[Interpretationandmethods] call for papers on "hierarchy in international relations"

[Patrick Jackson]

Over recent years, International Relations has become increasingly  
concerned with issues of hierarchy. Debates about the scale and scope  
of American power, globalisation, development and intervention have  
generated attention on a number of important areas, not least  
questions of empire, hegemony, balancing and polarity. Although many  
of these debates are well advanced, relatively little attention has  
been paid to conceptualising and explicating various logics of  
hierarchy, in other words on how we can understand, explain and map  
different forms of rule across time and place.

This special issue of the Journal of International Relations and  
Development will focus on 'how to think about hierarchy', paying  
special attention to literature which crosses IR, political science  
and sociology. Although the editors welcome submissions from a broad  
range of scholarship, potential areas of interest include

- how we can delineate forms of hierarchy;
- unravelling the social logics of hierarchical systems;
- understanding the nature, scope and salience of American power in  
the contemporary world;
- explaining the importance of empires, both past and present, to  
International Relations.

In the first instance, please register your interest by submitting an  
abstract to the editorial team (jird at fdv.uni-lj.si) by May 15, 2008.  
The editors will review the abstracts and invite article submissions,  
which will need to be completed by the end of 2008. Please note that  
articles will be sent out to individual peer review -- as such,  
invitation to submit is no guarantee of final publication. Papers  
which pass the peer review process will be published in a special  
isssue of the journal.

If you have any further questions about this special issue, please  
contact Patrick Jackson, Editor-in-Chief (ptjack at american.edu) or  
George Lawson, Associate Editor (g.lawson at lse.ac.uk).

PTJ
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Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
patrickthaddeusjackson at gmail.com