ISA Sections Compendium Projects

ARCHIVED PAGE: Human Rights

Compendium Committee Chairs:

Kurt Mills
University of Glasgow
E-Mail: k.mills@socsci.gla.ac.uk

Chandra Sriram
University of East London
E-Mail: C.Sriram@uel.ac.uk

List of Review Essays (as of Nov. 13, 2009):

1.  What Are Human Rights and Are They Universal? *
2.  Human Rights and History *
3.  Contemporary Sources of Human Rights Violations *
4.  Methods and Measurement:  The Quantitative-Qualitative Gap  *
5.  Human Rights and the State  *
6.  Transnational Human Rights Networks: Significance and Challenges  *
7.  Women’s Rights as Human Rights *
8.  LGBT Rights: From Queers to Humans *
9.  Conflicts over Group Rights/Self-Determination *
10. Economic and Social Rights *
11. Human Rights: Effectiveness of International and Regional Mechanisms *
12. Globalization and Human Rights *
13. Responding to Refugee and Humanitarian Crises *
14. From Humanitarian Intervention to the Responsibility to Protect *
15. The Right to Health
16. Domestic Application of Human Rights Norms and Universal Jurisdiction *
17. Reassessing Truth Commissions *
18. International Tribunals:  Promises and Challenges *
19. War, Conflict, and Human Rights *
20. Foreign Policy through a Human Rights Lens *
21. Human Rights Education *

* indicates that an author has been found

ARCHIVED PAGE: Intelligence Studies

Compendium Committee Chairs:

Stephen Marrin
Mercyhurst College
Email: smarrin@mercyhurst.edu
Phone: 814-824-3249 (office)

Larry Lamanna
University of Georgia
Email: lamanna@uga.edu

List of Review Essays (as of Nov. 13, 2009):

1.    The Study of Intelligence
2.    Intelligence Processes *
3.    Espionage
4.    Intelligence Sources and Methods
5.    Intelligence Analysis: Once Again *
6.    Counterintelligence *
7.    Covert Action *
8.    Intelligence in War *
9.    Domestic Intelligence *
10.   Intelligence Failure Theory *
11.   Organizing and Reorganizing Intelligence *
12.   Intelligence Oversight in the USA *
13.   Pathologies of Intelligence Producer-Consumer Relations *
14.   A Comparative View of Intelligence *
15.   Intelligence in International Affairs *
16.   Teaching Intelligence in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada *
17.   Intelligence Cooperation *
18.   US Intelligence Cultures *
19.   Intelligence Ethics *
20.   Intelligence and Terrorism *

* indicates that an author has been found

ARCHIVED PAGE: International Communication

Compendium Committee Chair:

Nanette S. Levinson
School of International Service
American University
E-mail:  nlevins@american.edu
Phone: (202) 855-1480 (office)

List of Review Essays (as of Nov 13, 2009):

1. Communication Technologies and International Relations *
2. International Communication Regimes *
3. Foreign Policy and Communication *
4. Ideology and Communication
5. Information and the State *
6. International Communication Networks
7. Economics of International Communication *
8. A History of International Communication Studies *
9. Research Methods in International Communication
10. International Communication in Social Movements and Interest Groups *
11. International Propaganda *
12. Terrorism and Counterterrorism on the Internet *
13. International Cultural Policies *
14. Global Media *
15. Public Diplomacy *
16. Electronic Commerce *
17. Gender, Technology, and Communication
18. Ethics and International Communication
19. E-government *
20. Telecommunications and International Relations *
21. Internet and Global Politics *
22. Internet Governance *
23. Intellectual Property and International Communication
24. Entertainment Technologies *
25. Technology and Development in International Communication *
26. Digital Divide
27. Global Privacy Issues *
28. Surveillance *
29. Technology Standards in International Communication *
30. Global Knowledge Society and Information Technology *
31. The Information and Communication Revolution and International Relations
32. Computer Mediated Communication Technology and Cross-National Learning *
33. World System in the Information Age *

* indicates that an author has been found

ARCHIVED PAGE: International Education

Compendium Committee Chair:

J. Barron Boyd
Le Moyne College
E-Mail: Boyd@lemoyne.edu
Phone: (315) 445-4293 (office)

Compendium Committee Members: 

Harry Chernotsky
University of North Carolina-Charlotte
E-Mail: hicherno@email.uncc.edu

Chris Corey
U.S. Department of Education, Title VI
E-Mail: Christine.Corey@ed.gov

Heidi Hobbs
North Carolina State University
E-Mail: heidi_hobbs@ncsu.edu

Anne Kelleher
Pacific Lutheran University
E-Mail: kellehaa@plu.edu

List of Review Essays (as of Nov. 13, 2009):

1. What Makes an International Studies Major Distinct? *

2. International Studies and the Global Community: Transforming The Agenda *

3. International Studies Education: Grants and External Funding

4. Assessment of International Studies Program *

* indicates that an author has been found

ARCHIVED PAGE: International Ethics

Compendium Committee Chair:

Amy Eckert
Metropolitan St. College of Denver
E-Mail: EthicsCompendium@gmail.com

List of Review Essays (as of Nov. 13, 2009):

1.  International Ethics and Monotheistic Traditions *
2.  International Ethics and Non-Monotheistic Religious Traditions
3.  Feminism and International Ethics
4.  Ethics and International Law *
5.  Ethical Dimensions of International Society *
6.  IR Theory and International Ethics *
7.  Cosmopolitanism *
8.  Communitarianism and International Ethics
9.  Post-Structuralism and International Ethics *
10.  Deontological International Ethics *
11.  Utilitarianism and International Ethics *
12.  Virtue Ethics *
13.  Communicative Ethics
14.  International Ethics within the International Social Contract *
15.  The Harm Principle in International Ethics
16.  Just War
17.  Jus ad Bellum *
18.  Jus in Bello *
19.  Jus Post Bellum *
20.  Terrorism and International Ethics *
21.  The Ethics of Torture *
22.  Trade and Justice *
23.  The Ethics of Finance
24.  Distributive Justice *
25.  Ethical Aspects of Development Aid
26.  Ethics of Development
27.  International Economic Institutions and Global Justice *
28.  Global Democracy *
29.  Environmental Ethics
30.  Ethics and Sovereignty *
31.  Ethical Dimensions of Refugee Flows *
32.  Borders and Ethics *
33.  Teaching Ethics and International Relation*

* indicates that an author has been found

ARCHIVED PAGE: International Law

Compendium Committee Chairs:

Henry (Chip) Carey
Georgia State University
E-Mail: polhfc@langate.gsu.edu
Phone: (404) 651-4845 (office)

List of Review Essays (as of Nov. 13, 2009):

1. Intersection of Trade and Environmental Law *
2. United Nations Law Making *
3. Internalization of International Law *
4. Justifying the Use of Force and the Law of Self-Defense *
5. Belligerent Occupation *
6. International Law and International Relations *
7. International Law and Peace Processes *
8. The Law of Genocide *
9. Intellectual Property Regulation under International Law *
10. The Primary Rules of International Law *
11. Hard and Soft Law *
12. Treaty Law:  New Trends *
13. Coercion and the Enforcement of International Law *
14. International Law and Developing Countries *
15. Indigenous Rights in International Law *
16. Criminal Tribunals *
17. World Trade Law
18. International Law and Non-State Actors *
19. Law of the Sea *
20. Teaching International Law *
21. History of International Law Jurisprudence *
22. International Law: Understanding Compliance and Enforcement *
23. Humanitarian Intervention in International Law *
24. Genocide *
25. International Environmental Law *
26. The Legality of Occupations *
27. International Law within Strategic Peace-building *
28. The Incorporation of Developing Country Perspectives in International Law
29. International Law and the Responsibility to Protect *
30. The Genocide Convention *
31. Empirical Approaches to International Law *
31. Customary International Law
32. International Law Developed through the European Union  *
33. German Approaches to International Law *
34. Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights *
35. Contemporary International Law *

* indicates that an author has been found

ARCHIVED PAGE: International Organization

Compendium Committee Chairs:

Kenneth W. Stiles
Brigham Young University
E-Mail: ken_stiles@byu.edu

Melissa Labonte
Fordham University
E-Mail: labonte@fordham.edu

Compendium Committee Members:

J. Samuel Barkin, University of Florida
Margaret P. Karns, University of Dayton
W. Andy Knight, University of Alberta
Thomas G. Weiss, Graduate Center, City University of New York

List of Review Essays (as of Nov. 13, 2009):
 
The Evolution of International Organization as Institutional Forms and Historical Processes to 1945 *
The Evolution of International Organizations as Institutional Forms and Historical Processes since 1945 *
International Organization as Interdisciplinary Inquiry *
International Organization, Interdependence, and Global Governance *
Theoretical Approaches to International Organization *
The UN System and its Specialized Agencies *
Regional Arrangements and Organizations *
International Legal Institutions
Transnational Actors *
Transnational Advocacy Networks *
Functions of International Organizations *
International Organization and Power *
International Organization and Bureaucracy *
International Organization and Legitimacy *
International Organizations and Respect for International Law *
International Organization and Preventing War *
International Organization and Ending Conflicts *
International Organization and the Development of International Law
International Organization and Peacebuilding *
International Organization and Vulnerable Populations *
International Organization and the Protection of Human Rights *
International Organizations and Criminal Justice *
International Organization and Human Development *
International Organization and Economic Governance *
International Organization and Environmental Governance *
International Organization and Health/Disease *
International Organization and Arms Control *
International Organization and Weapons of Mass Destruction *
International Organization and Terrorism *
International Organization and Crime and Corruption *
International Organization and Cybergovernance *
The Challenges of Teaching International Organization *

We are seeking authors for the three remaining review essays:

• International Legal Institutions
• International Organization and Preventing War
• International Organization and the Development of International Law

* indicates that an author has been found

ARCHIVED PAGE: International Political Economy

Compendium Committee Chair:

Renee Marlin-Bennett
Johns Hopkins University
E-Mail: marlin@jhu.edu

Compendium Committee Members:

Teivo Teivainen, Helsinki University
Jennifer Sterling-Folker, University of Connecticut
Christopher May, Lancaster University
Kimberly Weir, Northern Kentucky University
Bob Denemark, University of Delaware

List of Review Essays (as of Nov. 13, 2009):

1.  International Political Economy: Overview and Conceptualization *
2.  Mercantilist and Realist Perspectives on the Global Political Economy *
3.  Liberal Perspectives on the Global Political Economy *
4.  Historical Materialism and Global Production
5.  Post-Modern and Post-Structural International Political Economy *
6.  World-Systems Analysis *
7.  Capitalisms: A Global System *
8.  Hegemony and the Global Political Economy *
9.  Globalization and the Global Political Economy *
10.  Regionalization and the Global Political Economy
11.  Regimes *
12.  Law and Standards in the Global Economy *
13.  Information Technologies and the Global Political Economy *
14.  Trade: Determinants of Policies
15.  Trade: Neo-Classical Liberal Views on Impacts *
16.  Trade in Services *
17.  Intellectual Property and the Global Political Economy *
18.  Formal International Institutions and the Regulation of Flows of Goods and Services
19.  Global Production, Regulation and the Global Political Economy/Divisions of Labor: Old, New, and Emerging
20.  Labor in the Global System *
21.  Gender and the Global Political Economy *
22.  Labor Migrations and the Global Political Economy *
23.  Formal International Institutions and the Regulation of Labor and Production
24.  Money
25.  The Global Political Economy of Exchange Rates *
26.  Finance *
27.  Debt
28.  Financial Crises *
29.  Investment and Transnational Corporations *
30.  Formal International Institutions and the Regulation of Flows of Money
31.  Development: Institutional Perspectives *
32.  Development Paradigm and Its Critics *
33.  Development, Sustainable *
34.  Foreign Aid *
35.  Development Institutions *
36.  Human Security
37.  Crime:  The Illicit Global Political Economy  *
38.  Military Security and the Global Political Economy *
39.  Environment in the Global Political Economy *
40.  Teaching about the Global Political Economy *
41.  Investment and Transnational Corporations *
42.  Monetary Affairs *

* indicates that an author has been found

ARCHIVED PAGE: International Political Sociology

Compendium Committee Chair:

Alex Macleod
University of Quebec-Montreal
E-Mail: macleod.alex@uqam.ca

List of Review Essays (as of Nov. 13, 2009):

1.    Teaching International Political Sociology *
2.    Historical Sociology *
3.    Modernity and Modernization *
4.    Late Modernity/Postmodernity *
5.    The Sociology of the State: The State as a Conceptual Variable *
6.    Articulations of Sovereignty *
7.    Biopolitics and Governmentality *
8.    Globalization and Globality *
9.    The International Political Sociology of Empire *
10.   Habitus and Field *
11.   The International Political Sociology of Risk *
12.   The Public Sphere *
13.   Networks *
14.   Defining the Political *
15.   Security Practices *
16.   The Global and the Local *
17.   Transformations of War: Perspectives from International Political Sociology *
18.    Liberty *

* indicates that an author has been found

ARCHIVED PAGE: International Relations Theory

Compendium Committee Chair:

Bob Denemark
University of Delaware
E-Mail: denemark@udel.edu

List of Review Essays (as of Nov. 13, 2009):

1. The History of International Studies *
2. IR as a Social Science/IR as an American Social Science *
3. Is There a Discipline of IR? A Heterodox Perspective *
4. Ontologies of IR *
5. What is Theory? *
6. Idealism/Liberalism
7. Neo-Classical Realism *
8. Sovereignty as a Problematic Conceptual Core *
9. Structural Realism/Offensive and Defensive Realism *
10. Neo-Liberalism (Institutionalism)
11. Historical Materialism/Marxism/Imperialism *
12. World System History *
13. Public Goods in International Relations *
14. Comparative Civilizations *
15. Normative Theory and IR
16. Feminism and Gender Studies in International Relations Theory *
17. Post-Colonialism *
18. Post-Modernism and Post-Structuralism *
19. The Third Debate and Post Positivism
20. Norms and Social Constructivism in International Relations *
21. Identity in International Relations *
22. Evolutionary Systems Theory *
23. Post-International Theory *
24. World Society and IR *
25. Behavioralism
26. Regionalism in IR Theory *
27. Political Demography  *
28. Linguistic Models in International Relations *
29. Political Culture
30. Teaching International Relations Theory
31. Genocide *
32. Legitimacy and International Relations
33. Classical Realism *

* indicates that an author has been found