Stephenson CV 1-10 - Department of Political Science - University of ...

Book and articles: Nongovernmental Organizations and the United Nations
System: Environment, Women and Disarmament. A comparative study of
nongovernmental organizations and social movements as they function in these
three issue-areas within the U.N. context, raising questions of differential
strategy and impact in these three areas of social change.
Conference Papers and Presentations (partial list 1990-2009)
“Reconceptualizing Security Issues: Securitization and De-Securitization,” presented at
the panel “Changing Conceptualizations of Security” at the Annual Meeting of the
American Political Science Association, Toronto, Canada, 3-6 September, 2009.
“Contested Legitimacy: nongovernmental organizations and international multilateral
institutions,” presented at the Joint International Meeting of the International Studies
Association and Brazilian International Relations Association, Pontifical Catholic
University, Rio, Brazil, July 22-24, 2009.
“Civil Society and the UN System: participation in and resistance to international
organization structures,” presented at the 21 st World Congress of Political Science of the
International Political Science Association, Santiago, Chile, July 12-16, 2009.
“Middle Powers, Civil Society and the UN System,”
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academic Council on the United Nations System,
University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, June 4-6, 2009.
“Peace Research: an Intellectual History,” presented at International Studies Association
Annual Meeting, New York City, February 15-18, 2009. (self)
Discussant on Panel “The Impact of International Organizations on Identity Politics:
Vehicle or Obstacle,” at International Studies Association Annual Meeting, New York
City, February 15-18, 2009. (self)
“Competing Paradigms or Competing Values? Evaluating Regime Formation and
Implementation,” presented at the American Political Science Association Annual
Meeting, Boston, MA, August 28-31, 2008. (self)
“Bringing Back Peace into International Relations Theory,” presented at the Second
Global International Studies Conference, University of Ljubijana, Slovenia, 23-26 July,
2008. (SSRI funding of $213 was turned down.)
“Comparing the anti-Iraq War Movements,” presented at the International Peace
Research Association, Leuven, Belgium, July 15-19, 2008. (URC funding: $2000)
Roundtable participant on panel: “Foundations and Pioneering Figures of the Peace and
Conflict Resolution Field,” International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 26-
29, 2008.