Global South Charter

The Charter of the GSCIS is open for discussion and proposed amendments via the GSCIS blog until the Business Meeting 2013.

Proposed Charter:

CHARTER (doc)

Comments are welcome.

Global South Officers

Caucus Officers

The following persons were chosen as officers of the caucus. Click here for short bios for the following officers and committee members:

  • Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner, City University of New York, Chair (jbraveboy-wagner@gc.cuny.edu)
  • Lisa Richey, Roskilde University, Denmark, Vice Chair/Program Chair (richey@ruc.dk)
  • Paulo Esteves, PUC-Rio, Brazil, Vice Chair for Institutional Outreach/Membership Expansion (esteves_paulo@puc-rio.br)

Executive Committee

The following persons were chosen to serve on the Executive Committee (Click here for short bios):

  • Charity Green-Onoriose, University of Aberdeen. (cgreenonoriose@abdn.ac.uk)
  • Nanette Svenson, Tulane University and Consultant, Panama City, Panama, Latin America (nanette.svenson@gmail.com)
  • Zakia Afrin, Golden Gate University (zakia.afrin@yahoo.com)
  • Imad Mansour, Sciences-Po, Menton campus, France (imad.mansour@sciences-po.org)
  • Jason Strakes, University of Georgia, Tblisi, Eurasia (jason.strakes@iliauni.edu.ge)
  • Clifford Griffin, North Carolina State University, Secretary (clifford_griffin@ncsu.edu)
  • Seifudein Adem, Binghamton University (SUNY) (adems@binghamton.edu)
  • Diana Elsada Cassells, The City University of New York, Newsletter Editor (ecassells@gc.cuny.edu)

See also News and Announcements for Senior Advisory Committee Members.

Global South Membership

Any member of the ISA who shares the purposes of the GSCIS may become a member upon payment of dues ($5 per year; $3 per year for students).

Academic and policy Institutions may join the caucus for an annual membership of $25 per year. Among other things, member institutions will be able to promote their activities in the GSCIS newsletter and blog.

You may add the Caucus membership to your ISA membership using the MyISA system and logging in with your username and password and then clicking on the Add or Renew Membership option under the My Membership tab (found on the top horizontal menu). Membership in ISA is a prerequisite Caucus membership.

Caucus members are entitled to attend annual business meetings, vote, nominate candidates, hold office, receive newsletters and other publications produced by the section, and participate in all activities and projects sponsored by the section.

Members are encouraged to participate in section projects, serve on committees, serve as section program chair, and help recruit new members. Join us and enjoy the networking opportunities!

Global South Announcements

GSCIS Blog Update

The GSCIS blog has been updated recently with some very important messages that need your response. In particular see messages regarding the Distinguished Scholar Luncheon to be held in San Francisco on Friday April 5, and bids for a Second Global South International Studies Conference. Notification regarding elections for the Executive Committee will also be posted as soon as the Nominations Committee completes its deliberations. Please also review our Charter (posted last year on the site for comment throughout the past year) as it will be ratified at the Business Meeting in San Francisco. The blog can be accessed from the isanet.org site or directly here. From the “happy-2013” post, please click “newer posts” at the bottom for the other recent messages (and “older posts” for the Charter). Thanks to all who have made the past year a success and we look forward to seeing you, and attending your panel presentations, in San Francisco.

Call for Nominations: Distinguished Scholar Honoree, 2013

The Global South Caucus’ Distinguished Scholar Award is given annually in recognition of the recipient’s exceptional and sustained contribution to research on global south international studies (defined within the context of the ISA), as reflected in published works as well as contributions to the policy community. If the recipient is able to attend the ISA convention at which the award is given, s/he will be expected to give a brief address to members.

Members and friends of the caucus are asked to submit nominations by email to the Caucus’ Chair; a note outlining the basis for considering the nominee, as well as a bio/CV (or web link to one) should accompany the nomination. Final decisions are made by the Nomination Committee.**

The deadline for nominations is June 1st.

The recipient receives a plaque, which is presented at the ISA Annual Convention.

**The Executive Committee serves as Nominating Committee for all committees other than itself.

Please send nominations to jbraveboy-wagner@gc.cuny.edu.

Global South Advisory Group

1) We have established a panel of senior academics who are (for the most part - we are sensitive to the difficulties encountered by scholars abroad) regulars at ISA will serve as an advisory body, available for outreach, workshops, mentorship for younger scholars and other relevant matters. The following have kindly agreed to serve during this first year:

  • Seifuden Adem, Binghamton University
  • Fantu Cheru, Nordic Africa Institute
  • Geeta Chowdhry, Northern Arizona University
  • Jim Mittelman, American University (D.C.)
  • Shirin Rai, Warwick University, UK
  • Andrés Serbin, Coordinora Regional de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales, Venezuela (and Argentina)
  • Tim Shaw, University of the West Indies and Center for International Governance Innovation, Canada
  • Arlene B. Tickner, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
  • Zhang, Qingmin, School of International Studies, Beijing University

Many thanks to these scholars.

Announcing the Global South Blog

2) Have you visited the Global South Caucus Blog? The new blog is located here and will offer news and announcements from the Caucus officers. Please feel free to leave a comment and participate in the discussion.

Global South Newsletter

Announcing the Global South Newsletter

Key news and announcements as well as commentaries on current issues, and selections from panels and roundtables will be included in GSCIS newsletters, first published with a fall-winter edition in 2011.

Please send any professional news you would like to include to any officer or member of the Executive Committee for forwarding to the Newsletter Editor.

All GSCIS members will automatically receive an announcement when a newsletter published.

Global South Listserv & Blog

Announcing the Listserv & Blog

Members who wish to be included in the listserv or excluded from it should send an e-mail to the Chair (jbraveboy-wagner@gc.cuny.edu) or the Secretary(clifford_griffin@ncsu.edu).

The Caucus blog is located here. Please drop by and share your comments on items available for comment.

Executive Committee: Bios

Latin American IR:

Nanette Svenson has 20 years of professional experience in international development, academia and the private sector. She works as an Adjunct Professor of Florida State University and independent consultant for the United Nations and other national and international organizations involved in capacity development, particularly of higher education. She helped establish the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Regional Centre for Latin American and Caribbean in Panama and worked there for four years in charge of research and knowledge management. She co-founded Pro Artesana, Panama’s first NGO dedicated to developing capacity for national artisans. Prior to that, she held various senior managerial positions in private sector service firms. Her education includes an MS and PhD in International Development from Tulane University; an MBA from IESE in Barcelona; and a BA in Human Biology from Stanford University. She has experience teaching (at graduate and undergraduate levels), conducting research and program evaluations, and publishing in academic and international development journals. Nanette has been based in Latin America for the past 18 years and has lived and worked in the United States, Japan, Spain and Panama.

Asia:

Zakia Afrin is Legal Program Manager and Board of Immigration Appeals accredited immigration representative at Maitri, a Bay Area Domestic Violence organization serving the South Asian community. She is an adjunct professor of Law at Golden Gate University in San Francisco and teaches Introduction to Islamic Law and Intra-State Conflicts and Peace building. Dr. Afrin has authored numerous peer reviewed Articles on international criminal court and Gender sensitivity; domestic violence and international law, War crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh, Post Conflict justice in Iraq among others. An alumnus of The Hague Academy of international law, Dr. Afrin has an LL.B from Dhaka University in Bangladesh(1998), LL.M and an SJD specializing in public international law from Golden Gate University (USA, 2007)

Middle East/North Africa:

Imad Mansour holds a PhD in Political Science from McGill University and is currently teaching at Sciences-Po, Menton, France. His research includes foreign policy and decision-making, regional orders, protracted conflicts, comparative political economy, and with a regional focus on the modern Middle East. Dr. Mansour is Faculty Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at McGill, where he has been teaching since 2005. In 2009 he received Honourable Mention in the Arts Undergraduate Society’s 2008-2009 Excellence in Teaching Award at McGill University. He is involved in practice dimensions of public policy and decision making. In 2009 he was senior consultant in a study which designed a policy research institute for socio-political research and policy design in the Middle East. Also in 2009 he took part in a study on microfinance services in Syria.

Sub-Saharan Africa:

Charity Green-Onoriose is a Ph.D. candidate, and teaches International Relations, at the University of Aberdeen, UK. She has published articles on policy, development and climate change in South Asia.

Developing Eurasia:

Jason Strakes is a visiting scholar at the Centre for the Study of Caucasus and Black Sea Region at the University of Georgia, Tbilisi. He completed his M.A. and Ph.D. in international studies and political science at the School of Politics and Economics, Claremont Graduate University, USA. His research interests include foreign policy analysis, defense and security policy, Central Eurasia, and the international relations of developing and former Soviet states. He has published articles and coauthored chapters on these topics in various journals and edited volumes. Dr. Strakes currently serves on the editorial board of the Caucasian Review of International Affairs, and is an executive secretary of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES).

Secretary:

Clifford E. Griffin, Ph.D University of Rochester, NY, is Associate Professor of Political Science, School of Public and International Affairs, NC State University. His areas of research covers various aspects of Caribbean Political Economy, including democracy and political stability, regional integration, drug trafficking, money laundering and crime (national and transnational), migration (legal and illegal), and trade and development. He is a Contributing Editor to the Handbook of Latin American Studies, Library of Congress and Editor of ARA—Journal of Tourism Research/Revista de Investigación en Turismo. He has also served as lead consultant on tourism and safety for the Sustainable Tourism Directorate of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS). .

Treasurer

Seifudein Adem, is Associate Director/Associate Research Professor at the Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University. He has taught at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Dr Adem has edited and authored seven books and has published more than three dozen book chapters and academic articles. Dr.Adem is President-Emeritus of New York State African Studies Association and founding member of International Association of Asia-Pacific Studies.

Newsletter Editor:

Diana Elsada Cassells, is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. She specializes in the Caribbean and is writing a doctoral dissertation on a constructivist interpretation of Cuban foreign policy.

BIOs of Officers for 2011-2012

Chair

Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner is Professor of Political Science at the City College and The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. She is a specialist in foreign policy, diplomacy and development, particularly with respect to small states, specifically Caribbean states, as well as the nations of the global south in general. Her nine books include most recently, Institutions of the Global South (Routledge, 2009), Small States in Global Affairs: The Foreign Policies of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) (Palgrave-Macmillan 2007), and The Foreign Policies of the Global South: Rethinking Conceptual Frameworks (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003). She has served as president of the Caribbean Studies Association, and has been a member of a number of ISA committees as well as NGO representative between 1995 and 2010. Among other things, she was an ACUNS fellow and assistant to the director of training at UNITAR, a visiting professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, a director of the graduate program in international relations at the City College, and (from 2006-2010) Chair of a high level foreign policy commission related to her geographical area of expertise. She received the Ladd Hollist prize from ISA in 2011 and was honored as one of 50 Distinguished Alumni on the 50th anniversary (2011) of the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago.

Vice Chair

Paulo Esteves is a professor of International Relations at the International relations Institute, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. He was a Post-doctoral Fellow at Copenhagen University in 2008 and a visiting researcher at Rice University (1999-2000). Recent publications include: (i) Peace Operations and the Government of Humanitarian Spaces. International Peacekeeping (forthcoming); (ii) A converqencia entre praticas hurnanitarias e sequranca int ernacional ; (iii) As Operações de Manutenção da Pazeo discurso da Paz Democrática. In: Cepik, Marco Aurélio. (ed.). Segurança Internacional: práticas, tendências e conceitos. São Paulo: Hucitec, 2010; (v) Unfolding the international at late modernity: Humanitarian space and therapeutic politics. NUPI s Theory Seminar Series (2008); Paulo Esteves was also among the founders of the Brazilian International Relations Association (ABRI).

Vice Chair

Lisa Richey is Professor of International Development Studies at the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University in Denmark. She is the author of Brand Aid: Celebrities, Consumption and Development with Stefano Ponte (Minneapolis and London: Univ. of Minnesota Pub.2011), Population Politics and Development: From the Policies to the Clinics (New York and London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008), and the co-editor of “Women and Development: Rethinking Policy and Reconceptualizing Practice” (special issue of Women's Studies Quarterly, 2003). She did her Ph.D. in the Department Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the U.S. She works on global health, gender, and international development and has completed research on Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa.

Global South Distinguished Scholar Award

The Global South Caucus’ Distinguished Scholar Award is being given for the first time in 2012. It will be given, usually annually, in recognition of the recipient’s exceptional and sustained contribution to research on global south international studies (defined within the context of the ISA), as reflected in published works as well as contributions to the policy community. If the recipient is able to attend the ISA convention at which the award is given, s/he will be expected to give a brief address to members.

Submission/Nomination

  • Members and friends of the Caucus are asked to submit nominations by email to the Caucus’ Chair; a note outlining the basis for considering the nominee, as well as a bio/CV (or web link to one) should accompany the nomination. Final decisions are made by the Nomination Committee.**
  • The deadline for nominations is June 1st of each year.

Prize

The recipient receives a plaque, which is presented at the ISA Annual Convention.

Award Committee 2011-2013

Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner

SECTION CHAIR
City University of New York
jbraveboy-wagner@gc.cuny.edu

Lisa Richey

Vice President and Conference Chair
Roskilde University
richey@ruc.dk

Clifford Griffin

Secretary-Treasurer
North Carolina State University
clifford_griffin@ncsu.edu

**The Caucus Executive Committee serves as Nominating Committee for all committees other than itself.

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