President McRobbie has announced this year’s winner of the system-wide Thomas Ehrlich Award For Excellence In Service Learning, and it is our very own Marjorie Randon Hershey. The award recognizes excellence in service learning, and with her great success as Director of the Leadership, Ethics and Social Action Program Margie was a natural choice. We’ll celebrate with her on Founders Day, when the award is formally presented, and when she becomes the University’s nominee for the national Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Award for Service Learning. Congratulations Marjorie!

Congratulations to Dean Jean Robinson who will begin serving as Executive Associate Dean, College of Arts and Science at the end of the spring semester.

Jeff Isaac, new Editor-In-Chief of Perspectives on Politics, brings journal to IU Department of Political Science.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Information Session for Political Science Honors Program. Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Woodburn Hall, 218. 3:30-4:30 P.M. Link.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

EVENTS AND PRESENTATIONS

Jeffrey Hart delivered a paper on “Information and Communication Technologies and Power” at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 15-20, 2010.

Jeffrey Hart was discussant on a panel on "Media Development" at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 15-20, 2010.

Travis Selmier presented “Removing the F.I.G. Leaf: Uncovering the Politics of Financial Interest Groups," International Studies Association Convention, New Orleans, LA, February 2010.

Travis Selmier presented “Language Matters: Languages’ Transaction Cost Effects on International Trade and FDI," International Studies Association Convention, New Orleans, LA, February, 2010.

A One-Day International Conference Organized by

The Tocqueville Program at Indiana University, in Collaboration With The Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, The Department of Political Science, And Liberty Fund, Inc.

Alexis De Tocqueville: New Perspectives on His Works March 5, 2010

IU Memorial Union Indiana University, Bloomington

All meetings are scheduled to take place in the IU Memorial Union, Walnut Room Link

Timothy Rich presented "Institutional Effects of Mixed Majoritarian Systems: A Multi-level Analysis of Asian Electoral Reforms". Presented at Asia Pacific Week. The Australian National University. February 8-11.

Timothy Rich received the following Research Grants:

• National Science Foundation -East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI)
• Taiwan Foundation for Democracy fellowship

PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS

Martí Grau, “The Spanish EU Presidency: Bringing Lisbon Europe on Track in Uncertain Times." EU@IU newsletter: Link.

Sumit Ganguly and Paul Kapur, India, Pakistan and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia was published this week by Columbia University Press.

Guosheng Deng and Scott Kennedy, “Big Business and Industry Association Lobbying in China: The Paradox of Contrasting Styles,” China Journal, no. 63 (January 2010), pp. 101-125.

Brent Hierman, "What use was the election to us? Clientelism and political trust amongst ethnic Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan" Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, Volume 38 (2) 2010, 245-263.

Brent Hierman, Book Review of/ Eurasia’s New Frontiers: Young States, Old Societies, Open Futures/, by Thomas W. Simons Jr, /Central Asian Survey/, Vol. 28 (3) 2009, 343-345.

Sumit Ganguly, “Let India Train the Afghan Army,” Asian Wall Street Journal. It's the most effective and economical way to prepare troops for counterinsurgency operations. Link

Ostrom, Elinor. 2010. “Organizational Economics: Applications to Metropolitan Governance.” Journal of Institutional Economics 6(1) (March): 109–115.

Sumit Ganguly and David P. Fidler, “India Wants to Join the Non-Proliferation Treaty as a Weapon State,” YaleGlobal, 27 January 2010.

Jack Bielasiak, “The Paradox of Solidarity’s Legacy: Contested Values in Poland’s Transitional Politics,” Nationalities Papers: Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity 38:1, January 2010.

Ostrom, Elinor. 2009. “Social Cooperation in Collective-Action Situations.” "In Beiträge der genossenschaftlichen Selbsthilfe zur wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Entwicklung" [Contributions of cooperative self-help to economic and social development], ed. Hans Jürgen Rösner and Frank Schulz-Nieswandt, 49–69. Berlin: LIT Verlag.

Ostrom, Elinor. 2010. “Revising Theory in Light of Experimental Findings.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 73:68–72.

James Walker, and Elinor Ostrom. 2009. “Trust and Reciprocity as Foundations for Cooperation.” In Whom Can We Trust?: How Groups, Networks, and Institutions Make Trust Possible, ed. Karen Cook, Margaret Levi, and Russell Hardin, 91–124. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Aurelian Craiutu, Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution by Madame de Staël. Newly revised translation of the 1818 edition, with an introduction, bibliography, and notes by Aurelian Craiutu (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2008), 804 pp. Link

Timothy Hellwig. 2010. “Elections and the Economy.” In LeDuc, Niemi, and Norris, eds., Comparing Democracies 3: Elections and Voting in the 21st Century. London: Sage. 184-201.

Kashwan, Prakash. (2009). "Just Environments: Analyzing the Politics of Policy-making on Environment and Development." India Economic Review VI: 60-67.

Sumit Ganguly, “India-Pakistan Relations,” in Pratap Bhanu Mehta (editor) The Oxford Companion to Indian Politics (2010).

Sumit Ganguly (ed), “India’s Foreign Policy Retrospect & Prospect,” Oxford University Press (2010).

Sumit Ganguly, “Counterterrorism Cooperation in South Asia,” The National Bureau of Asian Research, NBR Report #21/December 2009.

Sumit Ganguly, "Indian Security Policy,” in Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Victor Mauer, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Security Studies.

Sumit Ganguly and Nicolas Howenstein, “India Pakistan Rivalry in Afghanistan,” Journal of International Affairs, Fall/Winter 2009, 63:1, 127-140.

Sumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Islamist Militancy in South Asia,” January 2010, 33:1, 47-59.

Sumit Ganguly, ed. Indian Foreign Policy: Retrospect and Prospect (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009).

Ronald Schmidt, Sr., Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh, Andy Aoki and Rodney Hero “Newcomers, Insiders and Outsiders: Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early 21st Century.” University of Michigan Press, 2009.

Sumit Ganguly edited volume (with Andrew Scobell and Joseph Liow), The Routledge Handbook of Asian Security.

Jeffrey Hart “The Transition to Digital Television in the United States: The Endgame,” International Journal of Digital Television, Volume 1.

Jack Bielasiak, "The Paradox of Solidarity's Legacy: Contested Values in Poland's Transition," Paper for the Conference on Europe Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Overcoming "East and West", National Center for Research on Europe, Wellington, New Zealand, November 2-4, 2009.

Ostrom, Elinor. 2009. “A Polycentric Approach for Coping with Climate Change.” Policy Research Working Paper No. 5095. Background paper to the 2010 World Development Report. Washington, DC: The World Bank. Policy Research Working Paper

Sumit Ganguly, “Breaking America’s Silence on Pakistan,” in the Asian Wall Street Journal on November 3, 2009.

Prakash Kashwan, "Nobel for Lin Ostrom: Are Indian Policy Makers Listening?" published on November 3rd, 2009 by IndiaTogether at Link

Barbara Junisbai's paper on the political import of financial-industrial groups in Kazakhstan received an Honorable Mention in the Central Eurasian Studies Society's graduate student paper competition, which was held in conjunction with the Society's 10th annual conference in Toronto on October 8-11. The paper, entitled "A Tale of Two Kazakhstans: Sources of Political Cleavage and Conflict in the Post-Soviet Period," was also recently accepted for publication in the journal Europe-Asia Studies.

Sumit Ganguly and Manjeet S Pardesi, "Prospects for India's Energy and Geopolitical Roles in the Middle East," in the The New Energy Silk Road: The Growing Asia-Middle East Nexus, The National Bureau of Asian Research Conference Report, October 2009. Available: Link.

Eduardo Brondizio, Elinor Ostrom, and Oran Young. 2009. “Connectivity and the Governance of Multilevel Social-Ecological Systems: The Role of Social Capital.” Annual Review of Environment and Resources 34 (November): 253–278.

Jeff Hart delivered a paper on “The Transition to Digital Television in the United States: The Endgame,” at a conference on Digital TV Transitions: DTV Switchover, Mobile TV, IPTV – Lessons and Projections at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia University, New York, October 2, 2009.

Jeff Hart Delivered a presentation on “Theories of International Relations” to Indiana University Student Foreign Policy Initiative, Bloomington, Indiana, September 22, 2009.

Jeff Hart, "Video on the Internet: The Content Question," in Darcy Gerbarg (ed.), Television Goes Digital (New York: Springer, 2009).

Jeff Hart, "Organizational Cultures in U.S. Research-Oriented Universities," in Charles F. Bonser (ed.), Adapting Universities to the Global Society: A Transatlantic Perspective (Muenster: LIT Verlag, 2009).

Basurto, Xavier, and Elinor Ostrom. 2009. “Beyond the Tragedy of the Commons.” Economia delle fonti di energia e dell’ambiente 52(1) (October): 35–60.

Sumit Ganguly and Nicholas Howenstein co authored "India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan," Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 63, No. 1 (December 2009).

Nicholas Howenstein, "Co-Opting Jihad: A Review of Ayesha Jalal and Praveen Swami," India Review, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Fall 2009).

Yvette Alex-Assensoh, “African Immigrants and African Americans: An Analysis of Voluntary African Immigration and the Evolution of Black Politics in American”, African and Asian Studies 8(2009): 89-124 pp.

Yvette Alex-Assensoh, “Change and the 2008 Presidential Elections”, Croatian National Political Science Review. 5(2009).

Nicholas Clark and Robert Rohrschneider, “Second-Order Elections versus First-Order Thinking: How Voters Perceive the Representation Process in a Multi-Layered System of Governance” September 2009. European Integration. 31(5): 613-632.

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