Valerie Morkevicius Papers Presented:

“Tangled Roots: International Law and the Secularization og Just War Theory,”International Studies Association Conference, Chicago, IL, March 2007

“Unholy Alliance: Western Just War Theory, Realism and Hegemony,” Midwest Political Science Association, annual meeting, April 2006

“Faith-Based War? Religious Rhetoric and Foreign Policy in the Bush Administration,” International Studies Association Conference, San Diego, CA, March 2006

“What Do You Mean by Just War? Divergent Justifications for War in the Western and Islamic Worlds,” poster presentation, International Studies Association Conference, San Diego, CA, March 2006

“Faith Based War? Religious Rhetoric and Foreign Policy in the Bush Administration,” poster presentation, American Political Science Association, annual meeting, September 2005.

“Bound by Rhetoric or Rhetorically Bound? Pre-war Justifications as Constraints on Tactics,” First Global International Studies Conference, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2005.

“Sowing Salt: Environmental Concerns and Just War Theory,” First Global International Studies Conference, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2005.

“War in the 21st Century: Is Just War Thinking Still Relevant?“ International Studies Association West Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1-2 October 2004.

“Just War: an ethic of restraint or the defense of order?” American Political Science Association, annual meeting, 4 September 2004.

“War in the Public Sphere: The Use of Ethical Frameworks in Newspaper Coverage of the Iraq War,” 4th International Conference on Religion, Media and Culture, Louisville, Kentucky, 3 September 2004.

“The Need for Just Order: Just War Thinking is More Than Just Restraint,” Midwest Political Science Association, annual meeting, 18 April 2004

“Just War: An Ethic of Restraint, or the Defense of Order? (And Whose Order, Anyway?),” Past, Present and Future of Political Violence and Pacifism, University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast, 3 April 2004

“War in the Public Sphere: The Case of Ethical Frameworks in Newspaper Coverage of the Iraq Wars,” Comparative Politics Workshop, University of Chicago, 3 March 2004

“On the Edges of Empire: The Challenge of Ethnic Minorities in Central Asia,” East Asian Workshop, University of Chicago, Autumn 2000

“Entre le noir et le blanc: la critique politique de  Mongo Béti,” French Department Honors Thesis, University of Illinois, Spring 1999