Professor and Chair
Department of Political Science
Phone: 610.660.1749 or 610.660.1917
Fax: 610.660.1284
Email: lbaglion@sju.edu
Education
Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics-Economics, Brown University
M.A. and Ph.D. in Government, Cornell University
Professional Experience
Chair Professor of Political Science, joined the faculty at Saint Joseph's University in the fall of 1992. Dr. Baglione's major fields of study are International Relations and Comparative Politics. She has published works exploring the arms control decision-making process in the United States, the Soviet Union, and Russia. She has also written articles with Dr. Carol Clark, Associate Professor of Economics at Trinity College in Hartford, CT on the transformation of the Russian polity and economy in the early post-communist period. Dr. Baglione continues to be interested in how, why, and when adversaries agree to work together as well as post-communist politics. These interests are manifested in the courses that she teaches and her research agenda. In addition, she has developed courses on women, gender and politics. One examines the U.S. system, and the other examines women, gender and politics around the world.
Courses Taught
Introductory Courses
POL 1031 Introduction to Comparative Politics
POL 1051Introduction to International Politics
POL 1051 Introduction to International Politics Freshman Seminar
POL 1511 Research Methods: Comparative and IR
American Government and Politics Course
POL 2211 Women, Gender, and American Politics
Comparative Politics Courses
POL 2331 Women, Gender and World Politics
POL 2421 Russian Politics
POL 2461 Post-Communist Politics in Europe
International Politics Courses
POL 2551 Global Security
POL 2611 Theories of International Relations
POL 2681 Arms, Arms Control, and Proliferation
POL 2871 Model European Union or
POL 2881 Advanced Issues in European Integration (pre-requisite POL 2871)
Research
"Settling Conflict and Building Peace: Understanding Why Confrontations Settle and Why True Resolution Is Rare" A book manuscript designed for use in advanced undergraduate courses. It integrates the work of international relations specialists with those who study bargaining and negotiation and the internal (domestic political) sources of disputes. The work assesses the theoretical debates and models useful in understanding the problem of conflict settlement and transformation and examines cases with great contemporary relevance, including Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Chechnya, Israel-Palestine, and Iraq.
Writing a Research Paper in Political Science: A Guide to Inquiry, Research, Methods, and Writing. My goal for this book is to expose students to the ideas that underpin the logic of social science inquiry and to provide them with the skills that will enable them to write an excellent 20-25 page research paper of their own. While there are many excellent Methods textbooks available that are appropriate for graduate students or advanced undergraduates who are intent upon an academic career in Political Science (or other social sciences), this book seeks to empower students to research, write, and evaluate in ways that will be both interesting and useful to them in their varied futures. This means teaching students about basic research tools (not only a “Google search”), as well as discussing the basic parts of a research paper and what they seek to accomplish, explaining how to use headings and titles and how to pick appropriate ones, discussing the differences in kinds of sources and stressing that different parts of the paper require different types of information, and explaining the importance of and different ways to evaluate data. Thus, this book is more than a typical research methods text because it also discusses writing and research skills at both micro- and macro-levels.This upper-division political science course provides a comprehensive study of the European Union (EU) and its member states with the goal of preparing students for an intercollegiate simulation of the EU. Students are selected to take this course and participants recognize that they are making an extensive commitment to Model EU, as they will not only work hard throughout the semester, but they must go to Washington from Wednesday night-Saturday night on the weekend before Thanksgiving (this year, Nov. 17-20). Students must also pay an additional cost to participate in this course. Model EU will be well worth the extra money and effort, as it offers students a unique experience – classroom learning, with great emphasis on student participation, and political and negotiating skill development, as students take part in the simulation as actual European politicians working to resolve real, contemporary political issues. Registration by permission of instructor; course enrollment limited to 18.
Publications
To Agree or Not To Agree: Leadership, Bargaining and Arms Control (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999).
"The Challenge of Transforming Russian Unions:The Case of GMPR," Problems of Post-Communism 45 (1998): 43-53.
" A Tale of Two Metallurgical Enterprises: Marketization and the Social Contract in Russian Industry," Communist and Post-Communist Studies 30 (1997): 153-180.
"Finishing START and Achieving Unilateral Reductions: Leadership and Arms Control at the End of the Cold War," Journal of Peace Research 34 (1997), 135-152.
"The Importance of Participation in Ensuring the Success of Economic and Political Reforms: A Lesson from the 1993 Russian Parliamentary Elections," Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics 11 (1995): 215-248.
