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Graduate Program

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  3. Fields of Study
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• Program Descriptions
  1. Ph.D in Political Science
  2. M.A. in Political Science
  3. M.P.P/Ph.D in Public Policy/Political Science
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  1. Plan of Study
  2. Comprehensive Exams
  3. Prospectus & Candidacy
  4. Dissertation Defense
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• Course Catalogue
  1. American Politics
  2. Comparative Politics
  3. International Relations
  4. Political Theory
  5. Public Policy
  6. Research Methodology
• Course Schedules
  1. Fall 2009
  2. Spring 2010
  3. Fall 2010
  4. Spring 2011
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Publications

Our graduate students are actively engaged in all professional aspects of the field, publishing in top journals and winning prestigious awards and grants that fund both pre-dissertation and dissertation research. Recent publications by our graduate students include:

1. Mitchell Killian and Clyde Wilcox. 2008. "Do Abortion Attitudes Lead to Party Switching?" Political Research Quarterly 61 (December): 561-573.
2. Yangmo Ku. 2008. "International Reconciliation in the Postwar Era, 1945-2005: A Comparative Study of Japan-ROK and Franco-German Relations." Asian Perspective 32 (Fall): 5-37
3. Mitchell Killian, Ryan Schoen, and Aaron Dusso. 2008. "Keeping Up with the Joneses: The Interplay of Personal and Collective Evaluations of Voter Turnout." Political Behavior 30 (September): 323-340.
4. Yeh-Chung Lu. 2008. "The Conception of Soft Power and Its Policy Implications: A Comparative Study of China and Taiwan." Journal of Contemporary China 17 (August): 425-447 (with Hongying Wang).
5. David Malet. 2008. "Faith in the System: Conceptualizing Grand Strategy in the Post 9/11 World Order." Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 31 (August): 723-735.
6. John A. Gentry. 2008. "Intelligence Failure Reframed." Political Science Quarterly 123 (Summer): 247-270.
7. Mitchell Killian. 2008. "Presidential Decision Making and Minority Nominations for the US Courts of Appeals." Presidential Studies Quarterly 38 (June): 268-283.
8. Yeh-Chung Lu. 2008. "Peace by Piece: The Six Party Talks and Beyond." In Conflict Management, Security and Intervention in East Asia: Third Party Mediation in Regional Conflict, ed. Jacob Bercovitch, Kwei-Bo Huang, and Chung-Chian Teng. New York: Routledge (with John S. Park).
9. Maiko Ichihara. 2008. "East Timor and the Challenge for Collaboration on Peacekeeping." In Human Security in East Asia: Challenges for Collaborative Action, ed. Sorpong Peou. New York: Routledge.
10. David Malet. 2007. "Trade Vote Determinants: Partisan Effects of Political Action Committee Contribution Percentages." Social Science Journal 44 (Fall): 546-553.
11. James Reilly. 2007. "The Tenuous Hold of China Inc. in Africa" Washington Quarterly 30 (Summer): 37-52 (with Bates Gill).
12. Liang Sun. 2007. "Redefining Development, Reimagining Globalization: The WTO and China's New Economic Vision." Journal of World Trade Law 41 (6): 1275-1295.
13. Christina Caan, Beth Cole, Paul Hughes and Daniel P. Serwer. 2007. "Is this Any Way to Run an Occupation? Legitimacy, Governance, and Security in Post-Conflict Iraq." In Interim Governments: Institutional Bridges to Peace and Democracy?, ed. Karen Guttieri and Jessica Piombo. Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace Press.
14. Enze Han. 2007. "Modernization, Economic Development and Inter-Ethnic Relations in Contemoporary China." In Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development, ed. Sujian Guo and Baogang Guo. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
15. Michael MacLeod. 2007. "Financial Actors and Instruments in the Construction of Global Corporate Accountability." In Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism and Public Ethics, ed. A. Ebrahim and E. Weisband. New York: Cambridge University Press.
16. Gonzalo Paz. 2006. "Rising China's 'Offensive' in Latin America and the U.S. Reaction" Asian Perspective 30 (4): 95-112.
17. John A. Gentry. 2006. "Norms and Military Power: NATO's War Against Yugoslavia," Security Studies 15 (July): 187-224.
18. Phillip Stalley. 2006. "An Emerging Environmental Movement in China?" China Quarterly 186 (June): 333-56 (with Dongning Yang).
19. Michael P. Gleason. 2006. "European Union Space Initiatives: The Political Will for Increasing European Space Power." Astropolitics: The International Journal of Space Politics and Policy 4 (Spring): 7-41.
20. Injoo Sohn. 2005. "Asian Financial Cooperation: The Problem of Legitimacy in Global Financial Governance." Global Governance 11 (October-December): 487-504.
21. Gonzalo Paz. 2005. "Argentina's Relations with East Asia." In Latin American and East Asia - Attempts at Diversfication, ed. Jorg Faust, Manfred Mols, and Won-ho Kim. Seoul: Korea Institute for International Economic Policy.