International Relations Graduate Research Seminar | Princeton Politics

Faculty Leader

Helen Milner

Meeting Day/Time

Tuesdays, 12:00-1:20PM

Location

Robertson 001

Papers are due 12:00PM on Friday before each seminar and will be posted immediately afterwards. Members of the department may download them by clicking the presentation title in the table below.

2024-2025 Schedule of Presentations

Fall 2024

Date	Presenter(S)	Topic(s)/Title(s)	Discussant(s)
September 3, 2024	Helen Milner	Welcome	N/A
September 10, 2024	Rikio Inouye	Selective Solidary Between Democracies: Racial and Religious Identities Constrain Public Support for Foreign Democracies in Conflict (paper updated September 5, 2024)	Gavin Medina-Hall
September 17, 2024	Sojun Park	Practice Job Talk: Innovation, Imitation, and Political Cleavages in International Trade and Patent Protection	N/A
September 24, 2024	Ze Han	Practice Job Talk: How State Legislators Respond to Chinese Ownership of U.S. Agricultural Land	N/A
October 1, 2024	Alex Gazmararian	Practice Job Talk: Sources of Partisan Change: Evidence from the Shale Gas Shock in American Coal Country	N/A
October 8, 2024	Jeongmin Park	Practice Job Talk: Recruited Men, Breadwinning Women, and the `Re-gendering' of Postwar Societies	N/A
October 22, 2024	Yueyi Li	Battle over Value Chains: How the US Government Addresses Geopolitical Risks with Industrial Policies	N/A
October 29, 2024	Grace Zeng	Practice Job Talk: Ratcheting up Standards: Multinational Corporations in Global Environmental Governance	N/A
November 5, 2024	Harshal Zalke	Investments in the Shadow of Conflict	Hiroto Sawada
November 12, 2024	Elizabeth Bachman & Charlotte Fitzek	Securitizing the Commons? Chinese Views of Sea, Space, and Cyber Space (Bachman) & Survey Experiment: How Organizational Identity Mitigates or Reinforces Reliability Concerns (Fitzek)	Manasi Bose & Heather Penatzer
November 19, 2024	Christian Baehr	Reversing the Resource Curse: The Impact of Fracking on Governance in Resource-Abundant States	Harshal Zalke
December 3, 2024	Tetsekela Anyiam-Osigwe & Elliot Ji	Selling International Organisations: Evidence from Africa (Anyiam-Osigwe) & Access Denied: Adverse Selection and the Hidden Costs of Classified Information (Ji)	Zoë Gorman & Charlotte Fitzek

SPRING 2025

Date	Presenter(s)	topic(s)/Title(s)	Discussant(s)

February 4, 2025	Fiona Bare	Strategic Barriers to Climate Finance Cooperation: Private Information and Institutional Inefficiencies	Alex Gazmararian
February 11, 2025	Gavin Medina-Hall	The Blind Spot: Racial Paternalism, Autonomy, and Foreign Aid	Rikio Inouye
February 18, 2025	Dan Lyng	Causality and Housing: A Bayesian Network Approach	Ze Han
February 25, 2025	Hiroto Sawada	Prospectus	Harshal Zalke
March 4, 2025	Yueyi Li	TBA	Christian Baehr
March 18, 2025	TBD	Visiting Graduate Student Week	TBD
March 25, 2025	Manasi Bose	Rebel Governance and International Engagement: Examining the material payoffs of rebel political institutionalization (Bose)	Zoë Gorman
April 1, 2025	Sun Shen & Quincy Kumfert	TBA	Tetsekela Anyiam-Osigwe (Shen) & Dan Lyng (Kumfert)
April 8, 2025	Hye-Min Yi & Jingzhi Xu	TBA	Yueyi Li & Elizabeth Bachman
April 15, 2025	Steven Han	TBA	Fiona Bare
April 22, 2025	TBD	TBA	TBD
April 29, 2025	TBD	TBA	TBD