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Conferences Archive: 2004/05

04.27.2005 - 04.28.2005
Topic: Legitimacy and Power in the Post-9/11 World
This Conference was organized by the 2004-05 CIS Visiting Scholars, Stacie Goddard and Carola Weil. The first panel analyzed the role of legitimacy and the international system: How does legitimacy operate in hierarchic systems versus those that are relatively multi-polar? Do multi-lateral institutions enforce norms of legitimacy, or are they overrun by power and interest? How can we measure the effects of legitimacy in the international system? The second panel explored legitimacy and its impact on foreign policy; how states resolve contradictions between the legitimacy of sovereignty and human rights; and how states balance concerns of strategy and legitimacy in formulating foreign policy. The workshop concluded with an afternoon talk by Robert Keohane of Duke University and Peter Katzenstein of Cornell University.

11.12.2004
Topic: NAFTA II: The Prospects for Institutional Deepening
The audience and presenters at this second NAFTA Workshop engaged in a lively discussion of the past, present, and future prospects for deepening NAFTA’s institutions. Among the participants were prominent scholars and practitioners in the fields of international trade, international organization, development economics and environmental studies. Carol Wise introduced this second conference as an opportunity to tackle the pressing issues of institutional design and institutional deepening within the NAFTA block. Pamela Johnson, Cultural and Academic Relations Officer of the Canadian Consulate of Los Angeles, welcomed the participants and framed the workshop as an opportunity to integrate Canadian perspectives into discussion of NAFTA, which tend to be south-facing, especially in Los Angeles.

10.21.2004 - 10.22.2004
Topic: Forum Shopping Workshop
This conference showcased the research of three academics working on issues of the International Political Economy of Japan, Saadia Pekkanen of the University of Washington, Mireya Solis of American University, and Saori Katada of USC. The following questions were posed: Why does the Japanese government turn to multiple forums, bilateral, regional and multilateral to accomplish its economic goals, especially that of trade liberalization? What are the criteria and factors that make the government choose one forum over the other? How particular are our observations of Japan among other advanced country governments, or are there any generalizable elements? In addition to several roundtable discussions, the conference was opened to a wider audience as part of the CIS Research Series.

10.01.2004
Topic: NAFTA in Motion: A Workshop Series on North American Trade Disputes, Institutional Debates, and Domestic Policy Responses
In the Fall of 2004, CIS hosted a conference series on NAFTA organized by Carol Wise, Associate Professor of International Relations. Generous funding from the Canadian government as well as CIBEAR also made these workshops a success. Participants came from across the United States as well as Canada and Mexico.

The first conference titled “The Complexities of Dispute Resolution at the NAFTA” was held on October 1, 2004 for an audience comprised of academics, policymakers, doctoral students, and undergraduates. Among the participants were prominent scholars in international law, international organizations, development economics, and international relations, as well as practitioners of international trade law. The broad goals of this first workshop were to deepen the US-Canadian relationship, to more firmly establish the field of North American Studies at USC, and to seriously examine the challenges surrounding dispute settlement at the NAFTA from the perspective of each member country.

09.17.2004 - 09.18.2004
Topic: Urban Governance in Global Perspective
This conference was organized by Jefferey Sellers of the Department of Political Science and co-sponsored by the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBEAR), the Department of Political Science, and the USC College.