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Face Value: Personal Diplomacy and the Problem of Intentions

Event Start: November 13, 2013 12:30 AM

Event End: November 13, 2013 12:30 AM

Event Location: Lane Room

The talk will cover an innovative theory of political intention signaling that draws upon evidence from psychology, phiosophy of mind, and social neuroscience. The talk will investigate the role of face-to-face diplomacy in world politics.

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CANCELLED: Legislative policy-making authority, the number of parties, and party system aggregation

Event Start: May 29, 2014 10:30 PM

Event End: May 29, 2014 10:30 PM

Event Location: Lane Room

Speaker:
Heather Stoll, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, UCSB

Please note that this talk has been cancelled. It will be rescheduled for Fall of 2014.

Professor Lien Receives Taiwan Fellowship

Political Science Professor Pei-te Lien has been awarded a Taiwan Fellowship, which she will use during the summer of 2012 to study political socialization through citizenship education in Taiwan this summer.

New Faculty Member in International Relations

The Department of Political Science is pleased to announce the appointment of Bridget L. Coggins as Assistant Professor.  Receiving her Ph.D. from Ohio State University, Dr. Coggins specializes in International Relations and will be an excellent addition to the department.  Her scholarly work examines the topics of international order and security at the intersection of comparative and international politics. She was Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College and went on to become an International Affairs Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations.  Dr.

Round-Table on Recent Research on Kazakhstan

Event Start: May 20, 2013 11:00 PM

Event End: May 20, 2013 11:00 PM

Speaker:
Professor Nazym Shedenova and Professor Saule Ualieva

Professor Nazym Shedenova (Department of Sociology at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty, Kazakhstan and Visiting Event FlierScholar at UC Berkley) and Professor Saule Ualieva (Department of Sociology at East Kazakh Technical University, Oskemen, Kazakhstan and Visiting Scholar at UCSB) will lead a round-table discussion on recent research on Kazakhstan.

Faculty Talk: Aligning aid with results: making international organizations responsive to past performance

Event Start: January 15, 2014 12:00 AM

Event End: January 15, 2014 12:00 AM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

Speaker:
Mark Buntaine, Assistant Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UCSB

Bren Assistant Professor, Mark Buntaine, will give a talk on his current book project.

Assessing the Effectiveness of Leadership Decapitation Against Terrorist Organizations

When and how is this tactic successful?

The Concrete Ceiling?

Explaining the Continued Under-Representation of Women in U.S. Leadership