Events Archive

Past ISCS Events

2022 Events

Sept 12, 2022

Jessica Trisko Darden, Virginia Commonwealth University

 

Jan 31, 2022

Emily Meierding, Naval Post-Graduate School

 

Jan 18, 2022

Catastrophic Success: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Goes Wrong

ISCS Book Launch, co-sponsored with the Elliott School Book Launch Series. Alexander Downes, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; Co-Director of the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies, discussed his new book, Catastrophic Success (Cornell University Press, 2021).

 

Jan 10 , 2022

Rachel Myrick, Duke University

2021 Events

Dec 6, 2021

Dealing with Decline: The Inherent Trade-Offs in Strategies to Avert State Decline

With Mariya Grinberg, MIT

 

Nov 29, 2021

The Fragility of the Nuclear Peace

With Paul Avey, Virginia Tech

 

Nov 15, 2021

The Secret Foundations of Liberal Order

With Michael Poznansky, U.S. Naval War College

 

Nov 1, 2021

Adam Liff, Indiana University

 

Oct 25, 2021

Dual Use Deception: How Technology Shapes Cooperation in International Relations

With Jane Vaynman, Temple University, and Tristan Volpe, Naval Post-Graduate School

 

Oct 18, 2021

Whataboutism and narrative contestation in the international arena

With Dov Levin and Wilfred Chow, University of Hong Kong

 

Oct 5, 2021

Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias

ISCS Book Launch, co-sponsored with Security Policy Studies. The speaker is Stephen Biddle, Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, discussing his new book, Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias (Princeton UP, 2021).

 

Sept 22, 2021

The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider’s Guide to Changing the World

Book Launch, co-sponsored by ISCS, IAS, HAI, LEAP, and SPS. The speaker is Severine Autesserre, Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University. She’ll be discussing her new book, The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider’s Guide to Changing the World (Oxford UP, 2021).

 

April 12, 2021

Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Rebel Constituencies and Civil War Alliances

with Constantino Pischedda, University of Miami

 

Mar 29, 2021

Networks of Influence: The Office of Net Assessment and the Rise of Unmanned Technologies

with Julia Macdonald, University of Denver-Korbel School

 

Mar 22, 2021

What’s a Revolution? A New Approach

with Megan Stewart, American University

 

Mar 8, 2021

Military Experience and Elite Decision-Making: Self-Selection, Socialization, and the Vietnam Draft Lottery

with Danielle Lupton, Colgate University

 

Feb 22, 2021

Two Emerging International Orders? Evolutionary Pressure and Regime Preservation in China and the United States

with John Owen

 

Feb 8, 2021

Subterfuge to Stay Friends: The Role of Covert Action in Statecraft

with Cullen Nutt

 

Jan 28, 2021

Black Gold and Blackmail Book Launch

Black Gold and Blackmail: Oil and Great Power Politics (Cornell University Press, 2020), which explains why great powers adopt radically different strategies to secure oil access in case of emergency or war. This event is part of the ISCS Book Launch series.

 

Jan 15, 2021

How Insurgency Begins: Rebel Group Formation in Uganda and Beyond

Dr. Janet Lewis, Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University, will discuss her new book: How Insurgency Begins: Rebel Group Formation in Uganda an Beyond

2020 Events

Dec 10, 2020

Divided Armies: Inequality & Battlefield Performance in Modern War

Featuring Jason Lyall, James Wright Chair in Transnational Studies and Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, discussing his new book Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War (Princeton, 2020)