Faculty Leader: Melissa Lee
Meeting Day/Time: Thursdays, 12:00-1:20 p.m.
Location: 127 Corwin Hall
Papers are posted the Monday afternoon before each presentation. Members of the department may download them by clicking the presentation title in the table below.
2019-2020 Schedule of Presentations
Fall Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Discussant | Title | Type |
| 09/12/2019 | Professor Melissa Lee | N/A | Introduction and Overview | |
| 09/19/2019 | No Meeting | N/A | No Meeting | |
| 09/26/2019 |
Lauren Konken |
Mindy Haas In Young Park |
Silence is Golden? Revisiting Third Party Participation in World Trade Organization Litigation |
4th/5th Year |
| 10/03/2019 | Bryan Schonfeld | Grace Zeng | Revisiting the Relationship Between Access to Credit and Support for Redistribution | 4th/5th Year |
| 10/10/2019 | Tolya Levshin | Job Talk | The Statecraft of Restraint: The Quest for Collective Security in the Shadow of Total War | Job Talk |
| 10/17/2019 | Brendan Cooley | Kathy Ingram | Estimating Policy Barriers to Trade | 4th/5th Year |
| 10/24/2019 | In Young Park | Sayumi Miyano | Betting Against the Status Quo: Trade Policy in the Presence of Uncertainty | 4th/5th Year |
| 12/05/2019 |
R. Bailey Scott Zenobia Chan |
Esther Robinson Sojun Park |
THE INFORMATION GAME State-Sponsored Propaganda in Domestic and Foreign Spaces Great Expectations and Costly Promises: A Theory of Assurance in International Politics |
3rd Year Draft Prospectus |
| 12/12/2019 |
Sayumi Miyano Xuancheng Qian |
Jim Qian In Young Park |
Information from International Organizations: International and Domestic Competition |
3rd Year Draft Prospectus |
| SPRING | ||||
| Date | Speaker | Discussant | Title | Type |
| 02/06/2020 |
Jim Qian Esther Robinson |
James Mao Joseph Ruggiero |
3rd Year Draft Prospectus
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| 02/13/2020 | Kathy Ingram | Ze Han | Competitive Intervention and Sabotage in Civil Wars | 4th/5th Year |
| 02/20/2020 | James Mao | Jeongmin Park | Assessing Bias in U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement | 4th/5th Year |
| 02/27/2020 | James Gilman |
Heather Penatzer Lina Skoglund |
Post-Disaster Participation: Political Engagement after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake | 4th/5th Year |
| 03/05/2020 | Megan Brand | Maria Jose Urzua Valverde | Strategic Origins of Admissible Refugees in International Law | 4th/5th Year |
| 03/12/2020 |
Sojun Park, Joseph Ruggiero, Maria Jose Urzua Valverde, Grace Zeng
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Brendan Cooley, Noam Reich
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Mini APSA 591s |
| 3/31/20 Tuesday |
Mindy Haas Richard Gagliardi |
Zenobia Chan Lauren Konken |
Secrecy and Oversight: U.S. Law and the Domestic Politics of Covert Action Excerpt from Theory Chapter |
4th/5th Year |
| 04/09/2020 |
Haosen Ge
Brendan Cooley |
Dahyun Choi
Bryan Schonfeld |
Curses or Blessings: How Low Asset Mobility Could Help Foreign Firms Gain Government Support
Trade Policy in the Shadow of Power: Quantifying Military Coercion in the International System
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4th/5th Year |
| 04/16/2020 |
Fin Bauer
In Young Park |
Haosen Ge
Lauren Konken |
Image Concerns and International Conflict Rational Cycles of Protectionism: Economic Uncertainty and Trade Policy in the Long Run |
4th/5th Year |
| 04/23/2020 |
Zenobia Chan
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Fin Bauer |
Behind the Screen: Understanding National Support for an Investment Screening Mechanism in the European Union: co-authored project with Dr. Sophie Meunier |
3rd Year
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| 04/30/2020 |
Lauren Konken
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Richard Gagliardi, Xuancheng Qian
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The Politics of Constructive Ambiguity in International Law | 4th/5th Year |
| 05/07/2020 | Noam Reich | How Do States Negotiate? | Practice Job Talk | |
| 05/14/2020 | Noel Foster |
Polarization for Paralysis: |
Practice Job Talk |