2007 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

15-17 EAST ASIAN SECURITY POLITICS
Room Salon 6, 3 rd Floor, Fri at 4:25 pm
Chair Yufan Hao, University of Macau
Paper A Nested Game Approach to Foreign Policy Choice: The Case
of South Korea
Jung-Yeop Woo, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Timothy Romanowich, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Overview: Considering the importance of cooperating with the
U.S.in dealing with North Korea nuclear crisis President Roh's
policy choice seems not optimal. In this study, nested game
framework is employed to explain President Roh's North Korea
policy.
Paper Internationalizing and Pluralizing International Studies in
China
Hong Duan, Cornell University
Overview: This study seeks to show how different schools of
thought emerged and became influential or marginalized in
China's international studies in the past three decades and then
attempts to explain those ideational shifts across time.
Paper Arms or Talks: A Protege's Choice
Jung-Ming Chang, National Chung Cheng University
Overview: Previous studies on extended deterrence have focused
on attackers and defenders, but not protégés. In this article, the
author attempts to find out what options will a protégé, Taiwan,
choose in dealing with its potential attacker, China.
Paper Iran and North Korean: Different Regime, Same Behavior
Sirivalaya Kachathan, Texas Tech University
Overview: Rationalist explanations for a nuclear threat. A starting
of nuclear program is a kind of bargaining process.They act as a
rational actor with the expected pay-off of maintaining their
regime.
Disc. Yufan Hao, University of Macau
16-11 DEMOCRACY, MARKETS, AND WAR
Room Salon 7, 3 rd Floor, Fri at 4:25 pm
Chair Brent Strathman, Dartmouth College
Paper American Power: Security Burden or Security Blessing?
Olga Bogatyrenko, University of California, Davis
Overview: This paper evaluates effectiveness of contemporary
U.S. security policy in light of terrorist attacks against different
components of American power.
Paper A Theory of Conscription: Loyalty, Threats, and Labor
Markets
Nikola Mirilovic, University of Chicago
Overview: The causes of conscription are a heavily regulated
labor market, authoritarian regime type, and a dangerous
international environment. There is no significant causal link
between nationalism and conscription.
Paper Democracy and Territorial Change
Ajin Choi, Yonsei University
Overview: I propose to examine the impacts of democratic states
on territorial change after international conflict.
Disc. Ariel I. Ahram, Georgetown University
17-203 INFORMAL ROUNDTABLE: WHAT DO WE
KNOW ABOUT CIVIL CONFLICT?
Room State, 4 th Floor, Table 1, Fri at 4:25 pm
Presenter Operationalizing Civil War
Omur Yilmaz, University of Kansas
Overview: This study introduces two different datasets of all civil
wars that have started since 1945 and utilizes them in a survival
analysis of how different factors affect the likelihood of civil war
relapse once a civil war is terminated one way or another.
Presenter Political Economy of Civil War
Robert B. Packer, University of Michigan
Overview: Review of the literature and tests to see what
arguments hold best in explaining the onset of civil war.
17-204 INFORMAL ROUNDTABLE: LEADERS,
LONGEVITY, AND MILITARIZED DISPUTES
Room State, 4 th Floor, Table 2, Fri at 4:25 pm
Presenter The Effect of Aid on Regime Survival, 1960-2000
Brian Lai, University of Iowa
Amanda Licht, University of Iowa
Overview: Does aid influence a regime’s survival? This paper
empirically examines two theoretical approaches: one that predicts
aid should lengthen the duration of all regimes and one that
predicts aid should shorten the duration of non-democratic
regimes.
Presenter Miltiary Experience, Education, and Leader Behavior in
Militarized Disputes
Michael Horowitz, Harvard University
Overview: This paper examines how variations in the military
experience and education level of leaders influences their behavior
in miltiarized disputes once they enter office.
17-301 POSTER SESSION: CONFLICT PROCESS
Room Exhibit Hall, 4 th Floor, Fri at 4:25 pm
Presenter Alterity as a Weapon to Deconstruct Conflicts in Transitional
Societies
(Board 1)
Mulago Jean-Pierre Shamvu, University of Calgary
Overview: Conflicts are not innate but socially constructed,
therefore if the conflictual behaviour is socially constructed, then
it should be possible to deconstruct it. We are suggesting alterity
as a way to achieve this deconstruction.
Presenter Culture of Contention Between the Global and the Local
(Board 2)
Ana M. Velitchkova, Southern Illinois University
Overview: Grassroots affiliates to global movements engage in a
dynamic process of creating raisons d’être through multiple
vertical and horizontal channels of communication challenging
understandings of grievances, rational choice, and political
opportunity.
18-301 POSTER SESSION: FOREIGN POLICY
Room Exhibit Hall, 4 th Floor, Fri at 4:25 pm
Presenter Global Security in the 21st Century
(Board 3)
Amentahru Wahlrab, Illinois State University
Overview: The new global security agenda of the 21st century
centers on the following: Democratization, Weapons of Mass
Destruction, and Terrorism. This consensus, if found, would
provide grounds for increased cooperation and a decrease in
global violence.
Presenter Third Party Interventions in Civil Conflicts
(Board 4)
G. Jiyun Kim, University of Michigan
Overview: Based on formally derived results, I indentify certain
conditions that favor or disfavor third party military interventions
in civil conflicts and point out the conditions where economic
diplomacy.
19-8 UNDERSTANDING INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
(OR THE LACK THEREOF)
Room Clark 10, 7 th Floor, Fri at 4:25 pm
Chair Isabella Alcaniz, University of Houston
Paper Image Dissonance: The Darfur Dilemma and US Foreign
Policy
Cosette D. Creamer, Harvard University
Overview: This paper examines the sources of the U.S. decision to
abstain on a UN Security Council resolution referring the situation
in Darfur, Sudan to the International Criminal Court as a test case
for a socialization explanation of foreign policy change.
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