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Reconstruction And Reconciliation: What's Economics Got To Do With It?, Christopher J. Coyne

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

No abstract provided.

Fixing Failing States: The New Security Agenda, Pauline H. Booker

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

No abstract provided.

Where There's A Will, There's A Way? Untangling Ownership And Political Will In Post-Conflict Stability And Reconstruction, Derick W. Brinkerhoff

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

No abstract provided.

Russian Phoenix: The Collective Security Treaty Organization, Adam Weinstein

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

No abstract provided.

In Need Of Self-Reflection: Peacebuilding In Post-War Kosovo From A Systems-Analytical Perspective, Jens Narten

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

No abstract provided.

Formal Models And Conflict Intervention: Success As A Research Program And Policy Relevance, David Carment, Dane Rowlands

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

No abstract provided.

A Case Study In Declining American Hegemony: Flaw Policy Concerning The Icc, Erik K. Leonard

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

No abstract provided.

Sarbanes-Oxley And The Search For Accountable Corporate Governance, Melvin J. Dubnick

Political Science

No abstract provided.

Advocate, March 2007, Vol. [18], No. [5], Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

New Index Ranks GC Among Top 50 U.S. Research Universities (p. 1)

From the Editor’s Desk: Walking Away from Torture (p. 2)

GC Technology - IT Goes Shopping: New PCs Coming (p. 3)

The PSC and CUNY Resume Contract Negotiations: What Graduate Students and Adjuncts Can Expect. Carl Lindskoog (p. 4)

Dispatches from the Front: History of the World, Part 28. Mark Wilson (p. 5)

Academic Repression Update: “We Shall Rise”: The Persecution of Dr. Sami Al-Arian. Philip Fairbanks (p. 6)

Letters (p. 2)

Violent Crime at CUNY. Andrea Siegel.

There’s More to the Urban Ed Story. …

Human Rights And Personal Stories, David L. G. Rice

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Negar Azimi’s “Prisoners of Sex” is a welcome reminder that human rights discourse should always keep its subject, “humans,” firmly in view. The stories she tells of death, torture, hope, and survival bear witness to the challenges and dangers faced by gays and lesbians in Egypt.

Evangelicals, Education, And Exile, Harold Dean Trulear

Pro Rege

Dr. Trulear delivered this paper at the Dordt College Convocation, January 13, 2005.

The State Of Securitization Theory: A Review Of The Politics Of Insecurity, Kapil Gupta

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

No abstract provided.

Chinese Visions Of World Order: Tianxia, Empire And The World, William A. Callahan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Lately there has been increasing interest among IR scholars in Chinese thought both as an alternative to Eurocentric IR and because the PRC as an emerging power will soon have the institutional power to promote its view of the world. Rather than look for suitable Chinese parallels to ‘international’, ‘security’ or other mainstream concepts, this paper will examine the concept of ‘Tianxia’ to understand Chinese visions of world order. Tianxia is interesting both because it was key to the governance and self-understanding of three millennia of Chinese empire, and also because discussion of Tianxia is becoming popular again in the …

Benchmarks For Text Analysis: A Response To Budge And Pennings, Kenneth Benoit, Michael Laver

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Budge and Pennings (2007) criticize the “Wordscores” method for computerized content analysis on essentially two grounds. The first is that the best test of Wordscores accuracy is whether it can “reproduce the rich time series produced by the MRG/CMP covering a 50 year period” (Budge and Pennings, 2007: 5), which Budge and Pennings claim it does not do. The second is that Wordscores time series estimates, as implemented by Budge and Pennings, yield very little variation around mean scores for the entire time series. In this brief response we make three simple points.

Estimating Party Policy Positions: Comparing Expert Surveys And Hand-Coded Content Analysis, Kenneth Benoit, Michael Laver

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

In this paper we compare estimates of the left-right positions of political parties derived from an expert survey recently completed by the authors with those derived by the Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP) from the content analysis of party manifestos. Having briefly described the expert survey, we first explore the substantive policy content of left and right in the expert survey estimates. We then compare the expert survey to the CMP method on methodological grounds. Third, we directly compare the expert survey results to the CMP results for the most recent time period available, revealing some agreement but also numerous inconsistencies …

March Roundtable: Introduction

Human Rights & Human Welfare

An annotation of:

“Prisoners of Sex” by Negar Azimi. New York Times Magazine. December 3, 2006.

Cultural Rage: A Severe Threat To Gay Men, Rhoda Howard-Hassmann

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Men who have sex with men have become a world cultural flashpoint. Fomenting and exploiting cultural rage at the West is a useful way for Islamists to gain electoral and other types of support, even though the motives of the Islamists may have more to do with the drive for power, regional influence, or economic benefit.

Japan-Azerbaijan Bilateral Relations, Tadahiro Abe

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss Downing University Center renovation, plus/minus grading, SGA week, elections and legislation.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for February 27, 2007 meeting.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss plus/minus grading and legislative rally.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for February 20, 2007 meeting.

Baznegari Tarikh-E Andishe Dar Dowreh Reza Shah" (A Review Of The Intellectual History Of Reza Shah's, Mehrzad Boroujerdi

Political Science - All Scholarship

A Public Lectures by Mehrzad Boroujerdi in Persian, organized by UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. The lecture was held at UCLA's Dodd Hall (121) on Sunday, February 18, 2007.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regrading plus/minus grading, parking, Diversity Council and legislation.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for February 13, 2007 meeting.

Resolution - 2007-S - Tiered Parking Plan For Residents, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Resolution regarding tiered parking system for on campus residents.

Resolution 01-07-S - Plus / Minus Grading System, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Resolution against the plus / minus grading system.

A Benchmark Report On Diversity In State And Local Government, Carol Hardy-Fanta Phd

Publications from the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy

The Pipeline to Public Service Initiative asked the McCormack Graduate School’s Center for Women in Politics & Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston to ascertain the racial diversity in state and local government. The project had the following three goals:

--To identify the race (and gender) of those holding top-level positions filled through gubernatorial appointments, e.g., secretaries, commissioners, directors, deputy commissioners/directors, and undersecretaries, in the Commonwealth’s executive offices and major departments.

--To compile the same information for members of the most influential boards and commissions in the Commonwealth filled through gubernatorial appointments.

--To assess the diversity of elected …

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding committee appointments, legislative rally, Listen Up Legislators and legislation.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for February 6, 2007 meeting.