Schedule

Friday November 10,

7:15-8:20 Executive Council Breakfast Meeting
8:00-11:00AM - Registration
8:30 - 10:00
Panel 1 International Relations
Panel 2 Election Roundtable
Panel 3
10: 30 - Noon
Panel 4 American and Canadian Politics
Panel 5 Comparative Politics and Government
Panel 6

12:00 -1:30
- Luncheon

1:30 - 3:00
Panel 7 State and Provincial Politics and Government
Panel 8 Political Theory
Panel 9
3:15-4:45
Panel 10 Public and Social Policy
Panel 11
Panel 12

5:30-6:00
No Host Social Hour
6:00 Election Post Mortem Dinner

Saturday, November 11

7:30-8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:00-9:00 General Membership Meeting
Election of Officers and Selection of 2002 Site

9:00-10:30
Panel 13 - Judicial Politics
Panel 14 - Social Capital Roundtable
Panel 15 -Public Administration
10:45-12:15
Panel 16 - Judicial Roundtable
Panel 17 - Political Psychology
Panel 18 - Comparative Politics II
12:30 New Executive Council Meeting

ROUNDTABLE TITLE:
Globalization and its Discontents: Local, National and Regional Reactions to International Institutions

ABSTRACT:
The number of global regulatory regimes has increased substantially in recent years. Regime formation is a response to the challenges of finding governance mechanisms in the face of a set of new international issues - especially in the realms of security, commerce, and the environment - which have emerged out of the complex interactions of new technologies and the growth of the global economy. Global regimes allow nations to achieve goals they would be unable to achieve on their own and often bring nations closer together by encouraging the alignment of domestic policies with regime goals. Regimes are both hailed when they constrain undesirable behavior and scorned when they infringe on sovereign prerogatives. As has been seen in recent demonstrations against globalization, the decision-making processes and levels of accountability of international regulatory regimes are becoming matters of great concern to national politicians and average citizens. This roundtable attempts to bring greater focus to current debates about globalization by examining some of the underlying dynamics of regime formation and by selectively reviewing local, national and regional responses from Europe, the U.S., and China, to the challenges of reconciling regime objectives and national interests with regard to such issues as trade and environmental standards, sustainable agriculture, genetically modified organisms, and intellectual property rights.

The roundtable participants include:

Patricia Keilbach
Doctoral Candidate & Instructor
Department of Political Science
University of Oregon
E-mail: keilbach@oregon.uoregon.edu

Dr. Richard P. Suttmeier
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
University of Oregon
E-mail: petesutt@oregon.uoregon.edu

Dr. Hu Tao
Director, Environmental Economics Program
Policy Research Center for Environment & Economy of SEPA
State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA)
E-mail: (contact Paul Thiers)

Dr. Paul Thiers
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science and Program in Public Affairs
Washington State University, Vancouver
E-mail: thiers@vancouver.wsu.edu