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Colloquium: The Political Science Journal of Boston College
Serving as a forum meant to promote academic dialogue and exchange both within and outside of the University's political science community,听Colloquium听expands upon the current offerings of the major. Coupled with the discipline's intensive writing and critical thinking nature, this undergraduate journal furthers the means through which students are able to address, ponder and critique the political issues of past and present. Encouraged by听Colloquium听to rigorously and objectively consider questions of significant importance, undergraduates bring scholarly discussion normally reserved for the confines of the political science classroom into the larger Boston College student body. For more information please contact the Editorial Board at colloquiumbc@gmail.com.Colloquium听is published biannually in print, and also online as an open access journal
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Student Publications
2016-2017
Michael Alario
"Pay it Forward" . September 2016.
Anne Bigler
"Game Theory Analysis of the Soweto Uprising." Kaleidoscope. Spring 2016.
Monica Coscia
"How The Supreme Court Made the Freedom of Speech More Free." Duke University Sanford Journal of Public Policy. May 2017.
"Justice, Truth, Crime, Punishment: The Brothers Karamazov Jury Trial. Elements: The Undergraduate Research Journal of Boston College. May 2017.
"How The Supreme Court Made the Freedom of Speech More Free." Colloquium: The Political Science Journal of Boston College. May 2017.
"The Fateful Fifty-Two: How the American Media Sensationalized the Iran Hostage Crisis." Colloquium: The Political Science Journal of Boston College. December 2016.
Ryan Duffy
"Is the United States' turn for the red surprising? Not in Texas鈥.鈥" Texas Tribune鈥, Dec. 1, 2016.
"The Legal Controversy Surrounding the Clean Power Plan." Colloquium: The Political Science Journal of Boston College. Issue 1, Volume 1, Page 54. 2017.
"I am a Leader, and I Sweat the Details," 鈥嬅厶掖 Law School Magazine, 鈥婱ay 2017.鈥 鈥
"Gun Reform: The Search for Answers," 鈥嬧嬧嬅厶掖 Law School Magazine, 鈥婱ay 2017.鈥 鈥
鈥 "鈥嬧婽he 鈥楢ccidental Feminist鈥 Who鈥檚 Rewriting History鈥," 鈥嬧嬧嬧嬅厶掖 Law School Magazine, 鈥婱arch 2017.鈥 鈥嬧嬧
鈥"A Forceful Voice for Others with Disabilities," 鈥嬧嬅厶掖 Law School Magazine, 鈥婱arch 2017.
鈥嬧"A Fight Worth Having鈥,"鈥 蜜桃传媒 Law School Magazine, February 2017.
Jordan Pino
鈥'That Which is Best Administered is Best鈥: The Federalists and Anti-Federalists on Form.鈥 Colloquium: The Political Science Journal of Boston College Vol. I, No. II (Spring 2017): pp. 42-47. .
Body Politics: What鈥檚 the State Got to Do With It? Jordan A. Pino and Konstantinos Karamanakis, editors. Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College University Libraries, 2017. .
鈥淎s 21-year-old quits GOP: 鈥.鈥欌赌 The Orlando Sentinel, August 18, 2016.
Caylee Wozniak
Counterterrorism or Counterclockwise? The Implications of National Security Measures on Civil Liberties.鈥 Boston College Bellarmine Law Society Pre-Law Review. Vol. II, Issue II. May 2017.
2015-2016
Alidadi, Omeed
鈥淐reating Fear: How American News Outlets Perpetuate Islamphobia.鈥 Progress ME. March 15, 2016.
Beckwith, Matthew
"A Noble Waffling: The Role of Human Rights in Jimmy Carter's Foreign Policy." Kaleidoscope International Journal of Boston College 7.2 (2016): 14-18. Print.
Butron, Juliana
鈥淎 Climate of Inaction: Limitations of a Relational Understanding of Morality.鈥 Elements. Spring 2016.
Coscia, Monica L.
"Diversity or Discrimination in Disguise? The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action." Boston College Bellarmine Law Society Pre-Law Review. January 2016.
Kelliher, Meaghan
"Abolishing the Death Penalty." SocialEyes. Spring 2016. /content/dam/files/schools/cas_sites/sociology/pdf/socialeyes7.pdf
"Femicide in Ciudad Ju谩rez."
Mills, Tyler
"Why Lochner Was Right: The Ingredients for Making Judicial Determinations.鈥 Bellarmine Pre-Law Review. Boston College, MA. Vol. VI, Issue II. Spring 2016.
"Army Corps and EPA鈥檚 Final Rule Causes Controversy: Revising the Definition of 'Fill Material' and 'Discharge of Fill Material' in the CWA. Bellarmine Pre-Law Review. Boston College, MA. Vol. VI, Issue II. Spring 2016.
Moretti, Rebecca
鈥淭he Psychological Puzzle: Contributing Factors to the Top-Down Politicization of Intelligence.鈥 Elements. Spring 2016.
Murphy, Emily
鈥淭he Gulf States are Coming Together on Counter Terrorism.鈥 Swiss International Relations website. January 16, 2016. .
鈥淚srael's Complex Interconnectedness in Counterterrorism.鈥 Swiss International Relations website. February 24, 2016.
鈥淲hen Counterterrorism Goes Global.鈥 Progress ME. February 16, 2016.
鈥淜uwait: Assessing Legitimacy and Stability in a Land of Paradox.鈥 Progress ME. February 1, 2016.
Orenstein, Julie
鈥淐overt Failure: U.S. Intelligence Prior to the Iranian Revolution.鈥 Al-Noor. Spring 2015.
Pino, Jordan A.
鈥淭he 鈥楯ustice鈥 of Rawls鈥 Contract: An Impoverished Device.鈥 Bellarmine Pre-Law Review 6, no. 2 (Spring 2016): pp. 63-71.
鈥淪cott鈥檚 Potential Refugee Denials Could Feed Islamophobia.鈥& Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL), Nov. 18, 2015.
Toghramadjian, Hagop
"." The Birch. (Columbia's Slavic and Eastern European Studies Journal). Spring 2016. (p. 75) https://issuu.com/thebirchjournal/docs/issuu_birch_spring_2016/1.
"National Identity and the Crisis of Democracy in the Arab Middle East."Southern California International Review.Spring 2015. (p. 50)
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