2008 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Saturday, April 5-8:00 am
15-11 EUROPEAN UNION
Room Suite 12-150 on the 12th Floor, Sat at 8:00 am
Chair Alessandro Cagossi, West Virginia University
acagossi@mix.wvu.edu
Paper The Impact of International Institutions on the EU: A
Framework for Analysis
Second image reversed analyses abound in the literature, but none
of them directly address the European Union as the dependent
variable. An analytical framework is proposed here.
Oriol Costa, Freie Universität, Berlin
oriol.costa@uab.es
Paper European Union, Political Parties and Democratization: The
Case of Turkey, 1997-2004
This paper examines Turkey's recent democratization and human
rights reforms in the context of the dynamics of Turkish politics
and European Union's conditionality rules. It underlines the central
importance of domestic-international linkages.
Engin I. Erden, Florida International University
engin.erdem@fiu.edu
Paper EU-Russia Relations: Another Manifestation of the Resource
Curse
Paper presents deterioration of EU-Russia relations as an
equilibrium outcome. It analyzes foreign policy payoffs and
strategies that follow from transitional nature of the two political
systems and from the role of natural resources in their trade.
Mikhail Filippov, Binghamton University (SUNY)
filippov@binghamton.edu
Irina M. Busygina, MGIMO, Moscow
irabus@mgimo.ru
Graham Timmins, Stirling University
graham.timmins@stir.ac.uk
16-10 RIVALRIES AND ALLIANCES
Room UEH 400 on the 4th Floor, Sat at 8:00 am
Chair Robert Kent Evanson, University of Missouri, Kansas City
evansonr@umkc.edu
Paper Persistent Patterns of International Militarized Rivalries: A
Network Approach to International Rivalries
Deriving from the strategic studies and the structural approaches
to international relations, this research theorizes the dynamics of
rivalry persistence. The implications of the model are being tested
using tools from the network analysis.
Jinyoung Kim, University of Washington
kjinyn@u.washington.edu
Paper Friends and Allies: Patron-Client Networks in the Interstate
System
This paper reviews work on contractual hierarchy and policy barter
in international politics. It notes that an obstacle to progress in
this area is the lack of a data-collection effort on patron-client
relationships in the international system.
Jeffrey Michael Cavanaugh, Mississippi State University
jcavanaugh@ps.msstate.edu
Paper Public Opinion and European Security and Defense Policy
The aim of this paper is to measure for the first time what are
the determinants of the public support for the ESDP. We will use
individual data and perform multinomial logit estimations for the
period 1989-2002.
Martial Foucault, University of Montreal
martial.foucault@umontreal.ca
Bastien Irondelle, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris
bastien.irondelle@sciences-po.fr
Paper Canada's Security Strategy and the Transatlantic Alliance
What is Canada's role in the transatlantic relationship and its foreign
policy responses to issues of international peace and security after
9/11
Benjamin Zyla, Queen's University
Ben.Zyla@queensu.ca
Paper
Disc.
Friends No Longer: The Postwar Consequences of Alliance
Commitments
This study finds that multiple victors of comparable power act
much like veto players in governmental institutions. Major postwar
changes, such as a regime change, are less likely as the number of
and ideological distance between victors increases.
Melissa Willard-Foster, University of California, Los Angeles
willardm@ucla.edu
Robert Kent Evanson, University of Missouri, Kansas City
evansonr@umkc.edu
16-15 MANAGING CIVIL WARS
Room Suite 14-150 on the 14th Floor, Sat at 8:00 am
Chair Travis Nelson, University of Vermont
Travis.Nelson@uvm.edu
Paper Justice for Whom: War Crimes, Plea Bargaining, and the ICC
We address the institutional design of the ICC, which does not allow
for plea bargains. While this satisfies the desire to enact maximal
punishments, we argue this feature can lengthen conflicts and
worsen the situation for civilians on the ground.
Emily Hencken Ritter, Emory University
ehencke@emory.edu
Scott Wolford, Emory University
mwolfor@emory.edu
Paper Civil War and Social Infrastructure: Consequences for
Educational Systems
This paper is the first in a larger project that explores the impact
of civil war on educational systems and how that relates to
international relations. Findings indicate that the different levels of
education are impacted differently by civil war.
Charles M. Hinderliter, University of South Carolina
charles.hinderliter@gmail.com
Paper External Military Intervention in Civil Wars
This paper analyzes the decision of third-party states to intervene
militarily in civil wars. Original quantitative tests are provided to
identify the main determinants of this decision.
Jordan M. Miller, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
jordanmm@umich.edu
Paper Tasks, Conditions, and Standards: Competing Approaches to
Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone
This paper, through a comparison of the two simultaneous
deployments, IMATT and UNAMSIL, to Sierra Leone during
its civil war, will seek to show the critical need for a diversity of
responses to a multidimensional civil war and humanitarian crisis.
Allison Y. Pan, University of Hawai`I, Manoa
allisonpan@msn.com
Disc. Travis Nelson, University of Vermont
Travis.Nelson@uvm.edu
17-7 TIMING, TYPE, AND IMPACT OF MEDIATION
Room PDR 6 on the 3rd Floor, Sat at 8:00 am
Chair Kelly Kadera, University of Iowa
kelly-kadera@uiowa.edu
Paper The Impact of Social Identity on Third-Party Mediation
Using the ICOW dataset, we test the idea that mediators can use the
shared identity aspects of disputants to resolve conflicts.
Ray Block, Florida State University
rblock@fsu.edu
David A. Siegel, Florida State University
dsiegel@fsu.edu
Paul R. Hensel, Florida State University
phensel@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
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