Keynotes
“Scene Setting: Why is Private Environmental Governance Important for Academics and Practitioners?” Keynote Panel, J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Environmental Law Symposium on Private Environmental Governance, George Washington University Law School, March 2-3, 2017
“Disclosing Sustainability: The Transformative Power of Transparency?” Keynote Panel, Conference on Disclosing Sustainability, University of Wageningen (Netherlands), June 24-25, 2016
“The Role of the Private Sector in Conflict Zones,” Opening Address, Conference at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, January 29, 2004
“Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Corporations and Conflict Prevention,” Keynote Speaker, Conference on Business and Sustainable Peace, University of Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor, MI, October 4, 2003
“A Public Role for the Private Sector,” Keynote Talk, The Executive Seminar Series, U.S. Department of the Interior, June 6, 2002
“Soft Governance: Trend and Transformation,” Keynote Speaker, Conference on Social and Environmental Certification Institutions, Duke University, North Carolina, December 6-8, 2001
“Governing Conflict Through The Market”
Talks
“Global Governance and Private Sector Self-Regulation,” Frontiers of Globalization and Governance, Baha’ai Chair for Peace, University of Maryland College Park, April 29, 2015
“Private Sector Engagement in Partnerships,” Terms of Engagement: How to Better Engage in Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives, University of Denver, January 15-16, 2015
“Governing Conflict through the Market,” School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia, June 19, 2014
“Governing Conflict through the Market,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law Symposium, November 15, 2014
“Fair Labor Association Forum,” Panelist, Washington, DC June 17, 2010-10-28
“The Public Role of Private Sector Institutions: Regulation in a Global Era,” Civil Service College, Singapore, November 8, 2009
“The Kimberley Process for the Certification of Diamonds: A Club Goods Perspective,” Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, November 2009
“Governing Corporations in Conflict Zones: Issues, Actors and Institutions,” Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, November 2, 2009
“Business and Public Diplomacy,” Center on Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California, November 2009
“Organizational Security” (with Deborah Avant), RIGS Seminar, University of California at Irvine, December 5, 2009
“New Institutional Forms: The Kimberley Process,” Peace through Commerce Conference, George Washington University, Washington, DC November 2008
“Peace and Commerce,” Panel Presentation, US Institute of Peace, Washington, DC June 2008
“Corporations and the Management of Conflict,” International Studies Public Forum, UC Irvine, January 2008
“Corporate Social Responsibility and War,” The Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin Mellon Seminar on New Directions in International Relations Research, Colby College, April 27, 2007
“International Investment, Voluntary Regulation, and Post-Conflict Societies,” Conference on Investment in Post-Conflict Societies, University of Kansas / CIBER, April 5, 2007
“Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Conflict Prevention,” Wilton Park Conference, Wiston House, England, January 11-13, 2007
“Organizational Security in Areas of Weak Governance” (with Deborah Avant), 5th Annual Academy of International Business / Journal of International Business Studies Conference on Emerging Research Frontiers in International Business Conflict, Security and Risk, Coconut Grove, Florida, November 28 – December 1, 2007
“Corporate Responsibility, Conflict, and the Petroleum Sector,” Association of International Petroleum Negotiators Annual Meeting, World Bank, Washington DC, March 30, 2006
“Comments on Global Capitalism by Jeffry Frieden,” Invited Commentator, IMF Book Forum, Washington DC, March 29, 2006
“The Diffusion of the Norm of Transparency,” Research Presentation, IGIS Seminar, George Washington University, January 27, 2005
“International Financial Instruments and Corporate Conflict Prevention,” Invited Speaker, Conference on Economic Agendas in Armed Conflict: Towards Peace, Governance, and Accountability, at the International Peace Academy, New York, November 20-21, 2003
“Pushing the Limits: The Political Environment for Industry Self-Regulation,” Invited Speaker, Workshop on the Potential and Limits of Self-Regulatory Arrangements, Zurich University, Switzerland, October 9, 2003
“Business and Conflict,” Invited Speaker, Fafo / International Peace Academy Workshop at the United Nations, New York, March 25, 2002
“The Business of Violent Conflict and Conflict Prevention,” Invited Speaker, Panel on Conflict Diamonds, WIIS and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC, February 28, 2001
“Beyond the Letter of the Law: Business Self-Regulation and the Resolution of Global Policy Issues,” Invited Speaker / Paper Presentation, Program in Political Economy Seminar (PIPES), University of Chicago, April 15, 1999
“Business Ethics and the International Economy,” Invited Speaker, Workshop on Justice and the World Economy, organized by the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, Pocantico Conference Center, New York, June 1999
“New Directions in Research,” Invited Speaker, Conference on “U.S. Engagement and Disengagement,” Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda, University of Maryland, November 2-4, 1995
“International Regimes and Private Interests in Environmental Issue Areas,” Invited Paper, Conference on Environmental Management of Enclosed Coastal Seas, Baltimore, Maryland, November 10-13, 1993
“Private Authority in Global Governance”
University of Maryland, College Park, 2015: Part of the lecture series “Frontiers of Globalization and Governance” in the 2015 Bahá’í Chair for World Peace Spring Symposium.
Paper Presentations
“State Power, Extraterritorial Authority, and Global Value Chains,” Paper Presentation, International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, February 16-19, 2016
“Change and Continuity in Hybrid Global Governance,” Paper Presentation, International Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, February 18-21, 2015
“Weaving a Web of Governance: Corporations, Governance Networks, and Conflict in the Developing World,” Paper Presentation, International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, March 26-29, 2014
“Corporate Power, Networks and Conflict Minerals,” Paper Presentation, International Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April 2-5, 2013
“Shaming the Shameless: Campaigns against Corporations,” Paper Presentation, BISA-ISA Joint Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 19-21, 2012
“Extractive Industries Transparency Standards,” Paper Presentation, International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, March 15-20, 2011
“Extractive Sector Transparency Standards,” Paper Presentation, International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, March 15-21, 2011
“Diffusion and Governance beyond the State: Security Policies and Governance Roles for NGOs and Corporations” (with Deborah Avant), Paper Presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington DC, August 2010
“Sanctions, Certification, and the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme,” Paper Presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington DC, August 2010
With Deborah Avant: “Organizational Security” Paper Presentation, International Studies Association Annual Meeting, March 2008
“Governing Corporations in Zones of Conflict,” Paper Presentation, International Studies Association Annual Meeting, March 2008
“Finance and Social Power,” Paper Presentation, International Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 21-24, 2006
“Transnational Norms, MNCs, and Conflict Prevention,” Paper Presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, September 2-5, 2004
“Doing Good While Doing Well?: Changes in Expectations about the Role of Foreign Investors in Zones of Conflict,” Paper Presentation, Annual Meeting, American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 2003
“Filling a Void or Taking Control?: Private Sector Regulation of International Economic Activity,” Paper Presentation, 10th International Conference on Socio-Economics, Vienna, Austria, July 13-15, 1998
“Learning to Cope: The Development of Risk Management Regimes,” Paper Presentation, Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, IL, February 23-26, 1995
“Perils and Protections in Foreign Economic Transactions,” Paper Presentation, APSA Annual Meeting, New York, September 1-4, 1994
“Foreign Investment and Defense Conversion,” Paper Presentation, ISA Annual Meeting, Acupulco, Mexico, March 23-28, 1993
“International Institutions, Capital Mobility, and Barriers to Interdependence in Transitional Economies,” Paper Presentation, APSA Annual Conference, Washington DC, August 31 – September 3, 1993
“Political Portfolio Theory” (with Jeannette Money), Paper Presentation, ISA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, April 1-5, 1992
“Missing Links: Trade and Capital in the European Community” (with Jeannette Money), Paper Presentation, APSA Annual Meeting, Washington DC, August 1991
“The Framework for Foreign Investment and the New Economics of Organization,” Paper Presentation, ISA Annual Meeting, Vancouver, March 19-23, 1991
“Risk and Reaction: Economic Security and the Insurance Regime,” Paper Presentation, ISA Annual Meeting, Washington DC, March 1990
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