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Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies Cornell University ANNUAL REPORT July 1, 2017 – June 30, 2018 130 Uris Hall Ithaca, New York 14853-7601 voice: (607) 255–6484 fax: (607) 254–5000 e-mail: [email protected] http://pacs.einaudi.cornell.edu Table of Contents OVERVIEW ................................................................................................................................... 2 RESEARCH .................................................................................................................................... 3 CONFERENCES ............................................................................................................................ 7 VISITORS....................................................................................................................................... 7 GRADUATE STUDENT SUPPORT ............................................................................................. 8 Bluestone Peace Studies Fellowships ......................................................................................... 8 Marion & Frank Long Endowment Fund ................................................................................... 8 Graduate Student Development .................................................................................................. 9 DEGREE RECIPIENTS ................................................................................................................. 9 HARROP & RUTH FREEMAN PRIZE & FELLOWSHIPS ...................................................... 10 CAMPUS ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................................... 11 COURSES..................................................................................................................................... 11 OCCASIONAL PAPER SERIES ................................................................................................. 13 PUBLICATIONS BY PROGRAM MEMBERS .......................................................................... 13 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize ................................................................................................... 16 OTHER ACTIVITIES .................................................................................................................. 16 PROGRAM MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT .................................................. 21 APPENDICES .............................................................................................................................. 24 2 OVERVIEW The Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies is an interdisciplinary program devoted to research and teaching on the problems of war and peace, arms control and disarmament, and more generally, instances of collective violence. Founded in 1970 as the Peace Studies Program with the support of the University’s Center for International Studies and the Program on Science, Technology and Society, the Institute maintains an abiding interest in issues in science and security. Building on its long-standing attention to nuclear non-proliferation, the Reppy Institute now focuses as well on security issues related to cybertechnology and missile defense. Institute members work on a range of other topics, among them ethnic conflict, human rights, regional security, terrorism, gender and peacekeeping, international humanitarian law (laws of war), and economics and national security. As of July 1, 2010, the Reppy Institute, formerly the Peace Studies Program, was renamed to honor Professor Judith Reppy for her dedication to the program over the decades. The Reppy Institute is distinguished by its thoroughly interdisciplinary character and its emphasis on long-term policy issues. Both are essential for the Institute’s objective of investigating the intellectual foundations of security and the preservation of peace. This commitment motivates the research and training activities of faculty and post-doctoral fellows, as well as graduate and under- graduate students associated with the Institute. Several of the Institute’s research projects resulted in publicationsin 2017–18. In summer 2017 Oxford University Press published a book edited by Matthew Evangelista and Nina Tannenwald, Do the Geneva Conventions Matter?—the product of workshops at Cornell, Brown, and the Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt. The papers from the Italy project, based on a workshop at Cornell and a follow-up one in Turin, came out in 2018 as a book with Routledge under the title Italy from Crisis to Crisis: Political Economy, Security, and Society in the 21st Century. In 2017 the Reppy Institute also arranged for the Cornell University Library to archive materials from the late Randall Forsberg’s Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies (IDDS). The Institute’s internationalization grant from the Einaudi Center made it possible to launch two projects related to the material: 1) Agnieszka Nimark’s documentary film on the 1980s nuclear disarmament movement; and 2) an e-publication based on Forsberg’s unpublished 1997 MIT dissertation “Toward a Theory of Peace: The Role of Moral Beliefs.” This is now available at https://einaudi.manifoldapp .org/projects/toward-a-theory-of-peace and is forthcoming in a paper version from Cornell University Press. Internationalization grants have supported a series of conferences in Stockholm. The 4th Annual Conference on International Studies in the 21st Century took place June 11–12, 2018. Jonathan Kirshner had separate funding for the workshop on “Monetary Conflict and Disorder in the New Age of Uncertainty” that took place at Cornell May 17–18, 2018. The Reppy Fellows again hosted an interdisciplinary graduate student workshop on peace and security studies that took place March 23– 24, 2018. The Institute hosted the premier showing of the documentary film Nemtsov and a panel dis- cussion on non-academic careers for PhDs in international security and development. There is more information on both of these events given in the Campus Activities area of this report. Other Reppy Institute activities in 2017–2018 focused on the Institute’s central missions of supporting student and faculty teaching and research, cross-campus interactions, and off-campus outreach. Activities included workshops (see the Conference section of this report), weekly seminars (see Appendix A for a list of speakers and their titles), scheduled meetings of speakers with graduate students affiliated with the Institute (see Appendix B), and co-sponsorship of a number of speakers, symposia, and other special events with other campus groups (see Appendix C). 3 RESEARCH control activities through the Arms Control Reporter, and trained several generations of The Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and student interns in the use of sources and pol- Conflict Studies seeks to encourage faculty icy analysis. Forsberg played a major role in and graduate student research and writing on the Nuclear Weapons Freeze movement of problems of international peace and security, the early 1980s, and the archive is particu- broadly defined. larly rich in materials relating to that period. The NukeGeeks group that began meeting Judith Reppy served as chairman of the during the John D. and Catherine T. Mac- Board of Directors, and Matthew Evangelista Arthur Foundation project for research on was also on the Institute’s Board. The bulk “Creating Conditions for a Stable Transition of the materials in the archive comprise the to a New Nuclear Order” has turned out to be many boxes of IDDS-related papers which a valuable forum for faculty, students, and were in storage at the time of Randall visitors to discuss nuclear issues. They con- Forsberg’s death. There are also some related tinued to meet during AY 2017−2018 and items donated by friends and associates of plan to resume their discussions in spring Forsberg, as well as papers and correspon- 2019. dence from her early years at SIPRI. The IDDS boxes were in no particular order in The Institute continued to promote and facil- the storage facility and were not numbered. itate graduate student professional develop- Fortunately, with the help of Agnieszka ment by hosting a series of small group Nimark, we were able to give the library a meetings, a practice initiated by Jonathan fairly complete inventory of the contents, Kirshner in spring 2009. The meetings pro- and the library provides a search function vide the opportunity for graduate students to that allows one to search by key terms. To discuss their research projects with outside review the contents of the boxes, go here: speakers. Naomi Egel, a government grad- http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/ uate student and the director’s fellow, hosted RMM08588.html. these small group meetings in 2017–2018 (see the list of graduate student development To use the archive you will need to create a activities in Appendix B). research account following the instructions here: https://rare.library.cornell.edu/services/ An archive containing papers from the Insti- visit. tute for Defense and Disarmament Studies (IDDS) from 1974–2007 was deposited in You can see the catalog record for the collec- the Archive Division of Rare and Manuscript tion here: https://newcatalog.library.cornell Collections at the Cornell University Library .edu/catalog/9865049. (Collection Number: 8588). IDDS was cre- ated by the noted peace scholar and activist In 2017–2018 peace and conflict studies- Randall Forsberg (1943–2007) to carry out related