IR Reading Group, 2010-11

1651 Patterson Office Tower

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY 40506-0027

859-257-6958 (office)

859-257-7034 (fax)

859-396-6871 (cell)

clayton.thyne@uky.edu

Welcome.  The IR reading group meets monthly to discuss recently published papers or to workshop working papers from students/faculty in the department.  Please let me know if there’s something you’d like to read or if you’d like to workshop one of your papers (clayton.thyne@uky.edu).  Below is the tentative schedule for the 2010-11 academic year:

 

09/10/10 @ 3:15pm in the conference room

 Fjelde, Hanne. 2010. “Generals, Dictators, and Kings: Authoritarian regimes and Civil Conflict, 1973-2004.” Conflict Management and Peace Science 27(3):195-218.

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10/29/10 @ 3:15pm in the conference room – updated date

 Conybeare, John, and Dong-Hun Kim. 2010. “Democracy, Institutionalization, and Corporate Alliances.” Journal of Conflict Resolution, forthcoming.

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11/12/10 @ 3:15pm in the conference room

Eifert, Benn, Edward Miguel, and Daniel N. Posner. 2010. “Political Competition and Ethnic Identification in Africa.” American Journal of Political Science 54(2):494-510.

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12/10/10 @ 3:15pm in the conference room—CANCELLED

 Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce, and Alastair Smith. 2010. “The Pernicious Consequences of UN Security Council Membership.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 54(5):667-686.

             -click here for article-

 

01/14/11 @ 3:15pm in the conference room

  -Workshop paper by Ryan J. Owens and Justin Wedeking. “Picking an Unsettled Brain: The Role of Cognitive Complexity in Ideological Drift on the United States Supreme Court”

           -click here for article-

 

02/11/11 @ 3:15pm in the conference room

  -Workshop paper by Geoff Wallace

 

03/11/11 @ 3:15pm in the conference room—CANCELLED

  -Workshop paper by Nicolai Petrovsky, Claudia Avellaneda & Priyam Saharia. “Does managerial quality determine whether easy money will increase organizational slack?  Testing the rentier hypothesis in Colombian local governments.”

 

04/15/11 @ 3:15pm in the conference room

  -We’ll be reading 2 papers this week.  The first is a short intro to a symposium on forecasting, while the second is one of the articles in the symposium.  Both are available below.

 Schneider, Gerald, Nils Petter Gleditsch, and Sabine Carey. 2011. “Forecasting in International Relations.” Conflict Management and peace Science 28(1):5-14. 

           -click here for article-

Brandt, Patrick T., John R. Freeman, and Philip A. Schrodt. 2011. “Real Time, Time Series Forecasting of Inter– and Intra-State Political Conflict.” Conflict Management and peace Science 28(1):41-64. 

           -click here for article-