International Relations

Speaker Series

Spring 2005 SCHEDULE

Lunch is provided at all noontime lectures.

Tuesday, January 25 - Edward Mansfield, University of Pennsylvania

"Racing to the Bottom in the Post-Communist World: Domestic Politics, International Trade, and Environmental Governance"

12:00-1:30, 8 Prospect Place, Room 119

Tuesday, February 8 - Andrew Kydd, Harvard University
                                        "The Honest Broker: Mediation and Mistrust"
                                       
                                        12:00-1:30, 8 Prospect Place, Room 119

Monday, February 21 - Lucie Phillips, President, IBI Corporation
                                        "Fixing African Economies: the Role of Access to Resources."                                       
                                        ** NOTE the day is a MONDAY **
                                        12:00-1:30, 8 Prospect Place, Room 119

Tuesday, March 22 - Matthew Evangelista, Cornell University

                                        "Wars in Chechnya: Overdetermined, Avoidable, and Hopeless"
                                        Excerpts from the book:  Introduction and Conclusion

                                        12:00-1:30, 8 Prospect Place, Room 119

Tuesday, March 29- Ted Hopf, Ohio State University

                                        "Bringing Society Back into Social Constructivsm:  Explaining the                                         Sino-Soviet Split"
                                      
                                        12:00-1:30, 8 Prospect Place, Room 119
                                        Co-sponsored by the Post-Communist Politics Workshop

Tuesday, April 19 - Duncan Snidal, University of Chicago

 "Filling in the Folk Theorem:  The Role of Gradualism and Legalization
 in International Cooperation to Combat Corruption"
      
                                     12:00-1:30, 8 Prospect Place, Room 119

Thursday, April 28 - Kathleen McNamara, Georgetown University

                                     "Making Money: Political Development, the Greenback, and the Euro"

                                     ** NOTE the day is a THURSDAY **
                                      4:00 - 5:30, 8 Prospect Place, Room 119
                                     Co-sponsored by the Leitner Political Economy Workshop

We gratefully acknowledge the funding provided by: The Department of Political Science (Yale), The Yale Center for International and Area Studies, The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The Leitner Program in International Political Economy, International Security Studies,The Institute for Social and Policy Studies, and United Nations Studies at Yale.