The Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination will hold a lunch seminar on Thursday, May 2, 2013, at 12:00 p.m. in 202 Jones Hall. Arman Grigoryan, Assistant Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University, will be the featured speaker. Lunch will be served. To attend, RSVP to Angella Matheney.

The lunch is co-sponsored with Near Eastern Studies.

Arman Grigoryan is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University and an MA in International Relations from the University of Chicago. Grigoryan's research focuses on third-party interventions, ethno-nationalist conflicts, and how domestic politics is affected by states' security environments. Grigoryan's research has appeared in International Studies Quarterly, International Security, Ethnopolitics, and the International Political Science Review. He is currently working on a book about the effects of war on democratization.