Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This has been a year of major distress for the American Intelligence Community (IC). Questionable intelligence about weapons of mass destruction led to questionable decisions about going to war in Iraq alienating large sectors of civil society and governments around the world. But that is only one of the major problems that spies and intelligence analysts face. This paper will focus on a largely taboo topic, the many ways by which intelligence tradecraft induces mental illness among many (not all) intelligence professionals. This leads in turn to many errors of every kind. It leads to difficulty learning from past mistakes, and coping with novel problems. It also leads to very high rates of divorce, alcoholism and pain among our spies and analysts. And finally, it leads to confusing friends with enemies. Of particular importance to the field of Peace Studies is the common confusion between peace activists and terrorists (or in an earlier era, with communists). When fear is great and security institutions are stressed to find bad guys, some of them literally cannot distinguish between peace activists and whoever the source of fear for the day is. Dissent is confused with treason. Thus did J. Edgar Hoover target civil rights activists, anti-war activists, labor activists and many others during the infamous COINTELPRO days. Some of the less stable people in our current FBI and DHS (Dept. of Homeland Security) are compiling lists of potential terrorists today that include peace activists, labor, liberals, human rights enthusiasts, environmentalists, etc. This problem is particularly acute in Joint Terrorism Taskforces that have been ordered to identify all potential terrorists in every county in America today. Since actual terrorists are rare and very hard to find, but peace activists are relatively abundant and easy to find, many populate such lists today. This paper looks at a larger range of clinical mental problems that are induced or exacerbated by the practices of IC agencies (called tradecraft in the jargon) and how such problems make working for peace more difficult during times of war. Paradoxically and tragically, they also make solving traditional and legitimate security problems of intelligence more difficult, and protecting our people harder too.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: How is homoerotic or same-sex desire between women represented visually and aurally in public culture? How is queer female desire constructed through the arts when it is located within specific cultural contexts? Is it possible to ‘read’ queer female desire against compulsory heteronormative associations of sexual identity through the contributions of women artists locally and globally? If so, could these sites serve as links between queer female identity and a transnational Queer Diaspora for the purposes of political action?

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Immigration is a controversial topic in the US and elsewhere. "Flores de otro mundo" (Spain, 1999: Icíar Bollaín) introduces the subject to Northamerican students from another perspective. The film also encourages discussion of gender issues, rural vs. urban environments in cultural identity, and the interplay of power and abuse.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper seeks to extend the literature on the state and technological change by examining Chinese efforts to promote the development of the domestic integrated circuit (IC) design industry. I review recent achievements of this industry and examine three government initiatives (Panda project, project 908 and 909) that aimed to stimulate its development. As part of these initiatives, the state invested into capital and/or R&D intensive nodes of the IC value chain in the hope that these investments will lower the entry barriers into the IC design for private firms. I argue that while these projects are widely considered examples of unsuccessful industrial policy, they have produced a number of positive outcomes for the development of the infant IC design industry. An alternative explanation which stresses the influx of capital and talent from the Greater China and the Chinese Diaspora misses the important complementarities between this influx and the role that the state played and continues to play in stimulating the development of the IC design industry. I conclude by reviewing Chinese government’s continuing efforts to promote the development of domestic high-tech industries through a policy of standard setting.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This study begins with the investigation of whether two related events, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the passage of the PATRIOT Act following the attacks, trigger an increase in the number of articles that have their main focus as the privacy rights and surveillance of individuals. Moreover, this paper explores how these two trigger events would influence the ways in which mainstream newspapers identify the constituencies that are undertaking surveillance and/or intruding privacy.

Informed by the research on framing analysis, this study also investigates newspaper ideology as a possible factor that influences how the trigger events lead to a change in the actors that are identified by newspaper articles as undertaking surveillance and/or intruding privacy. The trigger events and a newspapers’ endorsement of George W. Bush in 2000 elections were significant predictors of the change in the tendency of the newspapers to identify government institutions as undertaking surveillance. The trigger events were also found to have led to a decrease in the tendency of the newspapers to focus on private institutions as invading privacy and/or undertaking surveillance.