CONTACT INFORMATION
GENERAL INFORMATION
4:30- 6:30 p.m.
Pick Hall, Room 506
5828 South University Avenue
Morgan Kaplan
E-MAIL mlkaplan@uchicago.edu
Program on International Security Policy
PISP explores the major theoretical debates and policy issues in the field of international security. The workshop provides a forum for graduate students, Chicago faculty, and outside academics to present original unpublished research, commonly a draft journal article or dissertation/book chapter. Policy experts also come to PISP to share their knowledge of the key issues of the day. Topics include nuclear proliferation, theories of war and peace, American national security policy, military doctrine and organization, and terrorism.
Spring 2013 Workshops
| April 9 | Lindsey O'Rourke (University of Chicago) "When does Covert Regime Change Work? Lessons from the U.S. Interventions during the Cold War" |
| April 16 | Sebastian Rosato (University of Notre Dame) "Intentions in International Politics" |
| April 23 | Kenneth Schultz (Stanford University) "Determinants of Territorial Disputes: A Geospatial Approach Applied to Africa" |
| April 30 | CIR Masters Thesis Panel Committee on International Relations University of Chicago |
| May 7 | Peter Krause (Boston College) "When Does Non-State Violence Work? A Structural Theory of National Movements and Political Effectiveness" |
| May 14 | Kelly Greenhill (Tufts University and Harvard Kennedy School) "Better Than the Truth: Extra-factual Sources of Threat Perception and Proliferation" |
| May 21 | Scott Straus (University of Wisconsin, Madison) "Making and Unmaking Nations: The Origins of Genocide in Independent Africa" |
| May 28 | Keren Fraiman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "The Dynamics of Transitive Compellence: Exploring the Relationship Between Violent Groups and their 'Hosts'" |
| June 4 | Morgan Kaplan (University of Chicago) "Occupied Sovereignty: Understanding Insurgent Strategies of Self-Determination" |
