Dear Members:
We are pleased to inform you that the caucus will be sponsoring/cosponsoring 8 panels at the Las Vegas Convention. Melding the aborted Honolulu conference proposals with the Las Vegas ones has been challenging for the ISA program committee but the result is a great job. At this time, please confirm your participation by going to ww.isanet.org and clicking on the ISA2021 conference link. If you forwarded your Honolulu conference registration to this Vegas one, you need do nothing else to register.
In addition to the panels, the caucus is sponsoring a Distinguished Scholar Panel in honor of this year's nominee. This year it was the turn of Africa, according to our system of geographical rotation. The Nominating Committee selected Dr. Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou for the honor. Dr. Mohamedou is currently Professor of International History and Chair of the International History Department at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. He also serves as a Faculty Associate at both the Center on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding and the Albert Hirschman Center on Democracy. A well recognized scholar on political violence and transnational terrorism, state building, and transitions to democracy, he received his Ph.D. from the City University of New York. He was Scholar-in-Residence at the Harvard University Centre for Middle Eastern Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts before becoming a Research Associate at the Ralph Bunche Institute on the United Nations in New York. He was Director of Research at the Geneva-based International Council on Human Rights Policy, prior to returning to Harvard where he was Associate Director of the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research. He subsequently served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mauritania before returning to Geneva at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) where he was Deputy Director and Academic Dean. Widely published, Professor Mohamedou is regularly quoted in the world’s media for his expertise and is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Arabic. For more information, please see
WC00: Wednesday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Chair Dêlidji Eric Degila (Ecole Nationale d'Administration du Bénin & Graduate Insstitute, Geneva)
Participants:
Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner (City University of New York)
Bahgat Korany (American University Cairo)
Gilbert Khadiagala (University of the Witwatersrand)
Nadia Marzouk (Harvard University) Part. Bertrand Badie (Sciences Po Paris)
Consuelo Davila (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
Karim E. Bitar (Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS)
and Robert Vitalis (University of Pennsylvania)
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Other news:
On November 24, the caucus sponsored a well-attended discussion in collaboration with the UN75 Foundation. (As is well known, the Un has been celebrating its 75th year with a series of events.)
The objective of our dialogue was to provide a space for a fruitful conversation between scholars and practitioners on the future of multilateral diplomacy. Thus, the general topic of the online conversation was the contribution of the Global South to the future of multilateralism.:
Panelists were:
- Mr Arnaud AKODJENOU, former Acting Head of
MINUSMA and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Mali
- Mr Bertrand BADIE, Professor of
International Relations, Sciences Po Paris
- Mr Jacques MARCOVITCH, Professor of
International Affairs and Former Rector of University of Sao Paulo
- Ms. Sylvia NUNEZ, Professor of Global
Studies, Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico
Chapter 4 on institutional cooperation was written by GSCIS founder, J. Braveboy-Wagner.
Members: Please send your news to us for publication in the blog as well as the Newsletter. We are returning to more regular updates!
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