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Newsletter
ISA Political Demography and Geography Section
1,1, 2011
Editors: Ismene Gizelis, University of Essex, tig@essex.ac.uk &
Clionadh Raleigh, Trinity College Dublin, raleighc@tcd.ie .
Introduction
Welcome to the first issue of the political demography and geography newsletter!
We would like the newsletter to serve as means to communicate important news and
announcements of interests to the members of the ISA PDG. section. We aim for the
newsletter to appear at least twice a year. As editors we are dependent on input from
the members, so please do pass on any issues that you would like to raise to the
attention of the section members. Our next target date is 1 December, and we ask for
indications of topics for the newsletter by 15 October at the latest.
1. Membership Drive
The Political Demography section currently has too few members. In order to be a
viable section we will need to reach 120 members, so it is important that you all
actively seek to recruit new members to the section. Membership is only $5:00.
Please join the organization through the ISA webpage (http://www.isanet.org) or
contact jacek.kugler@cgu.edu or Tadeusz Kugler tkugler@rwu.edu if you should
have any problems.
2. ISA 2011 Political Demography and Geography Section Panels
The section held its first panels at the ISA 2011 annual meeting in March in Montreal.
Tad Kugler did an excellent job for the section as section program, and the section
sponsored a total of 5 panels. We reproduce the full list of panels below to give a
sense of the range of topics related to political demography covered at the section’s
panels.
I. Cultural Demography and Conflict
Chair: Ragnhild Nordås, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Harvard University
Disc. Alex Braithwaite, University College London
Spatial Alternatives in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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Robert E. Latham, York University
Nir Gazit, Ruppin Academic Center
Spatial Matching Techniques for Disaggregated Conflict Analysis
Andrew M. Linke, University of Colorado at Boulder
Differential Population Dynamics, Inequality and Political Violence in India
Erika Forsberg, Uppsala University
Gudrun Østby, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Monica Duffy Toft, Harvard University
Religious Demography and Conflict: How Diversity Matters Ragnhild Nordås, Peace
Research Institute Oslo, Harvard University
Religious Deregulation: A Key to Understanding whether Religious Plurality Leads to
Strife Brian Grim, Pew Research Center
Political Systems, Differential Growth and Domestic Power Transition: The Effect of
Demography on Civil Conflict Katharine M. Floros, University of Missouri
II. Demographic Influences on the Internal Power of Politics
Chair: Tadeusz Kugler, Roger Willams University
Disc. Tadeusz Kugler, Roger Willams University
Property and Resettlement in Northern Uganda
Sandra Joireman, Wheaton College
Dealing With Population Decline: The Case of Japan
Dennis Pirages, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Mary Beth Horiai, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Ethno-Religious Demographic Change in Israel and Its Political Implications
Richard Cincotta, Henry L. Stimson Center
Playing the State: Social Movements, Rural Communities, and the Absent State in
Guatemala, Simon Granovsky-Larsen, York University
III. Group Identity as Both a Cause of, and Restraint against, Violence
Chair: Christine C. Cadot, University of Paris VIII
Disc. Bo Petersson, Malmö University
A Conflict Analysis and Peace Studies Perspective on American Nationalism and US
Foreign Policy, Harry Anastasiou, Portland State University
Salvation and Success? Idealism and Realism in Shia Theology, S. Amir Mirtaheri,
Florida International University
The Political Salience of Ethnicity and Vulnerability to Genocide
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Jason A. Petrucci, University of Maryland
War of Identities: The Role of Identity in Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency
David R. Hayes, Troy University
"Evil" Recruiters: Formalizing the Theoretic Role of Jihadist Recruiters in Western
Islamist Radicalization, Gary A. Ackerman, University of Maryland, John P. Sawyer,
University of Maryland, Georgetown University
IV. Performance of Governments
Chair: Ronald L. Tammen, Portland State University
Disc. Ronald L. Tammen, Portland State University
Phoenix Factor Revisited
Jacek Kugler, Claremont Graduate University
Tadeusz Kugler, Roger Willams University
Kyungkook Kang, Claremont Graduate University
Political Allocation and Growth
M. Andrew Abdollahian, Claremont Graduate University
Marina Arbetman Rabinowitz, Sentia Group
Kyungkook Kang, Claremont Graduate University
Political Capacity, Leadership, and Regional Integration in Europe
Gaspare M. Genna, University of Texas at El Paso
Birol A. Yesilada, Portland State University
Peter A. Noordijk, Portland State University
Beyond the Natural: Assessing the Effect of Political Capacity,
Economic Development and Civic Capacity on Earthquake Mortality
Hal Nelson, Claremont Graduate University
Capital Flows, Institutions and Economic Development
Ayesha Umar Wahedi, Portland State University
V. Structures of Nations: How Resources, Climate, Urbanization, and
Demography Interact and Influence
Chair Jacek Kugler, Claremont Graduate University
Disc. Jacek Kugler, Claremont Graduate University
Is the Natural Resource Curse a Silent Killer? Resource Wealth and the Aids
Epidemic
Ismene Gizelis, University of Essex
Indra De Soysa, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
The Domestic Demographic Divide: Urban and Rural Age Structures
Elizabeth Leahy Madsen, Population Action International
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Water Politics: Why Do States Cooperate?
Elvira Bobekova, University of Otago
Climate Change and Security: What Has the Demographic Transition to Do with
That?
Beatrice C. Daumerie, Stockholm University
The Politics of Fertility, Mortality and Ethnicity
Strom Thacker, Boston University
John Gerring, Boston University
3. ISA 2011 Business Meeting
At the 2011 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association the Political
Demography Section was renamed the Political Demography and Geography Section.
We can now attract academics interested in the intersection between politics,
demography, economics and geography. Colleagues with spatial analytical and
mapping skills are encouraged to join PDG.
PD&G acknowledged the substantial support provided by the Woodrow Wilson
Environmental Change and Security Program. Director Geoffrey Dabelko sponsored a
dinner for the PDG Board of Directors that explored the future of the section. We
also acknowledge the financial support provided by Patrick James, University of
Southern California, Scott Gates, PRIO, Ronald Tammen Hatfield School of Public
Policy, John Thomas School of Business at La Sierra University; Tadeusz Kugler
Roger Willams University; Henrik Urdal, PRIO, Richard Cincotta of the Henry L.
Simson Center, and Jacek Kugler of Claremont Graduate University. Their generous
contributions made it possible to co-sponsor a wonderful reception with our
colleagues Scientific Study of International Processes (SSIP).
Two year terms for the Chair, Treasurer and Paper Coordinator were set.
The tenure and number of Board Members was postponed in anticipation of a possible
expansion resulting from members interested in political geography.
Selection of the next President and Treasurer was charged to Ronald Tammen
tammen@pdx.edu and Scott Gates scott@prio.no . Please forward all nominations to
them.
Valerie M Hudson is now a senior financial Advisor to our Section. Please contact
her with any new funding suggestions and ideas.
Theodora-Ismene Gizelis, tig@essex.ac.uk and Clionadh Raleigh, raleighc@tcd.ie
are the editors of the new Political Demography & Geography Newsletter.
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A prize for the best paper presented by a graduate student was approved and will be
implemented following the 2012 ISA annual Meeting.
We look forward to a renewed effort to increase our membership and activity at the
2012 ISA annual meeting in San Diego.
4. ISA 2012 Call for Papers
The 2012 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association will be held in San
Diego, California, USA 1-4 April 2012. The Theme of the meeting is “Power,
Principles and Participation in the Global Information Age”.
The Political Demography & Geography section will have a similar quota to 2011,
most likely around 5 panels. The section program chair will be Tad Kugler, Roger
Willams University, tkugler@rwu.edu. All submissions must again be made
electronically, using the MyISA system, available through the ISA web page
http://www.isanet.org, and the submission proposal deadline is 1 June 2011. We
encourage members interested in proposing panels for the section to contact Tad if
they should have any questions on possible submissions.
5. Announcements
The Editors of Millennium: Journal of International Studies would like
to draw to the attention of the ISA Political Demography Section to the upcoming
40th Annual Millennium Conference (to be held on 22-23 October 2011 at the LSE).
Keynote Speaker
Kathryn Sikkink (University of Minnesota)
Opening Roundtable
Closing Roundtable
Andrew Hurrell (Oxford University)
Christian Reus-Smit (EUI)
Stephen Gill (York University)
Stephen Chan (SOAS)
Carol Cohn (University of Massachusetts)
Christine Sylvester (Lancaster University)
For more information contact the Editors at millennium@lse.ac.uk.
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