ISUCSPS Conference Paper Awards

Best Undergraduate Student Papers:
(1st, 2nd and 3d places)

Jason Hutchison, The South China Sea: Confusion in Complexity

Jason Heretik, Counterinsurgency Lessons for the Afghan Case

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

Best Graduate Student Papers
(1st, 2nd and 3d places)

Nadia Negrustueva, Armed Conflict and the Community Development: Case Study

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

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

Award for the Best Paper on the Middle East/ South Asia

Jason Heretik, Counterinsurgency Lessons for the Afghan Case

12th Annual Illinois Conference For Students Of Poltical Science - April 8, 2004

Session 1 - 9:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

Panel 1A 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 and Keynote Speaker

Edwin Colfax - Director of the Death Penalty Education Project, Center on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern University
"Innocent on Death Row: Exonerations and Reforms in the Criminal Justice System"

Session 2: 1:15p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

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 - Three Strikes in California
• 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

Session 3: 3:00p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Panel 3a.  War and Peace

Chair: Candice Thomas, Illinois State University

• Discussant: Dina Nurmukhametova, SUNJ Rutgers
• Vassilios Damiras, Loyola University Chicago & 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 - Machiavelli: The Enduring Enigma 
• 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"