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Opportunities:
ISA Compendium (www.isanet.org/compendium)
In 2006 the ISA
leadership adopted a program to compile an ISA International Studies
Compendium. The ISA Compendium
will serve as a repository of information about the development of
thinking and the status of the current literature on a broad variety of
thematic questions in the international studies literature. The Compendium will consist of peer-reviewed
essays of approximately 10,000 words, considering important issues,
problems and issues, assessing current knowledge, and suggesting where
the field is heading.
• The centerpiece will be titled International Studies
On-Line (ISO) and be presented in an electronic format with links to
archives, datasets, case studies and pedagogical materials.
• A hard copy version (ISE) will be sold to libraries and
include multiple volumes.
• Sections will have the option of using the material they
provide for the project, together with additional content, to create a
special section volume.
The project is being
organized through ISA Sections.
Robert Denemark is the general editor of
the Compendium.
(denemark@udel.edu) The
PCSIR section has been asked to prepare a list of topics that are
critical to our section.
Ten Proposed PCSIR Themes:
The End of the Bipolarism:
Russian and U.S.
Views
Soviet Foreign
Policy and Russian Foreign Policy
Energy Politics of
the FSU
The International
Economy of Privatization in Communist Countries
Are
Post-Communist Foreign Policies “Transitional Foreign Policy”?
The Emergence of
CIS International Relations (1991-2001)
Strategic
Triangles in Post-Communist Politics
Post-Communist and
Communist Relations: Russia and China
The Foreign
Relations of Totalitarian Countries: A Look Backwards
Russian Nuclear
Policies: Successor to the Superpower Arsenal?
Suggestions for
Compendium topics for the PCSIR section may be sent directly to Robert Denemark (denemark@udel.edu) or to Gregory Gleason (gleasong@unm.edu).
Announcements ISA
2008 Convention
The 2008 ISA Annual
Convention will be held March 26-29, 2008 in San Francisco. The convention theme is: Bridging Multiple Divides.
Proposal Forms: The online proposal submission forms are now active;
panel and paper proposals until June 1, 2007. For submission go to
http://www.isanet.org/sanfran2008/
Potential proposals
relevant to post-communist politics may also be discussed in advance of
submission with the 2008 Section Coordinator, Andrei Korobkov,
Department of Political Science,
Middle Tennessee State University (615)
898-2945,
korobkov@mtsu.edu
Agenda Item:
Election of new PCSIR Chair at 2008 Meeting
The PCSIR section charter
specifies rotation of the section chair to be held every two years. Current section chair, Gregory Gleason,
will complete his service at the 2008 San Francisco ISA conference. The section business meeting will hold
an election for a new Section Chair (2008-2010). Nominations for the post of new section
chair will be called for at the business meeting.
What’s in a Name?
During the period of the
Cold War, the rivalry between the USSR
and the U.S.
played a dominant role in structuring the international system. During this period, ISA’s “Soviet Studies”
section served as one of the organization’s most influential and vigorous
thematic sections. The Soviet
Studies section combined the interests of scholars from a variety of
methodological perspectives and traditions, drawing on broad range of
schools of thought as diverse as great power realism, national security
studies, intelligence studies, Marxist theoretics
and a number of different approaches.
The ISA Section on Soviet
Studies reorganized itself in the early 1990s as the Post-Communist States
in International Relations.
(PCSIR).
Several section members
have grown uncomfortable with the name of the section for a number of
reasons. It is questionable
whether the most important aspect of contemporary foreign policy analysis
of the PCSIR states is determined by their common historical
connections. Given that the idea
of “post-communism” has been criticized by some as being needlessly
“backward looking,” proposals for renaming of the section will also be
put to a vote at the 2008 San
Francisco meeting.
2008 Program Coordinator
Andrei
Korobkov
Department of Political Science
Box
29, 1301 East Main Street
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37127
(615) 898-2945
korobkov@mtsu.edu
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