International Relations Graduate Research Seminar

Faculty Leader: Faisal Ahmed

Meeting Day/Time: Thursdays, 12:00-1:20 p.m.
Location: 127 Corwin

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.

2021-2022 Schedule of Presentations

Fall Schedule

Date	Speaker(s)	Discussant(s)	Title	Type
09/2/2021	Professor Faisal Ahmed	N/A	Introduction and Overview
09/9/2021	Noam Reich	N/A	Dynamic Screening in International Crises	Practice Job Talk
09/16/2021	Haosen Ge	N/A	Curses or Blessings: How Low Asset Mobility Helps Foreign Firms Gain Government Support	Practice Job Talk
9/23/2021	Fin Bauer	N/A	How Variation in State Image Affects Incentives for Conflict Initiation	Practice Job Talk
9/30/2021	No Seminar	X	X	APSA
10/7/2021	Lauren Konken	N/A	When do trade negotiations Fail? Mapping Canadian and American efforts to negotiate preferential trade agreements (PTAs) (1982-2020)*	Practice Job Talk
10/14/2021	Kathy Ingram	N/A	Competitive Intervention and Sabotage in Civil Wars	Practice Job Talk
10/21/2021	Fall Break	X	X	X
10/28/2021	Megan Brand	N/A	Legal Statecraft in Global Refugee Politics	Practice Job Talk
12/2/2021	In Young Park	Haosen Ge	Competing over Agenda: Economic Interdependence and Polarization at the United Nations	Dissertation Chapter Wallace 300
12/9/2021	Zenobia Chan	Lauren Konken	Cost Contingency, Time Horizons, and the Effects of Economic Inducement	5th Year
12/16/2021	Sojun Park	Sayumi Miyano	Institutional Flexibility and Opportunism : How Do States Navigate TRIPS Flexibilities?	4th Year Robertson 001

Spring Schedule

Date	Speaker(s)	Discussant(s)	Title	Type
01/27/2022	Aurora Ling	Maria Jose Urzua Valverde	Authoritarian Soft Power	3rd Year
02/03/2022	Jeongmin Park / Heather Penatzer	Manasi Bose / Elliot Ji	Recruited Men, Breadwinning Women and the ‘Re-gendering’ of Postwar Societies Cooperative Stalemate: Internationalized Territories and the State System	3rd Year/ZOOM
02/10/2022	Harshal Zalke	Aurora Ling / Zenobia Chan	The Politics of FDI Protectionism	2nd Year
02/17/2022	Dahyun Choi / Ze Han	Kyle Evanoff / Alexander Gazmararian	The Strategic Use of Information by Interest Groups Economic Hardship, Threat Perception, and Vote Choices	3rd Year
02/24/2022	Manasi Bose / Elliot Ji	Daniel Lyng / Ze Han	Rebel Governance and International Recognition Magniﬁer of (In)Credibility: Human Rights Treaty Compliance and Foreign Aid	2nd Year
03/3/2022	Alexander Gazmararian / Rikio Inouye	Dahyun Choi/ Harshal Zalke	Electoral Realignment and Environmental Backlash Donation or Diplomacy? US Vaccine Distribution in a time of Great Power Rivalry	2nd Year
03/10/2022	Spring Break	X	X	X
03/17/2022	Maria Jose Urzua Valverde	Heather Penatzer	Explaining the Salience of International Judgements: The Case of the Rulings of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights	4th Year
03/24/2022	Joseph Ruggiero	Jim Qian	Bargaining, War, and Cooperation in the Long Run	4th Year
*03/29/2022	Sayumi Miyano	Jeongmin Park	Regime Complexity and Overlapping Information: The Case of Energy Projections	5th Year
04/07/2022	Xuancheng Qian	Grace Zeng	AdroitRA: A Deep Learning Model for Information Extraction	5th Year
04/14/2022	Grace Zeng	Esther Robinson	Vetoes and Path Dependence: Why Countries’ Labor and Environmental Provisions in PTAs Exhibit Different Levels of Continuity	4th Year
04/21/2022	Jim Qian	Sojun Park	Domestic Institution and Multinational Profit Shifting	5th Year
04/28/2022	Esther Robinson	Joseph Ruggiero	Acting as Laboratories, Lobbyists, and Leaders: Subnational Governments’ Transnational Cooperation Behavior	5th Year
5/5/2022	Kyle Evanoff / Daniel Lyng	Xuancheng Qian / Rikio Inouye	Transformations of International Order: An Institutional Population Analysis / Do asset holdings influence preferences?	2nd Year