Recent Talks
  • “Projected Deterrence: South China Sea Disputants as Pawns in the U.S.-China Rivalry,” Women in Asia-Pacific Security Research Seminar Series, Australia National University (virtual), 2021
  • “The Peaceful Resolution of Territorial Disputes,” Kroc-Kellogg Peace, Conflict, Crime, and Violence Workshop Series, Notre Dame University (virtual), 2020
  • “Leverage and the Success of Civil War Mediation,” Sie Center, University of Denver, 2019
  • “Philippine Strategies in the South China Sea,” One Earth Future, Bloomfield, CO, 2019
  • “Issues in Civil Wars,” Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway & Uppsala University, Sweden, 2019
  • "Bias and Leverage and the Success of Civil War Mediation," Iowa State University, 2018
  • “The South China Sea Disputes,” East Tennessee State University, 2018
  • “U.S. National Security Interests in the South China Sea,” Savannah World Affairs Council, 2018
  • “Strategic Selection: Philippine Approaches to the South China Sea Dispute,” University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei, 2017
  • “Philippine Foreign Policy in the South China Sea Dispute,” U.S. Embassy, Brunei, 2017
  • “Territorial and Maritime Dispute Resolution: The Arbitration Case between Philippines and China,” De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, 2017
  • “Peaceful Resolution of Territorial and Maritime Disputes: The Arbitration Case between Philippines and China,” 5th Heneral Antonio Luna Colloquium Series, Foreign Service Institute, Armed Forces of the Philippines, and National Defense College, Department of Foreign Affairs, Manila, Philippines, 2017
  • “Strategic Selection: Philippine Arbitration in the South China Sea,” Asian Center, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, 2017
  • “Strategic Selection: Philippine Approaches to the South China Sea Dispute,” Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines, 2017
  • “Global Terrorism: How Safe Are We?” - Keynote Speaker, Tennessee Municipal League Annual Meeting, Gatlinburg, TN, 2016
  • “Is Peacemaking Good Politics? Investigating the Relationship between Border Settlement and Leader Turnover,” University of Georgia, 2015
  • “Global Education,” Pace University, 2015
  • “Human Rights in Myanmar,” Semester at Sea, Spring Voyage, 2015
  • “I Love Dokdo: Nationalist Significance in Korea,” Special Forum on Dokdo and the East Sea, Seoul, South Korea, 2014
  • “Peaceful Dispute Resolution by Authoritarian Regimes,” Univ of Alabama, 2014
  • “Emerging Challenges to US and Global Security: A Panel,” University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2013
  • “The China-Japan Border Dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Symposium, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2013
  • “Religiously Motivated Violence in the Middle East,” Armstrong State Univ, 2013
  • “The Korean-Japanese Security Relationship and the Dokdo Islets Dispute,” East-West Center, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 2013
  • “Political, Symbolic, Psychological, Strategic, and Economic Perspectives on Dokdo/Takeshima,” University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Conference on the Sovereignty over Dokdo, 2012
Last updated January 18, 2023