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Supplemental Material for Election Accomplished: Democracies and the Timing of Peacekeeper Drawdowns by Burak Giray and John T. Chatagnier in Political Research Quarterly

As one component of its mission to reduce trade barriers and encourage the liberalization of international commerce, the World Trade Organization provides states with a forum in which they can raise and resolve complaints about partners’ unfair trading practices. This mechanism streamlines the process of identifying non-compliant behavior, and provides real incentives for the removal of such policies. By furnishing a form of dispute resolution, the institution should be both trade-inducing and peace-enhancing for member states. However, this very mechanism also has the potential to aggravate existing dispute for two reasons. First, it removes the opportunity for states to use economic policies as instruments of structural linkage in resolving disputes. Second, it deprives its members of powerful economic tools that could be used in lieu of militarized responses. Using the implementation of the WTO Dispute Settlement mechanism, as well as the subsequent expiration of Article 13 of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture (the so-called ‘peace clause’), we examine whether the opportunity to resolve trade disputes through the organization affects the likelihood that member states engage in militarized conflict with one another. We find that membership in a trade institution facilitates peaceful interaction, but that judicialization erases these benefits. We conclude that institution building requires caution and attention to the possibility of unintended consequences.

Esta pesquisa analisa os dois primeiros filmes de longa-metragem feitos para cinema do realizador tailandês Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Objeto Misterioso ao Meio-dia e Eternamente sua. Por um lado, busca-se aproximar a análise dos filmes dos campos teóricos dos estudos da oralidade e do perspectivismo ameríndio, por outro ampliar as consequências dessas aproximações numa reflexão acerca da construção de temporalidades divergentes, que questionam e tensionam o tempo teleológico moderno. A partir dessa premissa, a dissertação procura relacionar os dois primeiros filmes do artista com o restante de sua obra feita para cinema, procurando ecos e sobreposições que visem ampliar e aprofundar as possibilidades de leitura e experiência na relação com a filmografia do cineasta. Utilizando os conceitos de movência e ponto de vista como mediadores centrais, busca-se extrair dos próprios filmes as estratégias através das quais Apichatpong constrói sua obra dotando seu cinema de certa performatividade que inclui e mobiliza a memória em prol de uma permanente atualização e relativização da experiência relacional em múltiplas instâncias: da obra com o espectador, da obra com seu objeto, do espectador com o objeto da obra e entre as obras em si. Entre o discurso manifesto e sua latência, entre o registro e sua atualização, busca-se traçar um possível caminho para que a análise seja conjugada à síntese e a partir da valorização da profundidade do que há de mais específico em cada narrativa, chegue-se à epiderme do que a faz, não sem riscos, coletiva e compartilhada. This research analyzes the first two feature films made for cinema by the Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Mysterious Object at Noon and Blissfully Yours. On the one hand, it seeks to bring the analysis of films closer to the theoretical fields of studies of orality and Amerindian perspectivism, on the other hand, to expand the consequences of these approaches in a reflection on the construction of divergent temporalities, which question and stress modern teleological time. From this premise, the dissertation seeks to relate the artist\'s first two films with the rest of his work made for cinema, looking for echoes and overlaps that aim to broaden and deepen the possibilities of reading and experience in the relationship with the filmmaker\'s filmography. Using the concepts of mouvance and point of view as central mediators, we seek to extract from the films themselves the strategies through which Apichatpong builds his work, endowing his cinema with a certain performativity that includes and mobilizes memory in favor of a permanent update and relativization of the relational experience in multiple instances: of the work with the spectator, of the work with its object, of the spectator with the object of the work and between the works themselves. Between the manifest speech and its latency, between the recording and its updating, the aim is to trace a possible path for the analysis to be combined with the synthesis and from the appreciation of the depth of what is most specific in each narrative, it is possible to arrive at to the epidermis of what makes it, not without risks, collective and shared.

Supplemental Material for Would You Like to Know More? Selection, Socialization, and the Political Attitudes of Military Veterans by John T. Chatagnier and Jonathan D. Klingler in Political Research Quarterly

THE FIRST SOUTHERN CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE TEACHING ACQUAINTED TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS FROM THE ELEMENTARY THROUGH COLLEGE LEVELS WITH MODERN TECHNIQUES OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING. THE PROGRAM PROVIDED LECTURES, WORK-STUDY SESSIONS, DEMONSTRATION CLASSES, FILMS, AND EXHIBITS OF EQUIPMENT. THIS REPORT INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES--(1) "LANGUAGE TEACHING--CONCEPTS, PROBLEMS, OPPORTUNITIES," (2) "NEW CHALLENGES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES," (3) "THE ROLE OF THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE SUPERVISOR," (4) "LANGUAGE REINFORCEMENT DRILLS," (5) "THE ELECTRONIC CLASSROOM," (6) "FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS," (7) "FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS," (8) "EVALUATION OF LANGUAGE LEARNING THROUGH TESTING," (9) "THE MLA FOREIGN LANGUAGE TESTS," AND (10) "OVERVIEW." A COPY OF THE PROGRAM, A LISTING OF MEMBERS OF THE STEERING AND ADVISORY COMMITTEES, AND DIRECTORIES OF VISITING CONSULTANTS AND EXHIBITORS COMPLETE THE REPORT. (GJ)