GVPT Professor Discusses Her Latest Book on BookTV

Frances Lee, author of "Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partnership in the U.S. Senate," discusses the book on C-SPAN's literary program.

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February 17
Genny Mayhew, “When, Where and How To Vote: Four Large Scale Field Experiments on Mobilization To Vote by Mail, Early in Person and on Election Day”
Discussants: Mike Hanmer and Jeff Taylor

March 2
Dror Yuravlivker, “Strategic Behavior and Lame Duck Sessions of Congress”
Discussants: TBA

March 16
TBA

March 30
David Karol, “Forcing Their Hands?: Explaining Trends in Retirement Announcement Timing in the U.S. Congress”
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April 27
Antonio Rodriguez and Stella Rouse, The Impact of Social Networks on Latino Attitudes and Political Participation”
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May 11
Jan Leighley (Guest Speaker)

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March 6
Mike Horowitz

March 12
Kathleen Cunnignham

April 9
Sean Zeigler

Apr 16
Kyle Beardsley (from Emory)

April 30
Vera Mironova and William Reed

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February 15
Jonathan Fox, "Is it Really God's Century? An Evaluation of Religious Legislation and Discrimination from 1990 to 2008"
Discussants: John McCauley and Chris Meserole

March 14
TBA

April 18
Dana Fisher, TBA
Discussants: Mark Lichbach and Carla Abdo

May 2
Dan Corstange and Agatha Hultquist, "Silent Support: Examining Public Attitudes toward Terrorism in the Middle East"
Discussants: Kanisha Bond and Deniz Cil

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November 2
11 AM, 1136 Tydings Hall
Robinson Woodward-Burns, "Divided Liberalism: Tocqueville and Emerson on the Jacksonian Democrats"

Allee, Todd, and Clint Peinhardt. 2011. “Devil in the Details? The Investment Effects of Dispute Settlement Variation in Bilateral Investment Treaties.” In The Yearbook on Investment Law and Policy 2010/2011, edited by Karl P. Sauvant. New York: Oxford University Press.

Calvo, Ernesto and Eduardo Aleman. "Explaining Policy Ties in the Argentine and Chilean Congresses: A Network Analysis of Bill Initiation Data." Political Studies. Forthcoming.

Calvo, Ernesto and Maria Victoria Murillo. “When Parties Meet Voters: Partisan Networks and Distributive Expectations in Argentina and Chile.” Comparative Political Studies (CPS). Forthcoming.

Lee, Frances E. 2011. “Making Laws and Making Points: Senate Governance in an Era of Uncertain Majorities.” The Forum 9 (4)

Rouse, Stella M. and Sill, Kaitlyn, and Emily Metzgar. Forthcoming 2012. “Media Coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court: How Do Journalists Assess the Importance of Court Decisions?” Political Communication.

Tismaneanu, Vladimir. The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and a Few Lessons from the 20th Century, forthcoming, University of California press (August 2012)

Tismaneanu, Vladimir. The Revolutions of 1989 and the Resurgence of History, with Bogdan Iacob, Central European University Press, (May 2012)

Tismaneanu, Vladimir. "The Fate of Marxism in Eastern Europe: Fulfilment or Bastardization?", in Jeffrey C. Isaac, ed., Marx and Engels, 'The Communist Manifesto', Yale University Press, 2012

Tismaneanu, Vladimir. "The Grandeur and Decay of Secular Religions," in Camil Ungureanu, ed., Religion in Democracy: A Dilemma of Modernity, Iasi: Polirom, 2011, pp. 312-325

Tismaneanu, Vladimir. "Communism: From Marx to Lenin and the Afterlife," in Sergiu Musteata and Igor Casu, eds, No Statute of Limitations: Aspects of the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism in Europe, Chisinau: Cartier, 2011, pp. 13-24.

Uslaner, Ric with Kerem Ozan Kalkan “American Public Support for Turkey After World War II.” In Nur Bilge et al., eds., American Turkish Encounters: Politics and Culture, 1830-1989, Newcastle-upon-Thyme (UK): Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, 219-235.

Uslaner, Ric. “Corruption, the Inequality Trap, and Trust in Government.” In Sonja Zmerli and Marc Hooghe, eds., Political Trust: Why Contact Matters. Colchester (UK): ECPR Press, 2011, 141-162.

Uslaner, Ric. “Generalized Trust Questions.” In John H. Aldrich and Kathleen M. McGraw, Improving Public Opinion Surveys. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, 101- 112.

Wilkenfeld, Jonathan, with Joseph Hewitt, and Ted Gurr, Peace and Conflict 2012. Boulder, CO, Paradigm, 2012.

Wilkenfeld, Jonathan, with Pelin Eralp, David Quinn "Delivering Peace: Options for Mediators in African Intrastate Crises," in Hewitt et al., Peace and Conflict 2012. Boulder, CO, Paradigm 2012.

Allee, Todd and Clint Peinhardt. 2011. Contingent Credibility: The Reputational Effects of Investment Treaty Disputes on Foreign Direct Investment. International Organization 65(3): 401-432.

Banks, Antoine J. and Nicholas A. Valentino "The Emotional Substrates of White Racial Attitudes" American Journal of Political Science, forthcoming

Bond, Kanisha, with Navin Bapat, "Alliances amongst Militant Groups" British Journal of Political Science, (Forthcoming).

Butterworth, Charles. "Arabic Contributions to Medieval Political Theory," in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy, ed. George Klosko (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 164-179.

Croco, Sarah. "The Decider’s Dilemma: Leader Culpability, War Outcomes, and Domestic Punishment." American Political Science Review, August Issue, 2011.

Gimpel, James G., Lee, Frances E., and Bramlett, Brittany, 2011. “The Political Ecology of Opinion in Big- Donor Neighborhoods,” Political Behavior 33: 565-600.

Gurr, Ted R. Why Men Rebel, 40th Anniversary Edition, Paradigm Publishers, Boulder, CO.

Gurr, Ted R. Coming of Age in the West 1883-1906, A Memoir by Will E. Gurr, with J. Joseph Hewitt, Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Paradigm Publishers.

Herrnson, Paul. Congressional Elections: Campaigning at Home and in Washington (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, forthcoming).

Herrnson, Paul. Interest Groups Unleashed, edited book with Clyde Wilcox and Christopher Deering (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, forthcoming).

Herrnson, Paul and James Curry. Issue Voting and Partisan Defections in Congressional Elections," Legislative Studies Quarterly, vol. 36 (2011): 281-307.

Herrnson, Paul, Hanmer, Mike, and Dick Niemi's article "The Impact of Ballot Type on Voter Errors" American Journal of Political Science (forthcoming).

Lee, Frances E, Davidson, Roger H., and Walter J. Oleszek. 2012. Congress and Its Members. 13th Edition. (Washington, DC: CQ Press).

Lee, Frances E. "Individual and Partisan Activism on the Senate Floor" in From Delay to Dysfunction: The U.S. Senate, 1960-2010, ed. Burdett A. Loomis (Washington, DC: CQ Press).

McKenzie, Brian D. 2011. “Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright and Public Opinion in the 2008 Presidential Primaries.” Political Psychology, 32 (6):1-19. (forthcoming)

Rouse, Stella and Bratton, Kathleen A. "Networks in the Legislative Arena: How Group Dynamics Affect
Cosponsorship." Legislative Studies Quarterly, Vol 45 (3):423-60.

Tismaneanu, Vladimir. On Communism. The Fate of a Political Religion. Humanitas Publishing House, Bucharest, 2011 (in Romanian).

Tismaneanu, Vladimir. On the Revolutionary Year 1989. The Shipwreck of Utopia. Tirana, Albania (in Albanian).

Tismaneanu, Vladimir. "Democracy and the Communist Past in Romania", chapter in Ronald F. Kig and Paul E. Sum, eds., Romania under Basescu: Aspirations, Achievements, and Frustrations during His First Presidential Term. Rowman and Littlefield, Lexington Books, 2011, pp. 21-30.

Tismaneanu, Vladimir. "Suspended," Review of James Mark, The Unfinished Revolution: Making Sense of the Communist Past in Central-Eastern Europe. Times Literary Supplement, August 12, 2011, p. 24

Uslaner, Ric. "Corruption and Inequality," CESifo DICE Report, Institute for Economic Research, Munich, Germany, 20-24.

Uslaner, Ric "Measuring Interpersonal Trust: In Defense of the Standard Question." In Fergus Lyon, Guido Möllering, Mark Sanders and Tally Hatzakis, eds. Handbook of Research Methods on Trust, (London: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2011).

Shechter, Benli M. "Why Bell Matters." Society, Vol. 48, No. 5, September 2011.

Birnir, Jóhanna K. and Nil S. Satana. "Religion and Coalition Politics." Comparative Political Studies, Forthcoming.

Birnir, Jóhanna K. and David Waguespack. "Economic Policy and Relevant Ethnic Groups. Party Politics, March 2011.

Calvo, Ernesto. “Legislator Success in Committee: Gatekeeping Authority and the Loss of Majority Control” American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 55, No. 1, January 2011.

Calvo, Ernesto. “El rol de las comisiones permanents en las legislaturas de América Latina: un test del modelo informative de éxito legislative” Revista Latinoamericana de Politica Comparada.

Croco, Sarah with Paul Huth and Ben Appel. “Does International Law Promote the Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes? Evidence from the Study of Territorial Conflicts since 1945." APSR, forthcoming.

Calvo, Ernesto. “Centripetal and Centrifugal Incentives under Different Electoral Systems” American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 55, No. 1, January 2011.

Gimpel, James G., Frances E. Lee and Rebecca U. Thorpe, 2011. “The Wellsprings of Candidate Emergence: The Distinctive Origins of Statewide Candidates.”Political Geography (January).

Huth, Paul with Ben Appel and Natsuko Nicholls "When Is Domestic Political unrest Related to International Conflict? Diversionary Theory and Japanese Foreign Policy, 1890-1941." ISQ, December 2010.

Lee, Frances E and Eric Schickler. 2011. The Oxford Handbook of Congress (New York: Oxford University Press).

Oppenheimer, Joe. Principles of Politics: Propositions from Rational Choice Theory. Forthcoming.

Oppenheimer, Joe with Wendel and Frohlich, “Paradox Lost: Explaining and Modeling Seemingly Random Individual Behavior in Social Dilemmas” Journal of Theoretical Politics Volume 23 Issue 2, April 2011: pp. 165-187.

Rouse, Stella and Swers, Michele L. 2011. "Descriptive Representation : Understanding the Impact of Identity on Substantive Representation of Group Interests," in The Oxford Handbook of the American Congress, eds. Eric Schickler and Frances E. Lee, New York: Oxford University Press.

Tismaneanu, Vladimir, ed. Promises of 1968: Crisis, Illusion, Utopia. Central European University Press, 2011.

Tismaneanu, Vladimir. The Anatomy of Resentment. Bucharest: Curtea Veche Publishing, 2010.

Tismaneanu, Vladimir. "Coming to Terms with a Traumatic Past: Reflections on Democracy, Atonement, and Memory." History of Communism in Europe, Vol. 1, No. 1.

Tismaneanu, Vladimir "In a Malaise", a review of Stephen Hanson's book "Post-Imperial Democracies" (Cambridge UP, 2010), in "Times Literary Supplement," April 1, 2011, p. 5.

Tismaneanu, Vladimir "Myths, Prejudices, and Stereotypes", a review of Andrei Oisteanu's book "Inventing the Jew" (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2009), in "Society" Vol. 48, No. 1, January-February 2011, pp. 93-95.

Uslaner, Ric: Japanese translation of Corruption, Inequality, and the Rule of Law. Nippon Hyoron Sha (Press), Tokyo.

Uslaner, Ric “Trust, Diversity, and Segregation in the United States and the United Kingdom,” Comparative Sociology, v. 10 (2011), pp. 221-246. Expanded version in Masamichi Sasaki and Robert M. Marsh, eds., Trust: Comparative Perspectives. Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill Publishers.

Uslaner, Ric. “Segregation, Trust, and Minorities.” Ethnicities, v. 10 (2010).

Uslaner, Ric. “Tax Evasion, Corruption, and the Social Contract in Transition,” in James Alm, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Benno Torgler (eds.), Developing Alternative Frameworks for Explaining Tax Compliance (London: Routledge, 2010).

Uslaner, Ric. “Corruption,” in Michael Johnston, ed., Sage Library of Political Science: Public Sector Corruption, v. 3 (Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2010).

Appel, Benjamin, Paul K. Huth, and Sarah E. Croco. 2011. "Does International Law Promote the Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes? Evidence from the Study of Territorial Conflicts since 1945" American Political Science Review. 105,2.

Brown, Jonathan N. and Marcum, Anthony S. "Avoiding Audience Costs: Domestic Political Accountability and Concessions in Crisis Diplomacy." Security Studies, Forthcoming.

Beevers, Michael D. (with Richard Matthew and Renard Sexton). 2010. Sierra Leone: Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding Assessment. United Nations Environment Programme Technical Report. Geneva: UNEP.

Beevers, Michael D. Forthcoming May 2011. "Forest Resources and Peacebuilding: Preliminary Observations from Liberia and Sierra Leone." In High Value Natural Resources and Peacebuilding edited by Paivi Lujala and Siri Aas Rustad. London: Taylor and Francis.

Bramlett, Brittany and Yoder, Stephen “What Happens at the Journal Office Stays at the Journal Office: Assessing Journal Transparency and Record-Keeping Practices.” PS April 2011.

Shechter, Benli M. “In Memoriam: Daniel Bell (1919-2011): Why Bell Matters.” Society, Vol. 48, No. 4, July/August 2011 [Forthcoming].

Wallace, Jennifer. "Managing Forest Conflict in Asia: An Assessment of USAID's Strategies and Experience." Asian Journal of Environment and Disaster Management. Vol. 2, No. 1 (2010)

Butterworth, Charles “Getting Islam Straight,” in Political Cultures and the Culture of Politics:  A Transatlantic Perspective, ed. Jürgen Gebhardt (Publications of the Bavarian-American Academy, vol. 9; Heidelberg).

Butterworth, Charles “Political Philosophy and Political Thought in the Medieval Arabic-Islamic Tradition of the Middle East,” in The Sage Handbook of Islamic Studies, ed. Akbar S. Ahmed and Tamara Sonn (Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage Publications, 2010), 140-159.

Butterworth, Charles, “Early Thought,” in A Companion to Muslim Ethics, ed. Amyn Sajoo (Institute of Ismaili Studies Muslim Heritage Series; London: I.B. Tauris, 2010), 31-51.

Butterworth, Charles, adaptation of “Ethical and Political Philosophy,” in The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, ed. Richard C. Taylor and Peter A. Adamson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 266-286.

Calvo, Ernesto and Timothy Hellwig. "Centripetal and Centrifugal Incentives under Different Electoral Systems." American Journal of Political Science (AJPS). (Forthcoming).

Calvo, Ernesto and Inaki Sagarzazu. "Legislator Success in Committee: Gatekeeping Authority and the Loss of Majority Control". American Journal of Political Science (AJPS). (Forthcoming).

Calvo, Ernesto and Katz, Gabriel, Michael Alvarez, Marcelo Escolar, Julia Pomares. "Assessing the Impact of Alternative Voting Technologies on Multi-party Elections: Design Features, Heuristic Processing and Voter Choice." Political Behavior. (Forthcoming).

Glass, Jim. "Romancing Sovereignty: Democracy and Its Discontents." Political Theory (October 2010).

Kastner, Scott, "Is China a status quo or revisionist state? Leadership travel abroad as an empirical indicator of foreign policy priorities" (with Phillip Saunders), forthcoming, International Studies Quarterly.

Lee, Frances. 2010. “Senate Deliberation and the Future of Congressional Power.” P.S.: Political Science and Politics (April).

Lee, Frances and Schickler, Eric, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Congress (New York: Oxford University Press). Forthcoming 2011.

Morris, Irwin. “The American Presidency: An Analytical Approach.” 2010. Cambridge University Press.

Morris, Irwin.  “Explaining Presidential Greatness: The Roles of Peace and Prosperity?” With Jill Gloekler. 2010. Presidential Studies Quarterly.

Morris, Irwin, and M.V. Hood III and Quentin Kidd. 2010. “A Report on the Reintroduction of the Elephas maximus in the Southern United States: Explaining the Rise of Republican State Parties, 1960-2006—An Update.” in Controversies in Voting Behavior. 5th edition. Edited by David C. Kimball, Richard Niemi, and Herbert Weisberg. Washington, DC: CQ Press.

Oppenheimer, Joe, Stephen Wendel and Norman Frohlich. Paradox Lost: Explaining and Modeling Individual Behavior in Social Dilemmas. Journal of Theoretical Politics. (Forthcoming).

Pearson, Margaret. "Domestic Institutional Constraints on China's Leadership in East Asian Economic Cooperation Mechanisms," Journal of Contemporary China, vol 19 (66), July 2010.

Rouse, Stella M., Betina Cutaia Wilkinson, and James Garand. 2010. "Divided Loyalties? Understanding Variation in Latinos' Attitudes Toward Immigration." Social Science Quarterly, Vol 91, Issue 3, pp 856-882.

Rouse, Stella M., "Networks in the Legislative Arena: How Group Dynamics Affect Cosponsorship." With Kathleen A. Bratton in Legislative Studies Quarterly (Forthcoming).

Telhami, Shibley. "Do Arab Governments Want to See a Military Attack on Iran?" The National Interest.

Tismaneanu, Vladimir, "Histrionic Marxism: A Polemic with G. M. Tamas", Revista 22 (Bucharest), July 20, 2010

Tismaneanu, Vladimir, "In Memoriam Robert C. Tucker: Mentor, Political Scientis, Friend," Revista 22 (Bucharest), August 12, 2010.

Tismaneanu, Vladimir, "In Memoriam Tony Judt: A great Citizen of the Republic of Letters," Evenimentul Zilei (Bucharest), August 19, 2010

Uslaner, Ric, "Trust and the Economic Crisis of 2008," Corporate Reputation Review, v. 13 (Summer 2010), 98-109.

Uslaner, Ric, “Tax Evasion, Corruption, and the Social Contract in Transition,” in James Alm, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Benno Torgler (eds.), Developing Alternative Frameworks for Explaining Tax Compliance (London: Routledge, 2010), pp. 206-225.

Ward, Ian, "Democracy After Secularism" Fall 2010, The Good Society.

Yoder, Stephen, and Brittany Bramlett. "What Happens at the Journal Office Stays at the Journal Office: Assessing Journal Transparency and Record Keeping Practices." PS: Political Science and Politics (Forthcoming).

Alford, Fred. Narrative, Nature and the Natural Law: From  Aquinas to International Human Rights. New York. Palgrave Macmillan: 2010.

Birnir, Johanna K. (2010). "Where are the Disgruntled Voters? Testing the Voter-Parties Relationship Implication of the Cartel Party Model." Party Politics. Vol. 16(1):29-49.

Conca, Ken and Jennifer Wallace. "Environment and Peacebuilding in War-Torn Societies: Lessons from the UN Environment Programme's Experience with Postconflict Assessment," Global Governance Vol 15, No. 4 (Oct-Dec 2009), 485-504.

Butterworth, Charles. “Blinkered Politics: The US Approach to Arabs and Muslims,” in Citizenship, Security and Democracy: Muslim Engagement with the West, ed. Wanda Krause (London & Ankara: AMSS & SETA, 2009), 115-122 and 260-264.

Butterworth, Charles. “The Role of Rhetoric in Averroes’s Short Commentaries on Aristotle’s Logic,” in Literary and Philosophical Rhetoric in the Greek, Roman, Syriac and Arabic Worlds, ed. Frédérique Woerther (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2009), 185-196.

Butterworth, Charles. “Islamic Political Philosophy,” in Encyclopedia of Political Theory, ed. Mark Bevir (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2010).

Haufler, Virginia. "The Kimberley Process, Club Goods, and Public Enforcement of a Private Regime," in Prakash and Potoski, eds. Voluntary Programs: A Club Theory Perspective (MIT Press 2009)

Haufler, Virginia. "Transnational Actors and Global Environmental Governance," in Delmas and Young, eds. Governance for the Environment (Cambridge University Press 2009).

Lee, Frances E. 2010. “Senate Deliberation and the Future of Congressional Power.” P.S.: Political Science and Politics (April).

Ross, Ashley D., Stella M. Rouse, and Kathleen A. Bratton. 2010. "Latino Representation and Education: Pathways to Latino Student Performance." State Politics and Policy Quarterly, Issue 10, Volume 1.

Rouse, Stella M., Betina Cutaia Wilkinson, and James Garand. "Divided Loyalties? Understanding Variation in Latinos' Attitudes Toward Immigration." Forthcoming, September 2010 at Social Science Quarterly.

Tismaneanu, Vladimir. On 1989. The Shipwreck of Utopia. Bucharest: Humanitas Publishing House, 2009.

Tismaneanu, Vladimir. Stalinism Revisited: The Establishment of Communist Regimes in East-Central Europe. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2009.

Tismaneanu, Vladimir. Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism and Myth in Post-Communist Europe. Paperback, Princeton University Press, 2009.

Tismaneanu, Vladimir. "The Demise of Leninism and the Future of Liberal Values," pp. 221-242 in Costica Bradatan and Serguei Oushakine, eds., In Marx's Shadow: Knowledge, Power, and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2010).

Tismaneanu, Vladimir. “A Faustian Pact,” book review, Times Literary Supplement, January 1, 2010, p. 10.

Uslaner, Eric. Corruption, Inequality, and the Rule of Law: The Bulging Pocket Makes the Easy Life: Paperback Edition. Cambridge: 2010.

Biggers, Daniel. "When Ballot Issues Matter: Social Issue Ballot Measures and Their Impact on Turnout." Political Behavior, Forthcoming.

Chomiak, Laryssa. "Elections in Ukraine signal important turn on the road to democracy." Op-Ed, Christian Science Monitor. January 18, 2010.

Creek, Heather M. and Kimberly A. Karnes. “Federalism and Election Law: Implementation Issues in Rural America” in The Journal of Federalism, pp.1-21.

Newton, Benjamin Patrick. "Thucydidean Answers to Nietzschean Questions: What is Religious?", in Polis: The Journal of the Society for Greek Political Thought, Volume 27 Issue 1. 2010.

Pinto, Rodrigo G. “Environmental Activism,” in Robert Denemark, ed., The International Studies Compendium Project (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).

Shechter, Benli M. "Review of Donald C. Hodges, Deep Republicanism: Prelude to Professionalism" in The Good Society, Volume 18, Number 2 2009: 69-72.

Hanmer, Michael, Dick Niemi and Tom Jackson. "Where Can College Students Vote?: A Legal and Empirical Perspective." Election Law Journal, 2009, 8:327-348.

Huth, Paul K., Sarah E. Croco and Benjamin A. Valentino. "Bear Any Burden? How Democracies Minimize the Costs of War." The Journal of Politics, forthcoming.

Huth, Paul K., Benjamin J. Appel and Natsukho H. Nicholls. “When is Domestic Political Unrest Related to International Conflict?: Diversionary Theory and Japanese Foreign Policy, 1890-1941.” International Studies Quarterly, forthcoming.

Reed, William and Daina Chiba. "Decomposing the Relationship Between Contiguity and Militarized Conflict." American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 54, No. 1 (Jan., 2010)

Tismaneanu, Vladimir. "They Wanted to Be Free," review essay on the revolutions of 1989. Times Literary Supplement, October 30, 2009

Tismaneanu, Vladimir, "The Peaceful Revolutionaries of '89." "East" (Italy), No. 26, October 2009.

Uslaner, Ric and Mark Lichbach, "Identity versus Identity: Israel and Evangelicals and the Two-Front War for Jewish Votes." Politics and Religion, 2 (2009): 395-419.

Marshall, Shana. "Money for Nothing? Offsets in the U.S.-Middle East Defense Trade." International Journal of Middle East Studies." 41(4): 551-53.

Schneider, Mary Kate and John H. Riley, Jr. 2010. “Congressional Oversight of U.S. Intelligence,” in Homeland Security and Intelligence, Keith Logan (ed.), Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.

Shechter, Benli M. "The Young Karl Marx by David Leopold." Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, Fall 2009: Volume 37, Issue 1: 105-113.

February 14 Doctoral Students: Nomination of Dissertation Committee Form due for May 2012 Graduation

February 15 Graduate financial aid applications due

February 24 Application deadline for the Minor in International Development and Conflict Management

March 2 M.A. Students: Approved Program Form due for May 2012 Graduation

April 1 Comprehensive exam applications for students taking August 2012 exam due

April 23 Doctoral Students: Dissertation and Examining Committee Report due for May 2012 Graduation. Final copies of completed online dissertation due.

May 1 M.A.Students: Certification of Non-thesis option form due for May 2012 Graduation

May 10 Last Day of Classes

May 11 Reading Day

May 20 Commencement - UMD Ceremony

May 21 Commencement - BSOS Ceremony

May 28 Memorial Day Holiday

May 29 Summer Session I

June 4 Doctoral Students: Nomination of Dissertation Committee Form due for August 2012 Graduation

July 9 Summer Session II

July 13 Diploma Application Deadline for August 2012 Graduation

July 13 M.A. Students: Approved Program Form due for August 2012 Graduation

August 3 Doctoral Students: Dissertation and Examining Com. Report due for Aug 2012 Graduation. Final copies of completed online diss. due

August 10 M.A. Students: Certification of Non-thesis option form due for August 2012 Graduation

August 29 First Day of Class – Fall 2012 semester