Marjo Koivisto of the LSE has asked me to send out information about the
conference of Nordic International Studies Association (NISA) in May 2007.
Further details are below.
Best,
Nick Aylott.
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Dr Nicholas Aylott, senior lecturer (docent) in political science
School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University College
SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
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> CALL FOR PANELS AND PAPERS
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> The Nordic International Studies Association (NISA) invites panel
> and paper proposals for a new conference on topical issues in world
politics.
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> The conference -
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> Power, Vision and Order in World Politics
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> - will be held on 23-25 May 2007 at the University of Southern
> Denmark, Odense, Denmark. All international studies academics and
> practitioners - members or non-members of NISA, Nordic or
> international - are welcome to participate. Participation of
> doctoral students is particularly encouraged, and they may apply for
> travel grants.
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> The deadline for both panel and paper proposals is 1 December 2006.
> Please send your proposal to the head of the organising committee,
> Sten Rynning (sry@sam.sdu.dk).
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> The best papers of the conference will be published in a special
> issue of Cooperation and Conflict in 2008.
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> For more information about the focus of the conference, the
> organization, fees, travel and other issues, please consult the
NISAhomepage:
> http://www.ps.au.dk/nisa/
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> NISA has also decided to establish a
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> PRIZE FOR THE BEST ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN COOPERATION AND CONFLICT
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> The first Prize - 500 euros - covers the years 2005 and 2006. The
> Prize will be awarded at the 2007 conference. The board of NISA and
> the editors of Cooperation and Conflict act as the nomination committee.
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> NISA was founded in October 1991 to promote research, advanced study
> and contact among academics and practitioners in the field of
> international studies in the Nordic countries. NISA encourages the
> advancement of knowledge across disciplinary boundaries, analytical
> approaches, institutions, and nations. The journal Cooperation and
> Conflict has been the Association's most visible form of activity.
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> NISA conference
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> University of Southern Denmark
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> 23-25 May 2007
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> Power, Vision, and Order in World Politics
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> When President H. W. Bush in the wake of the 1991 Gulf War called
> for a new world order he illuminated an enduring phenomenon in the
> history of international relations: the idea that the conclusion of
> major wars or confrontations become moments of creation and the
> source of new orders. Following more than a decade of uncertainty,
> turmoil, and sometimes war we ask the discipline of international
> studies to reassess this relationship between turning points and order.
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> The original insight into the phenomenon usefully highlighted the
> connection between power and order: the great powers who won the
> contest that recently came to an end can now use their muscle to
> build a new order that reflects their vision of politics, society,
> and economics. Sometimes these great powers are in agreement and
> form concerts; sometimes they disagree and form hostile alliances.
> This view of power and order may not be an appropriate means for
> understanding current world politics where preponderant power seems
> to go hand-in-hand with disorder.
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> Our ambition with this conference is therefore to invite debate on
> the relationship between power, vision, and order. We hope to
> provoke new thoughts on the conceptualization of power and order.
> Must we now give priority to conceptualizations of relations that
> transcend the state - processes of globalization and the formation
> of a type of stateless global governance? Must we emphasize ideas
> over material interests and investigate the formation of identities
> through social interaction and, perhaps, the making of a benevolent
> Kantian anarchy? Must we retain a focus on the state but privilege
> the ways in which restraint and legitimacy in state policy help
> generate enduring constitutional-type orders? Conversely, should we
> look at states and the way in which states in common develop
> international societies? Or, should we look at states and the way in
> which groups of states tend to come into confrontation because their
> conceptions of society and politics are at odds? With this topic -
> power and order - we hope to take stock of the intellectual field,
> clarify controversies, and suggest new research questions.
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> We hope also to stimulate new empirical findings into the
> relationship between power, vision, and order. We encourage
> participants to present their studies of major turning points and
> processes of war, peace, and governance, and we welcome diversity in
> terms of approaches, method, and focus. We thus hope to generate new
> insights into, say, the great power conferences that ended up
> producing not peace but cold war following the Second World War, or,
> say, the macro-sociological processes that produced this cold war.
> And we hope that these insights will feed back into the debate on
theory.
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