Pardee Fellows at 2010 ISA Annual Convention

The International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention 2011 took place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from March 16-19, under the topic: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: POLITICAL AUTHORITY IN TRANSITION. Several Pardee Center Fellows presented their work at the Convention.

A forthcoming Global Environmental Politics Special Issue (August 2011) on climate change bandwagoning, co-edited by Pardee Center Postdoctoral Fellow Miquel Muñoz and Sikina Jinnah, Associate Professor at American University, was presented on Thursday afternoon. The panel included presentations by: Nichole Detraz, “Securing the Climate or Climate as Threat Multiplier? Debates about Climate Change as a Security Issue;” Daniel Chong and Simon Nicholson, “Jumping on the Human Rights Bandwagon: How Rights-based Linkages Are Reshaping Climate Politics;” Alexandra Conliffe, “Staving off the Reaper: Strategically Linking Land Use and Climate in the UNCCD;” and Mark Axelrod, “Climate Change and Global Fisheries: A Whale of an Opportunity.” Other contributors to the special issue include Miquel Munoz, Sikina Jinnah, Paul Wapner, Benjamin Cashore, Kelly Levin and Constance McDermott.

Dr. Miquel Muñoz also participated in a daylong pre-ISA workshop on Tuesday, March 15, titled Global Environmental Politics on a New Earth, where he facilitated a session on Energy. Written reflections for that workshop are available here.

A paper by Pardee Faculty Fellow Prof. Henrik Selin, titled “Comparative Climate Politics, Federalism and Multilevel Governance,” was presented on Friday morning.

A paper by Pardee Faculty Fellow Prof. Strom Thacker, titled “Democracy, Development and Governance in the 21st Century: New Ways of Measuring and Conceptualizing Democracy” was presented on Wednesday morning.

A paper by Pardee Faculty Fellows Prof. John Gerring and Prof. Strom Thacker , titled “The Politics of Fertility, Mortality and Ethnicity” was presented on Friday afternoon.

A paper by Pardee 2010 Summer Fellow June Park, titled “The Influence of Global Trade Imbalances on Sovereign Wealth Funds: China’s SWFs under the view of U.S.-China Trade Imbalance”, was presented on Wednesday morning.