Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: An increasing number of developing countries engage in negotiations with industrialized nations over preferential trade and investment rules beyond WTO commitments. The resulting agreements are often highly asymmetrical in nature and designed to constrain host countries. At the same time, developed countries compete over access to emerging markets. How do these factors interact? Can developing countries increase their freedom to chose their own economic policies, or does the need to attract foreign capital eliminate all room for maneuvre? This paper analyzes the cases of the negotiations of the EU-Chile and US-Chile FTAs. It underscores the role of multinational corporations trying to influence bargains out of competitive concerns vis-�-vis other firms from the North. The key finding is that rather than providing a ?level playing field,? preferential trade and investment rules often directly reflect these firms? interests, and leave little regulatory competence with host country governments.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This paper argues that the differences among rich countries in terms of IPR enforcement result from the interaction between domestic level veto point institutional structures and the extent of the public goods nature of the products.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The importance of face-to-face communication during crises must not be ignored. Communication can succeed or fail. It is up to those involved in crises--participants or others asked to intervene--to make every effort, whenever possible, to prevent conflict. Nuclear weapons and other lethal threats pose tremendous danger to all nations whether North or South. Regional and global stability hang in the balance.One such incident--whose legacy continues to reverberate not only in Asia but around the world--was the North Korean nuclear crisis in the 1990s. In an effort to end the crisis, former President Jimmy Carter met with North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung in 1994. That summit helped to defuse--if only for a short time--a volatile situation in which the North-South divide was clearly evident.While the focal point of this case study is the Kim-Carter summit, the roles of President Bill Clinton and U.S. Ambassador James Laney during the crisis will also be examined. Research methodology for this study involves analysis of articles and books by participants and observers, government publications, interviews, academic journals, newspapers, wire service stories and magazines.Lessons from this incident might help lead to more cooperation between North and South nations and perhaps even result in the peaceful resolution of some crises.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Most of the literature on US foreign policy towards North Korea is problem-solving oriented. It questions the different paths Washington should follow to put an end to North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic ambitions. However, these writings fail to problematize the prevailing representation of those ambitions as a significant threat to U.S. national security, as well as the ends of US policies. Drawing mainly upon the work of Michel Foucault and on the theoretical approaches in international political sociology that have integrated his writings (e.g. the “Paris School” and several poststructuralist authors in IR), this paper argues that US foreign policy towards North Korea seeks first and foremost to “discipline and punish” that country. In the first part of my paper, I take a look at the dominant narratives about North Korea in the policymaking and strategic circles, considering those narratives as fundamental conditions of possibility for foreign policy. Since the end of the Cold War there has been a growing number of narratives producing a North Korean subjectivity which is associated with the criminal figure in U.S. civil society. Indeed, Pyongyang has been identified as a “rogue” and “outlaw” subject that needs to be monitored, disciplined, if not tamed. Such an identity construction process has been consolidated over the years and has become North Korea’s hegemonic representation in the U.S. The outlawing/othering of North Korea in the US dominant strategic discourse has thus made it an outsider in the international community. As a result, such metanarrative has limited the scope of possible political and diplomatic relations with Pyongyang and has led to a foreign policy of taming and subservience. In the second part, I illustrate that many aspects of both the Clinton and W. Bush administrations’ foreign policies – such as economic sanctions, diplomatic talks, military exercises, and nuclear inspections – can be understood as dispositifs of a power relations’ praxis towards North Korea.

Publication Type: Invited Paper
Abstract: There has been very little scholarly work done on the intersection of the histories of Native Indians, African Americans and Europeans. What has been done has been done independently by scholars with fragmented emphasis on the individual histories of each group. No scholar has ever gathered together all the historical data from all sources and locations to write a comprehensive history of the historical interactions of all three groups. Nor has any scholar attempted what this work will do, which is to map over four hundred years of African-American history in one area, which will not only allow students to see the community evolve over the past 400 years, it will also give students and scholars the ability to interact with the maps and photographs. This paper, using historical atlases, maps and manuscripts (colonial records, diaries, and journals) will tell the story of Indian Woods, which is located in eastern North Carolina.
This is an important study for several reasons. First it will for the first time document the fragmentary history of these three groups in eastern North Carolina and how they interacted with one another. Which will give us a clearer understanding of what happened to Native Americans in the Northeastern and Southeastern Woodlands. Second, the project will also introduce new digital technology, which has the potential to allow students of all levels (K-12, undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars) to examine and interact with history. Finally, this study will is interdisciplinary endeavor involving the research of both the Historians and Archaeologist. Through maps, Native American sites such as villages, burial grounds, trading posts, ceremonial grounds and battle sites will be identified as well as how African slaves and maroons interacted with Native Americans within these spaces. As we explore and understand more about Indian Woods and the creolization that occurred there, we will begin to understand more about what it means to be both American and African American.
This study uses maps, photographs, oral interviews, and archival materials to complete a detailed community history that covers over 400 years of recorded history. This work will serve as a model for how local histories can be written and should offer new historical insights into the relationships between Indians, Blacks, and Whites and how those relationships impact America today.