Global discontent? Dilemmas of Change

Globalization has produced a redistribution of power both within societies and within the world. Like any other major transformative process, it produces winners and losers. As the process moves on, it generates its own discontents, its critics, its opponents. It produces politics of resistance as well as politics of compliance in which both states and NGOs take part. At this critical juncture, we believe that the globalization process and its outcomes constitute critical topics of study for all political scientists. Global discontent constitutes the central theme at our 21st World Congress of Political Science in Santiago, Chile.

To read the complete congress theme; propose papers and/or panels; apply for travel grants; and register for the IPSA 21st World Congress of Political Science, visit www.santiago2009.org .

The Program will be divided into the following general types of sessions:

Main Theme Sessions     
                             
Panels and sessions related to the congress’s main theme.                                          
                                                     
Research Committee Sessions

Each of IPSA’s 50 research committees organizes panels related to their field of interest. Non-members and members alike are welcome to submit proposals. See a list of RCs and their areas of interest at http://www.ipsa.org/site/content/category/6/25/57/lang,en/.                                             
                                                    
Special Sessions
         
Sessions submitted by individuals, research groups and organizations outside the 2009 Congress Program Committee fit here.

The Chilean Political Science Association (LOC) sessions

These sessions will showcase Chilean and Latin American Political Science encompassing all areas of the discipline. Non-Latin Americans are welcome to submit proposals. Those which attempt to interpret the regional implications of the Congress's Main Theme, or to present a Latin American or Chilean stance in relation to it, are especially encouraged.

For more local information, visit http://www.congresomundial2009.com/ .

Except for LOC sessions, all sessions are held in either of IPSA’s official languages: English and French. CPSA/LOC sessions can also be held in Spanish or Portuguese.

Deadline for submissions and travel grant applications:
December 1, 2008

Deadline to register for papergivers:
March 1, 2009

You can download this Call for Papers in PDF format here.