Events Archive

ISCS Workshop | Lindsey O’Rourke, Boston College

ISCS Workshop | Daniel Krcmaric, Northwestern University

ISCS Security Studies Workshop | Mara Revkin, “What Determines Military Legitimacy? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Iraq.”

ISCS Workshop | Peter Krause, Boston College

ISCS Workshop | Asfandyar Mir, United States Institute of Peace

ISCS Workshop | Shira Pindyck, University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation/Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories

ISCS Workshop | Peter Krause, Boston College

ISCS Workshop | Anna Feuer, Deep Springs College

ISCS Workshop | Iain Henry, Australian National University

ISCS Workshop | Tim Crawford, Boston College

Catastrophic Success: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Goes Wrong

The Albritton Center for Grand Strategy and the Bush School of Government and Public Service present Alexander Downes discussing his recent book, Catastrophic Success: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Goes Wrong (Cornell UP, 2021).

Managing U.S. Nuclear Operations in the 21st Century

How are nuclear war plans developed? And are the systems vulnerable to attack? Join us for a talk on the nuclear options available to the US

Jessica Trisko Darden, Virginia Commonwealth University

Emily Meierding, Naval Post-Graduate School

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).

Rachel Myrick, Duke University

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

With Mariya Grinberg, MIT

The Fragility of the Nuclear Peace

With Paul Avey, Virginia Tech

Workshop will be held remotely on Zoom

The Secret Foundations of Liberal Order

With Michael Poznansky, U.S. Naval War College

Adam Liff, Indiana University

Dual Use Deception: How Technology Shapes Cooperation in International Relations

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

Whataboutism and narrative contestation in the international arena

With Dov Levin and Wilfred Chow, University of Hong Kong

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). 

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).

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

with Constantino Pischedda, University of Miami

Email Dr. Downes downes@gwu.edu for a Zoom link

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

with Julia Macdonald, University of Denver-Korbel School

Email Dr. Downes downes@gwu.edu for a Zoom link

What’s a Revolution? A New Approach

with Megan Stewart, American University

Email Dr. Downes downes@gwu.edu for a Zoom link

Military Experience and Elite Decision-Making:

Self-Selection, Socialization, and the Vietnam Draft Lottery

with Danielle Lupton, Colgate University

Email Dr. Downes downes@gwu.edu for a Zoom link

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

with John Owen

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

with Cullen Nutt

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.

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

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)