I consider a model in which two states choose how much to arm and whether to attack in successive periods. Arms are useful not only for deterrence or taking territory, but also because they influence the resolution of a set of disputed issues. It is shown that states can cooperate on the issues by limiting military competition, but only as far as a “war constraint” allows. Factors determining the tightness of the war constraint imply hypotheses about the international determinants of military eort and thus the costs of anarchy.

3 pm - Jenny Andersson (Centre d’études européennes at Sciences Po)
'The Futurists. Futurology and the Neoliberal Imagination'.
Discussant: David Priestland (Oxford)

4.15 pm - Paul Lenormand (Centre d'Histoire, Sciences Po)
'A Multinational Exile: Recruiting 'Czechoslovaks' in the Soviet Union during World War II'
Discussant: Robert Gildea (Oxford)

5.30 pm - Gaetano di Tommaso (Centre d'Histoire, Sciences Po)
'Energy Security and National Interest in Early Twentieth-Century America: At the Origins of Washington's Fixation with Foreign Oil'.

Incorporating the Delphi Method within Poverty Measurement, a Case Study of West Java, Indonesia
Putu Natih (Trinity, Social Policy and Intervention)
Reading Rejection: What does the Rhetoric of Southeast-Asian Diplomacy tell us about the Regional Response to the Rohingya crisis?
Theophilus Kwek (Merton, Refugee Studies)
The Evolution of Jakarta's Flooding Policy
Thanti Octavianti (Trinity, Geography)
A Comparative Analysis of the Evolution of Migrant Worker Desirability in Malaysia and Indonesia since the 1970s

This seminar will consider the case of Chin refugees from Myanmar in the north-east Indian State of Mizoram, drawing on Migdal’s (2004) concepts of ‘virtual checkpoints’ and ‘mental maps’ to analyse and interpret the trajectory of boundary-creation, boundary-policing and boundary-removal in Mizo-Chin relationships. It is often assumed that the life course of displacement is one of deteriorating relationships between refugees and a host community.

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