Eighteenth Annual New Faces Conference

At this conference, six advanced graduate students working in the security studies field will present their research to an interdisciplinary audience.

Topics include:
• Religiosity and Bellicosity: The Impact of Religious Commitment on Interstate Conflict
• Grand Strategic Crucibles: The Lasting Effects of Military Intervention on State Strategy
• “He Should Follow a Course of Obedience:” American War Criminals and the Superior Orders Defense in the Second World War
• Straddling the Threshold of Two Worlds: Soldiers’ Culture in the U.S. Army, 1965-1975
• More Talk, Less Action: Why Costless Diplomacy Works During Power Transition
• Experiments in Peace: Asian Neutralism, Human Rights, and the Transformation of the United Nations, 1946-1966