Fall 2025 WIP Schedule (Thursdays, 3:30-5PM, Pick Hall 506)
| October 2 | Felicity Vabulas
Pepperdine University |
“Out and Down: The Reputational Damage of Exiting International Organizations in the Eyes of Market Analysts” |
| October 9 | Bobby Gulotty and Jonah Wiegand
University of Chicago |
“Mismeasured Cooperation: The Trans-Atlantic Origins of Reciprocity in Market Access” |
| October 16 | IPES | NO MEETING |
| October 23 | Rachel Sweet
University of Notre Dame |
“Truth and Power” |
| October 30 | Bangchen Ruan
University of Chicago |
“Strategic Calculus of Preventive War: Which Windows of Opportunity Do States Jump Through?” |
| November 6 | Patrick Hulme and Adam Saxton
University of Florida and University of Chicago |
“Why Major Powers Stopped Declaring War: The Explosive Implications of Declaring a Legal State of War in the Nuclear Age” |
| November 13 | Isabella Bellezza
Northwestern University |
“Border Agencies and the Networked Politics of Policing Global Trade” |
| November 20 | Ari Weil
University Of Chicago |
“Explaining Insurgent Ideological Flexibility in Civil Wars” |
| November 27 | THANKSGIVING | NO MEETING |
| December 4 | Steven Boyd
University Of Chicago |
“Perceptions of Prestige: A Factorial Survey Experiment” |