In cooperation
with ISA President-elect Amitav Acharya, the Global South Caucus of the
ISA and the Asia-Pacific region are co-sponsoring a conference under the
theme “Voices from Outside: Re-shaping International Relations Theory and Practice in an Era
of Global Transformation.” The conference is scheduled to be held in Bangkok in
January 2015 (tentatively 8-10th) , hosted by Chulalongkorn
University. We assume that the political situation in Thailand will have been stabilized by then. The conference will also serve as the Second Global South
International Studies Conference, following the first held at Sciences Po in
Menton, France, in November 2012. As before, information will be made available
and continually updated on the GSCIS blogsite, http://gscis.blogspot.com/ until the
conference website is uploaded. In keeping with our ongoing initiatives as well as
past practice, we are reserving some panels and workshops for
institutions in Latin America, Africa, Developing Eurasia, and the Middle East.
A ‘call for papers’ will be published in
April 2014.
Conference participants will be able to register either as GSCIS members or Asia-Pacific region-section members. GSCIS members or prospective members will be asked to submit their panel and paper proposals directly to us. Beyond just the natural focus on "Asia and the World" we anticipate that the following will be the sub-themes for GSCIS participants at the conference:
Ways to move toward a more inclusive IR (including proposals on
the relevance of the usual theories: realism, liberalism, constructivism,
critical theory and new angles on new and old theories)
Changes in North and South: transformation of global structure,
rise of emerging powers, trend toward regionalism
The north in south Foreign policies today; the south in north
policies today (new policies, new ideas, new approaches, strategies)
Small state issues such as sustainable development (Pacific small states in particular)
Development: changes in thinking and practice in in north and
south
Security: new challenges involving north and south
Challenges of regional hegemons/powers; challenges of small
powers.
and
networking on teaching and research on/in the global south.
Watch for more details later.
