Join for a discussion of "Autocratic Stability in the Shadow of Foreign Threats," in the American Political Science Review and published online by Cambridge University Press, (July 2020).

Co-authored by: Livio Di Lonardo, Bocconi University; Jessica Sun, University of Michigan Department of Political Science; and Scott Tyson, University of Rochester.

The authors will join for a conversation about their work. No formal presentation will be given; please read in advance. A link to the reading will be sent with the registration confirmation.

Part of the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) seminar series.

Laura Sjoberg, Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida, discusses her working paper “Seducing Territory: Sex Acts and State Borders."

The author will join for a conversation about their work. No formal presentation will be given; please read in advance. A link to the reading will be sent with the registration confirmation.

Part of the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) seminar series.

About the author

Laura Sjoberg is is Professor of Political Science. Her research interests are in the area of gender-based and feminist approaches to the study of international relations generally, and international security specifically. Her research has addressed gender and just war theory, women’s violence in global politics, feminist interpretations of the theory and practice of security policy, queer theorizing in global politics, methodology, and the sociology of political science and International Relations.

Education: BA, University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of Southern California School of International Relations; J.D. Boston College Law School

Learn more at her personal website

Asma Khalifa presents a paper titled "Impact of Civil War on Gender Relations".

Valerie Hudson presents a tutorial on using the Woman Stats Database. Please note that this event runs until 1:30pm.

Emily Hencken Ritter presents a paper titled "Threat Dimensions and the Protection of Human Rights".

Kelly Hunter presents a paper titled "Who intervenes and how? The politics of intervention for conflict-related sexual violence"/.

The global trend of democratic backsliding has reshaped politics around the world, from the United States to Indonesia. Throughout Southeast Asia, a region long marked by contestation between authoritarian and democratic politics, contemporary authoritarian practices interact with local histories to generate distinctly new forms of politics—from penal populism in the Philippines to Burma’s most recent military coup. This virtual roundtable on authoritarianism brings together four experts on the politics of Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines to understand contemporary authoritarianism and democratic backsliding in the Southeast Asian context.

Introduction: Rebecca Slayton, Director of the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (Associate Professor, Dept of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell)

Moderator: Tom Pepinsky (Tisch University Professor, Dept of Government, Cornell)

Panelists:

Pavin Chachavalpongpun (Associate Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University)Mark R. Thompson (Professor of Politics and Head, Department of Asian & International Studies; Director of Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong)Ardeth Thawnghmung (Chair of Political Science, Professor, Interim Director, Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell)Eve Warburton (Postdoctoral Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore)

Co-organized by the Southeast Asia Program and the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies