The Schedule

January 4: Alleging Terrorism, Repressing Dissent: Examining the Impact of Violent Groups on State Responses to Nonviolent Resistance by Maiyoraa Jeyabraba (PhD Candidate, University of Essex)

January 11: Role of Epistemic Communities in National Security Policy Process: A Case Study of Pakistan by Muneeb Salman (Assistant Research Associate at IPRI)

January 25: The Security-Power Paradox: An Investigation into the Drivers of ‘unnecessary’ power maximization by Rising Great Powers by Shakthi De Silva 

February 8: An Interactive Theory of Power Projection: Naval Mobilization, Geograpchial Expansion, and Alignment Opportunity by Inhwan Oh (PhD Candidate, Boston College)

February 22: Gendering of Japan’s foreign policy: A feminist foreign policy analysis of Japan’s foreign policy towards and in ASEAN by Antonio D. Salazar Jr. (Lecturer in the University of the Philippines, and MA Student in Chiang Mai University)

February 22: Gendering of Japan’s foreign policy: A feminist foreign policy analysis of Japan’s foreign policy towards and in ASEAN by Antonio D. Salazar Jr. (Lecturer in the University of the Philippines & MA Student, Chiang Mai University)

March 7: Defenders of Democracy? Israeli Reservists and Resistance to Democratic Backsliding by Manaswini Ramkumar (PhD Candidate, American University)

March 14: Public Opinion, Emerging Technologies, and Foreign Policy Attitudes by Kerry Chavez (Instructor & Project Administrator of Peace, War, and Social Conflict Laboratory, Texas Tech University)

April 11: Conflicting Avenues in Regional Security Complexes by Muhammad Saad 

April 25: UN reform and democratization: Prospects and challenges by Sarmad Wali Khan (Lecturer, Higher Education Department, KPK Pakistan)

May 2: Embracing Peace in a Harmonious World: Confrontational International Environment and Public Opinion on Rapprochement by Jungmin Han (PhD Candidate, University of Pittsburgh)