Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: In the paper I would like to deal with international anti-corruption issues in the perspectives of international political economy such as interdependence, dependence, and statist theories. My research focuses on the comparative analysis of two different regions-western region such as North America & West Europe and non-western region such as Asia & Latin America concerning about international anti-corruption issues. In the research I want to answer to the three issues: ⑴ similarities and differences of western and non-western views in the field of international anti-corruption, ⑵ prospects and programs of forming international anti-corruption regimes, and ⑶ policy alternatives of Northeast Asian countries responding to the regime formation. To deal with the issues I will utilize empirical methods including qualitative and quantitative techniques.

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Abstract: This paper was inspired by experiences teaching American government for three years in a predominantly liberal setting and then teaching American government for three years in a predominantly conservative setting. During this time, it became abundantly clear that understandings of American government and current events vary depending on the sub-cultural orientations of students. The purpose of this paper is to examine different pre-conceptions and attitudes that students of higher education bring to introductory courses in American Government and what professors can do to better adapt and enhance teaching effectiveness.

The project consists of American government classes from different schools and regions reading excerpts from The Iraq Study Group Report and The Audacity of Hope, circling unfamiliar terms, and writing their own understandings of selected terms in the works. This will generate quantitative data on how well students understand basic government terms and generate qualitative data on the patterns of understanding that emerge across different regions of the country. Relevant conclusions will provide insights on what students know, how they think across sub-cultures, and what professors can do to incorporate sub-cultural considerations into teaching American Government more effectively.

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Abstract: This paper explores the connections between John Ford's Western, "The Searchers," and Aeschylus' tragic trilogy, the "Oresteia." Both are revenge tragedies and use the theme to explore the relation between political and pre-political association. Both deal with the contrast between civilization and barbarism, and explore the way a number of border figures tragically move between the two states.

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Abstract: Despite the fact that today, as in the past, small states form the majority of states, contemporary western IR Theory has little to say about small states. Most contemporary approaches have analytical foci that disregard ?size.? Analytically, image-1 approaches are not concerned with different types of states. Image-2 approaches may look at small states, but do so from a country-study perspective. Using induction, these studies are rarely concerned with theorizing, but rather with establishing patterns of foreign policy behaviour. One of the most prominent systemic IR theories, Structural Realism, disregards small states systematically, arguing that in order to understand the international states system, only the interaction of great powers need to be studied. Finally, in the literature on small states, as far as it is concerned with IR Theory at all, non-western traditions are generally ignored.It is for these reasons that this paper, in an attempt at ?Pre-Theorizing,? aims at identifying elements of IR Theory, both western and non-western, that can help integrating the small state into IR Theory. Thus, the paper will argue that in fact certain elements that can form the basis for a broader conceptualization of small states within contemporary IR Theory do exist ? ?positively? as in the writings of the English School, or ?negatively,? as in the theoretically argued disregard for small states in Structural Realism. In a second step, it will be argued that non-western thinking about international relations can further increase our understanding of the ?role? of small states in international affairs, and especially to conceptualize such a ?role? in theoretical terms. In this fashion, this paper will bring together western and non-western traditions in IR Theory. Ultimately, this paper proposes that it may be possible to establish a place for small states in IR Theory.

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Abstract: Womanism as a concept has been employed by a number of African feminist writers as the tool for development. The western concept of feminism therefore on the surface appears to be disclaimed by many as foreign concept. It also has served to aleniate male support as it seems rather confrontational while womanism seems to be consiliatary. But as these concept really different, the paper explores writers who have espoused the womanist tradition in contrast to feminist American writers and conclude the womanist tradition and feminism are different faces of the same coin.