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        Presentations at the Midwest Political Science Association
        Annual National Conference, April 22-25, 2010
        Chicago, IL, USA.
        "Political Economy of the Net Neutrality in Europe"
        “ An Evaluation of E-Government in Estonia"

         Presentation at the Internationa Studies Association
        Annual Convention, February 20, 2010
        New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
        "Political Economy of the Net Neutrality in Europe"
    
   

        Presentation at the conference "Making Democracy
        Work in the Digital Age" at Vilnius University      
        on November 5, 2009, Vilnius, Lithuania 
       
An Evaluation of E-Government in Estonia"
        Presentation in pdf    Paper in pdf 

        Presentation  at the Association for Private Enterprise
        Education Conference, April 5-7, 2009,
        Guatemala City, Guatemala.

        “ Institutional Determinants of the Internet Diffusion" 

       Presentation  at the Internationa Studies Association
       50th Annual Convention, February 15-18, 2009,
       New York, NY, USA.

     Tacit Web: A Look at the Digital Divide Below
       the Tip of the Iceberg."

      Presentation  at the American Political Science Association
      Annual Meeting, August 26-29, 2008, Boston, MA, USA.

     Tacit Web: A Look at the Digital Divide Beyond
      the Surface of the Iceberg."

      Two posters at the dg.o 2008 International  Conference
      May 18-21, Montreal, Canada.

    Explaining the E-Government Success in Estonia" 
     and "Brooks' v. Linus Law: An Emprical Test of 
     Open Source Software Projects" (with Charles Schweik,
     Robert English and Sandra Haire).

     Presentation at the Association  for the Study of Nationalities
     12th World Convention at Columbia University.
     April 10-12, 2008, New York, NY, USA
    The Impact of Identity Politics on Economic Reforms
       in Estonia and Latvia"  

     Two presentations at the International Studies Association
      49th Annual Convention
     March 27 and 28, 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Success Without Strategy: E-Government Evolution in Estonia"
     and "When the Information Highway is a Dirt Road:
     The Conceptual Stretching of Internet Diffusion"

     Presentation  at the American Political Science Association
     Annual Meeting.
     August 30-September  2
  , 2007, Chicago, IL USA
     “Mind the Gap: Misrepresentation  of Comparative
      Advantage in International Relations Textbooks"

     Click here to access the conference program

       Read the abstract

      Presentation at the Association for the Study of Nationalities
     12th World Convention at Columbia University.
     
April 12-14, 2007, New York, NY, USA
   
The Impact of Identity Politics on Economic Reforms
       in Estonia"

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       Read the abstract

     Download the paper in pdf format (38 pages)
   
     Presentation at the Political Science Department's Research
     Colloquium at University of Massachusetts Amherst
     
March 28, 2007, Amherst, MA, USA
  
The Impact of Identity Politics on Economic Reforms
       in Estonia"

     Download the paper in pdf format (38 pages)

    
     Presentation at the International Studies Association
     48th Annual Convention
    
February 28-March 3, 2007, Chicago, IL, USA
   
Exploring the Limits of Legalization in the WTO:
     The Case of the Basic Telecom Agreement"

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     Dowload the paper in pdf format (52 pages)

    Keynote speech at the the Estonian Independence Day
     Celebration of the Boston Estonian Society

    
February 25, 2007, Waltham, MA, USA
   
"Miks
kõik õnnestub Eestis ? "

     Click here to access the Boston Estonian Society's website

       Read the speech in Estonian (4 pages in the pdf format)

     Presentation at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
    
February 21, 2007, Amherst, MA, USA
   
Exploring the Limits of Legalization in the WTO:
     The Case of the Basic Telecom Agreement"

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     Dowload the paper in pdf format (52 pages)
   
    Presentation at the American Political Science Association
    102th Annual Meeting
   
August 31 - September 3, 2006, Philadelphia, PA, USA
   Political Economy and Technology: A Comparative Study
     of Internet Diffusion in Transition Economies"

     Download the paper in pdf format (50 pages)

   
    P
resentation at the Northeastern Political Science Association
    36th Annual Meeting
    November 11-13, 2004, Omni Parker House, Boston, MA, USA.
   
    “Absorbing the Backlash Against Liberal Society:
    Rawls´s Political Liberalism vs. Mill´s Comprehensive Liberalism
"

     Download the paper in pdf format (24 pages)

   
    Presentation at the Workshop of Ronald Coase Institute

    September 25- 30, 2004, Tucson, Arizona, USA                                                                                                                                      
    "The Impact of Institutional Change on Internet Diffusion
    in Small Transition Economies"

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     Click to read the abstract and download the conference paper

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    Conference on Benchmarking the Information Society:
   
Data, Measurements and Methods
    Presentation given by Adnan Sylejmanpasic of MIT
    on the basis of my research

     "Impact of Economic Openness on Internet Diffusion
    in Estonia and Slovenia"

    June 7-9, 2004, Cavtat, Croatia

    Click to access the conference slides
                                                                                                                                     

   
    Presentation at the International Conference Politics and Information
    Systems: Technologies and Applications (PISTA'03) organized
jointly
    with the International Conference on Computer, Communication and
    Control Technologies (CCCT '03)

    July 31-August 2, 2003, Orlando, Florida, USA                                                                                                                                      
    "Beyond the Internet: Radical Reformer vs. Smooth Transformer"

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      Download the conference paper in pdf format (6 pages)

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    Public Lecture at the Popper Room of Central European University

    March 7,  2003, Budapest, Hungary

    "Beyond the Internet: Lessons from Estonia and Slovenia"

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