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Online Program » Receptions » Program NOTE: Location subject to change. Check the FINAL PROGRAM issued upon arrival at the conference for updates and actual room numbers. Poster Session 5 Date: Thursday, Sep 3, 10:15 AM Room Assignment: Only those who have registered for the Annual Meeting can see the room assignment. If you have registered, please log in above and click on "Annual Meeting Online Program" in the Annual Meeting box. Divisions 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, and 44 Author(s): The Logic of Dispute Initiation in Regional Trade Agreements: The Case of the European Union Martha Thomas Pennsylvania State University, mst170@psu.edu Author(s): All Free Trade is Not the Same: Why People Like Liberalized Trade with Some Countries but Not With Others Jeffrey Drope Marquette University, jeffrey.drope@marquette.edu Author(s): The Co-Evolution and Transnational Spread of Corporate Social Responsibility and Market Liberalism: A Social Network Analysis, 1982-2007 Daniel Phillip Kinderman Cornell University, dpk24@cornell.edu Author(s): Foreign Aid as Signal to Investors: Predicting FDI in Post-Conflict Countries Ana Carolina Garriga University of Pittsburgh, carogarriga@gmail.com   Brian J. Phillips University of Pittsburgh, brianjphillips@gmail.com Author(s): The China Investment Corporation: China's Sovereign Wealth Fund William Norris MIT, wjnorris@mit.edu Author(s): Cooperation or Collusion: Lead Donors and the Development Aid Cartel Martin Steinwand University of Rochester, martin.steinwand@rochester.edu Author(s): National Integration and the Closing of Economies Ishan Joshi Cornell University, ishjoshi101@gmail.com Author(s): Between Market Radicalism and Policy Palimpsest: Tax and Welfare Reforms in the New EU Member States Cornel Ban University of Maryland, cornel_ban@brown.edu Author(s): Implicit Liberalization: Changes to Tariff Type and Protection Ashley Renee Conner Stanford University, aconner@stanford.edu Author(s): Weak Ties, Strong Soldiers: Civil Society and Battlefield Effectiveness Trace C. Lasley University of Kentucky, trace.lasley@uky.edu Author(s): Let Them Eat Grain: Market Liberalism, Agricultural Decline, and Out-Migration from Mexico Whitney E. Easton University of Connecticut, whiteaston@hotmail.com Author(s): When Weak States Win Stephanie S. Holmsten University of Texas, Austin, ssholmsten@mail.utexas.edu Author(s): The Continental Construction and Constraint of US Power: Are Canada and Mexico the Prime External Constituents of American Hegemony? Stephen Clarkson University of Toronto, clarkson@chass.utoronto.ca   Matto Mildenberger University of Waterloo, mmildenb@uwaterloo.ca Author(s): Democracies and Market Access: Evidence for the Democratic Advantage Rebecca Nelson Harvard University, rmnelson@fas.harvard.edu Author(s): Settling Trade Disputes Under Asymmetric Information: A Theoretical and Statistical Evaluation of the WTO Dispute Settlement System Daina Chiba Rice University, d.chiba@rice.edu Author(s): Infringements for Sale? The Public Choice of Non-compliance with International Agreements Tobias Hofmann College of William & Mary Author(s): Globalization and the Increasing Intolerance of the Indian Middle Class Shanna Dietz Surendra Indiana University, Bloomington, srdietz@indiana.edu Author(s): FINANCIAL GOVERNANCE AND TRANSNATIONAL DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY Randall Germain Carleton University, randall_germain@carleton.ca Author(s): Shareholder Activism and Socially Responsible Investment Networks: Real or Imagined Power? Michael R. MacLeod Bentley College Author(s): Enforcement of the International Nonproliferation Regime: Expanding the Role of International Organizations Robert L. Brown Temple University, brownrl@temple.edu Author(s): Embracing Hierarchy in International Organizations: The UN Security Council and Non-Democratic Sources of Legitimacy Lora Anne Viola Social Science Research Center Berlin, lviola@uchicago.edu Author(s): The Durability of Power-Sharing Arrangements Melani Cammett Brown University, Melani_Cammett@Brown.edu   Edmund J. Malesky University of California, San Diego, emalesky@ucsd.edu Author(s): State Failure and External Threat: Exploring the Causal Relationship Bridget Coggins Dartmouth College, Bridget.Coggins@dartmouth.edu Author(s): Targeted Killings in Israel: Why Decision Making Process Matters Samy Cohen CERI, cohen@ceri-sciences-po.org Author(s): Revolutionary Regimes and International Conflict Jeff Colgan Princeton University, jcolgan@princeton.edu   Summer Lopez Princeton University, colganj@yahoo.ca Author(s): Tough Talk, Cheap Talk, and Babbling: Government Unity, Hawkishness, and Military Challenges Matthew Fehrs Ohio State University, mbf3@duke.edu Author(s): Politics and Security in the Energy Supply Market Andrea E. Jones-Rooy University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, ajonrooy@umich.edu Author(s): It’s All About the Umma: Attack Motivations among European Islamist Terrorists William J. Josiger Georgetown University, josigerw@georgetown.edu Author(s): Black Gold and Blackmail: The Politics of International Oil Coercion Rosemary Kelanic University of Chicago, rkelanic@uchicago.edu Author(s): Deterrence in the Media Age - Security, Discourse and Public Opinion Ilan Danjoux University of Manchester, ilan.danjoux@mac.com Author(s): Hegemony and International Society: Must There Be a Conflict? Barak Mendelsohn Haverford College, bmendels@haverford.edu Author(s): Hard Questions for Soft Power Robert Rauchhaus University of California, Santa Barbara, rauchhaus@polsci.ucsb.edu   Thomas R. Hartman University of California, Santa Barbara, thartman@umail.ucsb.edu Author(s): Liberal Interventions, Illiberal Outcomes? Probing the Link Between the Liberal Peace and State Fragility Marie-Joelle Zahar University of Montreal, marie-joelle.zahar@umontreal.ca Author(s): The Court of International Public Opinion: Assessing the Effectiveness of International Law Benjamin Appel University of Maryland, bappel@gvpt.umd.edu Author(s): Can Strategic Culture Change? The Impact of India’s Strategic Partnership with the United States Stephen F. Burgess U.S. Air War College, stephen.burgess@maxwell.af.mil Author(s): Deterring North Korea: The Six-Party Talks as a Two-Player Compellence Game Eric H. Honda , Jishuro@aol.com Author(s): What Rough Beast: Synthetic Biology and the Future of Biosecurity Gautam Mukunda Masschusetts Institute of Technology, gautam.mukunda@gmail.com   Scott Mohr Boston University, mohr@bu.edu Author(s): Climate Change and Security: Applying Civil War Dynamics to International Conflict Carmel F. Davis The Citadel, cfdavis@alumni.upenn.edu Author(s): Metaphors of US Missile Defense: Continuity and Change from SDI to GMD William M. Flanik University of Toronto, bill.flanik@utoronto.ca Author(s): Political Islam and Peacebuilding: The Somalia Case Afyare A. Elmi Qatar University, elmi@ualberta.ca Author(s): When Communication Makes Actors Drift Further Apart: The United States, North Korea and Nuclear Non-proliferation Markus Kornprobst Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, markus.kornprobst@da-vienna.ac.at Author(s): A Theoretical Examination of the Role of Humanitarian Crisis in Violent Conflict Leah C. Wells University of Mississippi, lcwells@olemiss.edu Author(s): When Terrorists Reject Violence: Conditions Conducive to the Strategic Use of Nonviolence Susanne Martin University of Texas, Austin, nsmartin@mail.utexas.edu Author(s): This Land is My Land: Ebbs and Flows in Secessionist Violence Keisha S. Haywood Emory University, khaywoo@emory.edu Author(s): When Grandma Doesn’t Just Knit You a Sweater: Support from Co-Ethnics and Civil War Duration Shanna A. Kirschner University of Michigan, skirschn@allegheny.edu Author(s): Does Threat Make the State? Moran Moshe Mandelbaum University of Haifa, moranm@poli.haifa.ac.il Author(s): Third-Party Wars, Vicarious Learning, and Rapprochement in International Rivalries Jonathan M. DiCicco Canisius College, diciccoj@canisius.edu Author(s): Not in My Backyard!: External Balancing, Intra-Balancing and Alliance Dynamics Jaewook Chung Arizona State University, jwchungir@gmail.com Author(s): Taking Comparative Advantage Seriously: Sender-Target Trade Relationship and Success of Economic Sanctions Taehee Whang Texas A&M University, taeheewhang@politics.tamu.edu   Elena V. McLean Texas A&M University Author(s): Making Peace or Keeping Peace? Regional Organization and Conflict Mediation Ying Zhang Vanderbilt University, ying.zhang.1@vanderbilt.edu Author(s): An Explanation of Counterinsurgency Effectiveness Barry Masanori Hashimoto Emory University, bhashim@emory.edu Author(s): The Partisan Foundations of Participatory Governance Regimes in Brazil and Colombia Lindsay Rose Mayka University of California, Berkeley, lmayka@berkeley.edu Author(s): How Politics is fought across Territory: The Institutional Determinants of the Nationalization of Politics Julieta Suarez-Cao Northwestern University, jsc@u.northwestern.edu Author(s): Lessons From Eastern Europe for Democratization Theories: From ‘Preconditions’ to ‘Constellations’? Uffe Jakobsen University of Copenhagen, uj@ifs.ku.dk Author(s): The interaction between state and nation-building in fragmented societies Joanne Elizabeth Wallis University of Cambridge, jew44@cam.ac.uk Author(s): Municipal Elections in Saudi Arabia: Review and Assessment Khalid Othman Alyahya Dubai School of Government, khalid.alyahya@dsg.ae Author(s): Preference Falsification and the Spiral of Silence— How Media Coverage and Opinion Polls led Pinochet to Miscalculate Support for the ‘No’ Vote in the 1988 Chilean Plebiscite Elizabeth Stein University of New Orleans, eastein@ucla.edu Author(s): Reigning in the Big Men?: The Politics of Executive Constraints in Sub-Saharan Africa Kristin A. McKie Cornell University, kam229@cornell.edu Author(s): Impact of Transitional Justice on Trajectories of Democratization: A comparison of 3 African cases Anu Chakravarty University of South Carolina, chakrava@mailbox.sc.edu Author(s): The Impact of Social Movements on State Policy: Human Rights Movements in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay Cora Fernandez Anderson University of Notre Dame, cfernan1@nd.edu Author(s): State Capacity as a Pillar for Democracy: A Test Using 26 Post-communist Countries. Jessica Fortin McGill University, jessica.fortin@gesis.org Author(s): Measuring and explaining the increase of Participatory Democracy in Latin America (1979-2007). Carlos Melendez University of Notre Dame, cmelend1@nd.edu Author(s): The Surrender of Secrecy? Explaining the Strength of Transparency and Access to Information Laws Robert Gregory Michener University of Texas at Austin, gregmichener@mail.utexas.edu Author(s): Memory and Grass-Roots Politics: The Changing Link Between State and Civil Society? Jenny Wustenberg University of Maryland, jwustenberg@gvpt.umd.edu Author(s): Lack of a Shared Perception of the Terrorist Threat Among EU Member States Oldrich Bures Metropolitan University Prague, obures@alumni.nd.edu