Benjamin F. Shambaugh Conferences

Continental Breakfast

Commons Room, 302 Schaeffer Hall

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Creating Large N Databases from Qualitative Information: Lessons from International Environmental Agreements

Ronald Mitchell, University of Oregon
Steve Rothman, University of Oregon

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Coffee Break

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Complex Security Institutions: Nested Bilateralism in the Commonwealth of Independent States

John P. Willerton, University of Arizona
Tatiana Vashchilko, Penn State University
Kathy L. Powers, University of Arizona
Mikhail Beznosov, University of Arizona
Gary Goertz, University of Arizona

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Territorial Integrity Treaties, Uti Possidetis, and Armed Conflict over Territory

Paul R. Hensel, Florida State University
Michael E. Allison, University of Scranton
Ahmed Khanani, Indiana University

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Lunch

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Conciliatory Agreements and the Durability of Peace

Michaela C. Mattes, Vanderbilt University

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

International Multilateral Agreement Negotiations

Michael Gilligan, New York University
Nicole Simonelli, Duke University

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Afternoon break

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

International Commitments in an Era of Unilateral Presidential Power: A Comparison of the Treaties and Executive Agreements made by the Administrations of George W. Bush and Theodore Roosevelt

Brandon C. Prins, Texas Tech University
Bryan W. Marshall, Miami University (Ohio)

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Free time

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Reception & Dinner

Sheraton, Amos Dean Ballroom

7:00 PM - 9:30 PM