Edward Mansfield is the Hum Rosen Professor of Political Science and director of the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics at University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Power, Trade, and War (Princeton, 1994), Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War [with Jack Snyder] (MIT, 2005), and Votes, Vetoes, and the Political Economy of Trade Agreements [with Helen V. Milner] (Princeton, 2012). In this talk, Mansfield will assess financial reform and the implementation of economic liberalization. He finds that reform tends to be conducted by poorer countries and participants in the International Monetary Fund Standby Arrangement and its Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/mansfielde

Ji Young Choi is associate professor of politics and government at Ohio Wesleyan University, where he is affiliated with the International Studies Program and East Asian Studies Program.  Currently, he is a visiting scholar at the Mershon Center of International Security Studies. Choi specializes in international relations history and theories, international political economy, and East Asian security and political economy. His recent research interests are in a historical and theoretical view on the rise of China and Korean security. In this talk, Choi will explore how changing formations in national identities have shaped foreign policy outcomes in South Korea. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/choij

The Student Peace Conference is an annual event started by the Peace Studies Society in 2013. This year's conference, entitled The Art of Protest: Principles and Practices of Nonviolence, will consist of three workshops aimed at helping participants practice peace and nonviolence in their everyday lives and in direct action campaigns. This year's presenters include Danielle Poe (left) from University of Dayton, Patrick Coy from Kent State University, and Craig Hovey from Ashland University. Additionally, one Ohio State student will be recognized with the Student Peace Award scholarship for contribution to peace and social justice. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/studentpeace16

Michael Barnett is University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. Currently, he is an associate editor of International Organization. He will be speaking about his most recent book, The Star and the Stripes: A History of the Foreign Policies of American Jews (Princeton, 2016). Barnett argues that American Jews identify with, and believe their survival depends on, the American principles of liberalism, religious freedom, and pluralism. This identity and search for inclusion form a political theology of prophetic Judaism that emphasizes the historic mission of Jews to help create a world of peace and justice. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/barnettm

Farah Godrej is associate professor of political science at University of California-Riverside.  Her areas of research and teaching include Indian political thought, Gandhi's political thought, cosmopolitanism, globalization, comparative political theory, and environmental political thought. Godrej is author of Cosmopolitan Political Thought: Method, Practice, Discipline (Oxford, 2011).  Her new work explores the intersection between politics and materiality, focusing on the role of the body in ancient and contemporary Indian traditions of thought. In this talk, Godrej will explore intersections between Gandhi's thought and contemporary food politics. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/godrejf

Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has a joint appointment as a professor in the Department of History and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. Suri is the author and editor of eight books on international history, national security, and foreign relations. He has published in leading scholarly journals, including the American Historical Review, Diplomatic History, International Security, and Journal of Cold War Studies. He also writes frequently for major newspapers and magazines. Suri will discuss how national security studies as a discipline has shaped U.S. global engagement for the past 70 years, and how it might influence the next generation of American thinkers, citizens, students, and policy makers. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/surij

Julia Gray is associate professor of political science at University of Pennsylvania, specializing in international political economy. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Political Research, and Review of International Organizations. Her book, The Company You Keep: International Organization and Sovereign Risk in Emerging Markets, is currently under contract at Cambridge University Press. Gray will discuss her latest research on international agreements, which finds that the vast majority are signed by heads of state who have no ability or intention of implementing them at home. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/grayj

7:30 p.m., Whetstone Library, 3909 High St.

Sponsored by  Department of History Clio Society

11:30 a.m., WOSU @ COSI, 333 W. Broad St.

Sponsored by Columbus Council on World Affairs

12:30 p.m., 115 Biomedical Research Tower, 460 W. 12th Ave.

Co-sponsored by Global Water Institute

6 p.m., 120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave.

Co-sponsored by Global Water Institute

6:30 p.m., Saxbe Auditorium, Moritz College of Law, 55 W. 12th Ave.

Sponsored by Alexander Hamilton Society | OSU Chapter