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ISA Celebrates International Women’s Day

Our publisher, Wiley Blackwell, is celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8, 2013. This free compendium of thought-provoking research from Wiley's leading publications celebrates women’s accomplishments, past and present, and examines the barriers that continue to obstruct equality of the sexes. ISA wishes you a happy International Women’s Day!

CFP: Japan Studies Association Journal

The editors of the Japan Studies Association Journal (JSAJ) invite submissions, inquiries, and proposals, both disciplinary and interdisciplinary, on any topic related to Japan for the next volume. JSAJ is a peer reviewed journal publishing articles that have Japan studies (both concerning the country and the people) as a specific focus or as a point of comparison in a discussion involving other countries. Papers that provide material useful to professors interested in incorporating information about Japan into their regular courses are especially appropriate. The journal is also interested in pedagogical "notes" on teaching Japan studies and in technology "notes" that provide information about Japan and analysis of articles, books, video, Internet, and other material for teaching Japan studies. The deadline for all submissions is June 15, 2013. Please see the journal website for more information.

Journal of Politics Editor Search

The Southern Political Science Association announces a search committee has been appointed to select a new Editor for the Journal of Politics. The incoming Editor will succeed Jan Leighley and Bill Mishler, whose editorial term will end on December 31, 2014. The new Editor will serve an initial four year term, from January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2018. The Search Committee seeks nominations and applications for the Editorship. Both individual and group candidacies are equally eligible for consideration. Nominations and applications for the Editorship of the Journal of Politics should be sent to the chair of the search committee, Carol S. Weissert, cweissert@fsu.edu or mailed to Department of Political Science, 531 Bellamy Building, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306. Draft proposals are due Aug. 1, 2013. You may download the full call here (PDF). Founded in 1938, the Journal of Politics is published by Cambridge University Press for the Southern Political Science Association.

FPA Early View

The ISA journal Foreign Policy Analysis has announced an early view of the following upcoming articles:

• "Security Commitments and Nuclear Proliferation," Dan Reiter
• "Foreign Policy as Ethics: Toward a Re-Evaluation of Values," Dan Bulley
• "Obama's Surge: A Bureaucratic Politics Analysis of the Decision to Order a Troop Surge in the Afghanistan War," Kevin Marsh
• "Military Leadership, Institutional Change, and Priorities in Military Spending," Michael E. Flynn

Early view articles are published online as a preview before inclusion in an issue. Foreign Policy Analysis is a quarterly journal published by Wiley-Blackwell and edited by A. Cooper Drury, University of Missouri.

New Issue Alert: International Studies Perspectives

 

 

 

 

International Studies Perspectives, Vol. 14, No. 1, FEB 2013 is now available online. This issue features the following articles:

• "Zombies and International Relations: A Simple Guide for Bringing the Undead into Your Classroom," Robert G. Blanton
• "Visualizing International Relations: Assessing Student Learning Through Film," Safia Swimelar
• "'They Don't Really Care About Us!' On Political Worldviews in Popular Music," Ulrich Franke and Kaspar Schiltz
• "Too Far, Too Close: Religious Affiliations and Asians' Perceptions of U.S. and China's Influence," Myunghee Kim
• "Global Climate Change and Local Action: Understanding the Connecticut Policy Trajectory," Mark A. Boyer

ISA members may access our online journals by logging in to MyISA with their user name and password. Information on all of our journals may be found here. International Studies Perspectives is a quarterly publication of Wiley-Blackwell Publishers and edited by Douglas A. Van Belle at the Victoria University of Wellington.

Global Constitutionalism Announces Online Edition

The journal Global Constitutionalism, published by Cambridge University Press in association with the Centre for Globalisation & Governance, announces that the first issue of 2013 is now available online. This edition is free of charge until the end of April. GCN Journal covers issues related to human rights, democracy and the rule of law. The online journal is available here.

ISA January Newsletter

ISA's E-Newsletter for January 2013 has been sent to members. In this edition we provide an update on the status of our hotel space for the upcoming Annual Convention in San Francisco. As you know, we offer discounted room rates at several hotels for our participants and we recently partnered with the Hyatt as an overflow option now that our two host-hotels are mostly full. This edition of the newsletter also provides an update from many of our ISA Sections offering timely reports on award winners, officer elections, and plans for Section meetings at the Annual Convention. Please see the newsletter website for more information.

New Issue Alert: International Studies Quarterly

International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 4, Dec 2012 is now available online. This issue features the following articles:

• "Of Dominoes and Firewalls: The Domestic, Regional, and Global Politics of International Diffusion," Etel Solingen
• "Competing for Scarce Foreign Capital: Spatial Dependence in the Diffusion of Double Taxation Treaties," Fabian Barthel and Eric Neumayer
• "The Power of Ideas: The Ideational Shaping of the Structural Power of Business," Stephen Bell
• "Ambiguity and Uncertainty in International Organizations: A History of Debating IMF Conditionality," Jacqueline Best
• "Influence of the Weak: The Role of Foreigners, Activism, and NGO Networks in Democratizing Northeast Asia," Apichai W. Shipper
• "Ex Ante Due Diligence: Formation of PTAs and Protection of Labor Rights," Moonhawk Kim
• "Rivalry and State Support of Non-State Armed Groups (NAGs), 1946–2001," Zeev Maoz and Belgin San-Akca
• "Free Riding and Protection for Sale," Kishore Gawande and Christopher Magee
• "Leadership Survival, Regime Type, Policy Uncertainty and PTA Accession," James R. Hollyer and B. Peter Rosendorff
• "Domestic Institutions and Credible Signals," Gary Uzonyi, Mark Souva and Sona N. Golder
• "A Non-Tariff Protectionist Bias in Majoritarian Politics: Government Subsidies and Electoral Institutions," Stephanie J. Rickard
• "Guns and Money in the Open Economy: The Exchange Rate and the Demand for Arms Imports," Lucy M. Goodhart and Anastasia Xenias
• "Trade and Volatility at the Core and Periphery of the Global Economy," Julia Gray and Philip B.K. Potter
• "Democratization after Civil War: A Brush-Clearing Exercise," Virginia Page Fortna and Reyko Huang
• "A Competing Risks Model of War Termination and Leader Change," Alejandro Quiroz Flores
• "Do Majoritarian Electoral Systems Favor Consumers: Identifying Cross-National Consumer Bias," Joe Weinberg
• "Dynamics of Cultural Change: The Human Development Perspective," Mark A. Abdollahian, Travis G. Coan, Hana Oh and Birol A. Yesilada
• "Enter The Dragon! An Empirical Analysis of Chinese versus US Arms Transfers to Autocrats and Violators of Human Rights, 1989–2006," Indra De Soysa and Paul Midford

ISA members may access online journals by logging in to MyISA with their user name and password. Information on all of our journals may be found here.

New Issue Alert: International Political Sociology

International Political Sociology, Vol. 6, No. 4, Dec 2012 is now available online. This issue features the following articles:

• "Toward Trans-gendering International Relations?" Laura Sjoberg
• "The Private Militarized and Security Contractor as Geocorporeal Actor" Paul Higate
• "Global Injustice Memories: The 1994" Thomas Olesen
• "Securitization of Migration in Greece: Process, Motives, and Implications" Georgios Karyotis
• "What Do Numbers Do in Transnational Governance?" Hans Krause Hansen and Tony Porter

ISA members may access online journals by logging in to MyISA with their user name and password. Information on all of our journals may be found here.

New Issue Alert: International Interactions

International Interactions, Vol. 38, No. 5, 01 Nov 2012 is now available on Online. This issue features the following articles:

• "Contagion in the Transpacific Shipping Network: International Networks and Vulnerability Interdependence," David C. Earnest, Steve Yetiv & Stephen M. Carmel
• "International Organizations and Government Killing: Does Naming and Shaming Save Lives?," Jacqueline H. R. DeMeritt
• "Globalization and Political Violence, 1970–2008," Ranveig Drolsum Flaten & Indra de Soysa
• "Alliances, Trade Discrimination, and the Global Trade Regime," Daniel Yuichi Kono
• "The Social Construction of Policy Reform: Economists and Trade Liberalization Around the World," Stephen Weymouth & J. Muir Macpherson
• "The Arab Spring, Winter, and Back Again? (Re)Introducing the Dissent-Repression Nexus with a Twist," Christian Davenport & Will H. Moore
• "When Conflict Spreads: Arab Spring and the Limits of Diffusion, Stephen M. Saideman
• "Democratization and the Arab Spring," Edward D. Mansfield & Jack Snyder

ISA members may access online journals by logging in to MyISA with their user name and password. Information on all of our journals may be found here.