Workshop Chair: Nita Rudra, University of Pittsburgh
Location: Ziegfeld
Time: 10 AM - 4 PM, Feb. 14, 2009
Workshop Summary:
Changing dynamics in the supply and demand of natural resources are redrawing the old geopolitical maps. Due to the growing demand (and decline) of natural resources, power, order and stability in the international system are at the cusp of a fundamental change, Yet political scientists have yet to tackle the international political and economic causes and consequences of the governance of natural resources; previous studies have been concerned primarily with variations at the domestic level. We propose to bring together leading scholars in international political economy – both at the senior level as well as recently tenured associates – for a symposium on this timely issue. The primary purpose of this initial session is exploratory; panelists will examine ways to push forward the theoretical and empirical frontier of research on natural resources and the global political economy. The purpose of this meeting will be to develop a unified, theoretically informed research program in the international political economy of natural resources. By bringing together senior scholars in the field of IPE, as well as promising junior scholars with demonstrated expertise in IPE, this workshop will frame future research on systemic effects of and upon the increasing dependence for natural resources. The ultimate goal of this conference will be for primarily the junior-level participants, and one or two select senior-level scholars, to write articles for a special issue of a reputable political science journal. We plan to approach the editor of International Studies Quarterly, now that the new editorship has finally been established. We have already established contact with the editors of International Organization and Comparative Political Studies and have been met with interest in the topic’s potential. We are confident that, thanks to the steering we will receive from the titans in the field, along with the proven research ability of the junior scholars, this will be a very attractive selection of articles which will be widely read, reviewed, and cited.
Workshop Participants:
- David Bearce, University of Pittsburgh
- Julia Gray, University of Pittsburgh
- Benjamin Cohen, University of California-Santa Cruz
- John Odell, University of Southern California
- Dennis Quinn, Georgetown University
- Ronald Rogowski, University of California- Los Angeles
- Sarah Brooks, Ohio State University
- Nathan Jensen, University of Wisconsin
- Quan Li, Texas A &M
- Layna Mosley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Irfan Nooruddin, Ohio State University
- James Vreeland, Yale University
ISA Workshop Report (PDF): Download ISA_Workshop_Results_Rudra
