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Political Science Degree Programs

Looking for information on Political Science degree programs? You can find it with an extensive listing of schools on a new website at  http://www.politicalsciencedegree.com

This site regroups much information in one place, to help you decide which programs maybe the right fit.

 

Jokes and Their Relation to Crisis

Michael Marder, author of Existential Utopia: New Perspectives on Utopian Thought and Editor of our new series, Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy has published an essay in the New York Times, titled Jokes and Their Relation to Crisis. You can read the essay at http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/jokes-and-their-relation-to-crisis/

"Laughing at ourselves, at the various crises in which we find ourselves, means laughing at our weakness, the feeling of being overwhelmed by the future."

Arctic Portal

The Arctic is becoming a key geopolitical region, not only because of oil resources, but also the opening of new shipping routes. If you have interest in the region, you may want to visit this Artic Portal website, http://arcticportal.org/

A project of the Arctic Council in collaboration with the International Polar Year, it aims to synthesize information, issues, and online resources for as many groups and nations with Arctic interests as possible.

And Continuum will be publishing The Arctic in Global Affairs, a textbook by Jessica Shadian and Robert Huebert that focuses on the international politics of the Artic and how it is developing into a key global geopolitical region.

Political Science Job Posts

The American Political Science Association (APSA) has a job board online. It is updated daily and fully searchable by interest. You can access the site at http://www.apsanet.org/ejobs/

The Job Market in Political Science

Cambridge's new issue of PS: Political Science & Politics features an article titled The Job Market and Placement in Political Science in 2009-10 by Jennifer Segal Diascro. To access it online, click here.

Teaching Tips - Case Studies

How to teach students to write a case study? This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education discusses the benefits of having student create their own case studies. You can read it at http://chronicle.com/article/Teaching-Students-to-Write-a/128097/

What You Don't Know About Copyright, but Should - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

This article in The Chronicle of Higher Education provides good tips on the ever confusing issue of copyright. You can read it at

 chronicle.com

Symposium on Marx Through Post-Structuralism by Simon Choat (Continuum 2010)

As part of a special issue examining the contemporary relevance of Marxism, the journal Global Discourse has organised a book review symposium on Simon Choat's Marx Through Post-Structuralism, featuring reviews by Jason Edwards and Saul Newman and a reply by Choat. The symposium is available at http://global-discourse.com/contents/marx-through-post-structuralism-by-simon-choat/

Global Discourse Special Issue: Examining the Contemporary Relevance of Marxism
The 21st century has so far seen US-led military interventions, global financial crises, identity conflicts, terrorism on a grand scale, environmental disasters and fraught industrial/labour relations. These dramatic events have challenged the notion of an ‘end to history’ and the widespread belief that the collapse of the Soviet Union has made Marx and Marxism irrelevant. With growing instability in the social, political and economic functioning of societies, it is necessary to examine the relevance of Marx to contemporary global society.
 
Global Discourse (http://global-discourse.com/), has released the first of two special issues conducting this examination through a number of articles developed from papers given at ‘Examining the Relevance of Marx and Marxism to Contemporary Global Society’ conference, which was held at Newcastle University on January 29th and 30th. There are contributions by key figures, such as Norman Geras, Stuart Sim, Lawrence Wilde, Joseph Femia, Terrell Carver, Alan Johnson, Paul Bowman and Mark Sandle, as well as book review symposia on Murray E. G. Smith’s Global Capitalism in Crisis, with reviews by Esteban Castro and Thom Workman, and on Simon Choat’s Marx Through Post-Structuralism, with reviews by Jason Edwards and Saul Newman. Also included in this issue, though not engaging directly with Marxism, is a review symposium on Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect by James Pattison, featuring rigorous reviews by David Miller and Graham Long. Full contents are available at http://global-discourse.com/contents/.
 
About the Journal
Global Discourse is a forum for the expression and development of critical research projects in all areas of politics and international relations.  The journal accepts innovative and rigorous articles which employ or engage with critical approaches, particularly those which transcend disciplinary boundaries.

Mac Owens goes spelunking through 'U.S. Civil-Military Relations After 9/11' - By Tom Ricks | The Best Defense

US Civil-Military Relations After 9/11 by Mackubin Owens was cited by Tom Ricks in his blog post on the Foreign Policy website today (Feb. 14).

You can read the post at  ricks.foreignpolicy.com

Visiting Faculty – Aesthetics and Politics

The MA Program in Aesthetics and Politics in the School of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts seeks applicants for a one-semester appointment as a Visiting Faculty during either the Fall 2011 or the Spring 2012 semester. The successful candidate will teach one graduate course in any area addressing the intersection of aesthetic and political questions. The Visiting Faculty will also actively participate in the life of the program. In particular, we are interested in scholars and/or practicing artists working in areas not currently covered in our curriculum (http://aestheticsandpolitics.calarts.edu/). Scholars on sabbatical or practicing artists interested in the type of scholarship offered by the program are especially welcome to apply. The Aesthetics and Politics Program offers the opportunity to be part of an environment committed to the ongoing debates in the fields of aesthetic and political theory, political art, and continental thought. Total salary will be $15,000 for the semester.

To apply: Please send a letter of interest, a CV, and one course proposal. Review of applications will start on March 15 and continue until the position is filled.

Send materials to:

Martín Plot and James Wiltgen
Co-Directors
Aesthetics and Politics Program
School of Critical Studies
California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, CA 91355

Copyright Question? Watch the video

The Copyright Clearance Center offers this video to answer your copyright questions. It's not only entertaining, it's also educative!

Watch or download the video by clicking on the link: http://learn.copyright.com/copyrightoncampus/

State of the Union

If you missed President Obama's State of the Union address, you can catch up by visiting the White House website at http://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2011.

You can even download the White House's iphone App!

   

Pakistan's Road to Disintegration - Council on Foreign Relations

In the first few days of this year, Pakistan's coalition government was thrust into crisis after losing a coalition partner, and then a top politician--Punjab Governor Salman Taseer--was assassinated. A leading expert on the country, Stephen P. Cohen, says these incidents are symptoms of the profound problems tugging the country apart. "The fundamentals of the state are either failing or questionable, and this applies to both the idea of Pakistan, the ideology of the state, the purpose of the state, and also to the coherence of the state itself," Cohen says. "I wouldn't predict a comprehensive failure soon, but clearly that's the direction in which Pakistan is moving." On a recent trip, he was struck by the growing sense of insecurity in Pakistan, even within the military, and the growing importance of China.

Read the full article at www.cfr.org

Also check out Pakistan's Quagmire for an in-depth analysis of the challenges Pakistan faces.

Harsh V. Pant, who will be publishing a new text titled Indian Foreign Policy with Continuum (2012) has published an article in World Politics Review about India's need to define what it stands for as an rising international power.

You can read the full text of India Must Decides What it is Rising For at http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/7098/india-must-decide-what-it-is-rising-for

  

Publication Celebration at NYU of Rethinking U.S. Labor History

There will be a celebration of our newly published Rethinking U.S. Labor History at NYU's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, located at 20 Cooper Square, New York.

Tamiment Library and Program in Metropolitan Studies invites you to join us in celebrating the publication of Rethinking U.S. Labor History: Essays on the Working-Class Experience, 1756 - 2009, edited by Donna T. Haverty-Stacke and Daniel J. Walkowitz

There will be a panel discussion including the editor and two of the contributors: Donna Haverty-Stacke CUNY, Hunter College), Daniel Walkowitz (SCA/History, NYU), Eric Arnesen (George Washington University), and Zach Schwartz-Weinstein (American Studies, NYU) with a comment by Michael Nash of the Tamiment Library, followed by refreshments.

For more details of the event, please click here.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former head of Yukos Oil in Russia made his closing statement on Tuesday, November 2 as his trial reaches an end. From within a glass cage, he spoke eloquently about what his trial means for the country of Russia and its future. You can read more about his statement on The New York Times website at

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/business/06nocera.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=mikhail%20b.%20khodorkovsky&st=cse

And if you want to know the exact story of the Yukos Affair, please see Continuum's Putin's Oil by Martin Sixsmith.

The Patrick Henry Writing Fellowship

The Patrick Henry Writing Fellowship supports outstanding writing on American history and culture by both scholars and nonacademic authors.

•       Fellowship award: $45,000 plus health benefits, book allowance, and faculty privileges
•       Duration: nine months (September-May)
•       Residence: exclusive occupancy of a restored circa-1735 house in historic Chestertown on the Eastern Shore of Maryland
•       Work space: private office in the circa-1745 waterfront Custom House, home of the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience
•       Deadline for 2011-12: February 15, 2011.

Further information and criteria: http://henryfellowship.washcoll.edu

The Publishing World: The Frankfurt Book Fair

From October 5 to October 10, the Frankfurt Book Fair will occupy Publishers from around the world.

Publishers, booksellers, agents, authors, and even film producers gather at the fair, which has become the largest marketplace for books, media, rights, and licenses worldwide.

Continuum is one ot the 7,300 exhibitors, making sure your books get the exposure they deserve!

For more information on the fair, you can visit the website at http://www.book-fair.com/en/fbf/general/

 

Russian Foreign Policy Takes a Sensible Course on Iran and in the Arctic

You can read the full article on the Friends of Jamestown Program at www.jamestown.org

And if this is an area of interest, check out Continuum's Energy and Climate Wars, Putin's Oil and The Arctic Gold Rush

 

Foreign Affairs: Review of International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa

The October issue of Foreign Affairs features a review of International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa by Ian Taylor.

"In this up-to-date and always readable introduction to Africa's international relations, Taylor argues that Africa has often played a significant role on the global stage, and he provides many examples of how African leaders are able to manipulate the international system to pursue their own interests. [...] Surveying the relationship between each of the world's major powers and Africa and discussing the region's international economic relations, the book also includes an especially incisive chapter on China's recent forays into the region and another one on recent British policies there. Although it is presumably targeted at an undergraduate audience, it will appeal to most interested readers."

You can read the full review at

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/66734/ian-taylor/international-relations-of-sub-saharan-africa