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ISA E-Newsletter
Vol. 38, No. 5
June 2013

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Welcome to the ISA E-Newsletter, an e-mail newsletter from the International Studies Association. New in this edition: 

  • Annual Convention: Paper and panel proposals for our Toronto meeting in 2014 have been received and are being evaluated for placement on the program. Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal. Early registration is now open in our online system.
  • Awards: There are several upcoming award nomination deadlines to note, including the Dina Zinnes Award, the Kenneth E. Boulding Award, the IPS Best Book and Best Paper Awards, and the Theory Section Best Book Award. 
  • We close with the the usual reminders about upcoming deadlines, calls for papers and more Region, Section, and Caucus news for your review.

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Association News

2014 Annual Convention News
The Program Chair invites you to attend our 55th Annual Convention in Toronto from March 26-29, 2014 at the Sheraton Centre Toronto and the Hilton Toronto. Our convention theme is Spaces and Places: Geopolitics in an Era of Globalization. The full call has been posted on our website here. The Section and Caucus Program Chairs have received your paper and panel proposals and are now evaluating them for placement on the program. Early registration is now open using the online system. ISA will announce program placements on September 20th, 2013.  Please contact the program chair (isa2014@isanet.org) if you have any questions or concerns about the Annual Convention.

UN Working Group on the Right to Development 
ISA enjoys consultative status with ECOSOC and from time to time we would like to let you know about events you may attend as an ISA representative. The fourteenth annual session of the Working Group will be held from 13-17 May 2013 in Room XXVI, Palais des Nations, Geneva. At this session, the Working Group will pursue its work on the consideration of the draft operational sub-criteria for the implementation of the right to development in accordance with the recommendations endorsed at its thirteenth session. The sub-criteria are contained in document, which can be found on OHCHR’s website. The provisional agenda, the tentative programme of work and other relevant documentation of the fourteenth session will be made available online. The Working Group was established in 1998 with a mandate to: (a) monitor and review progress in the promotion and implementation of the right to development; (b) review reports and other information submitted by States, United Nations agencies, other relevant international and non-governmental organizations; and (c) present a sessional report to the Human Rights Council on its deliberations. If you are interested in representing ISA at this event, please send your contact information to our UN-NGO Representative, Cecelia Lynch <clynch@uci.edu>.

Awards, Fellowships, & Grants

The following are links and summaries of funding opportunities in international studies offered by various institutions and organizations as well as ISA regions and sections. Application deadlines are highlighted. For more information click on the title link.

Call for Nominations: The Dina Zinnes Award
The Scientific Study of International Processes Section is soliciting nominations for the Dina Zinnes Award. This award honors the best graduate student paper presented at a panel or poster session sponsored by the SSIP Section or the Convention Theme at the 2013 Annual ISA Convention in San Diego. Self nominations are welcome. The deadline for receipt of nominations is June 20, 2013 (this is an extension of the original deadline which unfortunately was sent out to the SSIP listserv only). Nominations should be sent electronically to Håvard Hegre (the Award Chair) at hhegre@prio.no. The recipient will be selected by the Section’s three-member Executive Council. The winner will be announced at the 2014 SSIP Business Meeting at the 55th ISA Annual Convention, which will be held March 26-29 in Toronto, Canada. A $100.00 (USD) cash prize and a certificate are awarded to the recipient.

Kenneth E. Boulding Award
The Peace Studies Section of ISA invites nominations for the 2013 Boulding Award. The award was established to honor Kenneth E. Boulding, a founder of the field of Peace Studies. The Award Committee seeks a graduate student research paper, delivered at the most recent ISA meeting, that is (a) theoretically based, (b) empirical (qualitative and/or quantitative), and (c) relevant to a significant problem in the field of peace studies. Any excellent exploration in the area of Peace Research is eligible. Direct submissions from graduate students and nominations from panel chairs and discussants are welcome. The award recipient will receive a two-year membership in the ISA (including peace studies section), a cash award of $250.00 (USD), a travel grant of up to $300 (USD) to attend next year's convention and a certificate to be awarded at the convention. A cash award of $50.00 (USD) will be awarded to the runner-up.  To nominate, please submit an electronic copy of the paper presented at the San Francisco convention to the Committee Chair, S. Erendira Serrano Oswald (sesohi@hotmail.com). Please include the full contact information institutional affiliations of the nominator and, if different, the nominee. Deadline for submissions: July 1, 2013.

AGAPS Graduate Paper Prize 2013
The Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS) invites university faculty to nominate graduate student research papers on the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula (inclusive of the transnational flow of people, goods and ideas) for AGAPS’s 2013 Graduate Paper Prize. AGAPS welcome submissions from all disciplines. Papers should include an engagement with literature that concerns the study of the Arabian Peninsula, a clear methodology, and make an original contribution to scholarship in the field. The author of the winning paper will be presented with a certificate at the AGAPS Business Meeting held during the next annual Middle East Studies Association (MESA) conference during 10–13 October 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The winning paper will be announced in the Journal of Arabian Studies (JAS) and published by JAS if it meets the journal’s editorial standards. Papers will be reviewed by a committee using a blind process, so the author’s name should NOT be included on the title page, footer, or header. Papers will be evaluated according to originality of research, innovation, contribution to the field, cogency of argument, sources, method and clarity of writing. You must be a member of AGAPS at the time of your submission. You may join at the time of application. 

Submission requirements:
Your paper must have been written between 1 July 2012 and 30 June 2013. Your paper must be submitted by your nominating faculty member along with a recommendation letter that speaks to the merits of the paper and the promise of the student. You must be a current graduate student. Proof of student status must provided: this can be a letter from your department, which can be sent via email. Your paper must not exceed 7,500 words (excluding bibliography) and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Your paper should conform to the following format: 
• Standard font (such as Arial or Times Roman)
• Double-spaced
• 1.25” / 3 cm margins
• Page limit of 30 pages
• Black and white 

Materials must be emailed by July1, 2013 to Neha Vora at voran@lafayette.edu and copied to Gwenn Okruhlik at okruhlik@msn.com. 

AGAPS PhD Dissertation Award 2013
The Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS) invites recent PhD graduates to submit their dissertations for consideration for its 2013 Dissertation Award. AGAPS wishes to recognize exceptional achievement in research and writing. The deadline for submission is July 1, 2013. PhD dissertations (in English) accepted for the degree of PhD between 1 July 2012 and 30 June 2013 are eligible. AGAPS welcomes dissertations from across the disciplines and a variety of perspectives. They must primarily focus on the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula, but can be inclusive of the transnational flows of people, material and ideas across the Gulf, Red Sea, and Indian Ocean. All applicants must be members of AGAPS at the time of submission. Entries will be read by a three-member committee. The author of the winning dissertation will be presented with a certificate at the AGAPS Business Meeting held during the next annual Middle East Studies Association (MESA) conference during 10–13 October 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The winning dissertation will be announced in the Journal of Arabian Studies (JAS). The winning author will be invited to publish an article based on his/her dissertation in JAS, provided it meets the journal’s editorial standards.

Required materials include:
• Brief Application Form (obtainable from Neha Vora or Gwenn Okruhlik, below)
• Verification of Degree Completion
• Letter of Nomination (by author’s adviser or sponsor)
• An Abstract (250 words)
• The Manuscript (digital copy)

All materials should be sent to:
• Neha Vora at voran@lafayette.edu 
• Gwenn Okruhlik at okruhlik@msn.com

IPS Best Book and Best Paper Awards
The International Political Sociology Section (IPS) of ISA sends this reminder that their best book and best paper award nomination deadline is July 15, 2013. More information is available here. 

Theory Section (TS) Best Book Award
The ISA Theory Section (TS) invites nominations for the Best Book Award. The award recognizes the best book or edited volume published over the past two years that contributes to the theorization of world politics. The award is open to all forms and styles of theorization. Criteria include such considerations as innovativeness, quality of argumentation, and significance for the broad discipline of international studies. Nominations should be emailed to the committee chair accompanied by a brief letter explaining why a work deserves consideration for the award. Authors may nominate themselves. A copy of each book must be sent to each member of the committee, with the line “Theory Section Book Award, c/o” at the top of each address. Nominations are due by August 15, 2013 and books must be received by 30 August, 2013. E-book formatted submissions are welcome. 

William M. LeoGrande Prize and Award Winner Announced
The School of Public Affairs and Center for Latin American and Latino Studies are pleased to announce the inaugural recipients of the William M. LeoGrande Prize for the best book on U.S.-Latin American relations published during the 2011-12 academic year, and the William M. LeoGrande Award for the best book on Latin American or Latino Studies published by an AU faculty member in the 2011-2012 academic year.

Todd Eisenstadt, professor of government at AU’s School of Public Affairs, is the first recipient of the LeoGrande Award. Professor Eisenstadt receives the award for his book, Politics, Identity, and Mexico’s Indigenous Rights Movement. Drawing on years of field research and an original survey of more than 5,000 respondents, this book argues that, contrary to claims by the 1994 Zapatista insurgency, indigenous and non-indigenous respondents in southern Mexico have been united by their socio-economic conditions and land tenure institutions as much as, or more than, by their ethnic identities.

Two scholars will share the LeoGrande Prize. Alexandra Délano, an assistant professor of global studies at the New School for Social Research, receives the LeoGrande Prize for her book, Mexico and its Diaspora in the United States: Policies of Emigration since 1848. This work examines how the Mexican government's assessment of the possibilities and consequences of implementing certain emigration policies from 1848 to 2010 has been tied to changes in the bilateral relationship with the United States.

José Ángel Hernández, an assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is the other recipient of this year’s LeoGrande Prize. Professor Hernández is recognized for his book, Mexican American Colonization During the Nineteenth Century. This study is a reinterpretation of nineteenth-century Mexican American history, examining Mexico's struggle to secure its northern border with repatriates from the United States, following a war that resulted in the loss of half Mexico's territory.

The William M. LeoGrande Award and William M. LeoGrande Prize were established in 2012 to honor his tenure as Dean of American University’s School of Public Affairs from 2003 to 2012. Professor LeoGrande continues to serve as a professor of government at American University. The endowed award program was made possible through the financial support of alumni, friends, and colleagues of Professor LeoGrande.

One of the world’s most accomplished scholars in Latin American politics and U.S. foreign policy, Professor LeoGrande has been a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, and a Pew Faculty Fellow in International Affairs. He has written five books, including Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977 – 1992. His articles have appeared in various international and national journals, magazines and newspapers. Most recently, he was co-editor of A Contemporary Cuba Reader: Reinventing the Revolution.

Post-Doctoral Fellowship - The Centre for International Governance Innovation
The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) welcomes post-doctoral fellows to join its highly collaborative community of academic and policy experts. CIGI, based in Waterloo, Ontario, at the award-winning CIGI Campus, is a premier Canadian think tank on international governance, with a focus on policy-relevant research. Its thematic focus is framed by four research programs: Global Economy, Global Security, Energy and Environment, and Global Development.

Recent Ph.D. graduates — who have either secured or are in the process of securing external post-doctoral funding — are encouraged to apply for residency at the CIGI Campus. Upon becoming a CIGI Post-Doctoral Fellow, individuals will be eligible to benefit from supplemental research support and will experience extensive professional development opportunities. More information on this opportunity can be found here or by emailing postdoc@cigionline.org.

More award news...

 

Conferences & Calls for Papers

Call for Participants: World Politics Simulation Project
The World Politics Simulation Project offers ISA members an innovative, informative and enjoyable way to network on Facebook with colleagues across the globe before the ISA convention and during an ISA workshop in Toronto, 2014. Stepping into the shoes of key decision-makers in the Middle East will give participants a unique opportunity to become a part of active learning community. Early registration opens in May 2013 and continues until December. Please see the simulation website for more information.

PSS-ISA Joint Conference 2013
ISA and Peace Science Society International invite proposals for their Joint Conference to be held June 27-29, 2013 at Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary. The conference theme is Security Challenges in an Evolving World and the program chairs are Sara Mitchell and Halvard Buhaug. This conference will explore the numerous security challenges states face today both domestically and globally and how these challenges influence interstate conflict, civil war, and peaceful conflict management practices. Three distinct phenomena form the backdrop of this conference: climate change, the global financial crisis, and the revolutionary awakening across the Middle East region. Each of these developments carries the potential to destabilize societies and cause widespread human suffering. Poverty and poor economic growth are key characterizing features of war-torn societies today. Bleak economic prospects and monetary crises have led masses to the streets in numerous developed countries as well. Rapidly diminishing resource supplies and future projections of massive climate-induced human displacement might well make new regions vulnerable to social and political conflict. Moreover, the dynamics of the Arab Spring are still in limbo, raising questions about the future of democracy in the region, as well as potential clashes between the established democratic community and its newest members. Each of these phenomena constitutes a distinct challenge to affected societies and it is important to identify potential solutions for managing these crucial issues in world politics. More broadly, the conference seeks to engage dialogue on conflict and conflict management research to understand how states are responding to shifts in the global security environment. Please see the conference website for more information.

Journal of Politics Editor Search
The Southern Political Science Association announces a search committee has been appointed to select a new Editor for the Journal of Politics. The incoming Editor will succeed Jan Leighley and Bill Mishler, whose editorial term will end on December 31, 2014. The new Editor will serve an initial four year term, from January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2018. The Search Committee seeks nominations and applications for the Editorship. Both individual and group candidacies are equally eligible for consideration. Nominations and applications for the Editorship of the Journal of Politics should be sent to the chair of the search committee, Carol S. Weissert, cweissert@fsu.edu or mailed to Department of Political Science, 531 Bellamy Building, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306. Draft proposals are due August 1, 2013. You may download the full call here (PDF). Founded in 1938, the Journal of Politics is published by Cambridge University Press for the Southern Political Science Association.

Call for Papers: Social Movements and World-System Transformation: Prospects and Challenges
On April 10-12, 2014, the University of Pittsburgh will host the 38th Conference of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS), which will focus on the theme of “Social Movements and Global Transformation.” Organizers invite submissions on this theme under the following sub-themes: Roles of States and Movements in World-Systemic Transformation, Knowledge and Paradigms in Contestation, The Role of Peripheries in Contesting World-Systemic Hierarchies, and Collective Identities and Democratic Transformation.

We encourage submissions from all relevant disciplines in the humanities, law, and social sciences. The Call for Papers is available for download here (PDF) . Proposal deadline is January 21, 2014. Meals and lodging for authors of accepted papers will be provided.

Call for Submissions: CEEISA Book Series
The Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA) is proud to announce the launch of its own book series, titled "Central and Eastern European Perspectives on International Relations". The Series editors are Zlatko Šabič (University of Ljubljana) and Petr Drulák (Institute of International Relations, Prague). This main purpose of the series is to provide and sustain excellence in IR Research in and on Central Europe. The series will offer to its readers high quality research by scholars who are conducting IR research from the Central and Eastern European (CEE) perspectives that will resonate with the IR community as well as practitioners in and beyond the region.

Reflecting on the range and depth of research and scholarship in this region, this series welcomes original and innovative contributions both from researchers who have helped to establish the IR field in Central and Eastern Europe as well as by emerging scholars who are building on this tradition.

The Series Editors welcome book proposals, which should be formatted according to the Palgrave format, available here. For futher information, feel free to contact the Editors at drulak@iir.cz or zlatko.sabic@fdv.uni-lj.si. CEEISA is an ISA Cooperating Organization. 

Call for Papers: Journal of World-Systems Research
The Journal of World-Systems Research invites submissions of original articles, datasets, and special issue proposals relevant to the study of world-systems and global political economy. Founded in 1994, JWSR is the official journal of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Political Economy of the World-System. It is an online, open source (free) journal that seeks to make research available to readers around the world regardless of their access to university libraries and other resources.

We especially want to include works that proceed from several different theoretical stances and disciplines, including, but are not limited to, political science, history, sociology, archaeology, cultural anthropology, economics and geography. We also encourage the application of comparative, quantitative and network-analytic methods to world-systems research, though publish many pieces that do not use these methods. Any empirical study deemed relevant to world-systems analysis may be published even if it uses a very different conceptual framework. In addition, we consider discussions of future trajectories and options for the modern world-system and considerations of what can be done to create a more humane, peaceful and just world society.

To submit your work, please email a manuscript of 10,000 words or less to jwsr@pitt.edu. See the journal’s website to view past issues, a list of Editorial Board members, and further submission guidelines. The Editorial team includes Editor, Jackie Smith (University of Pittsburgh), Production Editor, Scott Byrd (Murray State University), Book Review Editor, Jenn Bair (University of Colorado-Boulder), and Managing Editor Brittany Duncan (University of Pittsburgh). 

Call for Papers: Jewish Journal of Sociology
The Jewish Journal of Sociology invites submissions for a special issue on the theme The Relevance of the Jewish Question in the 21st Century. The editors seek papers that explore the relevancy and/or meaning(s) of the Jewish Question today, from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Articles should be between 6-8000 words and will be subject to peer review. The Special Issue will be published in the second half of 2014. Expressions of interest and completed articles should be sent to Ilan Zvi Baron (ilan.baron(at)durham.ac.uk) or Keith Kahn-Harris (kkahnharris(at)yahoo.co.uk) For more information please see the journal website. 

More calls for papers and participation...


Region News

ISA-South
ISA South submissions are now open for the 2013 ISA-South Annual Conference in Charlotte. We're accepting paper, panel and roundtable proposals. This year's conference theme is Public Private Partnerships: Responding to Global Challenges - you can check out the Call here. Other conference information is available at the conference website.

 

Section & Caucus News

Foreign Policy Analysis Section (FPA)
We are still seeking nominations for the Distinguished Scholar Award for 2014. Please send Steve Saideman an email with your nominations. Remind your students who have presented a paper at ISA functions since the last deadline (September 1st, 2012) or will be presenting a paper before the next deadline (September 1st, 2013) about the Alexander George Award. See here for details and send your nominations to Klaus Brummer. Congratulations again to Sibel Oktay of Syracuse University, this year’s Alexander George Winner. 

Global Health Studies Section (GHS)
We are excited to announce that the new Global Health Studies Section (GHS) was formally approved at the ISA’s annual general meeting in San Francisco. Please check out the Section’s website, find us on Facebook, and remember to also opt-in to join the Section when you next pay your ISA dues (or add to an existing membership). 

International Political Sociology (IPS)
IPS sends this reminder that the best book and best paper award nomination deadline is July 15, 2013. More information is available here.  

International Security Studies Section (ISSS)
The 2013 sectional conference of the International Security Studies Section of ISA and the International Security and Arms Control Section of APSA will be hosted by the Elliott School for International Affairs at the George Washington University in Washington D.C. from 4-6 October 2013, with accommodations at the nearby Key Bridge Marriott. The conference theme is “Bridging the Academic/Policy Divide.” Panel, roundtable, and individual paper proposals can be submitted via the main page for the ISSS-ISAC conference on the ISA website. Please note that ISA membership is not required for either proposal submission or conference attendance though you will need to create a user account with isanet.org. The deadline for paper and panel submissions will be July 15, 2013.

Peace Studies Section (PEACE)
 The Section invites nominations for the 2013 Boulding Award. The award was established to honor Kenneth E. Boulding, a founder of the field of Peace Studies. The Award Committee seeks a graduate student research paper, delivered at the most recent ISA meeting, that is (a) theoretically based, (b) empirical (qualitative and/or quantitative), and (c) relevant to a significant problem in the field of peace studies. Any excellent exploration in the area of Peace Research is eligible. Direct submissions from graduate students and nominations from panel chairs and discussants are welcome. The award recipient will receive a two-year membership in the ISA (including peace studies section), a cash award of $250.00 (USD), a travel grant of up to $300 (USD) to attend next year's convention and a certificate to be awarded at the convention. A cash award of $50.00 (USD) will be awarded to the runner-up.  To nominate, please submit an electronic copy of the paper presented at the San Francisco convention to the Committee Chair, S. Erendira Serrano Oswald (sesohi@hotmail.com). Please include the full contact information institutional affiliations of the nominator and, if different, the nominee. Deadline for submissions: July 1, 2013. 

Political Demography & Geography Section (PDG)
The 2014 ISA PDG-Collegium Civitas Eurasia Conference will take place June 18-19, 2014, in Warsaw, Poland. The conference theme is Eurasia – Defining and Crossing Barriers. Please see the conference website for more information. 

Theory Section (TS)
The ISA Theory Section (TS) invites nominations for the Best Book Award. The award recognizes the best book or edited volume published over the past two years that contributes to the theorization of world politics. The award is open to all forms and styles of theorization. Criteria include such considerations as innovativeness, quality of argumentation, and significance for the broad discipline of international studies. Nominations should be emailed to the committee chair accompanied by a brief letter explaining why a work deserves consideration for the award. Authors may nominate themselves. A copy of each book must be sent to each member of the committee, with the line “Theory Section Book Award, c/o” at the top of each address. Nominations are due by August 15, 2013 and books must be received by 30 August, 2013. E-book formatted submissions are welcome. 

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