From cxwilkinson at googlemail.com  Wed May  6 16:12:09 2009
From: cxwilkinson at googlemail.com (Wilkinson, C)
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 21:12:09 +0100
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] Fwd: CfP: Journal of Strategic Security
	(JSS)
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Following on from recent discussion of Political Science's policy
(ir)relevance, the CFP below may be of interest.
Claire Wilkinson

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From: Stefan Wolff <stefan at stefanwolff.com>
Date: 2009/5/6
Subject: CfP: Journal of Strategic Security (JSS)
To: SECURITY at jiscmail.ac.uk


 The *Committee for the Analysis of Military Operations and
Strategy*(CAMOS), a cooperating organization of the International
Studies Association
(ISA) has been allocated two panels at the *2010 ISA Convention in New
Orleans, LA (Feb*. *17-20 2010).*



This year?s convention theme, ?Theory vs. Policy? Connecting Scholars and
Practitioners?, addresses the issue of trying to bridge the gap between
theory and practice and between academics and practitioners. This has always
been the core mission of CAMOS in relation to the broad field of strategic
and security studies. Thus, CAMOS seeks paper proposals that address the
following topics:



   - the sources of military effectiveness and force employment in war;
   - the causes and effectiveness of intervention policy;
   - the origins and effectiveness of terrorism, as well as the sources of
   terrorist recruitment;
   - non-traditional conflict triggers, including refugee flows,
   environmental scarcity, and NGO involvement in conflict settings; and
   - the relationship between coercive and non-coercive strategies in a
   counterinsurgency or reconstruction environment.



We especially welcome panel or paper proposals that draw on both scholars
and practitioners and that have clear policy relevance.



Paper proposals should include the paper titles, a short abstract (500 words
max), and contact information for the author(s). Panel proposals should
include the same for each paper, along with a title and abstract for the
panel as a whole, and contact information for panel chair and discussant, if
included.



Please submit proposals by *Friday 29 May 2009 *to:

Dr. Sergio Catignani

Assistant Professor in International Security

University of Leiden

Phone: +31615166911

Email: sergiocatignani @ gmail.com (If you send your proposal as an attached
document, please include your surname and paper title as the document
title.)
-- 
Claire Wilkinson

Teaching Fellow in Russian
Centre for Russian & East European Studies
University of Birmingham
B15 2TT, UK

http://www.crees.bham.ac.uk/staff/wilkinson/index.htm
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From D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl  Mon May 11 14:53:39 2009
From: D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl (Dvora Yanow)
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 20:53:39 +0200
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] FW: CFP: philosophy of medicine
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From auroville1976 at yahoo.co.uk  Wed May 13 05:45:02 2009
From: auroville1976 at yahoo.co.uk (Aurogeeta Das)
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 09:45:02 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] ECREA cfp
Message-ID: <614438.80664.qm@web24101.mail.ird.yahoo.com>

fyi.... apologies for x-posting.
?
>From "sophia kaitatzi-whitlock" <sophiakw at otenet. gr>

>............ ......... ......... ......... ......
>SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
>Political Communication Section of ECREA?? -?? 2009 Section Conference
>
>Mediated Citizenship: Political Information and Participation in Europe
>
>17 - 18 September 2009, Leeds (UK)
>
>In June 2009 European citizens will elect a new European Parliament, some of
>them who joined the European Union only recently for the first time. 2009
>will also see numerous national elections throughout Europe. The Political
>Communication section will take this important election year in Europe as an
>opportunity to revisit one of the key areas of political communication
>research - how democratic participation is shaped and transformed by
>processes of mediatisation and what consequences this has for the nature of
>contemporary citizenship.
>
>The nature of democratic citizenship is presently undergoing fundamental
>changes, which are assumed to have far-reaching consequences for the way
>democracy works. The relationship between citizens and their elected
>representatives seems to be characterized by growing distance, mistrust and
>ignorance. Long gone are the days of an ideal (or idealized) Athenian polity
>where political engagement was regarded a virtue and daily life was
>permeated by political debate. Instead, a growing number of citizens has
>withdrawn from politics and doesn't even find it worth the while to follow
>the news or to cast their vote. Meanwhile, the enthusiasm that initially
>inspired the citizens of the new democracies in Eastern Europe has
>evaporated and we now see similar patterns of disenchantment in these
>countries like in their established counterparts. Media organisations and
>political actors have responded to these developments in various ways - so
>far without significant success. Turnout continues to drop, and news
>programmes, in particular current affairs programmes, are losing their
>audiences.
>
>Are modern democracies, then, left without citizens, as Robert Entman
>suggested twenty years ago? The question is even more urgent with regard to
>the European Union, which for a long time has been largely ignored by its
>citizens, but is now at risk to be rejected altogether, as the recent No
>votes in? the referenda in Ireland, France and the Netherlands demonstrate.
>
>However, the situation might be more ambiguous and complex. While citizens
>are withdrawing from institutionalized politics and established channels of
>communication new arenas of participation and new forms of communicating
>political ideas have emerged, which for many - in particular the young -
>appear more meaningful and more trustworthy. In particular the Internet has
>opened up new spaces for democratic citizenship from the local to the global
>level that could not have been dreamed of twenty years ago.
>
>The ECREA Political Communication sectional workshop aims to provide a forum
>to discuss these themes. We invite empirical as well as theoretical papers
>that contribute to understanding contemporary democratic citizenship and the
>role of the media, old and new, in shaping the way it is experienced and
>practiced. We are particularly interested in papers that address the
>following aspects:
>
>.?????? European citizenship: media and perceptions of Europe; participation
>and vote choice in European elections and referenda.
>.?????? The ballot box and beyond: media and national electoral politics;
>non-institutionalis ed participation; non-voting and political disengagement.
>.?????? Communicating to citizens: Mediated and mediatised political
>messages; implications for political information and participation.
>.?????? Making sense of politics: citizens' response to political
>information; information processing and civic knowledge.
>.?????? Conceptualizing citizenship (European, national): relationship
>between media and citizenship; lay understanding of citizenship.
>
>
>Submission of contributions:
>
>Abstracts of not more than 500 words should be sent to
>ics-conferences@ leeds.ac. uk, mentioning 'Mediated citizenship' in the
>subject line.
>
>Deadline: 15 May 2009
>
>
>Local organiser:
>
>Dr. Katrin Voltmer
>Institute of Communications Studies
>University of Leeds
>Leeds, LS2 9JT
>United Kingdom
>
>Tel: ++44-(0)113- 3435829
>Email: k.voltmer at leeds. ac.uk
>
>----
>Dr Sophia Kaitatzi-Whitlock
>Chair, Political Communication Section ECREA, www.jour.auth. gr/ecrea
>Assistant Professor, Dept. of Journalism and Mass Communication
>Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Egnatia 46, Thessaloniki 54625, GREECE
>
>Tel/Fax 0030 2310 992082



      
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From navdeep at iimahd.ernet.in  Thu May 14 04:13:12 2009
From: navdeep at iimahd.ernet.in (Navdeep Mathur)
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 13:43:12 +0530
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] new book: Democracy and Expertise:
	Reorienting Policy Inquiry by Frank Fischer
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Frank Fischer, *Democracy and Expertise: Reorienting Policy Inquiry*, Oxford
University Press, 2009



This book examines the role of policy expertise in a democratic society.
>From the perspectives of both political theory and policy studies, the
chapters explore the implications of deliberative democratic governance for
professional expertise and extends them to specific policy practices.
Following the lead of John Dewey, the discussion focuses in particular on
the ways professional practices might be reoriented to assist citizens in
understanding and discussing the complex policy issues of an advanced
technological society.   In doing so, it also explores how public
deliberation can be improved through more cooperative forms of policy
inquiry.



Adopting a deliberative-analytic approach , policy inquiry is  grounded in a
postempiricist, constructivist understanding of inquiry and knowledge and
the participatory practices that support it. Toward this end, the chapters
draw on thriving theoretical and practical work dedicated to revitalizing
the citizen?s role in both civil society and newer practices of democratic
governance?in particular deliberative democracy in political theory,
practical work with deliberative experiments, the theory and practices of
democratic governance, and participatory research.  Deliberative practices
are promoted here as a new *component part* of policy-related disciplines
required for participatory governance.  Calling for a specialization of
?policy epistemics? to advance such practices, the second half of the book
takes up issues related to deliberative empowerment, including the relation
of technical and social  knowledge, the interpretive dimensions of social
meaning and multiple realities, the role of narrative knowledge and
storylines policy inquiry, social learning, tacit knowledge, the design of
discursive spaces, and the place of emotional expression in public
deliberation.


http://oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Politics/PoliticalTheory/?view=usa&ci=9780199282838#Description


*If purchased directly from Publisher, a 20% discount is available. Please
quote this code when placing your order:
SSPROM20<http://oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Politics/PoliticalTheory/?view=usa&ci=9780199282838#Description>
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From patrickthaddeusjackson at gmail.com  Sun May 17 09:19:56 2009
From: patrickthaddeusjackson at gmail.com (Patrick Thaddeus Jackson)
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 09:19:56 -0400
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] ISA-Northeast graduate student
	methodology workshop
Message-ID: <EF514A11-7FFB-4169-9019-F11888B5F59E@gmail.com>

?Interpretive and Relational Research Methodologies?
A One-Day Graduate Student Workshop
Sponsored by the
International Studies Association-Northeast
3 October, 2009 ? Baltimore, MD

The field of International Studies has always been interdisciplinary,  
with scholars drawing on a variety of qualitative and quantitative  
techniques of data collection and data analysis as they seek to  
produce knowledge about global politics. Recent debates about  
epistemology and ontology have advanced the methodological openness of  
the field, albeit mainly at a meta-theoretical level. And while  
interest in techniques falling outside of well-established comparative  
and statistical modes of inference has been sparked, opportunities for  
scholars to discuss and flesh out the operational requirements of  
these alternative routes to knowledge have been relatively infrequent.

This fifth annual workshop aims to address this lacuna by bringing  
together faculty and graduate students in a pedagogical environment.  
The workshop will focus on two broad research approaches that differ  
in various ways from statistical and comparative methodologies:  
interpretive methodologies, which highlight the grounding of analysis  
in actors? lived experiences and thus produce knowledge  
phenomenologically and hermeneutically; and relational methodologies,  
which concentrate on how social networks and intersubjective  
discursive processes concatenate to generate outcomes.

In the two morning sessions, five established scholars, whose work  
utilizes such approaches as ethnography, discourse analysis,  
historical criticism, and linguistic analysis, will talk about  
precisely how they do their empirical work. These tutorial sessions  
will be followed by an extended afternoon session in which graduate  
student participants will have an opportunity to receive feedback from  
the established scholars and from their fellow workshop participants.

This year?s faculty participants include:

Brent Steele, University of Kansas
Margaret Keck, Johns Hopkins University
Himadeep Muppidi, Vassar College
Aida Hozic, University of Florida
Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University

The workshop will be held in conjunction with the International  
Studies Association-Northeast?s annual conference, which will take  
place from 2-3 October in Baltimore, MD. Although all attendees of the  
conference may come to the workshop sessions, the 6-8 graduate  
students officially participating in the workshop will have the  
opportunity to receive detailed feedback and specialized instruction  
in the methodologies under discussion.

Graduate students interested in participating in the workshop should  
send their c.v. and a letter describing their current research project  
to Patrick Thaddeus Jackson by e-mail: ptjack at american.edu.  
Applications must be received by 1 July 2009.

===
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
Director of General Education, American University
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of International Relations and Development
http://www.kittenboo.com | http://duckofminerva.blogspot.com
Twitter/AIM: ProfPTJ | calendar: http://ical.mac.com/onyxdr/Patrick


From D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl  Mon May 18 02:07:03 2009
From: D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl (Dvora Yanow)
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 08:07:03 +0200
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] CFP Cave Hill
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From tellez.ca at gmail.com  Wed May 27 21:12:53 2009
From: tellez.ca at gmail.com (Claudio Tellez)
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 22:12:53 -0300
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] Historical Complexity
Message-ID: <554d970905271812l25a033adtf46c6fd11fff77ec@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all!

My name is Claudio T?llez and this is my first post to this list. I'm a
mathematician (BS) and a MA student in International Relations at the
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. My research is about the
origin of international institutions - more precisely, I'm studying the
development of the just war doctrine in 16th century Spain.

Maybe someone can help me. I am looking for an article that is very
important for my research. The reference is:

Alker, H.R., and Simon Fraser. (1996). "Modeling Historical Complexity:
Contributions from the Santa Fe Institute. ? Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association, San Francisco.

I found the article in the following link:

http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~alker/papers/On_historical_complexity.PDF

Unfortunately, the link doesn't work for me (it returns an error message).

I know that Prof. Alker was a member of this list, but unfortunately he
passed away on 2007. His works are great sources of inspiration for me.

Perhaps someone has this paper or knows how can I get it?

Thanks in advance,
Claudio
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From eblancha at usc.edu  Wed May 27 22:21:08 2009
From: eblancha at usc.edu (Eric Blanchard)
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 19:21:08 -0700
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] Historical Complexity
In-Reply-To: <554d970905271812l25a033adtf46c6fd11fff77ec@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <C6434324.ECE%eblancha@usc.edu>

Hi Claudio,
I manage the Alker Archive that you linked to here at the University of
Southern California. I will look for that paper and send it to you privately
when I find it.

For those on this list interested in Hayward Alker?s life and work, the
website will be undergoing some repairs since the university changed
servers, but I?m aiming for a re-launch in the late summer/fall. In the
meantime, anyone interested is welcome to contact me with requests or
questions. 

Regards,
Eric Blanchard
University of Southern California

On 5/27/09 6:12 PM, "Claudio Tellez" <tellez.ca at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> My name is Claudio T?llez and this is my first post to this list. I'm a
> mathematician (BS)?and a MA student in International Relations at the
> Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.?My?research is about the
> origin of international institutions - more precisely,?I'm studying the
> development of the just war doctrine in 16th century Spain.
> ?
> Maybe someone can help me. I am looking for an article that is?very
> important?for my?research. The reference is:
> ?
> Alker, H.R., and Simon Fraser. (1996). "Modeling Historical Complexity:
> Contributions from the Santa Fe Institute. ? Annual Meeting of the American
> Political Science Association, San Francisco.
> ?
> I found the article in the following link:
> ?
> http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~alker/papers/On_historical_complexity.PDF
> ?
> Unfortunately, the link doesn't work for me?(it returns an error message).
> ?
> I know that Prof. Alker was a member of this list, but?unfortunately he passed
> away on 2007. His works are great sources of?inspiration?for me.
> ?
> Perhaps someone has this paper or knows how can I get it?
> ?
> Thanks in advance,
> Claudio
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
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From tellez.ca at gmail.com  Wed May 27 23:07:01 2009
From: tellez.ca at gmail.com (Claudio Tellez)
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 00:07:01 -0300
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] Historical Complexity
In-Reply-To: <C6434324.ECE%eblancha@usc.edu>
References: <C6434324.ECE%eblancha@usc.edu>
Message-ID: <4A1DFFD5.9040003@gmail.com>

Hi prof. Eric,

Thank you very much!

I am very interested in prof. Alker's life and work. As a mathematician 
myself, I think that there are many ways of integrating results from 
current research in Mathematics and Physics with interpretive 
methodologies in the social and human sciences. I am interested in that 
paper about historical complexity because I want to study the process of 
emergence of unintended consequences in the concrete case of the 
development of just war tradition. So it seems that I have a very 
"alkerian" inclination... :-)

Best wishes,
Claudio

Eric Blanchard escreveu:
> Hi Claudio,
> I manage the Alker Archive that you linked to here at the University 
> of Southern California. I will look for that paper and send it to you 
> privately when I find it.
>
> For those on this list interested in Hayward Alker?s life and work, 
> the website will be undergoing some repairs since the university 
> changed servers, but I?m aiming for a re-launch in the late 
> summer/fall. In the meantime, anyone interested is welcome to contact 
> me with requests or questions.
>
> Regards,
> Eric Blanchard
> University of Southern California
>
> On 5/27/09 6:12 PM, "Claudio Tellez" <tellez.ca at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi all!
>
>     My name is Claudio T?llez and this is my first post to this list.
>     I'm a mathematician (BS) and a MA student in International
>     Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.
>     My research is about the origin of international institutions -
>     more precisely, I'm studying the development of the just war
>     doctrine in 16th century Spain.
>
>     Maybe someone can help me. I am looking for an article that is
>     very important for my research. The reference is:
>
>     Alker, H.R., and Simon Fraser. (1996). "Modeling Historical
>     Complexity: Contributions from the Santa Fe Institute. ? Annual
>     Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco.
>
>     I found the article in the following link:
>
>     http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~alker/papers/On_historical_complexity.PDF
>     <http://www-rcf.usc.edu/%7Ealker/papers/On_historical_complexity.PDF>
>
>     Unfortunately, the link doesn't work for me (it returns an error
>     message).
>
>     I know that Prof. Alker was a member of this list, but
>     unfortunately he passed away on 2007. His works are great sources
>     of inspiration for me.
>
>     Perhaps someone has this paper or knows how can I get it?
>
>     Thanks in advance,
>     Claudio
>