Northeastern Political Science Association

2006 Annual Meeting

November 9-11, 2006

Omni Parker Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Last Update: Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Thursday, November 9, 2006
Registration and Exhibits In Pre-Function Area	8:30-5:00

SPECIAL MEETINGS AND EVENTS
NPSA – Pi Sigma Alpha LuNcheon Robert Axelrod, University of Michigan President-Elect, APSA	12:30-1:45
ISA – NE Executive Committee Meeting	5:30-6:30
NPSA Council Meeting	5:30-6:30
NPSA Reception	6:30-7:00
NPSA Dinner Pi Sigma Alpha Lecture by Jeanne Shaheen, Director of the Harvard Institute of Politics, former Governor of New Hampshire (1997-2003) and Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate (2002).	7:00 -9:00

P A N E L S S C H E D U L E

Panel			Day		Time
A5	Congressional Elections and Representation Chair: Brigid Harrison, Montclair State University Why Are People Quitting Congress? MaryAnn McHugh, Merrimack College Congress and Africa’s Constituency: The Development of Africa Growth and Opportunity Act and the Intersection of African American Interests and Business Interests Will Jones, Howard University Firing Back: Out-Party Responses to the President's State of the Union Addresses Costas Panagopoulos, Yale University Marisa Totino, Fordham University Discussant: Sean Q Kelly, Niagara University	Thursday		9:00-10:30
C1	PROGRESSIVISM AND ITS CONTEMPORANEOUS CRITICS Chair: Jerome M. Mileur, University of Massachusetts-Amherst U.S. House Speaker Joseph G. Cannon Douglas Harris, Loyola College in Maryland President William Howard Taft Paul Rego, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University Lonce Sandy-Bailey, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Discussant: Robert Lacey, Iona College	Thursday		9:00-10:30
F7	Plutarch’s Political Thought Chair/Discussant: Stephen Lange, Morehead State University Numa: Philosopher King? John Colman, Ashland University The Role of Ambition in the Destruction and Preservation of Regimes in Plutarch’s Lives Justin D. Lyons, Ashland University The “Becoming” of a Tyrant: Plutarch’s Julius Caesar Matthew Brownfield, University of Dallas	Thursday		9:00-10:30
F16	Resacralizing Political Thought: The Boundaries of the Medieval Chair: Marc Guerra, Ave Maria University That Occult Science of Politics: Christianity and Astrology in Machiavelli Cary J. Nederman, Texas A&M University Religion as Foundation of the Commonwealth? Medieval Christian and Muslim Concepts Compared Bettina Koch, Virginia Tech The Return of That which Never Left: A Tradition of Sacralized Political Space in Russia Tony Spanakos, Montclair State University The Modernity of Religious Political Thought in Nicholas of Cusa’s The Catholic Concordance Paulina Ochoa-Espejo, Yale University Discussant: Quentin P. Taylor, Rogers State University	Thursday		9:00-10:30
H1	Hannah Arendt: Ideas and Opinions Chair: TBA On Radical Evil and the Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt and Franz Kafka Michal Aharomy, New School of Social Research Arendt and the Aesthetic: Utopian Thinking, Political Possibilities Gaye Ilhan, Yale University Reflections on Hannah Arendt's Unpublished Writings on Totalitarianism: The Transformation from Law and Power to Ideology and Terror N. Jessica Reifer, New School for Social Research Arendtian Constitutionalism Angelica M. Bernal, Yale University Discussant: David A. Freeman, Washburn University	Thursday		9:00-10:30
J5	The Construction of European Security Chair: Sebastian Royo, Suffolk University Re-Constructing European Security, 1965-75: The Rise of Multilateralism Pablo Toral, Belloit College The OSCE and the Europeanization of Croatia Laura Zanotti, Virginia Tech Securitization, Security Communities, and Soft Power: Constructing a New Europe Aart Holtslag, University of Massachusetts-Lowell The Securitization of the Agenda in North America: Lessons from Europe Alejandro Chanona, National Autonomous University of Mexico Discussant: Roberto Dominguez, Suffolk University	Thursday		9:00-10:30
J9	Islam, Democracy, and Radicalism Chairs/Discussants: Muqtedar Khan, University of Delaware Daniel Green, University of Delaware The Response of Islamist Groups to Jihadism: Moderating or Radicalising? Matthew O. Davis, University of Delaware Tom Isherwood, Oxford Universiy Gulen and the Spread of Liberal Islam: The Transnationalization of a Social Movement Michael Grillo, University of Delaware Ali Aslan, University of Delaware Transitions from Terrorism to Democracy Ben Cohen, University of Delaware Neil Roosma, University of Delaware Tom Isherwood, Oxford University Co-Opting Radicalism: Islam and Democracy Sara Chehab, University of Delaware, chehabsj@udel.edu Juris Pupcenoks, University of Delaware Lisa Weilminster, University of Denver Reaction and Response: Islamic Modernism and Resurging Fundamentalism Alise Coen, University of Delaware	Thursday		9:00-10:30
J21	Constructing IR Theory Chair/Discussant: Rosemary E. Shinko, University of Connecticut A Constructivist Approach to the "Global" Dimension of Contemporary Politics Sabine Selchow, London School of Economics and PSC Agency as the Present Self, Structure as the Unfamiliar Past: Conceptualizing Memory Kuniyuki Nishimura, University of Florida (Re)Constructing Constructivism: Taking Ideas, Knowledge, and Power Seriously Pooja Rishi, University of Delaware	Thursday		9:00-10:30
J30	International Legal Issues I Chair/Discussant: Linda Bishai, US Institute of Peace The International Court of Justice and International Law Jose Maldonado, Jr., St. John's University Thought vs. Action: State Legal Traditions and Varying Interpretations of International Law Dana Zartner Falstrom, University of California-Davis Globalization, Developmentalism, and Authoritarianism: China and International Legal Regimes Srini Sitaraman, Clark University Combining Local Knowledge and International Resources: Hybrid Courts, Past Atrocities M. Victoria Pérez-Ríos, GSUC of CUNY	Thursday		9:00-10:30
K6	Policymaking After the Collapse of Communism Chair/Discussant: Frank Cohen, Franklin Pierce College The `New Institutionalism’ and Stratification in Post-Soviet Russian Villages David O’Brien, University of Missouri-Columbia Stephen K. Wegren, Southern Methodist University Valery V. Patsiorkovsky, Russian Academy of Sciences The Institutional Design of Russian Federalism: A Comparative Study of Three Republics: Tatarstan, Dagestan, and Chechnya Stergos Kaloudis, The Catholic University of America Civil Service Reform and its Impact on Sectoral Reforms: The Cases of Russia and Poland S. Mohsin Hashim, Muhlenberg College Patterns in Public Administration and Policy-Making in EU Neighbor States Ginta T. Palubinskas, George Mason University	Thursday		9:00-10:30
L3	GENDER, RACE, ETHNICITY AND REPRESENTATION Chair/Discussant: Farida Jalalzai, University of Missouri-St. Louis Feminine Style in Congressional Debate: Gender and Issue Context Jennifer Lucas, St. Anselm's College The Intersection of Gender and Race in Women’s Descriptive Representation: A Comparison of Six New England States Carol Hardy-Fanta, University of Massachusetts-Boston Paige Ransford, University of Massachusetts-Boston Ethnic Paths to Congress Miriam Jiménez, CUNY Graduate Center The Emergence of Boston City Councilor Felix Arroyo: A Study of Electoral Politics in a Changing Urban Environment Richard Louis O'Bryant, Northeastern University Ralph Edwards, Northeastern University	Thursday		9:00-10:30
Q2	One South Park, Two West Wings, and Entertainment Media: Alternative Visions of American Politics and Institutions Chair: Sharon A. Sykora, Slippery Rock University I’ve Learned Something Today: The Pragmatism of South Park and South Park Conservatism Jocelyn D. Shadforth, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse Entertainment Media and Young Adult Political Attitudes Stacy G. Ulbig, Missouri State University Comparing “Commander in Chief” and “The West Wing” Kristen Heasley, Clarion University Discussant: Margaret Hrezo, Radford University	Thursday		9:00-10:30
A2	Analyzing the Presidency Chair/Discussant: Bruce Altschuler , SUNY Oswego 9/11: Permanent Impact on Presidential-Congressional Relations? Allison Clark Odachowski, University of Florida Executive Orders and Presidential Policymaking: From Eisenhower to Clinton Ricardo Jose Pereira Rodrigues, Chamber of Deputies, Brazil When What is Due is Not Given: A Look at the Detainment Policies of President George W. Bush Sean McKendry, Emmanuel College	Thursday		10:45-12:15
C2	VOTES AND SERVICE AMONG AMERICAN YOUTH: THEN AND NOW Chair/Discussant: James Melcher, University of Maine at Farmington When the Youth Vote Was Young: The Case of Iowa University Towns Clyde Brown, Miami University, Ohio Faith and Politics among Today's Youth Krista Jenkins, Fairleigh Dickinson University Christopher McCarthy, Fairleigh Dickinson University Is ‘Doing Good” Related to Where You Grow Up?: The Variation of Community Service across Different Communities J. Celeste Lay, Stonehill College	Thursday		10:45-12:15
D1	Belief Systems and Policy Formation Chair/Discussant: Stanley Berard, Lock Haven University The Impact of the Media on Public Opinion Regarding Crime Fred Meyer, Ball State University Ralph Baker, Ball State University Misbelief Systems Revisited: New Evidence on Public Policy David Schwieder, Susquehanna University National Insecurity: American Foreign Policy, Political Culture, and Social Legitimacy Bobbi Gentry, CUNY Graduate Center	Thursday		10:45-12:15
F8	Plato and the Political technê Chair: Mary Mulhern, Brookside Institute Socrates’ Political Technê and Socratic Irony Jeffrey S. Turner, Bucknell University Statesmanship and the Craft Analogy in Plato’s Republic and Statesman Mark Moes, Grand Valley State University Plato’s Republic and the Architecture of Corruption, How to Recycle the Bad and the Corrupt? Vladimir Suchan, University of Maine at Fort Kent Plato’s Arguments Against Tyranny and Tyrannical Life: Republic VIII and IX Antonis Coumoundouros, Warren Wilson College Discussant: Coleen Zoller, Susquehanna University	Thursday		10:45-12:15
F15	Thomas Aquinas’ Political Thought Chair: Gavin Colvert, Assumption College Thomas Aquinas on Freedom and the City of Man Montague Brown, St. Anselm College Aquinas on Judging Injustice Thornton Lockwood, Fordham University Natural Law and Law of Nations: From Aquinas to Suarez Yoshihisa Yamamoto, The Catholic University of America Discussant: Cary Nederman, Texas A&M University	Thursday		10:45-12:15
H2	Nietzsche and Friends Chair: TBA The Political is the Personal: Decadance, Truth, and Woman in Nietzsche Heike Schotten, University of Massachusetts-Boston The Trapped Dionysus: Epic Spirituality and Reconciliation in Nietzsche's Philosophy Roberto Alejandro, University of Massachusetts Nietzsche on Knowledge and Truth: Foundational Considerations David A. Freeman, Washburn University Wittgenstein and Postmodern Political Theory Christopher C. Robinson, Clarkson University Discussant: Roberto Alejandro, University of Massachusetts	Thursday		10:45-12:15
J4	Using Images: Media and (Re)presentations in IR Chair: Domenic Maffei, Caldwell College Laughing at Shadows: Power, Perception, and Identity in Editorial Cartoons Stephanie Lynn Trombley, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Images of Transition in Eastern Europe Anca Pusca, American University Manufacturing Reality: News Production and Arab Journalism on Satellite TV Courtney C. Radsch, American University Information and Civil Conflict Maria Petrova, Harvard University Discussant: Rosemary E. Shinko, University of Connecticut	Thursday		10:45-12:15
J6	Human Rights Challenges in West Africa Chair/Discussant: Jacques Fomerand, John Jay College and Seton Hall University Post-Conflict Peace-Building and Small Arms Disarmament in Sierra Leone Paulette Weiss, CUNY The Complexity of Universalism in Human Rights: The Case of West Africa Kwame Akonor, Seton Hall University Human Rights in Nigeria Billy Oyewole Balogun, CUNY The Dilemma of Peace and Justice: The Indictment of Liberia's Charles G. Taylor Scott C. Monje, Encyclopedia Americana	Thursday		10:45-12:15
J22	Democratic Peace? Chair/Discussant: Daniel Green, University of Delaware Assessing Institutional and Normative Restraints: Republican Peace 1250-1494 Zoltán I. Búzás, University of Delaware Filling the Gap between the Democratic Peace and Democratization and War: The Institutional Threshold Theory Clarissa Estep, West Virginia University Democratization and Conflict: The Peru-Ecuador Case, 1980-1995 Brian Cramer, Rutgers University The New Regionalism: Road to Peace or Prelude to Conflict? Jihyun Kim, University of South Carolina	Thursday		10:45-12:15
J31	International Legal Issues II Chair/Discussant: Douglas M. Haugen, Brooklyn College, CUNY Nonproliferation and Disarmament: The NPT, the ICJ, and the Bush Administration Alicia Godsberg, The Graduate Center, CUNY Jus in 4GW: A Pragmatic Rationale for Justice in Future Wars David R. Hayes, Troy University	Thursday		10:45-12:15
K2	Roundtable: Flashpoints in the War on Terrorism Chair: Derek Reveron, Naval War College Chair/Discussant: John Berg, Suffolk University State Violence in the State of Exception: The Consequences of the War on Terrorism Derek Reveron, Naval War College The Caucasus Region of Europe Jeffrey S. Murer, Swathmore College The Fergana Valley of Central Asia Christopher Fettweis, US Naval War College The Trans-Saharan Arc Stephen Emerson, US Naval War College Nigeria Michael Morris, US Naval War College Kashmir Smaina Raja, State University of New York-Buffalo	Thursday		10:45-12:15
Q1	War, Popular Culture and the American Experience: Imagery, Attitudes, and Political Psychology from World War II, Vietnam and Beyond Chair/Discussant: Gerard Huiskamp, Wheaton College War in Film and Literature Daniel Lieberfeld, Duquesne University Golfers, Gophers, and Guerillas: “Caddyshack” and the Vietnam War Fran Moran, New Jersey City University Racism, Dehumanization and American Pop Culture: The Social Construction of Anti-Japanese Sentiments During World War II Michael Grillo, University of Delaware Miguel Teixera, University of Delaware Battles on the Big Screen: Cinema and the American War Experience Mike Zilis, Miami University	Thursday		10:45-12:15

SPECIAL MEETINGS AND EVENTS	Day	Time
NPSA – Pi Sigma Alpha LuNcheon Robert Axelrod, University of Michigan President-Elect, APSA	Thursday	12:30-1:45

Panel		Day	Time
A4	Analyzing Congress Chair/Discussant: MaryAnn McHugh, Merrimack College Normal Politics and the Failure of the Most Intense Effort to Amend the Presidential Election System Gary Bugh, Texas A&M University-Texarkana Building Coalitions and Protecting Pork Scott A. Frisch, California State University Channel Islands Sean Q Kelly, Niagara University, sqkelly@niagara.edu Finding Moderate Allies: The Main Street Partnership and the Democratic Party DeWayne Lucas, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Lucas@hws.edu Iva E. Deutchman, Hobart and William Smith Colleges The 17th Amendment and Institutional Change in the US Senate Daniel Cicenia, University of Florida	Thursday	2:00-3:30
C3	VOTING TURNOUT: PROSPECTS AND PROBLEMS Chair/Discussant: Arthur Paulson, Southern Connecticut State University The Turnout Problem Revisited William G. Mayer, Northeastern University Residential Mobility and Voter Turnout: A Second Look Leonard Champney, University of Scranton The Impact of Out-of-State Television on Voting Turnout Thomas Konda, SUNY-Plattsburgh	Thursday	2:00-3:30
D2	Policy Discourses and the Art of the Possible Chair/Discussant: John J. O’Callaghan, Suffolk University Policy Discourses and Risk Perceptions in the United States, Canada, and the European Union: The Case of Food Biotechnology Tony E. Wohlers, Cameron University Prescription Drug Regulation and the Art of the Possible in Public Policy Anthony Dell’Aera,Brown University From City Ordinances to Constrained Bureaucrats: The Prohibition of Marihuana in America Phil Nicholas, Jr. , University of Scranton	Thursday	2:00-3:30
F9	Plato’s Republic, Past and Present Chair: Jason Giannetti, Framingham State College The Hermetic Ideal vs. the Politically Engaged Philosopher Catherine McKeen, SUNY College at Brockport Xenophon's Critique of Plato's Socrates Gary D. Glenn, University of Northern Illinois Socrates on Wealth and Virtue Keith Whitaker, Boston College William Corliss, Boston College Discussant: Franco Trivigno, Boston University	Thursday	2:00-3:30
F18	Ancient and modern comparisons Chair: Erik Dempsey, Boston College Ancient Foundation for Modern Offices Alexandra Elizabeth Hoerl, Rutgers University Mr. Cheney, Meet Mr. Agathocles: Torture, Terrorism and Machiavelli’s “Economy of Violence” Greg Weiner, Georgetown University The Megalopsuchos and the Übermensch: A Comparison of Aristotle’s and Nietzsche’s Conceptions of the Great Man James Fetter, University of Notre Dame Discussant: Amy Shuster, Princeton University	Thursday	2:00-3:30
H3	Suffering and Politics Chair/Discussant: Sonali Chakrawarti, Yale University Suffering, Violence and Apocalyptic Time in Sacred and Secular Worlds Cynthia Halpern, Swarthmore College Violence and Vulnerability: Levinas on the Conditions of Subjectivity Mini Suk, Johns Hopkins University Mourning Loss, Consolation: Dying and the Lonely Self Thomas L. Dumm, Amherst College	Thursday	2:00-3:30
J7	Women and Terrorism Chair/Discussant: Russell Howard, Tufts University Nexus Between Terrorism and Trafficking in the Caucasus Colleen Traughber, Tufts University LTTE Women Suicide Bombers: Birds of Freedom Sudila De Silva, Tufts University Muslim Women Suicide Bombers: Implications for the Jihad Jennie Dow, Tufts University Women and Education: Can Increased Women's Rights Revitalize Islamic Education? Katharine B. Brodock, Tufts University	Thursday	2:00-3:30
J10	Institutional Design in Conflict Management: From Prevention to Peacebuilding Chair: Lisa A. Baglione, St. Joseph's University Questioning Preventative Diplomacy in Estonia: Thinking Beyond the State Angela Kachuyevski, St. Joseph's University Settling Past Accounts: Truth, Reconciliation, and Democratization in South Africa Emily B. Rodio, Syracuse University Networked Coordination: The Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan Andrea Strimling, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Stopping Conflict and Building Peace: Challenges in Bosnia-Her‡egovina Lisa A. Baglione, St. Joseph's University Discussant: Eileen F. Babbitt, Tufts University	Thursday	2:00-3:30
J24	Nuclear Politics Chair/Discussant: Doru Tsaganea, Metropolitan College of New York Nuclear Weapons Rollback and the Poverty of (Neo)Realism Neerada Jacob, American University The End of Libya's WND Program: A Successful Case of Economic Linkage? Randall E. Newnham, Pennsylvania State University-Berks Campus Rogue Games: The Operational Code and Strategies of Mu'ammar Qadhafi K. P. O'Reilly, University of South Carolina The Pakistan Element in Iran's Nuclear Policy Sharad Joshi, University of Pittsburgh Strategic Imbalances? US-Russian Nuclear Deterrence and Missile Defenses Eric A. Miller, George Washington University Michael Albertson, Joint Military Intelligence College	Thursday	2:00-3:30
J32	IGOs and Multilateralism Chair/Discussant: Eric K. Leonard,Shenandoah University Troubled Waters: America's Tumultuous Relationship with Multilateral Institutions Jean-Baptiste Velut, CUNY/Sorbonne Nouvelle University Presidents, Public Opinion, and the Dynamics of US-UN Politics" Alynna J. Lyon, University of New Hampshire Multilateral Diplomacy and Dominance Robert A. Denemark, University of Delaware Matthew Hoffman, University of Delaware Lauren Twist, University of Delaware Hasan Yonten, University of Delaware Effects of Arms Trade in Relations to NGOs and IGOs Anthony Fleming, West Virginia University Sara Moats, West Virginia University	Thursday	2:00-3:30
K3	Show Me The Money: Varieties of Capitalism Chair/Discussant: TBA The Challenges of Globalization To and from Europe: Is There an Alternative European Model? Paul S. Adams, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg State Formation and Capitalist Development Tolga Demiryol, University of Virginia Varieties of Capitalism in Spain: Business and the Politics of Coordination Sebastian Royo, Suffolk University The Three Worlds of Baltic Capitalism Daniel Maloney, Catholic University of America	Thursday	2:00-3:30
Q3	Fiction, Television and the Red-Blue Debate: Framing Foreign Relations, Shaping the American Imagination Chair/Discussant: Daniel Lieberfeld, Duquesne University Forming an Irish Catholic Minority in the U.S.: The Role of Popular Fiction Eileen Sullivan, Rutgers University - Newark Are Americans Red, Blue, or Purple? Determining the Meaning of the Cultural Divide at the Level of the Individual Sharon A. Sykora, Slippery Rock University Michelle Scanlon, Slippery Rock University Nick Years, Slippery Rock University Bringing You the World? Deconstructing the UN Guided Tour Nirit Ben-Ari, City University of New York (CUNY) Power and Paranoia and the Pentagon’s New Map from the Perspective of Jose Saramago and J.M. Coetzee Margaret Hrezo, Radford University	Thursday	2:00-3:30
A1	Presidential Elections and Their Impact Chair/Discussant: Brigid C. Harrison, Montclair State University Ambivalence toward Presidential Candidates and Electoral Choice Sung-jin Yoo, SUNY Stony Brook A Victory for the People?: Comparing the Use of Mandate Claims Following Presidential Elections Julia Azari, Yale University The President’s Honeymoon: An Empirical Assessment Carlos E. Díaz-Rosillo, Harvard University Jordan Teti, Harvard University The Economic Minded Partisan: Explaining the Effects of Partisanship and Perceptions of Economic Performance on Presidential Approval and Voting Michael Brogan, City University of New York (CUNY) – The Graduate Center	Thursday	3:45-5:15
C4	MEASURING POLITICAL CONTINUITY AND CHANGE Chair/Discussant: James Campbell, University at Buffalo-SUNY Measuring State and Individual Ideology: a Vermont Case Study of Four Measures' Validities Rodney J. Christy, Fitchburg State College Kalman Learning and Downsian Competition Ian Dew-Baker, Northwestern University Gelman and King's Estimation of the Incumbency Effect: A Case of Mistaken Identity Jeffrey M. Stonecash, Syracuse University	Thursday	3:45-5:15
D3	States, Localities, and Policy Innovation Chair/Discussant: Marc A. Wallace, Rider University Leading or Following the Federal Government? The Effects of State Political Culture on Vertical Policy Diffusion J. Wesley Leckrone, Temple University Jason Bossie, Temple University IT as Public Policy: Assessing the Impact of Municipal Wireless Initiatives Jeffrey A. Stone, Pennsylvania State University Elinor Madigan, Pennsylvania State University Digital Democracy and New Jersey State Deborah Mohammed-Spigner, Rutgers University Newark	Thursday	3:45-5:15
F10	Politics in Plato’s Dialogues Chair: James Wood, Boston University Teaching by Example: Plato on Fear and Courage Ioannis D. Evrigenis, Tufts University Socratic Justice and the Question of Civil Disobedience Jason Giannetti, Framingham State College Philosophy as Training for Death in Plato’s Phaedo Coleen Zoller, Susquehanna University Minding Your Own Business in Thucydides and Plato Joyce M. Mullan, University of Wisconsin – Madison Discussant: Antonis Coumoundouros, Warren Wilson College	Thursday	3:45-5:15
F19	Athens, Persia, and Rome Chair: Dustin A. Gish, Ohio University Sallust’s Politics of Revolution Raymond Mercado, University of San Diego Protagoras’ Great Speech: Myth, Meaning, and Misunderstanding Andrew Shortridge, Monash University Tensions between Retributive Justice and Republican Virtue in the Cyropaedia Arthur Shuster, University of Texas at Austin Discussant: B.J. Dobski, Assumption College	Thursday	3:45-5:15
H4	Existentialism, Essentialism, and Language Chair: TBA The Subversion of Eros: Dialectic , Revolt, and Murder in the Polity of the Soul Sean Walsh, University of Florida Reflections on the New Essentialism with Jean-Paul Sartre and Herbert Marcuse John C. Carney, Manhattanville College On the Limits of Political Philosophy: Kierkegaard, Language, and  Being Eugen L. Nagy, The Catholic University of America Sin and Self-Deception in the Works of Soren Kierkegaard Jamie Ray Aroosi, CUNY – The Graduate Center Discussant: TBA	Thursday	3:45-5:15
J1	Popular Culture, Identities and Public Narration Chair: Naeem Inayatullah, Ithaca College Producing a Legible Occupation: Independent Documentaries and Military Recruiting Jesse Crane-Seeber, American University Friends, Foes, Perhaps Both? A Discourse India-Pakistan Analysis of Relations Kiran Pervez, American University Demystifying Mythmaking: The Strategic Choice of Canonizing a National Hero Nguyen Manh Hung, University of Delaware Anarchy, the International System and Ultimate Frisbee: A Game Theoretic Metaphor Charles M. Hinderliter, University of South Carolina Discussants: Naeem Inayatullah, Ithaca College Jennifer Sterling-Folker, University of Connecticut	Thursday	3:35-5:15
J3	The Doctor is in the House: Science Fiction and International Relations Chair: Priya Dixit, American University Universal Bio-Politics: Interspecies Contact, Biological Threat, Politics of Identity Elizabeth Breier-Sharlow, American University Poli Sci-Fi 101: Popular Culture, Science Fiction, and "Real World" IR Mark Hamilton, American University Rats in the Sewers: Dr. Who and the Underbelly of the Nation-State Ben Hoh, University of Technology- Sydney The Daleks Then and Now: Enemy, Perception, and the Breakdown of Bipolarity Katherine Rye Jewell, Boston University Discussant: Mike Kiselewski, AAAS	Thursday	3:45-5:15
J11	The Politics of Food Insecurity Chair: Marc J. Cohen, International Food Policy Research Institute Ending Hunger: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (And Gone?) Ellen Messer, Tufts University Toward Effective Participatory and Collaborative Governance: Enhancing Food Security James Riker, University of Maryland A Critical Look at the Rights-Based Approach to Food and Nutrition Security Dan Banik, University of Oslo, dan.banik@sum.uio.no James L. Garrett, International Food Policy Research Institute Using Food Aid to Empower Communities in Crisis-Prone Environments: Ethiopia Marc J. Cohen, Johns Hopkins University Mariagrazia Rocchigiani, World Food Programme Discussant: Raymond F. Hopkins, Swarthmore College	Thursday	3:45-5:15
J26	Identity and Security Chair/Discussant: Eric A. Miller, George Washington University “Simply the Best"?: Constructing Identity and Promoting Fear in Northern Ireland Katherine J. Robinson, Montgomery College Genocide of Scapegoats: The Rwandan, Armenian, and Sudanese Paths to Genocide Nicole Powell, University of New Hampshire The Process of Enmification and the Crisis in Darfur Andrea Charron, Royal Military College of Canada Benjamin Zyla, Royal Military College of Canada Persistence and Death of Armed Secessionist Movements: Khalistan and Tamil Eelam G. C. Anil, Columbia University Loyalist Working-class Women’s Identity and Paramilitarism: The Case of Northern Ireland Sandra McEvoy, Clark University	Thursday	3:45-5:15
K4	The Politics of Religion Chair/Discussant: Anthony N. Celso, Valley Forge Military College Is Religion a Threat to Democracy? Jetsabe Caceres, University of Florida The Quest for Self Preservation: Islamists’ Transformation in Comparative Perspective MilanVaishnav, Columbia University Transnational Islamic Activism, Ideas Diffusion, and Malaysian Islamic Revival Ermin Sinanovic, United States Naval Academy Discussant: Anthony N. Celso, Valley Forge Military College	Thursday	3:45-5:15
K16	The Long and Winding Road: Democratic Transitions and Consolidation Chair/Discussant: David Ellison, Grinnell College Components of Democracy and Public Sector Change: How Democratization Improves the Quality of Government Guillermo Cejudo, Boston University Primary Elections versus Smoke-Filled Rooms: A Theory of Party Democratization in Latin America Gilles Serra, Harvard University The International Dimension of Democratization: The EU Impact on Regional Regime Change Anastassia Obydenkova, European University Institute Politics of Institutional Choice: The Two Electoral Transitions in Russia Igor Logvinenko, Villanova University Social Welfare, Social Capital & Collective Action in Chile’s Neoliberal Democracy: Housing Policy 1900-2006 Paul Posner, Clark University	Thursday	3:45-5:15
N4	Integrating Civic Engagement into the Undergraduate Political Science Curriculum Chair: Brigid Harrison, Montclair State University Participants: Suzanne Samuels, Ramapo University Jean W. Harris, University of Scranton Susan Tolchin, George Mason University Bruce Caswell, Rowan University	Thursday	3:45-5:15

SPECIAL MEETINGS AND EVENTS	Time
ISA – NE Executive Committee Meeting	5:30-6:30
NPSA Council Meeting	5:30-6:30
NPSA Reception	6:30-7:00
NPSA Dinner Pi Sigma Alpha Lecture by Jeanne Shaheen, Director of the Harvard Institute of Politics, former Governor of New Hampshire (1997-2003) and Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate (2002).	7:00-9:00

Friday, November 10
Registration and Exhibits In Pre-Function Area	7:30-5:30

SPECIAL MEETINGS AND EVENTS
NPSA Breakfast Sponsored by the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars	7:30-9:00
ISA-NE Breakfast	7:30-9:00
ISA-ne Luncheon-NE When Soldiers 'Snap': Locating Moral Responsibility for Atrocities in Iraq Neta Crawford, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University Co-Sponsored by The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs	1:00-2:15
2007 program committee MeeTing	1:00-2:15
ISA-NE Northeast Circle: The Information Revolution and World Politics Honoree: Elizabeth C. Hanson, University of Connecticut	4:15-5:45:
ISA-ne PLENARY Journeying Through International Relations: Some Feminist and Postcolonial Observations Ann Tickner, University of Southern California	6:00-7:00
RECEPTION Co-Hosted by - The Center for Women in Politics & Public Policy at University of Massachusetts, Boston - The Journal of Women in Politics and Public Policy - Haworth Press	6:00-7:30 Alcott Room

P A N E L S S C H E D U L E

Panel		Day		Time
A7	Courts and the Constitution Chair: Michele DeMary, Susquehanna University Federalism and the Fourth Amendment: Jury Review of Unreasonable Searches and Seizures Joseph S. Devaney, Marymount University Constitutional Empowerment Beau Breslin, Skidmore College Embracing the Living Constitution: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s Move Away from a Conservative Methodology of Constitutional Interpretation Lisa K. Parshall, Daemen College Discussants: Bruce Auerbach, Albright College John J. O'Callaghan, Suffolk University	Friday	7:45-9:15
C5	STATE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES AND MEMBERS Chair/Discussant: Garrison Nelson, University of Vermont, gnelson@uvm,edu Party Balance on U.S. State Legislative Committees: An Examination of Trends in the Early 21^st Century—Continuity or Change? Ronald D. Hedlund, Northeastern University Kevin Coombs, Northeastern University Nancy Martarano, University of Dayton Keith Hamm, Rice University Areal Orientations of State Legislators: Lessons from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and West Virgina Justin Gollob, Temple University	Friday	7:45-9:15
E5	The Contemporary Significance of the Constitutional Executive Chair/Discussant: Anthony Dell'Aera, Brown University The Founder’s Executive and the Management of Intra-party Factions Daniel Disalvo, Amherst College The Constitutional Executive and the Management of National Security Patrick Roberts, Virginia Tech The Framer’s Vision of Executive Power and the Removal Power David Alvis, University of West Florida Elitist American Thought and the Political Imaginary:  Republican Ideology and Executive Power from Hamilton to the Gilded Age Jonathan O’Hara, University of Southern California	Friday	7:45-9:15
F6	Ancient ideas through modern eyes Chair: J.J. Mulhern, University of Pennsylvania Nascent Federalism in Homer’s Iliad: The Rhetoric of “Pre-Political” Sovereignty Dustin A. Gish, Ohio University Nietzsche’s Renaissance: Thucydides History and Greek Tragedy as Sources for a New Politics Paul Kirkland, College of the Holy Cross Absolute Beginners: Kierkegaardian Thoughts on Renewing a Socratic Perspective Denise Schaeffer, College of the Holy Cross Free Speech and Noble Lies: Indirect Discourse in Plato and Kierkegaard Christopher A. Dustin, College of the Holy Cross Discussant: Jacob Howland, University of Tulsa	Friday	7:45-9:15
F17	Justice, evil, and politics in Plato’s thought Chair: Joshua Shmikler, Boston College Recuperating the Political Counsel of Plato’s Republic Amy Shuster, Princeton University Persuasion and Justice in Plato’s Crito Christopher Moore, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities The Concept of Due Measure in Late Plato Thomas M. Kerch, Georgetown University Plato Finds Evil in the Cosmos…with a Little Help from Zoroaster Daniel Betti, Texas A&M University Discussant: Jennifer Ingle, University of South Florida	Friday	7:45-9:15
G1	Exploring the Foundations of Good Government: Montesquieu on Fate, Fortune, Love, and Empire Panel contact: David Carrithers Chair: Vickie Sullivan, Tufts University Reflections on Love as a Principle of Government Rebecca Kingston, University of Toronto Montesquieu as Liberal Imperialist Michael Mosher, University of Tulsa Montesquieu and Tocqueville as Philosophical Historians: Un esprit, deux chemins David Carrithers, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Discussants: Paul Gottfried, Elizabethtown College Flagg Taylor, Skidmore College	Friday	7:45-9:15
J34	Chinese International Relations Chair: Marc J. Cohen, International Food Policy Research Institute Fear the Dragon? "Rising China" from the Chinese Perspective Tae-Hyung Kim, Daemen College China Threat, Domestic Debates, and China's New Diplomacy Hong Duan, Cornell University Domestic Chinese Politics and Cross-Strait Relations: A Two-Level Game Andrew W. Bausch, Villanova University Discussant: Srini Sitaraman, Clark University	Friday	7:45-9:15
J2	New and Improved: Discussing Security Studies Chair: Peter Howard, American University Security as Rules: A Discursive Approach to International Security Peter Howard, American University Role of Public Art in Constructing (In)Security in Northern Ireland Priya Dixit, American University, pdixit05@gmail.com Mass Mediated Governmentality: The "Emergency Preparedness" Campaign" Jacob Stump, American University The Practice and Perception of Targeted Assassination as a Counterterrorist Tactic Avery Plaw, University of Massachusets-Dartmouth Discussant: Lene Hansen, University of Copenhagen	Friday	7:45-9:15
J27	International Regimes and Norms Chair/Discussant: Michael J. Butler, Clark University The Rise and Fall of Extra-Territoriality: Norm Changes in International Politics Titus C. Chen, University of California-Irvine Norm Contestation as Group Process in the Norm Life-Cycle Miguel A. Teixeira, University of Delaware Norm Internationalization: The Ban on Antipersonnel Landmines Naoko Kumagai, City University of New York Long-Term Democracies and Core International Treaties: Theories of Participation Mark Sachleben, Shippensburg University	Friday	7:45-9:15
J40	European Identity Politics Chair: Daniel Green, University of Delaware Securitisation of "Others": When Identity and Security Meet Uzzi Ohana, London School of Economics and PSC Identity and Integration: Britain, Germany, and the European Union Michael Grossman, Mount Union College, grossmmo@muc.edu Stela Balaban, New York University John Highman, Mount Union College Perceptions of Self: Arab-Muslim Idenitity in the European Diaspora Christian Sinclair, School for International Training Self, Group, Country: Middle Ground for Macedonia's Emerging Political Identities? Phil Murphy, University of Pittsburgh Discussant: Sean Duffy, Quinnipiac University	Friday	7:45-9:15
K12	Political Change in Asia Chair/Discussant: Caroline Beer, University of Vermont Globalization, Democratization and Education Spending in East Asia, 1971-2003 Jing Chen, Rutgers University The Disappearing Female: An Analysis of the Changing Sex Ratio in China and India Sahar Shafqat, St. Mary’s College of Maryland Kerry Crawford, St. Mary’s College of Maryland Social Accountability and Democratic Consolidation in Mongolia Linda J. Beck, University of Maine-Farmington State and Economic Growth: How Has China’s Animal Farming Industry Responded to State Initiatives Peter J. Li, University of Houston-Downtown	Friday	7:45-9:15
M4	Location, Location, Location: The Politics of Siting Controversial Facilities Chair/Discussant: James Alt, Harvard University Civil Society vs. Cooling Towers: Siting Controversial Facilities in Japan Daniel Aldrich, Tulane University/Harvard University Not Here, Not There, Not Anywhere: The Federal, State and Local Politics of Low-level Radioactive Waste Disposal in the United States, 1979-1999 Daniel Sherman, University of Puget Sound Local Government Competition for Not-Necessarily Unwanted Businesses: A Field Experiment Victor Calanog, Ries, Inc.	Friday	7:45-9:15
A6	Judges and the Judicial Process Chair/Discussant: James Magee, University of Delaware From the Arena to the Monastery: Causes and Consequences of Supreme Court Recruitment Garrison Nelson, University of Vermont Steven Lichtman, Shippensburg University A Step Back from Defensive Denials and Aggressive Grants –Strategic Behavior During Cert Ehud N. Sommer, SUNY Stony Brook, Political Science Who Defines Public Use? Michele DeMary, Susquehanna University	Friday	9:30-11:00
C6	PARTY DEVELOPMENT IN HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE Chair/Discussant: Dante Scala, St. Anselms College The Possibility Principle and Party Development in the United States Shamira Gelbman, University of Virginia Jesse Rhodes, University of Virginia God in the Machine: Understanding the Influence of Religious and Spiritual Knowledge on Prohibition and the Social Gospel Movement The Possibility Principle and Party Development in the United States James Mastrangelo, Rutgers University Regional Demarcation and Issue Patterns in 19^th Century American State and National Party Platforms Adam Silver, Boston University	Friday	9:30-11:00
E1	The Founders Federalism Chair/Discussant: Joseph Devaney, Catholic University Liberal Democracy, Civic Virtue, and American Federalism Stephen Lange, Morehead State University Connecticut Federalism: A Restatement of Roger Sherman’s Political Thought and Founding Fathers Federalism and A Framework for Understanding Modern Devolution Michael Hail, Morehead State University The Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1789-1790: A New Stage for Democracy Tim H Blessing, Alvernia College Beyond Smith: Tocqueville on Multiple Traditions John Harris, Rutgers University	Friday	9:30-11:00
F1	Rhetoric in Action (Presented by the Society for Greek Political Thought) Chair: John Poulakos, University of Pittsburgh Rhetorical Appeals in Xenophon’s Education of Cyrus Laurence Nee, St. John’s College (Santa Fe) Xenophon as Teacher of Political Realism Eric Buzzetti, Concordia University Isocratean Rhetorical Education and Aristotelian Virtue Tarik Wareh, Union College Discussant: B.J. Dobski, Assumption College	Friday	9:30-11:00
F20	ROUNDTABLE: The Socratic Paradox and its Enemies, by Roslyn Weiss (University of Chicago Press) Chair: Alan Udoff, St. Francis College First Commentator: Gerald Mara, Georgetown University Second Commentator: Catherine Zuckert, University of Notre Dame Authorial Response: Roslyn Weiss, Lehigh University	Friday	9:30-11:00
H5	Autonomy, Liberal Democracy, and Globalizaton Chair: TBA Kant's Identification of Respect for Persons with Respect for Their Autonomy Maria G. Kowalski, Hofstra University Hegel's Theory of the State: Is it Compatible with Identity Politics? Aleta Styers, CUNY – The Graduate Center Heideggar and Schelling on the Nature of Human Freedom: Implications for Liberal Democracy Steven McGuire, The Catholic University of America Discussant: TBA	Friday	9:30-11:00
I6	Underlying Foundations of Democracy Chair/Discussant: Richard Holtzman, Bryant University Trust, Democracy, and Inequality Patti Tamara Lenard, Harvard University Securities Again Misrule: On Combating the Abuse of State Secrecy Rahul Sagar, Harvard University The Puzzle of Democratic Representation Joseph Lampert, Yale University Reconfiguring the Political Sphere to Account for the Inevitability of Inequality Joel Parker, University of Texas-Austin	Friday	9:30-11:00
J8	Feminist IR Theory Chair: J. Ann Tickner, University of Southern California George Kennan: Friend or Foe? Jennifer Heeg, Georgetown University From Criminals to Victims: Foucautlian Approach to the EU Discourse on Trafficking in Women Jennifer Lobasz, University of Minnesota Realism for Feminists: Strategic Interests and Feminist Policy Laura Sjoberg, Duke University Clean Bombs and Dirty Work: Technology, Gender, and Just War Lauren Wilcox, University of Minnesota Discussant: Francine D'Amico, Syracuse University	Friday	9:30-11:00
J28	Global Ethics and Human Rights Chair/Discussant: Caleb Stewart Rossiter, American University Three Normative Approaches fo a Global Political Ethics: Human Rights and Globalization Joseph Masciulli, St. Thomas University Political Egoism and the Use of Economic Sanctions Sandra Zerbo, Suffolk University The Ethical Witness: The International Committee of the Red Cross Ritu Mathur, York University The Social, Economic, and Political Impact of Hosting Refugees Koop Berry, Walsh University The Politics of Persuasion: The Blurring Line Between Human Rights and Security Sheri Sunderland, Temple University	Friday	9:30-11:00
J37	Middle East Society and Conflict Chair: Azzedine Layachi, St. John's University Social Transformations in the Middle East: State, Region, and the World Ali Aslan, University of Delaware Predicting Violence: A Prospect Theory Approach to the Majority-Minority Relation in Israel Ronnie Olesker, Tufts University "Doesn't Anyone Want Peace?" Israeli and Palestinian Hawks, Doves, and Moderates Eric N. Budd, Fitchburg State College Discussant: Jeffrey A. Lefebvre, University of Connecticut	Friday	9:30-11:00
J41	EU Issues I Chair: Thomas Redden, Southern Vermont College Growth and Convergence: EU Structural Funds Distribution and Effects Christina Fattore, West Virginia University The Social Policy Lobby in the EU: Institutionalising Deliberative Democracy? Annabel Kiernan, University of Paisley Stephen Elstub, University of Paisley The Disciplinary Power of the European Socio-Material Complex: Identities and Structures Joshua Stapel, University of Connecticut European Unity and Minority Languages: Conditionality vs. Boomerang Pattern Ece Ozlem Atikcan, McGill University Discussant: Randall E. Newnham, Pennsylvania State University-Berks Campus	Friday	9:30-11:00
K13	European Politics: Pressures for Change Chair/Discussant: Anton Wohlers, Cameron University `Back to the Future’ With the Vlaams Belang? Flemish Nationalism as a Modernizing Project in a Post-Modern European Union Janet Laible, Lehigh University Race Relations and Immigration Control: The Politics of Post-War Immigration Policy in Britain, from Attlee to Thatcher (1945-1990) Utku Sezgin, City University of New York - The Graduate Center The European Union and Institutional Change in Germany Sara Moats, West Virginia University The Representation of Intra-EU Migrants at the Member-State Level: Do Voting Rights Matter? Anna M. Olsson, American University	Friday	9:30-11:00
M1	Environmental Politics and Policy in an Economically Liberal World Order (Co-Sponsored by ISA-NE) Chair: Paul A. Barresi, Southern New Hampshire University Can DR-CAFTA Help Protect the Environment in Central America? José René Argueta, University of Pittsburgh European Union Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trade Regime Salvatore Castelluccio, East Stroudsburg University Toward Global Food Sovereignty: Fostering Bottom-Up Approaches to Participation in the International Biodiversity Regime Michael Kisielewski, American Association for the Advancement of Science The Construction of Environmental Expertise in the WTO Casey Stevens, University of Massachusetts Discussants: Loren Cass, College of the Holy Cross Paul A. Barresi, Southern New Hampshire University	Friday	9:30-11:00
A8	Roundtable: The American Constitution and the Supreme Court in a World at War: Past Lessons and Future Developments Participants: Matthew A. Pauley, Manhattanville College Frank P. Leveness, St. Johns University Joseph Di Sarro, Washington and Jefferson College Joseph Prudhomme, Princeton University	Friday	11:15-12:45
C7	THE 2000 AND 2004 ELECTIONS REVISITED Chair/Discussant: Joseph Bafumi, Dartmouth College Class and Conservatism: White Support for George W. Bush in the 2000 and 2004 Presidential Elections Donald W. Beachler, Ithaca College We Are Mad as Hell and We Are Going to Take It to the Polls! The Politics of the Angry Electorate in the United States Lilly J. Goren, Carroll College Was It Fair?  Bush v. Gore, Alienation, and the 2004 Presidential Election Kevin A. Pirch, CUNY-Lehman College Extreme Gerrymandering: Changing US State Borders in order to change the specific outcome of the 2000 US Presidential Election Karl G. Trautman, Central Maine Community College	Friday	11:15-12:45
E2	Patriotism and Civic Virtue in American Political Thought Chair/Discussant: Flagg Taylor, Skidmore College Beginning Anew: The Symbolic Importance of America’s Revolutionary Myth Jordon Barkalow, Bridgewater State College The Reciprocal Patriotism of John C Calhoun Danilo Ptranovich, Yale University The Influence of American Exceptionalist Thought on the Role of the United States in the Contemporary “War on Terrorism” Michael D’Amore, East Stroudsburg University The Case for Patriotism Revisited: The Liberal Tradition Confronts Terrorism Scott McLean, Quinnipiac University	Friday	11:15-12:45
F2	The Political Animal Speaks: Aristotle and the Politics of Logos (Presented by the Society for Greek Political Thought) Chair: D. Brendan Nagle, University of Southern California The Body Politic: The Aristotelian Enthymeme and Human Association Scott Crider, University of Dallas On “Nature” as a Guide in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Kathryn Sensen, Harvard University Political Musings: Translations and Readings of the Poetics Steve Shumaker, Baptist Bible College Discussant: Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill, St. John’s College (Annapolis)	Friday	11:15-12:45
G3	Individualism, Historicism and Freedom Chair/Discussant: F. S. J. Ledgister, Clarke Atlanta University Adam Smith’s Individualist Sentimentalism Michael Frazer, Brown University Work and Self-Ownership Julia Maskivker, Columbia University The Dialectic of Aristotle and Kant: Hegel’s Sittlichkei Tim Luther, California Baptist University Community and History: The Historical Sense of Robert A. Nisbet Daniel Sullivan, Catholic University of America	Friday	11:15-12:45
H6	Reason, Solidarity, and Immigration in the 21st Century Chair: TBA Questioning the Boundaries of Reasonable Disagreement Heidi Libesman, York University Solidarity Across Borders: A Moral Response to Globalization Angelica Nuzzo, Brooklyn College and CUNY – The Graduate Center Anti-Immigration Groups: Pathway to Democracy or Support for Prerogative Power? Kathleen  Arnold, University of Texas - San Antonio Discussant: TBA	Friday	11:15-12:45
J13	How the Leviathan Got Its Sight Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth DeSombre, Wellesley College Economic and Political Constraints on Scientific Claims in the Developing World Kemi George, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Nature Divided: Transnational Environmental Discourse and the Environment in Brazil Brian Fisher, University of California-Irvine State and Society: HIV/AIDS Mobilization in Brazil (tentative title) Jennifer Darrah, Brown University Why Montreal, Why Not (Yet) Kyoto? State-Society and US Environmental Policy Derick Becker, University of Connecticut	Friday	11:15-12:45
J23	IR Theory Chair/Discussant: Patrick T. Jackson, American University Hegel, the Savage, and the Wound of Wealth Naeem Inayatullah, Ithaca College David L. Blaney, Macalester College The Manly Social Science: A Reassertion of Male Bias in International Theory Adam Freeman, University of Chicago, Plymorphic Freedom in Times of Terror: Resisting the Goliath Romulus Maier, University of Connecticut, irerom@msn.com Robert W. Glover, University of Connecticut The Song Remains the Same: Historical Evolution of Criminal Cosmopolitanism of Slavery John T. Picarelli, American University	Friday	11:15-12:45
J29	The International Criminal Court Chair: Francine D'Amico, Syracuse University Leaving Nurmeberg: America's Love/Hate Relationship with International Law Linda Bishai, US Institute of Peace Transnational Collective Actors' Influence: Changing US Policy toward the ICC Meghan A. Moquin, Boston College Weighing the ICC from an American Perspective William J. McGeeney, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania Fiat Justitia et Pereat Mundus? The ICC in the Democratic Republic of Congo Pablo Castillo Diaz, Rutgers University Discussant: Mark Sachleben, Shippensburg University	Friday	11:15-12:45
J39	Turkey: Identity and Foreign Policy Chair: Bahram M. Rajaee, American Political Science Association Nation-Building or Assimilation for Turkey's Kurds and Lazes: Migration and Ethnic Identity Filiz Otucu, Plymouth State University Identity, Anxiety, and Expectation: Economic Development in a Globalized World Amy Skonieczny, University of Minnesota Turkish Foreign Policy in a Changing World Yasemin Celik, SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology The Iraq War and the Crisis in the US-Turkish Patron-Client Relationship Jeffrey A. Lefebvre, University of Connecticut Discussant: Azzedine Layachi , St. John's University	Friday	11:15-12:45
K14	Civil-Military Relations Chair/Discussant: Alan Stolberg, US Army War College The Sticking Point: Human Rights and Civil-Military Relations in Latin America Rebecca Root, University of Massachusetts-Amherst The Greening of the Brass: Taiwan’s Civil-Military Relations since 2000 Wei-chin Lee, Wake Forest University Civil-Military Relations in Israel Revisited Rebecca L. Schiff, Harvard University	Friday	11:15-12:45
M2	Environmental Policy-Making in the Modern State: Institutions, Processes, and Results (co-sponsored by ISA-NE) Chair: Paul A. Barresi, Southern New Hampshire University Kingdon's "Multiple Streams" Framework of Policy Making and its Applicability in a Local Environmental Context Morris Bidjerano, University at Albany, SUNY Laurence Rockefeller and the Wilderness Act of 1964 George A. Gonzalez, University of Miami Recent Developments in Sub-national Efforts in Climate Policy: A Comparison of Trends in the United States and Canada with an Emphasis on Eastern Canadian Provinces and New England States Daniel Marien, Salem State College International Assistance and the Politics of Environmental Reform in Egypt: "Embedded Autonomy" Revisited Jeannie Sowers, University of New Hampshire/Harvard University Discussants: Stefanie Wickstrom, Green Mountain College Paul A. Barresi, Southern New Hampshire University	Friday	11:15-12:45

SPECIAL MEETINGS AND EVENTS	Day	Time
ISA-ne Luncheon-NE Co-Sponsored by The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs When Soldiers 'Snap': Locating Moral Responsibility for Atrocities in Iraq Neta Crawford, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University	Friday	1:00-2:15
2007 program committee MeeTing	Friday	1:00-2:15

Panel			Day	Time
B1	Administrative Issues in States and Localities Chair: TBA Citizen Input in Local Transit Planning and Management: The Role of the Internet Hugh Bartling, DePaul University Administrative Growth as a Function of Judicial Independence Kyle Smith, Miami University, Ohio Examining the Flypaper Effect: An Analysis of the Community Development Block Grant Program Leah Brooks, McGill University Justin H. Philips, Columbia University The Dilemma of Devolution in Federal Grants: A Case Study of the Social Services Block Grant Program Yolanda J. Butler, Howard University Discussant: TBA	Friday			2:30-4:00
C8	SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Chair/Discussant: Andrae Marak, California University of Pennsylvania Battle of Cultural Resources: Cultural Resonance and Framing Processes in Two Turkish Women’s Movements Havva Karakas-Keles, Syracuse University Heidi Swarts, Rutgers University Un-Pleasantville: Portuguese Women’s Movements in the 1970s Daniela Melo, University of Connecticut Economic Disparities and Non-Mainstream Voting: The Discontent of Working-Class Voters with No Post-Secondary Education Andrea M.L. Perrella, Université de Montréal The Rhetoric of Political Extremism and Extraordinary Political Measures Richard Barberio, SUNY-Oneonta Brian M. Lowe, SUNY-Oneonta	Friday			2:30-4:00
E3	Political Action and American Political Thought in Historical Perspective Chair/Discussant: Scott McLean, Quinnipiac University The Politics of Abundance: The Political Theory of Henry Wallace Brian Stipelman, Rutgers University Black Nationalism and Racial Uplift: The Nineteenth Century Thought of Mary Ann Shadd Cary Carol Conaway, University of New Hampshire Devilish Dilemmas: Daniel Webster, the War of 1812 and Federalist Party David Smailes, Westfield State College Far More than Mere Parchment Barriers: Alexander Hamilton and the Founders’ Failure in Securing Rights through Constitution and Law William Geisler, University of Dallas Revolution as Vindication for John Locke: The Self-Justification of the Two Treatises Jason Di Gianni, State University of New York - Albany	Friday			2:30-4:00
F3	Irreconcilable Differences (?) in Plato and Xenophon (Presented by the Society for Greek Political Thought) Chair: Waller R. Newell, Carleton College The Necessity of Philotimia for Political Rule: Plato and Xenophon on Ambition Heidi Northwood, Nazareth College Socrates’ Theory of Form: Plato versus Xenophon Robert Roecklein, Pennylvania StateUniversity-Erie/The Behrend College Virtue and Vice: Socrates in Xenophon and Plato Alexander Alderman, Baylor University Discussant: Laurence Nee, St. John’s College (Santa Fe)	Friday			2:30-4:00
G4	Nationalism, Liberalism and Democracy Chair/Discussant: Michael Frazer, Brown University The Theory and Practice of Democracy: Alexis de Tocqueville and the Roman Republic of 1849 Salvatore Lombardo, Siena College C.L.R. James as a Creole Nationalist: Reconsidering the Case for West Indian Self-Government F. S. J. Ledgister, Clarke Atlanta University Leo Strauss’s Political Zionism in the Age of Messiah Jason Kropsky, City University of New York - The Graduate Center German Republic: The Debate Over Republicanism in 18^th Century Germany Reidar Maliks, Columbia University	Friday			2:30-4:00
H7	The Secular and the Temporal: Reason and Faith Chair: TBA Truth vs. Liberty? Is There a Public Place for Religion in Secular Liberal Societies? Paula Louise Olearnik, Georgetown University Can Political Conclusions be Derived from Religious Premises? Lislie Marsh, University of Sussex Necessity and the Soul Daniel Skinner, CUNY – The Graduate Center Discussant: TBA	Friday			2:30-4:00
J14	Terrorism: Causes and Consequences Chair/Discussant: Paige Eager, Hood College Terrorism: Twenty-First Century Propaganda of the Deed Christopher J. Fettweis, US Naval War College The Clash of Civilizations in a Post-9/11 Perspective Roody Abdelmalek, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Al Qaeda as a Multinational Corporation: How to Stop the Network of Terror Joseph Trafton, University of Denver/Rhode Island Towards a Theory of Interactive Anti-Americanism: Sources of Hostility David Banks, University of Delaware Alise Coen, University of Delaware	Friday			2:30-4:00
J33	"The State" and Sovereignty Chair/Discussant: Robert Denemark, University of Delaware Religion and International Affairs: The Problem of Political Obligation Robert M. Bosco, University of Connecticut The Myth of the Westphalian State Alexander Burton, South Texas College Dissolution and Decentralization in World Politics Ryan David Griffiths, Columbia University Prosecution Beyond the State: Belgium and the Rwandan Genocide Eric K. Leonard, Shenandoah University	Friday			2:30-4:00
J42	Negotiation, Mediation, Peacemaking Chair/Discussant: Wallace Thies, Catholic University Understanding Interaction Effects in the Negotiation Process: An Experimental Study Anat Niv-Solomon, University of Connecticut Mark A. Boyer, University of Connecticut Laura Janik, University of Connecticut Scott W. Brown, University of Connecticut Andri Ioannou, University of Connecticut The Statecraft of Intervention: Sovereignty and Security via Global Governance in East Timor Ramzi N. Nemo, American University Socio-cultural Differences in the Satisfaction of Victim-Offender Mediation Outcomes Greg Shavers, West Virginia University Conflict on the CV: Applications, Qualifications, Peace Education, "Peacemaker" Ned Lazarus, American University	Friday			2:30-4:00
J46	ROUNDTABLE: War, Oil, Democracy: Combustion or Bust Chair: Azzedine Layachi, St. John's University Participants: Abloghassem Sedehi, Seton Hall University George Gregoriou, William Paterson University Abdul H. Raoof, Buffalo State College Ziva Flamhaft, Queens College, CUNY	Friday			2:30-4:00
K15	Development Theory Chair/Discussant: Tony Spanakos, Montclair State University Politics Rules: The False Primacy of Institutions in Developing Countries S.N. Sangmpam, Syracuse University Searching for an Approach to Development: The Evolution of the Hukou System in Contemporary China Lin Li, University of Connecticut ICSID Arbitration and the Structural Power of Capital David P. Palazzo, City College of New York-The Graduate Center	Friday			2:30-4:00
M3	Environmental Governance for Security, Prosperity, and Peace Chair: Paul A. Barresi, Southern New Hampshire University Rich Forests, Poor People: Harnessing Forest Resources for Development in Ghana Richard Aidoo, Miami University (Ohio) Playtime Preservation: Public/Private Partnerships in Public Land Management Emily M. Neal, Northeastern University Understanding China's Environmental Security: A Case Study on Water Scarcity Ke Wang, University of Pennsylvania Native Americans, Water, and Power in the United States Stefanie Wickstrom, Green Mountain College Discussants: Jeannie Sowers, University of New Hampshire/Harvard University Paul A. Barresi, Southern New Hampshire University	Friday			2:30-4:00

SPECIAL MEETINGS AND EVENTS	Day	Time
ISA-NE Northeast Circle: The Information Revolution and World Politics Chair: Rosemary E. Shinko, University of Connecticut Honoree: Elizabeth C. Hanson, University of Connecticut Discussants: Andreas Behnke, University of Reading Sammy Barkin, University of Florida L. H. M. Ling, The New School Laura Sjoberg, Duke University	Friday	4:15-5:45:

Panel		Day	Time
B2	State and Local Electoral Issues: Domestic and International Chair: TBA Politicians versus Bureaucrats: Evidence from U.S. Local Governments Ruben Enikolopov, Harvard University Does Anybody Really Care? Voter Turnout in New Zealand Local and National Government Elections (1987 – 2005) Thomas O’Brien, University of Melbourne Craig Wright, New Zealand Ministry of Health The Impact of Contribution Limits on State Legislative Elections in Colorado Graham P. Ramsden, Creighton University Mayoral Incumbency Safety and Professional Sports: Do Sports Franchises and Facilities Build Electoral Capital? Richard W. Schwester, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Discussant: TBA	Friday		4:15-5:45
C9	NEW POLITICAL TOOLS FOR A NEW CENTURY Chair: Andrew Smith, University of New Hampshire Searching for ‘An Army of Davids; The Role of Bloggers in Pennsylvania’s 2006 U.S. Senate Contest Melanie J. Blumberg, California University of Pennsylvania Andrae Marak, California University of Pennsylvania James C. Wood, California University of Pennsylvania Timothy R. Bertovich, California University of Pennsylvania William C. Binning, Youngstown State University Margo K. Wilson, California University of Pennsylvania Mohamed Yomba, California University of Pennsylvania McCain, Dean, and Kerry Surfing the "e-mentum" Wave: Quantifying Technological Momentum Bonuses in Presidential Nominations Christopher C. Hull, Georgetown University Discussant: Jeffrey Gulati, Bentley College	Friday		4:15-5:45
E4	Rethinking the Novus Ordo Seclorum Chair/Discussant: Jordan Barkalow, Bridgewater State College Defining a Cosmopolitan 'Nation': Emerson, Whitman, and the American Renaissance Aaron Keck, Rutgers University Tocqueville's Indian: Nomadism, Containment, and Retreat in Democracy in America Alison McQueen, Cornell University City of Ruins: Righteous Destruction in the Writings of Gore Vidal Char Miller, George Mason University Catholic Norms of Economic Justice in American Political Culture Robert F. Pecorella, St. John’s University The Specter of the Wad: Philosophic Underpinnings of Norman Mailer’s "Left Conservatism” Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh, University of Connecticut	Friday		4:15-5:45
F5	Political Thought in Jewish Philosophy Chair: David Schaefer, The College of the Holy Cross Legal Reasoning as Exchange across Cultural Boundaries: Jewish-Islamic Medieval Jurisprudence Joseph David, University of Pennsylvania The Abraham Narrative in the Book of Genesis: The Obscure Origins of a World Historical Ethnos Jules Gleicher, Rockford College The Roots of Religion: Natural Right and Leo Strauss’ Commentary on Genesis J. Christopher Paskewich, University of Connecticut Discussant: Annabel Herzog, University of Haifa	Friday		4:15-5:45
F21	Roundtable: The Household as the Foundation of Aristotle’s Polis, by D. Brendan Nagle (Cambridge University Press) Chair: Thornton Lockwood, Fordham University First Commentator: Bernard Yack, Brandeis University Second Commentator: P.L.P. Simpson, City University of New York Authorial Response: D. Brendan Nagle, University of Southern California	Friday		4:15-5:45
G7	State Sovereignty and Imperialism in an Age of Globalization Chair/Discussant: Diana M. Judd, William Paterson University Blame it on Hobbes -- The Contemporary Crisis of Sovereignty as Breakdown of the Hobbesian Logic of States Clifford Angell Bates, Jr., Warsaw University Property, Settlement, and Sovereignty in Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals Timothy Waligore, Columbia University Kant’s Conception of Territory Barton T. Edgerton, London School of Economics Republic or Empire? Machiavelli’s Advice for American Foreign Policy Today Carly Riisager, National Youth Leadership Forum	Friday		4:15-5:45
H8	Threads of Political Theory Chair: TBA What is Counter-Enlightenment? Reflections on the Origin of an Idea Brad Mapes-Martins, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, martins@polsci.umass.edu The Lacanian Real: A Central Concept for Political Theory Claudia Leeb, University of Chicago Group Psychology and  an Analysis of the Authoritarian Kevin Costa, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Environmentalism, the Frankfurt School, and the Domination of Nature Eric Sean Nelson, University of Massachusetts-Lowell Jean Amery: Existentialism and the Enlightenment Project Alan Udoff, St. Francis College Discussant: TBA	Friday		4:15-5:45
I5	Dewey, Democracy, and Power Chair: James Farr, University of Minnesota Pragmatism and the Epistemic Defense of Democracy Eric MacGilvray, Ohio State Critical Pragmatism in Defense of Deliberation Alison Kadlec, Public Agenda Power, Politics, and Pragmatism: A Reconstruction of Dewey’s Political Philosophy Roudy Hildreth, Southern Illinois University Discussant: William Caspary, New York University	Friday		4:15-5:45
K7	After the Fighting Stops: Peace and Reconciliation in Comparative Perspective Chair/Discussant: Eric Budd, Fitchburg State College Evaluating the Impact of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions on Democratic Development and Political Stability Ursula C. Tafe, University of Massachusetts-Boston A Critical Analysis of Irish Republican Claims that Violence was Necessary in order to Achieve Reform and Political Agreement in Northern Ireland David E. Schmitt, Northeastern University Security or Apartheid? Analyzing Intra-Israeli/Palestinian Relations Nadine Gallagher, East Stroudsburg University Explaining the Emergence and Spread of Truth Commissions Sara Parker, University of Delaware	Friday		4:15-5:45
N2	Workshop: Constructing Good Courses: From Learning Goal to Assessment (Cross-listed with ISA-NE as Active Learning in International Affairs) Participants: Joan Andorfer, Frostburg State University John J. O’Rorke, Frostburg State University	Friday		4:15-5:45
P1	Workshop: Publishing in Professional Journals David A. Freeman, Washburn University, and Editor, The Social Science Journal Andrew J. Polsky, City University of New York (Hunter College,) and Editor, Polity	Friday		4:15-5:45

SPECIAL MEETINGS AND EVENTS	Day	Time
ISA-ne PLENARY Journeying Through International Relations: Some Feminist and Postcolonial Observations Ann Tickner, University of Southern California	Friday	6:00-7:00

Saturday, November 11
Registration and Exhibits In Pre-Function Area	8:30-2:30

P A N E L S S C H E D U L E

Panel				Day	Time
	A3	The Presidency and The Media Chair: Wilbur Rich, Wellesley College Selling Policy: Issue Framing and Media Coverage in the Policy Making Process Alison Dagnes, Shippensburg University Pardoning the President: The Presidency, the Media and the Politics of Presidential Redemption Jennifer Hopper, City University of New York Graduate Center Going Beyond “Going Public:” Presidential Rhetoric as Policy Richard Holtzman, Bryant University The Partisan Presidency Richard Skinner, Williams College Discussant: June S. Speakman, Roger Williams University	Saturday			9:00-10:30
	C12	THE VALUES OF POLLS AND THE POLLS OF VALUES Chair/Discussant: John C. Berg, Suffolk University Beyond the Culture War: Religion’s Influence on Public Opinion of Foreign Policy Peter L. Francia, East Carolina University Jonathan S. Morris, East Carolina University Jody C. Baumgartner, East Carolina University “Honest But Dumb” or ‘Menace to the National Interest?” Questioning the Legitimacy of Public Opinion Polls in the Wake of the 1948 Election Amy S. Fried, University of Maine The Evolution of Foreign Policy Content in Presidential Debates: From the Cold War to Post 9/11 Adam Joyce, New School for Social Research	Saturday			9:00-10:30
	C14	Roundtable: Hindsight is 20/20: Assessing the 2006 Congressional Election Forecasts Moderator and Presentor of The 2006 Polly Prize: Alfred G. Cuzán, University of West Florida Participants: J. Scott Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania Alan Abramowitz, Emory University James E. Campbell, SUNY – Buffalo Christopher Wlezien, Temple University Joe Bafumi, Dartmouth College	Saturday			9:00-10:30
	F4	The Philosopher and the City:  A Millennium of Reflection and Rejoinder Chair: David DiPasquale, Boston College Ibn Bâjjah, Ibn Khaldûn, and the Public Role of the Philosopher Rima Pavalko, University of Maryland Logic and Political Philosophy in Alfarabi’s Paraphrase of Aristotle’s Categories Terence J. Kleven, Central College Alexander Kojève, the Philosopher and Society Gary M. Kelly, Hetta Institute for International Development Discussant: Christopher Colmo, Dominican University	Saturday			9:00-10:30
	F11	Problems in Plato’s Republic Chair: Heidi Northwood, Nazareth College Why Republic V is Not Very Funny Joanne Waugh, University of South Florida Jennifer Ingle, University of South Florida A Happy City of Unhappy People; a Happy Soul of Unhappy Parts Roslyn Weiss, Lehigh University Plato’s Two Criticisms of Democracy John P. Anton, University of South Florida Discussant: Marina McCoy, Boston College	Saturday			9:00-10:30
	G5	Strange Bedfellows: Secularism, Fundamentalism and Politics Chair/Discussant: Mary Segers, Rutgers University Disenchantment With the World: Religion, Politics, and Modernity Michael Thompson, William Paterson University Thomas Hobbes’ Analysis of Religious Fanaticism Diana Poulos, The New School St. Augustine’s City of God: Political Time as the Shared Time of Irreconcilable Communities Khristina Haddad, Moravian College Neoconservative Use and Abuse of Religion in Politics Diana M. Judd, William Paterson University	Saturday			9:00-10:30
	I1	The construction of citizenship Chair/Discussant: Sharon Fingerer-Goldman, Ramapo College The Making of Citizens: Education, Immigration and Assimilation JoAnne Myers, Marist College Visiting the Gap between the ‘Actually Existing’ Subject of Democratic Politics and the Moral Subject of Democratic Theory Dunya Deniz Cakir, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (Re)producing the Other: Identity Formation, Difference, and Subjects of Terror in U.S. Nationalism After 9/11 Randy Cota, Rutgers University Discourses on Home and Homelessness: The Construction of Democratic Citizenship in the United States Katherine Longley, University of Massachusetts-Amherst	Saturday			9:00-10:30
	J15	Continuity and Change in US Foreign Policy Chair: Timothy M. Cole, University of Maine The Epistemic Origins and Transitions of American Empire Douglas M. Haugen, Brooklyn College/CUNY Counterterror Running Wild: Lessons from US Foreign Policy Toward Latin America Sheryl Shirley, Plymouth State University Presidents Reagan and Bush II Foreign Policy Leadership and the Role of Ideology Thomas Redden, Southern Vermont College Wedded to Groupthink: Concurrence Seeking in Sequential Foreign Policy Crises Tobias Van Assche, Syracuse University US Government Export Financing: Trends and Implications for US Trade and Foreign Policies Mark C. Gentry, Saint Francis University Discussant: David R. Hayes, Troy University	Saturday			9:00-10:30
	J19	Critical IPE II Chair/Discussant: Jeffrey M. Ayres, St. Michael's College US Post-World War II Foreign Policy in the Core and Periphery Y. Hugh Jo, SUNY Albany Images of Markets: The Market in US Think Tank Discourse P. W. Zuidhof, Erasmus University Rotterdam The 1998 East Asian, Russian, and LTCM Defaults: Surging US Hegemony? Mine A. Doyran, SUNY Albany	Saturday			9:00-10:30
	J35	Security Issues Chair/Discussant: Alan Stolberg, US Army War College Do Middle Powers Matter for Great Power Security Dilemmas? Joshua B. Spero, Fitchburg State College The Role of Norms in Post-Cold War Japanese Security Policy Sachi Nagoaka, Harvard University/Keio University Will Japan Become a "Normal" Military Power? Conservatism, Domestic Politics, and US-Japan Ji-Young Kim, University of Delaware Critical Junctures and Alliance Cohesion: Post-Cold War US-South Korea Hyun-Wook Kim, Brown University	Saturday			9:00-10:30

J47

ISA-NE GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP: INTERPRETIVE AND RELATIONAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES (This panel meets for four consecutive session) Moderator: Patrick Jackson, American University Participants: Andrea Charron, Florida State University Ned Lazarus, American University Kuniyuki Nishimura, University of Florida David Mislan, Rutgers University Robert Bosco, University of Connecticut Andrea Strimling, Tufts University Lauren Wilcox, University of Minnesota Jennifer Heeg, Georgetown University Anne-Marie D'Aoust, University of Pennsylvania Discussants: Naeem Inayatullah, Ithaca College David Blaney, Macalester University Lene Hansen, University of Copenhagen Cecelia Lynch, University of California-Irvine Gavan Duffy, Syracuse University

Saturday

9:00-10:30

K8	The Politics of Gender Chair/Discussant: Ursula C. Tafe, University of Massachusetts-Boston Eager to Share? British, French and American Legislators Debate Women’s Suffrage Harriet B. Applewhite, Southern Connecticut State University The Legal and Political Status of Women in Latin America Caroline Beer, University of Vermont Representative Bureaucracy: A Preliminary Cross-National Study Kim Moloney, American University	Saturday	9:00-10:30
L1	GENDER AND POLITICAL REPRESENTATION WORLDWIDE Chair: Carol Hardy-Fanta, University of Massachusetts-Boston Women and Political Representation: The Current Status of Women Worldwide Farida Jalalzai, University of Missouri-St. Louis Women’s Political Activism and Democracy in Japan: Seen from Comparative Perspectives Mikiko Eto, Hosei University-Tokyo Women’s NGOs, the European Union and the Democratic Process in Poland Agnieszka Kajrukszto, City University of New York Discussant: TBA	Saturday	9:00-10:30
L5	CHALLENGES OF MIGRATION, ASSIMILATION AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY Chair/Discussant: Heike Schotten, University of Massachusetts-Boston Reconfiguring the Border Debate: Mexican Immigration to the US from 1942-2006 Elvin Lim, University of Tulsa Irish Military Service During the American Civil War: A Case Against Assimilation - New York 1861-1865 Michelle L. Hartman, Ramapo College Second Period of Modern Greek Diaspora, 1830-1939 George Kaloudis, Rivier College Socialism and the Struggle for Ethnic Diversity: An Examination of Interconnected Goals and Issues Calvin E. Harris, Suffolk University	Saturday	9:00-10:30
C13	MONEY AND MEDIA MATTERS Chair: Caroline Heldman, Occidental College Soft Money Be Damned: Contributor Behavior Since BCRA Todd Audatis, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Partisan New Media: The Case of FOX News David A. Jones, James Madison University The Opportunity Cost of Private Campaign Finance Michael G. Miller, Cornell University The Control of Nature: Local TV Forecasts for the U.S. Democratic National Convention Kevin G. Barnhurst, University of Illinois at Chicago Richard Doherty, University of Illinois at Chicago Discussant: Dean Spiliotes, St. Anselm’s College	Saturday	10:45-12:15
C15	Roundtable: The 2006 Congressional Elections: What Happened and Why Moderator: J. Mark Wrighton, University of New Hampshire Participants: John C. Berg, Suffolk University Jeff Gulati, Bentley College Lara M. Brown, California State – Channel Islands Larry Butler, Rowan University	Saturday	10:45-12:15
F12	Aristotle’s Political Thought Chair: John Wallach, Hunter College and CUNY - The Graduate Center Dependency in Aristotle J.J. Mulhern, University of Pennsylvania Aristotle on Politics and Philosophy Geert van Cleemput, Independent Scholar Statecraft over Legislation in the Political Science of Aristotle Clifford Angell Bates, Jr., Uniwersytet Warszawski Exploring Aristotelian Justice Anne Hewitt, City University of New York Discussant: Steve Skultety, University of Mississippi	Saturday	10:45-12:15
G2	Law, Liberty and American Greatness Chair/Discussant: Carly Riisager, National Youth Leadership Forum The Silence of the Law: Hobbes on Political Liberty Justin Steinberg, College of Wooster Locke, Common Law and America: Reason, Will and Tradition Joanne Tetlow, Catholic University of America Mandeville’s Paradox and the American Adaptation Kyle Scott, Miami University (Ohio) Honor, Greatness, and the Attenuation of Envy in Democracy in America Brian Smith, Georgetown University	Saturday	10:45-12:15
I2	Global Culture and Identity Chair/Discussant: Patti Lenard, Harvard University Is Anyone a Multiculturalist? A liberal Account of Culture, Violence, and Human Rights Steve On, University of California-LA Reframing the Cultural Defense: Multiculturalism and Criminal Legal Theory Sonu Bedi, Yale University Solidarity across Borders: A Moral Response to Globalization Angelica Nuzzo, CUNY-Brooklyn Elusive Reasons and the Right to Democracy Ryan Davis, Princeton University A Pluralist Institutional Approach to International Order Carmen Pavel, Brown University	Saturday	10:45-12:15
J12	The EU and Democratization in SE Europe Chair: Liubomir K. Topaloff, Northeastern University Democracy-Building: Internal vs. External Factors Boriana Nikolova, University of Chicago Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Democratization: EU and Judicial Reform in Serbia Milica Golubovic, Northeastern University Undermining Democracy: Organized Crime Transformations in Bulgaria Philip Gounev, London School of EC/POL Bulgaria and Romania: Failed Students or a Failed Mentor? Liubomir K. Topaloff, Northeastern University Discussant: Florencia Garbriele, Northeastern University	Saturday	10:45-12:15
J16	US Intelligence and Strategy I Chair/Discussant: Koop Berry, Walsh University 1st proposal: Intelligence Failures and 9/11 Lisa M. Farhamy, American University The Evolution of the US Strategic Posture in Southwest Asia Bahram M. Rajaee, American Political Science Association A Sustainable Strategy for the Long War: US Military Presence in the Middle East Bradley L. Bowman, USMA at West Point US Commercial Remote Sensing Policy 1994-2004: Prospect Theory and Decision-Making Andrea J. Dew, The Fletcher School	Saturday	10:45-12:15
J18	Critical IPE I Chair: Mikhail A. Molchanov, St Thomas University Does IMF Conditionality Threaten International Security? Julie L. Mueller, University of New England Autonomism in Argentina in a New Governmentality Graciela Monteagudo, University of Massachusetts- Amherst Does UN Security Council Membership Influence IMF Decisions? Panel Data Axel Dreher, KOF ETH, Zurich Jan-Egbert Sturm, KOF ETH, Zurich James Raymond Vreeland, Yale University The Commercialization of Microfinance: Who is Being Served? Paul Gumpper, SUNY Albany Discussant: Christina Fattore, West Virginia University	Saturday	10:45-12:15
J25	The Politics of Foreign Aid Chair: Clarissa Estep, West Virginia University Poverty in a Time of Empire: Why Foreign Aid Can't "Make Poverty History" Caleb Stewart Rossiter, American University Soviet Aid to the Third World Douglas Rivero, Florida International University US Foreign Assistance: Helping the Faithful Bradford T. Greene, USAID Altruism Revisited: The Political Economy of Aid Donations from Small States Sarah Blodgett Bermeo, Princeton University Human Rights and Foreign Aid: The Latin American Experience Joel A. Capellán, Buffalo State College SimonPeter Gomez, Buffalo State College Discussant: Jeannie Sowers, University of New Hampshire	Saturday	10:45-12:15
J36	Global Health Issues Chair/Discussant: Joseph Masciulli, St. Thomas University Contesting Global Health Governance: Power and Multilateralism in HIV/AIDS Pandemic Jeffrey M. Ayres, Saint Michael's College Patricia Siplon, Saint Michael's College Progress or Rretreat? An Examination of Global Health Performance Laura Janik, University of Connecticut Mark A. Boyer, University of Connecticut Davis B. Bobrow, University of Pittsburgh Obstacles to the African Standby Force: A Study of HIV/AIDS Impacts Yolande Bouka, American University Governance and Access to Health Care Services in Nigeria, 1999-2006 Victor Eno, Howard University	Saturday	10:45-12:15
J47	ISA-NE GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP II: INTERPRETIVE AND RELATIONAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES (This Panel meets for 4 consecutive sessions) For Moderator, Participants and Discussants, see 9:00 panel listing.	Saturday	10:45-12:15
K9	Taking it to the Streets: People Power Chair/Discussant: Vanessa Ruget, Wheaton College Resistance to Globalization: Radical Populist Movements in the Middle East and Latin America Anthony N. Celso, Valley Forge Military College, The Impact of Pro-Democratic Popular Uprisings on Regime Change in Hybrid Political Systems Jekaterina Kalandadze, Syracuse University Neoliberalism and Street Democracy in Latin America: A Challenge to Democratic Consolidation Petros Vamvakas, Emmanuel College Islamic Insurgency Movements in the Middle East- Sources of Durability: A Comparative Assessment of the Cases of Hezbollah and Amal Christopher P. Dallas-Feeney, Sr.,George Washington University	Saturday	10:45-12:15
L2	RACE, PARTIES, AND POLITICAL BEHAVIOR Chair/Discussant: Heather L. Frederick, Slippery Rock University The African American Community and American Conservatism William H. Boone, Clark Atlanta University Blacks and the Politics of Inclusion: A Framework for Understanding Minority/Majority Group Politics Theodore J. David, Jr., University of Delaware Activating Racism David Moskowitz, Roger Williams University Morgan Moffa, Roger Williams University Issue Evolution: Party or Faith? Peter W. Bruscoe, American University	Saturday	10:45-12:15