International Order, Governance, and Networks of Cooperation

Speakers

Kyle Beardsley | Duke University 

Kyle Beardsley (Ph.D., UCSD, 2006) is Professor of Political Science at Duke University. He is co-director of the International Crisis Behavior data project, and the Deputy Director of the Triangle Institute of Security Studies (TISS).

Bear Braumoeller | The Ohio State University 

Bear F. Braumoeller is professor of political science and director of the Computational Social Science community of practice under the Translational Data Analytics Institute at Ohio State. He previously held faculty positions at Harvard University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is or has been on the editorial boards of five major journals or series, and he is a past councilor of the Peace Science Society. In the summer of 2016 he was a visiting fellow at the Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway.

Braumoeller's research is in the areas of international relations, especially international security, and statistical methodology. His present work focuses on the decline-of-war thesis, the relationship between international order and international conflict, and causal inference based on observational data. His latest book on this topic is Only the Dead: The Persistence of War in the Modern Age (Oxford University Press, 2019). 

Jan Box-Steffensmeier | The Ohio State University 

Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier is Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science, Professor of Sociology by courtesy, and Distinguished University Professor (B.A., Coe College 1988; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1993.) She was recently selected as a member of the 2017 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was an inaugural Fellow of the Society for Political Methodology. Box-Steffensmeier is currently the President-Elect of the American Political Science Association, having served as the Treasurer and Vice President previously. She also served as the President of the Midwest Political Science Association and Political Methodology Society. She has twice received the Gosnell Award for the best work in political methodology and the Emerging Scholar Award of the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section of the American Political Science Association in 2001. The Box-Steffensmeier Graduate Student Award, given annually by the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is named after her in recognition of her contributions in political methodology and her support of women in the field. 

G. John Ikenberry | Princeton University 

G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.  He is also Co-Director of Princeton’s Center for International Security Studies. Ikenberry is also a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. In 2018-19, Ikenberry was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University. In 2013-2014 Ikenberry was the 72nd Eastman Visiting Professor at Balliol College, Oxford. Ikenberry is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In a recent survey of international relations scholars, Ikenberry was ranked in the top 10 in scholars who have produced the best work in the field of IR in the past 20 years, and ranked in the top 8 in scholars who have produced the most interesting work in the past 5 years.

Brandon Kinne | University of California, Davis 

Brandon Kinne (Ph.D., Yale University) is an associate professor of political science at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on political networks, international cooperation, and global security. His current projects include a multilevel network approach to modeling the transnational diffusion of political violence, and multiplex network models of burden-sharing in international defense cooperation. His published work has appeared in International Organization, American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere.

Kyle Lascurettes | Lewis & Clark College 

Kyle M. Lascurettes is Associate Professor of International Affairs at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where he teaches courses in global order, international organizations, and international relations theory. He is the author of Orders of Exclusion: Great Powers and the Strategic Sources of Foundational Rules in International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2020), winner of the 2021 APSA Jervis-Schroeder Prize for best book in international history and politics. 

David Melamed | The Ohio State University 

David Melamed is Associate Professor of Sociology and Core Faculty in Translational Data Analytics at the Ohio State University. He is Editor of Sociological Methodology and is currently the chair of the Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity section of the American Sociological Association. His work examining how network dynamics shape patterns of cooperation has appeared in PNAS, Science Advances, and other venues.

Elizabeth Menninga | University of Iowa 

Elizabeth Menninga is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2015, specializing in International Relations and Political Methodology. Her substantive research agenda explores the effectiveness of international mediation in intrastate wars and the evolution of cooperation between combatants in civil wars. Methodologically, her research develops and applies social network techniques to the study of conflict. Menninga’s work has appeared in International Studies Quarterly and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among other outlets.

Jennifer Mitzen | The Ohio State University 

Jennifer Mitzen (PhD, University of Chicago) is Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University, where she has been since 2004.  She has research and teaching interests in the areas of international relations theory, global governance, and international security.  Her book, Power in Concert:  The Nineteenth Century Origins of Global Governance (University of Chicago Press, 2013) develops and illustrates empirically a theoretical framework for studying global governance rooted in the concept of collective intentionality.  A second area of research is oriented around the idea of ontological (as opposed to physical) security, whether for individuals or for states.  Mitzen’s work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, European Journal of International Relations,Journal of European Public Policy, and Security Studies (co-authored with Randall Schweller).

Alexander Thompson | The Ohio State University 

Alexander Thompson (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Associate Professor of Political Science and a Faculty Associate of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University.

Thompson has research interests in the area of international relations, with a particular emphasis on the politics of international organizations and law.  His book, Channels of Power: The UN Security Council and U.S. Statecraft in Iraq (Cornell University Press), explores why the United States sometimes channels its foreign policies through international organizations and other times acts alone.  Channels of Power has won two awards, the International Studies Association’s Chadwick Alger Prize and the J. David Singer Book Award from ISA-Midwest.

Ayşe Zarakol | University of Cambridge 

Ayşe Zarakol is Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at Emmanuel College. Her research is at the intersection of IR and historical sociology, focusing on East-West relations in the international system, history and future of world order(s), conceptualisations of modernity and sovereignty, rising and declining powers, and Turkish politics in a comparative perspective. She is the author of After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West (Cambridge University Press, 2011), which deals with international stigmatisation and the integration of defeated non-Western powers (Turkey after WWI, Japan after WWII and Russia after the Cold War) into the international system, and the editor of the prize winning Hierarchies in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Her articles have appeared in journals such as International Organization, International Theory, International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies, among others. Her new book, Before the West: the Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders, which advances an alternative global history of world orders for IR, has been published in March 2022 by Cambridge University Press. 

Event Host 

This event is coordinated by the Security and Governance research cluster at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies and the Translational Data Analytics Institute.