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2005

September 26 , Monday, 6:00 pm, Trent Hall Room 040; SSRI Dr. Helen Ladd of Public Policy Department will speak on "School Choice, Racial Segregation and Test-Score Gaps" at 6 p.m. Dr. Kerry Haynie will be the discussant. Dinner will be served at 5:30 in the same room. You can find her paper at http://www.ssri.duke.edu/links/documents/HelenLadd_000.pdf

September27 : Tuesday, 7:00 – 8:30pm, Rhodes Conference Room, Sanford Institute: University Seminar on Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance: Paul Collier (Oxford Economics): "Democracy and Natural Resource Rents", co-sponsored by Duke Center for International Development.

October 4 , Tuesday: 7:00 - 8:30 pm, Room 240 John Hope Franklin Center: University Seminar on Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance; Shanker Satyanath (NYU Political Science): "Capital Controls, Political Institutions, and Economic Growth". His paper is available at: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/pdfs/attnycef.pdf

October 12 , Wednesday, 11:45-1:15 pm, Room 307 Perkins Library: Faculty Brown Bag Seminar; Tianjian Shi, John Aldrich, and Ruth Grant, "Semi-Competitive Election in China".

October 14 , Friday:

3:00 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library: Political Theory Colloquium; Professor Clemens Kaufmann, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg; "John Rawls as a Socratic".

3:00 pm, 307 Perkins Library: Graduate Student Colloquium; Brett Benson, "A Theory of Strategic Ambiguity: Credibility, Transparency, and Dual Deterrance."

4:30 pm, 307 Perkins Library: Graduate Student Colloquium; Amy McKay, "The Effects of a Competitive Lobbying Environment on Policy Outcomes and Lobbyist Success."

October 18 , Tuesday: 7:00 - 8:30 Breedlove Room, Perkins Library: University Seminar on Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance; Lawrence Broz (UCSD Political Science): "Changing IMF Quotas: The Role of the U. S. Congress".

November 2 , Wednesday: 11:30 am, Breedlove Room Perkins Library: Program in Democracy, Institutions, and Political Economy (DIPE): Jeffrey Jenkins, "Agency, Monitoring, and Electoral Institutions: The 17th Amendment and Representation in the Senate."

November 7, Monday: 5:00 - 6:30 p.m., Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Comparative Seminar: Graeme Robertson (UNC) "Collective Action in Partially Liberalized States" (in pdf format).

November 8,Tuesday: 7:00 - 8:30 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; University Seminar on Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance; Kal Raustialia (UCLA Law): "The Evolution of Territoriality in an Age of Globalization".

November 9, Wednesday, 11:45-1:15 pm, Room 307 Perkins Library, Faculty Brown Bag Seminar; Alexander B. Downes, "War by Other Means: Civilian Targeting and Civilian Casualties in Interstate Wars".

November 11, Friday
1:00 pm, Room 307 Perkins Library; Political Theory Colloquium; Clifford Orwin, University of Toronto; "Nietzsche's Critique of Compassion".

3:30pm, Room 307 Perkins Library; Graduate Student Colloquium; Jorge Bravo, "The Political Economy of Mexico to U. S. Migration"

November 29, Tuesday: 7:00 - 8:30 pm, John Hope Franklin Center: University Seminar on Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance; Xinyuan Dai (University of Illinois at U-C, Political Science): "The Power of Weak International Institutions: Specifying Alternative Mechanisms".


December 8, Thursday, 5:00 - 6:30 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; Comparative Politics Seminar: Michael Laver (NYU) "Agent-based Modeling of Endogenous Party Formation". Prof. Laver's paper; (The Birth and Death of Political Parties) .

December 13, Tuesday, 3:30pm, Room 202 West Duke Bldg.; Dr. Joseph Chan, University of Hong Kong, "Democracy and Meritocracy: Towards a Confucian Perspective" (Sponsored by the Philosophy Dept, co-sponsored by Political Science)

2006

January 17, Tuesday, 7:00 - 8:30pm, John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240; University Seminar on Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance: Robin & Kevin Grier (University of Oklahoma, Economics and Duke University Political Science) "Policy Convergence and Output Divergence".

January 30, Monday, 5:30 - 7:00 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library;
Comparative Politics Seminar: Isabella Mares (Stanford). "The Great Divergence in Social Protection" (in Word format).

January 31, Tuesday, 5:30-7:00 pm, Franklin Center 240, 2204 Erwin Road; University Seminar on Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance; V. Spke Peterson, University of Arizona, "From Nannies to Nanoseconds: Rethinking Global Political Economy".

February 3, Friday, 3:30 pm, 116 Old Chem; American Politics and Political Methodology: Andrew Gelman, Professor of Statistics and Political Science and Director of Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (Columbia University), "Rich State, Poor State, Red State, Blue State: What's the Matter With Connecticut?".

February 7, Tuesday, 7:00-8:30 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; University Seminar on Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance; Jeffrey Frieden, Harvard, "The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy".

February 10, Friday, 12:00 noon - 1:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Lbrary; Political Theory Colloquium: Professor Arlene Saxonhouse, University of Michigan, "Rule Among Equals: Tragic and Comic Reflections on Democratic Leadership in Fifth Century Athens".

February 13, Monday, 12:00 noon - 1:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; International Relations Speakers' Series: Michael Zürn, Dean and Professor of International Relations, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin: "Law and Compliance in Postnational Constellations"

February 17, Friday, 12:00 noon - 1:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; Political Theory Colloquium: Josiah Ober, "Collective Action as a Problem in Classical Greek Political Theory."

February 21, Tuesday, 7:00-8:30 pm, John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240; University Seminar on Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance; Barbara Koremenos, UCLA/University of Michigan, "If Only Half of International Agreements Have Dispute Resolution Provisions, Which Half Needs Explaining?". The background reading is now available at http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm

February 24, Friday, 10:00am - 3:30pm, Flowers Bldg., Room 04; "The Future of Mexican Democracy" The Department of Political Science, the Carolina and Duke Consortium, the Political and Economic Regimes Working Group, and the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies at Duke are pleased to announce a one-day conference. The conference will consist of two roundtable discussions. The first, "Is Mexico turning left?" will take place from 10:00 - 12:00, and the second, "The 2006 Election Issues and Prospects" will run from 1:30 - 3:30pm. For more information on the conference, please contact Marco Antnio Fernández Martinez at maf16@duke.edu.

February 27, Monday, 12:00pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; IR Speaker Series: Prof. Timothy McKeown, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; "The Big Influence of Big Allies". A copy of Prof. McKeown's paper can be downloaded from Chris Gelpi's website at http://www.duke.edu/~gelpi/speakers.htm.

February 27, Monday, 5:00 - 6:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; Comparative Politics Seminar: Lisa Blaydes, UCLA, "Electoral Budget Cycles under Authoritarianism: Economic Opportunism in Mubarak's Egypt."

March 20, Monday, 12:00pm: Breedlove Room, Perkins Library: International Relations Speaker Series; Allan Stam. Dartmouth College, "Domestic Institutions and Wartime Casualties" copy of Prof. Stam's paper can be downloaded at http://www.duke.edu/~gelpi/speakers.htm.

March 24, Friday, 3:30 pm, 116 Old Chem Bldg.; American Politics and Political Methodology: Gary King, David Florence Professor of Government & Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (Harvard University), " Seminar".

March 28, Tuesday, 7:00-8:30 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library: University Seminar on Globlization, Equity, and Democratic Governance; Walter Mattli, Oxford, "Global Economic Forum Shopping".

March 31, Friday, 12:00 noon - 1:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; Political Theory Colloquium; Jeffrey Stout, Princeton University; "The Spirit of Democracy."

April 3, , Monday, 5:00 - 6:30 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library;
Comparative Politics Seminar: January Ben Reilly (Australian National University) "Democracy and Diversity: Political Engineering in the Asia Pacific". CANCELED

April 4, , Tuesday 7:00-8:30 pm, John Hope Franklin Center 240, 2204 Erwin Road: University Seminar on Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance and Co-sponsored by the Duke International Relations Seminar Speakers Series; Michael Barnett, University of Minnesota, "The Transformation of Humanitarianism".

April 7, Friday, 12:00 pm - 2:00pm, Board Room 201 Allen Bldg., DIPE speaker in the Comparative Politics Seminar; Erik Wibbels, University of Washington, "Lessons from Strange Cases: Democracy, Development, and the Resource Curse in the U. S. States,"

April 7, Friday, 3:30 pm, 116 Old Chem Bldg.: American Politics and Political Methodology: Jeff Gill, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science (University of California - Davis), "Seminar".

April 19, Wednesday, 12:00- 1:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; Faculty Brown Bag Seminar: Tim Büthe, "The Politics of Competition in the European Union: Institutional Change and Decisions from Messina to 2004."

April 24, Monday, 12:00pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; International Relations Speaker Series: Richard Herrmann, Ohio State University; Title TBA.

September 12, Tuesday, 7:00pm - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library: University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy speaker Jude Hays (University of Illinois), "Globalization, Domestic Institutions and the New Politcs of Embedded Liberalism."

September 19, Tuesday, 7:00pm - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library: University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy speaker Duncan Snidal (University of Chicago), "The Choice of International Institutions: Cooperation, Alternatives, and Strategy." The paper on which the talk is based has been posted at: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
September 27, Wednesday, 12:00, Place TBA: Faculty Brown Bag Seminar Series: Jerry Hough, "Military Force in Nation-Building: The Implications of the American and Mexican Wars of Independence for Iraq."

October 3, Tuesday, 7:00pm - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library: University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy speaker Valerie Bunce (Cornell University), "The Diffusion of Democratization Through Electoral Revolutions in the Postcommunist World."

October 16, Monday noon - 1:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library: International Relations Series Speaker Series; Professor Dan Reiter, Emory University, Professor Reiter's talk is entitled "Information, Commitment and War" and a copy of the paper will be posted at:
http://www.duke.edu/~gelpi/speakers.htm

October 18, Wednesday, 11:45am - 1:15pm, 109 Languages: Faculty Brown Bag Seminar Series: Evan Charney, "The Uses and Abuses of Genetics for Political Science."

October 24, Tuesday, 7:00pm - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library: University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy speaker Kevin Morrison (Duke University), "Oil, Non-Tax Revenue, and the Redistributional Foundations of Regime Stability."

October 27, Friday, 3:30 pm, Allen Bldg. Board Room; Program in Asian Security Studies presents Dr. David Tawei Lee, Representative Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States will speak on "Prudence and Moderation: A Diplomat's View of the U.S. - Taiwan Relations". It is free and open to the public.

November 9, Thursday, 3:30 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Political Theory Colloquium: Robert Pippin, University of Chicago, The Committee on Social Thought and Department of Philosophy: "How To Overcome Oneself Nietzsche On Freedom"

November 14, Tuesday, 7:00pm - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library: University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy speaker Gary Goertz (University of Arizona), "The Evolution of Regional Economic Institutions into Security Institutions or, The Demise of Realist Military Alliances."

November 15, Wednesday, 12:00, Place TBA, Faculty Brown Bag Seminar Series: Despina Alexiadou, "Coalition Governments, Social Insurance, and Central Bank Independence versus Inflation: Fighting Inflation Alone or Together?" POSTPONED

November 17, Friday, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Political Theory Colloquium; Catherine Zuckert, Univesity of Notre Dame, Department of Political Science, " Platonic Dramatology."

November 20, Monday, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, Gray 228 Divinity School, IR Speaker Series; Laura Sjoberg of Duke and Harvard Universities; " Mean Girls: Seeing Gender Subordination through Women's Violence in International Relations."

November 20, Monday, 5:30 - 7:30 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Duke University Center for European Studies and Center for International Studies; Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University; "Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism."

November 28, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy speaker Nicole Simonelli (New York University and Duke University), "International Negotiations: The Multilateral Agreement-Making Process." CANCELLED: TALK WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN SPRING.

December 5 , Tuesday, 7:00pm - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library: University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy speaker Peter Katzenstein (Cornell University), "The American Imperium and Soft Power in World Politics."

December 8, Friday, 2:00 - 3:30pm, Room 307 Perkins Library: Political Institutions and Public Choice Program; Pat Seller, Davidson College; "Cycles of Partisan Spin: Strategic Communication in the U. S. Congress."

2007

January 16, Tuesday, 7:00 - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; David S. Law, San Diego Law School and UC, San Diego; Globalization and Constitutional Convergence: Professor Law's background reading paper (just revised) is available at: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm

January 18, Thursday, 12:00pm Erwin Mill Bldg, SSRI Event Room, A103, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences (REGSS) Colloquia, Professor John Transue, Duke University, "Identity Salience, Identity Acceptance, and Racial Policy Attitudes: American National Identity as a Uniting Force." Lunch will be served. Please RSVP: http://rsvp.ssri.duke.edu

January 22, Monday, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, Social Sciences 111, International Relations Speaker Series, Professer Miriam F. Elman, Arizona State University, "Security and Democratic Choice: Lessons from Israel's Formative Era."Table One - Three , Table Four.

January 30, Tuesday, 7:00 - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room (214) Perkins Library, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; Nicole Simonelli, Duke Universtiy; "International Negotiations: The Multilateral Agreement Making Process".

February 2, Friday, Time and Place TBA: The Program in American Values and Institutions; Alan Wolfe, Boston College, Topic TBA.

February 13, Tuesday, 7:00 - 8:30pm, Rhodes Conference Room, Sanford Institute; University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy & Duke Social Science Research Institute (SSRI): Bruno Frey, University of Zurich - "Dealing with Terrorism - Stick or Carrot?" The paper on the talk will be based, will be available approximately a week in advance of a seminar at: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm

February 23, Friday, 3:00 pm, in Tower 201 (Prior to all the renovations, this room used to be the Carpenter Board Room in Perkins Library), Political Theory Colloquium, Professor Patchen Markell, University of Chicago, "The Architecture of The Human Condition".

March 1, Thursday, 2:00 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; Political Institutions and Public Choice; Jonathan Katz. California Institute of Technology, "Auctioning off the Agenda: Bargaining in Legislatures with Endogenous Scheduling."

March 2, Friday, 3:30 - 5:00pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library; Duke Political Science Ph.D Alumni Speaker Series: Professoer Clark C. Gibson (Ph.D. Duke University, 1995), Professor of Political Science, Director, International Studies Program, University of California at San Diego; "The Fiscal Foundations of Political Accountability in Africa." Professor Clark's Fiscal Governance paper table can be found here.

March 6, Tuesday, 7:00 - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room (204) Perkins Library: University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; Aseem Prakash, University of Washington, "Diffusing Quality: Trade, FDI, and the Cross-national Adoption of ISO 9000 Quality Standards". The paper on the talk will be based, will be available approximately a week in advance of a seminar at: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm


March 20, Tuesday, 7:00 - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room (204) Perkins Library: University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; Henrik Enderlein, Hertie School of Governance and Duke University, "Banking Alone: The Decline in International Monetary Cooperation and Implications for Global Economic Governance". The paper on the talk will be based, will be available approximately a week in advance of a seminar at: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm

March 22, Thursday, 2:00 pm, Room 307 Perkins Library: Political Institutions and Public Choice, Alan Wiseman, Title TBA.

March 23, Friday, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Political Theory Colloquium; Professor James Farr, University of Minnesota: "John Locke on Slavery."


April 3, Tuesday, 7:00 - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room (204) Perkins Library; University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; Ann Marie Clark, Purdue University, "The Effects of Participation in International Human Rights Discourse on State Behavior". The paper on the talk will be based, will be available approximately a week in advance of a seminar at: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm

April 16, Monday, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, 103A Allen Bldg., Duke Political Science Ph.D. Alumni Speaker Series; Dean Lacy (Ph.D. Duke University, 1994) Professor of Government, Dartmouth University: Topic; "Why Do Red States Vote Republican While Blue States Pay the Bills?"

April 17, Tuesday, 7:00 - 8:30pm, Breedlove Room (204) Perkins Library; University Seminar of Global Governance and Democracy: David Soskice, Duke University, "Modern Macroeconomics and Political Science". The paper on the talk will be available approximately a week in advance of a seminar at: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm

April 18, Wednesday, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm, Allen Building Boardroom; Political Institutions and Public Choice Program Social Science Research Institute: Professor Peter Ordeshook, California Institute of Technology; "Detecting and Measuring Election Fraud Using Official Election Returns with Application to Russia, Ukraine, the US and Mexico."

April 27, Friday, 1:30 pm, Erwin Mill Building, Room A103; REGSS Colloquia: Rodney Hero, Department Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame, " Dimensions and Dilemmas of Latino/African American Political Relationships: Some Recent Evidence and Observations."

April 27, Friday, 4:00pm, Room 307 Perkins Library; Casey Klfostad, the University of Miami, will be presenting a talk titled "The Art of Associating: The Central Role of Peers in Civic Life."


May 3, Thursday, 4:30pm, UNC's Global Center Room 3024 (the building is in
front of the Credit Union); The UNC-Duke Working Group on Poverty and Inequality in Latin America; Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Stanford University; He will be discussing material from his book manuscript on the politics of social programs in Mexico. The manuscript is co-authored with Beatriz Magaloni and Federico Estevez and tentatively titled "Poverty, Vote Buying, and Democracy".

May 3-4, Thursday and Friday, 4:30pm -6:30pm, 9:00am-3:00pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library: Political Theory Working Group Spring Symposium: On Sovereignty; Sponsored by the Department of English and The Gerst Program: Michael Gillespie, Duke University; Nathan Tarcov, University of Chicago; Maureen Quilliga, Duke University; Paul Rahe, University of Tulsa. http://english.duke.edu/resources/workinggroup/

May 4, Friday, 2:00 pm, 201 Flowers; Political Institutions and Public Choice, Mat McCubbins; A paper titled "When Does Deliberating Improve Decisionmaking?" provides some background relevant to the talk can be found here www.duke.edu/~mcb20/McCubbins_Deliberating.pdf

May 14 Monday through May 17 Thursday (1:30 PM Monday; 9:30 AM Tuesday through
Thursday): PIPC Book Seminar, Jamie Carson (UGA) and Jason Roberts (Minnesota) will be presenting work from a manuscript entitled "Ambition, Competition, and Electoral Reform: The Politics of Congressional Elections Across Time." Each day there will be one session where a few chapters are presented, with the final session reserved solely for additional discussion and comments. If you would like to participate in any or all of these sessions feel free to join us in the conference room on the 4th floor of Old Chem. The detailed schedule is below, and the manuscript is here:
http:/www.duke.edu/~mcb20/carson_roberts_duke.pdf

Schedule:
1:30 PM, Monday (5/14) --- chapters 1 and 2
9:30 AM, Tuesday (5/15) --- chapters 3, 4, and part of 5
9:30 AM, Wednesday (5/16) --- the rest of chapter 5 and chapters 6 and 7
9:30 AM, Thursday (5/17) --- discussion/comments
*Each session is expected to run for approximately 2.5 hours

September 6th, Thursday, 2:30 - 4:00 pm, 201 Flowers: Political Theory Colloquium, Deirdre McCloskey, Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Topic will be related to Professor McCloskey's most recent book, the first volume of a trilogy she is writing on the Bourgeois virtues. Find out more at her home page: www.deirdremccloskey.com

September 7 & 8, Friday and Saturday, Friday Center Chapel Hill, NC, TISS, Eighth Annual New Faces Conference sponsored by The Triangle Institute for Security Studies. This event brings 8 advanced graduate students (mostly in political science and history) working on security studies broadly defined to the area to present their work. It is an excellent opportunity for graduate students in our program to learn about interesting work in the field and also see examples of job talks.

To see the program and register for the conference, go to the TISS website:
http://www.duke.edu/web/tiss, or http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/centers/tiss/

September 11, Tuesday, 12:00 noon: Job talk; details forthcoming

September 11, Tuesday, 5:30 - 7:00pm, followed by a reception, Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; Gil Merkx and Robert Keohane: Celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the seminar and the 40th year anniversary of DUCIS, the Duke Center for International Studies. Topic "Democracy-Enhancing Multilateralism".

September 27, Thursday, 5:30 - 7:00pm, followed by a reception, Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library , University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; Dan Nielson, Brigham Young University; Topic: "IOs as Norms Platforms: The World Bank's Influence on Environmental Practice at the Islamic Development Bank".

September 27, Thursday, 4:00 pm, Upper East Side, East Campus Marketplace; Lecture given by Mark Oaten, Member of Parliament, Britain; "The United States and Britain: the Special Relationship" Mark Oaten is currently a Member of Parliament for Winchester and Meon Valley, England.

During the early 1980's he joined Britain's Social Democratic Party (SDP) and acted as agent in a number of elections. In 1986 he became one of the country's youngest Councillors and the first ever SDP Councillor on Watford District Council. He served for eight years, culminating in leading a group of six other SDP councillors.

He was selected to fight for the seat in Winchester in 1995. His two-vote victory in May 1997 was declared invalid, but a by-election held in November 1997 convincingly confirmed him in the seat with a majority of 21,556. Mark Oaten's parliamentary responsibilities have included: the Spokesman for Disabilities; a member of the Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs and Defence team; and Chairman of the All Party Groups on Far Eastern Prisoners of War and on Adoption.

At the June election 2001, Winchester achieved the highest turnout, and returned Mark Oaten with a majority of 9,634. After the election Mark Oaten was elected Chairman of the Parliamentary Party of the Liberal Democrats. In October 2003 Mark replaced Simon Hughes as Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary. He resigned in January 2006.

He is a member of the All Party EU Accession group and of the All Party Adoption Group. Mark is also a trustee of Unlock, the prison reform group. http://unlock.org.uk His new book, entitled 'Coalition - the politics and personalities of coalition government from 1850' was published in September 2007 by Harriman House.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Focus Program and the Gerst Program in Political, Economic & Humanistic Studies.

October 18, Thursday, 12:00 - 1:00pm; Erwin Mill Bldg, A103, REGSS Colloqui: Dr. Niambi Carter, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Duke University
"Conflicted Nativism: African Americans, Race, and National Identity"

October 18, Thursday, 5:30 - 7:00pm, followed by a reception, Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; Peter Rosendorf, New York University's Wilf Family Department of Politics; Topic: "Strengthening International Courts and the Early Settlement of Disputes".


October 22, Monday, 12:00 - 1:30pm, 201 Flowers: Comparative Politics: Michael Hechter, Foundation Professor of Global Studies at Arizona State Univesity and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: "Alien Rule and its Discontents."

October 26, Friday, 2:30 -4:00pm, 201 Flowers: Political Theory Colloquium: Stephen Salkever, Bryn Mawr College: Topic: "The Ethics and Politics of Natural Questions."

October 29, Monday, 12:oo - 1:20, 211 Languages, Political Science Talk

October 30, Tuesday, 7:00pm, White Auditorium, East Campus: Author Laura Stepp to talk about her book "Unhooked". Laura Stepp, writer for the Washington Post, and author of the book "Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love, and Lose at Both"
In her book, Unhooked, Stepp follows three groups of young women for more than a year. She attended classes, parties, and lots of conversations to try to learn how female sexuality is evolving in a "hook up" culture.

October 31, Wednesday, 12:00 Breedlove Room 204 Perkins Library, Political Science Talk

November 1, Thursday, 5:30 - 7:00pm, followed by a reception, Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; David Singer, Political Science at MIT, Topic: "Migrant Remittances and Exchange Rate Regimes".

November 2, Friday, 12:00 - 1:30pm, Old Trinity Room: Speaker, Eldon Eisenach, University of Tulsa; Topic: "How the Progressives Transformed American Liberalism": There will be an informal Q & A session afterwards.

November 5, Monday, 12:00 - 1:30, 201 Flowers: Comparative Politics Speaker Series; Beatriz Magaloni, Stanford Political Science, "The Comparative Logics of Authoritarian Survival."

November 6, Tuesday, 12:00, 201 Flowers, Political Science Talk

November 15, Thursday, 5:30 - 7:00pm, followed by a reception, Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; Ethan Kapstein, INSEAD, Paris; Topic: "The Fate of Young Democracie".

November 19, Monday, 12:00 - 1:30pm, 201 Flowers, Comparative Politics Speaker Series: Erick Wibbels, Duke University, "Natural Resources, Development and Democracy: The Quest for Mechanisms."

November 29, Thursday, 5:30 - 7:00pm, followed by a reception, Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; Chris Whytock, Duke University/University of Utah, S. J. Quinney College of Law, Topic: "Domestic Courts and Global Governance: The Politics of Private International Law".

December 3, Monday, 12:00 - 1:30pm, Breedlove Room 204 Perkins LIbrary; Comparative Politics Speaker Series: Guillermo Trejo, Duke University, Title TBA.

December 3, Monday, "A Conversation with Karl Rove" December 3, 2007, 6-7pm Page Auditorium, Sponsored by the Office of the President, Office of the Provost, Dept. of Political Science, Dept. of Public Policy, and DUU (Major Speakers).

Former Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush
Karl Rove will be at Duke University for a public conversation moderated by Duke Political Science Professor Peter Feaver. Tickets are free and available on a first-come, first-serve basis at the Duke University Box Office.

Mr. Rove served as Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush. Mr. Rove oversaw the strategic planning, political affairs, public liaison, and intergovernmental affairs efforts of the White House. He was also Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, coordinating the White House policymaking process.

Karl Rove was the architect of the President's 2000 and 2004 campaigns and, for the 18 years before the start of the 2000 campaign, president of Karl Rove + Company, an Austin, Texas-based public affairs firm that worked for Republican candidates, non-partisan causes, and non-profit groups.

2008

January 14, Monday 12:00 - 1:30pm, 201 Flowers; Comparative Politics Speaker Series: Ken Greene, University of Texas-Austin, (tentative), Title TBA

January 24, Thursday 5:30 -7:00pm, Room 240 John Hope Franklin Center, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy, Arthur S. Alderson, Indiana University, "Globalizaton and the World City System: Region, Role, and Position since 1981."

January 28, Monday 12:00 - 1:30pm, 201 Flowers; Comparative Politics Speaker Series: Orit Kedar, MIT, Title TBA.


February 6, Wednesday, 2:00 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Political Institutions and Public Choice Speaker Series, Barry Weingst and Jed Stiglitz (Stanford); Topic TBA

February 7, Thursday, Thursday, 5:30 - 7:00pm, Room 204 John Hope Franklin Center, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy; Grzegorz Ekiert, Harvard University, "Democratization and Civil Society in Postcommunist Europe."

February 11, Monday 12:00 - 1:30pm, 201 Flowers; Comparative Politics Speaker Series: Herbert Kitschelt, Duke University, "Construction of an Original Data Set."

February 18, Monday: Griffith (7pm) | North Carolina premiere!
Terror's Advocate -- comments and Q&A with visiting Duke Law Prof. Michael Tigar to follow!

(Barbet Schroeder, 2007, 135 min, France, French, German, English, Khmer, Color, 35mm)

About Barbet Schroeder's controversial new documentary:
Communist, anti-colonialist, right-wing extremist? What convictions guide the moral mind of Jacques Vergès? Barbet Schroeder takes us down history's darkest paths in his attempt to illuminate the mystery behind this enigmatic figure, who agreed to be interviewed for the film. As a young lawyer during the Algerian war, Vergès espoused the anti-colonialist cause and defended Djamila Bouhired, 'la Pasionaria,' who bore her country's hopes for freedom on her shoulders and was sentenced to death for planting bombs in cafes. He obtained her release, married her and had two children with her. Then suddenly, at the height of an illustrious career, Vergès disappeared without trace for eight years.

He re-emerged from his mysterious absence, taking on the defense of terrorists of all kinds, from Magdalena Kopp and Anis Naccache to Carlos the Jackal. He represented historical monsters such as Nazi lieutenant Klaus Barbie. From the lawyer's inflammatory and provocative cases to his controversial terrorist links, Barbet Schroeder follows the winding trail left by this 'devil's advocate,' as he forges his unique path in law and politics.

Schroeder explores and questions the history of 'blind terrorism' through his penetrating investigation of this compelling man and leads us towards shocking revelations that expose long-hidden links in history.

Comments + Q&A w/ Prof. Michael Tigar to follow!

About the guest speaker: Michael Tigar has represented many American radicals including Angela Davis, H. Rap Brown, the Chicago Eight, the Seattle Eight, Kiko Martinez and Lynne Stewart, as well as other controversial figures ranging from accused Oklahoma bomber Terry Nichols and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. He has lectured and written on the work of Jacques Verges at universities in the United States and France.

Sponsored by the Film/Video/digital Program with support from the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Center for International Studies, the Center for French & Francophone Studies, the Department of Romance Studies and the Department of Political Science.

February 21, Thursday, 5:30-7:00 pm, Breedlove Room Perkins Library, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy, Ronald Mitchell, University of Oregon, "The Relative Effects of Environmental Regimes: A Quantitative Comparison of Acid Rain Agreements."

February 25, Monday 12:00 - 1:30pm, 201 Flowers; Comparative Politics Speaker Series: Gretchen Helmke, Rochester, Title TBA

February 28, Thursday 4:15 - 5:45pm, Meeting Room A in the Bryan Center located on upper level, Political Theory Colloquium: Linda Zerilli, Northwestern University, "Toward a Feminist Theory of Judgment."

March 3, Monday, 12:00 - 1:30pm, Breedlove Room 204 Perkins Library: Comparative Politics Speaker Series: David Rueda, Oxford University, Topic TBA

March 17, Monday 12:00 - 1:30pm, Breedlove Room 204 Perkins Library; Comparative Politics Speaker Series: Jonathan Rodden, Stanford, Title TBA.

March 20, Thursday, :30-7:00 pm Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy, Beth Simmons, Harvard University, "Credible Commitments and the International Criminal Court."

March 25, Tuesday, Breedlove Room 204 Perkins Library, The Asian-Pacific Studies Institute (and Political Science) are sponsoring a talk by Ellis Krauss, Professor of Political Science at the University of California at San Diego, on "ELECTORAL REFORM AND CHANGING POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN JAPAN" Krauss will be talking about recent electoral reform and how it has affected political parties, policymaking routines, policy outputs, prime ministerial leadership, and the nature of debate over public issues.

Along with Rob Pekkanen (University of Washington) and Benjamin Nyblade (British Columbia), Krauss has been building a large database about all LDP and DPJ members of Japan's Lower House from 1980 to 2006, and he is also folding this project into a larger one with Pekkanen and Matt Shugart (UCSD) that includes eight countries.

March 28, Friday 12:00 - 2:00pm, 204 Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Political Theory Colloquium: Lars Rensmann, University of Michigan, Dept. of Political Science, "Between Republicianism and Cosmopolitanism: Hannah Arendt on Post-National Democracy in Europe."

March 31, Monday 12:00 - 1:30pm, Place TBA; Comparative Politics Speaker Series; More information forthcoming.

April 3, Thursday, :30-7:00pm, Room 240 John Hope Franklin Center, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy, Margaret Levi, University of Washington, "Achieving Good Government and Citizen Support in Developing and Transitional Societies."

April 7, Monday, 2:00 pm, 201 Flowers: Peter Stone, Assistant Prof. of Political Science, Stanford University; "Justice, Rationality, and Indeterminacy",

His paper is an interesting and innovative perspective on lotteries as a choice mechanism. Copies are available on the table in the hall.

Professor Stone's, Ph.D. University of Rochester (2000), work focuses on political theory, with a particular interest in theories of justice; democratic theory; rational choice theory; and the philosophy of social science. His current research concerns lotteries—not just state lotteries and the like, but all the various kinds of decisions that one might choose to make via random selection. There are more than you might initially believe. Think of Ancient Athens, which filled most of its political offices by lot. Think of the randomly-selected jury today. Think of the military draft. And think of all the times in life when you might wind up saying, "Let's toss for it!" or "Let's just draw straws." http://polisci.stanford.edu/faculty/cv/stone.pdf

April, 10, Thursday, 5:30-7:00pm Breedlove Room Perkins Library, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy, Jeffrey Chwieroth, London School of Economics, "The Silent Revolution: Professional Training, Sympathetic Interlocutors, and IMF Lending."

April 10-11 Thursday & Friday,The English Department's Working Group on Political Theory and the Gerst Program are pleased to announce the schedule for its Spring
Symposium on Sovereignty and the Right of Revolution

Alan Houston, University of California, SanDiego, Department of Political Science
"On the Levellors"

David Loewenstein, University of Wisconsin, Department of English, "Milton and English Nationalism"

Joyce Lee Malcolm, Geroge Mason University, School of Law, title TBA

Srinivas Aravamudan, Duke University, Department of English, "Hobbes and Early America"

Contact person: Michael Gillespie (mgillesp@duke.edu) or Kris Weberg (kris.weberg@duke.edu)

See schedule

April 14, Monday 12:00 - 1:30pm, 201 Flowers; Comparative Politics Speaker Series; More information forthcoming.

April 24,Thursday, 5:30-7:00pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy, Pam Paxton, Ohio State University, "The Difference Time Makes: Latent Growth Curve Models of Women's Political Representation."


September 5, Friday, 12:00 noon - 1:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Brown Bag Seminar Series, Mike Munger, "From Obscurity to Oblivion: How I Spent My Summer"


September 15, Monday, 12:00 -1:30 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Comparative Politic Speaker Series, Political Science along with Duke Islamic Studies Center: Lisa Blaydes, Stanford, " One Man, One Vote, One Time"

September 26, Friday, 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Location TBA, sponsored by the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute and Program in Asain Security Studies at Duke University, Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Title forthcoming.

September 29, Monday, 12:00 -1:30 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Comparative Politic Speaker Series, Tulia Falleti, Title forthcoming

October 3, Friday, 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm, 307 Perkins Library, Brown Bag Seminar Series, Tim Buthe, "The Politics of Private Development Aid: Norms vs Organizational Logic of Allocation"

October 16, Thursday, 4:30pm., Duke East Campus, White Auditorium: The Department of Political Science presents the Ella Baker Tour: Host: Frank Stasio, from NC Public Radio

Speakers (Scheduled to Appear)
Annie Pearl Avery
Gwen Patton
Ira Grupper
Al Pertilla
Efia Nwangaza
Theresa El-Amin

The Tour seeks to commemorate and reinvigorate the influence of the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) by enlisting students and young
activists to organize events for a multicultural, intergenerational
dialogue. See attached flyer.

October. 20, Monday, 12:00 noon, Breedlove Room, Departmental guest speaker.

October 21, Tuesday, 12:00 -1:30 pm, LSRC A155, Comparative Politic Speaker Series, Sinziana Popa, Duke Political Science, Title forthcoming

October 23, Thursday, 1:30pm in the Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, PIPC speaker, Keith Poole, Professor Poole's talk will cover feeling thermometers and is based on a paper titled "A Method of Linking Surveys Using Affective “Signatures” with an Application to Racial/Ethnic Groups in the U.S." which is available here: http://www.duke.edu/~mcb20/abrajano_poole_0605b.pdf


October 23, Thursday: Title: Von Der Heyden Lecture featuring David Sanger, the chief Washington D.C. correspondent for the New York Times

TISS, the American Grand Strategy Project and the Von Der Heyden Lecture
Series are delighted to invite you a lecture featuring David Sanger. The
chief Washington D.C. correspondent for the New York Times will give a talk
on the "Bush Foreign Policy Legacy" on October 23rd (5:30 – 7:00 PM). The
talk will be held in the Sanford Institute for Public Policy, Room 04 on the Duke University Campus.

Light refreshments will be served just outside the classroom from 5:00 -5:30 pm. See below for details about parking and for directions.

Sponsors: The Von Der Heyden Lecture Series, The American Grand Strategy
Program, The Department of Political Science at Duke University, and TISS.

David E. Sanger is the chief Washington D.C. correspondent for the New York
Times . Over the course of the last quarter century, he has reported from
New York, Tokyo and Washington, covering a wide variety of issues
surrounding foreign policy, globalization, nuclear proliferation, Asian
affairs and, for the past five years, the arc of the Bush presidency. He
has received numerous awards for journalism, including twice being part of
teams that were honored with the Pulitzer Prize

Parking and Directions

For directions to the Sanford Institute for Public Policy go to:

http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/about/location.php

We have reserved parking in the gated lot right outside the Sanford Institute for Public Policy for this function. Let the person at the gate know you are attending the David Sanger talk.

If you enter the Sanford Institute for Public Policy by the entrance next to this lot, go through the Commons and down the staircase. There is a big empty space in the middle of the floor and a number of classrooms off to the side. We are in one of the classrooms. The refreshments will be just outside the door. Do not be confused by the fact that there may be a lot of people on the entrance level…..they will be attending a different function.


October 24 & 25: We will be hosting a conference to provide a forum for fourth year students to present their prospectuses to faculty and other graduate students. The goal of the conference is twofold: 1) to help students move from coursework and prelim prep to the research stage of the graduate program by providing an incentive to have a good working draft of their prospectus by fall of their fourth year, and 2) to provide students with feedback from faculty and graduate students from all of the subfields.

The format of the conference is to have each fourth year student present their research question, theory, and research design. The presentation will be followed by 5-10 discussion led by either a faculty member or an advanced graduate student. We have encouraged students to ask faculty members who are not on the student’s dissertation committee or in their student’s subfield. This will enable students to get feedback from faculty they might not normally come into contact with. It will also encourage cross subfield dialog. Student presenters have been instructed to contact their discussants by September 24. At that time we will send out a more detailed schedule of the conference. We anticipate a morning and afternoon session on Friday the 24th, with a lunch break from 12-2 to accommodate the faculty meeting, and a morning session on Saturday the 25th. Please mark your calendars.

This is a great opportunity for the presenting graduate students as well as for the larger community. Please contact Katie Cochran for more information.

October 27, Monday,12:00 -1:30 pm, 201 Flowers, Comparative Politic Speaker Series, Staffan Lindberg, Univ. of Florida,"Democratization by Elections - A New Mode of Transitions"

October 28, Tuesday, 5:00pm. Social Science Bldg, Room 139: Bob Barr, Libertarian candidate for President. Bob Barr previously represented the 7th District of Georgia in the U. S.
House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003. He now practices law with the
Law Offices of Edwin Marger, and runs a consulting firm, Liberty Strategies
LLC, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and with offices in the Washington,
D.C. area. It is an interesting experience to hear about politics from a third party perspective.

October 29, Wednesday, 12:00 noon -1:30opm, Breedlove Room Perkins Library, Professor David Cook, Rice University; "Abu Musa'b al-Suri, the apocalyptic theorist and Abu Musa'b al-Zarqawi, the apocalyptic practitioner." David is one of the foremost younger scholars of Islamic radicalism with a superb history of publication and activity in the public sphere. The
link for his vita is here.

October 29, Wednesday, 6:00pm, Hamilton 355 on the UNC Campus: Professor Krister Andersson from the University of Colorado will present a paper entitled: "Decentralization and Natural Resource Managament in Bolivia: Is There a Local Government Footprint?"Sponsored by the RTI-Carolina-Duke Working Group on Political Decentralization. CANCELLED

October 30, Thursday, 3:00 - 4:15pm, Breedlove Room, IR Speaker Series: Vittorio Parsi, "The Real Challenge for Europe: From Security Consumer to Security Producer."

November 3, Monday, 12:00 - 1:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Comparative Politics Speaker Series, Dan Kselman, "Party System Concentration and Political Conflict in Turkey."

November 3, Monday, 12:00-1:15pm, Languages 207, IR Speaker Series, Richard Rosecrance, "The Size of the State."

November 6, Thursday, 5:30pm - John Hope Franklin Center, Rm 240, The University Seminar on Global Governance & Democracy, Daniel R. Keleman, Rutgers University; " Trading Places: The Role of the US and EU in International Environmental Politics." To check times and locations, download the seminar papers, watch past seminars and read guest speaker biographies, visit the Global Governance and Democracy page at:
http://jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/programs/seminars/ggd

November 7, Friday, 12:00 noon -1:30pm, Breedlove Room Perkins Library, Brown Bag Seminar Series, Abdeslam Maghraoui, "The New Administration and the Middle East"

November 10 , Monday, 12:00 - 1:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Comparative Politics Speaker Series, Anoop Sadanandan, Title TBA.

November 11, Tuesday, 12:00, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, guest speaker.

November 12, Wednesday, 4:15 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Dr. Bart Jan Spruyt,"The Politics of Religion in Europe." Dr. Bart Jan Spruyt is a leading public intellectual in the Netherlands. He hosts a weekly talk show on the Dutch tv-channel "Het Gesprek" and is a frequent contributor to a wide range of Dutch newspapers and periodicals on topics of religion, politics, and public life. In 2008 he was named a columnist for the most influential Dutch weekly news magazine, Elsevier, where he succeeded Pim Fortuyn, a conservative critic of Islam who was assassinated in 2002. Like many political commentators in the Netherlands, following the 2004 murder of the film director Theo Van Gogh by a radical Muslim, Dr. Spruyt was advised to hire his own security detail.

A nuanced commentator on Dutch politics, Dr. Spruyt has criticized parties on both the far left and far right. In 2000 he was instrumental in launching the Edmund Burke Foundation – a right leaning European think tank – and for many years served as its director. He is currently a senior research fellow at the faculty of Social Venturing & Entrepreneurship at Nyenrode University.

Dr. Spruyt is also an accomplished scholar. He holds a PhD from Leiden University, and his articles have appeared in journals such as Dutch Review of Church History, Sixteenth Century Journal, Wolfenbütteler Renaissance Mitteilungen, English Historical Review, Quaerendo, and Reformatorica. Dr. Spruyt’s fourth books- Cornelius Henrici Hoen (Honius) and his Epistle on the Eucharist (1525) Medieval Heresy, Erasmian Humanism, and Reform in the Early Sixteenth-Century Low Countries – was published by Brill in 2006.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Duke Conservative Union, the Department of Political Science, the Gerst Program, and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

November 12, Wednesday, 6:00pm, Room 355 of Hamilton Hall, Political Science Department, UNC Chapel Hill, The RTI-Carolina-Duke Working Group on Political Decentralization presents
the following talk: Prof. Krister Par Andersson, from the University of Colorado - Boulder,
will be visiting us on Wed., November 12. The title of his talk is: "Decentralization and Natural Resource Managament in Bolivia: Is There a Local Government Footprint?"

November 13, Thursday, 10:00am, Flowers 201: PIPC Speaker Series, Assistant Professor Jesse Richman, Old Dominion, "Why Party Cartels Go Bankrupt."


December 2, Tuesday, Provost's Lecture Series, Noon, Bryan Center, Von Canon C, See the flyer here.

December 4, Thursday, 12:00 - 1:15pm, 307 Perkins Library, IR Speaker Series: Mary Gallagher, " "Legislating Harmony? Chinese Labor in a Globalized Economy"


December 4, Thursday, 5:30pm - John Hope Franklin Center, Rm 240, The University Seminar on Global Governance & Democracy, Andrew K. Jorgenson, North Carolina State University; " World Economy, World Society, and Environmental Harms in Less-Developed Countries." To check times and locations, download the seminar papers, watch past seminars and read guest speaker biographies, visit the Global Governance and Democracy page at:
http://jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/programs/seminars/ggd

December 5th, Friday, 3:00 pm, 329 Soc Psych Bldg, Political Theory Colloquium, Professor George Shulman of NYU will be giving a talk entitled "Thinking about Morality and Politics by Thinking about Race".

2009

January 12, Monday, 12:00 -1:30 pm, 201 Flowers, Comparative Politic Speaker Series, Benoit Rihoux, Title forthcoming

January 15, Thursday, 12:00 pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, "Why Some Leaders Choose to Become More Democratic, and Some Less," Brown Bag Lunch with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Silver Professor of Politics at New York University. This is a Political Science Department Event open to Faculty and graduate Students. Bueno de Mesquita will present his current research.

January 15, Thursday,5:30 -7:00pm. Freeman Center; Co-sponsored by Duke's Program on American Grand Strategy and the Triangle Institute for Security Studies: Michael Doran, Former Senior Director for Near East and North African Affairs National Security Council and Bruce de Mesquita, New York University, "Conversation on Iran."

January 19, Monday, 12:00 -1:30 pm,201 Flowers, Comparative Politic Speaker Series, Speaker and title forthcoming

January 26, Monday, 12:00 -1:30 pm,201 Flowers, Comparative Politic Speaker Series, John Ahlquist, UCLA , Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Florida State University:
"Building Strategic Capacity: The Political Underpinnings of Coordinated Wage Bargaining"

February 9, ,Monday, 12:00 -1:30 pm,201 Flowers, Comparative Politic Speaker Series, David Stasavage, NYU Department of Politics; "War, Geographic Scale and Constitutional Control"

February 10, Room: Old Chem 116, UT Professor Thomas Brunell is flying in from Texas to debate our own Professor Richard Engstrom on the merits of uncompetitive elections. The event, The Merits of Uncompetitive Elections: a Debate, will focus on Brunell's provocative argument that competitive (i.e. close) elections can actually be a BAD thing and are not the hallmark of a thriving democracy. Professor Engstrom will respond to this position in a debate. More information on the book where Brunell formally makes his argument is available at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Redistricting-Representation-Competitive-Elections-Controversies/dp/0415964539

February 18, Wednesday, 4:30pm, LINK Classroom #2:Duke American Grand Strategy Program: A Discussion with Professor Peter Feaver "Working at the White House: An Insider's Perspective on National Security at the White House." Professor Peter Feaver will discuss his experiences as Special Advisor for Strategic Planning and Institutional Reform at the White House on Wednesday, February 18th at 4:30pm in LINK Classroom #2. We highly encourage
undergraduate and graduate students interested in U.S. foreign policy formulation to attend this event.

February 23 ,Monday, 12:00 -1:30 pm,201 Flowers, Comparative Politic Speaker Series, Cecilia Martinez Gallardo, Title forthcoming

February 24, Tuesday, 9:00am, Rubinstien Room 200; Duke American Grand Strategy Program: Breakfast with Japanese General Noburu Yamaguchi, "National Security in East Asia." Japanese General Noburu Yamaguchi, one of Japan's foremost experts on national
security, will discuss Japan's role in future involvement in military operations, the balance of power in East Asia, North Korea's nuclear weapons program, and Japan's own nuclear stance. If you're interested in attending, please e-mail Eric Lorber and Nicole McWhirter.

February 26, Thursday, 5:30 - 7:30 pm, Fleishman Commons, Sanford Institute for Public Policy, Duke American Grand Strategy Program: Von Der Heyden Lecture and Keynote talk on American Grand Strategy, John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University, "What is Grand Strategy"
This is also the keynote address of the TISS/AGS Conference (See on Conference calendar). There may also be opportunities for small-group meetings with Professor Gaddis.

February 27, Friday, 12:00-1:30pm, 201 Flowers, Political Theory Colloquium, Susan Liebell "The Role of Science in Liberal Education." Abstract: "Although the debate over teaching evolution in public schools is not new, it was transformed by Intelligent Design. In 2004, a school district in Dover, Pennsylvania required biology teachers to caution ninth graders that Darwin's theory of evolution was a theory not a fact. In Tammy Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover Area School District, et al., eleven families argued that the statement violated the First Amendment's ban on the establishment of religion. The U.S. District Court agreed. Dover raises fundamental questions about the role science education plays in the creation and maintenance of liberal political identities. Americans miss the mark if they ask "is it tolerable in a multi-faith society to mention Intelligent Design?" Defending against religion in public schools fails to answer fundamental questions of liberal political identity. Instead, we need to articulate why the teaching of evolution is essential to liberal democratic practice and values. Courts and contemporary political theorists lack an effective defense of science education or even an effective vocabulary to frame the debate. This lecture explores how to create a liberal discourse that advocates teaching science (rather than explaining why ID should be excluded) using the writings of Locke, Hume, and Dewey. Because science is a key component of modern liberalism, liberals can and should explicitly justify science education generally and the teaching of evolution specifically as crucial to three aspects of the liberal person: political citizenship, economic fitness, and moral autonomy."

February 27 & 28, Friday & Saturday, Rizzo Center, Chapel Hill, TISS conference, "Debating American Grand Strategy After Major War"

March 2, Monday, 12:00 - 1:30pm. 201 Flowers, Comparative Politics Speaker Series: Jerry Hough, Duke University, Title TBA.

March 2, Monday, 5:00pm, Perkins Room 317, Duke American Grand Strategy Program: Coffee with Admiral Girouard"The Canadian Military: Peacekeeping and Combat Forces": Canadian Admiral Roger Girouard will be speaking on the role of the Canadian navy in international peacekeeping operations and the future of U.S.-Canadian military operations. Admiral Girouard has commanded Canadian vessels in U.S.-led task forces in the Gulf, led a Canadian peacekeeping mission in East Timor, and finished his career as commander of Canadian naval forces on the West Coast. This small group discussion will
be held at 5:00pm in Perkins 317. Space is limited and if you are interested
in attending, please email Eric Lorber and Ashley DiSilvestro.

March 5, Thursday, 5:00pm - 6:30pm, Love Auditorium, LSRC: Duke American Grand Strategy Program and the Office of the Provost: Yale Professor Paul Kennedy, the Brady-Johnson Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy, will deliver the Provost's lecture, entitled, "Measuring American Power in Today's Fractured World". Professor Kennedy is an extraordinarily accomplished historian who stands as one of the preeminent scholars of grand strategy. There will also be opportunities for AGS undergraduate and graduate students to dine and discuss Grand Strategy with Professor Kennedy on the mornings of March 5 and 6th.

March 16, Monday, 12:00 -1:30 pm, 201 Flowers, Comparative Politic Speaker Series, Political Science and Duke Islamic Studies Center: Michael Ross,"Oil, Islam and Democracy Revisited"

March 18, Wednesday 3:00-6:00pm, FHI Symposium: Etienne Balibar, Homi
Bhabha, Wendy Brown

 March 26, Thursday, Place and Time TBD, Co-sponsored by Duke's Program on American Grand Strategy and the Triangle Institute for Security Studies: Meghan O'Sullivan, former deputy national security advisor on Iraq and Afghanistan and current lecturer and senior fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government Belfer Center for Science and International; Public talk on "Iraq."

March 26, Thursday, 12:00 Noon, 103a Allen Bldg., Perkins Library: Political Theory Colloquium: Jeff Church, Duke University, "Hegel and Rousseau."

March 27 & 28, Friday and Saturday, 8:00am - 5:00pm, Washington Duke Inn, "Bicameralism" hosted by PIPC.

March 30,Monday, 12:00 -1:30 pm,201 Flowers, Comparative Politic Speaker Series, Carles Boix, Princeton University, "The Origins of Inequality"

April 1, Wednesday, Public Ethics Symposium: Globalization of Higher Education

April 2-3, Breedlove Room: Political Theory Conference, Sponsored by the Political Science Department and the English Department. Catherine Zuckert, Notre Dame (Strauss), Susan, Bickford, UNC (Arendt), Ellen Kennedy, Penn (Schmitt), Ian Baucom, Duke (Agamben), Bruce Caldwell, Duke (Hayek): More information forthcoming.

April 13, Monday, 12:00 -1:30 pm,201 Flowers, Comparative Politic Speaker Series, David Rueda, Title forthcoming

April 16, Thursday, 2:45-5:30, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library,
Workshop sponsored by the RTI-Carolina-Duke Working Group on Local Governance and Democratic Accountabilit: Speakers: Merilee Grindle (John F. Kennedy School of Government): Going Local and the Promise of Good Governance: Maria Escobar-Lemmon (Texas, A & M): All by Myself?: The Role of Personal Qualification versus Party Affiliation in Mayoral Elections

Coffee, tea and snacks will be served at the workshop

April 17, Friday, 10:00 am, 103 Allen Bldg, PIPC, Kenneth Shepsle of Harvard University, "Legislative Seniority and Its Generalization"

April 22, Wednesday, 11:30am Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Politicial Theory Collquium; Jürgen Gebhardt, University of Erlangen Nuremberg and> the director of the Amerika Haus in Munich, "Michael Oakshott"

April 24 & 25, Friday & Saturday, beginning at 2:00 Friday and running through 5:30 pm Saturday, Breedlove Room Perkins Library, "Measurement and Data Sets in Comparative "Politics

September 24, Thursday, 515 pm, UNC Hamilton Hall, Triangle Political Methods Group and PARISS Joint Speaker Series; Justin Grimmer, Harvard Dept. of Law will be giving a talk entitled "Representational Style" and should be very interesting for anyone interested in the U.S Congress, textual analysis, and/or text-based data collection. The full abstract for the paper is provided below. The meeting usually lasts one hour, and there should be several good parking options at UNC at this time. Useful information on directions, campus maps, and our schedule of events for this semester are posted on our website: http://www.unc.edu/depts/polisci/methods/

September 28, Monday, 12 - 130pm, 103A Allen Bldg., Comparative Politic Speaker Series; Dawn Brancati, Washington University, "Time to Kill: The Impact of Election Timing and Sequencing on Post-Conflict Stability;

October 1, Thursday, 515 pm, Erwin Mill Room A103, Triangle Political Methods Group and PARISS Joint Speaker Series; Nathan Martin, Duke Sociology Dept. Useful information on directions, campus maps, and our schedule of events for this semester are posted on our website: http://www.unc.edu/depts/polisci/methods/

October 8, 530pm,John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Rd. Room 240, Triangle Political Methods Group and PARISS Joint Speaker Series; Michael Ward, Duke; Professor Ward will lead a discussion based on his current research, *International Trade Networks and International Institutions: Examining the role of Democracy and the WTO in Contemporary Trade. NOTE: please park in the Medical Center parking garage II or in the Pickets Family Clinic lot (open after 4pm). Useful information on directions, campus maps, and our schedule of events for this semester are posted on our website: http://www.unc.edu/depts/polisci/methods/

October 13, Tuesday, 6pm. Bryan Center Von Canon C, Triangle Institute for Security Studies and the Duke University Program in American Grand Strategy: "Careers in Security Night" featuring recent alumni in the filed of national security.

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