Politics and Governance - Call for Papers

Volume 12, Issue 1
Title: 

From New to Indispensable? How Has the 2004 “Big Bang” Enlargement Reshaped EU’s Power Balance
Editor(s): 

Marko Lovec (University of Ljubljana) and Matej Navratil (Slovak Academy of Sciences / Comenius University)
Submission of Abstracts: 1-15 March 2023
Submission of Full Papers: 15-31 July 2023
Publication of the Issue: January/March 2024
Information: 

2024 will mark the 20th anniversary of the European Union’s “Big Bang” enlargement. EU’s conditionality not only amplified the ongoing “triple transition” in EU member states but was also instrumental in facilitating countries’ embeddedness into the West. However, assumptions of the EU’s transformative power on new members after accession are rather ambiguous, ensuing both from EU’s inability to enforce the rules once a candidate country becomes a member and from the fact that countries were preparing to join an entirely different Union—one that was, at the time, unmarked by economic and migration crisis, security threats, or centrifugal forces resulting in disintegration. As a response to external and internal shocks, Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries have also participated in redesigning dysfunctional EU policies: This thematic issue challenges us to consider how.

We invite up-to-date research that revolves around the following questions:

  • How have CEE new member states, as passive actors, changed the EU? What were their degree of institutional quality and policy capacity to adapt to the EU? In turn, what was the level of absorptive capacity of EU institutions and their most prominent challenges (e.g., the creation of efficient decision-making mechanisms, democratic backsliding) in incorporating these new member states?

  • How have CEE new member states, as active players, changed the EU? How have they used EU institutions to advance their own interests?

  • Should global crises and EU dysfunctionalities be understood as intervening variables in the positive adaptation of new member states? How is global change a challenge to the EU?

  • To what extent, if any, are new member states responsible for institutional inertia/institutional vibrancy in EU’s approach to endogenous and exogenous shocks (e.g., (de)democratization, resurgence of identity politics, ontological security, security threats, spread of extremism, etc.).

We encourage scholars and researchers to address why and under what circumstances are countries willing to proceed with the integration of “core state powers” and what are the repercussions of these dynamics for the EU’s institutional set-up, as characterized by differentiation.
Instructions for Authors: 

Authors interested in submitting a paper for this issue are asked to consult the journal's instructions for authors and submit their abstracts (maximum of 250 words, with a tentative title) through the abstracts system (here). When submitting their abstracts, authors are also asked to confirm that they are aware that Politics and Governance is an open access journal with a publishing fee if the article is accepted for publication after peer-review (corresponding authors affiliated with our institutional members do not incur this fee).

Open Access: 

The journal has an article publication fee to cover its costs and guarantee that the article can be accessed free of charge by any reader, anywhere in the world, regardless of affiliation. We defend that authors should not have to personally pay this fee and advise them to check with their institutions if funds are available to cover open access publication fees. Institutions can also join Cogitatio's Membership Program at a very affordable rate and enable all affiliated authors to publish without incurring any fees. Further information about the journal's open access charges and institutional members can be found here.

Call for Abstracts - International Theory ISA pre-conference workshop 

The IT Section, with generous funding and support from the journal International Theory, will be hosting a day-long workshop in advance of the 2023 ISA Convention in Montréal for young career and underrepresented scholars who work on international theory. 

The workshop will be held on Tuesday, March 14 at one of the conference hotels and will give scholars an opportunity to meet with members of the IT editorial team and receive feedback on a manuscript they intend to submit to IT or another journal. Travel stipends of 500 USD will be provided to all participants. Participants need to be(come) members of ISA and be registered for the 2023 Annual Convention. 

Our top priority is meeting the needs of scholars who might otherwise have a hard time accessing intellectual networks in the development of their research and career, including early career scholars, those without tenured/tenure-track appointments, scholars in the Global South, and Black and Indigenous scholars. We are interested in proposals that address different forms of theorizing the international, including but not limited to empirical generalizations, empirical abstractions (also based on field research), concept analysis, as well as political and normative theory (IPT). 

To apply for this workshop, please submit an abstract and short paper outline (max. 3 pages) to: InternationalTheory@cambridge.org. 

Deadline: 16 October 2022, so that participants will receive their acceptance before the registration deadline. Please include “IT workshop” in the subject line.

JIRD Special Forum - The responsibility to remain silent? On the politics of knowledge production, expertise and (self-)reflection in Russia’s war against Ukraine

 

Guest editors: Dr. Olga Burlyuk (University of Amsterdam, UvA) and Dr. Vjosa Musliu (Free University of Brussels, VUB)

 

This Special Forum is seeking contributions addressing knowledge production and expertise on Russia’s war against Ukraine. We are particularly interested in works that reflect on individual, institutional and disciplinary stratification and authority in debates of and about war; on who can produce knowledge about the war in international, transnational and European political debates and how; and on who needs to hurry and speak loudly and who does or ought to remain silent.

We welcome conventional and creative academic writings in different theoretical and methodological traditions, ranging between 2,000 and 6,000 words. 

Our timeline and process:

-       We welcome expressions of interest accompanied by a 250-word abstract to be submitted to guest editors (Olga Burlyuk o.burlyuk@uva.nl & Vjosa Musliu vjosa.musliu@vub.be ) by 30 October 2022.

-       Guest editors in consultation with JIRD editors will swiftly select the pieces and the prospective authors will be informed about the logistics of the submission process in line with the JIRD’s policy.

-       The deadline for submission of full pieces is no later than 28 February 2023.

-       All pieces will undergo a two-stage peer review: in-house by the editors and by external anonymous peer reviewers.  

Call for papers

World Economy and Policy, a journal based at the Faculty of International Relations at the Prague University of Economics and Business, announces a call for papers for its first volume. The journal invites experts and young scholars to submit their manuscripts. The journal’s scope covers the following:

  • international economic and political relations

  • current affairs

  • economic, political, security and social issues

  • interdisciplinary aspects

    Click here for more information or to make a submission.

Back to the Margins? CEEISA 2022 Convention, University of Economics, Bratislava, Slovakia June 22-24, 2022 | Bratislava, Slovakia

Call for Panels, Roundtables, and Papers

Programme convenor: Dr Aliaksei Kazharski, Comenius University, Bratislava

 

Recent developments in Europe have highlighted the significance of borders, margins, and marginality. The 30th anniversary of the fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe was marked by centrifugal tendencies. The once popular narrative of a ‘return to the West’ that had inspired the post-Communist transitions of many countries in the region has been superseded by a much more ambiguous stance. Scepticism towards European integration and ‘Western’ or ‘liberal’ values seems to have taken deep root, and the centre-periphery relations appear to have moved beyond the teacher-student paradigm. Some countries (like Hungary) now find themselves at the margins of the European normative order, yet also position themselves as protectors of common European borders, and ‘European civilization’ as such, against hostile invaders. 

In this context, the migration crises - whether spontaneous or engineered – have brought forth the significance of borders and bordering, provoking some to question the liberal-globalist de-territorialised models of organizing political life. In the meantime, the contemporary crises point to the inevitably globalised nature of today’s international relations, as various cross-border flows become increasingly difficult to contain. This effect has been further amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, but this time with respect to the EU’s internal borders. Previously invisible to many, and virtually unknown to those born at the turn of the millennium, these intra-EU borders have suddenly become a physical reality again, disrupting the routine of cross-border activity. These newly palpable borders are sometimes triggering ontological anxiety, but also amplifying the political message of those sovereigntists and nationalists who have traditionally emphasised the sacrosanctity of national borders. COVID-19 has further exposed the status of marginalised and disadvantaged groups and communities, as well as the uneven distribution of the impact of both the pandemic and the enforced restrictions along ethnic, racial, and gender lines. These developments have created new openings for critical approaches to these topics and issues that may be situated at the borderline between domestic and international politics.

The 2022 CEEISA Convention will take place at the University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia, at the site of the former Limes Romanus, the one-time border of the Roman Empire. The participants are thus invited to “return to the margins” not just in the historical and metaphorical, but, above all, in the conceptual sense. The conference invites submissions that will explore the diverse meanings of borders, margins, and marginality and their multifaceted impact on international relations in the age of crisis. 

 

Proposals for panels and roundtables should include:

  1. Name, institutional affiliation, email address of the proposed chair

  2. Proposed panel title and summary of its rationale (no more than 250 words).

  3. List of papers, paper authors and abstracts (200 words each).

Submissions and inquiries:

Please submit your panel, roundtable and paper proposals at the conference ConfTool site by 31 January 2022.

 

Schedule:

Call for Papers, Panels and Roundtable proposals launched: 21 November 2021

Abstract submission deadline: 31 January 2022

Acceptance emails – Registration Opens: 1 March 2022

Registration Closes: 15 April 2022

Finalisation of Programme: 23 May 2022

Conference: 22-24 June 2022

 

For conference fees and registration types, see the conference website.

For any general enquiries about the 2022 CEEISA Convention, please contact: bratislava2022@ceeisa.net.

Call for papers and panels  Ljubljana, 8 and 9 October 2021 (online)

 Six decades of the Past 

Six decades for the Future 

An International conference celebrating 60 years of teaching and researching International Relations in Slovenia 

On 31 January 1961, a High School for Political Science was created in Ljubljana. It had four Chairs. The Chair for International Relations was created alongside the ones for philosophy and sociology; economy; and political system. The following year, in 1962, a research centre for international relations was inaugurated. 

When the Chair of International Relations was created 60 years ago, the world was headed towards a global crisis that threatened to annihilate the post-WWII international order – think of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Six decades on, the international order seems to be under threat again. Again, we are witnessing the two superpowers in conflict. In 1961, not many in Europe thought that a highly integrated union was realistically possible in the continent. Many from that time would wonder at accomplishments since then: both, Europe without borders, but also the terrible vulnerability of the European Union to sovereignism, populisms and nationalisms that we are witnessing at present. Brexit, after all, and albeit orchestrated on fake information, is nothing short of a demonstration of mistrust to the European project. In Central Europe, states who defied the communist rule during the Cold War, states that yearned for transatlantic support after the fall of the Soviet Union and the iron curtain, seem to be among the biggest EU-sceptics nowadays, joined by an illiberal, anti-democratic and anti-EU coalition that seeks to promote its understanding of the rule of law, but also human rights and democracy. The EU, hoping to become and remain a major player on the global stage, is turning into an onlooker of other players, especially in (Southeast) Asia, taking the grand stage. Its normative power has crumbled internally, as well as externally. What do all these developments mean for the IR community? How can we study them, understand them, and how and to whom can we communicate our findings so that the discipline becomes as engaging as it was in the past, and that it remains relevant? 

This conference aims to capture both the past and the present, in the light of the challenges that the world has overcome or is yet to overcome. This is an open call, to our alumni who build their successful careers at universities both at home and abroad; to our friends with whom we have shared many working hours writing articles and books, founding international institutions; and to everyone who would wish to take some time to honour us with sharing their expertise, their critical thinking and knowledge and thus help us celebrate our anniversary. In this respect, we are proud to share the stage and partnership with the Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA), which since its creation in the 1990s has been an integral part of the IR community in Slovenia, and vice versa. 

As this is the celebration of the IR discipline, we do not wish to make any restrictions concerning topics. Given the focus of our IR study programmes at the undergraduate, MA, and Ph.D. levels, we particularly welcome paper and panel proposals dealing with history, international politics, IR theory, international political economy, international economic relations, politics of international law, international organisations, human rights, development studies, international security and conflict management, migration, the role of education (teaching of IR), international environmental politics, EU studies (history, politics, and policies, EU as a global actor), regional studies and global governance. 

This will be an online conference, via the Zoom platform. Please apply by filling out an application form, with a paper title, 300-word abstract, and up to four keywords. Or, if you plan to submit a panel or a roundtable: title of the panel/roundtable, convenor, a 300-word abstract (introducing the panel), up to four keywords, and a list of proposed panelists, Please include the following information with your submission: (a) full name, (b) institutional affiliation, (c) country of an institution, (d) email address. In case you submit a panel/roundtable, kindly include short descriptions of individual presentations (title of the paper, author of the presentation, a short abstract, and up to four keywords). 

The deadline to send your proposal is 31 July 2021. The procedure to consider your proposal is the following: within up to three weeks after the deadline has expired, the Programme Chair will inform you if your proposal has been accepted. 

Please note that on this celebratory occasion, participation at the conference is free of charge. Nevertheless, we would like to welcome everyone to join CEEISA and subscribe to the JIRD, at a reduced price of 20/40 EUR (CEE residents/non-CEE residents). For details see here: https://www.ceeisa.net/membership. 

We look forward to welcoming you (albeit online) to Ljubljana! Your Organising Team can be contacted at international-relations.60@fdv.uni-lj.si. They are Professor Zlatko Šabič (programme chair); Ajda Hedžet, MA, Faris Kočan, MA (executive managers), Tara Sergeja Kadunc, Amadej Petan, Tadej Uršič (media production and support), Jelena Kovačević, Luka Radičević, Svit Rodež (programme assistants), Eva Omahen (public relations). 

Call for roundtable/panel proposals - 63rd ISA Annual Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, USA  2022

The International Studies Association is holding the 63rd ISA Annual Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, USA (March 30th – April 2nd, 2022). The convention will investigate the theme, “A Wider Discipline for a Smaller World.” The call may be found here: https://www.isanet.org/Conferences/ISA2022/Call.

ISA invites CEEISA members to submit two proposals for roundtables and/or panels by June 1, 2021. To submit a proposal, you will need an ISAnet account and valid CEEISA membership, as will the other participants on your proposal. Please reach out to your respective participants and notify them of these requirements.

Submissions must be received through the following link to be included on the program:

https://www.isanet.org/Conferences/ISA2022/Submissions/PartnerOrg. (Note this is not the general conference submission link). ISA encourages you to be as transparent and as diverse as possible in the formation of your panel or roundtable.

Open Call for the Journal of International Relations and Development 2023 Special Issue

The Journal of International Relations and Development is a leading pluralistic journal in international relations and international political economy. It is the official journal of the Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA) and it welcomes submissions from all scholars without regard to regional affiliation. 

The editors invite proposals for the 2023 special issue that advances research within the journal’s coverage. We look forward to proposals that critically engage with global, transnational, and international themes from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. 

The deadline for submitting proposals is 30 September 2021. The editorial team will make their decision within two weeks. 

The proposal should contain:

-        Title, a short bio of guest editors, a one-page rationale that contextualises the contribution, 8-11 paper abstracts of around 250 words including names, affiliations and titles of all (co)-authors who have confirmed their commitment to submit to the special issue, a short note on diversity regarding gender, seniority, and geographical balance.

Submission deadline for the first submission of all candidate papers will be no later than 28 February 2022. 

 We plan the publication for the December issue 2023.  Articles that are ready ahead of the schedule will be published First View before that.

Proposals should be sent to <jird@fdv.uni-lj.si> with a subject line Special Issue 2023.

Dr Michal Ondarco appointed as a new co-editor of CEEISA book series

The Executive Council of the Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Michal Ondarco as a new co-editor for its book series Central and Eastern European Perspectives on International Relations (CEEPIR), published by Palgrave. Dr Ondarco is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and a research affiliate at the Peace Research Center, Prague. Originally from Slovakia, Dr Ondarco received his PhD in Political Science from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has been a CISAC Junior Faculty Fellow at Stanford University, Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute and the Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, New York. Dr Ondarco's research is on nuclear nonproliferation and domestic politics of foreign policy, with a particular interest in comparative aspects. Dr Ondarco will work on CEEPIR together with Professor Petr Kratochvil (Institute of International Relations, Prague).