Thursday, February 16
2:00pm - Introductory Discussions
William Burke-White, University of Pennsylvania, “The Development of Post R2P Interventions”
Edward Luck, Columbia University, “R2P at Ten Plus”
Barry Posen, M.I.T., “Civil Wars and the Structure of World Power”
Discussants: Oona Hathaway, Yale University; Ian Shapiro, Yale University
3:45pm - Promises and Perils of Military Intervention
David Edelstein, Georgetown University, “Exit Strategies from R2P Interventions”
Kevin Russell, Yale University and Nicholas Sambanis, University of Pennsylvania, “The Occupier’s Dilemma: Foreign-Imposed Nation-building after Ethnic War”
Discussant: Ryan Crocker, Middle East Institute
5:00pm - Alternatives to Military Intervention
Bruce Jentleson, Duke University, “From If to How. On R2P Capacity Building”
Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, Harvard University, “Half-Measure Interventions in Theory and in Syria”
Discussant: John Jenkins, Yale University; Gary Bass, Princeton University
Friday, February 17
9:00am - Downstream Challenges to Humanitarian Intervention
Alan Kuperman, The University of Texas at Austin, “Why the R2P Backfires? (And How to Fix It)”
Lindsey O’Rourke, Boston College and Alexander Downes, The George Washington University, “Foreign-Imposed Regime Changes”
Discussant: Jason Lyall, Yale University
10:45pm - Case Studies: Sub-Saharan Africa and Syria
Simon Adams, The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, “Failure to Protect: Syria and the U.N. Security Council”
Frederic Hof, Atlantic Council, “R2P in Syria”
Michael Shurkin, RAND Corporation, “Understanding the French and UN Interventions in Mali and CAR, 2013”
Discussants: Jack Snyder, Columbia University; William Nomikos, Yale University
12:30pm - Roundtable
David Laitin, Stanford University
Aref Nayed, Kalam Research & Media
Jack Snyder, Columbia University