MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL IPE SECTION BUSINESS MEETING

HONOLULU, HAWAII 2005

The meeting was called to order at 12:30 by Teivo Teivainen in lieu of Section Chair, Claire Cutler. The minutes were read by Judith Duncker.

A motion was proposed that the minutes be accepted conditional upon the distribution to members of the section. The motion was accepted.

A motion was also proposed for a change in the order of the meeting to allow for the election of officers in order to facilitate section members who had to leave to attend other section/ ISA business.

Nomination of section Officers

The following were nominated section officers:

Section Chair Teivo Teivainen ;

Program ChairRandolph ;

Distinguished ScholarClaire ;

Junior Scholar James C. Roberts

Webmaster Jeffrey ;

Newsletter/SecretaryJudith A. ;

At-Large Council MembersRuth ;

Christopher May ;

Remarks from Outgoing Program Chair

In the absence of the outgoing program chair, Teivo read a statement in which she apologized for her absence which was due to her daughter’s accident. She thanked Teivo for stepping in. Teivo noted that Steven Krasner, the Distinguished Scholar was unable to attend. Special thanks were extended to Jenny White from headquarters for tireless work, Judith Duncker, and Lynne Reinner for the reception and selection of appetizers.

It was noted that the IPE section required re-chartering this year. Headquarters will be very helpful with regard to this process. It was also noted that IPE finances are healthy. Dinner and reception totaled $1500 [Is the $1500 the cost of the two or what was remaining after those expenses??????]

New Business

Teivo reported the following items from the meeting of the Governing Council

  1. This year’s conference was plagued with a high level of no-shows, most of who were attributed to non-ISA members. The organization needed to propose measures to reduce the level of no-shows.
  1. An International Political Sociology Journal was underway through Blackwell
  1. An encyclopedia project was also underway. This will be a multimedia online project with a portal to a database.

It was noted that the encyclopedia was conceived as a commercial venture, whose proposed revenue would be over $ million. It was also noted that there was an increase in the expenses allocated to grants, travel, and childcare. The project as designed as a source of revenue to continue with its current obligations.

Doubts were raised regarding the wisdom of pursuing this project on the grounds that it would change the character and identity of the association. The recommendation was made for the establishment of a subcommittee to further research this project. Tom Volky was appointed to explore the encyclopedia project.

San Diego ’06 Scholars From the Global South

Teivo announced that the theme of the ’06 conference in San Diego was the North/South Divide. Plans were under way for an event that would be held on the other side of the border that would attract scholars from the developing world. The issue of how to attract more scholars from the other side of the divide to the event in San Diego.

Constance proposed that the idea be presented to the ISA Governing Council. Steven Gill suggested that Randy should present the idea to the Council at the meeting on Saturday in Hawaii. He also suggested that requests be made for funding for workshops.

Gill noted that in the Acapulco conference, the issue of whether conferences should be free to graduate students or whether they should pay was raised. He argued that the idea that students from developing nations should be granted a waver of participation fees should be formally established in a statement. He noted that we might also want to issue a waver to scholars from developing nations who are working in those regions as well.

The question was then posed as to whether or not wavers should be limited to convention attendees giving papers. It was also suggested that perhaps there should be a link between the travel grants process and the decision to invite scholars from developing nations in larger numbers to the convention.

Gill argued that obtaining a waiver was unlikely. Nevertheless they should give guidance to the issuance of travel grants. Vicki Gorlich and Ted Herman volunteered to get people together from the Global South who would be eligible for receiving funding for San Diego. It was suggested that a subcommittee was proposed consisting of Randolph Persaud, Teivo, Steven Gill, Dennis McNamara and Ruth Reitan with the mandate of immediately formulating a proposal for the San Diego meeting

Distinguished Scholars: Renee Bennett Marlin noted that Steven Krasner was excited about the award. She thanked all who made it possible. Special mention was given to Lynne Reinner who made the reception possible.

Constance Cole raised the question of what should be done when the honoree cancels. It was suggested that perhaps funds might then be used for other purposes. The question was also raised as to whether or not greater weight should be placed on service to the section when nominating distinguished scholars

ISA Hawaii panels: 2300 papers were accepted. Of this number, there were 800 withdrawals. It is unsure how many more were no-shows. We suspect that there were many no-shows. The section had a quota of 65 panels. However after negotiations, the section acquired 86 panels. 24 panels were co-sponsored, 62 were single sponsored, 97 first and second chairs ?????.

Junior Scholars: James Roberts noted that in future conferences awards should be make contemporaneously. In the past, panel chairs contacted the Junior Scholars committee with the names of nominees for the awards. Roberts noted that in future, IPE program chairs should ascertain contact information for panel chairs so that they could be contacted regarding the nomination of junior scholars on their panel.

IPE Yearbook: Christopher Mays reported that the next yearbook by Peter Dombrowski would be out in July. Multiple future volumes were in store, including a volume on Terrorism.

Teivo reiterated the need to develop a sense of community before and after the conference. He invited ideas for making this a process for future events.

The meeting was adjourned at 1:38.