5th ECPR General Conference

The 5th ECPR General Conference will be held at Potsdam Universität from 10-12 September 2009. The Academic Convenors for the conference are Professor Luciano Bardi (ECPR Executive Committee) and Professor Martin Bull (ECPR Academic Director). The main academic programme will be organised in the format of sections and panels, with each Section Chair organising a variety of panels in a different field. The programme is intended to be very broad, with over 50 accepted sections. ISA is sponsoring three panels: Development, capitalism, and peace; The capitalist interstate peace; and, A capitalist civil peace? Registration for the conference may be made here.

The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) is an independent, scholarly association, established in 1970. The ECPR currently has nearly 350 European institutional members and associate members in over 40 countries, from as far afield as New Zealand and Japan. These members together form a network of thousands of individual political scientists, international relations and European studies specialists.