"What Would Arnold Do Now: Masculine and Feminine Men and Women React to Experimental Terrorist Attacks" (with Alison Aylward, Alice F. Healy, and Lyle E. Bourne, Jr.). International Society for Political Psychology, Barcelona, Spain, July 12-18, 2006.
"Terrorist Attacks, Media Effects, and Democratic Responses" (with Alison Aylward, Alice F. Healy, and Lyle E. Bourne, Jr.), International Studies Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2005.
"Leading with Blood in the Streets: Global Broadcasters, Protesters, and Democratic Leaders" (with G. R. Boynton), October, 2004
"Rhetoric, Democracy, and Offensive Speech," International Colloquium on Rhetoric and Democracy: About an African Athens," Capetown, South Africa, June 8-15, 2004; Foundations Workshop on Political Myth, Rhetoric, and Symbolism, American Political Science Association, September, 2004.
"Global Communication, Democracy, and the Language of Protest," (with G. R. Boynton), American Political Science Association, September, 2004.
"Public Reactions to Newspaper Reports of Armed International Conflicts," (with Lyle E. Bourne, Alice F. Healy) (presented by Lyle E. Bourne), International Committee of the Red Cross, Conference on War and Peace: Social Psychology Approaches to Armed Conflicts and Humanitarian Issues, September 9-11, 2004, Geneva, Switzerland.
"The Globalization of Sympathy and Action" (with G. R. Boynton), American Forensic Association/National Communication Association, Summer Conference on Argumentation, Alta UT, 2003.
"In Search of Excitement" (with G. R. Boynton), Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago IL, 1999; Washington DC, 1999.
"Paths through a Conversation," (with G. R. Boynton), International Society of Political Psychology, Amsterdam, 1999.
"Metaphorical Meaning, and Political Power" (with Christ'l de Landtsheer), International Society of Political Psychology, Amsterdam, 1999.
"Metaphorical World Politics" (with Christ'l de Landtsheer), International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Amsterdam, 1998.
"International Communication and Global Community: the World View of CNN WorldView" (with G. R. Boynton), International Studies Association, Minneapolis, 1998; American Political Science Association, Boston MA, 1998.
"Traveling Together Down the Information Superhighway: Conversations about Politics, Language, and Distance Learning" (with G. R. Boynton), American Political Science Association, Washington DC, 1997.
"Decision Science in Complex Societies: Psychological Laboratory Experiments on International Conflict and Cooperation" (with A. F. Healy, G. P. Sinclair, L. Bourne), International Political Science Association, Seoul, Korea, 1997; International Society for Political Psychology, Krakow, Poland, 1997; American Association for the Advancement of Science, Baltimore MD 1996; International Studies Association, San Diego CA, 1996.
"Post-Realism, Just War, and the Gulf War Debate" (with Robert Hariman), International Society for Political Psychology, Krakow, Poland, July, 1997.
"Post-Realism, Just War, and the New World Order" (with Robert Hariman), British International Studies Association, Leeds UK, December, 1997; International Political Science Association, Seoul, Korea, 1997; American Political Science Association, San Francisco CA, 1996; International Studies Association West, Boulder, Colorado, 1995; Speech Communication Association/American Forensic Association, Alta, Utah 1995.
"Words of War: Terms, Concepts, and Levels of Discourse," International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Haifa, Israel 1998; European Consortium for Political Research, Second Pan-European Conference in International Relations, Paris, France 1995; International Sociological Association, Bielefeld, Germany, July, 1994; International Political Science Association, Berlin, Germany, August, 1994 (delivered by George Graham), Seoul, Korea, 1997.
"Women's Words: Gender and Rhetoric in the Congressional Gulf War Debate" (with Laura Brunell), A World in Transition: Feminist Perspectives on International Relations, An Interdisciplinary Conference," Lund, Sweden, June 14-16, 1996 (made available by Erika Svedberg); International Studies Association, San Diego CA, 1996; International Studies Association West, Boulder, Colorado, 1995
"Speaking about Dying" (with G.R. Boynton), Speech Communication Association/American Forensic Association, Alta, Utah 1995; American Political Science Association, 1994.
"Between Maastricht and Sarajevo: European Identities, Narratives, Myths" (with Jeffrey S. Kopstein), Second Pan-European Conference in International Relations, Paris, France 1995; European Community Studies Association, Washington D.C. 1993; International Society for Political Psychology, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July, 1994; International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Haifa, Israel, 1998, Graz, Austria, August, 1994 (delivered by Brigitte Boyce); American Political Science Association, 1994.
"Peace Agreement, Intransigent Conflict, Escalation Trajectory: A Psychological Laboratory Experiment" (with A. F. Healy, G. P. Sinclair, L. Bourne), American Psychological Association, Los Angeles CA, August, 1994; International Society for Political Psychology, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July, 1994; International Studies Association, Washington D.C. March, 1994.
"The Rhetoric of Politics and Politics of Rhetoric: The Debate Over the Debate in the Gulf War" (with Mark I. Lichbach and Barry J. Balleck), American Political Science Association, 1994.
"Beer and Quiche in the Fast Lane: Signaler's Dilemma, Democratic Debate and the Gulf War" (with Mark I. Lichbach and Barry J. Balleck), American Political Science Association, 1993.
"Body, Mind, and Soul in the Gulf War Debate" (with Barry J. Balleck), International Studies Association, Acapulco, Mexico, 1993; International Society of Political Psychology, Cambridge MA, July 1993.
"Realist/Idealist Texts: Psychometry and Semantics" (with Barry J. Balleck), Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, 1992.
"Realistic Foreign Policy Communication: A U.S. Senatorial Conversation on Cambodia" (with G. R. Boynton), International Peace Research Association, Kyoto, Japan, 1992.
"Realistic Rhetoric but not Realism: A Senatorial Conversation on Cambodia" (with G. R. Boynton), International Studies Association, Atlanta, 1992; International Society of Political Psychology, Cambridge MA, July 1993.
"Reasons," American Political Science Association, Atlanta, 1991.
"What Would Happen If...? Exploring the Minefields of U. S. Cambodian Policy" (with G. R. Boynton), International Studies Association, Vancouver B.C., 1991.
"Ranking International Cooperation and Conflict" (with J. Ringer, A. F. Healy, G. P. Sinclair, and L. E. Bourne, Jr.), American Political Science Association, San Francisco, California, 1990.
"Political Validity," American Political Science Association, 1989, Atlanta, Georgia.
"Experiments on Conflict and Cooperation," Shambaugh Conference on Communication, Conversation, Political Judgment, and Action; University of Iowa, Ames, Iowa, 1988 (invited).
"War Cues and Foreign Policy Acts in South Korea" (with Aran Park, Kun Park, A. F. Healy, G. P. Sinclair, and L. E. Bourne, Jr.), American Political Science Association, Washington, D. C., 1988.
"War Cues and Conflictual Foreign Policy Acts: A Laboratory Experiment" (with A. F. Healy, G. P. Sinclair, and L. E. Bourne, Jr.), American Political Science Association, Chicago, 1987; International Society for Political Psychology, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1986.
"A Global Events Hypertext?" DDIR Events Data Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1987 (invited).
"The Anti-Nuclear Weapons Movement: Policy, Action, and Research," International Peace Research Association, Sussex, England, 1986.
"The European Peace Movement and NATO," Dwight D. Eisenhower Library Conference on Leadership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Abilene, Kansas, 1982 (invited).
"The Epidemiology of Peace and War," American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., 1977.
"How Much War in History?" Western Political Science Association, Denver, 1974.
"The Political Economy of Alliances," American Political Science Association, Chicago, 1971.
"Energy, Environment, and International Integration," John F. Kennedy Institute, Sixth International Colloquium on Energy Needs and Environmental Problems, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 1971 (invited).
"Integration and Disintegration in NATO," International Studies Association, San Francisco, 1969.
Discussant
Panel on Locating the Media in Constructivist Theory, International Studies Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2005.
Panel on Political Communication, International Society for Political Psychology, Lund, Sweden, July 15-18, 2004.
Panel on Experimental International Studies," International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, April, 2004.
"Allies and Enemies," Conference on the Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric, Texas A&M University, College Station TX, March 4-7, 2004.
Panel on "Theories of International Relations," Western Political Science Association, Denver, 2003.
Roundtable on "The Current Status of Experimental Research in the Field of International Relations," International Studies Association, Portland OR, 2003
Panel on "The News of the World and How it is Constructed," International Studies Association, Portland OR, 2003.
Panel on "Communication and the Construction of Political Meaning," American Political Science Association, San Francisco, 2001.
Panel on "Debate on Rationality and Constructivism," International Studies Association, Minneapolis, 1998.
Panel on "Security Issues: Defining the Boundaries of 'Europe'," International Studies Association, Toronto, 1997.
Panel on "Refiguring Realist Theorists," International Studies Association, Atlanta, 1992.
Panel on Alternative Perspectives on the Study of Foreign Policy, International Studies Association, Vancouver B. C., 1991.
Panel on U. S. Military Intervention, American Political Science Association, San Francisco, 1990.
Panel on The Binding Triad, International Studies Association, St. Louis, 1988.
Panel on "Altruism and Atrocity," American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., 1986.
Panel on "Arms Control and the Atlantic Community," American Political Science Association, New Orleans, 1985.
Panel on "The International System: Structure and Change," American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. 1984.
Panel on "U. N. Year of Peace," International Studies Association, Atlanta, 1984.
Panels on "Alliances," "Peace Studies," International Studies Association, Lexington, 1974.
Panels on "New Directions in the Study of International Organizations," American Political Science Association, New York, 1969.
Conference on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, University of Missouri, St. Louis, 1969.
Conference on the Atlantic Community, Committee on Atlantic Studies, Quebec, Canada, 1968.
Conference of Atlantic Young Political Leaders, Racine, 1968.