2008 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Friday, April 4-2:45 pm
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Warlords, Famine and Food Aid: Who Fights, Who Starves
This paper examines the effect of food aid on civil conflict. Using
a theoretical conflict model, we examine the strategic interactions
of aid agencies (who provide aid to non-combatants) and warlords
(who recruit soldiers and steal aid).
Max Blouin, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
maxblouin@yahoo.com
Stephane Pallage, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
pallage@gmail.com
Ride on the Peace Train: Does Peacekeeping Help to Stay on
Board
In this paper, we address the question of whether peacekeeping can
explain the duration of post-conflict civil peace, while controlling
for the bias that is introduced by the non-random selection of
peacekeeping missions.
Tobias Hofmann, College of William & Mary
thofmann@wm.edu
Lena M. Schaffer, ETH Zurich
lena.schaffer@ir.gess.ethz.ch
Timothy Allen Carter, Wayne State University
tcarter@wayne.edu
17-301 POSTER SESSIONS: CONFLICT PROCESSES
Room Grand on the 4th Floor, Fri at 2:45 pm
Poster 1 Alliance Dependence vs. Political Loss: Participation and
Burden-Sharing in Military Coalitions
I compare two competing theories of foreign policy decision making
to understand patterns of participation and burden-sharing in
military coalitions.
Joon G. Park, Texas A&M University
jguanpark@hotmail.com
Poster 2 Trust the Prisoner, Hate the Guard: Infiltration and Security
Force Training
Infiltration seriously erodes trust between Iraqi security forces
and their trainers. This paper addresses why U.S. guards are more
trusting of known insurgents than the Iraqi guards working side-byside
with them in detention operations.
Eugenia K. Guilmartin, United States Army
Eugenia.guilmartin@us.army.mil
Poster 3 Political Process and the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow,
1997-2002
This research explores the activist strategies that social movements
use and the social and political conditions under which they adopt
these strategies. As a case study, this paper focuses on the activism
of the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow in Israel.
Ofir Abu, Brandeis University
ofirabu@brandeis.edu
Poster 4 Thomas Hobbes’ Vision of Local Anarchy: Lessons for INGO
Field Operations
This paper bridges classical political philosophy and the empirical
study of international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) to
suggest how INGOs can best perform humanitarian relief missions
amidst armed conflicts.
Jason S. Ardanowski, Marquette University
jason.ardanowski@marquette.edu
18-5 MAKING US FOREIGN POLICY
Room UEH 405 on the 4th Floor, Fri at 2:45 pm
Chair Richard Sobel, Harvard University/Northwestern University
sobel2@fas.harvard.edu
Paper Evangelizing Foreign Policy: The Christian Right, Bush and the
Middle East
This paper proposes to investigate the issues salient to evangelicals
regarding Islam and the Middle East, and the degree to which they
have been successful in influencing recent U.S. Middle East policy.
Nilay Saiya, University of Notre Dame
nsaiya@nd.edu
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Mediating Public Attitudes on Foreign Policy Through the
Israeli Prism
We demonstrate that Americans' opinions of the state of Israel
mediate the influence of individual characteristics on the importance
voters place on key U.S. foreign policy priorities.
Amnon Cavari, University of Wisconsin, Madison
cavari@wisc.edu
Joshua M. Cowen, University of Wisconsin, Madison
cowen@wisc.edu
Threat and the Relationship Between Public Opinion and
Foreign Policy
This analysis focuses on the endogenous factors, such as public
opinion, and exogenous factors, such as security threats, which
affect foreign policy outputs. I find that threat mitigates the
relationship between public opinion and foreign policy.
William Davis, Iowa State University
williamd@iastate.edu
Confronting the Lobby: Arab American Organizations and
Palestinian Statehood
Paper outlines pro-Arab lobby, its position vis-a-vis the pro-Israel
lobby, and its history and potential in shaping American foreign
policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Khalil M. Marrar, DePaul University
kmarrar@depaul.edu
The Out of Iraq Caucus and Congressional Foreign Policy
Assertiveness
This paper examines Congress's “Out of Iraq” caucus. Weaving
together literatures on Congress and its members in foreign policy,
we assess a variety of member characteristics to weigh their relative
importance on members' choices to join the caucus.
Ryan C. Hendrickson, Eastern Illinois University
rchendrickson@eiu.edu
James M. Scott, Oklahoma State University
james.scott@okstate.edu
J. David Singer, University of Michigan
jdsinger@umich.edu
Virginie Grzelczyk, Victoria University of Wellington
Virginie Grzelczyk@gmail.com
19-9 FORMS OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Room Suite 10-250 on the 10th Floor, Fri at 2:45 pm
Chair Nikolay Marinov, Yale University
nikolay.marinov@yale.edu
Paper Contrived Symmetry Through Federal and International
Organizations
Commitment problems in cooperation sometimes lead states to form
federal unions rather than international organizations. A model and
case study illustrate.
Chad Rector, George Washington University
rector@gwu.edu
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Dynamic Multilateral Cooperation for Global Public Goods
This paper develops the theory of international cooperation for
global public goods based on a dynamic principal-agent model and
shows the relationship among global public goods, hegemony, and
international organizations.
Fredrick S. Suh, University of Chicago
suh@uchicago.edu
Pressured Partnerships: Public and Private Sector Cooperation
in Crises
The waves of contracting out of government services have changed
the relationship between the public and private sector in ways that
present new challenges to crisis management. The paper examines
the characteristics of three US crisis partnerships.
Lina Maria Lovisa Svedin, University of Utah
lina.svedin@poli-sci.utah.edu
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