14 
Annual
SIS
Undergraduate

 Research
Symposium
 


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14

th


Annual
SIS
Undergraduate



Research
Symposium


Program
Co­Chairs: 
Zoe
Bollinger
&
Florian
von
Gierke


Programming
Committee: 
Yanique
Campbell
&
Zachary
Fleischmann


Senior
Advisor:
 Günperi
Sisman


Faculty
Advisor: 
Professor
Elizabeth
Cohn


Coordinator: 
Jennifer
Napolitano


OPENING
REMARKS
&
WELCOME:
4.00
PM
[Abramson
Family
Founders
Room] 


SESSION
1:
4.10
­5.25
PM


•   Panel
1:
 Dynamics
of
Change
(SIS­110)


•   Lauren
Barr:
RedeGining
a
Region:
Understanding
the
Impact
of
Popular
Uprisings
on
Regimes
in
Tunisia
and
Algeria


•   Julia
White:
Identity
Crises:
The
Effect
of
Immigration
on
Latino
Identity


•   Allena
Martin:
Public
Opinion
and
the
Integration
of
Muslim
Immigrants
in
France


•   Peter
Shapiro:
How
Westernization
and
Traditional
Social
Networks
Toppled
the
Iranian
Monarchy


•   Panel
2:
 Global
Ethics
and
Development

(SIS­260)


•   Miranda
Schaeffer:
The
Path
Towards
Eliminating
Child
Labor:
Chile's
Partnerships
with
International
Organizations


•   Emily
Werner:
The
Miracle
of
the
Cerrados:
Exporting
Brazil's
Potential


•   Max
Blumenthal:
International
Humanitarian
Law
for
Cyber‐Warfare


•   Panel
3:
 Asia:
Taking
Its
Place
in
the
World

(SIS­348)


•   Huong
Dinh:
A
shift
in
relations?
Vietnam,
China
and
the
United
States
in
the
21st
Century


•   David
Rubin:
The
Culture
of
Capitalism:
Examining
the
Effects
of
the
Free
Market
on
Traditional
Chinese
Values


•   Jonathan
Raouf:
Overseas
Chinese
in
Southeast
Asia
and
China:
Asset
or
Liability?


•   Roren
Choi:
Lessons
From
The
Japanese
Developmental
Experience
For
Haitian
Development


•   Panel
4:
 Non­traditional
Threats
for
Global
Security
(SIS­332)


•   Erin
Lockwood:
Pirates
and
the
State


•   Gianluca
La
Manno:
Rescuing
a
Failing
Counter‐Insurgent
Effort


•   Travis
McKay‐Roberts:
A
Dangerous
Business:
Addressing
Small
Arms
Control
in
a
Flat
World


•   Aaron
Cohen:
NATO's
EfGicacy
During
Military
Operations:
A
Game
Theoretic
and
Quantitative
Analysis



•   Anastasia
Veskresenkaya:
Russia's
Putin
and
Brazil's
Lula:
The
Relationship
between
Positive
Leadership
Strategy
and


Corruption


RECEPTION:
5.30
­
6.00
PM
[Abramson
Family
Founders
Room]


•   Reception
with
remarks
by
Louis
Goodman,
Dean
of
the
School
of
International
Service



SESSION
2:
6.10
­
7.25
PM


•   Panel
1:
 Europe:
In
the
Making
(SIS­110)


•   Günperi
Sisman:
Pluralist
Socialism
During
Détente:
How
CPSU
became
Eurocommunist


•   Karun
Tilak:
Lessons
from
the
European
Sovereign
Debt
Crisis:
Is
a
European
Sovereign
Debt
Resolution
Mechanism


Necessary


•   Danielle
Raso:
The
Identity
of
the
Roma
Population
of
Eastern
Europe:
Why
a
Generation
of
Roma
are
Disassociating
with
 their
Heritage


•   Panel
2:
 Approaches
to
Development
(SIS­260)


•   
Marie
Scholz:
A
Comparison
of
the
Pre‐
and
Post‐Genocidal
Increase
of
Rights,
Liberties
and
Freedoms,
Promotion
of


Growth
and
National
Unity,
and
the
Mitigation
of
Ethnic
Tension

through
the
1991
and
2003
versions
of
the
Rwandan


Constitution


•   Kathryn
McCormick:
The
Effects
of
World
Bank
Aid
on
Zambia's
Agricultural
Sector
and
Why
it
is
The
Key
to
Development
 in
Sub‐Saharan
Africa


•   Wyatt
Gordon:
Conditional
Cash
Transfers:
Development’s
Magic
Bullet?


•   Tania
Smith:
Populism
and
Autocracy
in
Haiti:
Heading
Towards
Another
Duvalier?


•   Panel
3:
 Regional
Security
(SIS­348)


•   Elyas
Abubakr:
South
Asian
Security
Seminar:
The
Phenomena
of
Security
Building
in
Afghanistan


•   Robert
Helbig:
DeGining
its
future,
engaging
its
public:
NATO’s
new
Strategic
Concept
as
a
tool
for
survival


•   Florian
von
Gierke:
Integrative
peace?


•   Patrick
Hanlon:
Taliban
Redux


•   Ari
Basen:
A
Rising
Reliance
on
Private
Military
Contractors


•   Panel
4:
 Crossing
Borders
(SIS­332)


•   Kate
Lindsey:
The
Fatal
Loss
of
Prestige
in
the
Picard,
Tamazight
and
Chuvash
Languages


•   Zoe
Bollinger
and
Rebecca
Borton:
Digital
Manifestations
of
Polychronic
and
Monochronic
Cultural
Time
Perceptions


•   Adrienne
Elkin:
The
Sway
of
Public
Opinion:
Deciphering
the
Priorities
of
U.S.
Citizens
with
regards
to
Human
TrafGicking



•   Autumn
Patterson:
A
Multilateralist
Approach:
Curbing
Illegal
Transnational
Migration?


CONCLUSION:
7.30
PM
[Abramson
Family
Founders
Room]


•   Announcement
of
winners
and
concluding
remarks
by
Maria
Green
Cowles,
Associate
Dean
of
the
School
of
International


Service


22.
March
2011


School
of
International
Service


American
University


Washington,
D.C.


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