Research in International Politics
Derby Hall Room 2130 (Spencer room)
Faculty Director:
Randall Schweller
Graduate Student Coordinators:
Sebastien Mainville and Kathleen Powers
This forum serves as a venue for the presentation and discussion of international relations research primarily (though not exclusively) by graduate students and faculty of Ohio State's Department of political science. Approximately four times each quarter, speakers present on a topic and engage in a spirited dialogue with the participating audience. The program is meant to showcase research in IR at Ohio State as well as provide students with experience making extended presentations in a friendly yet critical professional environment. All topics, ontologies and methodologies are welcome.
As a brownbag lunch program, all are welcome to bring lunch to the sessions. Papers can be downloaded from the RIP website. Check back here for the date and location of future RIP workshops.
Spring 2012 Schedule
Friday, January 6: 12:00-1:30pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Ted Hopf
Title: "Hegemony and Common Sense"
Figures: 1 and 2.
Friday, January 13: 1:30-3:00pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Xiaoyu Pu
Title: TBA
Friday, February 17: 12:00-1:30pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Bentley Allan
Title: TBA
Friday, February 24: 12:00-1:30pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Tim Luecke
Title: “Political Generations and Change and Stability in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1900-2008”
Autumn 2011 Schedule
Friday, October 7: 12:00-1:30pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Ben Jones and Josh Kertzer
Title: "Overcommitted to Commitment Problems? Intentions, Incentives, and Civil War Duration"
Spring 2011 Schedule
Friday, April 29: 12:00-1:30pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
David Traven
Title: "Moral Knowledge and Public
Discourse"
Wednesday, May 4: 12:00-1:30pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Josh Kertzer
Title: "It's the Economy, Stupid: Cognitive Heterogeneity and Economic Determinants of Foreign Policy Mood"
Friday, May 13: 12:00-1:30pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Bentley Allan
Title: "When Means Change Ends"
Friday, May 27: 12:00-1:30pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Zoltan Buzas
Title: "The Color
of Threat"
Winter 2011 Schedule
Friday, January 7: 12:00-1:30pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
John Mueller
Title: "Terror, Security and Money"
Friday, February 18: 12:00-1:30pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Xiaoyu Pu
Title: "A Theory of Status Signaling in International Politics"
Friday, March 4: 12:00-1:30pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Austin Carson
Title: "Blame Dynamics in Audience Costs Theory"
Friday, March 11: 12:00-1:30pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Marcus Holmes
Title:" Neuroscientific Inquiry and International Relations"
Previous Presentations
Fall 2010
Friday, October 1: 12:00-1:30pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Bear F. Braumoeller and Eleonora Mattiacci
Title: "Consensus, Constraint, and Peacekeeping Success. More May Be Better... And Worse"
Discussant: Benjamin Jones
Friday, October 29th: 12:00-1:30pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Randall Schweller
Title:"The Age of Entropy: Global Disorder in the New Millennium"
Spring 2010
Friday, May 21: 1:00-2:30pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall
TongFi Kim
Title: "Effects of Domestic Politics on Bargaining Power in Long-Term International
Cooperation"
Friday, May 28: 12:00-1:30pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall
Dane Imerman
Title: "Progress in International Politics: Procedural Liberalism and Global Collective
Identity"
Discussant: Phil Jackson
Winter 2010
Friday, January 15: 12:00-1.30pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Joshua Wu
Title: "Soli Deo Gloria? What glory and which god in secular-sacred unions between state and church in international politics."
Friday, January 29: 12:00-1.30pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Nicholas J. Kiersey (Ohio University)
Title: "The ‘Debate about Empire’ and International Relations Theory: Beyond the Narratives of Sovereign and
Imperial Power in Theorizing Modern World Politics."
Friday, March 12: 12:00-1.30pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
John Oates
Title: "Methodological Nationalism in International Theory: Rethinking Sovereignty as Constituent Power"
Discussant: Aldous Cheung
Fall 2009
Friday, October 23: 12:00-1.30pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Joshua D. Kertzer and Kathleen M. McGraw
Title: Folk Realism: Realism in low-information foreign policy contexts
Friday, October 30: 12p-1.30p, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Bear Braumoeller and Austin Carson
Title: How Political Relevance and Democracy Affect Conflict: Two Theoretical Propositions
Spring 2009
Friday, April 17: 3:30-5:00 pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Matthew B. Fehrs
Title: Not only Turkeys and Chickens: Why do hawks make out of character moves?
Friday, May 15, 12:00-1:30 pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Tim Luecke
Title: "Generations and Change in International Politics: The Case of the Generation of 1914"
Friday, May 22, 1:30-3:00 pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Randy Schweller
Title: "Entropy and the Trajectory of World Politics: Why Polarity Has Become Less Meaningful"
Friday, June 5, 12:00-1:30 pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Sonja Amadae
Title: "Cold War, Security Dilemma, and Prisoner's Dilemma: Does Insecurity Rationalize Hegemony?"
Discussant: Eleonora Mattiacci
Winter 2009
Friday, January 16, 12:00 pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Daniel J. Blake and Autumn Lockwood Payton
Title: Decision Making in International Organizations: An Interest Based Approach to Voting Rule Selection
Discussant: Ben Jones
Friday, January 30, 12:00 pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Rob Rakove
Title: Diffusion of Power and Spread of Regional Conflicts
Friday, February 27, 12:00 pm, Spencer Room, Derby Hall.
Eric Grynaviski
Title: Accidental Arms Control: The Mysterious Case of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Discussant: Joshua Kertzer
Fall 2008
Thursday October 30, 11:45 am.
Randall Schweller and Xiaoyu Pu
Title: " Domination and De-legitimation: Eroding Unipolarity and China's Vision for International Order"
Discussant: Zoltán I. Búzás
Friday November 14, 12;00pm.
Matthew Fehrs
Title: TBA
Friday November 21, 12;00pm.
Michael C. Young
Title: Michael C. Young presentation
Friday December 5, 12:00pm
Irfan Nooruddin and Autumn Lockwood Payton
Title: "(pH)alse Promises: BIAs as a Litmus Test for the Strength of International Commitments"
