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Giulio M Gallarotti will be the new editor of the book series Social and Political Power published by Manchester University Press. We thank former editor Mark Haugaard for an exceptional job in producing a series of excellent manuscripts on the study of power. If you or a scholar you know is writing a promising manuscript on the study of power and would like us to consider it for the series, please contact Giulio at gmg2165@columbia.edu Here is a link to the series   https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/social-and-political-power/           h

The Journal of Political Power will be publishing a special issue on Soft Power, edited by Giulio Gallarotti and  scheduled for Fall of 2022

On Friday, February 4 we have concluded our first RC36 Political Power Group Research Discussion Zoom meeting. The participants reviewed two recent publications on soft power and talked about the conceptual and operational contribution of dark heritage sites and Chinese financial aid to Africa. We would like to thank everyone for coming including Giulio Gallarotti and Alexandre Bohas. We will announce the next RC36 Political Power Group Research Discussion meeting time soon.  

These essays on developments in the study of political power over the last four decades, have been written by the leading scholars in the field. https://www.routledge.com/Essays-on-Evolutions-in-the-Study-of-Political-Power/Gallarotti/p/book/9781032060880

The Journal of Political Power (2021 Vol 14 No. 1) will publish a special issue on Changing Faces of Power, 1979-2019. The papers come from a conference in Moscow in May of 2019 celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Power Group, IPSA RC 36. The collection features the leading thinkers on the subject of political power over the past 40 years talking about the study of political power over those decades.   Table of Contents Giulio M. Gallarotti, The More Things Change, the More They…: The Changing Faces of Power 1979-2019  Keith Dowding, Power: Ambiguous Not Vague Stewart Clegg and…

Dear RC36 people, My new book “Alternatives to Multilateralism: New Forms of Social and Environmental Governance” (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA) is published – and it is open access: https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4871/Alternatives-to-MultilateralismNew-Forms-of-Social My working title was “Power Dynamics in Global Supply Chains”, and you will see that there is a lot of ‘power’ in there (esp. Chapter 2: Three Central Perspectives on Power in Global Supply Chains). Below, you find the abstract etc., or if you follow the link! If you understand German, I speak about the book in the last hour of this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqicDZGVVfQ Many thanks to all who supported this…

Hello All, I am looking forward to working in IPSA’s RC36, Political Power, and hope to meet members in various conference and workshop settings in the future! My work concerns the intersections of politics and history and my research interests are in transatlantic relations. I have added my accepted paper proposal for IPSA 2020 as info. Thanks for reading!

Hi Just to alert you to Robert A. Dahl: An Unended Quest, Ed. David A. Baldwin and Mark Haugaard. Contains articles by: Jennifer Hochschild, David Mayhew, Bruce Stinebrickner, David Baldwin, Nannerl O Keohane, Catharine MacKinnon and Steven Lukes. Link