IPSA RC 41 - Geopolitics

Description: The student paper competitions are open to all students who have written and presented a research paper on a topic in political geography. Guidelines are as follows:

1. The competition is open to all students, however a student may not receive a Student Paper Competition award more than once during her/his tenure as a student. See also 8a below.

2. The entries must be research papers and not complete theses or dissertations. Papers must not be longer than 15 pages plus bibliography.

3. Entries must be on a topic in political geography.

4. Paper entries must have been presented at a professional meeting during the period beginning with the first day of the previous AAG Annual Meeting and concluding with the last day of the next AAG Annual Meeting.

5. Hard or digital copies of papers must be submitted to all three members of the PGSG's Student Paper Award Committee by the deadline announced in the PGSG newsletter.

6. Submissions will normally be divided into Masters and Ph.D. student divisions.

7. Submissions will be judged on their written clarity, methodological and theoretical soundness, and their contributions to research in political geography.

8. All monetary prizes are awarded at the discretion of the Student Paper Award Committee. Awards will normally include:

A. A regional student-paper award: for a paper presented at a Regional AAG meeting; award will be $100 for the top paper(MA or Ph.D. level, only one award); a student may not win both student paper awards;

B. Doctoral Student Award ($100 + reimbursement of next year’s AAG Annual Meeting student registration fee),

C. Master's Student Award ($100 + reimbursement of next year’s AAG Annual Meeting student registration fee),

D. up to three Honorable Mention awards (reimbursement of next year’s AAG Annual Meeting student registration fee).

9. The results of the Student Paper Award competitions will be announced to the winner just prior to the annual AAG meeting in Las Vegas and the awardees (including any Honorable Mention awardees) will be invited to attend the annual AAG Awards Luncheon at the expense of the PGSG. The awards will be formally announced at the PGSG business meeting in Las Vegas Payment will take place shortly thereafter. The awardees' names and paper titles will be forwarded to the AAG for publication in the AAG Newsletter.

10. Any questions pertaining to eligibility will be resolved by the Student Paper Award Committee.

Deadline is on March 15, 2011

Submissions should be sent to committee chair Darren Purcell (dpurcell@ou.edu), or other members of the committee ( Helga Leitner - eqj6139@umn.edu>, Katrinka Somdahl-Sands - somdahka@gmail.com.)

Please find attached the papers presented at RC 41 panels in Santiago 2009. You can fin find more information on the event here http://rc41.ipsa.org/pages/2009-Santiago

Joseph YS Cheng China’s Energy Security and Energy Diplomacy

China

Ziv Rubinovitz Geopolitics and American Policy on the Use of Force: Somalia, Rwanda and Afghanistan

American policy

Charles-Philippe David, Elisabeth Vallet Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Why is There a Wall After All? The Return of the Wall in International Relations

Wall

The Argentine Commission on the Outer Limit of the Continental Shelf (COPLA) is very pleased to invite you to the International Workshop “Seabed and Subsoil: the Continental Shelf and the Area”, to be held in Buenos Aires from October 5^th to 7^th , 2011.

This Workshop aims at providing a forum for discussion in order to exchange points of view and information on technical and legal matters related to the seabed and subsoil. National and foreign experts from different States and organizations involved in geological, geophysical, hydrographic, legal and economic issues related to the outer limit of the continental shelf and the exploitation and conservation of the resources of the seabed and subsoil are invited to participate in this Workshop.

The following general topics will be address:

· The Outer Limit of the Continental Shelf: Sharing Experiences and New Developments

· The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf: its Work and current Workload

· Resources of the Seabed and Subsoil

· The Role of the International Seabed Authority and its Challenges for the Future

Should you be interested in submitting a paper or a poster, please send your proposal by e-mail to copla@mrecic.gov.ar <mailto:copla@mrecic.gov.ar> before February 28^th 2011, so that it may be evaluated by the Organizing Committee. Please, bear in mind that only a limited number of presentations will be accepted, so the refusal of a presentation does not prejudice about its academic quality.

Vacancies are limited. Further information on the Seminar will be provided by March 2011.

Dear Colleagues:
As newly confirmed Chair of The International Political Science Association’s Research Committee RC-41 (Geopolitics), I am writing not only to introduce myself but to address each of you associated with this Committee in some capacity in the past, whether as a formal member or participant in one of its sponsored workshops. 
Pledged to help build upon the longstanding efforts by Professor Robert Lieber almost single-handedly at sustaining the activities of IPSA’s RC-41, I want begin by expressing our sincere individual and collective thanks to him. 
Looking to the future, clearly, there are many ideas for prospective activities within this domain of Geopolitics – and I certainly welcome any and all suggestions. Beyond generating ideas, however, I am asking each of you to renew your personal commitment and involvement in RC-41.
If we are to revitalize RC-41 and to undertake any new programs it seems to me that the most pressing need at the moment is to deepen the ranks of our membership though a determined, energetic recruitment campaign. I therefore urge you to approach known colleagues, overseas research collaborators and advanced graduate students who might have a professional interest in registering as members of RC-41. Please provide them with my E-Mail address (aklieman@gmail.com), and ask they write me directly with their particulars.
If each of us undertakes this fairly simple step and stimulates even 5-10 people to commit we stand to multiply our membership by several fold. For this purpose, I am attaching a brief description of RC-41’s terms of reference.

I look forward to hearing from you in response to my letter. Also, to working with you more closely in the future, and to meeting you personally. 

Sincerely, 
Professor Aharon Klieman