The Secret Foundations of Liberal Order
Michael Poznansky
Naval War College
February 9, 2022 12:00PM E40-496 & Virtual
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.
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
Howard French
Columbia University
February 2, 2022 12:05PM E40-496 & Virtual
Strategies of Restraint and U.S. Foreign Policy
Emma Ashford
Atlantic Council
December 1, 2021 12:00PM https://bit.ly/3gdhG9t
Peaceful, but Dangerous? Mexico’s Nuclear Energy Project
Arturo C. Sotomayor
George Washington University
November 17, 2021 12:00PM https://bit.ly/3gdhG9t
Then What? Assessing the Strategic Implications of Chinese Control of Taiwan
Caitlin Talmadge
Georgetown University
November 10, 2021 12:00PM https://bit.ly/3gdhG9t
US Military Innovation for the Digital Age
Audrey Cronin
School of International Service
October 27, 2021 12:00PM https://bit.ly/3gdhG9t
Broken Escalator? Forward Military Deployment, Casualties, and Public Support for Escalation
Paul Musgrave
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
September 29, 2021 12:00PM virtual
CANCELLED: Borderland Battles: Violence, Crime, and Governance at the Edges of Colombia's War
Annette Idler
Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
March 18, 2020 12:00PM E40-496 (Pye Room)
The Revolution That Failed: Nuclear Competition, Arms Control, and the Cold War
Brendan Green
University of Cincinnati
March 4, 2020 12:00PM E40-496 (Pye Room)
Fighting for Tyranny: How State Repression Shapes Military Performance (co-authored work with Arturas Rozenas and Roya Talibova)
Yuri M. Zhukov
University of Michigan
February 12, 2020 12:00PM E40-496 (Pye Room)
The Effectiveness of a Quasi-Voluntary Regime: Cybersecurity for U.S. Critical Infrastructure
Chappell Lawson
February 5, 2020 12:00PM E40-496 (Pye Room)
A World Safe for Autocracy? China’s Rise and the Future of Global Politics
Jessica Chen Weiss
Cornell University
December 4, 2019 12:00PM E40-496 (Pye Room)
Blowback and Escalation Risks from the US Weaponization of Finance
Cynthia Roberts
Hunter College, CUNY
November 20, 2019 12:00PM E40-496 (Pye Room)
Killer Robots Killing the Rule of Law?
Mary Ellen O'Connell
University of Notre Dame
November 13, 2019 12:00PM E40-496 (Pye Room)
Autocratic Diffusion and Great Power Politics
Seva Gunitsky
University of Toronto
November 6, 2019 12:00PM E40-496 (Pye Room)
How to Enlarge NATO: The Debate Inside the Clinton Administration, 25 Years On
Mary Sarotte
Johns Hopkins University
October 30, 2019 12:00PM E40-496 (Pye Room)
The War Scare That Wasn’t: Able Archer 83 and the Myths of the Second Cold War
Simon Miles
Duke University
October 23, 2019 12:00PM E40-496 (Pye Room)
Wargaming "War Games": How Likely is Thermonuclear Cyber War?
Jacquelyn Schneider
Stanford University
October 2, 2019 12:00PM E40-496 (Pye Room)
Great expectations or nothing to lose? Socio-economic correlates of joining the Islamic State
Steffen Hertog
London School of Economics and Political Science
September 25, 2019 12:00PM E40-496 (Pye Room)
International Order and the Persistence of War
Bear Braumoeller
Ohio State University
September 18, 2019 12:00PM E40-496 (Pye Room)
It's Coming From Inside The House: The Greatest Challenges to America's National Security Is Happening At Home, Not Over There
Michael Cohen
Boston Globe
September 11, 2019 12:00PM E40-496 (Pye Room)
The Rise and Fall (?) of the Humanitarian Intervention Project
Rajan Menon
City College of New York
November 28, 2018 12:00PM Building E40-496 (Pye Room)
Russia's Use of Semi-State Security Forces Abroad
Kimberly Marten
Barnard College, Columbia University
November 14, 2018 12:00PM Building E40-496 (Pye Room)