Following on from the successful ISA venture workshop on Complexity Science and International Relations held in San Francisco, the workshop organizers invite paper proposals for ISA 2009 that engage with core concepts from complexity science and assess their usefulness in relation to some of the key concerns of IR. We welcome abstracts from academics engaging with concepts such as emergence, self organization, non-linear causality, feedback and recursiveness, open systems and decentralized networks in their work. Some of the key concerns of International Relations to which such concepts could be applied include, but are not limited to, the formation and nature of states and other political entities and their interactions, the agent/structure debate, the levels of analysis question, and issues of governance and order. This panel seeks to further an ongoing project aimed at producing a comprehensive and critical evaluation of both the potentialities and limitations of concepts drawn from complexity science for the reinvigoration and renewal of thinking on international organization in the twenty-first century.
Those who are interested should send inquiries or a paper proposal to David C. Earnest, Department of Political Science and Geography, Old Dominion University, at dearnest@odu.edu.
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