Fall 2007

Oct 1: Peter Howard (American University), "The Language of State Socialization" ( paper)

Oct 15: Hunjoon Kim & Kathryn Sikkink (University of Minnesota), "Do Human Rights Trials Matter?" ( paper)

Oct 22: Isaac Kamola, "Higher Education 'Transformation' in South Africa: Becoming an African University" ( paper)

Nov 5: Thomas Pepper (Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, U of M), "Airwar Rethinks Transcendence: Nihilism, Airwar, Globalization 1926 - 1953" ( paper)

Nov 19: Movie: “The Devil Came on Horseback”

Nov 26: Charlotte Dany (Visiting Scholar, University of Bremen), "Structural Power in Internet Governance: Enabling and Constraining Effects of the Institutionalization of NGO Participation at the WSIS" ( paper)

Spring 2007

January 29th : Prof. Mika Aaltola (Visiting Professor, University of Tampere, Finland), “The Bond Between Remembering and Humanity: The Role of Innovative Memory in the Political Mobilization of Compassion” ( paper)

February 12: Prof. Bud Duvall, "Taking Sovereignty Out of This World: Space Weapons and Empire of the Future"

February 19: Prof. Duncan Snidal, "The Choice of International Institutions: Cooperation, Alternatives and Strategies" IPE Colloquium

February 26: Prof. Mohammed Bamyeh (International Studies, Macalester College), "Ways of Seeing Political Islam"

March 5: Prof. Daniel Deudney (International Relations, Johns Hopkins University), “Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village” ( paper)

March 19: Erica Owen, “Non-democracies, Audience Costs and Credible Commitment” ( paper)

March 26 : Aaron Rapport, “Unexpected Affinities? Neoconservatism and 'Mainstream' Theories of International Relations” ( paper)

March 28th (Wed.): Prof. Lisa Martin (Harvard), "Peacekeepers as Signals: The Demand for International Peacekeeping in Civil Wars."

April 2 : Prof. Vinay Gidwani (Geography, UofM), "The Afterlives of 'Waste': Eviscerating Urbanism and Cosmopolitics in Post-Development India" ( paper)

April 16 : Prof. Eugene Holland (Comparative Studies, Ohio State University), "Just How Close Have We Come to fascism in America? The Junior Bush Regime and the Fundamentalist-NeoConservative Movement as seen through the lenses of Schizoanalysis and Nomadology" ( paper)

April 23: Prof. Michael Barnett & Prof. Songying Fang, “The Peacebuilder's Contract: How External State-building Reinforces Weak Statehood” ( paper & model)

April 30 : Prof. Tarak Barkawi (Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge), "Orientalism at War in Korea" ( paper)

Fall 2006

Sept 8 (F), 4:45pm: MIRC kick-off Happy Hour @ Town Hall Brewery . ( map)

Sept 11 : “Re-Calling 9-1-1: A Round Table Discussion" w/ Prof. Bud Duvall (UofM, PoliSci), Assist. Prof. Colin Kahl (UofM, PoliSci), Assist. Prof. Khaldoun Samman (Sociology, Macalester), and Prof. Abdi Samatar (UofM, Geography)

Oct 2 : Assist. Prof. Colin Kahl (UofM, PoliSci), "Rules of Engagement: Norms, Civilian Casualties, and U.S. Conduct in Iraq" ( paper). Discussant: Lauren Wilcox

Oct 9 : Assoc. Prof. David Blaney (Macalester College), "The Savage Smith and the Temporal Walls of Capitalism" ( paper). Discussant: Asli Çalkivik

Oct 16 : Assist. Prof. Himadeep Muppidi (Vassar College), "Shame and Rage: International Relations and the World School of Colonialism," Discussant: Kartik Raj ( paper)

Oct 30 : Assoc. Prof. Andrew Latham (Center for Global Leadership, Macalester), "Toward a Polemology of World Order Transformation," Discussant: Govind Nayak ( Chap1&Chap2)

Nov 6th : FILM: "Road to Guantanamo," dir. by Michael Winterbottom. Readings: an interview with the director, a review, and a follow-up. Discussant: Kartik Raj

Nov 13 : David Kim (UofM), "Why and when do countries seek to address past human rights violations after transition? An event history analysis of 102 countries covering 1980~2004." ( paper)

Nov 27 : Assist. Prof. Ron Krebs (UofM, PoliSci), "Rhetoric, Strategy, and War: Language, Power, and the Making of US Security Policy." Discussant: Aaron Rapport. ( paper)

Wed, Nov 29 : Virginia Tilley (Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa), "Identity Politics and International Norms in Israel-Palestine: Revising Our Frameworks"

Spring 2006

Feb. 6: Prof. Sally Kenney (Humphrey Institute, UofM)," Waving Goodbye to the Dinosaurs? Women, Electoral Politics, and Peace in Northern Ireland. "

Feb. 13: Assist. Prof. Sonying Fang (UofM), "Electoral Incentives and the Pacific Effect of International Institutions."

Mar. 6: Susan Kang & Jennifer Rutledge (UofM); Kang:" Understanding Effectiveness: International Institutions and protecting Labor Rights ." Rutledge:" Legitimacy and Power: The Case of the Global Environmental Facility. "

Mar. 20: Prof. Colin Wight (University of Sheffield),"Across the Great Divide: Science, Scientific Realism and the Art of Global Politics."

Apr. 6: Prof. Michael Doyle (Columbia), "Preventive Self-Defense."

May 8: Sandra Borda (UofM). Title to be announced.

Fall 2005

Sept. 19: Movie Show: A documentary about the film, The Battle of Algiers.
Prof. August Nimzt (UofM), remarked on the significance of the film.

Sept. 26: Assist. Prof. Thomas Greven (John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin), "Stemming the Tide: An Assessment of Union Efforts to Regulate Global Competition." (parts 1 and 2)

Oct. 6: Assist. Prof. Kristopher W. Ramsay (Princeton)," From Fighting to Peace: An Analysis of Battlefield Events ." Co-sponsored by the Methods Proseminar and MIRC.

Oct. 17: Amy Skonieczny (UofM), " Trading Stories: Chronology and Narrative in US-Turkey Economic Relations ."

Oct. 24: Assist. Prof. Daniel H. Nexon (Georgetown University), " Empires and International Structure. "

Oct. 31: Prof. Michael Barnett (Humphrey School and PoliSci), UofM. Presentation on the new IR prelim exam structure.

Nov. 2: Prof. Robert O. Keohane (Princeton University), "The Political Consequences of Anti-Americanism". (part 1 and 2)

Nov. 7: Carrie Walling (UofM), " Causal Stories, UN Security Council Debates and Humanitarian Intervention ." ( appendix)

Nov. 14: Prof. Larry Jacobs (Humphrey School and PoliSci, UofM), "Who Influences U.S. Foreign Policy" & "Leaders and the Public." ( CCFR report & APSA article )

Dec. 5: Assist. Prof. Janice Bially Mattern (Lehigh University), " Transnational Crime Organizations From the Inside Out: Ethnographic Insights For International Anti-Crime Policy ."

Spring 2005

Feb 7: Giunia Gatta (UofM, Ohio State University), "From Violence to Politics: Insights from the International Criminal Court"

Feb 14: Assoc. Prof. Richard Ashley (Arizona State University), "The Mirror of the World Political: Reflections of and on the University in the Age of Globalization"

Feb 21: Susan Kang (UofM) & Jonneke Koomen (UofM). Kang:"Understanding Hegemonic Compliance: The Cases of International Labor Standards on Trade Union Rights in the US and American Civil Rights Movement in Comparative Perspective" Koomen: "Agency, Ideas, and Change in International Politics: Women's Rights and the Rome Statute"

Mar 21: Assoc. Prof. Wendy Rahn (UofM), "Globalization, the Decline of Civic Commitments, and the Future of Democracy"

Apr 4: Asli Calkivik, David Leon, & Kartik Raj (UofM). Calkivik, "Neoliberal Governance and State Transformation" Leon, "Continuous Incorporation: Sovereignty and the Hobbesian Body Politic in View of 'the Exception'" Raj, "Border, Refugee--Camp: Implications of Recent Critiques of the State for Radical International Relations Theory"

Apr 11: Prof. Raymond Duvall (UofM), "Global Governance of 'Good Governance': Critical Constitutive Analysis of the Problem of Corruption"

Apr 18: Prof. Michael Barnett (Humphrey School and PoliSci, UofM), "Humanitarianism Transformed"

Apr 25: Assoc. Prof. William Howell (Harvard), "While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers," Ch.V "The Media" (a manuscript co-authored with Prof. Jon Pevehouse, U. of Wisconsin).

May 2: Assist. Prof. Colin Kahl (UofM), "Embedded in Empire: Imperial Insights, Both Personal and Bureaucratic"

Fall 2004

Sep 13: Roundtable Discussion: "Human Rights and Law in Times of Crisis," co-led by Profs. Kathryn Sikkink and Bill Scheuerman. (Ronald Dworkin, “ What the Court Really Said ”; Cole, “ Their Liberties, Our Security ”; Gross, “ Misguided Response ”; Scheuerman, “ Rethinking Crisis Government ”; Ignatieff, “Lesser Evils” (May 2, 2004 New York Times Magazine); “ Dershowitz: Torture could be justified ")

Sep 27: Catherine Guisan (UofM), " The Lost Treasure of European Integration: Winning the Peace "

Oct 11: Assoc. Prof. Richard Price (University of British Columbia), "Constructivism and Normative Theory in World Politics"

Oct 25: Wanjiru Kamau (UofM), " Ethnic Violence in the Kenyan Transition to Democracy "

Nov 8: Assoc. Prof. Michael J. Hiscox (Harvard University), " Through a Glass and Darkly: Attitudes Toward International Trade and the Curious Effects of Issue Framing "

Nov 22: Isaac Kamola (UofM), " The International Coffee Agreement and Rwandan Genocide "

Nov 23: Assoc. Prof. Kimberley Marten (Barnard College), “Warlords, Clans and Spoilers: Thinking about Informal Organizations and State Stability?"

Dec 6: Assist. Prof. Colin Kahl (UofM), " In the Crossfire or the Cross-Hairs? The Norm of Noncombatant Immunity and America's New Wars "

Spring 2004

Jan. 26: John Mowitt (Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, UofM), "The Cinema as International Relation"

Feb. 9: Govind Nayak and Kartik Raj (UofM). Nayak: " Cyborgs as Desiring-Machines: Feminist Politics in Empire " and Raj: " The Border as Paradox: A Consideration of the Foreigner, Citizenship, Gender, and Liminal Zones in an Age of Globalized Violence ".

Mar. 9: Prof. Jean Elshtain (Univ. of Chicago), " International Justice as Equal Regard and the Use of Force "

Mar. 22: Shirin Deylami (UofM), " Desiring Nation: Subjectivity, Hegemony, and the Production of the Nation "

Mar. 29: Prof. Manfred Steger (Illinois State Univ.), " From Market Globalism to Imperial Globalism: Ideology and U.S. Hegemony Before and After 9-11 "

Apr. 5: Tuba Inal (UofM), " Rape In Warefare: The Collaboration of Patriarchy with the Rapist in Double-Victimization of Women "

Apr. 19: Jonathan Havercroft (UofM), " A Grammar of Sovereignty "

Fall 2003

Sep. 15: Prof. Alexander Wendt (University of Chicago), " Why a World State is Inevitable: Teleology and the Logic of Anarchy "

Sep. 16: Assist. Prof. Jennifer Mitzen (University of Chicago), " Ontological Security in World Politics: State Identity and the Security Dilemma "

Oct. 6: Prof. Timothy Brennan (Depts. of English & Cultural Studies, University of Minnesota), " The Economic Image-Function of the Periphery "

Oct. 13: Roundtable Discussion: " AFTERMATH: AMERICAN OCCUPATION OF IRAQ AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE WORLD " - led by Assist. Prof. Colin Kahl and Prof. August Nimtz (UofM)

Oct. 27: Panel Presentation, "THE POLITICS OF NEW CONFLICTS". Mihaela Mihailescu (UofM), " Understanding Interethnic Cooperation: Logics of Political Integration. The Hungarian Minority of Transylvania ," and Isaac Kamola (UofM), " In Rejection of Terrorism as Identity: Taking Seriously the Political Causes of Suicide Terrorism "

Nov. 10: Assist. Prof. Ronald Krebs (UofM), " Twisting Tongues and Twisting Arms: The Power of Political Rhetoric "

Nov. 24: Prof. Marie Thorsten (University of Tokyo), Title: "The Political Science Fiction of Challenge to America"

Dec. 8: Marsha Freeman (Senior Lecturer and Director of International Women's Rights Action Watch, Humphrey Institute, UofM), " Gender and the Politics of Human Rights "

Spring 2003

Feb. 3 Wanjiru Kamau (UofM), " Performing the ‘Strange’ International Relations Theory and the Challenge of Theorizing the African State "

Feb. 10 Ann Towns (UofM), "The Global Emergence of Women's Suffrage: Competitive Dynamics Around 'Woman' and 'Supra-nationalities'"

Feb. 24 Meghana Nayak (UofM), " U.S. Hegemony, the Production of Knowledge, and Violence Against Women of Color "

Mar. 10 Assist. Prof. Naeem Inayatullah (Ithaca College), " Intimate Indians: European Theory and the Third World "

Mar 14: MIRC FORUM - "Why War? Why Now?" Prof. August Nimtz and Assist. Prof. Colin Kahl (UofM)

Apr. 14 Prof. Kathryn Sikkink (UofM), " Beyond the Boomerang: Dynamic Multilevel Governance "

Apr. 28 Assist. Prof. Teri Caraway (UofM), "Gendered Trajectories of Industrialization: A Cross-regional Comparative Study"

May 5 Ron Krebs

Fall 2002

Sept. 23: Assist. Prof. Himadeep Muppidi (Vassar College), " Global Governance: Colonial and Postcolonial Modes "

Oct. 7: Assist. Prof. Patrick T. Jackson (American University), " The Topography of Debates "

Oct. 21: Amy Skonieczny (UofM), " Interrupting Inevitability: The Intertext of Globalization, Resistance and US Trade "

Nov. 4: FORUM ON THE NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY. Professors Colin Kahl and Ron Krebs (Minnesota Political Science Department). Readings for the meeting include the National Security Strategy ; Robert Kagan and William Kristol, " The Present Danger ," National Interest (Spring 2000); and John Ikenberry, "America's Imperial Ambition," Foreign Affairs (September/October 2002)

Nov. 18: Prof. Bud Duvall (UofM), "(Re)Placing Power in the Study of World Politics"

Dec. 2: Helen Kinsella (UofM), "Securing the 'Civilian': Engendering Grotius"