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Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper focuses on how political elites have drawn on collective memories and corresponding narratives to shape policies of intervention/ nonintervention from Kosovo to Iraq. An earlier glimpse of this can already be found in my paper Germany's New War: 11 Sept and Its Aftermath in German Quality Newspapers, German Politics, August 2002, pp. 128-145.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This study explores how different work attachment strategies of each state influence the employment and economic status of welfare leavers using the National Survey of America’s Family of 1999. The study explores this issue through logistic regression. First, it examines whether strict life-time limits and sanctions for noncompliance with work requirements are more likely than weak life-time limits and sanctions to influence the employment status and economic status of welfare leavers. Second, it examines whether high outcome of unsubsidized employment of each state are more likely than low outcome of unsubsidized employment of states to increase the employment and income status of welfare leavers. Finally, this study tries to find what factors significantly influence the employment and economic status of welfare leavers. This study finds that strict provision of life-time limits is more likely than weak provision to influence welfare leavers to have jobs. On the other hand, strict sanctions for noncompliance with work requirement are less likely than weak sanctions to increase the employment of welfare leavers. However, high outcome of unsubsidized employment of each state does not significantly relate to the employment and economic status of welfare leavers. The study contributes to our understandings of the impact of work attachment strategies on welfare leavers.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: My paper examines Polish-Russian relations from the time of Poland joining NATO in 1999 to the crisis of summer 2005, when tensions between the countries escalated to the point of beatings of Polish diplomatic personnel in Moscow by "hooligans."

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This paper explores the interconnections among U.S.-based global justice networks and the rise of anti-corporate globalization struggles elsewhere across the world.

Nearly 50,000 people from across the world took to the streets to protest corporate globalization at the World Trade Organization (WTO) meetings in Seattle on November 30, 1999. A diverse coalition of environmental, labor, and economic justice activists shut down the meetings and prevented another round of trade liberalization talks. Media images of giant puppets, tear gas, and street clashes between protesters and police were broadcast worldwide, bringing the WTO and a novel form of collective action into view. On the one hand, the “Battle of Seattle” was the culmination of several years of transnational activist networking, including international forums such as Peoples Global Action and the Zapatista Encuentros. On the other hand, Seattle inspired similar actions around the world in cities such as Prague, Quebec, Barcelona, Genoa, Cancun, and Hong Kong. Indeed, global justice activists in distant locales have communicated via internet-based listserves, websites, and projects such as the Independent Media Center. The innovative networking technologies, forms, and practices developed in Seattle were thus shaped by and constitutive of emerging transnational fields of activism.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This study examines spatial analysis of domestic violence location, in a mid size city in Kentucky. Using data from all domestic violence police reports, for the years 1999 to 2001, this paper focuses on analyzing locational characteristics of the domestic violence arrest cases. Based on the environmental criminological perspective and using crime mapping tool, the current study examines domestic violence clustering pattern, its displacement, offender’s travel to crime, and exploring neighborhood characteristics and environmental linkages to domestic violence. Preliminary results indicate clustering of domestic violence in and around low income public housing and half way houses. An interesting aspect of the study is that most of the victims reside in and around low income public housing. The study results reveal that a good proportion of the offenders stay outside the victim’s location and they travel to commit domestic violence. This study will explore spatial and neighborhood association with domestic violence locations and offenders mobility patterns. This current study is interested in analyzing any crime opportunity structure conducive to commit domestic violence and is there any spatial context to the opportunity structure.