How should students of international politics understand the global resurgence of religion and religious actors? This seminar introduces the concept of religious nationalism and argues that it poses unique and dangerous threats for stability both within states' borders and across them.

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Do nuclear weapons allow states to avoid costly conventional arms-races? Building on evidence from Pakistan and other nuclear-armed states, Stanton Nuclear Security Junior Faculty Fellow Ahsan Butt will argue that states will practice such "substitution" only under limited conditions: when they are satisfied with the territorial status-quo, and their primary security challenges can be deterred by nuclear weapons.

The presentation will ask why Pakistan's conventional doctrine has undergone such little change after nuclear acquisition and explain that territorial satisfaction is crucial to understanding how states respond to nuclearization.

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This seminar examines the variation in state response to secessionism and explains why some secessionist movements are treated with concessions, negotiations, and low levels of violence, while others are dealt with using large-scale violence and repression. Cases: Pakistan's civil war in 1971 versus Pakistan's treatment of Balochi separatists in the mid-1970s.

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