The Browne Center sponsors an annual speaker series in which leading scholars present recent research on international relations. Unless otherwise stated, all presentations begin at 12 pm in the Forum, Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, 133 S. 36th Street, at the University of Pennsylvania.
Past Speaker Series
Maximizing Leverage: China's Strategic Force Posture Choices in the Information Age
Fiona Cunningham, George Washington University
China and International Relations Series
Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Contemporary China
The Causes of Modern Conquest
Melissa Lee, Princeton University
Public Opinion: An Experimental Analysis in Ukraine
Yonatan Lupu, George Washington University
Cooptation at the Creation: Manufacturing an Elite Consensus on US Participation in the United Nations
Austin Carson, University of Chicago
Purely Partisan Warriors? A Study of Legislative Rhetoric in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars
Sarah Kreps, Cornell University
The Nuclear Age: During and After the Cold War
Robert Jervis, Columbia University
Rebel Capacity and Combat Tactics
Austin Wright, University of Chicago
Engendering the Governance of the Economy: What Drives Gender Representation on Central Bank Boards?
Cristina Bodea, Michigan State University
Revisiting Hiroshima: What Americans Really Think about Using Nuclear Weapons & Killing Noncombatants
Scott Sagan, Stanford University
Danger is What We Make of It: The Role of Threat Perception in Shaping National Security Preferences
Marika Landau-Wells, Massachusetts Institute of Technology