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	Natural Disasters, Asymmetric Exposure, and War: Why Empirical Evidence on Climate Conflict is Mixed	Harshal Zalke
March 4, 2025	Yueyi Li	Security by Design: Industrial Policy Beyond Growth	Christian Baehr
March 18, 2025	Alex Gazmararian	Driving Labor Apart: Climate Policy Backlash in the American Auto Corridor	Fiona Bare
March 25, 2025	Manasi Bose	Rebel Governance and International Engagement: Examining the material payoffs of rebel political institutionalization	Elliot Ji
April 1, 2025	Sun Shen & Quincy Kumfert	From Commitment to Exit: Presidential Power and the Making of International Agreements in the U.S. (Shen) & Triggered: Domestic Salience, Protracted Conflicts, and Escalation Into Crisis (Kumfert)	Tetsekela Anyiam-Osigwe (Shen) & Dan Lyng (Kumfert)
April 8, 2025	Hye-Min Yi & Jingzhi Xu	When the Power to Hurt Backfires: Audience Cost, Dyadic Regime Type, and the Effectiveness of China’s Economic Sanctions (Yi) & Old Vessels, New Cargo: How Supply Chain Imperatives Are Reshaping Foreign Aid Allocation (Xu)	Yueyi Li & Elizabeth Bachman
April 15, 2025	Steven Han	Immigrant Backlash and Inventor Migration	Fiona Bare
April 22, 2025	Richard Yarrow	The Second Image Reversed in Elite Chinese Science: Institutional Upgrading and Internationalized Norms in the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2000	Sun Shen