Prospect: The International Affairs Journal at UC San Diego
Call for Submissions

Prospect, a new international affairs e-journal launched in February 2009, is accepting submissions. The journal serves as a forum for intelligent discourse by showcasing works created by UC San Diego students who wish to broaden their understanding of issues of contemporary and global relevance. The journal was co-founded by UCSD students Dipan Patel, in Political Sciences, and Ran Jiao, in Economics.

Prospect is currently issuing a call for submissions and accepts a variety of work, including but not limited to: academic papers (from previous classes), freelance articles, travelogues, photography, and films.

For more information and to submit works please contact prospectjournal@ucsd.edu, or visit the current journal at prospectjournal.ucsd.edu.

IICAS Faculty publications

Networked Politics: Agency, Power, and Governance
IR/PS Professor Miles Kahler has edited a new book entitled, Networked Politics: Agency, Power, and Governance. The book was produced by a project sponsored by IICAS, the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, and the Center of International Studies at the University of Cambridge, and received financial support from the IGCC. It is available here.

Description: The concept of network has emerged as an intellectual centerpiece for our era. Network analysis also occupies a growing place in many of the social sciences. In international relations, however, network has too often remained a metaphor rather than a powerful theoretical perspective. In Networked Politics, a team of political scientists investigates networks in important sectors of international relations, including human rights, security agreements, terrorist and criminal groups, international inequality, and governance of the Internet. They treat networks as either structures that shape behavior or important collective actors. In their hands, familiar concepts, such as structure, power, and governance, are awarded new meaning.

National Insecurity and Human Rights
IICAS director Gershon Shafir and Professor Alison Brysk from the University of California, Irvine have edited a book entitled National Insecurity and Human Rights: Democracies Debate Counterterrorism. The book is available here.

Description: All too often, the first casualty of national insecurity is human rights.  How can democracies cope with the threat of terror while protecting human rights?  This timely volume compares the lessons of the United States and Israel with the "best-case scenarios" of the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, and Germany.  It demonstrates that threatened democracies have important options, and democratic governance, the rule of law, and international cooperations are crucial foundations for counterterror policy.

Territoriality and Conflict in an Era of Globalization University of Cambridge Press, 2006 Edited by Miles Kahler and Barbara Walter Based on original research funded by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. More	Empire to Nation: Historical Perspectives on the Making of the Modern World Rowman & Littlefield, 2006 Edited by Joseph Esherick, Hasan Kayali, and Eric Van Young, UCSD

New UCSD European Studies Minor

UC San Diego now offers a new undergraduate minor in European Studies. The program offers unparalleled opportunities to study this dynamic, multicultural region in an interdisciplinary framework. The European Studies minor will help provide basic expertise in the region and is a great supplement to students who have strong European interests and/or are planning for a career in the international arena.

For more information on the European Studies minor, click here.

Nov./Dec. 2009 IICAS Newsletter
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2009-2010 Events

IICAS is pleased to promote research, discussion and information exchange on international, comparative, and cross regional topics through the continuation of the IICAS speaker series in International Law, European Studies, Project on International Affairs, Middle East Studies, South Asia Studies, and America & the World.

Nov. 17, 2009
Paul Hoffman, Civil Rights Lawyer and Former Chair of the International Executive Committee of Amnesty International, "Litigating Human Rights Cases Against Corporations: A View from the Frontlines"
Cal-West, Lecture Hall 1, 12:15 pm - 1:05 pm. 2009-2010 "Speaking Truth to Power" joint speaker series sponsored by IICAS and California Western School of Law. For questions, email Debra Compton at dxc@cwsl.edu. More

Nov. 17, 2009
Prof. Peter Rosendorff, New York University, "Domestic Politics and the Accession of Authoritarian Regimes to Human Rights Treaties" 
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 107, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, lunch provided.  2009-10 joint speaker series sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs (PIA) & IR/PS International Law and Regulation Laboratory (ILAR). For information and to register, click here.

Nov. 19, 2009
IICAS European Studies Roundtable: "Remaking the Public University in the 21st Century,"with Marcel Henaff, UCSD Literature & Political Science - France; Christine Hunefeldt, UCSD History & CILAS - Spain & Latin America; Ping-hui Liao, UCSD Literature - East Asia; Isaac Martin, UCSD Sociology -California & US; Charles Thorpe, UCSD Sociology - UK 
Dugout Conference Room, RIMAC Annex, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm, light refreshments. Sponsored by IICAS European Studies Speaker Series. To RSVP, email iicasintern@ucsd.edu. More

Nov. 20, 2009
Prof. Marion Fourcade, University of California, Berkeley "Cents and Sensibility: Economic Valuation and the Nature of 'Nature' in France and America"
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 101,12:00 PM – 1:30 PM. Co-sponsored by IICAS European Studies. To RSVP, email iicasintern@ucsd.edu. More

Dec. 2, 2009
Prof. Robert Keohane, Princeton University, "Social Norms and Agency in World Politics" 
IR/PS Dean's Conference Room, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm.  2009-10 joint speaker series sponsored by IICAS Project on International Affairs (PIA) & IR/PS International Law and Regulation Laboratory (ILAR). For information and to register, click here.

For more information about IICAS Speaker Series, please click Here.