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

TBA

Fiona Bare
April 22, 2025 Richard Yarrow TBA Sun Shen