Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Responses to transnational terrorism vary across states. Conventional wisdom would suggest that major powers are less concerned about infringing on the sovereignty of other states for counterterrorism purposes. However, the conditions under which minor powers choose to interfere in other states’ affairs for counterterrorism reasons are arguably more selective, given their power position in the international system. Under what conditions do minor powers violate sovereignty of other states in order to fulfill their responsibility to protect their citizens against transnational terrorist attacks? We examine the role of two main factors in determining the extent to which a minor power will infringe on another state’s authority: relative capacity of the minor powers vis-à-vis the host states that support non-state armed groups that target them and the ideational support of major powers in pursuing terrorists or rebels across the borders of other states. Using cross-national statistical analyses, we find that both relative strength and the presence of a major power intervener had a significant and positive influence on the likelihood of intervention.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This article examines the impact and the importance of the innocence movement and the unintended effects on criminal defense representation. I was a public defender for nine years and represented thousands of guilty defendants without guilt or emotional angst. The public defender credo is to give zealous representation without consideration for the innocence or guilt of the client. As a clinical instructor I must impart ethical and diligent representation to my students. I found, however, when discussing cases during our weekly case rounds the paradigm of innocence would inevitably become a question for the student attorney. The students imputed guilt and innocence to be mutually exclusive. I explore the impact of the innocence movement in the legal profession and discuss my experiences with innocence in my Juvenile Justice Clinic. I conclude by asserting the importance of zealous representation should be paramount regardless of innocence or guilt.

Publication Type: Research Report
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This article discusses results from interviews with two undergraduate students in an introductory proofs course. The researcher assessed the participants’ general proof schemes and built models of the participants’ conception of probabilistic independence and mutual exclusivity. The participants were then tasked with asserting a relationship between independence and mutual exclusivity and trying to prove the asserted relationship. The results discuss possible interactions between students’ conception of mathematical ideas and their approaches to proof.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The visibility of foreign aid has increased considerably over the course of the past year. Yet the factors shaping aid policy are not well understood. In particular, enduring differences across nations in terms of their aid programs are at odds with most standard international relations theories. In this paper, I argue that such differences are a result of differences in how policy-makers in different donor states think about the purposes of development assistance. These different ?frames?, in turn, are strongly shaped by differences in national identity and experience. Using data from legislative debates on aid policy in Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, and Norway, I show that national identity is a crucial factor in explaining differences in how aid programs were set up and in how initial aid recipients were chosen; differences whose impact continues to be visible today.

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Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper describes our first set of findings from a large-scale student of the role of public education system and district boundary lines on urban-suburban migration patterns in u.s. metro areas.