International Relations/Foreign Policy Working Group

A joint enterprise with the John Sloan Dickey Center, the International Relations/Foreign Policy Working Group provides a venue for members to receive feedback on their manuscripts and to debate new work in the field of security studies.

Spring 2008 schedule, all sessions held from 3-4:30 p.m. at the Dickey Center, Class of 1957 Library in Haldeman 353, unless otherwise noted.

For more information or to RSVP, please contact
Christianne Hardy Wohlforth by email or by calling (603) 646-4079.

Previous Presentations :

Michael Herron, B.S., M.A., M.S., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College, "Sufficient Conditions for Inference Based on One Hard Case"

Jacques Hymans, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Government, Smith College, "Understanding India's soft power...and vulnerability"

Jason Lyall, B.A., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Politics & International Affairs, Princeton University, "Identity and War: A Matched Analysis of War Outcomes Since 1800"

Dr. Eugene Gohlz, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Public Affairs, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin, "Political-Military Analysis of Threats to Oil Flows through the Strait of Hormuz"

Jennifer Lind, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth College, "Understanding Regime Resilience in North Korea"

Matthew Kocher, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Program on Order, Conflict and Violence, The MacMillan Center, Yale University, Topic To Be Announced

Jonathan Caverley, A.B., M.P.P., Research Fellow, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, University of Chicago, “Why the U.S. will Continue to Fight Small Wars...Poorly"

Ron Edsforth, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Visiting Professor of History, Dartmouth College, "The Cold War and the Global Proliferation of Nonviolent Politics"

Ned Lebow, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government, Dartmouth College, "Forbidden Fruit: Counterfactuals and International Relations"

William C. Wohlforth, Chair, Department of Government, Dartmouth College, "Unipolarity and Status Competition"

Dr. Charles Jones, Professor of International Relations, Cambridge University, "War and Cinema"

Page Fortna, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University,
"Peacekeeping and War Termination"

Ned Lebow, James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government, Dartmouth College "Counterfactuals and Politics"

Joseph Bafumi, Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
"International Polarity and Domestic Polarization: Explaining American Disunity"

Bridget Coggins, Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
"A Gentleman's "C" for Failing States? Engagement and Decertification"

David Cameron, Professor of Political Science at Yale University and Director of the Yale Program on European Union Studies
"The Uncertain Fate of the EU's Constitutional Treaty"

Roger Masters, Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government Emeritus, Dartmouth College "Strategic Implications of Internet Use by Transnational Terrorist Networks"

Alan Kuperman, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin
"Unsung Humanitarian Intervention: How Small-Scale Deployment Averted a Bloodbath in Liberia"

James B. Murphy, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
"Power Reconsidered"

Dave Kang, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
"What the Imjin War tells us about International Relations Theory"

Allan Stam, Daniel Webster Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
“Domestic Institutions and Wartime Casualties”

Campbell Craig, Professor of International Relations, University of Southhampton
"Resistance is Futile: The Nuclear Revolution and the Persistence of US Unipolar Preponderance"

John Hall, Chair and Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College and John Campbell, Class of 1925 Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College
"The Political Economy of Scale with Special Reference to Denmark"

Alexander B. Downes, Assistant Professor Political Science, Duke University

M. Taylor Fravel, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Discussion of "Success Matters: Casualty Sensitivity and the War in Iraq," Gelpi, Feaver, Reifler (International Security 30:3 Winter 2005/6 and "The Iraq Syndrome" by John Mueller, Foreign Affairs Nov/Dec 2005

Michael Cox, Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics
"The Cold War and International Order”

C. William Walldorf, Postdoctoral Fellow of Government, Dartmouth College
"Agents of Change: Non-State Actors and Humanitarian Norms in U.S. Alliance Relationships"

Luncheon with Aaron Freidberg, Princeton University, discussing his experience working on Dick Cheney's National Security staff.

Jon Pevehouse, Assistant Professor Political Science, University of Wisconsin
"Democracy, Democratization, and International Human Rights Institutions"

Ned Lebow, James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
“Fear, Interest and Honor: A Theory of International Relations”

John A. Hall, Professor, Sociology, Dartmouth College
"Passions within Reason"

Kristopher Ramsay, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Princeton University
"The Balance of Power with Farsighted Coalitions"

DingDing Chen, Visiting Instructor of Government, Dartmouth College
“Agency Matters: Toward an Agentic Approach to International Relations”

Tanisha Fazal, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia
"Power and Proximity: Why Only Some States Fight for Survival"

Ben Valentino, Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
"War by Other Means: The Fate of Civilians in Times of War"

Allan Stam, Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
"The Education of Political Leaders and the Onset of War"

Etel Solingen, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine
"The Foundations of War and Peace in East Asia and the Middle East"

Jennifer Lind, Visiting Assistant Professor, Research Fellow, Dartmouth College
"Democratization and Stability in East Asia"

Leslie Vinjamuri, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
"Strategies of Justice and Postwar Settlements 1945-2004"

Rose McDermott, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
"The Psychology of Terror and the Politics of Fear"

Linda Fowler, Professor, Dartmouth College
"The Semi-Sovereign Senate and the Decline of Institutional Competence in U.S. Foreign Affairs"

Ned Lebow, Professor, Dartmouth College
"Fear, Honor and Interest: Outlines of a Theory of International Relations"

Peter Trubowitz, Associate Professor of Government, University of Texas, Austin
"Presidents, Politics and Grand Strategy"

Daryl Press, Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth College

Erik Voeten, Assistant Professor of Political Science, George Washington University
"Public Opinion, the War in Iraq, and the President"

Mark Stein, Visitng Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
"The International Food Stamp"

Randall Schweller, Associate Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University
"Unanswered Threats: Domestic Contraints on the Balance of Power"

Ron Edsforth, Visiting Professor of History, Dartmouth College
"Portsmouth Peace Treaty Process"

Jennifer Lind, Dickey/Rockefeller Post Doctoral Fellow In International Relations, Dartmouth College
"Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics"
Manuscript Review: Outside reviewers Robert Jervis and Jack Snyder, Columbia University

Peter Katzenstein, Professor of Political Science, Cornell University
"Regionalism in Asia and Europe"

David Kang, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
"Does the UN Alliance System in Asia Balance Power?"

Ian Hurd, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
"Arguing About Law and Legitimacy: The Security Council and the Libyan Sanctions 1993-2003"

Richard Ned Lebow, James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
"Order and Security"

Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth, Department of Government, Dartmouth College
"International Relations Theory and the Case Against the 'New Unilateralism'"

Beth Simmons, Professor of Government, Harvard University
"Compliance with international Human Rights Agreements: Women's Equality: Education, Work and Reproduction"