Chair and Discussant: Chris Brown, London School of Economics

“Crimes that Go Unpunished: Expanding the Definition of Genocide”
Haley Wright, Baylor University

“Jus Cogens and International Punishment in the Constitution of International Society”|
Harry D. Gould, Florida International University

“Punishment and Justice at the Global Level”
Anthony F. Lang, University of St. Andrews

 

 

Chair and Discussant: Nicholas Rengger, University of St. Andrews

“Can the NPT Survive? The Theory and Practice of US Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy after September 11”
Mario Carranza, Texas A & M University-Kingsville

“Mutually Assured Distraction:  A Constructivist Analysis of the NPT”
Marsha B. Cohen, Florida International University

“Living with the Bombs! An Analysis of Nuclear Deterrence between India and Pakistan”
Supad Ghose, Old Dominion University

”The New Russian Nuclear Deterrence: The Struggle of Perceptions”
Andrey Pavlov, Saint-Petersburg State University

 

 

Chair and Discussant: Michael G. Schechter, Michigan State University

“Domestic Institutional Foundations of UN Reform Stasis: The US versus the United Nations”
Roger A. Coate, University of South Carolina

“The Issue Politics of Institutional Choice: What and To Whom States Delegate?”
Thomas J. Doleys, Kennesaw State University

“NATO’s Formative Years: A Critical Case Study of the Impact of Domestic Politics on the Outcomes and Cohesion of International Regimes”
Cale D. Horne, University of South Carolina

“Regions as Global Actors”
Niall Michelsen, Western Carolina University

 

 

Chair and Discussant: Nikolaos Zahariadis, University of Alabama

“Amazon as a Global Issue: Cooperation and Conflict to Conserve Rainforests”
Fabio de Andrade Abdala, University of Brasilia

“Local Environmentalism--The Importance of the Ordinary and Everyday”
Robin L. Teske, James Madison University

“Considerations of Environmental Security: What Place within National Security?”
Chris Joyner and Crystal Starr Chase , Georgetown University

 

 

Chair and Discussant: Samuel Barkin, University of Florida

“The Road Less Traveled: Democratic Transitions in Slovenia and Macedonia”
Ryan Litsey, University of Florida

“Paths to Democracy, the Post-Cold War Standard of Civilization: Iraq, China and South Korea”
Jaewon Lee, University of Denver

“The Myth of the Feminist Peace: The Dyadic Effects of Domestic Gender Egalitarian Values”
Kristen M. Flanagan, University of Pittsburgh

“Constructing Uncertainty: The Practicality of Democracy without Theory”
Christopher M. Brown, Florida International University

 

 

Chair and Discussant: Carrie Manning, Georgia State University

“Confronting Hatred and Suspicion: European Myths and the Empty Chair Crisis”
Sam-Sang Jo, University of South Carolina

“International Conflict--A Cruel Necessity?”
Aleksandra Chauhan, University of South Carolina

  “The Rhetoric of War”
Barry Balleck, Georgia Southern University

“Humanitarian Intervention as a ‘Responsibility to Protect’: An International Society Approach”
Saban Kardas, The University of Utah

 

 

Chair and Discussant: Markus Thiel, University of Miami

“Neofunctionalism, Intergovernmentalism and European Integration: An Eclectic Analytic Framework”
Vessela Chakarova, Old Dominion University

“National Perceptions and the EU’s Communication Strategy: Between Utopianism and Non-Utilization”
Markus Thiel, University of Miami

“The Parallel Paths of Integration and Democracy: Kantian Peace as an Achievable Normative Destination”
Benjamin D. Fox, University of South Carolina

 

 

Chair and Discussant: Heidi H. Hobbs, North Carolina State University

“Is the Nation-State Irrelevant in an Age of Globalization?”
Alicya Lloyd, Inter-American Development Bank

“Norm Diffusion Processes in the Globalizing World: Building a Conceptual Framework”
Vlad Kravtsov, Syracuse University

“Globalization and Civil Society? Patterns of IGO-NGO Collaboration in International Development”
Andrei I. Maximenko, Benedict College

 

 

Chair and Discussant: Dovilé Budryté, Brenau University

“Future Shape of Russian-German Relations: Bilateral or Restrained by EU Limits”,
Maria Yatmanova, Saint-Petersburg State University

“Russia in a Constructed World: The Boundaries of a Political Community”
Viatcheslav Morozov, Saint-Petersburg State University

“The Political Success of Russia-Belarus Relations: Insulating Minsk from a ‘Color’ Revolution”
Thomas Ambrosio, North Dakota State University

 

Chair: Susan Northcutt, University of South Florida
Discussant:  Mary K. Meyer, Eckerd College

“Gender Mainstreaming as a Feminist Method”
Elisabeth Prügl, Florida International University

“A Comprehensive Analysis of Women’s and Female Children’s Health and Nutrition Programs in India and Bangladesh”
Ingrid Allison Levy, Florida International University

“Sex Trafficking in South Florida – A Discursive Analysis”
Anne Sarver, Florida International University

“Sex Slavery in Asia: Exploring the Economic Effects of Globalization and Patriarchy”
Amanda Bollough and Jan Solomon, Florida International University

 

Chair: Prügl Elizabeth, Florida International University
Discussant: Nick Onuf, Florida International University

“The debate over the ‘national interest’ in the 1960s: a constructivist –positivist conversation before its time”
John Clark, Florida International University

“China’s ‘Sacred Commitments’ and the 1995-96 Taiwan Strait Crisis”
Gregory Moore, Eckerd College

“Armenia’s Foreign Policy discourse and Turkish-Armenian Relations”
Alla Mirzoyan, Florida International University

“An Emergenist Critique of the Social Constructivist Approach to Regional Integration in Europe”
Mehmet Tezcan, Free University of Brussels

“Who’s the Boss? Competing Perspectives on the Genesis of Power and the Origin of Rules”
Craig Simon, University of Miami

 

 

Chair and Discussant: William E. DeMars, Wofford College

“Wall Street’s New Player: The Economics of Transnational Terrorism”
Jennifer Murray, Mercer University

“Re-Producing US Self-Image through the War on Terror”
Ty Solomon, University of Florida

“The Importance of Transnational Civil Society in the Effort to Stop Terrorism: The Case of the US”
Jonathan S. Miner, University of South Carolina

 

 

Chair and Discussant: Konstantin Khudoley, Saint-Petersburg State University

“Europeanization and Implementation: Analyzing the Greek Paradox”
Nikolaos Zahariadis, University of Alabama

“The Rise of Islamist Movements in Europe”
Gonul Tol, Florida International Unversity

  “The Coexistence of Supranational and National Diplomacy”
Claudia Dunlea, Florida Atlantic University

 

 

Chair and Discussant: Roger Coate, University of South Carolina

“Between Allah and Ataturk: Liberal Islam in Turkey”
Thomas Smith, University of South Florida

“When Domestic Meets with International: The Political Transformation of Turkey, 1997-2004"
Engin I. Erdem, Florida International University

“The Theory That Never Turned into Practice: A Case Study of the Eastern Mediterranean”
Melina Skouroliakou

“Hydropolitics: In search for a solution for the water dispute in the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin”
Tuba Yesilkaya, Florida International University

“Clash of theologies within Islam”
Anouar Boukhars, Wilberforce University

 

Chair: Samuel Barkin, University of Florida
Discussant:  Paul Kowert, Florida International University

“Paradoxes of Sovereignty in the Balkans”
Aida Hozic, University of Florida

“Illicit Economic Activity and the Interstices of Sovereignty”
Samuel Barkin, University of Florida

“Sovereignty and Flags of Convenience”
Elizabeth DeSombre, Wellesley College

“The Prostitution of Sovereignty”
Jonathan Wadley, University of Florida

 

D-1 Realism in Theory and Practice

 

Chair and Discussant: Ned Lebow, Dartmough College

“The Un-Realism of Realism’s Epistemological Foundations”
Ido Oren, University of Florida

“The Later Work of Hans Morgenthau: From Realist Scholar to Idealist Politician?”
Brian Keaney, University of South Florida

“The Tragedy of International Relations Theory? The Influence of Political Science on American Foreign Policy”
David Houghton, University of Central Florida

“A Proto-Theoretical Approach to Analysis”
Patrick Magee

 

 

Chair and Discussant: Hadi Semati, Woodrow Wilson Center

“Democracies and Foreign Policy: An Examination of Institutional Variations and Foreign Aid Donations”
Denis Rey, Texas Tech University

“On the Way to the Forum: Two-Level Game Analysis, Preferences, and the Selection of Forums for Pursuing Foreign Policy Goals”
K. P. O’Reilly, University of South Carolina

“Rethinking, Refocusing, and Revamping U.S. Security Policy in Africa”
Stephen Emerson, University of Pretoria

“Power, Ideas and Foreign Policy Reorientations”
Chenhong Li, University of South Carolina

“The Battle for the Americas: Towards a Synthesis between Critical Theory and Realism”
Douglas Rivero, Florida International University

 

 

Chair and Discussant : Thomas Smith, University of South Florida

“The Millenarian Origins of al Qaeda”
James F. Rinehart, Troy University

“Partners in Conflict: A Structural Theory of NGOS”
William E. DeMars, Wofford College

“Political Parties and Terrorism: Another Reason Democracies are Prone to Domestic Terrorism”
Ole J. Forsberg, University of Tennessee

Indigenous Peoples Rights: NGO Failure or State Lack of Will?”
Aart Holtslag, University of Massachusetts Lowell

 

D-4 Women, Children and the World

 

Chair and Discussant: Jamie Frueh, Bridgewater College

“Women-Managed Farms and the Open Market: Female Livelihood Before and After Agricultural Trade Liberalization in the Middle East and North Africa”
Octavius Pinkard, Christopher Newport University

  “Beyond the Veil: Warfare’s Impact on the Iraqi Women and Children”
Jolonda Tabb, Troy University

“The Theory and Practice of Democratization: Women’s Issues”
Natalie Riegg, University of Saint Mary

 

 

Chair and Discussant: Ed Schwerin, Florida Atlantic University

“Crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Problems and Prospects”
Bill Topich, Pulaski Academy

“Media Framing and South Korean Public Opinion of the U.S. Military Presence”
Stephen Amrol, Florida International University

“The Socialist Republic of Vietnam 30 Years after the Fall of Saigon”
Lawrence E. Grinter, Air War College

 

 

Chair and Discussant: Andy S. Gomez, University of Miami

“Political and Social Realities in a Post-Castro Cuba”
Andy S. Gomez, University of Miami

“US Policy Issues for a Post-Castro Cuba”
Frank Mora, National War College

“Economic Growth Potential in a Post-Castro Cuba”
Susan Kauffman Purcell, University of Miami

 

 

Chair and Discussant: Ido Oren, University of Florida

“Capitalism, Political Community, and the Theory/Practice of International Relations”
Richard W. Coughlin, Florida Gulf Coast University

“Global Civil Society and the Politics of Depoliticizing International Governance”
Hans Martin Jaeger, University of Central Florida

“At the Nexus of Social Capital and Postmaterialist Values: The Case for Theoretical Convergence”
Regan Damron, The University of Georgia

“Speculations on Agency as Effect”
Jamie Frueh, Bridgewater College

 

 

Chair and Discussant: Mario Carranza, Texas A&M University

“How Does the Psychology of Elites Matter in the European Union?  The Psychological Foundations of the Policy Assertiveness of the European Commission”
Isa Camyar, Louisiana State University

“The Long Civic Generation in Europe and Japan: Reexamining the Effects of War on Participation”
Rieko Kage, Harvard University

“Celebrity Citizen Activism: Can Bono and Bob Save Africa?’’
Ed Schwerin, Florida Atlantic University and Linda Tomlinson, Florida International University

“Race, Multiculturalism, and African American Foreign Affairs Participation”
Michael L. Clemons, Old Dominion University

 

 

Chair and Discussant: Peter Burleigh, University of Miami

“The Politics of Reform in International Organizations”
Lawrence Hamlet, Rhodes College

“Transnational Regimes for Combating Trafficking in Persons: Reflections on the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons”
Emmanuel Obuah, Alabama A&M University

“Subnational Agreements and European Integration: Do They Make a Difference?”
Samuel Lucas McMillan, University of South Carolina

“Intergovernmental Organizations, Overfishing and Institutional Learning
Michael G. Schechter, Michigan State University

 

 

Chair and Discussant: Chris Joyner, Georgetown University

“Aid and International Organizations: In Defiance of Theory?”
Stephen C. Boyle, University of Florida

“Brain Drain and the US as the Receiving Country”
Anjali Sahay, Old Dominion University

“Educating Prospective K-12 Educators--and Others--Internationally”
Ann Imlah Schneider

“The Convergence Debate: Why We Shouldn’t Let Go of Income Just Yet”
Tina Mueller, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

 

 

Chair and Discussant: Carrie Manning, Georgia State University

“Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Algeria: The Paradox of Peacebuilding and Accountability”
Roxane Peyser, Georgia State University

“Transitional Justice in Guatemala: Linking the Past and Future”
Craig Kauffman, George Washington University

“The Judiciary in El Salvador: Reformed or Revamped?”
Kathleen Barrett, Georgia State University

 

 

Chair: Dexter Boniface, Rollins College
Discussant: Bruce Bagley, University of Miami

“Democracy Promotion in the Americas: An Analysis of the Organization of American States, 1991-Present.”
Dexter Boniface, Rollins College

“Outside-in, Inside-Out? International-Domestic Interactions and Political Change in Venezuela”
Tom Legler, Mount Allison University, Canada and Lesley M. Burns, University of British Columbia Canada

“Hemispheric Democracy Promotion in Canada’s Foreign Policy”
Flavie Major, Laval University, Canada

“The Origins of the International Election Monitoring Network”
Arturo Santa Cruz, University of Guadalajara, Mexico

“External Validation in Latin American Democratization Processes: International Elections Monitoring.”
Sharon Lean, Wayne State University

 

Chair and Discussant: Dario Moreno, Florida International University

“Governmental Structure and Political Instability in Latin America”
Loreta Costa and Marie Olson Lounsbery, Nova Southeastern University

  “The Haves v. the Have-Nots: Class Conflict and Political Change in Venezuela”
Nikki Winston, Troy University

 

 

Chair and Discussant: John Clark, Florida International University

“The ‘Debate about Empire’ and International Relations Theory: Beyond the Narratives of Sovereign and Imperial Power in Theorizing Modern World Politics”
Nicholas J. Kiersey, Virginia Tech

“The End of Empire?  Signs of Corruption and Strategies of Resistance”
Jonathan Wadley, University of Florida

“A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?  The Foreign Policy of the Bush Administration and the Second Nuclear Crisis between the US and North Korea”
Taehyung Ahn, Florida International University

 

 

Chair and Discussant: James F. Rinehart, Troy University

“United States Cold War Foreign Policy and Its Impact on the Creation of a European State”
Darin H. Van Tassell and Danielle Smith, Georgia Southern University

“Offensive Realism and US Behavior in the 90s”
Seyed Hamidreza Serri, Florida International University

“The Difference a Day Makes: Understanding the Sino-American Fall-Out over June 4, 1989"
Gregory Moore, Eckerd College

 

Chair and Discussant: Harry D. Gould, Florida International University

“Security and Civil Society: Egypt’s Fight for Sovereignty”
Rita Sabat, Florida International University

“Sovereignty: The Key to Bridge the Gap between IR Practitioners and Academicians”
Maria Teresa Aya Smitmans, Universidad Externado de Colombia

“Are African States and the EU of the Same Kind?  Bringing the ‘Quasi-State Back In”
Isa Camyar, Louisiana State University

 

Chair and Discussant: Sumer Fahrettin, Benedict College

  “Science, Society and the State: The Evolution of Technology Transfer in the International System of Nation-States”
Jorge Gomez, Florida International University

“Conceptual Relevance of “Embedded Liberalism’ and Its Critical Social Consequences”
Ikuo Gonoi, the University of Tokyo and Hiroaki Ataka, University of Warwick

“The World Trade Organization Dispute Resolution Process: Power Politics or Leveling the Playing Field”
Jonathan Jones, University of Florida

 

Chair and Discussant: Andrea Talentino, Drew University

“Afghanistan's Sword of Damocles: The Perils of Political Transition”
Andrea Talentino, Drew University

“Countering the Afghan Insurgencies: What has Followed the Mujahideed?”
Lopez Andrea, Susquehanna University

“The Role of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Afghanistan: A Tenuous Commitment to Collective Action”
Barry Carlson, Florida International University

“Counternarcotics Operations within Counterinsurgency:  The Pivotal Role of Intelligence”
Paul Rexton Kan, Air Command and Staff College of the US Air Force

 

Chair and Discussant: Harry Gould, Florida International University:
Discussant: Ferguson Kennan, University of South Florida

“Getting Agroofluenze: The International Relations of a Global Pathogen and Food Production System”
Tim Luke, Virginia Tech

“Assemblages and the Multitude: A Deleuzian critique of Hardt and Negris’s Empire”
  Nicholas Tampio, Hamilton College

“Constructing the Global: the Geopolitical Imaginary of Empire”
  Jason Weidner, Florida International University

“Carl Schmitt and Humanitarian Intervention: Making Sense of the problem of Insurgency and Terrorism in Critical Theory”
  Alex Barder, Florida International University

 

 

Chair and Discussant, Andrea Talentino, Drew University

“To Martyr or Not to Martyr:  Jihad is the Question, What (Policy) Is the Answer?”
Lee F. Dutter, Barry University and Ofira Seliktar, Gratz College

“High Rolling Leaders: The ‘Big Five’ Model of Personality and Risk Taking during War”
Maryann Gallagher, Emory University

  “The Political Control Equation and the Creation of the Political Monster”
Sheri E. Brooks, Troy University

 

Chair and Discussant: Anthony Clark Arend, Georgetown University

"La Difference: State Motivation and Treaty Compliance"
Sarah Elizabeth Kreps and Anthony Clark Arend, Georgetown University

"Shattering the Law of War: The United States and the Treatment of Detainees
Catherine Lotrionte, President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board

"Compliance and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty"
Douglas B. Shaw, Georgetown University 

 

 

Chair: Andrea Birch, Brenau University

Discussant: Dovile Budryte, Brenau University

Discussant: Charles Perrin, Georgia State University

“The Idea of Europe in Selected American World History Textbooks”
Dovile Budryte, Brenau University and Charles Perrin, Georgia State University

“Dove sone le donne artisti…and Other Questions Regarding Revisionist Art History and Italian Women”
Looney Mary Beth, Brenau University

“Song of the Silenced: American Performance of Baltic Choral Music”
Dolan Marian, Independent Scholar, and J. Kay Keels, Coastal Carolina University

“Entrepreneurship in Lithuania: Embracing a Western Tradition”
J. Kay Keels, Coastal Carolina University

 

 

Chair and Discussant: Heidi H. Hobbs, North Carolina State University

“Fragmenting Federalism and the Reemergence of Local Foreign Policy Activism”
Heidi Hobbs, North Carolina State University

“Globalization Strategies; The Case of Tampa Bay”
Mark Amen, University of South Florida

“The Evolution of Public-Private Partnership: Charlotte, NC”
Harry I. Chernotsky, University of North Carolina

“Foreign Policy with a Latin Beat: Miami”
Dario V. Moreno, Florida International University