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CALL FOR PAPERS
Graduate Student Conference
"Renewing the Transatlantic Relationship: Prospects for Europe and the United States in an Emerging Multipolar World"
Co-sponsored by the Ashburn Institute and the European Union Center, School of International and Area Studies, The University of Oklahoma
13-14 November 2008
The Ashburn Institute, an independent institute committed to the promotion of democracy and international peace, and The European Union Center of the School of International and Area Studies, a unit of the International Programs Center at the University of Oklahoma, will convene a graduate student conference on the topic of "Renewing the Transatlantic Relationship: Prospects for Europe and the U.S. in an Emerging Multipolar World."
After a brief "unipolar moment," many U.S. foreign policy makers have come to believe that achieving U.S. foreign policy objectives requires greater multilateralism. The EU, meanwhile, continues its troubled quest to develop a more cohesive foreign policy making apparatus, while also confronting the limits of Europe's "soft" power. Both the U.S. and EU face new global challenges at the same time that the rapid growth of economic power in China, India, Russia, Brazil and elsewhere marks the emergence of an increasingly multipolar order.
The conference is timed to follow closely on the U.S. presidential election and will focus on the prospects for collaboration and competition between the U.S. and European Union member states in the wake of the election and the change in leadership in Washington, D.C.
We call for papers from graduate students (PhD and, in cases of exceptional proposals, MA students) engaged in research addressing the following questions:
In what policy areas might we expect intensified collaboration between EU and European foreign policy makers and the new American administration? How might the relationship change in response to evolving EU and U.S. economic and foreign policy interests, including, for example, energy security? How is the respective engagement of European countries and the United States in other regions of the world likely to affect the transatlantic relationship? What, more generally, is the impact of emerging multipolarity on transatlantic relations?
The program committee will select approximately 20 papers for inclusion in the conference; about half of the participants will come from each side of the Atlantic. The Ashburn Institute will cover the costs of airfare and accommodation for all students. The University of Oklahoma will provide conference meals. In addition, approximately 12 of the strongest papers will be selected for inclusion in an edited conference volume.
The conference program committee is comprised of graduate students at the University of Oklahoma and other institutions who are conducting work in the area of trans-Atlantic relations. Program Committee co-chairs are Kseniya Khovanova, University of Illinois, and Max Kovalov, University of Oklahoma.
The conference will consist of full days of panel sessions on Thursday, 13 November and Friday, 14 November, and will conclude with a banquet on the evening of the 14th, to include a keynote address. Participants should plan to arrive on Wednesday, 12 November, and depart on Saturday, 15 November.
Ph.D. students from all relevant disciplines are invited to submit paper proposals of approximately 250 words, along with a brief cover letter providing details of the program of study in which they are engaged.
The deadline for submissions is 3 September 2008.
The program committee co-chairs will inform participants of their acceptance by 17 September.
Participants will be expected to provide complete copies of their papers (in the range of 7,000 to 8,000 words) in electronic form by 1 November.
Please submit proposals to BOTH program committee co-chairs at:
kseniya@uchicago.edu
maksym@ou.edu
Please submit your paper to:
THE ASHBURN INSTITUTE
P.O. Box 399, Ashburn, VA 20146
E-mail: info@ashburninstitute.org
Copyright: 2005 Ashburn Institute. All rights reserved.
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