Know Thy Military: How Governmental Policies Weaken Civilian Control—Evidence from Russia, Ukraine, Israel and the United Kingdom
Polina Beliakova
MIT Security Studies Program
September 13, 2023 12:00PM E40-496 The Pye Room
Security Studies Seminar
The SSP Wednesday Seminar Series runs from 12:00pm to 1:30PM, EST.
All seminars will be in-person and open to the SSP community in the Lucian Pye Conference Room (E40-496), and will also be live-streamed on the SSP YouTube channel. Email Andrew Ortendahl (aortenda@mit.edu) with questions.
States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security
Joshua Busby
University of Texas at Austin
April 26, 2023 12:00PM E40-496 The Pye Room
No Man Left Behind? Hostage Deservingness and the Politics of Hostage Recovery
Danielle Gilbert
Dartmouth College
April 19, 2023 12:00PM E40-496 The Pye Room
Internal Security and Chinese Grand Strategy
Sheena Greitens
University of Texas at Austin
April 12, 2023 12:00PM E40-496 The Pye Room
The Iraq Invasion: Twenty Years Later
Roger Petersen, Marsin Alshamary and Steven Simon
MIT, Boston College and University of Washington
March 24, 2023 12:00PM
March 24, 2023
12:00PM
Ukraine's Unnamed War: Before the Russian Invasion of 2022
Jesse Driscoll
University of California
March 20, 2023 4:00PM E40-496 The Pye Room
"What I learned in my year as an investigator on the House January 6 committee
David Weinberg (co-sponsored by the MIT Election Data and Science Lab)
Project Democracy
March 9, 2023 5:00PM
March 9, 2023
5:00PM
The Missing Cyber Thunder Run: Cyber Operatons During the Russo-Ukrainian War
Brandon Valeriano
Marine Corps University
March 1, 2023 12:00PM E40-496 The Pye Room
Political Obstacles in the U.S.-China Nuclear Relationship
Tong Zhao
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
December 7, 2022 12:00PM
December 7, 2022
12:00PM
You Can't Get There from Here: On the Gap Between Realist Theory and "Realist" Foreign Policy
Andrew Kydd
University of Wisconsin-Madison
November 30, 2022 12:00PM
November 30, 2022
12:00PM
Authoritarians at the Cutting Edge: China, innovation, and the global balance of power
Jennifer Lind
Dartmouth University
November 16, 2022 12:00PM
November 16, 2022
12:00PM
Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO
Susan Colbourn
Duke University
November 2, 2022 12:00PM
November 2, 2022
12:00PM
Leaders, Bureaucracy, and Miscalculation in International Crisis
Tyler Jost
Brown University
October 26, 2022 12:00PM
October 26, 2022
12:00PM
How Russia Uses Cyber Proxies to Respond to Accusations of Cyber Attacks
William Akoto
Fordham University
October 19, 2022 12:00PM
October 19, 2022
12:00PM
Moderating Extremism: The Challenge of Combatting Online Harms
Tamar Mitts
Columbia University
October 12, 2022 12:00PM
October 12, 2022
12:00PM
Forming Battlefield Coalitions: The Role of Logistics and the Burma Campaign
Rosella Cappella Zielinsky
Boston University
September 28, 2022 12:00PM
September 28, 2022
12:00PM
"I'm From the Government and I'm Here to Help:" Public Opinion and the Use of State Coercive Force
Lindsay Cohn
US Naval War College
September 21, 2022 12:05PM Zoom & E40-496
Azmat Khan, Columbia University
May 4, 2022 12:05PM E40-496 & Virtual
Renard Sexton, Emory University
April 27, 2022 12:05PM E40-496 & Virtual
Stacie Pettyjohn, Center for a New American Security
April 13, 2022 12:05PM E40-496 & Virtual
When and Why Do Belligerents Negotiate in the Midst of War?
Eric Min
UCLA
April 6, 2022 12:05AM E40-496 & Virtual
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
Amy Zegart
Stanford University
March 16, 2022 12:05PM E40-496 & Virtual
The Insiders’ Game: Elites, Democracy, and War
Elizabeth Saunders
Georgetown University
March 9, 2022 12:05PM E40-496 & Virtual
Israel and the Middle East: Challenges for 2022
Amos Yadlin
Harvard University
March 2, 2022 12:05PM E40-496 & Virtual
From Pluribus to Unum? The Civil War and Imagined Sovereignty in 19th Century America
Melissa Lee
Princeton University
February 16, 2022 12:05PM E40-496 & Virtual