francis | Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio versus the Latino Resistance (CFW) | 5:30pm | Zoom |
Fall 2020
Date | Speaker | Title | Time | Location |
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2-Oct | Juliet Hooker, Professor of Political Science, Brown University | The Democratic Politics of Racist Monument Removal: Failed Proceduralism vs. Effective Rioting (CLAPR) | 1:00pm | Zoom |
6-Oct | James O’Donnell and Lt. Gen. (ret) Robert Schmidle | The War for Gaul: How Julius Caesar’s Ideas on Strategy Can Help Us Face Contemporary Challenges (CFW) | 5:30pm | Zoom |
8-Oct | Eduardo Sainz, Mi Familia Vota; Lisa Magana, ASU; Lisa Sanchez, UA, Louis Desipio, UC Irvine | Latina/os and the 2020 Elections: Local, State, and National Perspectives (CLAPR) | 5:00pm | Zoom |
14-Oct | Peter L. Bergen, Daniel Rothenberg and Souad Ali | COVID-19 as a ‘Hinge Event’ and Implications for U.S. Security (CFW) | 4:30pm | Zoom |
21-Oct | David Daley | The Voting Rights Crisis and the 2020 Presidential Election | 12:00pm | Zoom |
28-Oct | Nnamdi Igbokwe | Corruption in Context: A question of law or normativity? |
4:30pm | Zoom |
10-Nov | Nnamdi Igbokwe | Corruption’s Comparative Quagmire | 4:30pm | Zoom |
12-Nov | Steve Pfaff | Mobilization for Democracy in East Germany, 1989 to the Present | 12:00pm | Zoom |
18-Nov | James Strickland | Constitutional Lobbying: Democratic Dualism and the Mobilization of Interest Groups | 10:30am | Zoom |
18-Nov | Nnamdi Igbokwe | Social Pandemic and Institutional Pathology |
3:00pm | Zoom |
18-Nov | Heather Hurlburt, Jeannette Haynie and Camille Stewart | Diversity in National Security: How to Ensure More Women Hold Leadership Positions (CFW) | 5:00pm | Zoom |
19-Nov | Daniel Ziblatt | Democracy and Dictatorship in Germany: Lessons for the United States | 1:00pm | Zoom |
2-Dec | Fabian Neuner and Mark Ramirez | Evaluating Social Norms and Tolerance in the Trump Era | 10:30am | Zoom |
2-Dec | Joe Brazda | What Now? The Future of the JCPOA and the Iranian Nuclear Program (CFW) | 5:30pm | Zoom |
Spring 2020
Date | Speaker | Title | Time | Location |
24-Jan | PRIEC | Conference | TBA | TBA |
21-Feb | Frank Baumgartner | Kramer Lecture: "Racial Profiling in US Traffic Stops: Assessing the Evidence" | 2:45pm | CDN 60 |
19-Feb | Chirasree Mukherjee | "Terrorism and Democratic Backsliding: A Case Study of South Asia" | 12pm | Coor 6607 |
6-Mar | Susan Fransechet | "Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender" | 10:30am | Coor 6607 |
Postponed | Jamon Van Den Hoek | "Refugee Camps as Climate Traps?: Current and Future Climate Marginality at One Thousand Refugee Camps" | 12pm | Coor 5536 |
Postponed | Robert Bond | Distinguished Alumni Talk | TBA | TBA |
Postponed | Jenna Bednar | TBA | TBA | TBA |
8-Apr | Haeyong Lim | "Misperception, Redistribution, and Transparency: Does Transparency Increase Redistribution?" | 12pm | Zoom |
Postponed | N/A | SPGS Scholarship Awards Ceremony | 3pm | MU 202 |
Postponed | Milan Svolik (Yale) | Warren Miller Jr. Colloquium | TBA | TBA |
Fall 2019
Date | Speaker | Title | Time | Location |
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4-Sep | James Strickland | "More Women Can Lobby: Explaining Gender Diversity Among Lobbyists in the U.S. States" | 12:00pm | COOR 6607 |
18-Sep | Namig Abbasov | "Individual Preferences on Pro-Western Foreign Policy Orientation: The Evidence from the South Caucasus" | 12:00pm | COOR 6607 |
16-Oct | Daniel Rothenberg | "Naming Evil: The Meaning, Value and Usefulness of Genocide in International Law" | 12:00pm | COOR 6607 |
6-Nov | Margaret Hanson | Corruption and Governance in Authoritarian Regimes | 12:00pm | COOR 6607 |
20-Nov | Valery Dzutsati | Effects of Anomie and Cultural Distance on Public Attitudes toward Territorial Integrity: Evidence from the South Caucasus | 12:00pm | COOR 6607 |
Spring 2019
Date | Speaker | Title | Time | Location |
10-Jan | Michael McQuarrie | "Civil Society and the Ethnonationalist Politics of Trump and Brexit" | 12:00pm | COOR 6761 |
18-Jan | Scott Mainwaring | "Outcomes of Democratic Transitions" | 11:45am | COOR 6761 |
22-Jan | Stephen Ansolabehere | "Representation and Accountability, the Constituent’s Perspective" (Kramer Lecture) | 3:00pm | MU 202 |
30-Jan | Lenka Bustikova | "Far Right Parties and Far Right Armed Voluntary Movements in Ukraine: Complements or Substitutes" | 12:00pm | COOR 6761 |
1-Feb | Sarah Allen Gershon | "Shared Identities: The Intersection of Race and Gender and Support for Political Candidates" (Distinguished Alumni) | 1:30pm | COOR 6761 |
13-Feb | Steve Pfaff | "Sectarianism, and Judicial Terror: The Scottish Witch-Hunt, 1563 - 1736." | 12:00pm | COOR 6761 |
22-Feb | Lisa Baldez | "Ratification of Human Rights Treaties in the United States" | 1:30pm | COOR 6761 |
27-Feb | Michael Bernhard | "Parties, Civil Society, and the Deterrence of Democratic Defection" (Warren Miller Jr. Colloquium) | 12:00pm | COOR 6761 |
15-Mar | Kathryn Hendley | "Assessing the Potential for Renegades Among Russian Millennial Lawyers" | 2:30pm | COOR 6761 |
20-Mar | Jeff Segal | "Motivated Cognition on the Bench: Does Criminal Egregiousness Influence Judges’ Admissibility Decisions in Search and Seizure Cases?" | 11:30 AM | COOR 6761 |
22-Mar | Ben Smith | University of Florida | TBD | TBD |
29-Mar | Marisa Abrajano | “Talking Politics: Political Discussion Networks and the New American Electorate” | 2:00pm | COOR 6761 |
10-Apr | Valerie Hoekstra | Workshop | TBD | TBD |
11-Apr | SPGS Awards Ceremony | TBD | TBD | |
11-Apr | SPGS Social Hour | TBD | TBD |
Fall 2018
Date | Speaker | Title | Time | Location |
22-Aug | Carolyn Warner and Mia Armstrong | "Institutional Challenges to Prosecuting Sexual Assault: Assessing the Military, with Evidence from U.S. Bases in Japan" | 12:00pm | COOR 6761 |
5-Sep | Becki Cordell | “Security-civil Liberties Trade-offs: International Cooperation in Extraordinary Rendition” | 12:00pm | COOR 6761 |
3-Oct | Terri Givens | "Immigration and Refugee Policy in the U.S. and Europe - The Impact of Electoral Politics" | 12:00pm | COOR 6761 |
17-Oct | Milos Popovic | "Dictators Cry Too: War and Public Support for Authoritarian Leaders" | 12:00pm | COOR 6761 |
26-Oct | Political Theory Workshop / Patrick Deneen | “The Degradation of Citizenship” | 3:00pm | COOR 6607 |
26-Oct | Jennifer Cyr | "Between Oligarchy and Populism: Democratic Deficiencies in Latin America" | 1:00pm | COOR 6761 |
2-Nov | Kopf Conference | “New Perspectives on Statebuilding” | TBD | TBD |
9-Nov | Political Theory Workshop / Brian Blanchard | Political Theory Workshop | 3:00pm | COOR 6607 |
14-Nov | Glenn Sheriff | "Environmental Markets and the Distribution of Pollution" | 12:00pm | COOR 6761 |
28-Nov | Becki Cordell | Workshop | 12:00pm | COOR 6761 |
Spring 2018
Date | Speaker | Title | Time | Location |
12-Jan | Fran Hagopian | Workshop on Latin American Politics | 12:15pm | COOR 6761 |
17-Jan | Becki Cordell | The Political Costs of International Cooperation in Extraordinary Rendition | 12:15pm | COOR 6761 |
31-Jan | Sarah Shair-Rosenfield | "When Change is Good: Estimating the Effects of Electoral Reform on Female Political Representation" | 12:30pm | COOR 6761 |
28-Feb | See Seng Tan | “The ‘IR-ization’ of Asia-Pacific Security” | 12:15pm | COOR 6761 |
16-Mar | Arturas Rozenas | "Mass Repression and Political Loyalty: Evidence from Stalin's 'Hunger by Terror'" | 10:00am | COOR 6761 |
28-Mar | Margaret Hanson | "Authoritarian Law: Signals from Above" | 12:15pm | COOR 6761 |
11-Apr | Lenka Bustikova | "Why Do Civilians Support Rebels? Evidence from Endorsement Experiments in Dagestan, Russia" | 12:15pm | COOR 6761 |
16-Apr | Steph Haggard | "Dictators and Democrats: Elites, Masses and Regime Change" | 1:30pm | COOR 6761 |
25-Apr | Christian Davenport | "Starting and Stopping Repressive Spells" | 12:15pm | COOR 6761 |
Fall 2017
Date | Speaker | Title | Time | Location |
6-Sep | Henry Thomson | "Democratization, Elections and Urban Social Disorder in the Developing World, 1960-2011" | 12:15pm | COOR 6761 |
15-Sep | Clark Gray | Climate Change and Human Migration in South Asia | 10:30am | COOR 6761 |
20-Sep | Fabian Neuner | "Seeing Blue in Black and White: Race and Perceptions of Officer-Involved Shootings" | 12:15pm | COOR 6761 |
29-Sep | Benjamin Marquez | "Social Movements, Philanthropy and Lawyers: MALDEF and Building an Ethnic Identity" | 12:30pm | COOR 6761 |
4-Oct | Kendall Funk | "Representative Budgeting: Women Mayors and the Composition of Spending in Local Governments" | 12:15pm | COOR 6761 |
18-Oct | Audrey Comstock | "Negotiated Rights: Ratification, Accession, and Negotiating United Nations Human Rights Treaties" | 12:15pm | COOR 6761 |
25-Oct | Victor Peskin | "The Human Rights Ideal, the Marginalization of Lesser Crimes, and the Politics of Establishing the New Kosovo Specialist Chambers" | 12:15pm | COOR 4403 |
26-Oct | Kathleen Thelen | The New Precariat: The United States in Comparative Perspective - Kramer Lecture Series | Midday | COOR 6761 |
1-Nov | Christian Phillips | Demographics are (Men's) Destiny: Immigrant Communities and Descriptive Representation in American State Legislatures | 12:15pm | COOR 6761 |