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World Economy and Policy, a journal based at the Faculty of International Relations at the Prague University of Economics and Business, announces a call for papers for its first volume. The journal invites experts and young scholars to submit their manuscripts. The journal’s scope covers the following:
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Call for Panels, Roundtables, and Papers
Programme convenor: Dr Aliaksei Kazharski, Comenius University, Bratislava
Recent developments in Europe have highlighted the significance of borders, margins, and marginality. The 30th anniversary of the fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe was marked by centrifugal tendencies. The once popular narrative of a ‘return to the West’ that had inspired the post-Communist transitions of many countries in the region has been superseded by a much more ambiguous stance. Scepticism towards European integration and ‘Western’ or ‘liberal’ values seems to have taken deep root, and the centre-periphery relations appear to have moved beyond the teacher-student paradigm. Some countries (like Hungary) now find themselves at the margins of the European normative order, yet also position themselves as protectors of common European borders, and ‘European civilization’ as such, against hostile invaders.
In this context, the migration crises - whether spontaneous or engineered – have brought forth the significance of borders and bordering, provoking some to question the liberal-globalist de-territorialised models of organizing political life. In the meantime, the contemporary crises point to the inevitably globalised nature of today’s international relations, as various cross-border flows become increasingly difficult to contain. This effect has been further amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, but this time with respect to the EU’s internal borders. Previously invisible to many, and virtually unknown to those born at the turn of the millennium, these intra-EU borders have suddenly become a physical reality again, disrupting the routine of cross-border activity. These newly palpable borders are sometimes triggering ontological anxiety, but also amplifying the political message of those sovereigntists and nationalists who have traditionally emphasised the sacrosanctity of national borders. COVID-19 has further exposed the status of marginalised and disadvantaged groups and communities, as well as the uneven distribution of the impact of both the pandemic and the enforced restrictions along ethnic, racial, and gender lines. These developments have created new openings for critical approaches to these topics and issues that may be situated at the borderline between domestic and international politics.
The 2022 CEEISA Convention will take place at the University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia, at the site of the former Limes Romanus, the one-time border of the Roman Empire. The participants are thus invited to “return to the margins” not just in the historical and metaphorical, but, above all, in the conceptual sense. The conference invites submissions that will explore the diverse meanings of borders, margins, and marginality and their multifaceted impact on international relations in the age of crisis.
Name, institutional affiliation, email address of the proposed chair
Proposed panel title and summary of its rationale (no more than 250 words).
List of papers, paper authors and abstracts (200 words each).
Submissions and inquiries:
Please submit your panel, roundtable and paper proposals at the conference ConfTool site by 31 January 2022.
Schedule:
Call for Papers, Panels and Roundtable proposals launched: 21 November 2021
Abstract submission deadline: 31 January 2022
Acceptance emails – Registration Opens: 1 March 2022
Registration Closes: 15 April 2022
Finalisation of Programme: 23 May 2022
Conference: 22-24 June 2022
For conference fees and registration types, see the conference website.
For any general enquiries about the 2022 CEEISA Convention, please contact: bratislava2022@ceeisa.net.
Six decades of the Past
Six decades for the Future
An International conference celebrating 60 years of teaching and researching International Relations in Slovenia
On 31 January 1961, a High School for Political Science was created in Ljubljana. It had four Chairs. The Chair for International Relations was created alongside the ones for philosophy and sociology; economy; and political system. The following year, in 1962, a research centre for international relations was inaugurated.
When the Chair of International Relations was created 60 years ago, the world was headed towards a global crisis that threatened to annihilate the post-WWII international order – think of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Six decades on, the international order seems to be under threat again. Again, we are witnessing the two superpowers in conflict. In 1961, not many in Europe thought that a highly integrated union was realistically possible in the continent. Many from that time would wonder at accomplishments since then: both, Europe without borders, but also the terrible vulnerability of the European Union to sovereignism, populisms and nationalisms that we are witnessing at present. Brexit, after all, and albeit orchestrated on fake information, is nothing short of a demonstration of mistrust to the European project. In Central Europe, states who defied the communist rule during the Cold War, states that yearned for transatlantic support after the fall of the Soviet Union and the iron curtain, seem to be among the biggest EU-sceptics nowadays, joined by an illiberal, anti-democratic and anti-EU coalition that seeks to promote its understanding of the rule of law, but also human rights and democracy. The EU, hoping to become and remain a major player on the global stage, is turning into an onlooker of other players, especially in (Southeast) Asia, taking the grand stage. Its normative power has crumbled internally, as well as externally. What do all these developments mean for the IR community? How can we study them, understand them, and how and to whom can we communicate our findings so that the discipline becomes as engaging as it was in the past, and that it remains relevant?
This conference aims to capture both the past and the present, in the light of the challenges that the world has overcome or is yet to overcome. This is an open call, to our alumni who build their successful careers at universities both at home and abroad; to our friends with whom we have shared many working hours writing articles and books, founding international institutions; and to everyone who would wish to take some time to honour us with sharing their expertise, their critical thinking and knowledge and thus help us celebrate our anniversary. In this respect, we are proud to share the stage and partnership with the Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA), which since its creation in the 1990s has been an integral part of the IR community in Slovenia, and vice versa.
As this is the celebration of the IR discipline, we do not wish to make any restrictions concerning topics. Given the focus of our IR study programmes at the undergraduate, MA, and Ph.D. levels, we particularly welcome paper and panel proposals dealing with history, international politics, IR theory, international political economy, international economic relations, politics of international law, international organisations, human rights, development studies, international security and conflict management, migration, the role of education (teaching of IR), international environmental politics, EU studies (history, politics, and policies, EU as a global actor), regional studies and global governance.
This will be an online conference, via the Zoom platform. Please apply by filling out an application form, with a paper title, 300-word abstract, and up to four keywords. Or, if you plan to submit a panel or a roundtable: title of the panel/roundtable, convenor, a 300-word abstract (introducing the panel), up to four keywords, and a list of proposed panelists, Please include the following information with your submission: (a) full name, (b) institutional affiliation, (c) country of an institution, (d) email address. In case you submit a panel/roundtable, kindly include short descriptions of individual presentations (title of the paper, author of the presentation, a short abstract, and up to four keywords).
The deadline to send your proposal is 31 July 2021. The procedure to consider your proposal is the following: within up to three weeks after the deadline has expired, the Programme Chair will inform you if your proposal has been accepted.
Please note that on this celebratory occasion, participation at the conference is free of charge. Nevertheless, we would like to welcome everyone to join CEEISA and subscribe to the JIRD, at a reduced price of 20/40 EUR (CEE residents/non-CEE residents). For details see here: https://www.ceeisa.net/membership.
We look forward to welcoming you (albeit online) to Ljubljana! Your Organising Team can be contacted at international-relations.60@fdv.uni-lj.si. They are Professor Zlatko Šabič (programme chair); Ajda Hedžet, MA, Faris Kočan, MA (executive managers), Tara Sergeja Kadunc, Amadej Petan, Tadej Uršič (media production and support), Jelena Kovačević, Luka Radičević, Svit Rodež (programme assistants), Eva Omahen (public relations).
The International Studies Association is holding the 63rd ISA Annual Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, USA (March 30th – April 2nd, 2022). The convention will investigate the theme, “A Wider Discipline for a Smaller World.” The call may be found here: https://www.isanet.org/Conferences/ISA2022/Call.
ISA invites CEEISA members to submit two proposals for roundtables and/or panels by June 1, 2021. To submit a proposal, you will need an ISAnet account and valid CEEISA membership, as will the other participants on your proposal. Please reach out to your respective participants and notify them of these requirements.
Submissions must be received through the following link to be included on the program:
https://www.isanet.org/Conferences/ISA2022/Submissions/PartnerOrg. (Note this is not the general conference submission link). ISA encourages you to be as transparent and as diverse as possible in the formation of your panel or roundtable.
The Journal of International Relations and Development is a leading pluralistic journal in international relations and international political economy. It is the official journal of the Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA) and it welcomes submissions from all scholars without regard to regional affiliation.
The editors invite proposals for the 2023 special issue that advances research within the journal’s coverage. We look forward to proposals that critically engage with global, transnational, and international themes from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives.
The deadline for submitting proposals is 30 September 2021. The editorial team will make their decision within two weeks.
The proposal should contain:
- Title, a short bio of guest editors, a one-page rationale that contextualises the contribution, 8-11 paper abstracts of around 250 words including names, affiliations and titles of all (co)-authors who have confirmed their commitment to submit to the special issue, a short note on diversity regarding gender, seniority, and geographical balance.
Submission deadline for the first submission of all candidate papers will be no later than 28 February 2022.
We plan the publication for the December issue 2023. Articles that are ready ahead of the schedule will be published First View before that.
Proposals should be sent to <jird@fdv.uni-lj.si> with a subject line Special Issue 2023.
The Executive Council of the Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Michal Ondarco as a new co-editor for its book series Central and Eastern European Perspectives on International Relations (CEEPIR), published by Palgrave. Dr Ondarco is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and a research affiliate at the Peace Research Center, Prague. Originally from Slovakia, Dr Ondarco received his PhD in Political Science from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has been a CISAC Junior Faculty Fellow at Stanford University, Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute and the Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, New York. Dr Ondarco's research is on nuclear nonproliferation and domestic politics of foreign policy, with a particular interest in comparative aspects. Dr Ondarco will work on CEEPIR together with Professor Petr Kratochvil (Institute of International Relations, Prague).
The Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA) is looking for a new co-editor for its book seriesCentral and Eastern European Perspectives on International Relations (CEEPIR) to take over from Dr Xymena Kurowska from early 2021. The new CEEPIR co-editor will work together with Professor Petr Kratochvíl (Institute of International Relations, Prague).
The main purpose of the CEEISA book series, published in cooperation with Palgrave, is to provide and sustain excellence in IR research in and on Central and Eastern Europe. CEEPIR is an interdisciplinary forum for scholarship that straddles classical and non-classical approaches, advancing cutting-edge developments in global International Relations. The series invites proposals in the spirit of epistemological pluralism and in a range of traditional and innovative formats: research monographs, edited collections, textbooks and pivots which aim at succinct and timely scholarly interventions. We are interested in innovative scholarly perspectives on contemporary social and political transformations in the region, in how knowledge is produced about such transformations, and in how Central and Eastern Europe interacts with the wider European and global contexts.
More information on the series available here: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14885
The candidates are invited to send their expression of interest with a full resume by January 9, 2021 via email to Dr Maria Mälksoo, CEEISA President, at m.malksoo@kent.ac.uk. Informal inquiries welcome.
The Department of International Relations and European Studies (IRES) of Metropolitan University Prague (MUP) is opening a position of Assistant Professor of International Relations (IR). We seek a scholar with expertise in general IR, with a preference for specialization in geopolitics and or international political economy.
See more details on the MUP website:
https://www.mup.cz/en/about-mup/open-positions/assistant-professor-of-international-relations/
The Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA) is delighted to announce the new editorial team of the Journal of International Relations and Development (JIRD), published by Palgrave Macmillan in association with the Centre of International Relations at the University of Ljubljana for 2021-2024.
The new team, led by Dr Xymena Kurowska (Associate Professor of International Relations, Central European University) and Prof. Saskia Stachowitsch (Professor of International Politics, Vienna University) will take over the editorial responsibilities of JIRD from the present Coordinating Editors Dr Akos Kopper and Dr Paul Roe, and their team of Associate Editors, from 1 January 2021.
The incoming editorial team includes scholars with a strong CEE regional connection, academically and/or biographically. The new Associate Editors bring on board an outstanding record of state-of-art scholarship that straddles paradigms and further broadens the pluralistic base of JIRD by their commitment to the epistemological and methodological diversity and cutting-edge work that critically engages with global politics from a variety of perspectives. The incoming team of Associate Editors includes: Dr Felix Ciută (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies), Dr Michael Dorsch (CEU), Prof. Stephanie Hofmann(Graduate Institute Geneva), Prof. Frédéric Mérand (University of Montreal), Dr Rafi Youatt (The New School for Social Research), and Dr Srdjan Vučetić (University of Ottawa). Dr Katarina Kušić (Aberystwyth University) will join the team in the capacity of the journal’s Communications Officer. The editorial team continues to be supported by the Managing Editors based at the University of Ljubljana, the original home base of the journal.
CEEISA is very grateful to the International Relations Department of Central European University (Vienna, Austria) for its continuing commitment to support the editorial work of JIRD, defying the difficult circumstances of CEU relocation to Austria and the global pandemic.
On behalf of the whole CEEISA community, I would like to thank the current coordinating editors Dr Akos Kopper and Dr Paul Roe for their excellent work in leading JIRD into its current globally recognised position. We look forward to the incoming editorial team to consolidate the achievements and reputation inherited from the outgoing team of the journal – and to take JIRD to further intellectual heights and visibility in the field.
Maria Mälksoo, CEEISA President
The Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA) is looking for a new editorial team to take over the running of JIRD from the present Coordinating Editors Akos Kopper and Paul Roe, and their team of Associate Editors, at the beginning of 2021.
As a CEEISA journal, published by Palgrave Macmillan in association with the Centre of International Relations at the University of Ljubljana, JIRD strives to reflect the wide range of interests in International Relations and International Political Economy. It addresses a range of global issues and leading theory debates. An important part of its mission is to stimulate and disseminate theory-aware research and scholarship in Central and Eastern Europe and throughout the international academic community.
The CEEISA wishes to maintain the high international standing that the journal has achieved in the past decade (2019 Journal Impact Factor: 2.028, 24th out of 95 journals in the International Relations category and 52nd out of 180 journals in the Political Science category) and is therefore looking for a new editorial team with the strength and institutional support to sustain the tradition and position established by the previous editorial regimes. The post may be filled by either an editor or an editorial team headed by one person. The successful applicant / applying team must be fluent in English and have an internationally recognized track record of scholarship; geographical diversity among the members of the team is a plus. The length of the tenure is four years.
Applicants should send the following information:
1. a statement of expressing interest in editing the journal and a vision for the journal in the next four years;
2. a full resume and, if applicable, a full resume of all the suggested members of the Editorial Team – preference may be given to applicants who have included a scholar from the Central and Eastern European region as a member of their Editorial Team;
3. a letter from the Home Institution (in the case of an Editorial Team, this should be the Home Institution of the Editor-in-Chief) stating its commitment to support the potential editor. A statement about the provided financial and administrative support by the Home Institution could be an advantage in the selection process.
The successful applicant will have at their disposal an Editorial Assistant based at the Centre of International Relations, and/or some financial support to organize the editorial work at his or her Home Institution.
For informal inquiries about the JIRD editorial work, please get in touch with Paul Roe (Roepaul@ceu.edu) and Akos Koppper (akoskopper@gmail.com). Please send your submissions via e-mail to Maria Mälksoo, CEEISA President, at m.malksoo@kent.ac.uk. Applications will close on 2 October 2020. It is envisaged that the handover process starts on 2 November 2020, and under any circumstances is to be completed by 31 January 2021.