I would like to draw your attention to an innovation at
the upcoming March 2008 International Studies Association (ISA) Convention in
San Francisco. I invite you to both attend and to pass this announcement on to
your colleagues and doctoral students. At the ISA convention, editors of seven
leading journals in international political economy, in a session chaired by
the general editor of the "International Studies Compendium", will
talk about their journals and discuss the pros, cons and methods of
"bridging multiple divides in the IPE journals". For more
information, see the announcement below. Come dialogue with us in San
Francisco! best wishes, Lorraine Eden (leden@tamu.edu)
PANEL TITLE: BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES IN THE IPE
JOURNALS
PANEL TYPE: ROUNDTABLE
PANEL DATE: FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2008
PANEL TIME: 10:30am - 12:15pm
PANEL NUMBER: FB03
SPONSOR: CONVENTION THEME
PANEL ABSTRACT
The theme of the 2008 International Studies Association
annual convention is "Bridging Multiple Divides". Research in
international political economy is diverse; IPE scholars tackle their research
questions from a wide variety of ontological, epistemological and
methodological perspectives. IPE journals - the core places where IPE research
appears - reflect these multiple divides. Some journals encourage quantitative
work that searches for general patterns across large groups of similar
phenomena; others foster rich, detailed case-based analysis. Some journals
encourage activist approaches to scholarship; others are purely academic.
Disciplinary boundaries artificially separate scholars, despite their
overlapping substantive interests; for example, IPE scholars studying MNC-state
relations seldom submit their research to international business journals. How
can we bridge these artificial barriers between scholarly communities? In this
panel, editors of several major journals in international political economy
come together to discuss the multiple divides that separate their journals. By
highlighting the differing aims and scopes of these journals, we hope to
clarify and bridge the divides between them, exploring ways that scholarly
journals can facilitate synergies between disciplines, subfields, theories and
methods. The session provides an opportunity for IPE (and all IR) scholars to
meet the editors of the leading IPE journals and discuss future directions in
IPE scholarship. Seven IPE journal editors will participate in this session,
representing the major locations where IPE scholars publish their work: Global
Governance, International Organization, International Political Economy
Yearbook, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of International Business Studies,
New Political Economy and Review of International Political Economy.
CHAIR
Robert Denemark (University of Delaware) – denemark@udel.edu - General Editor -
International Studies Compendium (ISA Compendium)
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSANTS
Global Governance (GG) – Jan Aart Scholte
(University of Warwick) - scholte@warwick.ac.uk
International Organization (IO) - Louis W. Pauly
(University of Toronto) - louis.pauly@utoronto.ca
International Political Economy Yearbook (IPE-YRBK)
– Robert Denemark (University of Delaware) - denemark@udel.edu
International Studies Quarterly (ISQ) - Steven Poe
(University of North Texas) - steven_c_poe@unt.edu
Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) -
Lorraine Eden (Texas A&M University) - leden@tamu.edu
New Political Economy (NPE) - Tom J. Payne (University of
Sheffield) - a.j.payne@sheffield.ac.uk
Review of International Political Economy (RIPE) –
Leonard Seabrooke (Copenhagen Business School) – ls.cbp@cbs.dk
