Yale Brady-Johnson ISS Research Workshop: International Securities Studies conference

The Yale Brady-Johnson ISS Research Workshop presents the International Securities Studies conference.

08:30-09:00 Breakfast

09:00-10:30 Panel 4: Economics and International Security
Chair: Nuno Monteiro (Yale)

Present at The Creation: The U.S. Energy-National Security Nexus Reconsidered (1890s-1920s)

• Gaetano di Tommaso (Sciences Po)
• Discussant: Jennifer Siegel (OSU)
• Readers: Beverly Gage (Yale), Michael de Groot (Penn), Nicholas Mulder (Columbia)

The Specter of Blockade: Economic Sanctions, Deterrence and Deglobalization in the Interwar Period, 1919-1941

• Nicholas Mulder (Columbia)
• Discussant: Marc Trachtenberg (UCLA)
• Readers: Jennifer Siegel (OSU), Gaetano di Tommaso (Sciences Po), Reid Pauly (MIT)

The Silver Linings of the Oil Embargo: Transatlantic Relations and the 1973 Oil Crisis

• Michael de Groot (Penn)
• Discussant: Fritz Bartel (Yale)
• Readers: Arne Westad (Harvard), Gaetano di Tommaso (Sciences Po), Kazushi Minami (UT Austin)

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Panel 5: Threats, Coercion, and Crisis Dynamics
Chair: Ian Johnson (Yale)

Provocation, Crisis Escalation, and Inadvertent War

• Hyun-Binn Cho (Stanford)
• Discussant: Charles Glaser (GWU)
• Readers: Alexandre Debs (Yale), Kazushi Minami (UT Austin), Reid Pauly (MIT)

Perceiving and Coping with Threat: Explaining East Asian Perceptions and Strategies toward China’s Rise

• Ronan Tse-Min Fu (USC)
• Discussant: Nuno Monteiro (Yale)
• Readers: John Mearsheimer (Chicago), Bonnie Chan (Chicago), Ketian Zhang (Stanford)

Stop or I’ll Shoot, Comply and I Won’t: The Dilemma of Coercive Assurance

• Reid Pauly (MIT)
• Discussant: Robert Jervis (Columbia)
• Readers: Daryl Press (Dartmouth), Hyun-Binn Cho (Stanford), Nicholas Mulder (Columbia)

12:30-02:00 Lunch & Job Market Roundtable

• Beverly Gage (Yale)
• Joshua Kertzer (Harvard)
• Fredrik Logevall (Harvard)
• Nuno Monteiro (Yale)

02:00-03:30 Panel 6: Keeping the Peace in the South China Sea
Chair: Fritz Bartel (Yale)

Killing the Chicken to Scare the Monkey: Explaining Chinese Coercion in the South China Sea

• Ketian Zhang (Stanford)
• Discussant: Daryl Press (Dartmouth)
• Readers: Sean Lynn-Jones (Harvard), Frances Yaping Wang (Notre Dame), Ronan Tse-Min Fu (USC)

From Deterrence to Socialization? Assessing RIMPAC’s Role in U.S. Defense Policy

• Travis Sharp (Princeton)
• Discussant: Stephen Biddle (Columbia)
• Readers: Joshua Kertzer (Harvard), Bonnie Chan (Chicago), Renanah Miles (Columbia)

The Dog That Barks: Understanding Propaganda Campaigns on Territorial Disputes

• Frances Yaping Wang (Notre Dame)
• Discussant: Stacie Goddard (Wellesley)
• Readers: Monica Toft (Tufts), Ketian Zhang (Stanford), Richard Hanania (Columbia)

03:30-03:45 Closing Remarks

• Beverly Gage (Yale)
• Nuno Monteiro (Yale)

List of Participants

• Anderson, Nicholas Predoctoral Fellow, Belfer Center, Harvard University; Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Yale University
• Bartel, Fritz Associate Director, International Security Studies, Yale University
• Biddle, Stephen Professor of International and Public Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
• Chan, Bonnie Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, University of Chicago
• Cho, Hyun-Binn Stanton Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University; Ph.D., Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
• Debs, Alexandre Associate Professor, Political Science, Yale University
• de Groot, Michael Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., History, University of Virginia
• di Tommaso, Gaetano Teaching Fellow, Sciences Po; Ph.D., History, University of Bologna and Sciences Po
• Fu, Ronan Tse-min Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, University of Southern California
• Gage, Beverly Professor of History & American Studies, Brady-Johnson Professor of Grand Strategy, Yale University
• Glaser, Charles Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
• Goddard, Stacie Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College
• Hanania, Richard Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University; Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
• Jervis, Robert Adlai E. Stevenson Professor and Professor of International and Public Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
• Johnson, Ian Associate Director, Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, Yale University
• Kertzer, Joshua Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University
• Knuppe, Austin Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Ohio State University
• Logevall, Fredrik Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; Professor of History, Harvard University
• Lynn-Jones, Sean Editor, International Security, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
• Mearsheimer, John R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
• Miles, Renanah Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Columbia University
• Minami, Kazushi Ph.D. Candidate, History, University of Texas at Austin
• Monteiro, Nuno Director of International Security Studies, Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University
• Mulder, Nicholas Ph.D. Candidate, History, Columbia University
• Pauly, Reid Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Press, Daryl Associate Professor, Department of Government, Dartmouth College
• Saunders, Elizabeth Associate Professor, School of Foreign Service & Security Studies Program, Georgetown University
• Schramm, Madison Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Georgetown University
• Sharp, Travis Ph.D. Candidate, Public Affairs, Princeton University
• Siegel, Jennifer Professor of History, Ohio State University
• Teague, Aileen Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University; Ph.D., History, Vanderbilt University
• Toft, Monica Professor of International Politics, Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
• Trachtenberg, Marc Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles
• Wang, Frances Yaping Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame; Ph.D., Political Science, University of Virginia
• Westad, Arne S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School
• Williams, Brandon Kirk Ph.D. Candidate, History, University of California, Berkeley
• Zhang, Ketian Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University; Ph.D., Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology