Newsletter of the International Political Economy Section of the International Studies

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IPE NEWSLETTER

Newsletter of the International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association

Spring 2006

Judith A. Duncker, Ph.D. Editor

ISA 47TH ANNUAL CONVENTION

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA

MARCH 22-25, 2006

SAN DIEGO…………………………………………………………….……….. 2.

Message from the IPE Program Chair……………………….. 2.

The IPE Junior Scholar Competition…………………………..3.

Upcoming Conferences…………………………………………………………..4

Completed Conference……………………………………………………….4

New Appointments…………………………………………………………....4

Notices……………………………………………………………………………..5

Recent Publication………………………………….…………….…………. 5.

Books…………………………………….……….………….…………. 5.

Articles…………………………………………………….……...... 6.

Employment opportunities…………………………………………………..7

SAN DIEGO: Message from the IPE Program Chair

Dear IPE Section Members,

It will be wonderful to engage in productive intellectual debates both in the sessions and more informal settings of the ISA Annual Meeting that will take place in San Diego this week.

I would like to remind you of our section's business meeting that will take place on Friday, March 24. The venue within the conference hotel is called Sunrise, but the meeting time is soon after mid-day, at 12:30-1:30pm.

Apart from the business as usual, such as selecting new officers for our section, it would be great if all of us could devote some time before the meeting to think of ways in which our section, and the ISA more generally, could become an increasingly effective and inclusive space. One of the possible issues is how to make use of our section also during the period between the annual meetings. Another one, also reflecting this year's conference theme and continuing our last year's business meeting discussion, is how to improve the possibilities of colleagues from the South to participate in our work.

On Friday, March 24, we will also have our traditional reception, thanks to the always generous support of Lynne Rienner. The reception will be held in honor of this year's IPE Distinguished Scholar Stephen Gill. It will take place at 6-7 pm, and the venue is Garden Salon 1.

On Friday, 3:45-5:30 pm, we will also have out special panel that honors the distinguished scholar, Stephen Gill. The panel is called "World Order and the Postmodern Prince: Whence Capitalism?", and it will be chaired by our Distinguished Scholar Committee Chair Claire Cutler.

On Tuesday March 21 I will represent our section in the ISA Governing Council meeting. If you have any concerns you would like me to take up there, please let me know as soon as possible. The ISA headquarters is currently trying to improve their interaction with the sections, so it would be good to be actively and collectively part of this process.

I will also have a separate meeting with Andrea K. Gerlak, who is the new ISA office person trying to create better links with the sections. I have a meeting with her just before our business meeting, and I would be very grateful for any ideas or concerns that you would like me to discuss with her. In case someone else is interested in coming to that informal meeting with Andrea, it will take place at 10 am on Friday, March 24 outside the Sunshine Deli at the conference hotel.

I look forward to seeing you all soon. In case you want to give me any

suggestions about the issues mentioned above, or contact me for any

other reason, I will be staying at the main conference hotel from Tuesday onwards, and probably also reading my e-mail daily.

With warm regards from Lima,

Teivo Teivainen

IPE Section Chair 2005-2006

THE IPE JUNIOR SCHOLAR COMPETITION

The International Political Economy Section seeks submissions for the Annual IPEJunior Scholar Award competition. The prize is given to the best single-authored paperwritten by a graduate student and presented in an IPE-sponsored panel at the AnnualISA Convention. Papers can be submitted by their authors or they can be submitted tothe competition by the chairperson of the panel on which the paper was given. Oneaward will be given. The award consists of a certificate, a check for $200, and one-yearstudent memberships in the International Studies Association and the IPE Section. Theaward will be announced in the next edition of the IPE section newsletter and the checkand certificate will be mailed to the winner. The winner will also be recognized at the2007 business meeting of the IPE section.
To be considered for the competition, papers must be received by Friday, April 28. Papers may be submitted in hard copy or e-mail. If submitted by e-mail the papershould be in MS Word, WordPerfect, RTF, or PDF format. Please place the words “IPEJunior Scholar” competition in the title of the e-mail. Please also indicate the college oruniversity in which the entrant is a graduate student and the ISA panel in which thepaper was presented. Papers should be submitted to:
JamesRoberts
Department of Political Science
Towson University
8000 York Road
Towson, Maryland, 21252USA
or

UPCOMING CONFERENCES:

CULTURE AND TRADE - “Cultural Policies, Trade Liberalization, and Identity Politics: Testing the Limits of the State” International Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Windsor 12-14 May 2006

Key Speakers: Peter S. Grant - Attorney of Law, specializes in Intellectual Property and Communications Law, Partner at McCarthy Tétrault, Toronto, Canada.

Simon Kow - Political Philosopher, Incoming Director of the Early Modern Studies Programme, University of King's College, Canada

Chris Maule - Professor of Economics, specializes in Canadian Cultural Policies, Carleton University, Canada

Jim McGuigan- Professor of Cultural Analysis and Sociology Programme Director at Loughborough University, UK.

Conference registration will begin in December at the conference website

For any additional information please contact the chair of the organizing committee:Dr. Anna Lanoszka, Department of Political Science, University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Ave. Windsor, Ontario, CanadaN9B 3P4, Tel: (519) 253-3000 ex. 2355, Fax:(519) 973-7094, .

COMPLETED CONFERENCE

Quan Li (PennStateUniversity) and Nate Jensen (Washington at St. Louis) organized an interdisciplinary national conference on “The Political Economy of Regulating Multinational Corporations and Foreign Direct Investment”. The conference brought together a group of scholars in this research area from political science, economics and international business. Participants came from a variety of schools (Columbia, Michigan, PennState, University of Washington, WhartonSchool at UPenn, Washington University at St. Louis, World Bank, WZB Berlin). Funding for the conference came from a Workshop Grant from the International Studies Association, a PennState internal SSRI level one grant, and the IPE speaker series in political science at PennStateUniversity. Detailed information on the conference participants, their bios, and conference papers can be accessed at the following website:

NEW APPOINTMENTS

Julie L. Mueller has been appointed assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, University of New England, Biddefor, Maine.

NOTICES

The IPE web site has recent been updated to include news items. Please submit suggestions for additions to the site (particularly syllabi, degree programs, personal web pages, links, etc.) to webmaster Jeffrey Hart at: Professor Jeffrey Hart, Department of Political Science, Woodburn Hall 210, IndianaUniversity, Bloomington, IN47405, tel (812) 855-9002, fax (812) 855-2027,

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The IPE Yearbook No. 15 - Global Corporate Power, edited by Christopher May is now available. Copies will be available in San Diego. Contents include: Conceptualizing the Corporation, Corporations and Global Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility. The Volume is published by Lynne Rienner.

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Dear Colleagues,

As some of you may already know, a third edition of Stubbs and

Underhill (eds) Political Economy and the Changing Global Order (Oxford

University Press) will come out in July. For those of you who use it as a textbook or plan on adopting it this will have implications for your courses because a large proportion of the content has been renewed or changed altogether. The two attachments present the new edition and order information. Desk copies for teaching staff are available via OUP UK (for UK and Europe/Asia) and OUP New York (US) or OUP Toronto (Canada). We have been promised by the press that there will be sufficient copies for courses which begin in September 2005.

I hope you find the new edition helpful for your course preparation.

RECENT BOOKS

Christopher Chase-Dunn and E.N. Anderson (eds.) 2005.The Historical Evolution of World-Systems. London: Palgrave.

Robert Falkner. 2005. “The Business of Ozone Layer Protection: Corporate Power in Regime Evolution.” In: The Business of Global Environmental Governance, edited by David Levy and Peter Newell (Cambridge: MIT Press): 105-134.

Jonathan Friedman and Christopher Chase-Dunn (eds.) 2005.Hegemonic Declines: Present and Past. Boulder, CO.: Paradigm Press.

Guilio Gallarott. 2004. “Nice Guys Finish First: American Unilateralism and Power Illusion” in Graham F. Walker, ed. Independence in an Age of Empires:

Multilateralism and Unilateralism in the Post 9/11 World, Halifax, Nova Scotia: Center for Foreign Policy Studies, DalhousieUniversity, pp. 225-236.

Madeleine O. Hosli, 2005: The Euro: A Concise Introduction to European Monetary Integration.Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Nathan Jensen.2006Nation-States and the Multinational Corporation.(PrincetonUniversity Press).

Susanne Soederberg, Georg Menz, and Philip G. Cerny. 2005. Internalizing Globalization: The Rise of Neoliberalism and the Decline of National Varieties of Capitalism. Paulgrave, New Hampshire.

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