2004 Conference

Panel A1: Judicial Processes

Chair: Elizabeth Kreider, Illinois State University
Discussant: Elizabeth Gunnell, Illinois State University

• Marc Bacharach, Miami University

  The Supreme Court, the Death Penalty, and Evolving Standards of Decency: A History of Interpretation

• Rebecca Damery, Illinois State University

  Assessing the Linkage of the Courts to Democratization: An Analysis of the Judicial Systems in the Baltic States

• Brandi Figari, Illinois State University

  Evidentiary Standards in the State of Illinois: The Interpretation and Implementation of Supreme Court Opinions

• Hugh Williams, Southern Illinois University

  The History of the Right to Free Counsel

Panel 1B: International Relations and Conflict

Chair: Sergio Mercado, Illinois State University
Discussant: Devadatta Gandhi, Illinois State University

• Diana Dobrovetsky, University of Illinois at Chicago

  The Economics of Civil War

• Jason Heretik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Counterinsurgency Lessons for the Afghan Case

• Jason Hutchison, Northwestern University

  The South China Sea: Confusion in Complexity

• Ajit Singh, University of Winnipeg (Canada)

  The Bush Doctrine: Creating Discord in International Security

Panel 1C: Community and Economic Development

Chair: Jeri Anne Hose, Illinois State University
Discussant: Ryan Stachelski, Illinois State University

• Emily IntVeld, Illinois State University

  Revitalizing Rural America Through Community and Economic Development Initiatives

• Nadia Negrustueva, Illinois State University

  Armed Conflict and the Community Development: Case Study

• Melanie Parkhurst, Illinois State University

  Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice: A Feminine Approach to Community Development

• Sally Peters, Illinois State University

  The Art of Building Community: The Role of the Arts in Community Development

Luncheon 12:00 to 12:30pm

"Innocent on Death Row: Exonerations and Reforms in the Criminal Justice System"

Edwin Colfax
Director of the Death Penalty Education Project
Center on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern University

Panel 2A: Global Politics and Economics

Chair: Linda Olsen, Illinois State University
Discussant: Anthony DiMaggio, Illinois State University

• Yingying Na, University of Oregon

  Explaining the Transformation of the Forms of FDI in China: Economic Approach or Political and Policy Explanation?

• Keith E. Noble, Miami University

  What Is Globalization & What Impact Has It Had On The African Continent?

• Dina Nurmukhametova, SUNJ Rutgers

  Redefining the Strategy of International Development: The Limitations of Rostow's Theory of Economic Growth

• Katie Robiadek, Michigan State University

  An Overview of Issues Concerning International and National Approaches to Global Climate Change Management: A Look at Japan

Panel 2B: Crime and Punishment

Chair: Marc Bacharach, Miami University
Discussant: Brandi Figari, Illinois State University

• Brian Page, Carleton College

  Plan Colombia: An Ineffective Policy

• Jonathan Reid, Illinois State University

  Cook County Public Defender's Office

• Mark Reynolds, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  The South China Sea: Confusion in Complexity

• Dana Van De Walker, Illinois State University

  Black Defendant, White Jurors: The Use and Misuse of the Peremptory Challenge in the U.S. Legal System

Panel 2C: Ideas About Community

Chair: Kate James, Illinois State University
Discussant: Morag Boyd, Illinois State University

• Zachary Callen, University of Chicago

  Imagining the City: Urban Politics and Imagined Communities

• Brian Kiger, Illinois State University

  Corporate and Community: Polar Opposites?

• Edward Matiasek, Illinois State University

  Fasten Your Safety Belts Kids: Security from the Local to the International

• Mitzi Ramos, University of Illinois at Chicago

  On the Road to Political Incorporation: the Status of Hispanics in the Town of Cicero, Illinois

Panel 3A: War and Peace

Chair: Candice Thomas, Illinois State University
Discussant: Dina Nurmukhametova, SUNJ Rutgers

• Vassilios Damiras, Loyola University Chicago and Oksana Koltko, Ivan Franko National University (Ukraine)/Elgin Community College

  A Political – Historical Analysis of the Greek Defense Doctrine 1974-2004: A Case of Reality or Utopia?

• Thomas Ethridge, Eastern Illinois University

  Small-State Foreign Policy: An Analysis of Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, Tonga, and Tuvalu

• Daniel Evans, Illinois State University

  Shadow Sovereignty and the Effects of Aid and the Global Economic System on Africa

• Kathleen Totoonchie, Boston College

  Hard and Soft Power in the Bush Doctrine: International Security and the War on Terror

Panel 3B: American Policy and Politics

Chair: Dusty Evernden, Illinois State University
Discussant: Dawn M. Peterson, Illinois State University

• Tyler Clapp, Millikin University

  The Battle Over Employee Rights to Unionize and Bargain Collectively in the Department of Homeland Security

• Cherry Crayton, North Carolina State University

  Typhoid Mary and Suck-Egg Mule: The Strange Relationship of Jesse Helms and the News Media

• Jeri Anne Hose, Illinois State University

  Faith Based and Community Initiative: Religion as Social Capital

• Jennifer Myers, Nebraska Wesleyan University

  Talking Politics: Influences on the Frequency of Political Conversation During the 2000 Presidential Election

Panel 3C: Marx, Lenin, and Machiavelli

Chair: Jon Remkus, Illinois State University
Discussant: Zachary Callen, University of Chicago

• Anthony DiMaggio, Illinois State University

  American Empire and the Legacy of Machiavelli

• Panos Voulgaris, Merrimack College

  Corporate and Community: Polar Opposites?

• Vanessa Walilko, DePaul University

  Revolution and the 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Panel 3D: Globalism and Development

Chair: Keith E. Noble, Miami University
Discussant: Muhammad Yusuf Farrakhan, Illinois State University

• Binette, Pennsylvania State University

  Compromising Emissions

• Marufjon Kuchkarov, Ferghana Polytechnic Institute (Uzbekistan)

  Uzbekistan-On the Way of Democracy {Due to US Embassay visa policies, Mr. Kuchkarov was unable to attend}

• Hannah Landis, Illinois State University

  Global Imperialism or Regional Development? A New Party Line

• Robert Morgan, Illinois State University

  Exposing The Effects of Agent Orange on Veterans and People Involved in the Vietnam War

• Kristin Leefers, Michigan State University

  The Course of Political Development in Uganda and its Effect on Economic Development

Closing Address

George H. Ryan - Governor, Illinois (1999-2003)
"My Decision and Why"