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2012 Annual Convention News
The
program chairs invite you to participate in the 53rd Annual Convention,
to be held in San Diego from April 1-4, 2012 at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. The convention theme is “Power, Principles
and Participation” in the Global Information Age. The full call for
proposals has been posted on the ISAW website. The convention website
will be updated continuously as additional information becomes available.
Proposals may be submitted online using MyISA.
The deadline for proposals is June 1, 2011.
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.
2012 Program Coordinator
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