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Abstract: This cross-cultural investigation examines the relationship between fear of negative evaluation, affect for communication channels (i.e., email versus face-to-face), and self-reports of communication competence. Participants from both Japan (N = 146) and the United States (N = 325) responded to three scales, Fear of Negative Evaluation (Leary, 1983), Affect for Communication Channels Scale (Kelly & Keaten, 2005), and a measure of communication competence. Cross-cultural differences were discovered on reports of fear of negative evaluation, CMC use, and self-reported competence. The factors predicting channel usage in a difficult personal situation (e.g., competence and general email usage), however, were quite similar across Japanese and U.S. participants.

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Abstract: The recognition of the significance of biological diversity and the current debate on intellectual property rights at the international arena have brought the struggle over genetic resources to a new level. In this context, the notion of farmers' rights,

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Abstract: The study of media richness and its relationship with media selection has undergone change throughout is existence and has produced varying results. Initially, media richness for various media was thought to be static across users. The level of media richness of a medium was thought to dictate a degree of desirability for the use of such a medium in communication situations depending upon the equivocality of those situations. Later research demonstrated that media richness is not a static feature but more of a perception of a user. Both early and later research have strengths that aren’t shared. Given that throughout the research of media richness, the focus has always been on making a proper media decision based on the needs of a situation, the relational interpersonal communication competence framework offers a means by which the strengths of the early and later research of media richness may be combined. By means of an online questionnaire, interpersonal competence was shown to have a relationship with both early and later media richness research. Suggestions for future research involving media richness, interpersonal competence, and media selection are included.

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Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The relationship between interstate war duration and interstate war outcomes has not
received sufficient attention in the current conflict literature. Research in international relations
has focused on either war duration or war termination separately. However, this
literature does not examine the link between the length of a war and its eventual ending.
Studies of war duration only examine those factors associated with the length of a war and
do not consider how a particular war ends. They, therefore, examine the average effect a
covariate has on all potential war outcomes. However, there is reason to believe that the two
dimensions, duration and outcome, may in fact be interdependent. That is, as a war evolves
the costs and benefits of continuing the war are likely to vary and thus alter the probability
of the war ending in a particular way. In turn the probability of war outcomes affects the
survival time of the war since a war ceases to be at risk when it ends. Thus, there is an
interdependent relationship between war duration and outcome.
We model the interdependence between war duration and outcomes using a competing
risks duration model (Box-Steffensmeier and Jones 2004) on a sample of interstate wars for
the period 1816-2001. The competing risks approach treats outcomes as a set of possible alternative
endings during the course of a war and models the relative probability for particular
outcomes as competing risks. By considering alternative endings, the competing risks model
allows us to obtain a more refined effect of the covariates for different types of outcomes.

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Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: While China's accession to the World Trade Organization has justifiably received detailed attention from policymakers, scholars, and journalists alike, Beijing's growing participation in the emerging trade and monetary regionalism of East Asia is a less-studied phenomenon. Drawing upon the general IPE literature on regionalism, this paper will examine alternative explanations for China's growing participation in East Asian regionalism. The paper will place China's participation in various aspects of regionalism in the context of Beijing's larger foreign policy orientation, including its emerging grand strategy for the new millennium. From this analysis, the paper will also consider the implications of China's views of, and behavior toward, intergovernmental cooperation for the evolving shape of East Asian regionalism. By any measure, China casts an increasingly large shadow over the region's economic and security affairs. In this respect, the paper aims not just to understand the nature and sources of Chinese policy but also to consider their likely impact on prospects for deeper regionalism in East Asia