Midwest – The Quantitative Peace

MWPSA Paper

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Michael A. Allen — No Comments ↓

I will be flying for Chicago early Wednesday morning for the Midwest Political Science Association Conference. This is my first co-authored paper with Julie (another contributor to his blog) and we will present the following paper Thursday morning: The contemporary rise to infamy of Blackwater Worldwide and the private corporation's misdeeds in the Iraq War has historical precedents. That is, it is not unheard of for a state to employ non-state actors to carry out traditional state activities such as the use of force – something the modernstate is supposed to have a monopoly over. In this paper, we build Continue reading MWPSA Paper→

MPSA abstracts due today.

Posted on October 10, 2008 by Michael A. Allen — No Comments ↓

Just in case you were not subject to the barrage of email reminders, the deadline for Midwest Proposals is today: Call for Papers for the 67th MPSA Political Science Conference April 2-5, 2009, Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago*******************************************************************************Deadline to submit a proposal: October 10, 2008. Please forward this email to faculty or graduate students who may be interested. Submit a proposal to present a paper, or serve as a discussant/chair. With 900+ sessions it is one of the largest in the discipline. http://www.mpsanet.org/~mpsa/Conference/submit.html The conference is held in the recently renovated Palmer House Hilton. To insure you Continue reading MPSA abstracts due today.→