The lecture on April 20, 2018 will feature Milli Lake, Assistant Professor, London School of Economics. "The Insecurity Trap: State Security and the Monopoly on Violence in Low Intensity Armed Conflicts." Discussant: Meredith Loken, Ph.D. Student, University of Washington. 

The University of Washington International Security Colloquium (UWISC) is the only academic colloquium devoted to international security in the Pacific Northwest. The Colloquium is interdisciplinary and open to the public and sponsors seven to nine domestic and international speakers, as well as speakers from UW faculty and students. All lectures are held Fridays from 12:00-1:20pm in the Olson Room/Gowen 1a.

UWISC is sponsored by the Severyns-Ravenholt Endowment, the Richard B. Wesley Graduate Student Fund for International Relations, the UW Political Science Department, and the Center for Global Studies at the Jackson School of International Studies.

For more information contact the UWISC Chair and Richard Wesley Fellow in International Security, Wesley Zuidema (wzuidema@uw.edu).