A major research evaluation undertaken by Uppsala University gives high marks to the research at the Department. The evaluation, known as Quality and Renewal 2011 (KoF11), comprised two different parts. Firstly, a peer-review process, conducted by distinguished scholars of the international research community. Secondly, a bibliometric study of publications in the period 2007–2010.
Read more about the evaluation.
January 26 (13.15-15, Sal 2): Will H. Moore (Professor, Florida State University). "Dissident-State Interactions and Outcomes in the Arab Spring"
February 9 (13.15-15, Sal 2): Richard Ned Lebow (James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government, Dartmouth University). “Forbidden Fruit: Counterfactuals and International Relations”
February 23 (13.15-15, Sal 2): Steven I. Wilkinson (Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Yale University). “Veterans, Skills and Ethnic Conflict: Evidence from the Partition of India”
March 22 (13.15-15, Sal 2): Christopher Sullivan (PhD candidate, University of Notre Dame). "Organizing Oppression: Political Repression, Power and the Media"
May 3 (13.15-15, Sal 2): Fotini Christia (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology). "Winning Hearts and Minds through Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan"
May 24 (13.15-15, Sal 2): Barbara Walter (Professor of Political Science, University of California-San Diego). "Why Bad Governance Leads to Repeat Civil War"
May 31 (13.15-15, Sal 2): Leonardo Arriola (Assistant Professor, University of California-Berkeley). "Suppressing Protest: The Geographic Logic of Preemptive Mass Arrests"
War, Skills and Conflict: Evidence from the Partition of India
Steven I. Wilkinson
Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Yale University
This lecture examines the effects of war on political and social change, demonstrating how the organizational and killing skills acquired by Indian soldiers in WW2 help explain the occurrence of ethnic cleansing in India in 1947-49. Wilkinson shows that in districts that supplied large numbers of frontline soldiers, the levels of cleansing were much greater than in those districts that provided very few combat soldiers. This study uses a unique district-level dataset on violence and socio-economic factors in India from 1941-1951.
Wilkinson has previously worked on Hindu Muslim violence, which resulted in his award-winning book Votes and Violence (Cambridge 2004), and on the politics of clientelism (Kitschelt and Wilkinson, Patrons, Clients and Policies, Cambridge 2007). He is currently working on two projects: one a co-authored book project on war and political and social change, the other a book on colonial legacies and their effect on democracy, governance and conflict.
Thursday, 23 February 2012
13.15-15.00
Sal. 2, Gamla Torget 3
Open to the public.
In collaboration with the Uppsala Forum on Peace, Democracy and Justice.
Forbidden Fruit: Counterfactuals and International Relations
Richard Ned Lebow
James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government, Dartmouth University and Olof Palme Visiting Professor, Lund University
In this lecture, Lebow asks: could World War I have been averted if Franz Ferdinand hadn't been murdered by Serbian nationalists? What if Ronald Reagan had been killed by Hinckley's bullet; would the Cold War have ended as it did? Lebow will discuss how to develop protocols for conducting robust counterfactual thought experiments and use them to probe the causes and contingency of transformative international developments. Lebow’s research interests include international relations theory, psychological models of learning, conflict management and prevention, bargaining and negotiation, and methodologies including case studies, psychological experiments, and scenario generation. He has a distinguished publication record and his 12 books have won numerous awards.
Thursday, 9 February 2012
Dissident-State Interactions and Outcomes in the Arab Spring
Will H. Moore
Professor, Florida State University
Moore’s research focuses on violent conflict processes, including civil war, dissent and repression, human rights, and ethnic conflict. He has a prolific publication record in journals like International Organization, American Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, and Journal of Conflict Resolution.
In this lecture, Moore asks: what can explain the widely varied outcomes we have thus observed throughout the Middle East and North Africa in response to dissident claims for political change? This study searches for the answer among the cooperative to hostile actions taken by both states and dissidents, and explores specifically whether the patterns of cooperative--hostile interaction during 2011 have deviated substantially from those that existed during the 1990s and 2000s.
Thursday, 26 January 2012
For the autumn 2011 lectures, see Previous Speaker Series.
