International Relations Workshop with Barbara F. Walter DateApril 20, 2015 Time12:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter:Barbara F. Walter, UC San DiegoTitle: “The Logic of Rebel Strategies in Civil War”Abstract: paper … is part of a book about rebel groups and how competition affects their behavior during civil wars. It starts from […]
IR Workshop - Brandon Kinne, UC Davis DateApril 17, 2017 Time3:00pm to 4:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract:Why do states join international organizations (IOs)? Cooperation theory offers a number of plausible answers to this question. However, empirical analysis of IOs has not kept pace with theory. We identify three key limitations in existing empirical […]
Hobbes and Natural Law in Context DateApril 25, 2014 Time9:00am to 10:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Early-to-mid-seventeenth century Englishmen (1620-51) debated and contested natural law within what I call the Pauline framework. After unearthing this framework, I locate Hobbes's account of natural law within it and discuss how this reading of Hobbesian natural law […]
A Symposium on Privacy and Security: UCLA Joins the National Debate DateApril 25, 2014 Time9:30am to 5:00pm Location UCLA School of Law Contact Title: "A Symposium on Privacy and Security: UCLA Joins the National Debate"Abstract: On Friday, April 25 the UCLA Department of Political Science, the UCLA School of Law, and the Office of Information Technology brought […]
Political Theory Workshop with Claudia Moatti DateApril 24, 2015 Time4:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter:Claudia Moatti, USC and Université Paris VIIIRespondent:Anthony Pagden, UCLATitle: “Saving the City: Roman Ideas on the Permanence of the ‘Public Thing’”Abstract:At the end of the Roman Republic, the issue of the permanence of the “public thing” is […]
PT Workshop - Simone Chambers, UC Irvine DateApril 21, 2017 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract:Deliberative democracy often includes an unrealistic ethical and/or psychological expectation that individuals be willing to revise their positions in light of counter arguments and alternative reasoning. Public reason advocates introduce an equally unrealistic standard of public debate […]