Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili
The Founding Director of the Center for Governance and Markets and Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh

August 3010:00 AM - 12:00 PMUTC +3 (EEST)Offline

Reconstruction and Recovery During and After War: An Introduction

Class readings:
Fukuyama, Francis. 2004. State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Chapter 1
Murtazashvili, Jennifer. 2016. “Afghanistan: A Vicious Cycle of State Failure.” Governance 29 (2): 163–66.
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Scott Gehlbach

The Elise and Jack Lipsey Professor in the Department of Political Science, the Harris School of Public Policy, and the College at the University of Chicago

August 3110:00 AM - 12:00 PMUTC +3 (EEST)Offline

Wartime Damage and Recovery

Class readings:
Shpak, Solomiya, John S. Earle, Scott Gehlbach, and Mariia Panga. 2023. “Damaged Collateral and Firm-Level Finance: Evidence from Russia’s War in Ukraine.” Journal of Comparative Economics. Forthcoming.
or read this summary 
Davis, Donald R., and David E. Weinstein. 2002. “Bones, Bombs, and Break Points: The Geography of Economic Activity.” American Economic Review 92(5): 1269–89.

Scott Gehlbach

September 1
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
UTC +3 (EEST)
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Oligarchs

Class readings:
Markus, Stanislav, and Volha Charnysh. 2017. “The Flexible Few: Oligarchs and Wealth Defense in Developing Democracies.” Comparative Political Studies 50(12): 1632–65.
Earle, John S., Solomiya Shpak, Anton Shirikov, and Scott Gehlbach. 2022. “The Oligarch Vanishes: Defensive Ownership, Property Rights, and Political Connections.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 17(4): 513–46.

Charles Kotuby

Professor of Practice and the Executive Director of the Center for International Legal Education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law

September 1210:00 AM - 12:00 PMUTC +3 (EEST)Offline

International Law, Lawfare and Investment Climate

Class readings:
Paulsson, J. 2008. “Unlawful Laws and the Authority of International Tribunals.” ICSID Review 23 (2): 215–32. https://doi.org/10.1093/icsidreview/23.2.215.
Paulsson, J. 2010. “The Power of States to Make Meaningful Promises to Foreigners.” Journal of International Dispute Settlement 1 (2): 341–52. https://doi.org/10.1093/jnlids/idq013.

Graeme Robertson

Professor of Political Science and Director of the Authoritarian Politics Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

September 1410:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Anti-Corruption: Facing The Challenges Ahead

Class readings:
Elizabeth Dávid-Barrett, Mihály Fazekas, “Anti-corruption in aid-funded procurement: Is corruption reduced or merely displaced?” World Development, Volume 132, 2020.
Martinangeli, Andrea FM, Marina Povitkina, Sverker Jagers, and Bo Rothstein. "Institutional Quality Causes Generalized Trust: Experimental Evidence on Trusting under the Shadow of Doubt." American Journal of Political Science (2023).

Graeme Robertson

September 1510:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Attitudes and Identities in Motion

Class readings:
Pop-Eleches, Grigore, Graeme Robertson, and Bryn Rosenfeld. "Protest participation and attitude change: Evidence from Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution." The Journal of Politics 84.2 (2022): 625-638.

Kulyk, Volodymyr. "Shedding Russianness, recasting Ukrainianness: The post-Euromaidan dynamics of ethnonational identifications in Ukraine." Post-Soviet Affairs 34, no. 2-3 (2018): 119-138.

Sebastian Galiani

Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford and works broadly in the field of Economics

September 2710:00 AM - 11:20 AMUTC +3 (EEST)Offline

Rebuilding Ukraine : Principles and Policies, chapters 1 and 2

Class readings:
Ukraine’s EU integration 15Pavlo Klimkin and Ivan Mikloš
Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction and governance reforms 39Tymofiy Mylovanov and Gerard Rola

Sebastian Galiani

September 28
10:00 AM - 11:20 AM
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Rebuilding Ukraine : Principles and Policies, chapter 5

Class readings:
International trade and foreign direct investment 119Veronika Movchan and Kenneth Rogof
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/rebuilding-ukraine-principles-and-policies

Yoshiko Herrera

 Professor of Political Science at the University Wisconsin Madison.

October 2318:00 PM - 20:00 AMUTC +3 (EEST)Offline

Constructing social identities 

This is about defining and measuring different types of identities, national identity, ethnicity, race, gender, etc.

Yoshiko Herrera

October 2418:00 PM - 20:00 AMUTC +3 (EEST)Offline

Identity and Conflict

The role of identity in conflict

Andrew Kydd

Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin—Madison

October 318:00 PM - 20:00 PM
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Why Wars Start

Rationalist international relations theory about the causes of warWar is costly, so why don’t states settle their differences in other ways?Mistrust, uncertainty and changing power as causes of war

Andrew Kydd

Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin—Madison

October 418:00 PM - 20:00 PMUTC +3 (EEST)Offline

Why Wars End

Wars may end by victory or negotiationsHow wars are wonMistrust can be overcome by reassurance, but only if actors are actually trustworthyUncertainty is resolved by fighting, but may take a whileChanging power can make for absolute wars, unless power can be stabilizedPlease let me know if these are ok. If someone has already covered this ground, I can switch quickly to some papers that I have written recently, that are not so topical about the war.

Dan Honig

Associate Professor, Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy
Associate Professor of Public Policy, University College London School of Public Policy/Department of Political Science

November 2718:00 PM - 20:00 PMUTC +3 (EEST)Offline

Discretion, Corruption, and Managing for Performance: (When) Does Reporting and Control Undermine Performance, and When Not?

Class readings:
Rasul, I., Rogger, D., & Williams, M. J. (2021). Management, organizational performance, and task clarity: Evidence from Ghana’s civil service. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 31(2), 259-277.
Honig, D. (2020). Actually Navigating by Judgment: Towards a New Paradigm of Donor Accountability Where the Current System Doesn’t Work. Center for Global Development Policy Paper 169: pgs 0-5.

Dan Honig

Associate Professor, Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy
Associate Professor of Public Policy, University College London School of Public Policy/Department of Political Science

November 2818:00 PM - 20:00 PMUTC +3 (EEST)Offline

Forms of Accountability – Accounting- vs. Account-Based Accountability and When Each Will Work Better

Class readings:
Honig, Dan. (2024). Mission Driven Bureaucrats, Oxford University Press: pgs 12-16 (chapter 1); 26-34 (chapter 2); 135-146 (chapter 7); 150-151 (Profile of Preetam Ponnappa).

Mansbridge, J. (2014). A contingency theory of accountability. In The Oxford handbook of public accountability. (Optional)

Honig, D. and Lant Pritchett. (2019). The Limits of Accounting-Based Accountability in Education (and Far Beyond): Why More Accounting Will Rarely Solve Accountability Problems. Center for Global Development Working Paper 510. Washington, DC: Center for Global Development. (Optional)

Svitlana Maksymenko

Teaching Professor at the Department of Economics and the affiliated faculty member at the Katz Business School, Graduate School for Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), and the University Center for International Studies (UCIS)

November 2018:00 PM - 20:00 PM
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Reconstruction of Transport Infrastructure in Ukraine: Cost Analysis

Class readings:
Macroeconomic Policies for Wartime Ukraine, Rapid Response Economics 2, 2022, CEPR Press: ParisConstantinescu, M, K Kappner, and N Szumilo (2022), “Estimating the short-term impact of war on economic activity in Ukraine”, VoxEU.org, 21 June.World Bank. Ukraine Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment : February 2022 - February 2023.

Svitlana Maksymenko

November 2118:00 PM - 20:00 PM
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Impact of the War on Trade with Ukraine

Class readings:
Glick,R, and Taylor, A. (2005) Collateral Damage: Trade Disruption and the Economic Impact of War. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Working paper seriesWorld Trade Organization, One year of war in Ukraine: Assessing the impact on global trade and development, 2023.National Bank of Ukraine, External Sector Statistics, website

Steve Swerdlow
Associate Professor of the Practice of Human Rights in the Department of Political and International Relations at the University of Southern California

Human Rights Framework., Genocide, War Crimes

Steve Swerdlow

Accountability under US Law: Using Global Magnitsky Sanctions Against Perpetrators of Egregious Rights Abuses

Jennifer Murtazashvili

TBA :
December

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