Past WIRC speakers:
Fall 2011
Menzie Chin - "Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery"
Leslie Johns and Krzysztof Pelc - "On the Strategic Manipulation of Audiences in WTO Dispute Settlement"
David Lake - "Domestic Politics of International Hierarchy: Indirect Rule in the American System"
Peter Katzenstein - "Many Wests and Polymorphic Globalism"
Erik Gartzke - "Power, Parity and Proximity: How Distance and Uncertainty Condition the Balance of Power"
Andy Kydd and Roseanne McManus - "Threats and Assurances in International Crises"
Spring 2011
Barbara Koremenos - "The Rational Design of Human Rights Agreements"
Joshua Goldstein - "Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide"
James Vreeland - "Trading Asian Development Bank Loans for UN Security Council Votes"
Vipin Narang - "Deterring Unequally: The Deterrence Consequences of Regional Power Nuclear Postures"
Aseema Sinha - "When David meets Goliath: How Global Markets and Rules are Shaping India's Rise to Power"
Tonya Putnam - "U.S. Courts, Private Actors and International Projection of Domestic Regulatory Rules"
Helen Kinsella - "Afghan Good Enough"
Fall 2010
Katja Favretto - "Does Ethnicity Affect Peace? Ethnic Pluralism and Mediation in Interstate War"
David Pervin - "Book Publishing for Political Scientists"
Jacob Shapiro - "Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq"
Mark Copelovitch - "Rationalist in Context: Rethinking Approaches to the Design of International Agreements"
Alexandre Debs and Nuno Monteiro - "Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself? Nuclear Proliferation and Preventive War" Stathis Kalyvas - "Did Marxism Make a Difference? Marxist Rebellions and National Liberation Movements"
Spring 2010
Lisa Martin - "Against Compliance: Conceptualizing and Measuring Institutional Effects"
Anne Sartori - "International Reputation and Learning with Dynamic Resolve"
Allam Stam - "Understanding the 1994 Rwanda Civil War"
David Singer - "Migrant Remittances and Exchange Rate Regimes in the Developing World"
Jeffry Frieden - "The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Regimes in Transition Economies"
Andy Kydd and Scott Strauss - "Third Party Intervention and Genocide"
Fall 2009
Jon Pevehouse - "Democratization and Human Rights Institutions"
Katja Favretto - "Should Peacemakers Take Sides? Major Power Mediation, Coercion, and Bias"
Courtney Hillebrecht - "A la Carte Compliance"
Mark Copelovitch and Dave Ohls - "In Defense of Trade"
Bear Braumoeller - "System, State, and Citizen"
Tana Johnson - "The Role and Effect of Intergovernmental Organizations in Institutional Design"
Spring 2009
Keir Lieber - "How Much is Enough? Nuclear Deterrence Then and Now"
Tim Hildebrandt - "Same-sex Marriage in China?"
Alexander Downes - "Targeting Civilians to Win?"
Yasushi Asako - "Bombs and Ballot Boxes"
Ron Hassner - "Blasphemy and Violence"
Fall 2008
Byron Shafer - "The American Public Mind" (Foreign Policy chapters)
Irfan Nooruddin - "Voting for Peace"
Spring 2008
Branislav Slantchev - "Feigning Weakness"
Alexander Thompson - "Rational Design in Motion"
Mark Copelovitch - "Uncertainty, Context, and the Duration of International Agreements"
Fall 2007
Andrew Kydd - "Terrorism and Profiling"