First Annual Graduate Student Conference on International Relations

Department of Government and Politics - University of Maryland
Juan Ramon Jimenez Room – Stamp Student Union
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 

9:00-9:30: Breakfast and Welcome

9:30-10:45: Panel 1

Molly Inman: Internal Threats and State Treatment of Civilians
Rodrigo Pinto: Transnational Collective Action via Biodiversity and Bioenergy Dynamics: Two-Level Activist Processes 1789-2009
Michael D. Beevers: Discourse in the Global Public Sphere: (Re) Imagining Global Environmental Governance

Discussants: Jennifer Wallace and Rabih Helou
Chair: Dr. Virginia Haufler

11:00-12:15: Panel 2 

Jonathan N. Brown: The Negotiation and Design of Strategic Access Agreements: The US-Philippines Case, 1946-1883
Anthony S. Marcum: The Rational Selection of Military Occupation
Jonathan N. Brown and Anthony S. Marcum: Domestic Political Accountability and Concessions in Public versus Private Diplomacy

Discussants: Cyanne Loyle and Alma M. Gottlieb-McHale
Chair: Dr. Paul Huth

12:30-1:30: Lunch

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Michael E. Brown, Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at The George Washington University

Dr. Michael E. Brown's Tips for Getting Published

1:30-2:45: Panel 3

Michael K. McDonald: Pharmaceuticals, Patents and US Trade Policy
Stephanie Bier: The European Court of Justice and Member State Relations: A Constructivist Analysis of the European Legal Order
Quddus Snyder: Liberal Process and the Great Power Confederacy

Discussants: Shana Marshall and Shanthi Gonzales
Chair: Dr. Soo Yeon Kim

2:45-3:00: Afternoon Snack

3:00-4:15: Panel 4

Jacob Aronson: Political Economy of International Security Institutions
Jesse-Douglas Mathewson: An Occupation with Democratization: American Intervention in Germany, Japan and Iraq
Jung-Ming Chang: Extended Deterrence and Taiwan’s Public Opinion

Discussants: Javiera Alarcon and Mike Lebson
Chair: Dr. George Quester