Panels for the 2000 ISA Annual Convention

PCSIR Panels at the 2000 ISA Convention

The following panels were listed as PCSIR Section Panels in the Final Program of the 2000 ISA Convention. (Please note that some panels had to be cancelled; in others, not all panelists appeared at the convention.)

Design for a New Europe

Chair: Christopher J. Fettweis, University of Maryland

"When Can International Institutions Change State Behavior? The Case of European Integration and Ethnic Politics"
Judith G. Kelley, Harvard University

"Contrast and Similarity between the Czech and Slovak Civil Society: Past and the Future"
Ruth DeHoog, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Luba Rucanska, St. John's University

"The New Regionalism: Sub-national Politics and Identity in Postcommunist Europe"
Jennifer A. Yoder, Colby College

Discussant: Rebecca J. Johnson, Georgetown University

Russia in the World: Integration or Isolation?

Chair: Victor Sergeyev, MGIMO-University

Roundtable Participants:

Marina Lebedeva, Moscow Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Ivan Tyulin, Moscow Institute of International Relations

Andrei Melville, Moscow Institute of International Relations

Discussants: Hayward R. Alker, University of Southern California
             Gail Lapidus, Stanford University

Security Dilemmas in Post-Communist Relations

Chair: Stephen J. Blank, U.S. Army War College "NATO vs. Yugoslavia: Economic Consequences"
Ljubisa S. Adamovich, Florida State University

"Concepts and Problems of Future War: Impact on Russian Foreign and Security Policy"
Peter Y. Rainow, Odessa University

"Russia and Euro-Atlantic Security Relations"
John F. Berryman, University of Wolverhampton

Discussant: Sheldon W. Simon, Arizona State University

Russia and Renewal

Chair: John F. Berryman, University of Wolverhampton

"Boris Yeltsin's Foreign Policy Legacy"
Robert H. Donaldson, University of Tulsa

"Old Lifeblood of a New Empire?"
Kirsten Westphal, Justus-Liebig University

"Elite Conflict and Neglected State-Building: Explaining Russian Instability"
Thomas Sherlock, U.S. Military Academy

Discussant: John F. Berryman, University of Wolverhampton

Integration: Post-Communist Evidence

Chair: Valentin V. Mandache, London School of Economics

"Putting Romania on the Map"
Annette Freyberg-Inan

"Construction and Management of Interdependence in a Hostile Region: Black Sea Economic Cooperation"
Ersel Aydinli, McGill University

Discussant: Valentin V. Mandache, London School of Economics

International Relations of Emergent Eurasia

Chair: Gregory Gleason, University of New Mexico

"Regional Common Market or Club: Prospect for the Former Soviet 'Muslim' Republics of the Persian Gulf"
Nozar Alaolmolki, Hiram College

"Toward an Explanation of Non-Conflict in Multi-Ethnic Central Asia"
Edward A.D. Schatz, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Caspian Sea Oil: A Contrary View of State Influence"
Elaine M. Jordan, Arizona State University

"The New Geopolitics of Central Asia"
Cagri Erdem, Syracuse University-Ph.D. Candidate

Discussant: Michael E. Aleprete, University of Pittsburgh

Norms and Nannies: The Impact of European Organizations on the East European States

Chair: Geoffrey Harris, European Parliament

"More than They Bargained For? The Approach of Romania and Bulgaria to NATO and the Impact of the Kosovo Crisis"
Ronald H. Linden, University of Pittsburgh

"NATO Norms and Civil-Military Relations in Poland: A Case of Successful Institutionalization"
Andrew Michta, Rhodes College

"European Integration and Hungarian Minority Rights: Changing Perspectives on Security"
Margit Bessenyey Williams

"Institutional Twinning in Central and Eastern Europe's Return to Europe"
Elena A. Iankova, Cornell University

Discussant: Geoffrey Harris, European Parliament

Reform and Restoration

Chair: To be announced

"Bringing the Empires Back In: Avenues of Enquiry into the National Identity Question in Moldova"
Valentin V. Mandache, London School of Economics

"Do Reforms Make a Difference? Chinese Opinion of Key International Partners: Evidence from Survey Research"
Pierre F. Landry, University of Mississippi

Discussant: To be announced

Post-Soviet Ethnic Orientation: Identity and Business

Chairs: Yvonne Schuetze, Humboldt University
        Ingrid Oswald, University of Magdeburg

Roundtable Participants:

Tamar Rapoport, Hebrew University

Jeroen Doomernik, University of Amsterdam

Olga Brednikova, Centre for Independent Social Research

Balkan Scenarios

Chair: Edward A.D. Schatz, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Yugoslav Diplomacy and the Kosovo Crisis"
Vatroslav S. Vekaric, Independent Center for Strategic Studies, Belgrade

"Refugees from the Former Yugoslavia: The Role of Diplomacy in Returning Refugees"
Vladimir Grecic, Institute for International Politics and Economics, Belgrade

"Democratic Politics and Russian Foreign Policy: The Duma and the Conflict in Kosovo"
Michael E. Aleprete, University of Pittsburgh

Discussant: Czeslaw Mesjasz, Krakow University of Economics