MPSA

9:45 Chair, Shaul Shenhav, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
shaul.shenhav@mail.huji.ac.il
9:50 Israel, Peacekeeping Forces and the Temporary
Hosting of UNDOF: An Indication of a New
Approach?
Eitan Barak*, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
eitan.barak@mail.huji.ac.il
10:06 The Paradigm Shift in Israel’s Policy Towards its
Radical Islamist Movement
Suheir S Daoud, Coastal Carolina University
sdaoud@coastal.edu
10:22 Accessing to Infrastructure: Struggles over Water
and Electricity in Israel and Turkey
Esra Bakkalbasioglu, University of Washington-
Seattle Campus
esrab@uw.edu
10:38 Disc., Shaul Shenhav, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
shaul.shenhav@mail.huji.ac.il
10:55 Audience Discussion
18-4 Modernization and Economic Development
Fri at 9:45 am
9:45 Chair, Melissa Ziegler Rogers, Claremont
Graduate University
melissa.rogers@cgu.edu
9:50 Institutions and Urban Concentration: The Role
of Coercive Capacity
Sidney Turner, Fors Marsh Group LLC
sturner1@forsmarshgroup.com
Uma Kelekar*, Marymount University
ukelekar@gmail.com
10:11 The Inequality Trap: Why High Levels of
Inequality Lead to Authoritarian Regime Failure
Joan Timoneda*, University of Maryland-College
Park
timoneda@umd.edu
10:33 Disc., Melissa Ziegler Rogers, Claremont Graduate
University
melissa.rogers@cgu.edu
Disc., Ashley Avon Anderson, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
aaanders@email.unc.edu
10:55 Audience Discussion
19-200 Table 1: JSS: Symposium on International
Cooperation
Fri at 9:45 am
9:45 Explaining Change Across Transnational
Environmental Standard Setting Organizations
James E. Heilman, University of Massachusetts-
Amherst
jimmyh90@gmail.com
9:56 Flying Flags: The Economic Nationalism of
Airline Liberalization
Colin Chia, Cornell University
dc824@cornell.edu
10:08 International Trade Agreements during Economic
Recession
Ji Yeon Park, Georgetown University
jp1427@georgetown.edu
10:20 Not Everyone Observing Your Signals Will Enter:
Conditions for Investment Treaties To Be a
Credible Signal
Gyu Sang Shim, Purdue University-Main Campus
gshim@purdue.edu
10:31 Survival Strategy for the New-born Institution: A
Comparative Study between AIIB and ADB
Jen Soyoung Park, Korea University
shugorena@naver.com
10:43 Disc., Eric Arias, New York University
eric.arias@nyu.edu
10:55 Audience Discussion
19-201 Table 2: JSS: Symposium on Investment and
Finance
Fri at 9:45 am
9:45 From Banks to Bonds: Political Stability and
Sovereign Debt Composition
Joshua Tyler Counselman, University of
Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus
jtc51@pitt.edu
9:59 Internal Connections and External Frictions:
Explaining Litigation Outcomes of Foreign
Corporations in China
Jian Xu, Emory University
jian.xu2@emory.edu
Frederick R. Chen, University of Wisconsin-
Madison
frederick.chen@wisc.edu
10:13 Regime Changes and FDI Flows in the Developing
World
Joonseok Yang, Columbia University in the City of
New York
jy2385@columbia.edu
Abhit Bhandari*, Columbia University in the City of
New York
ab3901@columbia.edu
10:27 State Capitalism and Firm Performance:
Evidence from Developing Countries
Jheng-yi Chen, National Chengchi University
103252005@nccu.edu.tw
10:41 Disc., William Kindred Winecoff, Indiana
University-Bloomington
wkwineco@indiana.edu
10:55 Audience Discussion
20-6 Implications of the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Fri at 9:45 am
9:45 Chair, Naomi Levy, Santa Clara University
nlevy@scu.edu
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