Fighting for Status

Name: Fighting for Status
Start: 2011-11-03T12:15:00-0400
End: 2011-11-03T14:00:00-0400

Open to the Public

This seminar focuses on when status is likely to matter most to leaders and states and provides evidence on the relationship between status concerns and the initiation of interstate conflict.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

Date: Thu, Nov 3, 2011 Time: 12:15pm - 02:00pm Location: Littauer Building - Room 166

Escalade of the heights Spicherner (Lorraine, France) by German soldiers on August 16, 1870.

Political scientists and members of the policy community generally agree that status (prestige) is an important commodity in world politics. However, because scholars and policymakers have focused so long on the question of whether status matters, their understanding of the consequences of status for international conflict are sketchy at best. This seminar focuses on when status is likely to matter most to leaders and states and provides evidence on the relationship between status concerns and the initiation of interstate conflict. The speaker will then use a controlled laboratory experiment and a unique sample of real world leaders to show how the causal mechanisms might operate on the individual level.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.