Thank you to all who have agreed to stand for election, as well as those who have nominated them. Please find the listing of NNA Candidates and their CVs and statements below. Elections will be held December 1st - December 15th, 2010.
THOMAS BERNAUER - SWITZERLAND - "Download CV"
Center for Comparative & International Studies and The Institute for Environments Decisions, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
I have attended almost all annual ISA conferences since the early 1990s. My research focuses on international environmental politics and international political economy. The ISA meetings, with very strong environmental studies and IPE sections, have been unique opportunities to obtain valuable feedback on my work. They have also given me the chance to meet many colleagues who engage in similar research, exchange ideas, and also carry out joint work. In view of widespread disciplinary parochialisms the ISA conferences are particularly valuable also because they involve large numbers of scholars other than political scientists. The ISA should, in my view, maintain this interdisciplinary and multicultural/multinational character. My academic background is quite diverse and reflects the diversity one finds in the ISA as well. After my MA in political science, history, and international law, I worked five years for the United Nations in a policy research institute (United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research), was then a postdoc at Harvard University for two years, and have been a professor of political science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich since 1995. In addition to my research activity (see CV) I have also served as dean of the social sciences department at ETH and have been a member of the Swiss National Science Foundation’s research council for the past six years. My research uses a wide range of methodologies, from qualitative case studies to large-N statistical work. I have also worked quite extensively with natural scientists and environmental engineers on environmental policy issues. It would be a great honor to serve as a Non-North American (NNA) representative to the ISA Governing Council.
MARGIT BUSSMANN - GERMANY - "Download CV"
University of Greifswald
After having earned my Ph.D. at the University of Alabama, I returned to Europe where I worked as a postdoctoral researcher and assistant professor for several years. Since the beginning of this year, I am Chair of International Politics and Regional Studies at the University of Greifswald (Germany). My research interests include international and domestic conflict, economic interdependence, and development. In my work, I rely mainly on quantitative methods but consider a mix of evidence-based research methods desirable.
Throughout my career I have benefited from ISA’s services in many ways. The annual conventions were an important opportunity to discuss my scholarly work at the highest level but also were crucial for networking with scholars from all over the world. Whereas the membership of ISA becomes increasingly international and diverse, this is not yet reflected in its organization which is still heavily dominated by the North-American academic environment. Based on my experience and insights from different university systems, and having just recently made the transition from assistant professor to a tenured position, I believe more exchange of information about the different academic systems and job prospects could benefit scholars that have an inclination to work internationally in their professional development. ISA is an ideally suited umbrella for such an exchange.
If elected, I would direct my energy towards two issues that I believe are essential to the evolution of ISA and its members: 1) improve assistance to junior faculty and scholars, 2) tailor ISA services more towards the needs of non-North-American scholars. Targeting young international researchers is a fruitful avenue to further strengthen and diversify the global base of ISA.
MOHAMED DELLAL - MOROCCO - "Download CV"
Mohamed I University in Oujda
My name is Mohamed DELLAL. I a Moroccan Doctorat d’Etat (Ph.D) holder, currently teaching at Mohamed I University in Oujda – a city in the North East of Morocco on the border with both Algeria and Mellila (the Spanish enclave). I have been teaching at this University since 1980 both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In fact, I am currently chairing a Master program on cultural Studies (specifically on “Colonial and Post-colonial Discourses”). I have been reading, with a lot of interest all the articles of the Journals that ISA publishes, ever since I started taking Law classes to hopefully take a Master and a doctoral degree in International Relations. Over the years my conviction that inter-disciplinarity as a necessity grew greater and greater. It is in this line of thought that I hope to bring some addition - with my experience as a cultural studies researcher – to the ISA program. I also pledge that being the first North African to ISA, I would work, as hard as I can, to foster a constructive image between the ISA community, that of my University, my country and possibly that of the whole Maghreb. As far as attendance to the annual meetings of 2012 -2013 is concerned, I would like to inform you that I have applied for a Fulbright grant to that effect. I have also filed an application to my university senate to grant me financial support for any such trips. I have to admit, though that positive results of any of these two applications are conditional of my being elected.
TIM DUNNE - AUSTRALIA - "Download CV"
University of Queensland in Brisbane
I have been an ISA member since 1993, the year I started by academic career in Aberystwyth. I spent a decade there before becoming Head of Politics at the University of Exeter, and later Head of the faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. This year I have taken up a new post at the University of Queensland in Brisbane where I will be Director of Research for the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. I am pleased to have been nominated as a non-North American representative on the ISA Governing Council for the 2011-2013 term. I have always been influenced by what I’ve heard/read at ISA conferences. One of the most memorable occasions was the roundtable that I put together (with fellow editors of the Review of International Studies) on Alex Wendt’s (then) forthcoming book Social Theory of International Politics. The panel took place in one of the large ballrooms – which was completely packed - and the intensity of the exchanges is something I will never forget. At the end of this calendar year I will be completing a 4 year period as a Trustee of the British International Studies Association; I was the local organizer for the 2008 conference at Exeter. Additionally, I am involved with the European Consortium of Political Research’s ‘standing group on IR’ by virtue of being an editor of the European Journal of International Relations. My previous service for ISA includes a term on the Nominating Committee, having been asked to serve by Ann Tickner when she was President of the association. In light of this history of service to several associations, I believe I would bring to the Governing Council extensive experience of good practice elsewhere. And having just moved to Australia, I am keen to represent the interests of the vibrant Oceanic IR/IS community.
THEO FARRELL - UK- "Download CV"
Department of War Studies, King’s College London
I wish to stand for re-election to the ISA governing council. I served on the council from 2009-11. I have extensive experience of service to the profession, especially within the ISA. I was vice-chair and then chair of the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) from 2007-09. I have served on all the major ISSS committees, and moreover was founding chair of the ISSS Best Graduate Paper Award Committee (2004-06) and ISSS Best Book Award Committee (2006-07). I also served as the Section Program Chair for the 2008 ISA annual convention. I have previously served on the Executive Committee of the British International Studies Association and was BISA Treasurer from 1999-2001. I have served as associate editor of Review of International Studies (2002-05), associate editor of Security Studies (2005-08), and the security studies editor of ISA Compendium Project (2007-10). I am Professor of War in the Modern World in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. I work on three areas in international studies: security studies, IR theory (especially constructivism), and international law. Currently, I hold a three-year research fellowship, funded under the British Research Councils ‘Global Uncertainties’ Program, which focuses on military transformation and on the military campaign in Afghanistan. If re-elected to the ISA Governing Council, I would seek to promote ISA support to activities that cross disciplinary and sub-field boundaries, ISA engagement with non-North American associations, and financial support for scholars from underdeveloped countries to attend ISA conventions.
MARIA RAQUEL FREIRE - PORTUGAL - "Download CV"
University of Coimbra, Portugal
I am grateful to have been nominated as a non-North American representative to the ISA Governing Council for the 2011-2013 term. In my academic and research activities I have been involved in many ISA activities, including events organized by affiliated organizations. This has allowed the internationalization of my work, which has clearly been a valuable asset. I took my undergraduate studies at University of Minho in Portugal and my Master and PhD at the University of Kent (International Relations), in the United Kingdom (finished my PhD in 2002). I am currently lecturing at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, and am a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), recognized as an excellency centre in Europe, where the experience gained from engaging in ISA activities has been a major asset for further research as well as regarding enrolled students, particularly graduate ones, which have been increasingly actively participating and discussing their work at ISA conventions. I am also a member of the Board of Directors of the Portuguese Political Science Association, and coordinator of the PhD Program in International Politics and Conflict Resolution, at the University of Coimbra, which implies various scientific and administrative responsibilities. We have hosted several international conferences both at the School of Economics and CES that attest the quality of both institutions. My own research focusing on the post-Soviet area has also contributed to enlarging our network of contacts. Additionally, the preferential relations of the Portuguese scientific community with Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa, Asia and America constitute an added value in the sense of promoting further integration of researchers into ISA activities. My work at the Governing Council would include, besides further promoting the scholarly and scientific assets that ISA globally constitutes, eventually playing a bridging role towards other academic communities, broadening the reach of ISA activities and allowing for a wider diffusion of these scholars research work.
GALIA GOLAN - ISRAEL - "Download CV"
Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya
Professor Galia Golan, Darwin Professor of Soviet and East European Studies, emerita, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, formerly Chair of the Department of Political Science, Head of the Mayrock Center for Eurasian and East European Research, and of the Lafer Center for Women’s Studies, all at the Hebrew University. Currently Prof. Golan is at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, where she is the head of the MA and the MA program on Diplomacy and Conflict Studies. She is the author of nine books mainly on Soviet foreign policy, as well as monographs and articles including work on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Her most recent book is Israel and Palestine: Peace Plans and Proposals From Oslo to Disengagement , and a recent chapter on “Globalization and the Transformation of Conflict” in the volume by Louis Kriesberg and Bruce Dayton on Conflict Transformation. She has also written on women and politics and is an incoming associate editor of the International Feminist Journal of Politics. Dr. Golan is a long-time peace and feminist activist in Israel, a member of the Council of Pugwash, the Board of the Israel Foreign Policy Association, the editorial board of the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, of the Palestine-Israel Journal and Communist and Post-Communist Studies. Formerly she was on the International Advisory Board of the International Studies Review and the Editorial Board of the International Studies Quarterly. She has been a visiting scholar at the Center for International Relations, UCLA, the Rand Corporation, the Institute for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, UC Irvine, Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley, the Stanford-Berkeley Program on Soviet International-Behavior, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Department of Political Science, Cornell University, and Davis Distinguished Scholar, Wellesley College.
WALEED HAZBUN - LEBANON - "Download CV"
American University of Beirut
Over the past decade--especially since the Iraq War--an increasing amount of research and teaching conducted by ISA members has addressed issues and conflicts in the Middle East. As scholars of global politics, we need to also be concerned with the global politics of knowledge. ISA should continue to promote the geographic and interdisciplinary pluralization of ‘international relations’ beyond its roots as an ‘American Social Science.’ In particular, we must engage voices and ideas from regions beyond North America and Europe, especially those in the Middle East and the broader Islamic world. As a scholar of the politics and geography of the Middle East who began teaching in the United States just after 9/11, I have long been aware of these issues and challenges. They have come to shape my career and life experiences. I recently relocated from the Johns Hopkins University to the American University of Beirut (AUB). I teach international political economy, US foreign policy, and the international relations of the Middle East to a politically and culturally diverse student body predominately from Lebanon and the Middle East. At the same time, I continue to pursue my research on the political economy of international tourism, postcolonial perspectives on the geopolitics of the Mediterranean, and the changing dynamics of insecurity in the Middle East. At AUB, geopolitical conflicts and questions about how the international order addresses (or fails to) the challenges of war and justice are never far from the concerns of scholars and students. Developing curricula in international studies, encouraging educational exchanges, and fostering research programs at this hybrid American/Arab institution during an era of local and regional conflict has forced me to routinely consider and rethink the terms and politics of knowledge production and dissemination. I would like to bring the insights and perspectives developed in this context to the Governing Board of the ISA.
MAGNUS JOHNSSON - SWEDEN - "Download CV"
Uppsala University
From 2010 until 2014 I am conducting my PhD project. During this time I wish to become a more active participant of the international research community, and since international studies have been my preoccupation for the last five years, ISA is and has been my natural affiliation. Having been a non-active member for the last years, now seems like the right moment for me to become a participating and contributing member at the international level, not only in terms of research related work but also in terms of organizational work. Therefore, the current opportunity to serve as a Non-North American member-at-large for the Governing Council seems perfect to me, both regarding time frame and content. As a second year PhD candidate my academic merits are limited to a master’s degree (one year) in political science and one year of doctoral courses at Uppsala University in Sweden. My research interests revolve around political psychology, political sociology and conflicts. My doctoral thesis aims at understanding the social and political effects of counterinsurgency policies in the societies where they are applied, in my case Northern Afghanistan. However, what I think can be my main contribution to the work of the Governing Council is my extensive experience (at age 43 I’m a relatively old PhD candidate) from work in the government and private business. In particular, my training and experience in public and private business development at the strategic level, in combination with my social skills in working in groups and organizations, could be a valuable asset to the Council. This combination of academic and practice experience and personal skill is the unique value I hope to offer as a NNA member-at-large.
VINAY KUMAR MALHOTRA - INDIA - "Download CV"
Principal, Markanda National College
Dr. Vinay Kumar Malhotra was born at Amritsar in 1954. He is B.A. (Honours.), M.A. (Gold Medalist) and Ph.D.; having 29 years teaching and research experience. He has authored 17 books mostly on international relations, 27 papers and 7 book-reviews. He is a Life member of IAAS, IACS, IPSA, IACIS- Hyderabad, ILI-New Delhi, IIPA-New Delhi. He has attended and participated in several national and international seminars and conferences and completed collaborative research works with American, Canadian, Russian and Hungarian Professors. Dr. Malhotra has worked for a full semester at the Dept. of Political Science, Budapest University of Economic Sciences, Budapest, Hungary in 1998. As Guest Research Fellow, he completed two research projects at Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI), Denmark in 1999 and 2001. With Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute’s Faculty Research Fellowship he conducted and completed another research project in Canada in 2001. He participated in Seminars at Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway and University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. As widely traveled person, he has also visited Austria, England, France and Sweden for academic and research missions.He was President of the Indian Association for American Studies (IAAS) during 2000-01. He was also member of the Executive Council and Governing Council the Indo-American Centre for International Studies, Hyderabad during 2000-03.He has won three prestigious awards for presenting best research papers on Indo-US relations and International Relations in different annual Conferences of the Indian Association for American Studies. These Awards are: Edwin Gilmour Award, Olive I. Reddick Award and Prof. A P Rana Award. Till recently he was Head of the Post-graduate Dept. of Political Science, Gandhi Memorial National College, Ambala Cantonment. The Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada has given him the status of affiliate and visiting Professor. He is also member of Kurukshetra University’s Board of Studies in Political Science. Twice he was Executive Member of the Haryana College Teachers’ Union and Zonal President of the HCTU’s Ambala Zone. Dr. Malhotra is computer savvy and can independently handle computer and internet. He is not only a true and accomplished academician but also a man of aesthetic taste. He has keen interest in architecture, gardening, landscaping, singing, poetry, computers and information technology. His hobbies and interests will be very useful for the College.
DEREK MCDOUGALL - AUSTRALIA - "Download CV"
University of Melbourne (Australia)
I am a Principal Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne (Australia). I hold a Ph.D. from Duke University (1975), and am a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. My areas of interest are Asia-Pacific international politics, and the emerging shape of 21st century international politics. Recent books include Asia Pacific International Politics (Lynne Rienner, 2007) and Australian Foreign Relations: Entering the 21st Century (Pearson, 2009). I am on the editorial board for Contemporary Security Policy and the international advisory board for Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs. I would bring experience gained over more than three decades in the study of international relations, as well as ensuring that perspectives from Oceania and the Asia-Pacific more broadly were represented on the Governing Council.
MICHAEL MCKINLEY - AUSTRALIA - " Download McKinley CV"
The Australian National University
I have been a member of ISA for the last 23 years and have contributed papers to all conventions since 1987. In this time the Association has grown in size, complexity, significance and, notably, the national range of its participants. Increasingly, the membership and the annual conventions have an international character in keeping with its intellectual and disciplinary focus. Correspondingly, my intention is to actively promote, within the ambit of ISA’s charter, a greater sense of this changing, non-North American character in general, and, more particularly, the need to include and to invite voices and perspectives from Asia-Pacific. In the coming years – even now – the nature and content of International Relations as a discipline and as a practice needs to be addressed in terms which are real and relevant for both constituencies because the conventional verities of great power politics and strategy are everywhere being challenged. Furthermore, it is my belief that although too little of this transformation is being incorporated into our discussions, the ISA can be made sensitive to it as an imperative project, and ultimately, that it can also make a considerable contribution to this end. That, at least, would be my intention and my central proposition.
NEIL MITCHELL - UK - "Download CV"
University of Aberdeen
I am pleased to have been nominated as a non-North American representative on the ISA Governing Council for the 2011-2013 term. I value the inter- disciplinary nature of the Association, the methodological pluralism it encourages and the opportunities it creates to bring diverse perspectives to a particular research problem or issue of importance to our institutions and professional lives. My research interests include non-state actors, human rights and conflict. I use both qualitative and quantitative approaches in my own research. Currently, I am completing a book manuscript on blame management for abuse and atrocity that primarily relies on case studies and am collaborating on a project to develop a database on pro-government militias.
I know the discipline from both sides of the Atlantic. I did my undergraduate work in the UK and received my PhD from Indiana University. In the United States, I have taught at Grinnell College, Iowa State University and the University of New Mexico, where I served eight years as chair. In 2005 I moved back to the UK to the University of Aberdeen (Scotland). I have served on the editorial board of International Studies Quarterly (1999-2008). I would appreciate other opportunities to serve the discipline and to contribute to the maintenance and continued development of a diverse and vibrant scholarly community.
ANDREAS NOELKE - GERMANY - "Download CV"
Goethe University Frankfurt
I am very honoured to have been nominated as a Non-North American representative on the ISA Governing Council for the 2011-2013 term by both the International Relations Section of the German Political Science Association (DVPW) and the Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR) within the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR). I have regularly participated at ISA conferences since the early 1990s and would like to assist in strengthening the link between ISA and other international studies associations. I’m currently serving my second term as member of the steering committee of the SGIR and was Program Chair for the 2010 Pan-European Conference on IR in Stockholm. Moreover, I’m member of the Board of the Development Policy Section of the DVPW and I’m still cultivating my links to colleagues in the Netherlands where I worked for six years. I very much hope that my experience in these associations may assist me in providing some valuable input into the governance of the ISA.
ROSANNA ROCHA REIS - BRAZIL - "Download CV"
University of Sao Paulo
I am Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and the Institute of International Relations of the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. My research interests and main publications are focused on human rights issues, transnationalism, international migration and national identity. For the last ten years, I have been working in collaboration with several different institutions in Brazil and from other countries, such as CEDEC (Center for the studies of contemporary culture), the National Human Rights Secretary of Brazil, FOMERCO (Mercosul Forum), the Transnational Studies Initiative (Harvard University), TUCA (Trade Union Confederation of the Americas), and the Mora Institute (Mexico). During this period, I helped to organize international networks, conferences, publications and to promote institutional dialogue. I deeply believe in the importance of international exchange and pluralism for the advancement of knowledge in the international relations field. In that sense, I think that ISA performs an important role connecting people and ideas, and I would be honored to contribute to the association as a non North-American Representative to its Governing Council.
ERICA SIMONE A. RESENDE - BRAZIL - "Download CV"
Rio de Janeiro Federal Rural University
If I have to describe myself in a twitter-style, I would write: “Born from a Portuguese immigrant to a Brazilian with indigenous and freed slave ancestry, having received a scholarship at German School in Rio de Janeiro, with relatives and friends around the globe, I have always practiced International Relations even before I knew what it was actually all about”. Feeling a hybrid wherever I was, I soon realized how important it is to nurture multiculturalism, cross-fertilization and diversity with curiosity, caring, and empathy. Having lived in Portugal, France, Belgium, United States and Switzerland, being fluent in 5 languages (English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese), and now working as Assistant Professor, it would be a great honor to contribute to the ISA.
As an extension of my daily political practice, I wish to create and multiple positive synergies enabled by my cultural hybridity towards making the ISA truly international. One of my motivations is to launch a serious debate over the use of the English language as the ISA de facto lingua franca in times when other associations are opening themselves up to multilingual environments (as in the of LASA and IPSA). The ISA can – and should be – more linguistically flexible. A second issue we would have to face if we wish to deepen our internationalization and diversification is the tradition of organizing our annual meetings in North America. If the ISA wishes to stress the “I” of name, this is one path we will have explore. Increasing difficulties regarding U.S. visas, the growing costs of travel and hotel costs, and the cuts of research funds call for thinking outside the box, most notably in times when alternative, cheaper, greener options present themselves as opportunities for those who are brave enough to seize them. In this spirit I express my commitment to put my young and eager mind – which is very much in sync with the so-called e-world BTW – to extricate the ISA out of its comfortable albeit much self-centered cocoon, and guide it towards an exciting world filled with possibilities that are begging to be embraced in all its diversity and richness.
CHIH-YU SHIH - CHINA - "Download CV"
National Taiwan University
An amateur classical poet, a volunteer coach for an intermural basketball team, and a chair professor of cultural studies, political psychology, civilizational politics, and China studies at National Taiwan University, I have attended the ISA annual conference since 1988. Currently I am also Editor- in-Chief of the journal Asian Ethnicity (Routledge). I opened my career with the determination to develop alternatives to North American social sciences, epistemologically as well as methodologically, and indulgence in writing, which has led to the publication of 11 books in English and over 50 in Chinese. The theme of my work is "purpose" rather than "interest," and my concern is "need" instead of "power." My early, individual efforts unfortunately achieved insignificant, if any, results. Something different needed to be tried, I believed. So, beginning in 2002, I have gradually established an international postgraduate research team with seven local universities and coordinated transnational projects with China experts in or originally from Japan, Korea, Vietnam, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Russia, Australia, Mongolia, and Czech. This work is both to retrieve the evolution of personal and communal histories of knowledge on China and Asia, and to reflect upon the mutual constitution of China, China scholars and China scholarship. It includes a bank of oral history interviews with senior scholars from these parts of the world. I wish to share my experience with as many colleagues as possible through more extensive and deeper involvement in the ISA's governance and enhance the aforementioned project by learning from them.
GERMAIN NGOIE TSHIBAMBE - DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - "Download CV" University of Lubumbashi, Katanga
Germain Ngoie Tshibambe is Professor of International Relations at the Department of International Relation Studies, Faculty of Social, political and administrative sciences, University of Lubumbashi, Katanga, in Democratic Republic of the Congo. After graduating from the University of Lubumbashi, he is teaching international relations at the University of Lubumbashi. He completed his doctorate thesis in 2003 in DRC.
His research and teaching interests include international relations theory, foreign policy analysis and migration studies. Nowadays, he is leading a programme in introducing new curriculum in peace and conflict analysis at the department of international relations in partnership with UK and African universities thanks to Development of the Higher education (DelPhe) programme. Another programme he leads in DRC deals with African perspectives on human mobility under the Mac Arthur programme on human mobility in partnership with the International Migration Institute, Oxford University. I am member of the ISA and I participated fully in the 2010 convention in new Orleans which was fruitful experience in sharing ideas and raising interesting debates on international studies. Coming from another linguistic area, it was exciting to appreciate the intensity of common senses of interests in our broad domain of research. If elected, I will do my best to contribute to working according to the intercultural and transdisciplinary tradition of the ISA with an open- minded, pluralistic and judicious predisposition. The ISA is dynamic institution: it is better for it to enlarge the leading personnel.
JOSE LUIS VALDES-UGALDE - MEXICO - "Download CV"
National Autonomous University of Mexico
As an IR Mexican scholar I´ve been involved in the past 25 years in exploring, studying and writing about the international and regional reality. Likewise I have been interested and also involved in building up and managing ad hoc institutions to do so. Such is the case of the Center for Research on North America (CISAN) at the UNAM (The Mexican National Autonomous University) of which I was Director (Dean) between 2001 and 2009 (actually between 9/11 and Obama’s election!), being one of the most prestigious Centers of regional –North American- studies of Mexico.
One of the fundamental aspects that has driven my academic interest, my research and teaching since the end of the 80s, is the study of the North American reality from a Mexican perspective, most particularly the US domestic and international political reality. This exercise I think, has created didactic conditions to understand the world through the US prism as well as to be able to grasp the different (and most updated) currents there are within the realm of IR theory. And this I have been able, along with other distinguished colleagues, to transmit to the general and academic Mexican public. So it has been the need to understand that contiguity with the US makes it even more challenging to grasp the essential elements, conditions and arguments to understand the current moment of the international balance of power, as well as the equilibriums that can be reached, among various things that there are in the international academic agenda.
My exchange with US, Canadian, Latin American and European colleagues before and during my Directorship has shown me the need to learn a new way of linking the local and the international, the universal and the regional as empirical spaces where changing realities challenge theory and its empirical approaches. And for this the institutional collaboration is of main importance: only international networks and multilateral academic dialogue will strengthen the discipline and its institutional framework. I believe that the aforementioned elements allow me to say that I am prepared and happy to be considered as a candidate to serve as a Non-North American (NNA) representative to ISA's Governing Council for the 2011-2013 term and thus contribute to ISA’s well being. Thanks.
STEFAN WOLFF - UK - "Download CV"
University of Birmingham
I am grateful for the opportunity to stand as a candidate in the elections for non-North American representatives on the ISA Governing Council for the 2011-2013 term. As a long-standing ISA member, I have attended the organisation’s annual conferences for more than a decade and served in various functions in ENMISA, including as programme co-chair and section president. A native of the former East Germany I completed my undergraduate education at the University of Leipzig and obtained an M.Phil. from Cambridge and a PhD from the LSE. I have lived in the United Kingdom since 1999 and am currently a professor of international security at the University of Birmingham. As an academic and policy practitioner, my interests lie predominantly in the field of (ethnic) conflict and its management, and I frequently provide advice and mediation services to governments and international organisations, including in places as diverse as Moldova, Georgia, Kosovo, Iraq, and Sudan. I am the founding editor of the journal Ethnopolitics and an associate editor of Civil Wars (both with Routledge). In the UK, I co-chair the Specialist Group Ethnopolitics of the Political Studies Association, and at the European level, I am co- chair of the ECPR Standing Group on Security Issues. If elected, I could bring to ISA extensive experience with scholarly associations in the UK and Europe and would work to further enhance links between those and ISA. I am also keen to help further links between the academic and policy communities and can draw on a wide network of contacts in the (European) policy world that are keen to be more involved with, and exposed to, policy-relevant academic work. Finally, I have a keen interest in promoting and mentoring younger colleagues and helping them in the early stages in their academic careers and would be keen to explore how ISA could further contribute to nurturing the next generation of scholars in our field, including in countries outside North America and Western Europe.
