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Faculty Publications | Invited Talks by Faculty | Faculty Participation at 2010 APSA
Faculty Participation at 2010 Meeting of the Peace Science Society International
Faculty Participation at 2010 Annual Meeting of International Studies Association
Political Science faculty and student participation at the 2010 Annual Meeting of International Studies Association-Midwest, St Louis, MO, November 5-7:
Wendy Dickey (MA student)
“U.S. Foreign Aids Impact on NGOs”
Amanda Murdie
Chair/Discussant for panel entitled, ”Negotiating Peace”
Amanda Murdie
Roundtable Participant, “Strategies for Success in Scholarship and Publication”
Caroline Simpson (MA Student)
“Propensity towards Political Violence”
Craig Stapley
“Democracy and Disasters: Do Democracies Do a Better Job?”
Craig Stapley
“Targeting the Good Guys: Terrorist Attacks on Non-Governmental Organizations”
Recent Faculty Publications:
Ethan Bernick and Skip Krueger. 2010. “An Assessment of Journal Quality in Public Administration.” International Journal of Public Administration Vol. 33, No. 2.
Sabri Ciftci. 2010. "Modernization, Islam, or Social Capital: What Explains Attitudes Toward Democracy in the Muslim World?" Comparative Political Studies, Vol 43, Number 11
Edward Flentje and Joseph Aistrup. 2010. Kansas Politics and Government: The Clash of Political Cultures. University of Nebraska Press.
Dale R. Herspring. 2010. "Is Military Reform in Russia for Real? Yes, but . . . " in Stephen Blank and Richard Weitz, eds., The Russian Military Today and Tomorrow: Essays in Memory of Mary Fitzgerald. Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, Carlisle, PA.
Dale R. Herspring and Roger N. McDermott. 2010. “Serdyukov Promotes Systemic Russian Military Reform,” Orbis Volume 54, No. 2.
Thomas Holbrook and Brianne Heidbreder. 2010. "Does Measurement Matter? The Case of VAP and VEP in Models of Voter Turnout in the United States," State Politics and Policy Quarterly, Volume 10, No. 2.
Laurie M. Johnson. 2009. Thomas Hobbes: Turning Point for Honor, Lexington Books.
Amanda Murdie and David R. Davis. 2010. “Problematic Potential: The Human Rights Consequences of Peacekeeping in Civil Wars.” Human Rights Quarterly Volume 32, No. 1.
Amanda Murdie and Tavishi Bhasin. 2010. “Aiding and Abetting? Human Rights INGOs and Domestic Anti- Government Protest”. Journal of Conflict Resolution. Volume 54, No. 6.
Jeffrey Pickering and Emizet F Kisangani. 2010. Diversionary Despots? Comparing Autocracies’ Propensities to Use and to Benefit from Military Force. American Journal of Political Science Volume 54, No. 2.
Patrick Regan and Sam R. Bell. 2010. "Changing Lanes or Stuck in the Middle: Why are Anocracies More Prone to Civil Wars? Political Research Quarterly Volume 63, No. 3.
Krishna K. Tummala. 2010. “Political Corruption in India: Coalition Dharma?” International Management Review Vol 2, No. 2.
Recent Invited Talks by Political Science Faculty:
Ethan Bernick, Skip Krueger and Robert W. Walker gave a talk entitled “The Intergovernmental Context of Alternative Service Delivery Choices” at the “States as Facilitators or Obstructionists of Local Governments” Seminar, co-hosted by the DeVoe Moore Center and the LeRoy Collins Institute at Florida State University, February 25-27, 2010.
Dale Herspring gave a talk entitled "The Relationship Between Nuclear and Conventional Weapons in the Russian Military" at a workshop on "Strategy and Doctrine in Russian Security Policy" co-sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Center for Strategic Studies at National Defense University, Washington, DC, June 28, 2010.
Dale Herspring gave a talk entitled “Modernization in Context: History of Russian Military Reform” at a US National Intelligence Council sponsored workshop on Russian Military Reform at Centra Technology, Inc., Washington, DC, July 28, 2010.
Krishna K. Tummala, along with several international scholars, was an invited speaker at the annual meeting of IRC-20, of the International Political Science Association, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia during July 1 to 4, 2010. He spoke on "Corruption in India: Causes and Consequences.”
Political Science Faculty Participation at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC:
Amanda Murdie, chair and discussant for the panel "Disaggregated and Micro-Scale Evidence in the Study of Insurgency"
Amanda Murdie, “ There’s No Place Like Home: INGO Advocacy and National Origin” (with Sarah S. Stroup)
Amanda Murdie, “ Shaming Where it Counts: Human Rights INGOs and Foreign Aid” (poster with Tavishi
Bhasin)
Stephen Nemeth, "The Effects of Group Competition on Terrorist Violence"
Political Science Faculty Participation at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Peace Science Society International, Fort Worth, Texas:
Amanda Murdie, Sam Bell and co-author, “Shining the Spotlight next Door Spatial Effects of Human Rights INGOs”
Andrew Long and Sam Bell, “A Brighter Future: Civil Conflicts and Military Intervention.”
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