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Lena Partzsch has an article out in the current issue of Global Goverance, a top journal in the field of international organization. It was designated as the best article in the journal in 2018. Congrats to Lena. Take Action Now: The Legitimacy of Celebrity Power in International Relations Global Governance 24 (2018), 229–248 by Lena Partzsch Celebrities are able to mobilize a wide range of people on a global scale. In his Oscar acceptance speech, Leonardo DiCaprio urged his international audience to work collectively to combat climate change. Another example of celebrity activism is Daryl Hannah’s support for biofuels and…

Freedom? by Two Fuse (Cork University Press, 2018) In this contribution to the Síreacht series, the collaborative platform Two Fuse (Kevin Ryan, NUIG & Fiona Whelan, NCAD) examine the practice of freedom in the context of neoliberal enterprise culture, focusing specifically on how this is shaped by power relations that sustain social suffering by generating an equality of inequality. Responding to this situation, Two Fuse look to socially-engaged art with a view to exploring possibilities to reimagine the practice of freedom, paying particular attention to the 2016 performance Natural History of Hope by Fiona Whelan, Rialto Youth Project and Brokentalkers.…

CALL FOR PAPERS XXXVIII Sunbelt Conference Session “Power, Influence and Network Structures” June 26-July 1, 2018 | Utrecht, Netherlands Deadline for Abstracts: February 1, 2018 (23.59 hrs. CET time) Dear IPSA RC36 members and friends, Please, consider submitting your abstract to the Sunbelt 2018 session “Power, Influence and Network Structures” organized by our research committee. This session is organized in collaboration with IPSA Research Committee on Political Power (IPSA RC36) to provide a room for a broad discussion on opportunities and challenges of network analysis methods for political power scholars. We encourage potential participants to introduce papers that link theory…

RC 36 has organized 10 panels for IPSA in Brisbane this summer. The panels are quite diverse in topics and methodology. The conference promises to be very exciting for those of us who study power. Here is a list of the panels. More information about the papers can be gotten my emailing ggallarotti@wesleyan.edu or alina.v.vladimirova@gmail.com RC 36 Panels for IPSA, Brisbane July 21-25, 2018 Blacks in Trump’s America: Politics as Usual in the Face of Persistent Political Precarity Obama to Trump Exceptional Powers in World Politics Gender, Diversity and Federalism in the Global North Natural Resources, Security, and Power Political…

Dear Colleagues, Please, consider our new call for papers at the official journal of the IPSA Research Committee on Political Power (IPSA RC36)! Journal of Political Power Special Issue on “Network Analysis of Political Power” More details

In case you are in Mainz for the 3rd European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN) be welcome to join us at the IPSA RC36 special session “Network Analysis of Political Power”! We are going to discuss 4 fascinating papers on September 27, at 03:30 pm, room P207, Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz (Germany). Abstracts can be found at our website. More details at the EUSN 2017.

New book on Emerging Powers In International Politics:The BRICS and Soft Power edited by Mathilde Chatin and Giulio Gallaroti is available on Amazon. Link