Speaker Series
The Center for Peace and Security Studies sponsors scholars throughout the world to come to give talks at The University of California San Diego.
The National Security Policy Speaker Series (NSPSS) hosted by cPASS and GPS at UCSD, and the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC). Speakers include policymakers and actors who operate within the National Security space. Topics include cybersecurity, weapons of mass destruction, nuclear weapons, region-specific security talks, and more.
cPASS cosponsors two additional speaker series the Projects on International Affairs (PIA) and the Pacific International Politics Conference Online Speaker Series (PIPCOSS). PIA is a seminar series that discusses forthcoming research on international relations topics. This series is held on the UCSD campus in the winter/spring. The goal of PIPCOSS is to promote research and act as a central forum for scientific researchers of IR in the Asia-Pacific region. PIPCOSS will be held twice a month via Zoom; registration links will be provided.
2022
May 26, 2022: Allision Carnegie (Columbia University) will present a talk as part of the Project on International Affairs (PIA).
May 23, 2022: Ken Schultz (Stanford University) will present a talk as part of the Project on International Affairs (PIA) on the UCSD campus.
May 12, 2022: Julia Gray (University of Pennsylvania) will present a talk as part of the Project on International Affairs (PIA) on the UCSD campus, GPS RM 3106.
April 28, 2022: Jennifer Larson (Vanderbilt University) presented- "Reducing Prejudice Towards Refugees in Uganda: Evidence that Social Networks Influence Attitude Change" as part of the Project on International Affairs (PIA) on the UCSD campus, GPS RM 3106.
April 14, 2022: Bear Braumoeller (Ohio State University) presented -“War isn’t over (but I guess we know that). Where do we go from here?” as part of the Project on International Affairs (PIA) on the UCSD campus, Deans Suite.
February 3, 2022: Jason Davis (University of California, San Diego - cPASS) Presented -"Targeted Sanctions and Redistribution" as part of the Project on International Affairs (PIA) via ZOOM Web Talk.
January 27, 2022: Dan Reiter (Emory University) Presented -"Bilateral Investment Treaties, Leadership Turnover, and Economic Expropriations: Can International Treaties Restrict Successor Governments?" as part of the Project on International Affairs (PIA) via ZOOM Web Talk.
2021
August 25, 2021: Dov Levin and Wilfred Chow (University of Hong Kong) Present “A Decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind? The Effects of Foreign Viewpoints on American Views of Various US Foreign Policy Activities” via ZOOM Web Talk.
August 19, 2021: Eik Swee (University fo Melbourne) and Hui-Pei Cheng (Soochow University) Present “Farewell President! Political Favoritism, Economic Inequality, and Political Polarization” via ZOOM Web Talk.
July 28, 2021: Subhasish Ray (O. P. Jindal Global University) Present “Legacies of Colonial Extra-State Violence in Modern Inter-Communal Violence” via ZOOM Web Talk.
July 8, 2021: Nicole Wu (Princeton University) Presents "Restrict Foreigners Not Robots: Partisan Responses to Automation Threat" via ZOOM Web Talk.
June 17, 2021: Atsushi Tago (Waseda University), Yusaku Horiuchi (Dartmouth College) and Takako Hikotani (Columbia University) Present “U.S. Military Should Not Be in My Backyard: A Case of Okinawa” ia ZOOM Web Talk.
May 27, 2021: Yana Otlan (UCLA) Presents "Public Threats, Private Assurances: How Dimensions of Diplomacy Shape Crisis Trajectory" via ZOOM Web Talk.
May 24, 2021: Michael Nacht (Thomas and Alison Schneider Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley Public Policy, The Goldman School) "U.S. Nuclear Extended Deterrence" via ZOOM Web Talk.
May 19, 2021: Admiral Charles Richard (Commander, U.S. Strategic Command) Presents "Forging Deterrence in the 21st Century" via ZOOM Web Talk.
May 12, 2021: Nils B. Weidmann (Professor of Political Science, University of Konstanz) Presents "The Margins of Predictability: Conflict Forecasting in a More Peaceful World" via ZOOM Web Talk.
April 28, 2021: Richard Lawless (Former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs) Presents "Nuclear North Korea and Japan- The INF Option" via ZOOM Web Talk.
April 14, 2021: Masaaki Higashijima (Tohoku University) & Hidekuni Washida (Toyo University) Present “Disguising as Democrats: The Origins and Outcomes of Partially Independent EMBs in Autocracies” via ZOOM Web Talk.
April 12, 2021: General Robert Neller (Fomer Commandant United States Marine Corps) Presents "Civil-Military Relations: The U.S. Military and the Society it Serves" via ZOOM Web Talk.
March 29, 2021: Kai Quek and John Koo (University of Hong Kong)- “Reputations in Interaction” Presents "Reputations in Interaction" via ZOOM Web Talk.
March 11, 2021: Ji Yeon Hong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Presents "Project Finance Loans, Political Institutions, and Regime Survival" via ZOOM Web Talk.
February 23, 2021: Brandon Kinne (UC Davis), Iliyan Iliev (University of Southern Mississippi), and Nahran Rasho (UC Davis) Present “When Words Hurt: How Verbal Attacks on ISIS Increased Violence Against Civilians” via ZOOM Web Talk.
February 10, 2021: Robert Einhorn (Brookings Institution) Presents "Arms Control and Nonproliferation Challenges Facing the Biden Administration" via ZOOM Web Talk.
February 9, 2021: Alessandro Del Ponte Presents "Are Refugees Welcome? Experiments on International Cooperation in Migrant Crises" via ZOOM Web Talk.
January 26, 2021: Cosima Meyer (Graduate Student, University of Mannheim) Presents "Surviving the Aftermath - Understanding How Military Experience Affects Post-War Political Leadership Survival" Via ZOOM Web Talk.
January 22, 2021: T.V. Paul (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) Presents "Understanding India’s Quest for Great Power Status" Via ZOOM Web Talk.
January 21, 2021: Jiyoung Ko (Bates Colelge) Presents “Business as Usual? Exploring the Microfoundation of Nationalist Consumer Boycotts” Via ZOOM Web Talk.
2020
Deceber 16, 2020: Daegyeong (D.G.) Kim (University of California, San Diego) Presents “Yellow Peril Revived? Anti-Asian Racism and American Public Opinion on China” Via ZOOM Web Talk.
December 9, 2020: Michael Masterson (Missouri State University) Presents "Emotional Contagion and Foreign Policy Preferences: The Case of National Humiliation on Chinese Social Media" Via ZOOM Web Talk.
November 19, 2020: Wilfred Chow (University of Hong Kong) & Dov Levin (University of Hong Kong) Present "Muddying the Waters: How Perceived Foreign Interference Delegitimizes Public Opinion on Protest Movements" Via ZOOM Web Talk.
November 12, 2020: Wen-Chin Wu (Academia Sinica) Presents "Distributive Unfairness, National Pride, and Willingness to Fight: Evidence from Taiwan" Via ZOOM Web Talk.
October 28, 2020: Dov Levin (University of Hong Kong) & Tetsuro Kobayashi (City University of Hong Kong) Present “The Art of Uncommitment: The Domestic Disengagement Costs of Peacetime Withdrawals From Alliance Commitments” Via ZOOM Web Talk.
October 6, 2020: Haillie Na-Kyung Lee Prestents “What Can We Learn from Failed Economic Negotiations?: Lessons from BITs and PTAs" Via ZOOM Web Talk.
September 25, 2020: Quynh Nguyen, Thomas Sattler, and Tanja Schweinberger Present "Power Transitions and International Economic Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from China and the U.S." Via ZOOM Web Talk.
September 9, 2020: Koji Kagotani Presents "Diplomatic Protests and Patriotism in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan" Via ZOOM Web Talk.
August 28, 2020: Jason Davis Presents "Firms, Dynamics, and Stumbling Blocks in Trade" via Zoom Web Talk.
August 4, 2020: Paul D. Kenny, Rashsesh Shrestha, and Edward Aspinall Present "Commodity Booms, Conflict, and Crime" via ZOOM Web Talk.
July 21, 2020: Lachlan McNamee Presents "Settler Colonialism in Indonesia: Transmigration and Ethnic Cleansing in West Papua" via ZOOM Web Talk.
July 14, 2020: Benjamin A.T. Graham and Miriam Barnum Present "Interdependence is More Than Just Trade: Migration, Investment, Trade, and Conflict" via ZOOM Web Talk.
June 24, 2020: Benjamin E. Goldsmith (Australian National University) and Yusaku Horiuchi (Dartmouth College) Present "The Impacts of Russian Election Interference on Allies' Confidence in the United States: The Case of Japan" via ZOOM Web Talk.
June 1, 2020: Vice Admiral Robert Thomas, U.S. Navy (ret); Professor of Practice at the School of Global Policy & Strategy (GPS) University of California San Diego, Presents "Five by Five Security Assessment of the Indo-Pacific” via ZOOM Web Talk. Watch Recorded Talk.
May 20, 2020: William H. Tobey, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Director, US-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism Faculty Affiliate, Project on Managing the Atom, Presents "North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Program and the Demise of the Agreed Framework" via ZOOM Web Talk at 11:00 AM PST.
May 6, 2020: Gary Samore, Professor of the Practice of Politics at Brandeis University, Presents "Living with the North Korean Bomb" via ZOOM Web Talk. Watch Recorded Talk
April 27, 2020: Rupal Mehta, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Presents "Delaying Doomsday: The Politics of Nuclear Reversal" via ZOOM Web Talk. Watch Recorded Talk
March 16, 2020: Henry Sokolski, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center in Washington, DC, Presents "Missle Wars: What's Coming" Watch Recorded Talk
February 20, 2020: Keren Yarhi-Milo, Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, Presents "Do Leaders Pay a Cost for Lying in Foreign Policy?"
February 6, 2020: Dennis Quinn, Vice Dean and Professor in International Business at Georgetown University Presents "The Political Origins of Exchange Rate Valuations" Biography
January 9, 2020: David Steinberg, Associate Professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University, Presents "Descriptive Representation in International Organizations: The Effect of Governance Reform on IMF Legitimacy" Biography
2019
April 25, 2019: Henry Sokolski Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Education Center, presented "Nuclear Exports to Riyadh"
Talk - Q&A
April 18, 2019: Dr. Matthew Kroenig, Associate Professor, Department of Government at Georgetown University, presented "Explaining Trump's Nuclear Policy"
Talk - Q&A
April 10, 2019: Lieutenant General Wallace "Chip" Gregson, Retired U.S. Marine Corps and Senior Advisor Avascent Global Advisors, presented "The INDOPACIFIC, Big Things, Wicked Problems, No Easy Solutions"
Talk - Q&A
March 7, 2019: Joshua Kertzer, Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University, presented "Tradhe Attitudes in the Wild: Information, Interests, and the Origins of Individual-Level Trade Preferences"
February 22, 2019: Takako Hikotani, Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy at Columbia University, presented "The Paradox of Anti-Militarism in Japan: Why did the 'peace constitution' undermine democratic control?"
January 31, 2019: Amy Pond, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University, presented "The Responsiveness of Financial Securities to Taxation"
January 24, 2019: Layna Mosley, Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, presented "Government Choices over Borrowing Strategies"
January 10, 2019: Nathan Jensen, Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas, Austin, presented "Home Country Attributes and Elite Evaluations of Political Risk Abroad"
2018
November 15, 2018: Vice Admiral Robert Thomas, Retired U.S. Navy presented "Taking Stock of U.S. Treaty Alliances in the Indo-Pacific, a Practitioner's Perspective"
October 18, 2018: Heidi Hardt, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, presented "Learning from Failure: Institutional Memory in NATO Crisis Management"
May 21, 2018: John Lauder, Vice President for Intelligence, Threat Reduction and Homeland Security Programs at Arete Associates and NPEC Board Member
May 7, 2018: Brad Roberts, Director of the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
February 7, 2018: Torrey Froscher, CIA Foreign Weapons Proliferation and Programs Analyst, presented "North Korea's Nuclear Program: From an Intelligence Perspective"
2017
November 17, 2017: Paul Stares, Director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), presented "America's Next War and How to Prevent It"
October 18, 2017: Henry Sokolski, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Education Center, presented "How Peaceful Might East Asia's Civil Nuclear Programs Be?"
