Research in International Politics Workshop (RIP)
The Research in International Politics (RIP) Workshop serves as a venue for the presentation and discussion of international relations (IR) research primarily (though not exclusively) by graduate students and faculty of the Department of Political Science. Every week, speakers present on a topic and engage in a spirited dialogue with the participating audience. The program is meant to stimulate novel research in IR as well as provide students with a friendly yet professional environment where they can discuss their work at any stage of research and practice job talks. All topics, ontologies and methodologies are welcome.
Please contact graduate student coordinators at rip@osu.edu if you have any questions, comments or concerns.
Fall 2024 Schedule
Workshops are held on Fridays from 1-2:20 PM in the Spencer Room (Derby 2130) unless the location or time is otherwise noted. You may also attend the workshop via the Zoom link, although in-person in the Spencer Room is highly encouraged.
Sept 13, 2024, Gabriel Gorre, "The Reproductive Cycle of Hegemony: Passive Revolution, Race, and International Order."
Sept 20, 2024, Adrian Calmettes, "Understanding International Organizations Infrastructurally: How Big-Tech Assemble the United Nations."
Sept 27, 2024, Benjamin Falcon, "The Little Ice Age and the Making of IR: A Green Alternative to the Westphalian Myth."
Oct 4, 2024, Dominic Pfister, "Ordered International Practice."
Oct 18, 2024, Jyhjong Hwang. Discussant: Ra'phael Davis.
Oct 25, 2024 (Derby 2078), Kaveri Sarkar, "Scientification as De-racialization: Race, Scientific Knowledge, and the Vietnam War in Disciplinary IR."
Nov 8, 2024, Christy Oh, "Introduction to LLMs."
"This special session is open to everyone who is interested in how LLMs may intersect with social science research. I must note that I attended the workshop with close to zero knowledge on the subject matter, and what I gleaned was accordingly limited than would have been for those with more background knowledge going in. In other words, I will be talking with those like myself in mind - those who want to explore the option of using LLMs or addressing LLM-relevant issues in their research but have no prior experience. Advanced users may not find the session as helpful. That said, I found the knowledge I gained to be very helpful in following the Socio-Political Analysis and AI job talks better than I would have otherwise, understanding domain-specific lingo, and engaging in discussions with scholars during student meetings. I will also provide a brief introduction about the workshop for those who may be interested in attending next year."
Nov 15, 2024, Dr. Rick Herrmann (with Nikola Jovic),"Advantages of affinity and the costs of enmity: How identity dispositions motivate popular reactions to commercial deals with foreigners, a Serbian case study."
Nov 22, 2024, SoYun Chang, Dr. Alex Thompson, (with Jieun Oh), “Public Support for Restrictive Border Policies during Transnational Health Crises.”
Spring 2024 Schedule
Mar 29, 2024, Gabriel Gorre, "The Nightmare of the Liberal Order: Gramsci, Racial Capitalism, and Passive Revolution in the Periphery."
Apr 5, 2024, Benjamin Falcón, "The Little Ice Age and the Making of IR: A Green Critique of the Westphalian Myth."
Apr 10, 2024, Special RIP Session, Prof. Adam Lerner, "Taking Ideas Seriously in the Study of Norm Entrepreneurship: Bohuslav Ečer and the Criminality of Aggressive War."
Apr 12, 2024, José O. Pérez, "Global Migration Governance: Actors, Structures, and Networks of Venezuelan Migration in Brazil."
Spring 2023 Schedule
Feb 10, 2023, Minseon Ku & Brian Finch, "The Forgotten War’: Willful Ignorance, Ontological (In)Security, and the Korean War."
Mar 3, 2023, Zhiqin Gao, "The Transformation of East Asian Politics, 1368-1420."
Mar 24, 2023, Christy Oh & Christopher Gelpi, “Democracy Hacked? Public Opinion and Foreign Cyber Influence Operations During Elections.”
Mar 31, 2023, Christian Godwin, "Conceptualizing a Total State: The State as an Organism in IR Theory."
Apr 7, 2023, Alexander Wendt, "The Pentagon, National Security, and the UFO: The Crisis of Anthropocentric Sovereignty."
Apr 14, 2023, Maryum Alam
Apr 21, 2023, Sefa Secen, "Ontological (In)Security and Syrian Refugees in Turkey."
Fall 2022 Schedule
Sept 14, 2022, Liuya Zhang, “A Study on National Sentiment toward Foreign Countries and Its Relationship with Economic Interdependence.”
Sept 21, 2022, Haoming Xiong, "Competing Chinese Conceptions of International Order."
Sept 28, 2022, Sooyeon Kang (Mershon Postdoc), Job Talk Practice, "Upping the ante without taking up arms: Why mass movements escalate demands."
Oct 5, 2022, Yasin Ismail, "Quest for Recognition: Taliban's Diplomacy in the Context of Internal Constraints and Prescriptive International Norms."
Oct 19, 2022, David Peterson, Job Talk Practice, "Unity Through Pessimism Mistrust and the Emergence of Political Agency."
Oct 26, 2022, Cameron Macaskill, "Legacies of Federation and Decolonial Futures: Examining African Regional Integration." Discussant: Brooks Marmon (Mershon Postdoc).
Nov 2, 2022, Maryum Alam & Alan van Beek, "Refining the known unknowns? Modeling and measuring uncertainty."
Nov 18, 2022, Adrian Calmettes & Dominic Pfister, "The World Economic Forum in Global Governance: Gaining Authority through the Technological ‘Turbulence in World Politics’ Discourse."
Nov 30, 2022, Andy Goodhart, "Measures of International Order."
Spring 2022 Schedule
Feb 17, 2022, Joseph Stieb (Mershon Postdoc), "The Stickiness of Terrorism in U.S. Foreign Policy: A Cultural and Political Explanation."
Mar 3, 2022, Christian Godwin, "The Feasibility of Global Hegemony."
Mar 10, 2022, Laurie Georges, "The Nation Lens, Ontological Security and Protracted Conflicts: Bringing the Epistemology of Ignorance to IR."
Mar 24, 2022, Chris Ray, "Dark Arts: Expert Analysis and Sorcery in US Foreign Policy."
Apr 7, 2022, Jared Rabinowitz, "Making Territory: Expansionism and the Status of U.S.-Claimed Guano Islands."
Apr 14, 2022, Dominic Pfister & Adrian Calmettes, "Disrupting Technologies, Disrupted Governance: The WHO, the WEF, and the Global Governance of Digital Mental Health."
Apr 28, 2022, Maryum Alam & Daniel Smith, "No threats beyond the horizon? Reexamining the political geography of alliance formation."
Fall 2021 Schedule
Sept 24, 2021, Christian Godwin, “Realism All the Way Down: America’s Pursuit of Global Hegemony.”
Oct 1, 2021, Liuya Zhang, “North Korean Peace Proposals 1998-2021: An Empirical Approach.”
Oct 8, 2021, Maryum Alam, “Hysteresis, and Cost-Benefit Assessments in Foreign Policy.”
Oct 22, 2021, Chris Ray & Chris Gelpi, “The Anxious Public.”
Oct 29, 2021, Andy Goodhart, “The Desire to Do Something: Explaining U.S. Public Support for Ineffectual Foreign Policy Interventions.”
Nov 5, 2021, Maryum Alam, "Give it some time? Psychological frames, intertemporal choice, and hysteresis in sunk cost assessments."
Nov 12, 2021, Caleb Pomeroy, Job Talk Practice.
Nov 19, 2021, Seoeun Yan, “Measuring countries’ policy attention using UNGA draft resolutions.”
Dec 3, 2021, Adrian Calmettes, “Diffusing What? Science, Technology, and Artificial Intelligence in Global Governance -- The role of cosmologies in Global Governance’s self-undermining mechanisms.”
Spring 2021 Schedule
Feb 1, 2021, Minseon Ku & Jennifer Mitzen, “Trusting Anarchy: Summits and the Production of State Personhood.”
Feb 15, 2021, Jared Edgerton Practice job talk, “In- and out-group cooperation and competition in the international system.”
Feb 22, 2021, Jyhjong Hwang, “From Profits to Grand Strategy: An international political economy theory of arms transfers.”
Mar 1, 2021, Erik Wisniewski & Grant Sharratt, “The Digital Revolution, Global Populism, and Instability in the International system.”
Mar 8, 2021, Natalie Romeri-Lewis, “From Law to Action to Reporting: An Original Dataset on How Post-Conflict and Post-Repression Human Rights Bodies Investigate Abuses Against Women.”
Mar 15, 2021, Erik Wisniewski, “Revisionism in the Digital Age.”
Mar 22, 2021, Minseon Ku, “Summit Diplomacy as Desecuritization.”
Mar 29, 2021, Ruthie Pertsis, “When Words Collide: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Agency in Responsibility in International Relations.”
Apr 5, 2021, Maryum Alam & Daniel Smith, “Unrealized Potential? Developmental Disparities, Relative Capabilities, and Balancing Behaviors.”
Apr 12, 2021, Kailash Srinivasan, “The Global Administrative Society.”
Apr 19, 2021, Caleb Pomeroy, “Power and the Bargaining Model of War.”
Fall 2020 Schedule
Oct 8, 2020, Cameron Macaskill, “(re)Imagining the Contours of African Regional Integration.”
Oct 15, 2020, Andy Goodhart, “Designing International Orders: How Legitimacy Principles Produce Cooperation and Dissent.”
Oct 22, 2020, Linnea Turco, "Speaking Volumes: Introducing the UNGA Speech Corpus."
Nov 5, 2020, Chris Ray, “Defense and the Dark Arts: Uncertainty and Sorcery in National Security Policy.”
Nov 12, 2020, Caleb Pomeroy, “The Psychology of Power: The First Image Reversed and International Security.”
Nov 19, 2020, Jared Edgerton, “Spread of genocide: Hutu killing groups during the Genocide in Rwanda.”
Dec 3, 2020, Ruthie Pertsis, “When Words Collide: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Agency and Responsibility in International Relations.”
Spring 2020 Schedule
Jan 15, 2020, John Mueller, “Was the United States Necessary for "Pax" Americana? Aversion to International War as an Independent Variable.”
Jan 22, 2020, Brian Finch & Haoming Xiong, “Public Opinion & the U.S-China-Russia Triad: A Mass Perspective.”
Jan 29, 2020, Lauren Muscott, "Assembled Responsibility: Global Polities and the Relocation of Responsibility in Global Governance."
Feb 5, 2020, Jyhjong Hwang, "Logics of Arms Deals: a multilevel investigation of Zambian military aircraft procurements from China."
Feb 12, 2020, Linnea Turco, "Consequences and Duties: A Map and Theory of International Morality."
Feb 19, 2020, Alan van Beek, "Preferences All the Way Down: Audience Costs, Leader Agency, and Constituencies."
Feb 26, 2020, Alex Thompson, “Climate Finance and the North-South Politics of IO Design.”
Mar 4, 2020, John Harden, “Narcissism, Match-Fixing, and War.”
Mar 18, 2020, Vlad Chlouba, “Liberation Wars as Critical Junctures: Settler Colonialism and Persistent Inequality.”
Mar 25, 2020, Jared Edgerton, “Fractal violence: The spread of norms at individual, group, and state levels.”
Apr 1, 2020, Caleb Pomeroy, “The Psychology of Power in World Politics.”
Apr 15, 2020, Jared Edgerton & Andy Goodhart, “Safe to Pull Back? What the Balancing-Bandwagoning Debate Reveals about the U.S. Pullback from East Asia.”
Apr 24, 2020, Brian Rathbun (University of Southern California) & Caleb Pomeroy, “See No Evil, Speak No Evil? Morality, Evolutionary Psychology, and Threat in International Relations.”
Fall 2019 Schedule
Aug 28, 2019, John Harden, “Choosing Your Battles: Leader Narcissism and International Conflict.”
Sept 4, 2019, Maryum Alam, “Alliances and Proxy Wars.”
Sept 11, 2019, Jared Edgerton, “Suicide fighter mobilization: Sibling Socialization.”
Sept 18, 2019, Greg Smith, “Power Today is Not Power Tomorrow: Adaptation and the Declining Effectiveness of Coercion.”
Sept 25, 2019, Erik Wisniewski, “The Structural Origins of Contemporary Grayzone Activity.”
Oct 2, 2019, Andy Goodhart, “Bipolarity is Killing the Liberal International Order: Why a Less Liberal Order is Inevitable.”
Oct 9, 2019, Daniel Naftel, "The Meaning of Democracy: Public opinion and the moral foundations of the democratic peace."
Oct 16, 2019, Ben Kenzer, “Transnational police professionalization and the global governmentality of protests.”
Oct 23, 2019, Josh Kertzer, “Trade Attitudes in the Wild.”
Oct 30, 2019, Liwu Gan, "Assigning Fair Shares: A New Typology of International Responsibility."
Nov 6, 2019, Ruthie Pertsis, "When Words Collide: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Agency and Responsibility in International Relations."
Nov 13, 2019, Brian Finch & Haoming Xiong, “Chinese Public’s Perceptions of Russia.”
Nov 20, 2019, Bear Braumoeller, Alan van Beek, Michael Lopate, Andy Goodhart, Daniel Kent, Jared Edgerton, David Peterson, “The Emergent Properties of Hierarchical International Order."
Spring 2019 Schedule
Feb 11, 2019, Ben Campbell, Anna Meyerrose, Lauren Muscott, Drew Rosenberg, Greg Smith, Linnea Turco, Panel on publishing
Feb 18, 2019, Michael Lopate, “Power, Vulnerability, and the Fate of Nations.”
Feb 25, 2019, Skyler Cranmer, “Triangulating War: Network Structure and the Democratic Peace.”
Mar 4, 2019, Chen, “The Clash of Civilizations redux: culture, complexity, and computational modeling.”
Mar 18, 2019, David Peterson, “Generalized Learning, Coercion, and the Evolution of Cooperation.”
Mar 25, 2019, John Harden, “Leader Motivations, Narcissism, and Foreign Policy.”
Apr 1, 2019, Reed Kurtz, “Climate Justice from the Ground Up: Placing Critical Fieldwork in the Politics of the Climate Crisis.”
Apr 8, 2019, Adam Lauretig, “Measuring Meaning in U.S. Foreign Policy: Identification and Inference with Bayesian Word Embeddings.”
Apr 15, 2019, Kara Hooser & Jennifer Mitzen, “Welcome to the Gray Zone: A Feminist Analysis of US Strategic Anxiety.”
Apr 22, 2019, Chris Ray, “The Anxious Public: Anxiety Management and Public Attitudes about Terrorism."
Fall 2018 Schedule
Graduate Student Coordinators: Ruthie Pertsis & Chris Ray
Sept 7, 2018, Ben Campbell, “Measuring and Assessing Latent Variation in Alliance Design and Objectives.”
Sept 14, 2018, Austin Knuppe, “Local Problems for Local Partners: When Does Foreign Intervention Trigger Blowback?”
Sept 21, 2018, Anna Meyerrose, “Democracy without Institutions: The Links between International Organizations and Democratic Backslide.”
Sept 28, 2018, Kailash Srinivasan, “The Nomos of Capital: A Critique of International Law.”
Oct 5, 2018, Bear Braumoeller, “Conflict, Complexity, and International Order.”
Oct 19, 2018, Ben Kenzer, “Managed Resistance: Police, Protesters, and The Global Governmentality of Professionalism.”
Oct 26, 2018, Daniel Kent, “Unexpected Contributions in Wartime Coalitions.”
Nov 2, 2018, Reed Kurtz, “Politics of Climate Justice: Ecology, Hegemony, and Direct Action.”
Nov 9, 2018, Dan Wollrich, “Moral Norms and National-Security Decision-Making.”
Nov 16, 2018, Linnea Turco, “The Ethics of International Security Politics: An Empirical Map and Discursive Theory.”
Nov 30, 2018, Prof. Laura Zanotti (Virginia Tech), “Quantum Imaginaries, Agency and Ethics in IR.”
Spring 2017 Schedule
Jan 27, 2017, Chris Gelpi and Elias Assaf, “Politics Trumps Policy: The Role of Foreign Policy Attitudes in the 2016 Presidential Election."
Feb 10, 2017, Christopher Ray
Feb 17 2017, Nicholas Kiersey, “Austerity as Tragedy? From Neoliberal Governmentality to the Critique of Late Capitalist Control."
Apr 14, 2017, Drew Rosenberg
Apr 21, 2017, Mark Salter, “Quantum Sovereignty.”
Fall 2016 Schedule
Graduate Student Coordinators: Linnea Turco and Ben Kenzer
Sept 13, 2016, Daniel Verdier
Sept 20, 2016, Daniel Silverman
Sept 27, 2016, Austin Knuppe
Oct 4, 2016, Drew Rosenberg
Oct 11, 2016, Third Year Research Papers: Benjamin Kenzer and Benjamin Campbell
Oct 18, 2016, Third Year Research Papers: Greg Smith and Adam Lauretig
Oct 25, 2016, Michelle Jurkovich (University of Massachusetts Boston)
Nov 1, 2016, Bridget Coggins (University of California Santa Barbara)
Nov 29, 2016, Michael Lopate
Dec 6, 2016, Inés Valdez
2015-2016 Schedule
Graduate Student Coordinators: Austin Knuppe and Kyle Larson
Sept 24, 2015, Alex Grigorescu (Loyola-Marymount University, Chicago), "Democratic Intergovernmental Organizations? Normative Pressures and Decision-Making Rules."
Oct 1, 2015, Jennifer Mitzen
Oct 8, 2015, Ezra Schricker
Oct 22, 2015, RIP Lite, 3rd Year Paper Presentations
Oct 29, 2015, Raymond Duvall (University of Minnesota), RIP graduate student lunch
Nov 5, 2015, RIP Lite, 3rd Year Paper Presentations
Nov 12, 2015, Burak Kadercan (U.S. Naval War College), "Territorial Logic of ISIS."
Nov 19, 2015, Marina Duque
Dec 3, 2015, RIP Lite, 3rd Year Paper Presentations
2014-2015 Schedule
Graduate Student Coordinators: Ezra Schricker and Aisha Bradshaw
Oct 31, 2014, Tim Luecke, "Political Generations and U.S. Foreign Policy Change: WWI and the End of American Isolationism."
Nov 7, 2014, Josh Wu, "Reminders of America's Divine Election: Presidential Use of Religious Rhetoric during US Foreign Policy Crises."
Nov 14, 2014, Eunbin Chung
Nov 21, 2014, Sebastien Mainville
Dec 5, 2014, Benjamin Acosta, "The Political Capacity of Resistance Organizations."
2013-2014 Schedule
Graduate Student Coordinators: Raphael Cunha and Marina Duque
Sept 27, 2013, Sungjoon Cho, Chicago-Kent College of Law, “Toward a Global Community of Law: Norms and Discourse.” Discussant: John Oates, OSU
Jan 30, 2014, Austin Knuppe, OSU, “Religious Nationalism and Civil War: Political Islam in Algeria, 1954-1992.” Discussant: Kyle Larson, OSU
Feb 27, 2014, Joshua Wu, OSU, “Do you hear what I hear? The effect of foreign religious rhetoric on foreign policy public opinion.” Discussant: Kathleen Powers, OSU
Mar 6, 2014, Kyle D. Larson & William A. McCracken, III, OSU, “Reconsidering Regime Type, Capability, and War.” Discussant: Aisha Bradshaw, OSU
Apr 17, 2014, Christopher Gelpi & Kristine Kay, OSU, “Opting Out in 2012: Military Casualties, Vote Choice, and Voter Turnout in Obama’s Bid for Reelection.” Discussant: Marina Duque, OSU
2012-2013 Schedule
Graduate Student Coordinators: Meri Ellen Lynott and Joshua Wu
Nov 2, 2012, Caleb Gallemore, “Much Ado About Nothing? Transnational Policy Networks and REDD+ in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.”
Nov 9, 2012, Fernando Nuñez-Mietz, “Lawyering compliance: Legal advisers and states’ deference to international law.”
Feb 8, 2013, Shivaji Kumar, “Researching Public Opinion Influence on the Foreign Policies of Emerging Asian Powers: The Benefits of Sequential, Multi-method Research Designs.”
Feb 15, 2013, John Oates, “Constructing the Value of Delegation: Representations of Interdependence and the Constitution of Supranationalism.”
Feb 22, 2013, William McCracken, “What do we know about democracy and war outcomes?”
2011-2012 Schedule
Graduate Student Coordinators: Sebastien Mainville and Kathleen Powers
Oct 7, 2011, Ben Jones & Josh Kertzer, “Overcommitted to Commitment Problems? Intentions, Incentives, and Civil War Duration.”
Jan 6, 2012, Ted Hopf, “Hegemony and Common Sense.”
Jan 13, 2012, Xiaoyu Pu
Feb 17, 2012, Bentley Allan
Mar 30, 2012, Tim Luecke, “Political Generations and Change and Stability in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1900-2008.”
2010-2011 Schedule
Graduate Student Coordinators: Austin Carson and Eleonora Mattiacci
Oct 1, 2010, Bear F. Braumoeller & Eleonora Mattiacci, “Consensus, Constraint, and Peacekeeping Success. More May Be Better... And Worse.” Discussant: Benjamin Jones, OSU
Oct 29, 2010, Randall Schweller, “The Age of Entropy: Global Disorder in the New Millennium.”
Jan 7, 2011, John Mueller, “Terror, Security and Money.”
Feb 18, 2011, Xiaoyu Pu, “A Theory of Status Signaling in International Politics.”
Mar 4, 2011, Austin Carson, “Blame Dynamics in Audience Costs Theory.”
Mar 11, 2011, Marcus Holmes, “Neuroscientific Inquiry and International Relations.”
Apr 29, 2011, David Traven, “Moral Knowledge and Public Discourse.”
May 4, 2011, Josh Kertzer, “It's the Economy, Stupid: Cognitive Heterogeneity and Economic Determinants of Foreign Policy Mood.”
May 13, 2011, Bentley Allan, “When Means Change Ends.”
May 27, 2011, Zoltan Buzas, “The Color of Threat.”
2009-2010 Schedule
Graduate Student Coordinators: Bentley Allan and Erin Graham
Oct 23, 2009, Joshua D. Kertzer & Kathleen M. McGraw, OSU, “Folk Realism: Realism in low-information foreign policy contexts.”
Oct 30, 2009, Bear Braumoeller & Austin Carson, OSU, “How Political Relevance and Democracy Affect Conflict: Two Theoretical Propositions.”
Jan 15, 2010, Joshua Wu, OSU, “Soli Deo Gloria? What glory and which god in secular-sacred unions between state and church in international politics.”
Jan 29, 2010, Nicholas J. Kiersey, OSU, “The ‘Debate about Empire’ and International Relations Theory: Beyond the Narratives of Sovereign and Imperial Power in Theorizing Modern World Politics.”
Mar 12, 2010, John Oates, OSU, “Methodological Nationalism in International Theory: Rethinking Sovereignty as Constituent Power.” Discussant: Aldous Cheung, OSU
May 21, 2010, TongFi Kim, OSU, “Effects of Domestic Politics on Bargaining Power in Long-Term International Cooperation.”
May 28, 2010, Dane Imerman, OSU, “Progress in International Politics: Procedural Liberalism and Global Collective Identity.” Discussant: Phil Jackson, OSU