BISA US foreign policy conference

The Institute for the Study of the Americas and LSE IDEAS will co-host the third annual conference of the BISA US Foreign Policy Working Group on Thursday-Friday, 18-19 September 2008. The conference will bring together over 100 British and international scholars and consider issues central to US foreign policy in the build-up to the November 2008 elections. Professor Daniel Deudney, Johns Hopkins University, author of Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village, will be the keynote speaker.

Papers that address any area of US foreign policy - contemporary or historical - will be considered. Those which address the legacy of Bush foreign policy are especially welcome. Suitable papers will be considered for inclusion in a subsequent conference publication.

Please email an abstract (250 words max.), giving your academic title and affiliation to Dr. Timothy J. Lynch at timothy.lynch@sas.ac.uk by 31 MAY 2008. The Working Group is especially keen, as in previous years, to attract proposals from PhD candidates and we anticipate a limited number of bursaries will be available to cover registration costs for postgraduate students. Please visit http://americas.sas.ac.uk/ for more information. The Working Group's newsletter - Argentia - appears at this link.