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
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
Subversion Among the Great Powers in Historical Perspective
William Wohlforth, Dartmouth College
Home Country Attributes & Elite Evaluations of Political Risk Abroad
Nathan Jensen, University of Texas at Austin
Regime Change as an Instrument of US Foreign Policy
William LeoGrande
Professor of Government, School of Public Affairs, American University
Professor of Government and a specialist in Latin American politics and U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America, William LeoGrande has been a frequent adviser to government and private sector agencies.