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U.S. FOREIGN POLICY: THEORY, MECHANISMS AND PRACTICE

JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY, KRAKÓW, POLAND, MAY 25-27, 2007

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

THURSDAY, May 24

2 – 8 p.m. Registration of the conference participants – Guest House “Przegorzały” (13 Jodłowa Str.)

FRIDAY, May 25

8 – 9 a.m. Breakfast (for participants staying at the Guest House) 

9 a.m. Bus transfer (to the Conference Venues) 

9.30 a.m. Official opening of the conference – Collegium Novum, Golebia 24, room 52

INAUGURAL SPEECHES

1. THE RECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY
2. THE DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN STUDIES AND POLISH DIASPORA
3. U.S. CONSUL GENERAL IN KRAKÓW

9.45 – 11.30 a.m. Plenary session:

INTRODUCTORY LECTURES – chair: Prof. A. MANIA 

1. Anne HALL (U.S. Consulate General, Kraków, Poland) – Missile Defense and U.S. Foreign Policy
2. Krzysztof MICHAŁEK (University of Warsaw, Poland) - Who is the Best Ally to the United States in Europe? Poland and Other Countries of so-called New Europe as Allies to the U.S. at the Beginning of the 21^st Century (as Evaluated by the Magazine Foreign Affairs)
3. Randall W. STONE (University of Rochester, New York, U.S.A) - Buying Influence: the Political Economy of International Aid

11.30 – 11.50 a.m. Transfer to Rynek Główny 34, II floor, Coffee break 

11.50 – 2 p.m. Two panels:

THE THEORY OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY (room 4) – chair: Prof. A. BRYK

1. Polly DIVEN (Grand Valley State University, Michigan, U.S.A.) - Dissecting Anti-Americanism: Personalities, Policies, Paradigms, and Popular Culture
2. Medea KOCHORADZE (Ivane Javakhishvili State University, Tbilisi, Georgia)  - Analysis, Methodology and Functioning of the U.S. Foreign Policy
3. Bohdan SZKLARSKI (University of Warsaw, Poland) - Anti-intellectualism in Foreign Policy Decision-Making
4. Łukasz WORDLICZEK (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) - Patterns of Continuity and Change: a Doctrinal Facet of the U.S. Foreign Policy
5. Kamil ZWOLSKI (University of Maastricht, Netherlands) - NATO in the U.S. Foreign Policy: a Challenge to Theories

DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF U.S. POLICY AGAINST TERRORISM (room 6) – chair: Prof. M. CHOROŚNICKI

1. Spasimir DOMARADZKI (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) - Controversies on the Legality of the Bush Administration’s Policy Towards the Enemy Combatants in the War on Terror
2. Katarzyna FURMANEK (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) - Policy of Preemption – Justifiable War or Unlawful Aggression?
3. Rebecca RICHARDS (University of Bristol, Great Britain) - ‘You’re either with us or against us’: the Consequences of the Global War on Terror for State Formation
4. Sadhna SHARMA (University of Dehli, India) - America’s Policy Towards International Terrorism
5. Jaroslaw WOJCIESZEK (University of Łódź, Poland) - Enjoying War on Terrorism: Jack Bauer – a Perfect Patriot

2 – 3 p.m. Lunch – Restaurant “U Babci Maliny”, 38 Szpitalna Str.  

3 – 5.10 p.m. Two panels:

ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY (room 4) – chair: Prof. R.W. STONE

1. Maria BEHRENS (Fernuniversitaet Hagen, Germany) - Monopoly in Trade Policy
2. Joanna BIAŁYNICKA-BIRULA (Cracow University of Economics, Poland) - Foreign Trade in Works of Art in the United States – Legal and Economic Approach
3. Paulina MATERA (University of Łódź, Poland) - The Impact of Economic Issues on American Policy Toward Western Europe During Richard Nixon’s Presidency
4. Christopher REEVES (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) - Creaking at the Joints? Is the United States Suffering from Imperial Overstretch?
5. Jorge RIVERAS (Southern New Hampshire University, U.S.A.) - Anti-Americanism Overview: its Implications and Possible Marketing Strategies to Help American Products

UNITED STATES AND EUROPE: FRIENDSHIP OR RIVALRY (room 6) – chair: Prof. K. MICHAŁEK

1. Andrzej BRYK (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) - Is the Nation State Obsolete? The European Union's Postpolitical Utopia and the United States’ Political Realism
2. Asli Edge DZIEDZIC (University of Marmara, Istanbul, Turkey) - A Case Study of the Ambiguous Relationship Between the U.S. and the E.U.: Turkey’s Path to Europe
3. Joost KLEUTERS (Radbout Universiteit Nijmegen, Netherlands) - The Long War and the Double Split in the Transatlantic Alliance
4. Irma SŁOMCZYŃSKA (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland) - U.S. Wilsonian Idealism and E.U. Liberal Internationalism – Contradictory, Complementary or Common Visions of the World Order?
5. Justyna ZAJĄC (University of Warsaw, Poland) – E.U. and the U.S. in the Middle East Peace Efforts: To What Extent Cooperation?

5.20 p.m. Bus transfer (to the Guest House) 

6.10 p.m. Bus transfer (to the Reception banquet) 

6.30 – 8.30 p.m. Reception/Banquet, host: U.S. Consulate General in Kraków, 12 Grottgera Str. 

8.30 p.m. Bus transfer (to the Guest House)

SATURDAY, May 26

8 – 8.45 a.m. Breakfast (for participants staying at the Guest House) 

8.45 a.m. Bus transfer (to the Conference Venues) 

9.10 – 11.20 a.m. Two panels:

U.S. POLICY IN DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE WORLD, one (room 4) – chair: Prof. D. LaFRANCE

1. Anna KAISER-LECHOWICZ (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) - Democracy as the Only Choice: American involvement in the Italian Elections of 1948
2. Marta RZEPECKA (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland) - American Foreign Policy during the Cold War: from Moralism to Realism
3. Marcin FATALSKI (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) – The Role of the United States in Chilean Politics 1961-1964
4. Donald HEMPSON (Ohio Dominican University, U.S.A.) - U.S. Foreign Policy in Czechoslovakia: the Agency of American Businessmen
5. Patrick VAUGHAN (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) - Zbigniew Brzeziński and Afganistan

CONTEMPORARY U.S. FOREIGN POLICY AND ITS FUTURE (room 6) – chair: Prof. A. WALASZEK

1. Mateusz BOGDANOWICZ (Pułtusk Academy of Humanities, Poland) - A Recipe: How to Dominate Effectively – How to be a Happy Subject
2. Paweł FRANKOWSKI (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland) - Empire for Hire? Possibility for the U.S. Withdrawal from International Politics
3. David JONES (University of Warsaw, Poland) - 21st Century U.S. Foreign Policy: Justification and Legality of „Muscular” Interventionism
4. Michał RZEPECKI (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) - The United States of America: the Global Hegemony and Its Future
5. Mirosław SUŁEK (University of Warsaw, Poland) - U.S. in the Setting of Major Powers in the Light of Synthetic Measures of Power - the Present State and Projection to 2050

11.20 – 11.40 a.m. Coffee break, Rynek Glowny 34, II floor 

11.40 a.m. – 2.10 p.m. Two panels:

U.S. POLICY IN DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE WORLD, two (room 4) – chair: Prof. D. HEMPSON

1. Małgorzata BIELECKA (Warsaw Agricultural University, Poland) - U.S. – U.N. Relations in the Post-Cold War Era
2. Karol BIENIEK (Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland) - Roots and Character of the Strategic U.S.-Turkey Partnership and its further Perspectives after the Iraqi War 2003
3. Agnieszka BRYC (Pedagogical University of Kielce, Poland) - American Influence in the Postsoviet Territory
4. Marcin GRABOWSKI (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) - U.S. Foreign Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region after 1989
5. David G. LaFRANCE (University of Łódź, Poland) - Mexico as a Security Issue for the United States since 9/11

INSTITUTIONS AND INSTRUMENTS OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY (room 6) – chair: Prof. A. MANIA

1. Łukasz KAMIEŃSKI (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) - Privatization of War and U.S. Military Operations
2. Elpida KATSAVARA (University of Kent, Great Britain) - Explaining Congressional-Presidential Relations in Foreign Policy Making: The case of Haiti 1994
3. Barbara KRIPPL (University of Trento, Italy) - Congress and the Presidency: the Protagonists of U.S. Ambivalence to Multilateralism
4. Paweł LAIDLER (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) - Judicial Control over U.S. Foreign Policy: Theory or Practice?
5. Maciej TUREK (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) - Making No. 2 Significant: Vice Presidency and Foreign Policy
6. Artur WRÓBLEWSKI (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland) - Sources of Presidential Power in American Foreign Policy

2.10 – 3 p.m. Lunch – Restaurant “U Babci Maliny”, 38 Szpitalna Str. 

3 – 5.30 p.m. Kraków sightseeing tour (with a guide) 

5.30 p.m. Bus transfer (to the Guest House) 

6.30 – 9.30 p.m. Reception/Banquet, Restaurant „U Ziyada” – Przegorzały (close to the Guest House)

SUNDAY, May 27

8 – 9.00 a.m. Breakfast (for participants staying at the Guest House) 

9.15 a.m. Bus transfer (to the Conference Venues) 

9.45 a.m. – 12.15 p.m. Two panels:

FOREIGN POLICY OF GEORGE W. BUSH (room 4) – chair: Prof. D. JONES

1. Louis FURMANSKI (University of Central Oklahoma, U.S.A.) - Lessons in Decisionmaking: Foreign Policy in the Bush Administration
2. Husam A. MOHAMAD (University of Central Oklahoma, U.S.A.) - Reflecting on Bush’s Policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
3. Hayssam OBEIDAT (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) - Constructive Chaos and American Policy in the Middle East – the Case of Arabian Countries
4. Robert SMITH (Lancaster University, Great Britain) - Bringing Democracy to Bahdad: Grassroots Democracy in a non-permissive Environment
5. Yehudi WEBSTER (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) – Explaining the Invasion/Occupation of Iraq: is there a Best Explanation?
6. Aneta WILK (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland) - Russia in the American Foreign Policy after 9/11

CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS ASPECTS OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY (room 6) – chair: Prof. D. PRASZAŁOWICZ

1. Peter GERLICH (University of Vienna, Austria) - Cultural Roots of U.S. Foreign Policy
2. Paulina NAPIERAŁA (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) - Christian Zionism and its Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy
3. Radosław RYBKOWSKI (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) - GATS, Higher Education and U.S. Foreign Policy
4. Katarzyna SPIECHLANIN (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) - They Sing in Protest: American Poets Protesting against the War in Iraq
5. Tadeusz ZIELIŃSKI (Christian Theological Academy, Warsaw, Poland) - Diplomatic Representation of the United States to the Vatican and the First Amendment – Historical and Legal Aspects