Judith Reppy Institute

for Peace and Conflict Studies

Cornell University

ANNUAL REPORT

July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2015

130 Uris Hall

Ithaca, New York 14853-7601

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e-mail: pacs@einaudi.cornell.edu

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Table of Contents

OVERVIEW ................................................................................................................................... 2

RESEARCH .................................................................................................................................... 3

CONFERENCES ............................................................................................................................ 8

VISITORS ....................................................................................................................................... 9

GRADUATE STUDENT SUPPORT ............................................................................................. 9

DEGREE RECIPIENTS ............................................................................................................... 10

HARROP & RUTH FREEMAN PRIZE & FELLOWSHIPS ...................................................... 11

CAMPUS ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................................... 12

COURSES .................................................................................................................................... 12

OCCASIONAL PAPER SERIES ................................................................................................. 13

PUBLICATIONS BY PROGRAM MEMBERS .......................................................................... 14

OTHER ACTIVITIES .................................................................................................................. 17

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT ............................................... 20

APPENDICES .............................................................................................................................. 22

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OVERVIEW

The Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies is an interdisciplinary program

devoted to research and teaching on the problems of war and peace, arms control and disarma-

ment, and more generally, instances of collective violence. Founded in 1970 as the Peace Studies

Program with the support of the University’s Center for International Studies and the Program on

Science, Technology and Society, the Institute was renamed in July 2010 to honor Judith Reppy

for her dedication to the Institute over the decades. The Institute maintains an abiding interest in

issues in science and security, from its long-standing attention to nuclear non-proliferation to its

current focus on the threat posed by chemical and biological weapons and on issues related to

outer-space surveillance. Institute members are also concerned with other security issues, among

them ethnic conflict, human rights, regional security, terrorism, economics of national security,

and international humanitarian law (laws of war).

The Reppy Institute is distinguished by its thoroughly interdisciplinary character and its

emphasis on long-term policy issues. Both are essential for the Institute’s objective of investi-

gating the intellectual foundations of security and the preservation of peace. This commitment

motivates the research and training activities of faculty and post-doctoral fellows, as well as

graduate and undergraduate students associated with the Institute.

Judith Reppy and Catherine Kelleher received a two-year, $370,000 grant from the John

D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for research on “Creating Conditions for a Stable

Transition to a New Nuclear Order.” The primary goal of the project is to contribute new think-

ing and writing on the problems of managing a stable transition, as countries reduce their nuclear

armaments to low numbers. There will be a linked set of three workshops, to be held in Europe,

Asia, and Ithaca, New York. The first workshop took place in Berlin, Germany December 15-16,

2014 and focused on European perspectives (see Appendix D). Reach-in dinners took place at

the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC on September 30, 2014, March 31, 2015 and April 28,

2015. Attendees included people from government agencies, as well as other members of the DC

community interested in nuclear weapons issue.

Jonathan Kirshner organized a workshop that took place at Cornell on March 19–20,

2015 to discuss “Keynes for Today.” The workshop involved Cornell faculty and graduate stu-

dents, as well as participants from other universities (see Appendix E).

Internationalization Initiatives supported by the Mario Einaudi Center for Internationals

Studies included the workshop “Italy From Crisis to Crisis” (see Appendix F) organized by

Matthew Evangelista; the international law and security project, directed by professors Sarah

Kreps and Jens Ohlin; and the Reppy Fellows program.

Other Reppy Institute activities in 2014–2015 focused on the Institute’s central missions

of supporting student and faculty teaching and research, cross-campus interactions, and off-

campus outreach. Activities included workshops, weekly seminars (see Appendix A for a list of

speakers and their titles), scheduled meetings of speakers with graduate students affiliated with

the Institute (see Appendix B), and co-sponsorship of a number of speakers, symposia, and other

special events with other campus groups (see Appendix C).

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RESEARCH

The Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and

Conflict Studies seeks to encourage faculty

and graduate student research and writing on

problems of international peace and security,

broadly defined. The Institute continued to

promote and facilitate graduate student pro-

fessional development by hosting a series of

small group meetings, a practice initiated by

Jonathan Kirshner in spring 2009. This ini-

tiative began with funding from the Insti-

tute’s grant from the MacArthur Foundation,

but is now supported by Cornell’s Walter S.

Carpenter Chair. These meetings provide the

opportunity for graduate students to discuss

their research projects with outside speakers.

Whitney Taylor, a government graduate stu-

dent, hosted these small group meetings in

2014–2015 (see the list of graduate student

development activities in Appendix B).

Internationalization Initiatives funded

by the Mario Einaudi Center for International

Studies included the Cornell workshop “Italy

from Crisis to Crisis: Politics, Economics,

and Security in the 21st Century.” The work-

shop was organized by Professor Matthew

Evangelista, and co-sponsored by the Fonda-

zione Luigi Einaudi and interlocutors

Ambassador Luigi R. Einaudi and Professor

Fabio Armao of the University of Turin. The

workshop brought together mainly younger

scholars from five major Italian universities

and two British universities, along with sev-

eral Cornell faculty members and a colleague

from the University of Pennsylvania. Cornell

graduate students participated in the work-

shop as discussants.

Also funded was the international law

and security project, directed by Cornell Pro-

fessors Sarah Kreps and Jens Ohlin, who

partnered with Leiden University and devel-

oped ties with the Stockholm International

Peace Research Institute. They prepared a

week of activities centering on questions of

international law and the use of force for

Cornell and partner institution students. The

student activities took place June 22–26,

2015 in The Hague (home of the Interna-

tional Criminal Court, and the International

Court of Justice), co-led by Professors Kreps

and Ohlin, together with Isabelle Duyvesteyn

from Leiden University preparing a morning

seminar on the use of force and Jonathan van

Geuns from the Peace Informatics Lab con-

ducting a session on Big Data.

The Internationalization Initiative

also provided support for the Reppy Fellows

program. The enhanced resources allowed

the fellows to have even greater voice and

opportunity within the Reppy Institute.

In 2014–2015 peace and conflict studies-

related research activities included the indi-

vidual research interests of these faculty:

Mabel Berezin’s (Sociology) research

focuses on extremist politics in contemporary

Europe.

Valerie Bunce (Government) is the Aaron

Binenkorb Professor of International Studies

and Professor of Government. Her primary

field is comparative politics and, secondarily,

international relations. Her research and

teaching address comparative democrati-

zation, international democracy promotion

(primarily by the U.S.); and inter-ethnic

cooperation and conflict. She is currently co-

authoring a book with Sharon Wolchik

(George Washington University), tentatively

entitled: American Democracy Promotion

and Electoral Change in Postcommunist

Europe and Eurasia.

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Allen Carlson’s (Government) research

interests include international relations, Chi-

nese foreign policy, and Asian security. He is

currently developing a research project that

examines the emerging role of transnational

public intellectuals in shaping debates within

China about the country’s rise and its impli-

cations for the international system.

Holly Case’s (History) work focuses on the

relationship between foreign policy, social

policy, science, and literature as manifest in

the European state system of the nineteenth

and twentieth centuries. She is currently at

work on a history of the emergence of “ques-

tions”—the Eastern question, Jewish ques-

tion, Polish question, woman question,

worker question, etc.—in the nineteenth cen-

tury, as well as a history of the role played by

consuls and consular reform in transforming

the international system over the course of

the nineteenth and into the twentieth century.

Matthew Evangelista’s (Government)

research is mainly related to issues of peace

and conflict, with recent projects on interna-

tional norms and laws governing warfare,

and the Allied bombing campaign against

Italy during World War II.

Isabel Hull (History) studies Germany from

1700–1945 (especially sociopolitical, mili-

tary, legal, administrative, and political the-

ory), international laws of war, the First

World War, fascism, and genocide.

Karim-Aly Kassam’s (Natural Resources)

research focuses on the connectivity of

human and environmental relations, address-

ing indigenous ways of knowing, food sover-

eignty, sustainable livelihoods, and climate

change, and the creation of an International

University in Mountain Science.

Peter Katzenstein’s (Government) research

includes projects on the financial crisis, civ-

ilization politics, soft power (law, popular

culture, public diplomacy, and religion), and

America’s changing role in the world. He is

putting together a research project with Lucia

Seybert on Circulatory Power in World Poli-

tics. He received an Honorary Degree from

the University of Leiden February 9, 2015.

Jason Kelly’s (History) dissertation, tenta-

tively titled “Chinese Communists in Capi-

talist Markets: International Commerce and

the Rise of the Peoples Republic, 1948–

1964,” examines the commercial relation-

ships that linked Mao’s China to interna-

tional capitalism throughout the long 1950s,

a formative period that stretched from the

eve of the founding of the People’s Republic

in the late 1940s to the aftermath of China’s

Great Leap Forward in the early 1960s. He

will be conducting research at the Shanghai

Municipal Archives, the Guangdong Provin-

cial Archives, the Hong Kong Universities

Service Center, the Diplomatic Archives of

the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and

the UK National Archives in London next

year.

Jonathan Kirshner’s (Government) re-

search interests focus on political economy

and national security, and the politics of

international money and finance. He works

on research that considers American power

and world politics after the financial crisis.

Sarah Kreps’ (Government) research inter-

ests include international relations, security,

political economy, law, and nuclear prolifer-

ation issues. She is working on a project on

war finance, as well as a project on drone

warfare. She directed the international law

and security project with Jens Ohlin,

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planning a week of activities centering on

questions of international law and the use of

force for Cornell students taking place in The

Hague June 22–26, 2015.

George Lewis’ (Reppy Institute) research

has focused on several issues involving bal-

listic missile defenses. His research in 2014–

2015 focused on the technology, capabilities,

and implications of ballistic missile defense

systems, with an emphasis on space-and

ground-based sensor systems, and on outer

space surveillance technology and capabili-

ties. During 2014–2015 he made many posts

covering ballistic missile defense and outer

space security issues from a technical per-

spective on his blog,

http://mostlymissiledefense.com.

Fredrik Logevall (History; Director, Mario

Einaudi Center for International Studies;

Vice Provost for International Affairs, 2013–

2015) works on the history of U.S. foreign

relations.

Judith Reppy’s (Science and Technology

Studies) major research interest is a joint

project with Catherine McArdle Kelleher on

“Creating Conditions for a Stable Transition

to a New Nuclear Order.” This is a two-year

project, funded by a grant to the Reppy Insti-

tute from the MacArthur Foundation, which

involves a series of workshops to discuss in

detail the practical issues that need to be

resolved to make a transition to much lower

numbers of nuclear weapons feasible. She

also continues to be interested in the condi-

tions required for nuclear disarmament and

ethical issues in government whistleblowing.

Barry Strauss’s (History) research interests

include military and diplomatic history, mar-

itime history, history of strategy, military

sociology, and regional conflict (Mediter-

ranean and East Asia). He is working now on

a book on the how Roman emperors from

Augustine to Constantine to coped with crisis

and decline, The Twelve Caesars: Lions and

Foxes for Simon & Schuster. On 20 June

2015 he was awarded the Lucio Colletti Prize

for Political Culture in Italy and Europe in

Rome, Italy.

A number of graduate students are writing or

have completed theses that are related to the

research interests of the program. They

include:

Michael Allen’s (Government) research

focuses on historical social science, state

formation, and international law.

Michael (Fritz) Bartel’s (History) research

lies at the intersection of the history of capi-

talism and the history of the Cold War. His

dissertation is on “The Privatization of the

Cold War: Global Finance and the End of

Communism.”

Robert Braun’s (Government) research

combines archival work with geographical

information systems to study civil society

and intergroup relationships in times of

social upheaval. His dissertation project is on

“Religious Minorities and Resistance to

Genocide: the Collective Rescue of Jews in

the Low Countries.” In 2015-16 he will be a

Pre-doctoral Fellow in the Department of

Sociology at Northwestern University.

Katrina Browne’s (Government) thesis title

is “Territorial Conflict and Territoriality,

Foreign Policy of Authoritarian Regimes,

and International Bargaining.” Her work

focuses on territorial disputes, a form of con-

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flict from which violence is especially like to

emerge. She examines several aspects of ter-

ritoriality by focusing on how different

regimes behave during territorial conflicts, as

well as what institutions states have devel-

oped to divide land peacefully between

themselves.

Danielle Cohen’s (Government) thesis title

is “Mobilizing for Long-Term Crisis: Popu-

lation Policy in China.” Her dissertation

research explores the impact of China’s inte-

gration into the international system on its

population policy. Since Fall 2013, Danielle

has been a Visiting Predoctoral Fellow at

Northwestern University’s Buffett Institute.

Brian Cuddy’s (History) used his Sage Fel-

lowship during 2014–15 to continue working

on his dissertation, “Wider War: American

Force in Vietnam, International Law, and the

Transformation of Armed Conflict, 1961–

1977.” This project examines patterns of

U.S. international law usage that emerged

during America’s war in Indochina in the

1960s and early 1970s, and then explores

how in the mid-1970s those patterns were

embedded within revised legal regimes gov-

erning the use of force in international poli-

tics. He was awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dis-

sertation Completion Fellowship from the

American Council of Learned Societies for

2015 (https://www.acls.org/news/04-14-

2015/), presented to advanced graduate

students in their final year of dissertation

writing.

Ryan Edwards’ (History) thesis title is “An

Ecology of Exile: Patagonia, the Ushuaia

Penal Colony, and the Nature of ‘The End of

the World’.” His research focuses on the

relationship between prison, prisoners, and

place. In particular, he investigates the

Ushuaia Penal Colony in southern Argentine

Patagonia. In the early twentieth century,

members of the political left and working

classes were exiled to Ushuaia through social

defense laws, and incarcerated alongside vio-

lent criminals and repeat offenders. His work

asks, what did Patagonia look like through

the eyes of these different prisoner groups,

and how can we understand the world that

they built at the “uttermost part of the earth?”

Sean Fear’s (History) research focuses on

twentieth century American foreign relations

history, contemporary Vietnamese history,

Cold War and International history, with

minor concentrations in Southeast Asian his-

tory and twentieth Century Chinese foreign

relations. His thesis title is “Republican

Saigon’s Clash of Constituents: Domestic

Politics and Civil Society in US-South Viet-

namese Relations, 1967–1971.” In spring

2016 he plans to be in residence at New York

University as an Agnese N. Haury Cold War

History Fellow.

Mattias Fibiger’s (History) researches

postwar American foreign policy, particu-

larly American involvement in Southeast

Asia. His thesis title is “The Nixon Doctrine,

Island Southeast Asia, and the Fall and Rise

of the Cold War, 1969–1976,” and examines

the role of the United States in the construc-

tion and consolidation of authoritarian rule in

Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and

Singapore during the early 1970s and the

consequent resurgence of domestic com-

munist movements in those countries in the

mid-1970s.

Sinja Graf’s (Government) research

addresses questions at the intersection of the

history of political thought, international pol-

itics, and international law. Her doctoral

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work engages the concept of universal crime

as a lens to deepen our understanding of the-

oretical and historical constructions of global

justice. More broadly conceived, her research

is driven by questioning theoretical and dip-

lomatic efforts to legitimize and justify polit-

ical violence, such as military intervention,

in the name of global justice and humanity.

Her work is philosophically animated by a

concern for the relationship between violent

means and normative ends in global politics.

Her thesis is titled “The Politics of Crimes

against Humanity: Dilemmas of Enforcing

Universal Norms between Empire and

Cosmopolitanism.” She will be a Visiting

Research Fellow in Residence at the Center

for Research on Globalization, Peace, and

Democratic Governance at Koç University,

Istanbul, Turkey in 2014–2015.

Darragh Hare (Natural Resources) is inter-

ested broadly in environmental governance

and ownership of natural resources. He

would like to know whether public trust

thinking can provide a framework for re-

ducing resource conflict and increasing envi-

ronmental security. He is also interested in

the evolution of ownership and how owner-

ship arrangements serve to reduce conflict in

human and non-human societies.

Matt Hill’s (Government) research interests

fall into two broad categories: the first is the

intersection of culture, language and inter-

national security, with a particular focus on

the relationship between political culture and

strategic imaginaries in the Asia-Pacific; and

the second is the international political econ-

omy of security, particularly with respect to

the interaction of states and transnational

economic actors in the defense industry. In

April 2014 he left for Thailand to conduct

field research.

Isaac Kardon (Government) studies China’s

practice of international law, with a focus on

the maritime domain. China’s several island

sovereignty and maritime jurisdictional dis-

putes with neighboring countries and extra-

regional users of East Asian sea lanes have

already upset the peace, and are a source of

growing regional and global tension. His dis-

sertation research concerns a key driver of

these real and potential conflicts, China’s

“maritime rights and interests” in the Exclu-

sive Economic Zone (EEZ), and is titled

“Ruling the Waves and Waving the Rules:

Law and Strategy in China's Maritime Dis-

putes.” In 2014-15 he was a visiting fellow at

the National Institute for South China Sea

Studies, Hainan, PRC, also doing interviews

and archival research in Beijing.

Igor Logvinenko (Government) served as a

Resident Tutor at Cornell-in-Washington

during the previous year, while finishing his

dissertation. He participated in several con-

ferences, including the annual American

Political Science Association meeting in

Chicago, and a workshop on Global Political

Economy in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He

has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship posi-

tion at the Harriman Institute at Columbia

University in New York, which began on

September 1, 2014.

Sarah Maxey’s (Government) research

focuses on peace operations, ethnic conflict,

causes of war, and perceptions of security.

Her thesis examines the use of humanitarian

justifications for force by U.S. presidents

during the post-Cold War period, 1989–

2012. She uses a multi-method approach to

determine the conditions under which

humanitarian justifications act as constraints

on or enablers of military action.

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Ilil Naveh-Benjamin’s (Science and Tech-

nology Studies) thesis title is “Evidence and

Oversight in Humanitarian Mental Health

Interventions in Israel and Palestine.” Her

dissertation focuses primarily on the chal-

lenges of implementing and overseeing

humanitarian mental health interventions in

Israel and Palestine.

Edmund Oh’s (Development Sociology)

thesis title is “Resource Governance and the

Power of Depoliticized Development: The

Rise of Fisheries Co-management in Viet-

nam.” He is interested in understanding the

different ways in which the modern nation

state mediates the relationship between

humans and nature, and how that relationship

can be made more sustainable and equitable.

In particular, he is interested in how develop-

ment can bring about peace through engen-

dering greater food and environmental secu-

rity, especially among the resource-

dependent rural poor.

Máté Rigó’s (History) thesis title is “Money,

Elites, Borderlands: The Transformatin of

Economic Elites in Transylvania and Alsace-

Lorraine During and After World War I

(1914–1924).” He is interested in the sur-

vival of business elites in Europe, especially

Alsace-Lorraine and Transylvania, between

1910 and 1928.

Timothy Sorg’s (History) is interested in the

transition of ancient Mediterranean states

from regional city-state to territorial empire,

with a special focus on land allotment. His

dissertation is tentatively titled “Imperial

Neighbors: Empires and Land Allotment in

the Ancient Mediterranean World.”

Silvana Toska’s (Government) studies

international relations and comparative poli-

tics, with a focus on Africa and the Middle

East. Her thesis title is “Revolutionaries

Without Borders: Causes and Consequences

of Revolutionary Waves.” While her disser-

tation provides a theory for the spread of

revolutions broadly, she focuses more closely

on the “Arab Spring,” and has spent several

years researching in the Middle East.

Nicole Weygandt (Government) is inter-

ested in issues related to energy security as it

relates to hydrocarbons export and import,

international cooperation on energy regula-

tion, and the resource curse and its relation-

ship to energy law. She conducted field

research in Washington, DC during Fall

2014.

CONFERENCES

The Mario Einaudi Center for International

Studies provides supplemental funding each

year to support the Institute’s workshops and

conferences.

“A Stable Transition to a New Nuclear

Order” was held in Berlin December 15–16,

2014, organized by Judith Reppy and

Catherine Kelleher (program in Appendix

D).

“Keynes For Today” was held at Cornell

March 19–20, 2015. This workshop was

organized by Jonathan Kirshner (program in

Appendix E).

“Italy from Crisis to Crisis: Politics, Eco-

nomics, and Security in the 21st Century”

was held at Cornell 11–12 June 2015, orga-

nized by Matthew Evangelista (program in

Appendix F).

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VISITORS

Our visitors in 2014–2015:

Valère P. (Chip) Gagnon, Jr., Professor,

Department of Politics, Ithaca College, has

been a long-term visiting scholar in the

Reppy Institute. He is working on a book

project on the role of U.S. NGOs in pro-

moting democracy in the Balkans, including

parallels with traditional Christian mission-

ary work. His other project further develops

the theoretical framework of his book The

Myth of Ethnic War, focusing on conflictual

policies as a strategy of political demobiliza-

tion.

Thomas Jonter, Professor of Economic

History and Director of the Graduate School

of International Studies, Stockholm Univer-

sity, was a visiting scholar in Spring 2015.

During his time at Cornell plans were laid for

future collaboration between Cornell and

Stockholm University.

George Lewis, visiting scholar, pursued his

own research, and his work on the project

aimed at developing a plan for the elimina-

tion of nuclear weapon dovetailed nicely

with Judith Reppy and Catherine Kelleher’s

project on “Creating Conditions for a Stable

Transition to a New Nuclear Order.”

Agnieszka (Agnes) Nimark, comes to the

Reppy Institute from the Security and World

Politics Program, Barcelona Centre for Inter-

national Affairs. She has participated in

Judith Reppy’s MacArthur grant on “Creat-

ing Conditions for a Stable Transition to a

New Nuclear Order.” She is also a member

of the Nuke Geeks, a group that meets regu-

larly to discuss issues related to nuclear pro-

liferation, deterrence, and the possibility of

stability at low numbers of nuclear weapons.

GRADUATE STUDENT SUPPORT

One of the central missions of the Reppy

Institute is to support graduate student train-

ing and research, and to this end a number

of fellowships, including a stipend, health

insurance, and full tuition are awarded each

year.

The Jesse F. and Dora H. Bluestone Peace

Studies and the Marian and Franklin A. Long

endowments now provide the support for fel-

lowships awarded by the Institute.

Bluestone Peace Studies Fellowships

In 2013 the Graduate School moved the Jesse

F. and Dora H. Bluestone Scholarship Fund

to the Reppy Institute, and the Institute now

administers this endowment. The Bluestone

Peace Studies fellowships include a stipend

and health insurance and, under the new

budget model, tuitions are provided by the

field of the fellowship recipient. Receiving a

Bluestone Peace Studies Fellowship for

spring 2015 was:

Jake Nabel (Classics), “Transnational

Hostages between the Roman and Parthian

Empires.”

The graduate student selected to receive the

Bluestone Peace Studies Fellowship in

spring 2016 is:

Sarah Maxey (Government), “The Changing

Discourse of Force: Humanitarian Justifica-

tions as Constraints or Enablers of Military

Action”

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Marion & Frank Long Endowment Fund

The Marion and Frank Long Endowment

Fund was established in 1993 to enhance the

program’s ability to support graduate training

in peace studies in future years. Frank Long

was one of the founders of the Peace Studies

Program, and served as director and as a

member of the steering committee for many

years. The endowment fund was established

following the death in 1992 of his wife,

Marion. Frank passed away in February

1999.

The graduate student selected to receive a

full-year Long Fellowship for 2014–2015 is:

Fritz Bartel (History), “The Return of His-

tory: International Finance and the End of the

Cold War.”

The graduate student selected to receive a

full-year (in absentia) Long Fellowship for

2015–2016 is:

Mattias Fibiger (History), “The Nixon Doc-

trine, Island Southeast Asia, and the Fall and

Rise of the Cold War, 1969-1976”

Graduate Student Development

The Reppy Institute continued to support

graduate student development efforts in

2014–2015. The Institute continued to host a

series of small group meetings for visitors

and graduate students to discuss their

research interests. See Appendix B for a list

of these 2014–2015 meetings.

The Reppy Institute Fellows program, an ini-

tiative begun in the spring of 2011, continues

with nine graduate students selected each

spring to be Reppy Institute Fellows for the

upcoming year. The Reppy Fellows receive a

small stipend, and funding to invite and host

a seminar speaker each semester.

The Reppy Fellows selected for 2014–2015

were:

Michael Allen (Government), Joseph

Florence (Government), Darragh Hare

(Natural Resources), Jason Kelly (History),

Sarah Maxey (Government), Martijn Mos

(Government), Chris Szabla (History),

Whitney Taylor (Government), and

Youyi Zhang (Government). Whitney

Taylor was the Director’s Fellow and coor-

dinated the activities of the Fellows, includ-

ing the small group meetings and the hosted

visitors.

The Reppy Fellows selected for 2015–16 are:

Mariel Barnes (History), Amanda

Bosworth (History), Jose Castaneda

(Anthropology), Debak Das (Government),

Stephen Robin (Government), Whitney

Taylor (Government), Annie Tomlinson

(History), and Youyi Zhang (Government).

Michael Allen (Government) was selected

Director’s Fellow and will coordinate the

Fellows activities in 2015–2016.

DEGREE RECIPIENTS

Several graduate students affiliated with the

Institute completed advanced degree require-

ments during 2014–2015. Those receiving

degrees were:

August 2014

PHDs:

Michael Genkin (Sociology), “An Ecologi-

cal Perspective on Political Violence: The

Role of Culture, Networks, and Affiliations.”

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Maeve E. Kane (History), “Shirts Powdered

Red: Iroquois Women and the Politics of

Consumer Civility, 1614-1860.”

Master of Arts:

Michael Frederic (Fritz) Bartel (History)

Jason Kelly (History)

Tim Duncan Sorg (History)

January 2015

PHDs:

Janice K. Gallagher (Government), “Tip-

ping the Scales of Justice: The Role of Orga-

nized Citizen Action in Strengthening the

Rule of Law.”

Catherine M. Koehler (Anthropology),

“The Holding Room: Care, Custody, and

Control in Prison School.”

Igor O. Logvinenko (Government), “Open

Economies, Closed Politics: Financial Glob-

alization and Authoritarian Politics.”

David M. Rojas (Anthropology), “Climate

Politics after Nature and the Management of

Global Environmental Crises in Brazilian

Amazonia.”

Master of Arts:

Sarah Robin Maxey (Government)

May 2015

PhDs:

Sinja Graf (Government), “The Politics of

Universal Crime: Inclusion, Authority, and

Foreign Intervention in European Political

Thought.

Master of Arts:

Mattias E. Fibiger (History)

Martijn Mos (Government)

HARROP & RUTH FREEMAN PRIZE & FELLOWSHIPS

In 1984 the Harrop and Ruth Freeman Prize

was established to honor Ruth Freeman, who

was the first woman member of the faculty of

the College of Arts and Sciences. The prize

goes to a graduating Cornell University

senior who has demonstrated a commitment

to working for world peace. Ruth died in

April 1988 and Harrop in October 1993. A

bequest from the Freemans insures that fu-

ture Cornell students will be recognized for

their achievements and continuing work in

peace activities.

The annual Harrop and Ruth Freeman Prize

of $2500 was awarded in spring 2015 to:

Alexon Grochowski (College of Human

Ecology, Department of Policy Analysis and

Management).

The program also awards Harrop and Ruth

Freeman Fellowships to Cornell University

undergraduates to support their otherwise

unpaid summer internships. The students

receiving a fellowship for summer 2014

were:

Hannah McKinney (American Studies), for

her internship with Advocates for Civil

Rights in Minneapolis; and

Mihret Tamrat (College of Arts and Sci-

ences, undecided), for her internship with

eleni LLC in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The students receiving Freeman Fellowships

for their summer 2015 internships were:

Anshu Gaur (Nutrition and Global Health)

for her internship with the Cornell Global

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Health Program in the Dominican Republic;

and

Emily McNeil (Anthropology), who also has

an internship with the Cornell Global Health

Program in the Dominican Republic.

CAMPUS ACTIVITIES

The weekly Reppy Institute seminar is the

central activity of the Institute, bringing to-

gether interested faculty, staff, and students

from all parts of the university, as well as

townspeople. Attendance averages 25–30

persons and is sometimes much higher. The

program of seminars for 2014–2015 was

organized by Jonathan Kirshner.

The list of seminar speakers and their topics

is given in Appendix A.

The Institute received a gift from Mohsen

Kahtib-Rhabar, the CEO of Energy Research

Inc., to bring a speaker to Cornell who would

address issues related to nuclear prolifera-

tion. Laura Rockwood, Fellow of Managing

the Atom Project, Belfer Center for Science

and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy

School of Government, Harvard University,

and former Section Head in the Office of

Legal Affairs, International Atomic Energy

Agency (IAEA), was invited under this initi-

ative. On March 27, as part of the seminar

series, Rockwood spoke on “Swords Into

Ploughshares: Nuclear Verification Through

IAEA Safeguards.”

The Reppy Institute hosted many other visi-

tors who came to Ithaca to participate in

other Institute activities, and co-sponsored

events that were open to faculty and students

from all parts of the university. The Institute

also provided support to student groups,

departments, and other programs on campus,

who hosted additional events that were of

interest to peace and conflict studies par-

ticipants (see Appendix C).

COURSES

The Reppy Institute has sought to be a cata-

lyst in curriculum development, encouraging

faculty throughout Cornell University to

increase the attention paid in their courses to

issues of war and peace. Institute members

also stimulate interest in this subject through

the numerous guest lectures they give in a

wide variety of college courses. These guest

lectures are not included in this listing.

In 2014–2015 the following faculty and grad-

uate students affiliated with the Institute

taught or assisted in Cornell University

courses related to peace and conflict studies:

Michael Allen: Teaching Assistant, Democ-

racy and its Discontents (GOVT 3675),

taught by Alexander Livingston

Holly Case: History of State Surveillance

(FWS 1213); Politics of Violence in 20C

Europe (HIST 2711); History of Law: Great

Trials (HIST 1600); Geopolitics of Europe's

East (HIST 4522)

Matthew Evangelista: Human Rights at War

(GOVT 3897); and Gender, Nationalism, and

War (GOVT 4000)

Isabel Hull: The International Laws of War

(HIST 1630); and The First World War:

Causes, Conduct, Consequences (HIST

3790)

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Jason Kelly: FWS: Revolution & Renewal:

China’s Modern Transformations (HIST

1107)

Jonathan Kirshner: Introduction to Interna-

tional Relations (GOVT 1817); Field Semi-

nar in International Relations (GOVT 6067);

and Realist Theories of International Rela-

tions (GOVT 4847/6847

Sarah Kreps: Nuclear Security in a Changing

World (GOVT 3877); and International

Security (GOVT 6897)

Muna Ndulo: International Criminal Law

(LAW 7321)

Jens Ohlin: Jurisprudence of War (LAW

7392)

Aziz Rana: National Security Law (LAW

6737)

Rebecca Slayton: Making Things Nuclear

(STS 3031)

John Weiss: War and the State in Compara-

tive Perspective (GOVT 4403); Strategy in

World War II (HIST 4460)

A complete listing of peace studies-related

courses taught at Cornell University can be

found online in the course database on the

Institute’s website at

http://pacs.einaudi.cornell.edu/courses_all.

In addition to offering the above Cornell

courses, faculty supervised a number of

senior honors theses and independent study

projects, served on graduate student commit-

tees and were involved with students in other

ways.

Jonathan Kirshner oversaw the Reppy Insti-

tute Fellows program.

Matthew Evangelista is the Director of

Graduate Studies for the minor field of Peace

Studies and Peace Science— the minor

graduate field administered by the Reppy

Institute.

OCCASIONAL PAPER SERIES

The most recent program occasional papers

are available on the program’s web site at

http://pacs.einaudi.cornell.edu/publications.

Hard copies of many occasional papers are

available from the program for a small fee to

cover duplication and shipping. Details are

available on the program web site at

http://pacs.einaudi.cornell.edu/publications_

mail_order.

The program is a participant in Columbia

International Affairs Online (CIAO), which

publishes everything from journal articles

and working papers to whole books and the

proceedings of conferences in the field of

international affairs. The Peace Studies Pro-

gram’s Occasional Papers, beginning with

#21, The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty:

Issues and Answers, Matthew McKinzie

(ed.) (June 1997) are posted on CIAO. See

their web site at http://www.ciaonet.org.

We are also a partner institute of the Interna-

tional Relations and Security Network (ISN),

which is run by the Center for Security

Studies (CSS) at the Swiss Federal Institute

of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland.

See their web site at http://www.isn.ethz.ch.

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PUBLICATIONS BY PROGRAM MEMBERS

Institute members, both faculty and graduate

students, produced many publications in

2014–2015. We list here only those related

to peace and conflict studies.

Mabel Berezin

“Comments on Waves of War,” Trajectories

26, no. 1 (2014): 75–79; and

“Extremist Politics Before and After Charlie

Hebdo,” Global Dialogue 5, no. 1 (June

2015), online at http://isa-global-

dialogue.net/extremist-politics-before-and-

after-charlie-hebdo/.

Valerie Bunce

“Fizzles and Fireworks: A Comparative Per-

spective on the Diffusion of Popular Protests

in the Middle East and North Africa” (with

David Patel and Sharon Wolchik). In Marc

Lynch (ed.), The Arab Uprisings in

Comparative Perspective (Columbia

University Press, forthcoming); and

“Rebellious Publics and Resilience Authori-

tarians.” In Fawaz Gerges (ed.), The New

Middle East: Protest and Revolution in the

Arab World (Cambridge University Press,

forthcoming).

Robert Braun

“"Religious Minorities and Resistance to

Genocide: the Collective Rescue of Jews in

the Netherlands,” American Political Science

Review (forthcoming).

Holly Case

“A New Age of Questions,” The Chronicle

of Higher Education (7 November 2014):

B4–B5, online at

http://chronicle.com/article/Interrogative-

Mode/149693/ (3 November 2014);

“Adrift at the Career Fair,” The Chronicle of

Higher Education (19 December 2014):

B10–B12; online at

http://chronicle.com/article/Adrift-at-the-

Career-Fair/150789/ (15 December 2014);

“The ‘Social Question,’ 1820–1920,”

Modern Intellectual History (April, 2015):

1–29, online at

http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1479

244315000037 (31 March 2015); and

“Hope and Scandal in Hungary,” Dissent 62,

no. 3 (Summer 2015): 118–25, online at

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/hop

e-and-scandal-in-hungary.

Matthew Evangelista

The American Way of Bombing: Changing

Ethical and Legal Norms, from Flying

Fortresses to Drones (Ithaca, NY: Cornell

University Press, 2014), with Henry Shue;

“Introduction: The American Way of Bomb-

ing.” In The American Way of Bombing:

Changing Ethical and Legal Norms, from

Flying Fortresses to Drones, Matthew

Evangelista and Henry Shue (eds.) (Ithaca,

NY: Cornell University Press, 2014);

“Explaining the Cold War’s End: Process

Tracing all the Way Down?” In Process

Tracing: From Metaphor to Analytic Tool,

Andrew Bennett and Jeffrey T. Checkel

(eds.) (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univer-

sity Press, 2015); and

“Crisi Ucraina, radici storiche e possibili

soluzioni” [The Ukrainian crisis, historical

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roots and possible solutions], Vita e Pensiero

(Milan), no. 1 (January–February 2015).

Valère P. (Chip) Gagnon, Jr.

Post Conflict Studies: An Interdisciplinary

Approach, in the Routledge Studies in Peace

and Conflict Resolution series. Co-edited

with Keith Brown (Routledge, 2014);

“Democracy Promotion as Mission,” “Chap-

ter 1: Introduction,” “Introduction to Section

2: Recasting Mission,” and “Conclusion:

Towards a Field of Post-Conflict Studies”

(with Keith Brown). In Post Conflict Studies:

An Interdisciplinary Approach, Chip Gagnon

and Keith Brown (eds.) (Routledge, 2014);

and

“Political Science and the Yugoslav Disso-

lution: The Evolution of a Discipline.” In

Florian Bieber, Armina Galijaš, and Rory

Archer (eds.), Debating the End of Yugo-

slavia (Ashgate, 2014).

Darragh Hare

“Principles of Public Trust Thinking” (with

Bernd Blossey), Human Dimensions of Wild-

life 19, no. 5 (September 2014): 397–406.

Annie Herro

UN Emergency Peace Service and the

Responsibility to Protect (Routledge, 2015).

Isabel Hull

A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making

International Law in the First World War

(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014).

Peter Katzenstein

“Preface: The Fog of Peace,” in Chip

Gagnon and Keith Brown (eds.), Post-

Conflict Studies: An Interdisciplinary

Approach (New York: Routledge, 2014);

“Epilogue: Power 1–4, or The Emperor’s

New Clothes,” in Bruce Jentleson and Louis

Pauly (eds.), Power in a Complex Global

System (New York: Routledge, 2014);

“Karl Deutsch: Teacher and Scholar,” Inter-

national Relations 28, no. 3 (2014): 296–

303; and

Civilizations in World Politics: Beyond East

and West [Korean translation] (Seoul: Kyung

Hee University Press, 2014).

Jonathan Kirshner

American Power after the Financial Crisis

(Cornell University Press, 2014);

The Great Wall of Money: Power and Poli-

tics in China’s International Monetary Rela-

tions (co-edited volume) (Cornell University

Press, 2014);

“International Relations Then and Now: Why

the Great Recession was not the Great

Depression,” History of Economic Ideas 22,

no. 3 (2014): 45–67;

“Gilpin Approaches War and Change: A

Classical Realist in Structural Drag,” in G.

John Ikenberry (ed.), Power, Order and

Change in World Politics (Cambridge

University Press, 2014);

“ISSF forum on the SSCI and U.S Post-9/11

Policy on Torture,” H-Diplo/ISSF Forum 5

(February 2015): 4–9;

“Same as it Ever Was? Continuity and

Change in the International Monetary

System,” Review of International Political

Economy 21, no. 5 (October 2014): 1007–16;

and

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“The Economic Sins of IR Theory and the

Classical Realist Alternative,” World Politics

67, no. 1 (January 2015): 155–83.

Sarah Kreps

Drone Warfare (with John Kaag) (Polity

Press, 2014);

“Flying Under the Radar: A Study of Public

attitudes towards unmanned aerial vehicles,”

Research and Politics 1, no. 1 (2014); and

Limiting Drone Proliferation, Council on

Foreign Relations Special Report (2014).

George Lewis

“Technical Controversy: Can Missile

Defense Work?” in Catherine McArdle

Kelleher and Peter Dombrowski, eds.,

Regional Missile Defense from a Global

Perspective (Stanford: Stanford University

Press, 2015), pp. 63–83; and

Multiple posts on his blog covering ballistic

missile defense issues from a technical

perspective, at

www.mostlymissiledefense.com.

Ilil Naveh-Benjamin

“Medical NGOs in Strong States: Working

the Margins of the Israeli Medical Bureau-

cracy” In Medical Humanitarianism: Eth-

nographies of Practice, Sharon Abramowitz

and Catherine Panter-Brick (eds.) (University

of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.

Judith Reppy

“WikiLeaks and State Control of Information

in the Cyber Age,” in Security in Cyber-

space: Targeting Nations, Infrastructures,

Individuals Giampiero Giacomello (ed.)

(New York: Bloomsbury Publishing USA,

2014); and

“Producing Knowledge for the Military:

Experts and Amateurs in the National Secu-

rity Community,” ch. 7 in Security Expertise:

Practice, Power, Responsibility, Trine

Villumsen Berling and Christian Bueger

(eds.) (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2015).

Timothy Sorg

“Agyrrhios Beyond Attica: Tax-Farming and

Imperial Recovery in the Second Athenian

League,” Historia: Journal of Ancient His-

tory 64, no. 1 (January 2015): 49–76.

Barry Strauss

The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s

Most Famous Assassination (Simon &

Schuster, March 2015).

Sylvana Toska

“The Multiple Scripts of the Arab Revolu-

tions,” in Keith Michael Baker and Daniel

Edelstein (eds.), Scripting Revolution: A His-

torical Approach to the Comparative Study

of Revolutions (Stanford University Press,

2015).

Peter Katzenstein Book Prize

During the 14–15 October 2011 PKFest,

when former PhD students, colleagues, and

friends of Peter Katzenstein gathered in his

honor, the Peter Katzenstein Book Prize in

Government was announced. The first award

for a book published in 2012 was given in

2013 in honor of Peter’s 40th year at Cornell.

The recipient of the 2015 Peter Katzenstein

Book Prize was Paul Staniland of the Uni-

versity of Chicago for his book Networks of

Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion

and Collapse (Cornell University Press,

2014).

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OTHER ACTIVITIES

Members of the Reppy Institute have been

active in public outreach, attending scholarly

conferences, giving guest lectures at Cornell

University and at other universities, and

speaking to public groups. They have testi-

fied before Congress, served as consultants

to the government, spoken at public meet-

ings, and served on the boards of organiza-

tions concerned with peace and arms control.

This public service is undertaken by mem-

bers acting as individuals, but they are able

to draw on resources of the Institute in pre-

paring talks and for other material. A repre-

sentative list of members’ peace studies-

related activities follows.

Valerie Bunce

Member of the American Political Science

Association and the Association for Slavic,

Eastern European and Eurasian Studies.

Holly Case

Invited lectures, Cornell Adult University

course on “Croatia and Montenegro: Historic

Cities by the Sea” Adriatic cruise: “Loaded

Questions, Final Solutions,” “Explaining the

War in Yugoslavia,” “Ithaca and Europe’s

Turbulent 20th Century,” “The Culture of the

Baroque,” and a discussion of two stories by

Ivo Andrić. 8–15 August 2015;

Presentation, “The Science of Questions

from the Enlightenment to the ‘Final Solu-

tion,’” Cornell Department of Science and

Technology Studies colloquium series, 9

February 2015;

Presentation,“The Jewish Question in the Era

of Questions,” Cornell Jewish Studies Pro-

gram Event Series, 16 March 2015;

Keynote address, “A Universal War to Solve

All Questions,” annual European Studies

student conference, College of William &

Mary, 20 March 2015;

Roundtable discussion of Professor István

Deák’s Europe on Trial: The Story of Col-

laboration, Resistance, and Retribution dur-

ing World War II (with Robert Paxton, Ian

Buruma, and László Borhi), Columbia

University, 26 March 2015; and

Lecture, “The New Fathers: Authoritarian

Leaders in Our Time,” Wolleman Family

Lecture in History, Cornell Club, in New

York City. 12 May 2015.

Brian Cuddy

“The Proportional Attack from Vietnam to

Geneva,” paper presented to the workshop on

“International Studies in the 21st Century:

Development, Cooperation, Security,”

Stockholm University, Sweden, October

2014; and

“Reimagining Legitimate Violence at

Empire’s End,” paper presented to the con-

ference on “Violence, Colonialism and

Empire in the Modern and Contemporary

World,” The British Academy, London, June

2015.

Matthew Evangelista

Director of Graduate Studies, minor field of

Peace Studies and Peace Science;

Lecture, “Gender and Nationalist Violence:

What We Can See in the Movies,” Depart-

ment of Political Science, Stockholm Uni-

versity, Sweden, 22 October 2014;

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Workshop co-convenor, Cornell-Stockholm

University, Stockholm, Sweden, 23–24

October 2014;

Discussant and conference participant,

“Nuclear Italy,” Trieste, 13–15 November

2014;

Reppy Institute current-events roundtable on

“The Ukraine Crisis: Why Did it Happen?

What’s Next?” 26 February 2015;

Discussant, book presentation of Jens

Ohlin’s Assault on International Law,

Cornell Law School, 20 March 2015;

Moderator and panel convener for discussion

of “Garwin: The Movie,” Department of

Physics and Reppy Institute, 6 April 2015;

Lectures, Alta Scuola di Economia e Rela-

zioni Internazionali (ASERI), Universi-

tà Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, May

2015; and

Host of joint workshop, Cornell-Fondazione

Luigi Einaudi, on “Italy from Crisis to Crisis:

Politics, Economics, and Security in the 21st

Century,” 11–12 June 2015 (see Appendix

F).

Sean Fear

“Performing Democracy: South Vietnam’s

1967 Presidential Election,” Ronald and

Janette Gatty Lecture Series, Cornell Univer-

sity Southeast Asia Program, 4 December

2014;

“The Ambiguous Legacy of Ngo Dinh Diem

in South Vietnam’s Second Republic (1967-

1975)” Engaging with Vietnam Conference,

University of Oregon, 6 November 2014; and

“Saigon’s Diplomacy in the Latter Stages of

the Vietnam War 1967-1975,” Society for

Historians of American Foreign Relations

(SHAFR) Annual Conference, 20 June 2014.

Valère P. (Chip) Gagnon, Jr.

Invited presentation on “Missionaries for

Democracy: What religious missionary work

can tell us about liberal political systems,” at

Centre for Southeast European Studies, Uni-

versity of Graz, Austria, October 2014;

Discussant, panel on “Transitional Justice

and the Legacy of the ICTY in the Post-

Yugoslav States,” annual meeting of the

Association for the Study of Nationalities,

New York City, 14–16 April 2015;

Discussant, panel on “Populist Politics in

Southeast Europe,” at workshop on “The

Sources of Populism in the Balkans,” Centre

for Southeast European Studies, University

of Graz, Austria and the Friedrich Ebert

Stiftung, Zagreb, Croatia, held in Marija

Bistrica, Croatia, October 2014; and

Discussant for Keynote Lecture at workshop

on “The Sources of Populism in the Bal-

kans,” Centre for Southeast European

Studies, University of Graz, Austria and the

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Zagreb, held in

Marija Bistrica, Croatia, October 2014.

Karim-Aly Kassam

Elected a Board Member (North America

Representative) of the International Society

of Ethnobiology (2014–2016); and

Talk, “How Do We Teach Students to Speak

Truth to Power Thoughtfully and with

Humility and Grace? Engendering a New

Generation of Public Intellectuals,” Engaged

Cornell Speakers Series, Cornell Public Ser-

vice Center, 6 February 2015.

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Peter Katzenstein

Advisory Board Member, ISA Section “Reli-

gion and International Relations,” 2014; and

Editorial Board Member, Economic and

Political Studies, Renmin University, 2012–

present; Zeitschrift für Politik-Journal of

Political Science, 2011–present; Baltic Jour-

nal of Political Science, 2011–present; and

The Pacific Review, 2010–present.

George Lewis

Associate Editor, Science and Global

Security.

Fredrik Logevall

Keynote Lecture, “International Engagement

in the Information Age,” Institute for Internet

Culture, Policy and Law annual conference,

Ithaca, NY, September 2014;

Peter Schaehrer Annual Lecture, “How to

Think About the Vietnam War,” Colgate

University, September 2014;

“Obama and the World in Historical Perspec-

tive,” University of Stockholm, October

2014;

“Domestic Politics and U.S. Foreign Rela-

tions History: A Reconsideration,” American

History and Strategy Speaker Series, London

School of Economics, October 2014;

London School of Economics Department of

International History Annual Lecture, “The

Vietnam Wars Reconsidered,” London

School of Economics, October 2014;

Keynote Lecture, “The True Value of an

International Education,” Ivy Leadership

Summit XV, Ithaca NY, November 2014;

“American Exceptionalism and U.S. Foreign

Policy,” St. Anthony Hall-Columbia Univer-

sity Speaker Series, New York City, Novem-

ber 2014;

“Embers of War: Vietnam Reconsidered,”

Springfield Public Forum, Springfield, MA,

December 2014;

“The Uses of the Past: American Presidents

and the Historical Analogy,” Southern Meth-

odist University, January 2015;

“Embers of War: America in Vietnam,”

Dallas Museum of Arts, Arts and Letters

Live, Dallas, January 2015;

“Obama’s Foreign Policy and the Burden of

History,” University of Washington, Seattle,

February 2015;

“The Meaning of the Vietnam War,”

Queen’s University Annual Lecture Series,

March 2015;

Keynote Lecture, “The Uses of the Past,”

McGill-Queen’s 12th Annual Graduate Con-

ference in History, Kingston, Ontario, March

2015;

Keynote Lecture, “The Meaning of the War

in Vietnam,” Baker Peace Conference, Ohio

University, March 2015;

Keynote Lecture, “The Promise and Peril of

Writing International History, Società

Italiana di Storia Internazionale, Padova

annual meeting, Italy, June 2015;

“The Permissive Context of Recent U.S.

Military Interventions,” 2015 Engelsberg

Seminar, Avesta, Sweden, June 2015.

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Judith Reppy

Reviewer, The Journal of Cold War Studies

and Frontiers;

organized an informal discussion group of

students and visitors interested in nuclear

weapons issues (the NukeGeeks). The group

met every other week during the academic

year to discuss papers and journal articles of

interest; and

Guest lecturer for GOVT 3877, “Global

Zero: Feasible? Desirable?” November 17,

2014.

Barry Strauss

Member, Hoover Institution Military History

Working Group; and

Series Editor, Princeton History of the

Ancient World, Princeton University Press.

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT

The Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and

Conflict Studies is associated with Cornell’s

Mario Einaudi Center for International Stud-

ies, which provides administrative support.

As of 1 July 2008 the Vice Provost for Inter-

national Relations assumed oversight for the

Mario Einaudi Center for International

Studies.

Funds for the basic operating expenses of the

Institute come from endowments provided by

the Ford Foundation and Cornell University.

The Institute has also received additional

funds for individual research projects from

several other sources. Support has come from

the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Founda-

tion, the MacArthur Foundation, the Amer-

ican Academy of Arts and Sciences, the

Hewlett Foundation, the United States Insti-

tute of Peace, Resources for the Future, and

the National Science Foundation. Additional

support for Institute activities has come from

the Einaudi Center, the College of Arts and

Sciences, and Cornell alumni and friends.

Since 1985 the John D. and Catherine T.

MacArthur Foundation has provided a series

of institutional grants to the Peace Studies

Program (now the Reppy Institute) to support

graduate work and interdisciplinary research

activities in the field of international security

and peace studies. Funding from the

MacArthur Foundation supported training

and research activities on the themes “Tech-

nology and Security” and “Regional Secu-

rity” through June 2002. In January 2003 the

Peace Studies Program was awarded a $1.1

million grant from the MacArthur Foun-

dation in support of research and training to

strengthen scientific and technical advice on

international peace and security. A $1.86

million renewal grant began 1 July 2006 and

with a two year extension ran through the

end of June 2013.

Faculty members have received numerous

grants for their individual research activities.

These activities have been detailed in other

sections of this annual report.

The establishment of the Marion and Frank

Long Endowment Fund in 1993 was a step

toward building support for graduate educa-

tion on a permanent basis. Income from the

fund is used to provide graduate fellowships

for students in peace studies, with the first

award being made in 1995–1996. The Instit-

ute has been able to expand its support to

graduate students with the addition of a con-

tinuing fellowship for peace studies students

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provided by the Cornell Graduate School.

This fellowship was made possible in part

from the Dora and Jesse Bluestone endow-

ment in the Graduate School, which was

moved to the Institute in spring 2013.

A bequest from Harrop and Ruth Freeman

established an endowment in 1995 to con-

tinue to support the Harrop and Ruth Free-

man Prize in Peace Studies. Since 2006 the

endowment has also provided several fel-

lowships to undergraduate students to sup-

port their summer internships with NGOs.

Further information on these awards is given

earlier in this report.

Numerous gifts received from current col-

leagues, alumni, and friends of the Institute

are used to support graduate student fellow-

ships, research, and development and pro-

gram activities. An example was the gift

from Mohsen Khatib-Rahbar in 2013–2014

that made the visit of Laura Rockwood pos-

sible.

The Reppy Institute is governed by an exec-

utive committee of interested faculty mem-

bers, who are listed below. In 2014–2015

Jonathan Kirshner was the Reppy Institute

Director, Sarah Kreps the Associate Director,

Elaine Scott the Administrative Manager,

and Sandra Kisner the Administrative

Assistant.

The members of the Reppy Institute for

Peace and Conflict Studies’ Steering

Committee in 2014–2015 were:

Matthew Evangelista (Government)

William Ghiorse (Microbiology)

Durba Ghosh (History)

Peter Katzenstein (Government)

Jonathan Kirshner (Government)

Sarah Kreps (Government)

Fredrik Logevall (History)

Jens David Ohlin (Law)

Aziz Rana (Law)

Judith Reppy (Science & Technology

Studies)

Steven Ward (Government)

Institute colleagues and friends will miss

Fredrik Logeval, who left Cornell University

at the end of the 2014–2015 academic year to

become the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of

International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy

School of Government and professor of

history at the Harvard Faculty of Arts and

Sciences.

We welcome Rebecca Slayton, who joined

the Cornell faculty in July 2014.

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APPENDICES

APPENDIX A

PEACE STUDIES SEMINARS

2014–2015

SEPT 4 Meet and Greet

SEPT 11 John Cloud, National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Histo-

rian of the Coast and Geodetic Survey,

NOAA Central Library, “Gloriana Revealed,

or the Political and Cultural History of

Drones (the First 400 Years).”

SEPT 18 Jonathan Kirshner, Stephen and

Barbara Friedman Professor of International

Political Economy, Department of Govern-

ment, and Director of the Reppy Institute,

“American Power after the Financial Crisis.”

SEPT 25 Joseph Parent, Associate Profes-

sor, Department of Political Science, Univer-

sity of Miami, “When Power Shifts Promote

Peace.”

OCT 2 Bradley R. Simpson, Associate

Professor of History and Asian Studies, Uni-

versity of Connecticut, “Self-determination,

Economic Sovereignty, and International His-

tory,” co-sponsored by the Mario Einaudi

Center for International Studies.

OCT 9 David A. Lake, Jerri-Ann and Gary

E. Jacobs Professor of Social Sciences, Dis-

tinguished Professor of Political Science,

Associate Dean of Social Sciences, and

Director of the Yankelovich Center for Social

Science Research, University of California,

San Diego, “The Statebuilder’s Dilemma:

Legitimacy, Loyalty, and the Limits of

External Intervention,” co-sponsored by the

Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Chair in Interna-

tional Studies.

OCT 16 Erez Manela, Professor of Histo-

ry, Harvard University, “The Global Eradi-

cation of Smallpox: How Certain Schemes

to Improve the Human Condition Have Suc-

ceeded,” co-sponsored by the Mario Einaudi

Center for International Studies.

OCT 23 Kathleen R. McNamara, Direc-

tor, Mortara Center for International Studies

and Associate Professor of Government &

Foreign Service, Georgetown University,

“Naturalizing Europe: Symbols, Practices,

and the Construction of Banal Authority in

the EU.”

OCT 30 Jack Levy, Board of Governors’

Professor of Political Science, Rutgers Uni-

versity, “Preventive Logic and the Outbreak

of the First World War.”

NOV 6 Isabel V. Hull, John Stambaugh

Professor of History, “Rethinking World

War I Through the Lens of International

Law.”

NOV 13 Elizabeth N. Saunders, Assistant

Professor, Department of Political Science,

George Washington University, “Getting the

Audience Right: Democratic Leaders, Elites,

and the Use of Force.”

NOV 20 Michelle Murray, Fellow in U. S.

Foreign Policy and International Security,

Dartmouth College, “The Tragedy of Ger-

man Naval Ambition Before the First World

War.”

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JAN 29 Oren Barak, Israel Institute Fellow,

Department of Government, Cornell, “The

Persistence of Violent Trans-National Non-

State Actors in a World of States.”

FEB 5 Luigi Einaudi, American Academy

of Diplomacy and National Defense Univer-

sity, “The End of Conventional War in Latin

America: The Peru-Ecuador War and its

Impact.”

FEB 12 Benjamin Brake, International

Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations,

“The Risks of Ambiguity in Cyberspace.”

FEB 26 Current Events Roundtable: “The

Ukraine Crisis: Why did it Happen? What’s

Next?” Peter Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpen-

ter, Jr. Professor of International Studies;

Valerie Bunce, Aaron Binenkorb Professor

of International Studies and Professor of

Government; and Matthew Evangelista,

President White Professor of History and

Political Science

MAR 5 Jordan N. Branch, Assistant Pro-

fessor of Political Science, Brown University,

“Territorial Conflict in the Digital Age: Map-

ping Technologies and Negotiation.”

MAR 12 Jennifer Erickson, Assistant Pro-

fessor of Political Science, Boston College,

“Dangerous Trade: Arms Exports, Human

Rights, and International Reputation.”

MAR 19 Robert Skidelsky, AD White Pro-

fessor-at-Large, “Endgame in the Ukraine.”

MAR 26 Andrew Preston, Faculty of Histo-

ry, Cambridge University, “The Blessings of

Free Security.”

APR 9 Alison McQueen, Assistant Profes-

sor, Department of Political Science, Stan-

ford University, “Salutary Fear? Hans

Morgenthau and Nuclear Catastrophe”

APR 16 Anne I. Harrington, Researcher,

ETH Zürich Center for Security Studies,

“The Vision and the Steps: Iran, Weaponless

Nuclear Deterrence, and a World Free of

Nuclear Weapons.”

APR 23 Eliza Gheorghe, Postdoctoral

Associate, Mario Einaudi Center for Interna-

tional Studies, “Negotiating the Bomb:

Nuclear Acquisition Strategies and Prolif-

eration,” co-sponsored by the Cornell Insti-

tute for European Studies.

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APPENDIX B

Graduate Student Development

2014–2015

The Reppy Fellows hosted these seminars:

NOV 13 Elizabeth N. Saunders, Assistant

Professor, Department of Political Science,

George Washington University, “Getting the

Audience Right: Democratic Leaders, Elites,

and the Use of Force.”

MAR 5 Jordan N. Branch, Assistant Pro-

fessor of Political Science, Brown University,

“Territorial Conflict in the Digital Age: Map-

ping Technologies and Negotiation.”

Graduate students also held small group

meetings where they had the opportunity to

discuss their research, Whitney Taylor orga-

nized and hosted these meetings:

SEPT 25 Joseph Parent, Associate Profes-

sor, Department of Political Science, Univer-

sity of Miami, “When Power Shifts Promote

Peace.”

OCT 9 David A. Lake, Jerri-Ann and Gary

E. Jacobs Professor of Social Sciences, Dis-

tinguished Professor of Political Science,

Associate Dean of Social Sciences, and

Director of the Yankelovich Center for Social

Science Research, University of California,

San Diego, “The Statebuilder’s Dilemma:

Legitimacy, Loyalty, and the Limits of Exter-

nal Intervention,” co-sponsored by the Walter

S. Carpenter, Jr. Chair in International

Studies.

OCT 30 Jack Levy, Board of Governors’

Professor of Political Science, Rutgers Uni-

versity, “Preventive Logic and the Outbreak

of the First World War.”

NOV 13 Elizabeth N. Saunders, Assistant

Professor, Department of Political Science,

George Washington University, “Getting the

Audience Right: Democratic Leaders, Elites,

and the Use of Force.”

NOV 20 Michelle Murray, Fellow in U. S.

Foreign Policy and International Security,

Dartmouth College, “The Tragedy of Ger-

man Naval Ambition Before the First World

War.”

MAR 5 Jordan N. Branch, Assistant Pro-

fessor of Political Science, Brown Universi-

ty, “Territorial Conflict in the Digital Age:

Mapping Technologies and Negotiation.”

MAR 12 Jennifer Erickson, Assistant Pro-

fessor of Political Science, Boston College,

“Dangerous Trade: Arms Exports, Human

Rights, and International Reputation.”

MAR 19 Robert Skidelsky, AD White

Professor-at-Large, “Endgame in the

Ukraine.”

MAR 26 Andrew Preston, Faculty of His-

tory, Cambridge University, “The Blessings

of Free Security.”

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APPENDIX C

OTHER CAMPUS ACTIVITIES

2014–2015

The Reppy Institute supported these special

campus events:

JUL 16 Summer Workshop on Analysis

of military Operations and Strategy

(SWAMOS)-Reppy Institute for Peace and

Conflict Studies Reception, Lund Lounge,

Mews Hall (no speaker or formal presenta-

tion).

AUG 25 Language and International Studies

Fair, sponsored by the Einaudi Center and the

affiliated core programs in Uris Hall, Cornell

Abroad, and the Language Resource Center,

outside on the Uris Hall terrace.

SEPT 12 Workshop on “Citizens of

Memory: Muslim Immigrants and Holocaust

Remembrance in Contemporary Germany,”

Graduate Student of the Department of Ger-

man Studies, public lecture September 12 and

seminar-style workshop September 13.

OCT 2 Panel Discussion on “Kashmiris: A

Forgotten People,” with Edward Hasbrouck,

Saiba Varma, and Ahmad Rafiqi, 5:30 pm,

Bache Auditorium, Mallott Hall, organized

by the student group Islamic Alliance for

Justice.

FEB 25 Panel Discussion on “Drones and

Domination,” 5:30 pm, HEC, Goldwin Smith

Hall, organized by the Islamic Alliance for

Justice.

APR 6 “Garwin—The Movie and the Man,”

film viewing followed by a panel discussion

with Richard Garwin, Matthew Evangelista,

Kurt Gottfried, and Rebecca Slayton, co-

sponsored with the Physics Department.

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Appendix D

A Stable Transition to a New Nuclear Order

December 15-16, 2014

MacArthur Project Workshop

Conference Room GMF

Voss Strasse 20

Berlin, Germany

Judith Reppy and Catherine Kelleher, Conveners

Agenda

Monday, December 15, 2014

9:30-10:00 Welcome and discussion of Overall Project Goals

10:00-11:00 Paper I: “The Myth of Strategic Stability” Pavel Podvig

“Comparisons and Perceptions in Europe” Benoît Pelopidas (Commenter)

11:20-13:00 Extended Discussion of Paper I

Anya Loukiavana (Discussant)

14:30-15:00 Paper II: “After Crimea: Disarmament, Frozen Conflicts, and Illicit

Trafficking through Eastern Europe”

Eliza Gheorghe

15:00-16:00 Discussion of Paper II

Catherine Kelleher (Discussant)

16:20-18:00 Open Discussion: Extended Deterrence and BMD in Europe

Catherine Kelleher

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

9:15-9:45 Paper III: “The Contribution of International Organizations to a Stable

Environment for Nuclear Disarmament” Laura Rockwood

9:45-11:00 Discussion of Paper III

Agnieszka Nimark (Discussant)

11:20-12:45 Open Discussion: Deterrence Logics

Judith Reppy

13:00-14:00 Conference Summary and Farewell

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APPENDIX E

KEYNES FOR TODAY

March 19–20, 2015 Cornell University

Thursday, March 19

-Dinner, 7:00 PM, Mia’s, Ithaca Commons, (Assemble in the lobby, Hilton Garden Inn at

6:45)

Friday, March 20, G-08 Uris Hall

-Continental breakfast, 8:30-9:00 AM (Assemble in lobby of the Hilton Garden Inn at

8:15)

-9:00-9:05: Welcome and Opening Comments

-Session 1: 9:05-10:05 – Session Chair, Eric Helleiner

Ravi Kanbur (Cornell University), “The End of Laissez-Faire, the End of History, and the

Structure of Scientific Revolutions”

Jonathan Kirshner (Cornell University), “Keynes’ Early Beliefs, and Why They Still Matter”

-Lead Discussant: Peter Katzenstein

-Session 2: 10:05-11:05 – Session Chair, Eric Helleiner

Eric Rauchway (UC Davis), “Keynes's Early Work on Monetary Policy”

James Morrison (London School of Economics), “Keynessandra” No Longer! Keynes’s

Permissive Role in Britain’s Abandonment of the Gold Standard”

-Lead Discussant: Robert Travers

11:05-11:20: Break

-Session 3: 11:20-12:20 – Session Chair Jonathan Kirshner

Matthias Matthijs (SAIS), “A Barbarous Relic: The Economic Consequences of the Euro”

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Steve Nelson (Northwestern) “Odious Debts: Lessons of Keynes’s Thinking on Reparations and

Sovereign Debt for Today”

-Lead Discussant: Odette Lienau

Lunch, 12:20-1:35, Uris G-08

-Session 4: 1:35-3:05 – Session Chair Odette Lineau

Peter Temin (MIT), “Keynes and the World Economy”

Eric Helleiner (Waterloo), “Controlling Capital Flows ‘At Both Ends’: A Neglected (but newly

relevant) Keynesian innovation from Bretton Woods”

Perry Mehrling (Barnard) “Rethinking Bancor: A Minority View”

-Lead Discussant: Robert Hockett

3:05-3:20: Break

-Session 5: 3:20-4:20 – Session Chair, Robert Travers

Mario Cedrini (Turin), “From Theory to Policy? On Keynes’ Distinction between ‘Apparatus of

Thought’ and ‘Apparatus of Action’”

Robert Frank (Cornell), “Why Keynes Still Matters”

-Lead Discussant: Richard Bensel

-Session 6: 4:20 – Session Chair, Jonathan Kirshner

Robert Skidelsky, “Reflections on Keynes for Today”

-General Discussion

-Dinner, 7:00, Madeline’s, Ithaca Commons, (Assemble in the lobby, Hilton Garden Inn at 6:45)

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Appendix F

Italy from crisis to crisis:

politics, economics, and security in the 21st century*

225 ILR Conference Center, Garden Avenue

Cornell University, 11-12 June 2015

Thursday, 11 June

6:00 pm-8:00 pm Dinner, Rowe Room, Statler Hotel

Friday, 12 June

8:30 am Continental breakfast available, outside 225 ILR Conference Center

9:15 am Welcome and introduction: Matthew Evangelista

9:30 - 10:30 am The role of crisis in history and memory

Chair: MATTHEW EVANGELISTA

Paper: SIDNEY TARROW, Seeing Italy through a glass darkly: from la crisi italiana

to le crisi italiane

Discussant: PETER KATZENSTEIN

Paper: MABEL BEREZIN, Crisis and improvisation: the political value of failing

memory in contemporary Italy

Discussant: STEFFEN BLINGS

10:30-10:45 am Break

10:45 am -12:15 pm Labor, youth, and information policy

Chair: ELISABETTA BRIGHI

Paper: ADELE LEBANO, Where have all the young people gone? Generations,

family, and work in Italy

Discussant: MABEL BEREZIN

Paper: GIAMPIERO GIACOMELLO, Va pensiero: the origins and evolution of Italy's

information society

Discussant: FABIO ARMAO

12:15-1:15 pm Lunch, 225 ILR Conference Center

1:15-2:45 pm Foreign, security, and energy policy

* This workshop is sponsored by the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies of the

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and funded in part by a grant from the office of

the Vice Provost for International Affairs. We are grateful to all three institutions.

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Chair: JONATHAN KIRSHNER

Paper: ELISABETTA BRIGHI, Italian foreign policy after the Cold War: enduring

crisis and the limits of a post-ideological foreign policy

Discussant: AMÉLIE FORGET

Paper: FABRIZIO COTICCHIA, Running in chains. The transformation of Italian

defense policy

Discussant: THOMAS JONTER

Paper: ELISABETTA BINI, A model of growth in crisis: redefining Italy’s energy

policies at the end of the Cold War

Discussant: GIAMPIERO GIACOMELLO

2:45-3:00 pm Break

3-4 pm Structural reform: crisis and failure

Chair: FABRIZIO COTICCHIA

Paper: JULIA LYNCH and JONATHAN HOPKIN, Putting the bumblebee on a diet: the

failure of structural reform in Italy

Discussant: STEFANO SACCHI

Paper: FABIO ARMAO, Italy and the crisis of legality: the making of the third

(clan) republic

Discussant: JONATHAN HOPKIN

4-4:30 pm Wrap-up discussion and future plans

Chair: JULIA LYNCH

Paper: MATTHEW EVANGELISTA, Italy in crisis: eppur si muove

Discussant: SIDNEY TARROW

6:00 pm Dinner at Agava