Project on International Affairs (PIA)

International Relations Speaker Series

The Project on International Affairs (PIA) Seminar Series brings outside speakers to UC San Diego to discuss their research in the field of international relations. These seminars are intended for faculty members and graduate students but are open to all interested members of the academic community and the general public. The calendar is updated frequently, so please check back on this web page for the most current information on upcoming PIA speakers and other special events.

Currently, the PIA speaker series receives generous financial and administrative support from the School of Global Policy & Strategy (GPS), the Division of the Social Sciences, the Political Science Department, and the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation (ILAR). All specific funding sources for individual speakers are acknowledged below.

2015-2016 PIA Events

Coordinators (Emilie Hafner-Burton and Christina Schneider)

May 26, 2016: Gordon Hanson (School of Global Policy & Strategy, UCSD)
"Trade Adjustment and Political Polarization: Evidence from US Local Labor Markets"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA, ILAR, and the American Politics Speakers Series)
April 28, 2016: Judith Goldstein (Standford University)
"TBA"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
April 21, 2016: Emily Ritter (University of California at Merced)
"TBA"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
April 14, 2016: Odette Lineau (Cornell University)
"TBA"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
March 31, 2016: Hein Goemans (University of Rochester)
"TBA"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
March 3, 2016: Stephen Chaudoin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
"The "NIMBY" Effect and Support for International Legal Institutions
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
Feburary 11, 2016: Daniela Donno (University of Pittsburgh)
"Heretics and Infidels: International Legal Commitments and the Enforcement of Human Rights by the EU and the United States"
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA, ILAR, and the LLP of the European Union)
January 12, 2016: Helen V. Milner (Princeton University)
"Public Opposition to Foreign Acquisitions of Domestic Companies: Evidence from the United States and China"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
December 3, 2015: Paul Huth (University of Maryland)
"How Rebels Win (and Why They Loose"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA, ILAR, and the DOD Minerva Initiative )
November 12, 2015: Stefanie Walter (University of Zurich)
"The Electoral Consequences of Offshoring. How Globalization of Production Shapes Party Preferences in Multi-Party Systems"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA, ILAR, and the LLP of the European Union)

2014-2015 PIA Events

Coordinators (Emilie Hafner-Burton, Christina Schneider, and David Victor)

May 30, 2015: Daniel Nielson (Brigham Young University)
"Financial Opportunism Among International Non-Governmental Organizations: A Randomized Global Field Experiment"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
April 24, 2015: Mark Hallerberg (Hertie School of Governance)
"Regime Type and the Fiscal Costs of Financial Crises: New Forms of Political Business Cycles in Europe"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA, ILAR, and the LLP of the European Union)
April 9, 2015: Charli Carpenter (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
"Lost Causes: Agenda-Setting and Agenda Vetting in Global Issue Networks"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
March 5, 2015: Gary Cox (Stanford University)
"The Budgeting Revolution in Europe"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA, the LLP of the European Union, and the American Speaker Series)
February 5, 2015: William Moore (Florida State University)
"Threat Perception & Public Support of Torture"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
November 20, 2014: Joseph Jupille (University of Colorado (Boulder)
"Regionalism in the World Polity"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA, ILAR, and the LLP of the European Union)

2013-2014 PIA Events

Coordinators (Emilie Hafner-Burton, Megumi Naoi, Christina Schneider, and David Victor)

May 29, 2014: Mark Pollack (Temple University)
"What can International Relations Learn from International Law?"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA, ILAR, and the LLP of the European Union)
May 15, 2014: Jessica Weeks (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"Willing and Able: Culpability, Vulnerability and Leaders’ Sensitivity to War Outcomes"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
May 8, 2014: Scott Sagan (Stanford University)
"Atomic Aversion and Just War Doctrine: Evidence from Survey Experiments"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
April 3, 2014: Jesse Driscoll (UCSD)
"Intended and Unintended Consequences of Democracy Promotion Assistance to Georgia after the Rose Revolution"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
February 6, 2014: Julia Gray (University of Pennsylvania)
"External Financing and the Adaptation of International Organizations"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA, ILAR, and the LLP of the European Union)
January 30, 2014: Andrew Coe (University of Southern California)
"Nuclear Russian Roulette: A Model of Proliferation and Preventive War"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
November 21, 2013: Michael Findley (University of Texas at Austin)
"Deceptive Studies or Deceptive Answers? Results from Competing Global Field and Survey Experiments on Anonymous Incorporation"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
October 24, 2013: Layna Mosley (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
"The Politics of Petitions: Interest Groups and Labor Rights in the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences?"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
October 17, 2013: Philip Keefer (World Bank)
"Media Access and Clientelism: The Effects of Community Radio Access on Citizen Preferences for Clientelist Political Promises"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)

2012-2013 PIA Events

Coordinators (Lawrence Broz, Emilie Hafner-Burton, Christina Schneider, and David Victor)

June 6, 2013: Matthew Fuhrmann (Texas A&M University)
"When Leaders Matter: Rebel Experience and Nuclear Proliferation"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA, Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation, and ILAR)
May 30, 2013: Camber Warren (Naval Postgraduate School)
"Explosive Connections? Mass Media, Social Media, and the Geography of Collective Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
May 16, 2013: Aila Matanock (UC Berkeley)
"International Insurance: Why Militant Groups and Governments Compete with Ballots Instead of Bullets"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
May 9, 2013: Maggie Peters (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
"Globalization and Industry Support for Immigration"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
April 2, 2013: Catherine Langois (Georgetown University)
"Can Delegated Deterrence Succeed? A Game Theoretic Model of Cooperation in Counterterror"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
March 21, 2013: Peter Katzenstein (Cornell University)
"Uncertainty, Risk, and the Financial Crisis of 2008"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
February 21, 2013: Madiha Afzal (University of Maryland)
"Gender, Education, and Support for Militant Groups: Evidence From a Public Opinion Survey in Pakistan"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA, IGCC Development and Conflict Research, and ILAR)
February 7, 2013: Christina Davis (Princeton University)
"WTO Adjudication as a Tool for Conflict Management"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
January 24, 2013: Timothy Hellwig (Indiana University Bloomington)
"Retaining the Room to Maneuver? Globalization and Mass Politics"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
October 1, 2012: Mark Hallerberg (Hertie School of Governance)
"The Competence of Economic Policy-makers in OECD Democracies"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
November 15, 2012: Krysztof Pelc (McGill University)
"Shaping Precedent in International Trade Law: A Social Network Application"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)
November 7, 2012: Michael Bechtel (University of St. Gallen)
"Public Support for Global Climate Cooperation"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
(jointly sponsored by PIA and ILAR)

2011-2012 PIA Events

Coordinators (Lawrence Broz, Emilie Hafner-Burton, Christina Schneider, and David Victor)

May 8, 2012: Pablo Pinto (Columbia University)
"Sensitivity to Issue Framing on Trade Policy Preferences: Evidence from a Survey Experiment"
April 26, 2012: Christina Schneider (UCSD)
"Institutional Portfolios and Delegation to Multilateral Aid Institutions"
April 5, 2012: Thomas Bernauer (ETH Zurich)
"Could More Civil Society Involvement Increase Public Support for Global Climate Change Policy?"
March 1, 2012: Mark Copelovitch (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
"Currency Wars' by Other Means? Exchange Rates and WTO Dispute Initiation"
February 16, 2012: Yotam Margalit (Columbia University)
"Who Supports Bailing Out Other Countries and Why?n"
February 9, 2012: Mike Tomz, Stanford University
"An Experimental Investigation of the Democratic Peace"
February 2, 2012: Megumi Naoi, UC San Diego
"Framing Business Interests: How Campaigns Shape Firms’ Positions on Preferential Trade Agreements"
January 19, 2012: Jana von Stein,University of Michigan
"The Autocratic Politics of Human Rights Agreement Ratification"
December 1, 2011: Nikolay Marinov, Yale University *Cancelled*
"Foreign Support and Electability"
October 27, 2011: Helen Milner, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
"Sailing the Water's Edge: Where Domestic Politics Meets Foreign Policy"
October 13, 2011: Shuhei Kurizaki, Texas A&M University
"Diplomacy, Pre-crisis Communication, and War"
October 6, 2011: Jesse Driscoll, UC San Diego
"Commitment Problems or Bidding Wars? Rebel Fragmentation as Peace-Building"

2010-2011 PIA Events

Coordinators (Erik Gartzke, Emilie Hafner-Burton, Christina Schneider, and David Victor)

May 12, 2011: Nita Rudra, University of Pittsburgh
"Good for the Goose, Bad for the Flock? Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Developing Countries"
April 21, 2011: Marc Busch, Department of Government Georgetown University
"Protectionism in Hard Political Times"
March 3, 2011: Jon Pevehouse, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Domestic Politics and the Design of International Agreements"
February 24, 2011: Jason Lyall, Yale University
"Blame Attribution and Support for Combatants During Civil War: Evidence from an Experiment in Afghanistan"
January 20, 2011: Michael Horrowitz, University of Pennsylvania
"How Prior Military Experience Influences the Future Militarized Behavior of Leaders"
December 2, 2010: Jack Snyder, Columbia University
"The Cost of Empty Threats: A Penny, Not a Pound"
November 19, 2010: David Cunningham, Iowa State University
“Combining Civil and Interstate Wars”
November 18, 2010: Susan Hyde, Yale University
“Terrorizing Freedom: When Governments Use Repression to Manipulate Elections”
October 28, 2010: Andrew Enterline, University of North Texas
"Dyads De Novo? The Origin of State Pairs, Systems & Behavior in International Politics"
October 14, 2010: Michael Gilligan, New York University
"Civil War and Social Capital: Behavioral-Game Evidence from Nepal"

2009-2010 PIA Events

Coordinators (Lawrence Broz, Erik Gartzke, Emilie Hafner-Burton, and David Victor)

April 22, 2010: Beth Simmons, Harvard University
"Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics"
April 5, 2010: Christian Davenport, University of Notre Dame
"M2P (The Means to Protect): Understanding What Shortens Genocidal Violence"
April 1, 2010: Erik Voeten, Georgetown University
"Do Positions of Authority Increase Cooperation with International Organizations? Evidence from the International Criminal Court and the UN Security Council"
Feb. 25, 2010: Muhammet Bas, Harvard Unversity
"Stochastic Shocks, Bargaining and War"
February 16, 2010: Tal Sadeh, Tel Aviv University
"In the Vanguard of Globalization: The OECD and International Capital Liberalization"
February 4, 2010: Ed Mansfield, University of Pennsylvania
"Regime Type, Veto Players, and Preferential Trading Arrangements"
December 2, 2009: Robert Keohane, Princeton University
"Social Norms and Agency in World Politics"
November 17, 2009: Peter Rosendorff, New York University
"Domestic Politics and the Accession of Authoritarian Regimes to Human Rights Treaties"
October 15, 2009: Robert Trager, University of California, Los Angeles
"Managing the Maddening Crowd: Presidential Approval After International Crises"

2008-2009 PIA Events

Coordinators (Lawrence Broz and Erik Gartzke)

September 30, 2008: David Stasavage, New York University
"The Conscription of Wealth: Mass Warfare and the Demand for Progressive Taxation"
November 5, 2008: Michael Ward, University of Washington
"Empirical Network Models of International Commerce and International Conflict"
December 3, 2008: Gary Goertz, University of Arizona
"Ceilings and Floors: When Theories and Data are About Boundaries Not Central Tendencies"
January 7, 2009: Randall Stone, University of Rochester
"Informal Governance: International Organizations and the Limits of U.S. Power"
March 5, 2009: Michael Ross, University of California, Los Angeles
"Oil and Democracy Revisited"
May 14, 2009: Erik Voeten, Georgetown University
"Borrowing and Non-Borrowing Among International Courts"

2007-2008 PIA Events

May 15, 2008: Judith Goldstein, Stanford University
"Producer, Consumer Family Member: The Relationship Between Trade Attitudes and Family Status"
November 7, 2007: Robert Rauchhaus, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Evaluating the Nuclear Peace Hypothesis: A Quantitative Approach"
November 15, 2007: Christopher Gelpi, Duke University
"Let's Get a Second Opinion: International Institutions and American Public Support for War"
February 12, 2008: Michael Tomz, Stanford University
"The Credibility of International Commitments"
April 22, 2008: Richard Steinberg, UCLA School of Law
"The Rise of Judicial Liberalization at the WTO"

2006-2007 PIA Events

February 8, 2007: Robert Walker, Washington University in Saint Louis
"Institutional Democracy Need Not Limit the Abuse of Human Rights"
March 1, 2007: Robert Trager, University of California, Los Angeles
"Power and Agency: How Past Diplomacy Determines the Choice of Sides"
March 9, 2007: Ahmer Tarar, Texas A&M
"War and Incomplete Information"
March 15, 2007: Mia Bloom, University of Georgia in Athens
"Sectarian Killings in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq: The Metamorphosis of Suicide Terrorism"
April 11, 2007: Kati Suominen
"Regional Trade Agreements and Global Cooperation"
June 8, 2007: Scott Gartner, University of California, Davis
"Casualties and Public Opinion in War: An Experimental Approach"

2005-2006 PIA Events

November 2, 2005: Nathan Jensen, Washington University
"Measuring Risk: Political Risk Insurance Premiums and Domestic Political Institutions."
November 30, 2005: S. Brock Blomberg, Claremont McKenna College
"How Much Does Violence Tax Trade?"
January 11, 2006: Ron E. Hassner, University of California, Berkeley
"The Path to Indivisibility: Time and the Entrenchment of Territorial Disputes."
March 20, 2006: James Fearon, Stanford University
"Self-Enforcing Democracy"
March 24, 2006: Andrew Kydd, Harvard University
"Strategies of Terrorism"
April 4, 2006: Eiko Thielemann, London School of Economics and Political Science
"International Trade in the Provision of Transnational Collective Goods"
April 17, 2006: Jeffrey Friedan, Harvard University
"The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy"
April 26, 2006: Marc Trachtenberg, University of California, Los Angeles
"Preventive War and U.S. Foreign Policy"
April 28, 2006: James Morrow, University of Michigan
"Patterns of Compliance with the Laws of War"

2003-2004 PIA Events

November 10, 2003: James Vreeland, Yale University, and Global Fellow at the UCLA International Institute
"Why Governments enter into the UN Convention Against Torture"
gNovember 12, 2003: Daniel Nielsen, Brigham Young University
"A Problem of Principals: Common Agency and Social Lending at Multilateral Development Banks”
December 3, 2003: Barbara Koremenos, University of California, Los Angeles
"International Law for an Uncertain Environment"
December 10, 2003: Kenneth Schultz, University of California, Los Angeles
"Could Humphrey Have Gone to China? Measuring the Electoral Costs and Benefits of Making Peace"
January 12, 2004: Lars Erik Cederman, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS)
"Generating State-Size Distributions: A Geopolitical Model"
January 15, 2004: Hein Goemans, Duke University
"Leaders and War"
March 11, 2004: Michael Tomz, Stanford University
"Membership Has its Privileges: Understanding the Effects of GATT and the WTO on World Trade"
March 15, 2004: David Leblang, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Elections, Partisan Politics and Stock Market Performance: Theory and Evidence from a Century of American and British Returns"
April 29, 2004: Beth Simmons, Harvard University
"Competing for Capital: The Diffusion of Bilateral Investment Treaties, 1960-2000"
May 20, 2004: Risa Brooks, Northwestern University
"Civil-Military Relations and Strategic Assessment"

2002-2003 PIA Events

October 23, 2002: Donald Wittman, University of California, Santa Cruz
"War or Peace?"
November 20, 2002: Peter Rosendorff, University of Southern California
"Democracy and the Supply of Transparency"
November 26, 2002: Mark Hallerberg, University of Pittsburgh
"Forms of Fiscal Governance”
December 4, 2002: Jack Levy, Rutgers University
"Hegemonic Threats and Great Power Balancing in Europe, 1494-2000"
January 8, 2003: Suzanne Werner, Emory University
"Bargaining and Fighting: The Impact of Regime Type on War Onset, Duration, and Outcomes"
January 22, 2003: Daryl Press, Dartmouth College
"Does Backing Down Reduce Credibility? Evidence from the Cuban Missile Crisis”
February 19, 2003: Benjamin Fordham, University at Albany-SUNY
"The Influence of Military Capabilities on Decisions to Use Force"
March 21, 2003: John Mueller, Ohio State University
"The Remnants of War: Thugs as Residual Combatants”
April 9, 2003: Richard Ned Lebow, Dartmouth College
"Counterfactuals for Fun or Profit?"
June 11, 2003: Barbara Walter, UCSD
"Explaining Cycles of Terrorist Violence”

2001-2002 PIA Events

October 25, 2001: Robert Staiger (co-sponsored by the Applied Micro Workshop), University of Wisconsin
"The International Organization and Enforcement of Labor Standards"
November 14, 2001: Gene Grossman (co-sponsored by the Applied Micro Workshop), Princeton University
"International Protection of Intellectual Property"
February 15, 2002: Barry O'Neill, University of California, Los Angeles
"Resolving Conflicts Between Honor-Based Societies"
March 1, 2002: Richard Ned Lebow, Ohio State University
"Counterfactuals for Fun or Profit?"
March 8, 2002: Jon Pevehouse, University of Wisconsin
"Democracy from Above? Regional Organizations and Democratization”
March 15, 2002: Erik Gartzke, Columbia University
"Alliances, Perceptions, and International Politics"
April 19, 2002: Todd Sandler, University of Southern California
"An Economic Perspective on Transnational Terrorism"
May 1, 2002: Robert L. Powell, University of California at Berkeley
"Bargaining While Fighting"
May 17, 2002: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, New York University
"When Bad Policy is Good Politics"