ISA In The News

Media Newswire - WVU professors available to comment on West Virginia primary election (April 24, 2008)

This university press release notes political commentary by ISA member R. Scott Crichlow:

West Virginia University has professors who can comment on the state and national issues surrounding the primary: [...] Assistant professor R. Scott Crichlow teaches and conducts research on international relations, U.S. foreign policy, political psychology and Middle Eastern politics. Crichlow is closely monitoring the presidential contest as a matter of academic concern. In 1997, he won the Alexander George Award for the best graduate student paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, and in 1998, he was a nominee for the best paper award in the domestic sources of political science section at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.

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The Times - South Africa: The wallflower at the democracy ball (April 22, 2008)

This newspaper coverage of the recent misadventure of the Chinese ship carrying weapons bound for Zimbabwe notes an important contribution by ISA member Stephen Wrage:

It is worth recalling that the Rwanda genocide of 1994 was made possible by a timeous shipment of machetes from China (along with rifles and grenades from the equally cynical French). The shipment is now recorded in histories of the genocide such as that written by Stephen D. Wrage of the International Studies Association.

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Corvallis Gazette Times - OSU professor to speak on foreign policy (April 14, 2008)

This newspaper report notes a lecture at which ISA member David Bernell shared research he presented at the ISA 2008 Annual Convention:

Bernell will provide an assessment of the challenges, opportunities and constraints facing whoever becomes the next president of the United States. He recently addressed this topic at the eighth annual meetings of the International Studies Association in San Francisco.

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Hamilton College News - Lehmann Presents at International Studies Association Conference (April 7, 2008)

This university press release notes a paper presented at the ISA 2008 Annual Convention:

Assistant Professor of Government Ted Lehmann presented a paper at the annual International Studies Association conference in San Francisco on Friday March 28. In "Slippery Perch: the Precariousness of the Petrochemical Basis of American Hegemony" Lehmann argued that American hegemony grew from exceptional statecraft based on its overwhelming oil resources after WWI and has begun its steady transition and relative stagnation due to merely adequate statecraft and declining resource base since WWII.

AScribe - Conference at Williams College (April 2, 2008)

This press release by AScribe notes a conference addressing questions raised by Sept. 11th and notes the participation of Intelligence Studies Section Chair James Wirtz. Click here to read the full press release.

International Peace Research Institute, Oslo - Nils Petter's Liberal Moment (March 28, 2008)

PRIO notes ISA President Nils Petter Gleditsch's keynote address at the Annual Convention:

On Thursday 27 March 2008, ISA President Elect Nils Petter Gleditsch gave his keynote address "The Liberal Moment - 15 Years on" at the 49th annual convention of the International Studies Association (ISA) in San Francisco, California. Gleditsch now takes over as ISA President, and will be responsible for organizing the 50th convention in New York City, 15-18 February 2009.

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Transnational Institute - Challenges and dilemmas of the public intellectual (April 11, 2008)

This is an excerpt from an acceptance speech by Walden Bello at the Outstanding Public Scholar Award Panel during the 2008 ISA Annual Convention. Continue reading speech...

UConn Advance - International studies journal comes to UConn (Feb. 11, 2008)

This reports notes ISR's move to the University of Connecticut:

Two political science faculty are the new co-editors of the International Studies Review, a journal of the International Studies Association that will be housed at UConn for the next five years. Mark Boyer, professor of political science, and Jennifer Sterling-Folker, associate professor, became the co-editors in January.  The International Studies Review “gives landscapes of the political science international field,” says Boyer. The quarterly journal was previously housed at Syracuse University. It will remain at UConn until 2012.

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BainbridgeGa.com - Vanzo Presents Papers on Iraq and Palestine (Jan 26, 2008)

This report in a local newspaper notes a paper presented at the 2007 ISA-South Annual Conference:

Bainbridge College Assistant Professor of Political Science/Geography Dr. John P. Vanzo has presented research papers at back-to-back professional conferences in Savannah. Versions of both papers are being submitted to professional journals for publication. He presented the first paper, "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: A Strategic Analysis of the Surge in Iraq," at the annual conference of the International Studies Association (South). Vanzo's paper was an update on his article "A Geopolitical Analysis of a Partitioned Iraq" which was published in the Spring 2007 edition of World Affairs.

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GoErie.com - Marrin has article published in journal (Dec. 23, 2007)

ISA member Stephen Marrin noted in this report:

Stephen Marrin, assistant professor in the intelligence studies department at Mercyhurst College, had an article titled "Intelligence Analysis Theory: Explaining and Predicting Analytic Responsibilities" published in the December 2007 issue of the peer-reviewed journal, Intelligence and National Security. He had previously presented an earlier version of this paper at the International Studies Association conference in March 2006.

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