• James Patterson, “Political Leadership, Prophetic Rage, and the Vital Center”; Discussant: Prof. Lawrie Balfour

• Justin Peck, “Assessing the Consequences of Conservative Ascendancy: The ‘Courts-Executive’ Alliance and Regulatory Retrenchment”; Discussant: Prof. Vesla Weaver
• David Novitsky, “Thrasymachus’s Challenge to Justice in Plato’s Republic”; Discussant: Prof. Daniel Devereux
  

• B.J. Bloom, “Death and Taxes: War Finance, Securities Markets, and Political Development in England, 1688-1815”; Discussant: Prof. Herman Schwartz

• Ana Alves, ‘“Richer and Weaker’: From Realist Means to Liberal Ends: Britain’s Relative Decline in the Late Nineteenth Century”; Discussant: Prof. Jeffrey Legro

• Brandon Yoder, “The Great Rapprochement and the Exceptionalism of Liberal Hegemonic Decline: Balancing, Costly Signaling, and the International Economic Order”; Discussant: Prof. John Owen
  

• Nadim Khoury, “Negotiating National Narratives: Inter-National Time Between War and Peace”; Discussant: Prof. Colin Bird

• Kiran Banerjee, “States of Fear: Re-conceiving Trafficking Policy Beyond Identities of Victimhood”; Discussant: Prof. Lynn Sanders
  

• Catherine Sanger, “The Strategic Logic of U.S. Space Policy and Implications for International Relations Theory”; Discussant: Prof. Dale Copeland

• Guan-Yi Leu, “Remapping the Regional Order: China’s Economic Statecraft Toward Southeast Asia”; Discussant: Prof. Brantly Womack
  

Panel 5: African Politics

• Jonathan Forney, “Valuing Violence in Africa: Tribal Terrorists, Devout Nationalists, Populist Guerrillas, and Capitalist Thugs”; Discussant: Prof. Denise Walsh

• Jon Shoup-Mendizábal, “Information and Identities: Evidence for Ethnic Head Counts in African Elections?”; Discussant: Prof. Daniel Gingerich

Jeffrey Legro, Professor, Chair, UVa Department of Politics
Herman M. Schwartz, Professor, DGS, UVa Department of Politics