From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Wed Feb 1 10:53:44 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Wed Feb 1 10:53:44 1995 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id KAA16010 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 10:53:42 -0700 Received: from [128.220.25.44] ([128.220.25.44]) by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <423-9>; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 12:56:59 -0500 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 11:48:41 -0500 From: "Chris Chase-Dunn" Sender: chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Message-Id: <46122.chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: A comment on Mexico ------------------------------ From: David Barkin Mon, 30 Jan 1995 23:12:50 -0500 To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: A comment on Mexico Here is an article I wrote to Globe that was not accepted for publication! An Alternative Vision of Mexican Development David Barkin* As a Mexican academic, temporarily in Cambridge, I am gratified by the excellent coverage that the Boston Globe has been giving to crisis in Mexico. Your stories offer superb coverage of the tragic consequences of more than a decade of mistakes in management by a team of skilled economists. These highly-educated and highly-placed technocrats, as they are labeled, have fallen into the trap of transforming dogma into science, an error that others before them also committed, with similar results: Mexico's peasants and working classes endure declining real incomes and a deteriorating quality of life, while the economy is becoming less capable of supplying the basic needs of our people. Today, the purchasing power of the average wage is less than one-half what it was in 1976 and more than two-thirds of the households have incomes below the nation's poverty level. For the last few years, the pundits have been proclaiming Mexico as the great success story of globalization. Increasing exports and declining reliance on petroleum were said to be indicators of progress, while we were assured that exploding imports strengthened the nation's productive capacity. The virtual flood of foreign capital offered an opportunity for a small elite to enrich itself through speculation and manipulation of the stock market, and for the government to postpone the day of reckoning by offering juicy returns to well remunerated money managers in the world's financial centers. The pundits are now pompously asserting the inevitability of present problems. They are just as audacious in recommending caution today as they were in urging investors into the heady waters of international finance in yesterday's markets. The huge devaluation of the peso will lead to substantial inflation in Mexico, as your reporters have noted, and prices of imported goods will rise quickly and dramatically. Changes of recent years led to a massive displacement of local production by imported goods. Years ago, the technocrats decided that Mexico's peasants and indigenous population were not only too independent but also very inefficient; they had to be removed from the countryside to "free" them from their traditional communities, putting their land at the disposition of more resourceful social groups and making them available for other tasks. Today, some of the corn for our tortillas, milk products, and animal feed, to name only a few essential items, are among the imported goods that were formerly produced at home. Similarly, small and medium sized industries were squeezed and many forced to close. The widely heralded trade "opening" led to an avalanche of cheap imports, a costly and unsustainable way to fight inflation and stimulate competition at the cost of domestic industries and jobs; aggravating the problem, the banking system was too busy fueling the speculative binge in the financial markets to address the complex task of supporting and strengthening the weakening industrial and agricultural base. The bipartisan "rescue" package from the US does not address Mexico's fundamental problems. By throwing "good money after bad", the proposed bailout will only further deepen the crisis, by raising the foreign debt and the cost of debt service. It will offer a very small group of people in Mexico the opportunity to continue to engage in financial acrobatics for personal gain. It will also provide the necessary funds for important financial groups in the US and elsewhere so that they can avoid the embarrassment of paying the real cost of their ill-considered investments: the guarantees will provide funds as a temporary fillip to financial markets that will facilitate an orderly (and profitable) redeployment of foreign assets. The massive injection of new credits into Mexico will also reduce pressures to face up to the urgent task of rebuilding capacity to satisfy our basic needs. To undertake this alternative path, we must mobilize people to plant crops and raise the animals needed for work and food, while artisans and small-scale entrepreneurs are encouraged to rebuild the myriad small industries and workshops to produce other basic consumer goods. This is the only way that we can defend our standard of living: by producing products which create jobs and incomes so that people can buy these products. This alternative cannot be undertaken without a serious democratization of the political arena. In today's world, a strong domestic economy cannot be shaped in isolation; but without explicit policies and resources to define such an approach, international economic integration will surely continue to exclude people from effective participation in governance and erode their capacity to supply their own needs, condemning them to a deteriorating quality of life. This is not an option which Mexicans can continue to accept: the example of Chiapas is still an important part of the Mexican scenario, and one that could be emulated. *David Barkin is Professor of Economics at the Xochimilco Campus of the Metropolitan University in Mexico City on leave as Senior Fellow for Latin America at the Lincoln Institute. His latest book in English is Distorted Development: Mexico in the world economy.! Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu From denemark@strauss.udel.edu Wed Feb 1 23:41:10 MST 1995 >From denemark@strauss.udel.edu Wed Feb 1 23:41:09 1995 Received: from strauss.udel.edu (strauss.udel.edu [128.175.13.74]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id XAA05767 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 23:41:08 -0700 Received: (from denemark@localhost) by strauss.udel.edu (8.6.8/8.6.6) id BAA00794; Thu, 2 Feb 1995 01:46:24 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 01:46:23 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Denemark To: world system network Subject: Contact with Stephen Sanderson Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I need help contacting Stephen Sanderson about an important issue. If you are out there, or if anyone could provide an e-mail address, I'd be most grateful. Bob Denemark Political Science U. Delaware denemark@strauss.udel.edu From SKSANDER@grove.iup.edu Thu Feb 2 12:37:08 MST 1995 >From SKSANDER@grove.iup.edu Thu Feb 2 12:37:07 1995 Received: from acorn.grove.iup.edu (acorn.grove.iup.edu [144.80.128.8]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id MAA28458 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 1995 12:37:06 -0700 Received: from grove.iup.edu by grove.iup.edu (PMDF V4.3-13 #2467) id <01HMKSVHFY0W8WWQIW@grove.iup.edu>; Thu, 02 Feb 1995 14:42:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 02 Feb 1995 14:42:01 -0500 (EST) From: s_sanderson To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-id: <01HMKSVHGHBM8WWQIW@grove.iup.edu> Organization: Indiana University of Pennsylvania X-Envelope-to: wsn@csf.colorado.edu X-VMS-To: NETMAIL%"wsn@csf.colorado.edu" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT From: GROVE::SKSANDER "s_sanderson" 31-JAN-1995 14:39:26.64 To: IN%"wsn@csf.colorado.edu" CC: SKSANDER Subj: 3rd edition of Macrosociology BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT The 3rd edition of Stephen Sanderson's MACROSOCIOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN SOCIETIES, was published by HarperCollins in December. A number of subscribers to the list will be familiar with this book, but for those who don't the following information can be provided: MACROSOCIOLOGY is a textbook designed for introductory sociology courses and many other courses in sociology. It takes a comparative and historical approach and includes a good deal of what is ordinarily called anthropology and history. The theoretical perspective is a flexible version of evolutionary materialism, and the world-system perspective is extensively discussed and viewed as a subtype of this more general perspective. The book could suitably be used for courses in comparative sociology, social change, economy and society, political sociology, social stratification, and, of course the general introductory course. I (Sanderson) use it in my own course entitled World Societies and World Systems, along with Shannon's AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD SYSTEM PERSPECTIVE and Wagar's (apparently highly controversial!!) book on the future. Table of Contents: 1. Sociology and the Scientific Study of Human Societies 2. Human Evolution and the Emergence of Human Society and Culture 3. Sociocultural Systems and Sociocultural Evolution 4. Preindustrial Societies 5. Precapitalist Economic Systems 6. The Origin and Evolution of Social Stratification 7. The Origins of Modern Capitalism 8. Capitalism and Socialism Since the Industrial Revolution 9. Capitalism and Economic Underdevelopment 10. Social Stratification in Industrial Societies 11. Political Evolution and the Origin of the State 12. Capitalism, Socialism, and the Evolution of the State 13. Comparative Patterns of Racial and Ethnic Stratification 14. The Gender Division of Labor and Gender Inequality 15. Marriage, Family, and Kinship in Comparative Perspective 16. The Development of the Modern Family System 17. The Social Foundations of Education 18. The Forms and Functions of Religious Belief and Action 19. Whither Humankind? The Future of Sociocultural Evolution Complimentary copies can be ordered by writing to Alan McClare at College Division, HarperCollins, 10 E. 53rd St., New York, NY 10022, or by calling his assistant at (212) 207-7307. I am also happy to field any questions anyone may have. From Candice.Bradley@lawrence.edu Fri Feb 3 11:10:23 MST 1995 >From Candice.Bradley@lawrence.edu Fri Feb 3 11:10:22 1995 Received: from ellen.acad.lawrence.edu (ellen.acad.lawrence.edu [143.44.128.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id LAA16639 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 1995 11:10:20 -0700 From: Candice.Bradley@lawrence.edu Received: from lawrence.edu by lawrence.edu (PMDF V4.3-9 #3646) id <01HMM1RKZ2Y89UMTUD@lawrence.edu>; Fri, 03 Feb 1995 12:19:12 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 03 Feb 1995 12:19:12 -0600 (CST) Subject: women at the margins To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-id: <01HMM1RKZE8Y9UMTUD@lawrence.edu> X-VMS-To: IN%"wsn@csf.colorado.edu" X-VMS-Cc: BRADLEYC MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I'm an anthropologist at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI. I generally do research on gender and fertility in Africa, and I've done some systematic cross-cultural work on women, agriculture and the world-system. In a few weeks I'll be teaching (for the first time) a senior seminar in the anthropology department which I've called "Women at the Margins." I've conceptualized this course as a world-system theory approach to understanding the positions of poor and/or marginalized women throughout the world, but especially in developing countries and peripheral regions of developed countries. I am about to order books and plan the syllabus -- but as a recent subscriber to this list, I realize that a lot of you probably know a lot more about this topic than I do. I would be inspired and grateful for any suggestions of books and articles that would interest bright advanced undergrads. I'll return the favor by sending CC-D a copy of my completed syllabus for the archive. With thanks, Candice Bradley Assistant Prof. of Anthropology Lawrence University, Appleton WI candice.bradley@Lawrence.edu 414-832-6718 From leden@ccs.carleton.ca Fri Feb 3 12:56:39 MST 1995 >From leden@ccs.carleton.ca Fri Feb 3 12:56:37 1995 Received: from alfred.ccs.carleton.ca (alfred.ccs.carleton.ca [134.117.1.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id MAA28363; Fri, 3 Feb 1995 12:56:34 -0700 Received: from superior (superior.ccs.carleton.ca) by alfred.ccs.carleton.ca (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA16673; Fri, 3 Feb 95 15:02:05 EST From: leden@ccs.carleton.ca (Lorraine Eden) Received: by superior (4.1/Sun-Client) id AA05322; Fri, 3 Feb 95 15:00:41 EST Message-Id: <9502032000.AA05322@superior> Subject: Overflow hotels for the 1995 ISA meeting (fwd) To: ipe@csf.colorado.edu (IPEnet), wsn@csf.colorado.edu (World Historical Systems Network) Date: Fri, 3 Feb 95 15:00:40 EST X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] APOLOGIES FOR CROSS LISTS: This message came through re the ISA hotels. I thought I had sent it out on the lists on the 2nd but didn't get a copy. If you have received it already, apologies. LEden, IPE section chair, ISA Philip Schrodt writes: > From @UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU:ISACONF@UKANVM.BITNET Thu Feb 2 13:39:12 1995 > Message-Id: <9502021839.AA23450@alfred.ccs.carleton.ca> > Date: Thu, 02 Feb 95 09:51:48 CST > From: Philip Schrodt > Subject: Overflow hotels for the 1995 ISA meeting > To: Ted Gurr , > Barbara Jancar-Webster , > Phil Meeks , > Jefferson Adams , > Francine D'Amico , > Doug Van Belle , > Lorraine Eden , > Lawrence Leblanc <6970leblancl@vms.csd.mu.edu>, > Roger Coates , > Luba Racanska , > James Wirtz , > Dina Zinnes > > Please post the following message to any lists you are maintaining for your > section: > In the event that you have not made hotel reservations, the Chicago Hilton > is now full. ISA has arranged with the Congress Hotel (3 blocks north of > the Hilton) for overflow space at $75/night; the hotel phone number is > 312-427-3800. Two other hotels within a block of the Hilton are the > Blackstone (312-427-4300) and the Essex (312-939-2800); one of my colleagues > just got a reservation at the Blackstone at $79/night. These alternative > hotels are not at quite the quality level of the Hilton but they are located > on Michigan Avenue and will be only a quick walk from the Hilton > > Philip Schrodt > ISA'95 Conference Co-chair > -- ------------- Lorraine Eden Professor of International Affairs The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6 CANADA Phone 613-788-2600x6661 [office] 613-788-6655 [department] Fax 613-788-2889 Email leden@superior.ccs.carleton.ca From leden@ccs.carleton.ca Sun Feb 5 06:32:18 MST 1995 >From leden@ccs.carleton.ca Sun Feb 5 06:30:54 1995 Received: from alfred.ccs.carleton.ca (alfred.ccs.carleton.ca [134.117.1.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id GAA09179; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 06:30:52 -0700 Received: from superior (superior.ccs.carleton.ca) by alfred.ccs.carleton.ca (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA07848; Sun, 5 Feb 95 08:29:16 EST From: leden@ccs.carleton.ca (Lorraine Eden) Received: by superior (4.1/Sun-Client) id AA04955; Sun, 5 Feb 95 08:27:51 EST Message-Id: <9502051327.AA04955@superior> Subject: ISA 1995 - Chicago - reminder re papers To: ipe@csf.colorado.edu (IPEnet), wsn@csf.colorado.edu (World Historical Systems Network), pew@csf.colorado.edu (PEW electronic email network), Lorraine_Eden@ccs.carleton.ca (Lorraine Eden), vicki_golich@csusm.edu (Vicki Golich), goddardr@mhs.t-bird.edu (Roe Goddard), kurt@strauss.udel.edu (Kurt Burch), lgonick@mach1.wlu.ca (Lev Gonick), mmarchand@sara.nl (Marianne Marchand), dstevis@vines.colostate.edu (Dimitris Stevis), skpthom@umslvma.umsl.edu (Ken Thomas), pgc3@tower.york.ac.uk (Phil Cerny), rmarlin@american.edu (Renee Marlin-Bennett), ins3toozeri@nottingham-trent.ac.uk (Roger Tooze), chriscd@jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu (Christopher Chase-Dunn), ingie@u.washington.edu (Christine Ingebritsen), u27903@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU (Audie Klotz), r.p.palan@newcastle.ac.uk (Ronen Palan), lcr@rienner.com (Lynne Rienner), drapkin@unlinfo.unl.edu (David Rapkin), fac3148@uoft01.utoledo.edu (Mark Denham), denemark@strauss.udel.edu (Bob Denemark) Date: Sun, 5 Feb 95 8:27:50 EST Cc: Lorraine_Eden@ccs.carleton.ca (Lorraine Eden) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] APOLOGIES FOR CROSS LISTINGS Hi. This is just a short reminder from the IPE section chair of ISA that your papers are supposed to be in the hands of your discussants now. Would all panel chairs please contact the members of their panels and ensure that [1] the authors are delivering their papers [2] they know where to send the papers to the discussants and [3] the discussants and paper givers have each other's addresses/emails, etc? The panel chairs should be prepared to make short introductory remarks at the beginning of the session, and to keep a careful check on the time allocated to each participant. In several sessions there are four papers and some have two discussants. In order to leave time for questions from the floor, please restrict individual paper presentations to about 10 minutes each [depending on the number of participants per session]. Each panel chair should also pick up a sheet at the ISA registration desk and fill it in after their panel, on number of participants, size of audience, etc.. Remember also that you are supposed to bring 50 copies of your paper to ISA for the paper sale desk. If you have not checked into a hotel yet, there was an earlier message from the ISA Co-Chairs that the Chicago Hilton is full and providing information on other hotels in the area. Air tickets are going fast too so if you haven't booked your flight, you need to do so ASAP. The IPE section executive is in the process of putting together the agenda for the IPE section meeting [Wed Feb 22, lunch time]. If you would like to add something to the agenda, please email me directly ASAP. The IPE senior scholar panel honouring Bob Keohane [Harvard U] is on Thursday afternoon and followed by the IPE reception. I look forward to seeing you in Chicago! Sincerely, Lorraine Eden, IPE section/program chair, ISA ------------- Lorraine Eden Professor of International Affairs The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6 CANADA Phone 613-788-2600x6661 [office] 613-788-6655 [department] Fax 613-788-2889 Email leden@superior.ccs.carleton.ca From DENNYB@VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU Sun Feb 5 08:45:47 MST 1995 >From DENNYB@VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU Sun Feb 5 08:45:46 1995 Received: from VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU (VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU [134.29.1.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id IAA14157 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 08:45:45 -0700 From: DENNYB@VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU Received: from VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU by VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU (PMDF V4.2-13 #3750) id <01HMOPFO22K6001G7V@VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU>; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 09:51:02 CST Date: Sun, 05 Feb 1995 09:51:02 -0600 (CST) Subject: A World Systems Text for Social Problems? To: WSN@csf.Colorado.edu Message-id: <01HMOPFO22K8001G7V@VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU> X-VMS-To: IN%"WSN@csf.Colorado.edu" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I appreciated the posting about the 3rd edition of MACROSOCIOLOGY that is npw available, authored by S. Sanderson. I may be moving into the teaching of our Social Problems course at my university. It is literally the 1st of a freshman level (Sociology 100). Can anyone suggest a text with a World systems/Inequality slant that would deal with enough social problems to be appropriate for this course? Thanks for your assistance. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Denny Braun Office: (507) 389-5609 Department of Sociology FAX: (507) 389-5615 Mankato State University Internet: DennyB@Vax1.Mankato.MSUS.edu Mankato, MN 56002-8400 On the VAX: DENNYB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ / "If there were no greed, there would be no occasion for \ / arguments. The principle of nonviolence necessitates \ / complete abstention from exploitation in any form." \ / \ / ---Mahatma Gandhi \ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From appelbau@alishaw.ucsb.edu Sun Feb 5 11:41:05 MST 1995 >From appelbau@alishaw.ucsb.edu Sun Feb 5 11:41:05 1995 Received: from hub.ucsb.edu (hub.ucsb.edu [128.111.24.40]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id LAA25204 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 11:41:02 -0700 Received: from alishaw.ucsb.edu by hub.ucsb.edu; id AA13336 sendmail 4.1/UCSB-2.1-sun Sun, 5 Feb 95 10:46:23 PST for wsn@csf.colorado.edu Received: by alishaw.ucsb.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA18709; Sun, 5 Feb 95 10:45:24 PST Date: Sun, 5 Feb 95 10:45:24 PST From: appelbau@alishaw.ucsb.edu (Rich Appelbaum) Message-Id: <9502051845.AA18709@alishaw.ucsb.edu> To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: introductory sociology textbook I have just written (with Bill Chambliss) an introductory sociology textbook which incorporates globalization as a core theme. It is a full-length (21 chapter) text which is intended to satisfy the need to cover the conventional topics of an introductory course, while addressing the ways in which globalization is impacting American life. Chapters on Global Stratification and Work and Economic Life, for example, directly address world systems thinking, commodity chains, etc. HarperCollins is the publisher. For more information contact Alan McClare, our editor, at (212) 207-7395, or email me directly at appelbau@alishaw. ucsb.edu. Rich Appelbaum ----------------------------------------------------------- | Richard P. Appelbaum, Professor of Sociology | | Director, Community and Organization Research Institute | | Co-Director, Center for Global Studies | | (805) 893-7230 phone (805) 893-2790 fax | | email: appelbau@alishaw.ucsb.edu | ----------------------------------------------------------- & From THALL@DEPAUW.EDU Sun Feb 5 14:26:25 MST 1995 >From THALL@DEPAUW.EDU Sun Feb 5 14:26:25 1995 Received: from depauw.edu (DEPAUW.EDU [163.120.1.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id OAA04605 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 14:26:23 -0700 Received: from DEPAUW.EDU by DEPAUW.EDU (PMDF #5830 ) id <01HMP0FYXPK000AOMU@DEPAUW.EDU>; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 15:05:52 EST Date: 05 Feb 1995 15:05:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas D. [Tom] Hall, THALL@DEPAUW.EDU" Subject: roundtables asa To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-id: <01HMP0FYXPK200AOMU@DEPAUW.EDU> X-VMS-To: WSN X-VMS-Cc: THALL MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I proposed a roundtable topic for PEWS which the organizers would like to see go it they can get 1 or 2 more papers and or a discussant. the topic is: "Analysis of Local Processes in World-System Perspective." I want to examine / review work discussing local social change within a world-system framework. I would like to discuss this others who are doing work on local changes, but analyzed with W-S connections in mind. Remember that roundtables are a great place to discuss work in progress. I need to get replies ASAP in order to respond to the roundtable organizers. Tom Hall thall@depauw.edu Department of Sociology DePauw University Greencastle, IN 46135 317-658-4519 From dasmith@orion.oac.uci.edu Mon Feb 6 14:52:36 MST 1995 >From dasmith@orion.oac.uci.edu Mon Feb 6 14:52:35 1995 Received: from orion.oac.uci.edu (orion.oac.uci.edu [128.200.80.20]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id OAA07950 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 14:52:34 -0700 Received: by orion.oac.uci.edu id AA28384 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for world-system network ); Mon, 6 Feb 1995 13:57:55 -0800 Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 13:57:50 -0800 (PST) From: David Smith To: world-system network Subject: Re: Opportunity for Graduate Students (fwd) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I received a letter from Professor Peter Bearman of the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina today, and an announcement of an upcoming conference in Chapel Hill. It is called the "1995 Howard W. Odum Graduate Symposium -- Time Matters: History in the Sociology of Work." I will not list the entire text and "call for papers" from this announcement. But the purpose of the conference is to examine how "the nature of history and time can hep to inform and enrich research on work and organizations." Key questions to be addressed include: "How do changes in social organization create new possibilities for the way work is organized? How in turn do changes in the structure of work modify other social contexts? How does recognizing that "time matters" help us to distinquish between a sociology of the past and historical sociology? To what extent to different methodological approaches used in the study of work succeed in capturing the dynamic of history and time? Can we generalize from case studies?" The conference will be held on Saturday, March 18, 1995 at the UNC campus. Keynote speakers at the conference will be Andrew Abbott (Prof., Sociology, U. of Chicago) and Tamara Hareven (Prof., Family Studies, U. of Deleware). Graduate students working in this area and interested in presenting a paper are encouraged to submit an 500-750 word abstract by February 15, 1995: Odum Graduate Symposium c/o Graduate Student Association Department of Sociology CB# 3210 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 or via e-mail: gasconf@uncmvs.oit.unc.edu (In order to assure anonymous judging of prospectuses, abstracts should include title only, with name, address and telephone number on a separate sheet.) GRADUATE STUDENT AUTHORS WHOSE PAPERS ARE ACCEPTED WILL RECEIVE FUNDS TO SUBSIDIZE THEIR TRAVEL EXPENSES TO NORTH CAROLINA!!! dave smith sociology, UCI From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Tue Feb 7 10:36:31 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Tue Feb 7 10:36:30 1995 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id KAA20742 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 1995 10:36:25 -0700 Received: from [128.220.25.44] ([128.220.25.44]) by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <597-8>; Tue, 7 Feb 1995 12:41:36 -0500 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 11:33:16 -0500 From: "Chris Chase-Dunn" Sender: chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Message-Id: <45196.chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: Summary rozov92 ------------------------------ From: "Nikolai S. Rozov" Tue, 7 Feb 1995 04:59:38 -0500 To: chriscd@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU Subject: Summary rozov92 THE FILE IS FREE FOR REPOST English Summary of the book in Russian: Nikolai S. Rozov. Struktura Tsivilizatsii i Tendentsii Mirovogo Razvitiya (The Structure of Civilization and World Development Trends), Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk St.Univ., 1992, 215p. English Summary. The book is in the library of Boston University. This book deals with the elaboration of the conceptual system of culture and civilization and with the study of the trends and megatrends of contemporary world development with the help of this conceptual system (apparatus). The idea of the conceptual apparatus is the complex utilization of the most productive cultural, social, psychological, historical approaches and theories (M.Weber, P.Sorokin, B.Malinowski, A.Toinby, A.Radcliff-Brown, A.Kroeber, T.Parsons, K.Boulding, S.Nikanorov, A.Giddens, I.Wallerstein), placed in a strict and common logical and conceptual structure. The philosophy and methodology of this work are described in Chapter I. The conceptual apparatus consists of several uni-aspect conceptions: "Social functions," "Social structures," "Consciousness and behavior," "Cultural patterns," "Diachronical processes," "Mechanisms of development." Each conception has a strict logical structure: it consists of the basic concepts, basic relations, derivative concepts and axioms. There are mechanisms for the logical synthesis of different conceptions by means of concepts' identification and elaboration of synthetic concepts (Chapter II). The construction of such complicated synthetical concepts as "society," "normally functioning society," "developing society," culture" and "civilization" is described. This conceptual system preserves the rich content of classical theories and in the meantime it is open for logical control and for elaboration of the computer system models. The conceptual apparatus is applied to a new system explanation of the well-known phases of the civilization life circle (genesis of civilization, growth, blossoming forth, break-down, decay). The variety of the development alternatives is demonstrated (Chapter III). In the contemporary world situation four spheres of processes are considered: - techno-natural processes providing material products; - social processes providing social structures, institutions, etc.; - anthropic processes providing human qualities (by family, education systems, mass media, etc.); - cultural processes providing cultural patterns for all four spheres of processes. In each sphere 3-5 development trends are revealed. Many trends from different spheres are interconnected by the mechanism of positive feed-back. The most interesting are the long-term complexes of such trends that support and strengthen each other. Such complexes are named here m e g a t r e n d s. Megatrends are epoch-making historical vehicles. Because of the "limit of growth" and the end of "cold war" our historical epoch is coming to its end. The image of the new epoch is determined by the results of conflict between three main contemporary Megatrends: Megatrend I "The inertia of techno-economical growth and assimilation" includes world economical integration with the privileged positions of Western countries and companies, global Westernization, export of ecological loading, spread of economical liberalism, utilitarism and rationalism (which is based on the ideas of progress, growth, profit and consummation), and the decay of non-Western cultures; Megatrend II "The restraint of growth and pan-isolation" includes the growth of cultural, political, economical barriers between states, blocks of states, the strengthening and spread of nationalism, religious fundamentalism, restrictive ideologies; Megatrend III "The change of direction of techno-economical development and multipolar partnership" includes worldwide economical and political integration with many poles of influence, elaboration of the stable socio-techno-natural symbioses, development of crosscultural dialogue and preservation of cultural diversity, spread of the ideas of communication, compromises, care of future generations and global problems, rationalism (which is based on the ideas of human rights), development of the value consciousness as a field for communication of all cultures, ideologies, moral and religious traditions. The perspectives and tasks for international cooperation are elaborated in the context of these three Megatrends (Chapter IY). P.S. I will be very grateful for any ideas concerning publishing this book in English or other languages. P.P.S. Welcome to out mailing list PHILOFHI (PHILosophy OF HIstory and theoretical history): You can GET the file PHILOF HISTORY PHILOSOP, i.e. send to e-mail address in Bitnet: LISTSERV@EARN.YORKVM1 or in Internet: LISTSERV@VM1.YorkU.CA the command: GET PHILOF HISTORY PHILOSOP ################################################################## Moderator of the list PHILOFHI (PHILosophy OF HIstory) Nikolai S. Rozov, Ph.D., Dr.Sc.(Social Philosophy) Dept.Philosophy, Novosibirsk State University ADDRESS: 630090, Novosibirsk, Pirogova 2, Russia FAX: 7/3832/35 52 37 E-MAIL: rozov@adm.nsu.nsk.su ################################################################## From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Tue Feb 7 11:49:54 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Tue Feb 7 11:49:53 1995 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id LAA25907 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 1995 11:49:52 -0700 Received: from [128.220.25.44] ([128.220.25.44]) by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <877-5>; Tue, 7 Feb 1995 13:55:08 -0500 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 12:46:48 -0500 From: "Chris Chase-Dunn" Sender: chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Message-Id: <49608.chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: publications of andre gunder frank Dear Wsners: This is to announce that the complete list of publications by Andre Gunder Frank between 1955 and 1994 are now available in the World-Systems Archive. Gunder's pubs are located in wsystems/pubs/frank_ag/ Please use this resource and send additional materials to me for inclusion in the archive. chris Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Wed Feb 8 09:17:35 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Wed Feb 8 09:17:28 1995 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id JAA22769 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 1995 09:17:24 -0700 Received: from [128.220.25.44] ([128.220.25.44]) by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <2183-4>; Wed, 8 Feb 1995 11:21:06 -0500 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 10:12:33 -0500 From: "Chris Chase-Dunn" Sender: chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Message-Id: <40353.chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: jwsr is up The first batch of papers published by the _Journal of World-Systems Research_ is now available from csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/journals I would like feedback on all aspects of the journal. Here is the table of contents: JOURNAL OF WORLD-SYSTEMS RESEARCH gopher:\\csf.colorado.edu\wsystems\journals\ ISSN 1076-156X CONTENTS OF FIRST BATCH Volume 1, 1995 Number 1: David Wilkinson, "From Mesopotamia through Carroll Quigley to Bill Clinton: world historical systems, the civilizationist and the president" Number 2: Myron J. Frankman, "Catching the bus for global development: Gerschenkron revisited" Number 3: Stephen B. Bunker and Paul S. Ciccantell, "Restructuring markets, reorganizing nature: an examination of Japanese strategies for access to raw materials" Number 4: Christoph Scherrer, "The commitment to a liberal world market order as a hegemonic practice: the case of the USA" THEMATIC SECTION: Hegemonic Rivalry: Past and Future Number 5: Volker Bornschier, "Hegemonic decline, West European unification and the future structure of the core" Number 6 : Christopher Chase-Dunn and Bruce Podobnik, "The next world war: world-system cycles and trends" Number 7: George Modelski, "From leadership to organization: the evolution of global politics" Number 8: Walter L. Goldfrank, "Beyond cycles of hegemony: economic, social and military factors" Number 9 : Gerd Junne, "Global cooperation or rival trade blocs?" Number 10: Tieting Su, "Clashes of 'life spaces' and other logics of hegemonic rivalry" Number 11: John Borrego, "Models of integration and development in the Pacific " Number 12: Albert Bergesen and Roberto Fernandez, " Who has the most fortune 500 firms?: A network analysis of global economic competition, 1956- 1989" Number 13: Brigitte Schulz, "Germany, the United States and future inter-core conflict" Number 14: Erich Weede, " Future hegemonic rivalry between China and the West?" Number 15: Terry Boswell, "Hegemony and bifurcation points in world history" Number 16: Book Reviews: 16:1 Boswell on Wagar; 16.2 Dassbach on Perrucci; 16.3 Hall on Frank and Gills; 16.4 Joffe on Algaze; 16.5 Dunaway and Clelland on Gereffi and Korzeniewicz. Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Thu Feb 9 14:39:30 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Thu Feb 9 14:39:28 1995 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id OAA01054 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 14:39:27 -0700 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu ([128.220.2.5]) by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <277-3>; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 16:42:38 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 16:42:33 -0500 From: Christoph Chase-Dunn Subject: Re: Chair in Sociology (FWD) (fwd) To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 21:26:17 -0500 From: Martha Gimenez To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Chair in Sociology (FWD) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHAIR IN SOCIOLOGY Department of Sociology (Vacancy UAC.525) Conditions of Appointment Applicant must be able to demonstrate evidence of a distinguished research and teaching career, a proven administrative ability and a willingness to offer academic leadership. 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From STEVEM@EINSTEIN.UNIPISSING.CA Thu Feb 9 16:44:01 MST 1995 >From STEVEM@EINSTEIN.UNIPISSING.CA Thu Feb 9 16:44:00 1995 Received: from dns1.unipissing.ca (dns2.unipissing.ca [192.197.167.65]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id QAA11139 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 16:43:56 -0700 Received: from smtpgate.unipissing.ca by dns1.unipissing.ca (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA06178; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 18:50:18 -0500 Received: by smtpgate.unipissing.ca with Microsoft Mail id <2F3AD434@smtpgate.unipissing.ca>; Thu, 09 Feb 95 18:49:24 PST From: Steve Muhlberger To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: Chair in Sociology (FWD) (fwd) Date: Thu, 09 Feb 95 18:48:00 PST Message-Id: <2F3AD434@smtpgate.unipissing.ca> Encoding: 2 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Do we have to guess what the name of the University is? From OWENJACK@fs.isu.edu Fri Feb 10 15:20:47 MST 1995 >From OWENJACK@fs.isu.edu Fri Feb 10 15:20:46 1995 Received: from ux1.isu.edu (ux1.isu.edu [134.50.254.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id PAA06886 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 1995 15:20:45 -0700 Received: from FS.ISU.EDU ([134.50.250.3]) by ux1.isu.edu with SMTP (1.37.109.14/16.2) id AA135395096; Fri, 10 Feb 1995 15:24:56 -0700 Received: from FS/MAILQUEUE by FS.ISU.EDU (Mercury 1.13); Fri, 10 Feb 95 15:28:54 -0600 Received: from MAILQUEUE by FS (Mercury 1.13); Fri, 10 Feb 95 15:28:44 -0600 From: "J B Owens" Organization: Idaho State University To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 15:28:38 MDT Subject: Re: constructive typology Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.22) Message-Id: <1062BA860B1@FS.ISU.EDU> From: Jack Owens I want to comment a bit on the "Constructive Typology of Societal Systems" which was posted on 25 January 1995 by Nikolai S. Rozov. These comments are those of a historian who deals with world history in the period from about the fourteenth century C.E. to the eighteenth. As Nikolai has suggested, I have tried to think through his ideas in terms of the research problems with which I deal and with an eye to explaining change. Those with other preoccupations will no doubt have other perspectives to offer. Since Nikolai's original message was very long and I want to include his words, I will break up my message into what I hope are manageable lengths divided at convenient places. I hope a will be excused for a bit of repetition as I will try to keep the individual postings as intelligible as possible. ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 00:42:58 -0700 From: "Nikolai S. Rozov" Subject: constructive typology Let me realize my promise according w-s typology. In fact my task occurred to be more wide because the problems of differentiation between w-ss and non-w-ss are not less significant than the problems of differentiation between types of w-ss themselves. That's why I wish to present now some primary ideas on CONSTRUCTIVE TYPOLOGY OF SOCIETAL SYSTEMS Jack: It seems to me that the test of the value of a societal typology should be the degree it assists in the analysis of human action, where adequate account is taken both of the relatively stable factors and of change. Once I mastered taxonomy in my undergraduate study of Botany, I found myself always struggling against the taxonomical classification manual's tendency to make rigid an organic world where variation is the norm. While I am sure that my comments will look like events in that struggle, I do appreciate Nikolai's central justification of this enterprise: we need to be a great deal clearer and more systematic about our use of conceptual terms. This need is especially evident when we undertake comparative studies. ************* What preliminary requirements to our typology should we set? R1. The typology of s-systems must include all commonly used concepts (i.e. w-systems, w-economies, w-empires, civilizations, societies) as units of analysis for diverse social disciplines. Jack: I assume that in part this is a requirement because we need to look at a variety of factors that have the potential to constrain human action. ******** The taxons in typology should not differ essentially in volume and meaning from their correspondent concepts. Jack: Nikolai, could you explain what you mean here? ********* (The task is not a terminological revolution but conceptual clarification and systematization.) R2. It should help us to divide types of societal systems (s-systems) with different essential features and to integrate s-systems without such essential difference into one type (even if the last differ very much in volume, geographical location and historical period). R3. The criteria of "essential" must be flexible because of development of our thought, research interests and values. Jack: I wonder if it would not be useful to recognize the need for flexibility also exists because a group we study may have developed in such a way that the "essential" changes. ************ R4. The typology should be provided with the criteria and methods for empirical identification of s-systems. Jack: My assumption here is that the ultimate goal is comparison. Is this an accurate conclusion, Nikolai? ************* J. B. "Jack" Owens Department of History Idaho State University Pocatello, ID 83209 USA Voice: (208) 233-8589 e-mail: owenjack@isu.edu www: http://isuux.isu.edu/~owenjack From OWENJACK@fs.isu.edu Fri Feb 10 15:47:20 MST 1995 >From OWENJACK@fs.isu.edu Fri Feb 10 15:47:19 1995 Received: from ux1.isu.edu (ux1.isu.edu [134.50.254.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id PAA08573 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 1995 15:47:17 -0700 Received: from FS.ISU.EDU ([134.50.250.3]) by ux1.isu.edu with SMTP (1.37.109.14/16.2) id AA141986689; Fri, 10 Feb 1995 15:51:29 -0700 Received: from FS/MAILQUEUE by FS.ISU.EDU (Mercury 1.13); Fri, 10 Feb 95 15:55:26 -0600 Received: from MAILQUEUE by FS (Mercury 1.13); Fri, 10 Feb 95 15:55:19 -0600 From: "J B Owens" Organization: Idaho State University To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 15:55:18 MDT Subject: Re: constructive typology [part 2] Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.22) Message-Id: <1069D1D2924@FS.ISU.EDU> From: Jack Owens Continuing with comments on the 25 January message of Nikolai Rozov, "Constructive Typology of Societal Systems." [part 2] Typology of s-systems is not a new task. We can remember many taxonomies since Plato's and Aristotle's descriptions of state political forms. All traditional taxonomies (which I know) begin from the apriori existence of s-systems ("polices," states, empires, nations, societies, cultures, civilizations, etc.) The w-s paradigm deviated from this tradition. I. Wallerstein (from my viewpoint) deals with w-ss (w-empires and especially w-economies) not as with empirically presented phenomena but as with theoretically reconstructed essences. In his analysis of "basic logic" he focused on the economical and political c o n n e c t i o n s between parts of w-ss. This line was developed in the prospective idea of nested networks by C.Chase-Dunn & T.Hall, 1993 (it's a pity I have only the brief outline of this idea in Chris C-D and Peter Grimes's post to wsn). My suggestion is to make this approach more clear and systematic for myself (surely it's only my responsibility for all mistakes). The idea is to begin from "parts" or "loci" and then varying the sorts of connections to c o n s t r u c t conceptually the ideal types (M.Weber) of different s-systems (including w-systems, oicumenas, civilizations and societies). Jack: Nikolai, are you suggesting here that the "theoretically reconstructed essences" of Wallerstein and Chase-Dunn & Hall are Weberian ideal types? Your ideal types are heuristic devices, no? Over time, one would expect a good bit of behavioral oscillation, especially when communities are linked by exchange networks. A minor w-s observation: Here in the U.S., we use the latinate form "oecumena" from "oecumenicus," but Nikolai has adapted to English the Greek form from "oikoumenikos" (from "oikein", to inhabit). Of course, the Greek is the origin of the Latin word. Could it be that there are even more significant influences on the shape of our discourses left over from the great division between Greek-Rite and Latin-Rite Christianity? :-) (I put this in for those who like to talk about civilizations.) ************* The typology using approach of this kind I name constructive typology. I expect the most probable question: "You reject taking apriori societies and w-ss, but why on Earth do you take apriori your loci?" I agree that "locus" is not less theoretical abstraction than "society,""w-s," "civilization" or any other s-system. Nevertheless I have at least two arguments for beginning namely from loci to s-systems. First, loci are more close to empirical (historical, archeological, economical, cultural) analysis. Two researchers using empirical data can gain consensus according features and connections of one province much sooner than in discussion of the features, borders and connections of the whole encompassing s-system (society, civilization, w-system). Second, "locus" is an artificial construct which can be used as an "elastic concept": in various research situations one can change flexibly the meaning, volume, borders of his "loci" (surely announcing it explicitly). Jack: Are you suggesting that somehow "locus" is a more "elastic concept" than "society," "civilization," or "w-system"? This is not clear. ************** From OWENJACK@fs.isu.edu Fri Feb 10 17:06:32 MST 1995 >From OWENJACK@fs.isu.edu Fri Feb 10 17:06:31 1995 Received: from ux1.isu.edu (ux1.isu.edu [134.50.254.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id RAA14034 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 1995 17:06:28 -0700 Received: from FS.ISU.EDU ([134.50.250.3]) by ux1.isu.edu with SMTP (1.37.109.14/16.2) id AA162331440; Fri, 10 Feb 1995 17:10:40 -0700 Received: from FS/MAILQUEUE by FS.ISU.EDU (Mercury 1.13); Fri, 10 Feb 95 17:14:38 -0600 Received: from MAILQUEUE by FS (Mercury 1.13); Fri, 10 Feb 95 17:14:25 -0600 From: "J B Owens" Organization: Idaho State University To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 17:14:23 MDT Subject: Re: constructive typology [part 3] Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.22) Message-Id: <107EE9B7476@FS.ISU.EDU> From: Jack Owens Continuing comments on the 25 January posting of Nikolai Rozov, "Constructive Typology of Societal Systems." [part 3] Now I will present some concepts which have "Pickwick's meaning," i.e. they pretend only to demonstrate the very logic of constructive approach. Probably you will find some blanks and defects and I will be grateful for any comments. At the same time I ask to focus mainly on the general principle and possibilities of the constructive approach. LOCI - inhabited geographical places which can be considered as homogenous relatively to connections with other places. It is possible if necessary to differ: i) mini-locus, f.e. small village of group of family farms using the same trade, social, transport and other networks, ii) midi-locus (a small province, a "nom" in Shumer, a "police" in Greece, a "uezd" or a "rayon" in Russia, a county in US) usually including a town with its countryside, iii) mega-locus (large province, "gubernia" or "oblast" in Russia, land in Germany, state in US) including large city (directly connected to other large cities) with its partly urban and partly rural surrounding. Jack: I suspect that in most cases of empirical research, item iii will not fit your definition of locus. In the period 1500-1700 in Castile, it would be the traditional "reino" (like Murcia or Toledo) that would belong here -- or many of the audiencia districts in Castilian America -- and these were much more diversified entities than you appear to have in mind. Perhaps you will want to say more about this in order to make clearer your understanding of the basic building block of your typology. *********** (Interloci) CONNECTIONS - any kinds of regular economical, political, demographical, social, cultural, technological and other relations between loci. I suggest to differ four main types of CONNECTIONS: MATERIAL and INFORMATIONAL TORRENTS: movement of goods and raw materials, texts and other cultural patterns, finances; Jack: Here you appear to lump together elements that should probably be kept separate for any analysis of human action. It strikes me that the material product of some system of division of labor (and that system itself) is quite different from a cultural system of sacralization, for example. Sociologists, I realize that I have dropped into the use of the conceptual vocabulary of Jeffrey Alexander; his theoretical perspective strikes me as an appropriate one from which to evaluate the utility of an interpretive typology. ****************** INTERACTIONS: military, economic, political, sociocultural, and MIGRATIONS, COMMUNITY OF CULTURAL GENESIS including common features and elements in language, morals, religion, art, also in technological, economic, political, legal patterns, etc. Jack: What you mean by "patterns" here and in the TORRENTS connection above is not clear. Again, you are lumping together aspects of the social and cultural environments (Alexander's terms), institutions reflecting the division of labor and the exercise of political authority with frameworks of thought and assumptions about the world, deity and human beings. These are not the same sorts of "thing" and the failure to recognize that in the construction of a typology will hinder comparative study. COMMUNITY OF POLITICAL AND LEGAL ORDER subordination to common power agents and set of laws and rules. Jack: The concept of subordination is not clear. It may make some sense in those 19th and 20th century political regimes where the concept of the impersonal State is used, but the issue is a messy one in, for example, the Kingdom of Castile in the 16th and 17th centuries, not to mention the Hispanic Monarchy of the same period. ************** Connections as a rule are not equal but oriented according to active or passive role of each locus in organizing, realizing, supporting this connection. It is the main way for constructing core-periphery relations. This aspect is well known and I will not explicate it in the following concepts. Jack: Without perfect coercion, people in no locus will be completely passive or completely active in any relationship with another locus, although the range of action in some loci may be particularly constrained. Overlooking this aspect of dynamic interaction has brought a certain amount of grief to a number of "cores" :-) Any inhabited place (locus or stable group of interconnected loci) whose interior connections have essential difference from exterior connections can be considered as SOCIETAL SYSTEM (S-SYSTEM). As you can see s-system is also an elastic concept which depends directly from our current criteria of "essential difference." "Basic logic" of system (I.Wallerstein) is very fruitful but probably not unique criterion for "essential difference." Jack: It is not clear what you mean by this last sentence. ************* The sorts of interior connections are the basis for setting the types of s-systems. We will use the idealization that within one s-system its loci are connected only with one sort of connections. Such (surely non-existing) s-systems are ideal types. Identification and research of definite real s-system consist of comparing it with correspondent ideal types. Jack: And comparing them with each other? Is it significant that these different types of s-systems will overlap? ****************** Ideal types of S-SYSTEMS: NETWORK OF TORRENTS - s-system whose loci are connected by material and informational torrents. OICUMENA (MILITARY/POLITICAL O., TRADE O., ECONOMIC O., CULTURAL O.) - s-system whose loci are connected with correspondent interactions. Jack: Is the degree of significance for the loci involved of these torrents or interactions important for establishing where cases fit in the typology? This was a central issue in a discussion on this list at the end of last year. *********** CIVILIZATION - s-system whose loci have community of cultural genesis. SOCIETY - s-system whose loci have community of political and legal order. What are the relations between these types? NETWORKS OF TORRENTS always encompass OICUMENE. OICUMENA frequently includes parts of different CIVILIZATIONS. The spread of CIVILIZATION can lead to several new OICUMENE. OICUMENE and CIVILIZATIONS usually encompass SOCIETIES. Some SOCIETIES can include parts of different CIVILIZATIONS and take part in different OICUMENE. Jack: Perhaps at this point a few examples would help. Historians don't like to drift too far away from specific cases. Can you offer us some specific examples of these relations? ************ Well, but where is our goal concept - world-system? I suggest to name as w-ss both oicumene and networks of torrents. The very meaning of the term "w-s" tells that this system is (or seems to its people) like the whole world. Jack: Therefore, is the self-recognition of the w-s by the people who are part of it necessary for the existence of a w-s as an analytical entity? Do they have to define themselves, intellectually or emotionally, as different from other human "worlds" of which they may be aware? If this is a necessary criterion, then it becomes particularly important to be careful in defining the cultural environment of human action. **************** So we can consider OICUMENA (inhabited land) as the "visible" or "subjectively the whole world." At the same time we can study by objective methods that the torrents of goods, texts, other patterns were much wider than the space of interactions (oicumena). So we can reveal "objectively the whole world"- NETWORK OF TORRENTS. Both have right to be named world-systems. The division of labor in research practice maintains this position: Macroeconomics, World Economics deal with NETWORKs OF TORRENTS. International Relations, Political History, Geopolitics, (Macrosociology?), etc. deal with diverse OICUMENE. Culturology and civilization approach deal with CIVILIZATIONS. Traditional sociology deals with SOCIETY. Namely in two former cases World-System approach occurred to be the most efficient. Jack: What do you mean here by "efficient"? ********** Nevertheless two last units of analysis should not be neglected. The constructive typology suggests the conceptual bridge between all these disciplinary traditions. Jack: Such a "conceptual bridge" is certainly an important goal, both in general and, I suspect, for most members of this discussion list. ************ The elastic concepts of LOCUS and S-SYSTEM allow in principle to fulfill R2-3. I mean that the aerials of w-ss, civilizations, societies are not absolute but depend of our current research conventions of what criteria of "homogenous" or "differences of interior/exterior connections" are essential. Jack: It is important for our research that we recognize that these were/are not absolute for the people who were/are living parts of these units either. They are conceptual schemes or analytic tools with which we try to recognize and explain the failure of absolutes to constrain completely human action. ************** What about other well-known or discussed in wsn terms (see R1)? "WORLD ECONOMY" can be TRADE OICUMENA but it also can occur ECONOMIC OICUMENA if the econ. connections are more strong (investments, common projects, etc.). "WORLD EMPIRE" usually is POLITICAL/ECONOMIC OICUMENA with strong regular uni-center core-periphery connections. Some world empires can occur or develop into SOCIETIES (China? Russia?). Jack: How will the typology assist us to understand this type of transformation? ************* "Interactive zones," "interaction networks," "political military interactions" (R. Dunn, Wilkinson, C.C-D., T.Hall) can be considered as MILITARY/POLITICAL OICUMENE. Jack: only? *********** "DISCOURSE-BASED W-SS" (Voll) seem to occur sometimes CIVILIZATIONS, sometimes CULTURAL OICUMENE (the difference is not trivial but it is a special topic). "Symbolic networks" (E.Ermolaeva) can be considered, as I suppose, also as cultural oicumene. Jack: The lack of "fit" between what you are doing with your typology and these theoretical perspectives may pinpoint an area where your typology is weak. ************* MINI-SYSTEMS (I.Wallerstein) and STATELESS W-SS (C.Chase-Dann) can be isolated LOCI (as autonomous s-systems) or pheripherical terminals of TRADE OICUMENE and encompassing NETWORK OF TORRENTS. "W-s" from China to Europe in 13 century (Abu-Lughod) can be considered as a NETWORK OF TORRENTS of goods. This network consisted of several overlapping TRADE OICUMENE (I support here the position of I.Wallerstein in his resume to A-L's book). "Prestige goods networks" I consider as the same type. I don't think that we really can study the modern World System (MWS) as one oicumena of interactions (even trade oicumena). I suggest to take more modest task: to consider MWS only as a NETWORK OF TORRENTS encompassing rather many ECONOMIC/POLITICAL/CULTURAL OICUMENE, POLITICAL/MILITARY OICUMENE and also CIVILIZATIONS which did not disappear and don't go to die at all! Surely informational (cultural, financial) torrents in MWS are not less but maybe more significant than material torrents. What about R4 - the criteria and methods for empirical verification? The basic logic of these criteria and methods is very simple: empirically discovered presence/absence of signs of torrents, interactions (of diverse sorts), common cultural genesis and common political/legal order between definite LOCI. The whole picture of these interloci connections allows to make decision about type, composition, areal of the s-system (group of s-systems). For me the most interesting are the evolutionary trends (patterns? laws?) of historical transformation of s-systems of diverse types and application of this knowledge to the problems of probable future transformations of MWS and its parts. Jack: For a historian, the big test of the utility of any conceptual typology will be how well it generates research programs that will help us to understand how human action has contributed to change in the face of social and cultural (structural?) constraints. How does your typology meet that test? ***************** Sorry for too long posting and for my English, I am looking forward for comments. Nikolai S. Rozov Jack: I wish that I could deal with Russian as well as you deal with English. I realize that some of my comments/questions may have touched on points where the translation (more cultural than linguistic) may have gotten in the way. But the great thing about the Internet is the way it permits us to discuss research interests across disciplinary and institutional traditions. Thank you for all your hard work to contribute in a language more members of the list would understand even though that was difficult for you. J. B. "Jack" Owens Department of History Idaho State University Pocatello, ID 83209 USA Voice: (208) 233-8589 e-mail: owenjack@isu.edu www: http://isuux.isu.edu/~owenjack From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Fri Feb 10 18:33:03 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Fri Feb 10 18:33:02 1995 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id SAA20498 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 1995 18:33:00 -0700 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu ([128.220.2.5]) by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <2505-1>; Fri, 10 Feb 1995 20:38:21 -0500 Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 20:38:20 -0500 From: Christoph Chase-Dunn Subject: Smithsonian Telnet access (fwd) To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 08:45:06 -0500 From: george bowman To: Multiple recipients of list ETHNOHIS Subject: Smithsonian Telnet access *** Resending note of 02/01/95 16:04 Finally we have enabled TELNET access to our database! Our address is SIRIS.SI.EDU - both VT100 and TN3270 are available, but TN3270 is better. Our numeric address is scheduled to change, so I'm not giving it here. The Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) is a computerized collection of research catalogs maintained by the Smithsonian Institution's Libraries, Archives, and Research Units. Presently there are four catalogs available on SIRIS: LIB: The Smithsonian Library Catalog The collections are particularly strong in Natural History, Tropical Biology, African American Ethnology and Culture, Astrophysics, Astronomy and Planetary Sciences, American History, the History of Science and Technology, Aviation and Space Flight, Postal History, Fine Arts and Design, African Art, Horticulture, Conservation Science, Chesapeake Bay Area Ecology, and Museum Administration. In addition, the Library holds a large collection of manufacturers' trade literature and catalogs and historically important rare books and manuscripts. ARI: The Art Inventories Catalog Data for the Art Inventories Catalog is designed to assist researchers in locating American paintings and sculpture. Data has been compiled from reports supplied by private collectors, museums, corporate collectors, and public art programs. The database is divided into two subcatalogs for paintings and sculpture which can be searched together or separately. The Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 is a national census of paintings created by American artists working prior to 1914. There are approximately 300,000 paintings represented. The Inventory of American Sculpture is a national census of works created by artists born or active in the United States up through the 20th century. There are approximately 50,000 sculptures represented. ARC: The Archives and Manuscripts Catalog This database consists of approximately 90,000 records contributed by five archival units of the Smithsonian. The subcatalogs listed below can be searched together or separately. The Archives of American Art (AAA) catalog descibes papers of artists, art dealers, art historians, collectors, and others; records of art galleries, museums, and art organizations; videos; and interviews from AAA's oral history project. The Achives Center of the National Museum of American History (ACAH) catalog descibes hundreds of collections of manuscripts and visual, magnetic and electronic documents related to the mission of the National Museum of American History, especially the history of advertising, history of technology, and social and cultural history, as well as selected individual items. The Human Studies Film Archives (HSFA) catalog describes film and video collections of historical, archeological, and ethnographic significance, including edited ethnographic films, unique research footage produced as part of anthropological research, and travelogues by amateur and professional filmakers. The National Anthropological Archives (NAA) catalog describes collections of historical manuscripts relating to North American natives; administrative records of the Dept. of Anthropology; prefessional papers of anthropologists; records of anthropological organizations; art work; and photographs. The Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) catalog descibes records documenting the history of the Smithsonian Institution since its fouding in 1846; research in the fields of science, art and history; papers of staff; records of scientific, historical, and museum organizations; and audio-visual material from research, exhibits, and its oral history and video-history programs. BIB: The Research/Bibliographies Catalog This database descibes specialized research bibliographies. Currently references are limited to the Office of Museum Programs' Museum Studies Database which includes theses and dissertations in the area of Museum Studies, articals indexed from the ALI-ABA proceedings and course of Study in Museum Administration, and from the Journal of Museum Education. Naturally we are still adding functionality as well as data. In the near future we will have our Z39.50 gateway running, and hopefully at some point after that we will turn our attention to presenting multimedia via the MARC 856 tag and possibly Web access to the catalog. More archival units will probably be added, and additional focused Reasearch/Bibliographies will be added, including the Cephalopod database which is almost ready now. That's SIRIS.SI.EDU. --- The Smithsonian Institution Research Information System --- George Bowman Arts & Industries 2310 irmge010 @ sivm.bitnet v:(202)357-4238 900 Jefferson Dr, S.W. irmge010 @ sivm.si.edu f:(202)786-2687 Washington, D.C. 20560 From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Fri Feb 10 18:47:58 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Fri Feb 10 18:47:58 1995 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id SAA21453 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 1995 18:47:57 -0700 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu ([128.220.2.5]) by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <1513-6>; Fri, 10 Feb 1995 20:53:20 -0500 Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 20:53:14 -0500 From: Christoph Chase-Dunn Subject: Mobilize Now to Stop the Mexican Government! (fwd) To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > From root Fri Feb 10 02:27:23 1995 > Message-Id: <9502100827.AA95973@orion.it.luc.edu> > Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 00:11:10 -0800 > Reply-To: LEFT-L - Building a Democratic Left Movement > > Sender: LEFT-L - Building a Democratic Left Movement > > From: Jason Wehling > Subject: Mobilize Now to Stop the Mexican Government! (fwd) > Comments: To: left-l@cmsa.berkeley.edu, anarchy-list@cwi.nl, 1-union@lever.com > To: Multiple recipients of list LEFT-L > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 23:12:10 -0600 (CST) > From: Harry M. Cleaver > To: chiapas-l@profmexis.dgsca.unam.mx > Cc: mexico94@profmexis.dgsca.unam.mx, reg.mexico@igc.apc.org, > mexico-l@udlapvms.pue.udlap.mx > Subject: Mobilize Now to Stop the Mexican Government! > > Action Alert! > > At 6 o'clock this evening, Mexican President Zedillo went on television > and announced that the government had discovered EZLN arms caches in > Veracruz City and Mexico City. He identified Subcommandante Marcos as > "Rafael Santiago Guillen Vicente". He proceeded to brand the EZLN > "terrorists" and announced that he had ordered to Mexican Army to > "capture" them, i.e., to attack. Zedillo said the army has been ordered > to "search" for them "in all national territory". This seems a code for > attacking Zapatista territory in Chiapas. > > This appears to be the attack that we have all feared was coming. The > velvet glove of peaceful negotiations has been cast off and the mailed fist > of the Mexican state has once more been bared. Zedillo's branding of the EZLN > as "terrorists" is a return to the language used by Salinas a year ago in > his first reactions to the uprising. > > The only thing that stopped the military then, and the only thing > that will stop it now is massive mobilization against the government's actions. > > Therefore, all who have mobilized in solidarity with the struggle for > democracy in Mexico should organize immediate action. If we can, once again, > create an international wave of protest against the Mexican state's actions > perhaps we can bring this new offensive to a stop. If we do not so > organize we will share responsibility for the murders and tortures the > Mexican army and police have probably already begun. > > > ====================================== > Harry Cleaver > Department of Economics > University of Texas at Austin > Austin, Texas 78712-1173 > USA > > Phone Numbers: (hm) (512) 442-5036 > (off) (512) 471-3211 > Fax: (512) 471-3510 > E-mail: hmcleave@mundo.eco.utexas.edu > ====================================== > -- ********************************************************************** Talmadge Wright (312)508-3451 * Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology FAX:(312)508-3646 * Loyola University Chicago twright@orion.it.luc.edu * 6525 N. Sheridan Rd. * Chicago, Illinois 60626 * ********************************************************************** From OWENJACK@fs.isu.edu Sat Feb 11 16:20:46 MST 1995 >From OWENJACK@fs.isu.edu Sat Feb 11 16:20:45 1995 Received: from ux1.isu.edu (ux1.isu.edu [134.50.254.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id QAA01087 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 16:20:38 -0700 Received: from FS.ISU.EDU ([134.50.250.3]) by ux1.isu.edu with SMTP (1.37.109.14/16.2) id AA292485091; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 16:24:52 -0700 Received: from FS/MAILQUEUE by FS.ISU.EDU (Mercury 1.13); Sat, 11 Feb 95 16:28:50 -0600 Received: from MAILQUEUE by FS (Mercury 1.13); Sat, 11 Feb 95 16:28:33 -0600 From: "J B Owens" Organization: Idaho State University To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 16:28:27 MDT Subject: World-Systems Grad Programs? Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.22) Message-Id: <11F2B990722@FS.ISU.EDU> From: Jack Owens During the recent discussion of PEWS and its future, it was mentioned that an ever-smaller percentage of Sociology graduate students are pursuing their degrees in programs emphasizing world-systems research. Since the on-going discussion was important and interesting, I didn't want to break in with this query, but now that things are quieter, I want to ask: what graduate programs in Sociology offer an emphasis in a world-systems approach? My query has a personal motivation; my daughter, Amy E. Owens, is interested in doing graduate work of this type in Sociology. Since she is currently a student at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid without an Internet connection adequate to join the list, I told her that I would post a query on her behalf and forward the responses, which should be made to the list for the benefit of the other non-Sociologists on board. Amy is an honors and deans list student at Tufts University and is studying in Madrid as part of her junior year at Tufts. This semester she is studying Political Sociology at the UAM and doing an internship with Amnesty International's Madrid office. During her sophomore year, she did coursework on Sub-Saharan Africa and will apparently continue with that as a senior. She grew up in a family where conversation about Latin American issues is constant: the region is one of my teaching fields, and her mother's two most recent grants were a Fulbright to Ecuador and an NEH for a summer institute on 20th-century Mexican history and literature. Amy has been an active member of the NAACP literally since she could walk. She has a family background in organized labor: her mother is one of her union's most widely recognized members in the state (and holder of the national union's Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Award for human rights), a grandfather was until retirement one of the U.S.'s leading labor lawyers (ones who defended workers' interests), and a great-grandfather was one of the small committee that began the C.I.O., led the Little Steel Strike, and negotiated the first union-operated welfare program in this country. Because of her strong international interests, Amy was one of a dozen in-coming Tufts undergraduates invited to be part of the orientation for foreign students. Officially a Spanish major, she has at times in her life been fully bilingual and has excellent language skills. Where are there graduate programs in Sociology likely to meet the needs of a student like Amy? She will need financial support. Her parents are teachers in Idaho, which ranks among the bottom five states in the country in teachers' salaries. And no, I can't imagine why she doesn't want to go into History :-) We will appreciate any information and direction list members provide. Thank you in advance. Jack J. B. "Jack" Owens Department of History Idaho State University Pocatello, ID 83209 USA Voice: (208) 233-8589 e-mail: owenjack@isu.edu www: http://isuux.isu.edu/~owenjack From steph.lambert@asu.edu Sat Feb 11 16:41:04 MST 1995 >From steph.lambert@asu.edu Sat Feb 11 16:41:03 1995 Received: from post3.inre.asu.edu (post3.INRE.ASU.EDU [129.219.10.148]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id QAA02331 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 16:41:02 -0700 Received: from general1.asu.edu by asu.edu (PMDF V4.3-10 #7723) id <01HMXHUHFJ408ZEF2P@asu.edu>; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 16:46:31 -0700 (MST) Received: from general1 (localhost) by general1.asu.edu (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA29107; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 16:46:30 -0700 Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 16:46:30 -0700 (MST) From: Steph Lambert Subject: Re: World-Systems Grad Programs? In-reply-to: <11F2B990722@FS.ISU.EDU> X-Sender: peanut@general1 To: J B Owens Cc: Multiple recipients of list Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-length: 4018 Well, as a graduate student who is currently looking at PhD programs in political sociology, my obvious first choice for Amy would be Johns Hopkins (and no, I'm not just saying that because of the listserv I'm posting on). JH has an interesting looking program with specialties in historical comparative studies and Latin American studies, as well as strengths in world systems and social movements. Another choice might be the University of Arizona. I'm sure there are others. As far as financial aid is concerned, that's a good question. ********************************** * Steph Lambert * * Department of Sociology * * Arizona State University * * Tempe, AZ 85287-2101 * * e-mail: steph.lambert@asu.edu * ********************************** On Sat, 11 Feb 1995, J B Owens wrote: > From: Jack Owens > > During the recent discussion of PEWS and its future, it was mentioned > that an ever-smaller percentage of Sociology graduate students are > pursuing their degrees in programs emphasizing world-systems > research. Since the on-going discussion was important and > interesting, I didn't want to break in with this query, but now that > things are quieter, I want to ask: what graduate programs in > Sociology offer an emphasis in a world-systems approach? > > My query has a personal motivation; my daughter, Amy E. Owens, is > interested in doing graduate work of this type in Sociology. Since > she is currently a student at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid > without an Internet connection adequate to join the list, I told her > that I would post a query on her behalf and forward the responses, > which should be made to the list for the benefit of the other > non-Sociologists on board. > > Amy is an honors and deans list student at Tufts University and is > studying in Madrid as part of her junior year at Tufts. This > semester she is studying Political Sociology at the UAM and doing an > internship with Amnesty International's Madrid office. During her > sophomore year, she did coursework on Sub-Saharan Africa and will > apparently continue with that as a senior. She grew up in a family > where conversation about Latin American issues is constant: the > region is one of my teaching fields, and her mother's two most recent > grants were a Fulbright to Ecuador and an NEH for a summer institute > on 20th-century Mexican history and literature. Amy has been an > active member of the NAACP literally since she could walk. She has a > family background in organized labor: her mother is one of her > union's most widely recognized members in the state (and holder of > the national union's Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Award for human > rights), a grandfather was until retirement one of the U.S.'s leading > labor lawyers (ones who defended workers' interests), and a > great-grandfather was one of the small committee that began the > C.I.O., led the Little Steel Strike, and negotiated the first > union-operated welfare program in this country. Because of her > strong international interests, Amy was one of a dozen in-coming Tufts > undergraduates invited to be part of the orientation for foreign > students. Officially a Spanish major, she has at times in her life > been fully bilingual and has excellent language skills. > > Where are there graduate programs in Sociology likely to meet the > needs of a student like Amy? She will need financial support. Her > parents are teachers in Idaho, which ranks among the bottom five > states in the country in teachers' salaries. > > And no, I can't imagine why she doesn't want to go into History :-) > We will appreciate any information and direction list members > provide. Thank you in advance. > Jack > > J. B. "Jack" Owens > Department of History > Idaho State University > Pocatello, ID 83209 USA > Voice: (208) 233-8589 > e-mail: owenjack@isu.edu > www: http://isuux.isu.edu/~owenjack > > From clarabie@sol.uvic.ca Sat Feb 11 17:55:44 MST 1995 >From clarabie@sol.uvic.ca Sat Feb 11 17:55:43 1995 Received: from sol.UVic.CA (sol.UVic.CA [142.104.1.4]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id RAA06285 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 17:55:42 -0700 Received: from an2CLEd023p11.bb.UVic.CA by sol.UVic.CA (4.1/SMI-4.1.3-UVic-2.60MX) id AA24971; Sat, 11 Feb 95 17:03:38 PST Message-Id: <9502120103.AA24971@sol.UVic.CA> Sender: From: "Clifford J. Larabie" To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 17:07:19 +0000 Subject: Re: World-Systems Grad Programs? Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.21) On Sat, 11 Feb 1995 16:20:55 -0700 "J B Owens" During the recent discussion of PEWS and its future, it was mentioned > that an ever-smaller percentage of Sociology graduate students are > pursuing their degrees in programs emphasizing world-systems > research. Since the on-going discussion was important and > interesting, I didn't want to break in with this query, but now that > things are quieter, I want to ask: what graduate programs in > Sociology offer an emphasis in a world-systems approach? > > My query has a personal motivation; my daughter, Amy E. Owens, is > interested in doing graduate work of this type in Sociology. Since > she is currently a student at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid > without an Internet connection adequate to join the list, I told her > that I would post a query on her behalf and forward the responses, > which should be made to the list for the benefit of the other > non-Sociologists on board. Yes, please do post to the list. I, for one, would be particularly interested in those institutions using the student's own achievements as the basis for acceptance rather than a selection process based on genealogy. > Where are there graduate programs in Sociology likely to meet the > needs of a student like Amy? She will need financial support. Her > parents are teachers in Idaho, which ranks among the bottom five > states in the country in teachers' salaries. If there are any such programs, I trust they will consider applicants with even less financial support than two parents with teaching positions can or will offer. Clifford J. Larabie From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Sat Feb 11 18:51:54 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Sat Feb 11 18:51:53 1995 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id SAA08603 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 18:51:52 -0700 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu ([128.220.2.5]) by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <114-4>; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 20:57:19 -0500 Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 20:57:18 -0500 From: Christoph Chase-Dunn Subject: census data (fwd) To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 20:13:45 -0500 From: Carrie Salazar To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGRS-L Subject: census data ---------------------------------------------------- AEGIS Demographic Data and Analysis Service University of California Berkeley announces... * * * NEW WORLD WIDE WEB SITE * * * containing a brief introduction to the use of United States census data in Geographic Information Systems. 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Please send any comments or questions, or requests for a plain text version of the document, to: Karl Goldstein karl@ced.berkeley.edu From SOCTB%EMUVM1.BITNET@vaxf.Colorado.EDU Sun Feb 12 22:02:53 MST 1995 >From SOCTB@EMUVM1.CC.EMORY.EDU Sun Feb 12 22:02:53 1995 Received: from vaxf.Colorado.EDU (vaxf.Colorado.EDU [128.138.129.9]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id WAA12049 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 22:02:52 -0700 Message-Id: <199502130502.WAA12049@csf.Colorado.EDU> Received: from EMUVM1.CC.EMORY.EDU (MAILER@EMUVM1) by VAXF.COLORADO.EDU (PMDF V4.3-10 #8140) id <01HMZ7B9VZWG000C3V@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 22:06:17 -0700 (MST) Received: from EMUVM1.CC.EMORY.EDU (NJE origin SOCTB@EMUVM1) by EMUVM1.CC.EMORY.EDU (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with RFC822 id 3084; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 00:08:08 -0500 Resent-date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 00:07 -0500 (EST) Date: 12 February 95, 23:31:17 EST Resent-from: Terry Boswell From: Terry Boswell Resent-to: wsn To: WSN@CSF.COLO Resent-message-id: <01HMZ7B9XVF6000C3V@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU> X-Envelope-to: WSN@CSF.COLORADO.EDU Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Despite the current lull, my guess is that we will see a rise in grad students in the world-system field for two reasons. One is the marked increase in "globalization" and the recognition of the same. However fadish that may be, the reality is that international trade and organization is rising geometrically. The second reason is demographic. World-system research saw its biggest gains in the last 10-15 years. Given that few assistant professors chair dissertation committees, and that PhDs take 6-8 years, there is maybe a 10-15 year lag in new PhDs training future PhDs in an area. So it is conceivable that the "boom" of the 1970s and 80s will produce a "boomlet" in the 90s and beyond. This does not, of course, take attrition into account. We also lose students to "migration" as we probably train a disproportionate number of international students. If gaged in terms of the ISA (where Wallerstein now presides) rather than the ASA, we may not be losing membership at all. As for graduate programs that offer world-system study, let me briefly plug my own at Emory University in Atlanta. Rick Rubinson, John Boli (formerly Boli-Bennett) and myself in world-systems, and Alex Hicks and Tien-Lung Liu in comparative politics make up our concentration in Comparative Political Economy. We offer relatively generous funding, but only have 6-7 slots per year. Other places that come to mind are SUNY-Binghamton, Johns-Hopkins, Arizona, Stanford, Cornell, Wisconsin, Kansas St., and Duke. Apologies to any I forgot. Terry Boswell From jl34@cornell.edu Mon Feb 13 09:29:33 MST 1995 >From jl34@cornell.edu Mon Feb 13 09:29:33 1995 Received: from postoffice.mail.cornell.edu (POSTOFFICE.MAIL.CORNELL.EDU [132.236.56.7]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id JAA02055 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 09:29:32 -0700 Received: from [132.236.102.26] (CU-DIALUP-0012.CIT.CORNELL.EDU [132.236.102.26]) by postoffice.mail.cornell.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA20332 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 11:34:41 -0500 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 12:26:11 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jayati Lal" Sender: jl34@postoffice.mail.cornell.edu Reply-To: jl34@cornell.edu Message-Id: <44781.jl34@cornell.edu> To: Subject: PEWS Informal Roundtables at ASA'95 *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** As some of you may know, Laura Raynolds and I are co-organizing the PEWS Roundtables at the ASA meetings. We have been in touch with many of you individually regarding your proposals for papers/roundtables. I had approached a couple of people with the idea of organizing a RT on the future of PEWS: the problem of declining membership in PEWS, feelings of intellectual alienation experienced by some folks, perceptions regarding the receptiveness of "PEWS" to alternative discourses on (and critiques of) development and global processes of change--issues that have come up in discussions on the pages of past issues of the "PEWS News" (starting with Phil McMicheal's note, "Whither PEWS?" Summer 1994 and continued in latest issue), and also on this list. I am sure that the entire section membership will want to participate in, and have some input into, discussions on the future of the section. Although some sort of discussion on this at the general meeting might thus be warranted, I thought that an informal roundtable discussion might be a good way to further this debate in a more intimate setting at the meetings. Unfortunately, we have not been able to get anyone to agree to organize a RT on this issue yet. I was wondering if there was anyone out there who would be interested in in leading a discussion and organizing a rountable on this, tentatively titled: "Is PEWS Old News? (Or, Whats in a Name?)" Perhaps the informal table discussion could include previous contributors to this debate, and/or fresh perspectives which we have not yet heard? It would be good to hear from new PEWS members as well as old--perhaps a graduate student, a former/current/future PEWS section officer, and someone willing to do a bit of legwork to organize this? You may want to note that we have been trying to keep the number of presentations at each table to 3, in addition to listing one person as a discussant/facilitator (who may also be a presentor). Should someone decide to go ahead with this, we would need the following (via email is fine) *as soon as possible*: (i) Panel title; (ii) Discussant name and affilitation; (iii) Individual presentation titles, along with complete affiliation and contact information on all presentors. If you are interested in participating, but do not have the resources to organize a roundtable, we'd like to hear from you too. Please send us the requisite information on your individual planned presentation and we will try to fit it into the rountable(s). This also holds for planned submissions unrelated to the above issue. Since time is running short, we really need to hear back by *this week*/ASAP. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jayati Lal, JL34@cornell.edu Laura Raynolds, LRaynolds@vines.colostate.edu PEWS Rountable Co-cordinators, ASA'95 Jayati Lal Department of Sociology Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853-7601 (607) 657-2607 email: JL34@cornell.edu From dgleiser@riscadmin.uniandes.edu.co Mon Feb 13 09:47:37 MST 1995 >From dgleiser@riscadmin.uniandes.edu.co Mon Feb 13 09:47:36 1995 Received: from cdcnet (cdcnet.uniandes.edu.co [157.253.1.13]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id JAA03799 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 09:44:33 -0700 Received: from DGleiser (dgleiser.uniandes.edu.co) by cdcnet (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA21542; Mon, 13 Feb 95 11:50:45 EST Message-Id: <9502131650.AA21542@cdcnet> X-Sender: dgleiser@cdcnet.uniandes.edu.co X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 11:52:55 -0500 To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu From: dgleiser@riscadmin.uniandes.edu.co (David Gleiser) Subject: Encounter on "Strategies and experiencies for building peace". This message is being posted on behalf of Suzy Bermudez at ANPAZ-Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. Please do not respond by using the Reply function. E-mail responses should be addressed to sbermude@uniandes.edu.co PLEASE CROSSPOST LIBERALLY ________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS AND SYMPOSIA The Peace Studies Program at La Universidad de los Andes - ANPAZ- (Santafe de Bogota), together with the Universities, of El Valle (Cali), Antioquia (Medellin) and Nacional de Colombia (Santafe de Bogota), are organizing an Interuniversitary Encounter on "Strategies and experiencies for building peace". The objects of the Encounter are: 1. To present new alternatives for building peace. 2. To propose recommendations aimed at Colombian agencies in this field. 3. To promote Peace Studies programs at Colombian universities. The meeting will take place between in May, 1995 (from the 24th until the 28th), Universidad de los Andes in Bogota. On the first two days and a half of the third, we will hold symposia and on the 27th and 28th we will have a seminar on Peace Education. In this last one, we expect to take into account, the recommendations that probably will come from the symposia and the papers that will be presented. The last date for proposing symposia is February 28th. The proposals must outline the objectives the objectives of the symposium and must include a list of the prospective participants. Individual papers can also be proposed and will be asigned to the relevant symposia. A proposition for a paper must include the title of the paper; an abbreviated CV of the author and information about where they can be contacted. Participants will be offered a 10% discount for an early registration (before April 15th). Registration fees are: U.S.$150 for Professors and US$50 for students. If you are interested in exhibiting and selling books on peace, there will be a stand for this activity. Any further inquiries should be addressed to Suzy Bermudez e-mail: sbermude@uniandes.edu.co. mail: Calle 18 A# o-33E. fax: 2841890, 2841570, 2815771 From dasmith@orion.oac.uci.edu Mon Feb 13 15:09:32 MST 1995 >From dasmith@orion.oac.uci.edu Mon Feb 13 15:09:31 1995 Received: from orion.oac.uci.edu (orion.oac.uci.edu [128.200.80.20]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id PAA05682 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 15:09:30 -0700 Received: by orion.oac.uci.edu id AA28037 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for world-system network ); Mon, 13 Feb 1995 14:15:04 -0800 Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 14:15:04 -0800 (PST) From: David Smith To: world-system network Subject: World-system grad studies Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII (I tried to send this yesterday and it seems to have disappeared into hyperspace. My apologies if it eventually turns up twice! -- DS) Please add UC-Irvine to the list of places where one might consider studying the world-system and global political economy. Currently we have a very small faculty in Sociology (six in residence now). But two of us (Jozsef Borocz and David A. Smith) are actively involved in this sort of research and, indeed, we hosted last year's spring PEWS conference. (The volume -- like the conference, entitled A NEW WORLD ORDER? GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY is already in page-proofs and should be out by summer. I will post the table of contents sometime soon). Other faculty in our small department are also interested in comparative and historical sociology and political economy. Two of the faculty in the Anthropology Department at UCI (which jointly administers our PhD program with Sociology) are explicitly interested in world-system analysis (Michael Burton and Doug White) and have published research on the topic. Historians and political scientists also have overlapping interests and have served on student committees. Most exciting of all are two new programs that have just gotten underway. One is a major hiring initiative by UCI's School of Social Sciences (where we live) of "star quality" young scholars in "the new international sociology." Although the candidates that we are looking at this year are not world-system analysts per se, they are prominent comparative and historical sociologists who would add great expertise (and luster!) to our graduate program. We are in the middle of the interviews now, but we may be allowed to tender TWO offers at the associate professor level. Stayed tuned! The other new program is explicitly tied to graduate education. A few months ago UCI was awarded funding for an NSF Graduate Training Program in Democratization. Professor Borocz was one of four co-authors of the proposal, which provides a generous fellowship to incoming graduate students for the next five years (total funding: approximately $500,000). The "blurb" on the flyer advertising this program states, "The global wave of democratization is prompting a reconsideration of past models of political development and the lessons of earlier academic debates on the social, cultural and institutional foundations of democracy (both in the "less developed"/underdeveloped countries and the advanced "core" nations)..." Clearly students interested in world-system analysis are likely receipients for a chunk of this support. In the interest of full disclosure -- it's true: Joszef Borocz will be away from UCI next year exploring other options (but we hope that hiring strong new colleagues in comparative/historical sociology, plus the Democratization Training Fellowships for students will lure him back!) UC-Irvine's PhD program in Social Relations will be of most interest to graduate students who are seeking an relatively small interdisciplinary PhD program which (we think at least!) will be growing in size, quality and reputation. We try to provide funding for all our PhD students. And we offer some intangible advantages of location (we're at the southern edge of the LA metropolitan area, and about five miles from the sunny beaches of the Pacific Ocean.) Please contact me for information: David A. Smith Department of Sociology UCI Irvine, CA 92717 phone: 714-824-7292 fax: 714-824-4717 PS: I will graciously accept Terry B's apologies! (And would add that our UC friends up north in Santa Cruz might also want to be added to the list -- but I'll let them do that themselves!) From jl34@cornell.edu Tue Feb 14 14:56:26 MST 1995 >From jl34@cornell.edu Tue Feb 14 14:56:26 1995 Received: from postoffice.mail.cornell.edu (POSTOFFICE.MAIL.CORNELL.EDU [132.236.56.7]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id OAA13785 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 1995 14:56:24 -0700 Received: from [132.236.134.36] (SBY26.CIT.CORNELL.EDU [132.236.134.36]) by postoffice.mail.cornell.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA22117 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 1995 17:01:39 -0500 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 17:00:48 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jayati Lal" Sender: jl34@postoffice.mail.cornell.edu Reply-To: jl34@cornell.edu Message-Id: <61249.jl34@cornell.edu> To: Subject: Call for Papers, Beijing Conference Dear WSNers: Appended below is a call for papers for a proposed panel at the upcoming Beijing conference. If anyone is interested, or has questions about the conference/panel, please feel free to contact me. JL. _________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS For a Proposed Panel Sponsored by the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) at the NGO Forum On Women, Beijing, China. August 30-September 8, 1995. (DE)CONSTRUCTING "THIRD WORLD WOMEN": POWER AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION IN CROSS CULTURAL RESEARCH Recent feminist research and writings, influenced by the postmodernist turn within social science disciplines and literary and cultural criticism, have foregrounded the construction of the third world female subject as essentialized "other"--victimized by society-wide development processes such as those brought about by structural adjustment policies in the public arena on the one hand, and by the micro politics of domestic violence, cultural practices, and patriarchal control in the private arena on the other hand. Fuelled by the gaining popularity of a self-reflexive turn in methodology and an acknowledgement of the authorial power of representation, this work makes important contributions to rethinking the relationships between "researchers" and "researched", between those occupying locations within the "North" and "South", and between "self" and "other". Most critically, this research suggests the urgent necessity for reworking social science discursive constructions of gender in/and the third world to account for the full range of agency and resistance, power and praxis, specificity and variation at local, regional, and global levels that is all too often clustered together under the label "third world woman". This panel will offer a timely and highly visible forum for presenting theoretical and methodological advancements that have been made in recent years, indicating the degree to which various disciplines in the social sciences have built upon the insights of contemporary social and feminist theory. The purpose of the panel is to make visible theoretical and methodological strategies which construct representations of "third world women". These metatheoretical strategies are typically embedded at implicit levels and hence rendered potentially invisible in social science writing. It will also serve as an opportunity to present this research cohesively, much of it previously dispersed across diverse areas of sub-specialization such as development, ecology and the environment, work and occupations, religion, social movements, culture, and sexuality. This international event will thus ensure a global reception and showcasing of heretofore overlooked pathbreaking advances in the area of gender research. Furthermore, this panel will provide a platform for discussions on how such paradigmatic (re)constructions might be further construed outside academic debates--for policy and action at local levels. Particularly welcome are research based papers that address these issues in a wide variety of fields and a broad spectrum of countries and regions. Papers should attempt to push the implications of methodological reworkings for substantive discourse, and should thus address the question(s): How are these methodological strategies deployed in substantive analysis? What are the implications for the critical (RE)constructions of "gender" in the "third world" within your substantive field? How does it problematize extant constructions of theoretical categories such as those of "labor" or "class", "ecology", "social movements", "sexuality", "identities" etc.? Furthermore, how do these substantive issues intersect in deeply important ways--as complexly and problematically interwoven aspects of women's lives? What are the implications of these intersections for theorizing about "third world women" -- all too often unidimensionally conceived as either "workers", "mothers", or "sex objects"? Contributors are further urged to address themselves to the broad audience expected at the Beijing Conference; to actively seek to open up channels of discussion around these issues between academics, activists, policy makers, and practitioners. Submission Note: Persons interested in presenting papers at this panel should contact/submit abstracts to the organizer at the address listed below as soon as possible (preferably before 2/23/95). Please include your full institutional affiliation along with contact information and an extended abstract (450-500 words) that details how the paper will address the issues outlined in the panel description. In addition to two (paper) copies of the abstracts, please also include abstracts on file (as text files or in Wordperfect) on 3.5" IBM diskettes. Panel Organizer: Jayati Lal Department of Sociology 323 Uris Hall, Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853 PHONE: (607) 657-2607 FAX: (607) 255-8473 EMAIL: JL34@cornell.edu Jayati Lal Department of Sociology 323 Uris Hall Ithaca, New York 14853-7601 email: jl34@cornell.edu Fax: (607) 255-8473 From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Wed Feb 15 07:37:14 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Wed Feb 15 07:37:14 1995 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id HAA20072 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 07:37:12 -0700 Received: from [128.220.25.44] ([128.220.25.44]) by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <1144-2>; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 09:42:44 -0500 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 08:34:19 -0500 From: "Chris Chase-Dunn" Sender: chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Message-Id: <34459.chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: Roett & Chase Bank v. Zapatistas ------------------------------ From: otero@sfu.ca (Gerardo Otero) Sun, 12 Feb 1995 14:00:00 -0500 To: chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Subject: Roett & Chase Bank v. Zapatistas >********************** > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 17:55:09 -0600 (CST) >From: Harry M. Cleaver >To: chiapas-l@profmexis.dgsca.unam.mx >Cc: mexico94@profmexis.dgsca.unam.mx, mexico-l@udlapvms.pue.udlap.mx >Subject: Chase Bank calls for Crushing Zapatistas > >"In the name of investor confidence, a powerful U.S. bank is calling on >the Mexican government to crush the Zapatista insurgency in Chiapas." >Thus begins a striking article in Ken Silverstein and Alex Cockburn's >February 1, 1995 issue of COUNTERPUNCH. > >Silverstein and Cockburn's article is based on an internal report >prepared by Riordan Roett, director of Latin American Studies at the >Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and now "on a >leave of absence while serving as a Chase advisor." > >Studying the report and exploring Roett's other interventions >into the Mexico crisis, Silverstein and Cockburn discover a rabid desire >for war to protect Chase's investors. In the report Roett argues: "The >government will need to eliminate the Zapatistas to demonstrate their >effective control of the national territory and security policy". At a >January 11 seminar for hundreds of investors organized by the Center for >Strategic and International Studies, Roett "conceeded that his call for >war, if heeded by Zedillo, might provoke negative repercussions >internationally, but here were 'always political costs in bold actions.'" > >Coming on top of other, more fragmentary but frequent, evidence of the role >of Wall Street in precipitating Zedillo's declaration of war, these >materials indicate even more strongly than ever that however much Zedillo >may wish to crush the Zapatistas for his own internal reasons, the >external pressures of international capital had become acute. >Unfortunately, the authors conclusion that "For now, Zedillo and a PRI >majority will likely reject Roett's final solution for Chiapas." has >proved to be all too optimistic. > >==================================article================================ > >Ken Silverstein and Alexander Cockburn, "Major U.S. Bank Urges Zapatista >Wipe-Out: 'A litmus test for Mexico's stability'" COUNTERPUNCH, Vol. 2, >No. 3, February 1, 1995. > >In the name of investor confidence, a powerful U.S. bank is calling on >the Mexican government to crush the Zapatista insurgency in Chiapas. >Heading up the larger Wall Street war party is Chase Bank, specifically >its Emerging Markets Group, which has billions at risk in Mexico. Chase's >Jan. 13 "Political Update on Mexico," passed to COUNTERPUNCH by a banking >insider, states bluntly: "The government will have to eliminate the >Zapatistas to demonstrate their effective control of the national >territory and security policy." > >Chase is under no illusions that the December crash of the peso was >prompted by the Zapatistas. It is fully aware that the implosion of the >Mexican economy was caused by the overvaluation of the peso that enabled >U.S. investors such as itself to convert their killings on Mexican bonds >into the safety of the dollar. > >U.S. financiers and political stragtegists now fear that a Mexican >government led by the novice Ernesto Zedillo --rather than by >Washington's trusted agent, ex. President Carlos Salinas-- will waver, >temporize with the Zapatistas and seek to placate domestic discontent. > >But any appeasement of popular fury will come at the expense of foreign >investors, whose security in Mexico was the fundamental purpose of the >NAFTA agreement. Hence the need to finish off Subcommandante Marcos and >his comrades. As the Chase Update put it, "While Chiapas, in our >opinion, does not pose a fundamental threat to Mexican political >stability, it is perceived to be so by many in the investment community." > >Chase plays down the possibility of a negotiated settlement to the >conflict in Chiapas, saying 'it is difficult to imagine that the current >environment will yield a peaceful solution." Zedillo may not be able to >gain the confidence of the Zapatistas and their supporters because "the >monetary crisis limits the resources available to the government for >social and economic reforms." In other words, foreign investors should >have first rights to the dwindling reserves at the Mexican treasury, >which will leave almost nothing left to implement anti-poverty programs >Zedillo has promised for Chiapas. > >The author of the Emerging Market Group's memo is Riordan Roett, director >of Latin American Studies at the Johbns Hopkins School of Advanced >International Studies and now on a leave-of-absence while serving as a >Chase advisor. Known as a conservative but rational sort in academic >circles, Roett's views have hardened since he went to work full-time for >Wall Street, in the grand homicidal tradition of such academic >policymakers as Louis Adolphe Thiers, Walt Rostow, Henry Kissinger and >Hemran Cohen. > >Roett is said to be particularly bitter over events south of the border >because, an informant tells us, he had assured Chase executives that >Zedillo --whom Roett has known and worked with for a decade-- could be >counted on to do the bidding of foreign investors. Comforted, Chase >increased its Mexican investments, only to take a beating when a huge >trade deficit forced Zedillo to devalue the peso. > >Roett also calls on the Mexican government to take a hard-nosed approach >to other difficulties it is facing. The PRI, Mexico's ruling party, has >grim prospects for elections scheduled in five states this year. Roett >proposes that the PRI solve this problem by stealing the vote. "The >Zedillo administration willneed to consider carefully whether or not to >allow opposition victories if fairly won at the ballot box," he writes. >"To deny legitimate electoral victories by the opposition will be a >serious setback in the President's electoral strategy. But failure to >retain PRI control runs the risk of spliting the government party." > >Roett has been lobbying fiercely in Washington to promote his scorched >earth policy for Mexico and to demand that Congress quickly approve >Clinton's $40 billion bail-out of Chase and other big investors --a >lproblem solved when the president, faced with sure defeat in Congress, >used emergency powers to authorize a new rescue package. Roett has >briefed Bob Dole, testified before the Senate Steering Committee, which >musters conservatives such as Trent Lott and Malcolm Wallop; advised >State Department officials; and addressed hundreds of political and >financial leaders at a Jan. 11 seminar organized by the Center for >Strategic and International Studies. > >Roett bordered on hyusteria at the latter affair. Saying that clients >were always asking him why the Mexican government couldn't control the >Zapatistas, Roett argued that it was "essential, from the investor >point-of-view, to resolve the Chiapas issue as quickly as possible." He >conceded that his call for war, if heeded by Zedillo, might provoke >negative repercussions internationally, but there wre "always political >costs in bold action." > >Roett's remarks were warmly received by his audience. Elliott Abrams >furiously scribbled notes during his presentation while nodding his head >in approval. Syndicated columnist Georgie Anne Geyer wrote an article a >few days later saying that no one at the seminar "explained [Mexico's >situation] better" than Roett, adding that scholars and financiers in >attendance "seemed to agree that while . . . [the Zapatistas] do not >threaten a wider rebellion in Mexico, they have become a litmus test for >Mexico's stability." > >Dalal Baer, a Senior Fellow at the CSIS and moderator of the seminar, >thanked Roett for his comments and lamented the dilemma faced by Mexico, >pressured to open up its political system even though "financial markets >might not respond positively to increased democracy because it leads to >increased uncertainty." Like Roett and many other "academics", Baer is a >creature of Wall Street, serving as an advisor to Bear Sterns & Company. > >David Malpass, a director at Bear Stearns, said that inexchange for a >U.S. organized bailout, Zedillo should appease foreign investors with a >"giant reestablishment of confidence." Malpass and others suggested new >privatizations, allowing 100% foreign ownership of the banking system, >and opening up Mexico's oil industry. Though not discussed at the >seminar, some House Republicans, acting at the behest of Jorge Mas >Canosa, head of Miami's Cuban American National Foundation, are also >demanding that Mexico cut off commercial credits to Cuba. > >For now, Zedillo and a PRI majority will likely reject Roett's final >solution for Chiapas. An official from the Interior Ministry at the >seminar said the Chase man's call for war was "inadmissible". > >But prominent forces in Mexico will be heartened by Roett's analysis. >Last Dec. 18 a group of Mexican businessmen reportedly met with Zedillo >to demand tha tthe new government go on the offensive in Chiapas. Some >high-ranking military officials have long been lobbying for war and, >according to reprots from Santiago and Buenos Aires, military advisors >from Chile and Argentina --two of the most brutal of Latin America's >armies, responsible for tens of thousands of deaths during the seventies >'dirty wars' --have been sent to train Mexican troops. > >The parallel here is with the dispatch of Argentine officers to train the >Nicaraguan Contras at the start of the Eighties. > > * * * > >====================================== >Harry Cleaver >Department of Economics >University of Texas at Austin >Austin, Texas 78712-1173 >USA > >Phone Numbers: (hm) (512) 442-5036 > (off) (512) 471-3211 >Fax: (512) 471-3510 >E-mail: hmcleave@mundo.eco.utexas.edu >====================================== > > > > > From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Wed Feb 15 17:57:59 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Wed Feb 15 17:57:58 1995 Received: from jhuml1.hcf.jhu.edu (jhuml1.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.86]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id RAA11789 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 17:57:56 -0700 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu by jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu (PMDF V4.3-9 #5488) id <01HN39WS01CWH12EF1@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 20:04:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 20:03:22 -0500 (EST) From: Christoph Chase-Dunn Subject: Chase Manhattan wants everyone to know (fwd) To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT XTaken from the Progressive Sociologists Network: > 'U.S. Bank disavows newsletter on Mexico' > > NEW YORK, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Chase Manhattan Bank distanced itself > Monday from a newsletter produced by its Emerging Markets Group that > called on Mexico to "eliminate the Zapatista" rebels in the southern > state of Chiapas. > The four-page newsletter, "Mexico - Political Update," authored by > Riordan Roett "does not reflect the opinion of Chase Manhattan," a > bank official said. > Roett, director of Latin American Studies at the John Hopkins School > of Advanced International Studies who was on leave of absence while > serving as a Chase adviser, "is not, and will not be available," she > said. > The Jan. 13 newsletter was released as President Clinton proposed a > $40-billion loan guarantee to prop up the fumbling Mexican peso that has > lost more than 40 percent of its value in relation to the dollar. > Analysts have pointed to the uprising in Chiapas as a major element > in the flight of foreign investors that weakened the Mexican peso. > "The uprising has boosted the price of the Mexican Indian blood," > said the man known as Subcommander Marcos, who leads the Zapatista > National Liberation Army in Chiapas. > "Not long ago, it was valued less than two chickens, now it is the > condition for the largest loan of ignominy in history," he said Monday. > The Chase newsletter said "the uprising in Chiapas is now one year > old and no nearer to resolution." > After a reference to "local peasants groups who are sympathetic to > Marcos and his cronies," Roett said that the government of President > Ernesto Zedillo "will need to eliminate the Zapatistas to demonstrate > their effective control of the national territory and of security > policy." > Regarding the elections this year in the states of Jalisco, > Guanajuato, Yucatan, Michoacan, and Baja California, Roett wrote that > "the Zedillo administration will need to consider carefully whether or > not to allow opposition victories if fairly won at the ballot box." > "To deny legitimate electoral victories by the opposition will be a > serious setback in the President's electoral strategy," Roett wrote. > "But a failure to retain PRI control runs the risk of splitting the > governing party." > The Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI), has ruled Mexico since > the 1920s. > From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Wed Feb 15 19:09:15 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Wed Feb 15 19:09:15 1995 Received: from jhuml1.hcf.jhu.edu (jhuml1.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.86]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id TAA16313 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 19:09:12 -0700 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu by jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu (PMDF V4.3-9 #5488) id <01HN3CFAQE40H13347@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 21:15:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 21:14:37 -0500 (EST) From: Christoph Chase-Dunn Subject: Chase Manhattan ignores *Chase Report* (from AP) (fwd) To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 11:34:33 -0500 From:JCAMPOS@fair1.fairfield.edu To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Chase Manhattan ignores *Chase Report* (from AP) **In relation with posting *Chase Manhattan Report (original)* here another information about the "public diassociation with the document", according Chase Manhattan Bank. Cordially, **Javier Campos Modern Languages & Literatures, Latin American & Caribbean Studies Fairfield University Connecticut, EE.UU. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Source: Newsgroups: soc.culture.mexican ================================================================= The circulation of the internal Chase Bank report calling for the elimination of the Zapatistas has so disturbed the Bank that it has issued a public diassociation from the document and its author --a Chase employee. The following story was filed on the AP wire yesterday. So far I have not seen it in print. Although Chase "disavows" the statement, its spokesperson also admits that the report was one Chase provided to its "capital markets clients." Now, how can a business in the service sector that "provided" this report to its clients as an integral part of its services to them "disavow" something which was clearly its own product?? This is twisting and turning to avoid corporate responsibility, scapegoating the worker whose report it was circulating. Highly amusing at one level. Pathetic at another. (By the way, the fact that Roett is the Director of Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins, when he is not prostituting his brain and mouth to Chase, raises interesting questions about the nature of such "Area Studies" centers and the role they have played in setting the stage for current Mexican government actions.) ----begin AP story---- Chase Bank Denies Urging Elimination of Mexican Rebels By Donald M. Rothberg AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - A Chase Manhattan assessment of political and economic turmoil in Mexico said last month that the government would need "to elminate the Zapatistas" to restore stability. The bank disavowed the statement Monday as the work of an independent scholar. The assessment for Chase's Emerging Markets' Group w3as written by Riordan Roett, who is on leave as director of Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Reached at Chase Manhattan, Roett declined to comment. Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo ordered troops into the Chiapas state last week to hunt down leaders of the rebel Zapatista movement. In a letter released Monday, Subcommandante Marcos, the rebel leader, accused the government of taking the offensive to repay those who helped ease Mexico's financial crisis. Roett's assessment, dated Jan. 13, said "while Chiapas, in our opinion, does not pose a fundamental threat to Mexican political stability, it is perceived to be so by many in the investment community." "The government will need to eliminate the Zapatistas to demonstrate their effective control of the national territory and of security policy," Roett wrote. After Roett's comments became known, the bank issued a statement saying his opinions "represent his personal views as a scholar. They were not meant to nor do they represent the views of Chase Manhattan." The brief statement said Roett "has written commentaries that Chase Manhattan's Emerging Markets Group has distributed to its capital markets clients." Spokesman John Anderson said the Emerging Markets Group is the "area of the bank that specializes in trading, issuing and underwriting emerging market debt." Anderson refused to comment when asked the extent of Chase Manhattan's investments in Mexico. "The greatest threat to political stability in Mexico today, we believe, is the current monetary crisis," wrote Roett. "Until the administration of President Ernesto Zedillo identifies the appropriate policies to stabilize the peso and avoid uncontrolled inflation, it will be almost impossible to address issues such as Chiapas and judicial and electoral reform." After Congress rebuffed President Clinton's effort to provide Mexico with $40 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to help stabilize the peso, Clinton unilaterally came up with $20 billion in support from a Treasury Department fund created to defend the value of the dollar. Congressional approval was not required to use that fund. Clinton asked Congress to act the day before Roett wrote his memo. He took unilateral action 18 days later. ----end of AP story---- ====================================== Harry Cleaver Department of Economics University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78712-1173 USA Phone Numbers: (hm) (512) 442-5036 (off) (512) 471-3211 Fax: (512) 471-3510 E-mail: hmcleave@mundo.eco.utexas.edu ====================================== From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Fri Feb 17 15:49:00 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Fri Feb 17 15:48:59 1995 Received: from jhuml1.hcf.jhu.edu (jhuml1.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.86]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id PAA01484 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 1995 15:48:57 -0700 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu by jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu (PMDF V4.3-9 #5488) id <01HN5Y0TD5KWH13MVJ@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Fri, 17 Feb 1995 17:55:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 17:54:37 -0500 (EST) From: Christoph Chase-Dunn Subject: AP story on net coverage of Mexico News (fwd) To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 11:44:56 -0500 From: Molly Molloy To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: AP story on net coverage of Mexico News Subject: Rebels get High Tech Aid (AP, 2/16) (fwd) > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 14:23:32 +0600 > From: Luis Fierro > Subject: Rebels get High Tech Aid (AP, 2/16) > > Thu, 16 Feb 95 0:10:17 PST > > Newsgroups: > clari.world.americas.mexico,clari.news.conflict > > MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's Zapatista rebels operate in the > nation's most backward state, where the nearest phone is sometimes > 50 miles away. But their supporters are on the technological edge, > where worldwide communication is just a modem away. > The rebels' statements are traveling the information highway, > relayed by church and human rights groups. Through the Internet, > they're being heard around the globe. > Barbara Pillsbury translates and posts news and analysis on > Chiapas on the Internet from her Mexico City office at Equipo > Pueblo, a rural development organization. Her group, like others > distributing news of the rebels, is sympathetic to the problems of > Mexican peasants but favors a peaceful solution to their struggle. > Some of the news goes to Congressional staffers in Washington. > ``It's clear that a lot of things that affect Mexico get decided > in Washington,'' said Pillsbury, a 24-year-old Yale graduate from > New York City, who first saw armored vehicles headed into the > Chiapas jungle when she was on a family vacation a year ago. > Pillsbury's boss, Carlos Heredia, says Equipo Pueblo has been > subject to harassment -- office break-ins, arson, and accusations of > rebel links. > ``The Mexican government can deal with critics who write > newspaper columns, but once you get on Internet and American TV > they can't control it,'' he said. > The Interior Department, which controls the police force Heredia > named in his October complaint, promised to investigate ``these > intimidating acts apparently committed by members of the federal > judicial police.'' Police officials denied their forces were > involved. > With soldiers blocking reporters from entering war zones, news > within Chiapas travels slowly. > But once the information reaches computers in Mexico City, it > moves across the wires within minutes. > Users of Internet, the computer network linking universities, > businesses and activists, can browse through dozens of files for > material on Mexico. > By sending a simple message, they can ``subscribe'' to four > separate bulletins on Chiapas in English or Spanish, and reach > like-minded organizations and activists across the world. > Phil McManus, an activist with the ecumenical peace group > Fellowship of Reconciliation, relies on computerized access to > Chiapas news to alert some 1,500 people ready to send faxes. > Electronic communication has also brought together human rights > monitors in Chiapas with organizations that lobby the government in > the Mexican capital. > ``It has facilitated our work a lot,'' said Mariclaire Acosta, > President of the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion > of Human Rights. > ------ > The Internet address for information is: > pueblo(at)laneta.apc.org. > From leden@ccs.carleton.ca Sat Feb 18 08:21:36 MST 1995 >From leden@ccs.carleton.ca Sat Feb 18 08:21:33 1995 Received: from alfred.ccs.carleton.ca (alfred.ccs.carleton.ca [134.117.1.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id IAA00169; Sat, 18 Feb 1995 08:21:31 -0700 Received: from superior by alfred.ccs.carleton.ca (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA15247; Sat, 18 Feb 95 10:27:29 EST From: leden@ccs.carleton.ca (Lorraine Eden) Received: by superior (4.1/Sun-Client) id AA12516; Sat, 18 Feb 95 10:25:52 EST Message-Id: <9502181525.AA12516@superior> Subject: upcoming elections to the IPE section, ISA 1995 convention To: ipe@csf.colorado.edu (IPEnet), wsn@csf.colorado.edu (World Historical Systems Network) Date: Sat, 18 Feb 95 10:25:51 EST Cc: Lorraine_Eden@ccs.carleton.ca (Lorraine Eden) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] ELECTIONS NOTICE At the annual meeting of the IPE section of the International Studies Association, to be held on Wednesday, February 22, from 12:20-1:20 p.m. in Conference Room 4C, Chicago Hilton, we will have to fill several positions on the executive. I have received one formal nomination so far so these positions. If you would like to nominate some one, please check with them first to see that they are willing, and then give me the name with a short [2-3 lines] bio of the individual [rank, location, research interests] BEFORE the meeting. Self nominations are also welcome! Nominations can be made from the floor of the meeting also, but nominations in advance are preferable. You may either email nominations to the IPE Executive [I leave for Chicago on Monday so nominations should probably go to Vicki Golich, Vice President -- vicki_golich@csusm.edu -- or to Roe Goddard, Secretary/Newsletter editor -- goddardr@mhs.t-bird.edu if they are emailed later than MOnday morning, Ottawa, Canada time] or leave written messages for me at the Chicago Hilton front desk. The positions which need filling are the following: 1. Vice President [one year term]. One nomination received: Simon Reich, Associate Professor, Graduate School of International and PUblic Affairs, University of Pittsburgh. Vicki Golich is stepping down because she is one of the three Vice President Elects for 1995-96 for ISA as a whole. I am recommending that the Vice President be the Program Chair for the IPE panels for the 1996 ISA convention in San Diego. The Vice President normally becomes the President of the IPE section the following year. 2. Two members must be elected to the Governing Council to replace Kurt Burch and Dimitris Stevis who are retiring. No nominations have been received for these positions. 3. The Senior/Junior Scholar committee is recommending that its functions be discussed at the meeting. The question as to whether the Junior Scholar program should be eliminated and replaced by a Graduate Student Paper Competition needs to be discussed. If there were a GSPC, this committee could be given the task of running this competition. Clearly the workload would be higher. The Senior Scholar competition in this case should probably be separated so that the responsibility is given to another group, possibly headed up by the President or the Past President. These matters will be discussed on Wednesday, prior to the Elections Vote. Nominations to the Senior/Junior Scholar committee: None have been received to date. Individuals should keep in mind that the functions of this committee may be changing. Since the IPE section must be re-chartered this year, and since there are proposals for revamping the constitution [see the IPE Newsletter, to follow], I will change the order of the Agenda for the meeting [see the Newsletter] to move #4 Proposed Constitutional Changes up before #2 Election of OFficers. In terms of constitutional changes I will be recommending that: 1. The IPE President be a one year term [starting next year; I would finish out my term] 2. The Vice President be a one year term [starting this year since Vicki Golich is stepping down]. 3. The Vice President also be the Program Chair for the next ISA Convention 4. The vice President normally becomes the President the following year. The sequence would be as follows: Vice President and Program Chair [year 1] President [year 2] Past President [year 3] so that an individual would serve three years on the IPE executive, each year engaged in a different task. Note that any individual who wants an item added to the Agenda under "Other Business" should contact me ASAP. The agenda is very full for this particular meeting and we only have one hour... I look forward to seeing you in Chicago. Lorraine Eden IPE President and Section Chair ------------- Lorraine Eden Professor of International Affairs The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6 CANADA Phone 613-788-2600x6661 [office] 613-788-6655 [department] Fax 613-788-2889 Email leden@superior.ccs.carleton.ca From gonick@csf.Colorado.EDU Sat Feb 18 13:03:32 MST 1995 >From gonick@csf.Colorado.EDU Sat Feb 18 13:03:31 1995 Received: (from gonick@localhost) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) id NAA18197; Sat, 18 Feb 1995 13:03:30 -0700 Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 13:03:29 -0700 (MST) From: Lev Gonick To: ipe , wsn@csf.Colorado.EDU Subject: February ISA-IPE Section Newsletter Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE From:=09C. Roe Goddard, IPE Section Secretary and Newsletter =09Editor February 1995 =09IPE-Section International Studies Association ANNUAL REPORT FROM THE IPE PRESIDENT AND SECTION CHAIR DEAR IPE MEMBERS: Welcome to the 1995 Chicago International Studies Association Annual Convention. A good deal of planning has gone into these meetings and I hope you find the results stimulating and worthwhile.=20 DATES AND TIMES OF MEETINGS The annual meeting for the IPE Section will take place on Wednesday, February 21, from 12:20-1:20 p.m. in Conference Room 4C of the Chicago Hilton. A brief agenda follows this report.=20 The IPE annual Reception honouring Professor Keohane, the Distinguished IPE Scholar, will be in the Williford Room on Thursday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. The World Historical System subsection is holding its business meeting on Saturday from 12:20-1:20 p.m. in Conference Room 4G. The SWIPE and Feminist Theory and Gender Studies section are jointly sponsoring a reception honouring Jean Bethke Elshtain on Friday, 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the Waldorf Room. The RIPE business meeting (for RIPE Board members only) is Wednesday 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Private Dining Room 7. NOTES ON THE IPE PANELS Thanks to everyone who submitted paper and panel proposals. While we were not able to accommodate everyone on the program, we are running 44 panels, many of which have four paper presentations. I would like to thank in particular all of the individuals who put together panels for the section. Given the very large number of panels the IPE program chair must organize, having panels submitted that were already constructed in a cohesive, organized format was most helpful.=20 The IPE section is co-sponsoring 20 panels on the program. We are co-sponsoring nine panels with the International Organization section (Wed-D-14, Th-A-13, Th-B-1, Th-C-13, Fri-D-19, Sat-A-14,Sat-B-16, Sat-B-17, Sat-D-12); five panels with the Environmental Studies section (Fri-A-14, Fri-B-5, Fri-C-10, Fri-D-6, Sat-D-2),three panels with the International Security Studies section (Wed-A-12, Wed-B-15, Thu-A-19), two panels with the International Law section (Wed-C-9 and Fri-B-13), one panel with the American-Soviet Successor States section (Fri-C-13) and one with the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies section (Sat-D-2). I would like to draw your attention to a few of the IPE-sponsored panels in particular: (1) The IPE Distinguished Scholar Award panel, honouring Robert Keohane (Harvard) is being held in the Thu-D-3 slot. The roundtable is chaired by Duncan Snidal (Chicago) and has Helga Haftendorn (Free University of Berlin), Richard Higgott (Manchester), Peter Katzenstein (Cornell), Stephen Krasner(Stanford) and Charles Lipson (Chicago) as participants with Robert Keohane as the respondent. An award will be presented to the Distinguished Scholar at the close of the session. I hope you will all join us at the IPE Reception honouring Professor Keohane after the event. The reception will be in the Williford Room on Thursday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. (2) A special session commemorating the 50th anniversary of Karl Polanyi's Great Transformation is being held in the Wed-C-16 slot. Chaired by Robert Latham (SSRC), the participants include Susan Strange (Warwick), Eric Helleiner (Trent), Sam Nolutshungu (Rochester), Mustapha Pasha (American), Miranda Scheurs (Maryland) and Robert Cox (York). (3) A special session commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Chicago Air Transport Convention is being held in the Sat-B-17 slot. The chair is Martin Staniland (Pittsburgh). and the panellists are Gerald Berstein (Stanford), Vicki Golich (CSU-San Marcos), DeAnne Julius (British Airways), Paul Mifsud(KLM), Michael Pustay (Texas A&M), Joseph Schwieterman(DePaul), Jeffrey Shane (Wilmer, Cuttler and Pickering) and David Thornton (South Carolina). (4) The World Historical Systems group is discussing the forthcoming book, Rise and Demise: Comparing World Systems by Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas Hall in the Wed-D-2 slot. The chair is Barry Gills (Newcastle). The participants are William McNeill (Chicago), Matthew Melko (Wright State), Jonathan Friedman (Lund) and George Modelski (Washington). The authors are respondents. There are several linked panels on the program and I particularly thank the panel organizers for putting these together. (1) There are two linked sessions on "Knowledge Dynamics of Global Governance", the first in the Thu-B-1 slot chaired by Rames Rosenau (George Washington) and the second in the Thu-C-13 slot chaired by Richard Mansbach (Iowa State). These panels were organized by Martin Hewson (York) and Timothy Sinclair (York). (2) There are three sessions, organized by Phil Cerny (Univ.of York) on "Globalization and State Policy Effectiveness". The first, "Core State Politics" is in the Fri-A-3 slot (chaired by Phil Cerny), the second, "The State and Multinational Corporations" in the Fri-C-14 slot (chaired by Stephen Kobrin (Pennsylvania)) and the third, "Labour Market Policies", in the Sat-A-19 slot (chaired by Martin Schain(NYU)). (3) There are three linked sessions on IPE and the environment. The first, "Beyond Sovereignty: Multinationals, Natural Resources and the Environment" is in the Fri-B-5 slot chaired by Mattias Finger (Columbia), the second, "Environmental Regimes and Ecological Crisis" in the Fri-C-10 slot chaired by Howard Warshawsky (Roanoke), and the third "Environmental Degradation in World Historical Systems Perspective" is in the Fri-D-6 slot chaired by Bob Denemark (Delaware). (4) There are two panels on "Civil Societies in the Global Political Economy", the first on Sub-Saharan Africa in the Sat-A-14 slot chaired by Gerald Schmitz (Library of Parliament, Canada), and the second on Asia and the Americas in the Sat-B-16 slot chaired by Marianne Marchand (Amsterdam). THANKS I have functioned with a large email support group this year and would like to thank all of the individuals for their help. I would particularly like to thank Vicki Golich, Roe Goddard, Lev Gonick and Bob Denemark. The email network (IPEexecALL) consists of the IPE Governing Council, the members of the Senior/Junior Scholar committee, the chair of the WHS subsection, the managers of IPEnet and WSnet, the SWIPE co-chairs, one of the RIPE editors, Lynne Rienner, together with a few previous Governing Council members. The ISA co-chairs, Misty Gerner and Phil Schrodt, together with their assistant Phil Huxtable, were great to work with, and the other section chairs were most helpful. Looking forward to seeing you in Chicago! Best wishes,=20 Lorraine Eden IPE President and Section/Program Chair =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D IPE SECTION ANNUAL MEETING The annual meeting for the IPE Section will take place on Wednesday, February 21, from 12:20-1:20 p.m. in Conference Room 4C of the Chicago Hilton. A brief agenda follows: TENTATIVE AGENDA FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING 1. Report from the IPE Section President and Program Chair Report on the Meeting Financial Report 2. Election of Officers 3. Reports from:=20 IPE Senior/Junior Scholar Committee IPE Newsletter Editor WHS Subsection SWIPE IPEnet WSnet IPE Yearbook=20 RIPE 4. Proposed Constitutional Changes 5. Other Business =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D REPORT OF THE SENIOR/JUNIOR SCHOLAR COMMITTEE This year the Senior Scholar/Junior Scholar Selection Committee decided it was important to work with specific criteria in its efforts to identify the recipients of these two prestigious awards. It appeared that no written criteria was available to guide the committee in this decision.=20 After several rounds of email conversations, we decided on the following: SENIOR SCHOLAR CRITERIA The Senior Scholar award will be determined on the basis of the overall value to the field of his/her work. The primary criterion used to evaluate the value of a Scholar's contribution will be the seminal (importance, Insightfulness,uniqueness) nature of his/her contribution to the scholarly literature. Other criteria which may be considered by the committee include the inspiration of and contribution to the careers and research programs of colleagues and students--both graduate and undergraduate, or the degree to which his/her work has influenced or shaped=20 policy decisions--either directly or indirectly. The Selection Committee will review nominations which include a detailed statement supporting the seminal nature of the Scholar's contribution, AND a proposed panel of participants. =20 The person who nominates the successful candidate for Senior Scholar will be expected to organize and chair the panel honoring the Senior Scholar.=20 The Senior Scholar will be expected to participate as a member of that paneland to say a FEW words upon introduction at the IPE Reception. Ideally, the Senior Scholar will also serve as a discussant on another relevant panel in an effort to expose his/her insights and intellect to the broadest array of ISA/IPE members. At the reception, the Senior Scholar will receive a certificate and a small gift. Some funds are available to support minimal travel expenses. JUNIOR SCHOLAR CRITERIA The Junior Scholar award will be determined on the basis of three criteria:=20 (1) The most critical criterion is demonstrated potential to make a major contribution to International Political Economy over the course of a career; (2) the recipient must be non-tenured, and normally, within 5 years of receiving the doctorate (or equivalent); and (3) the candidate must demonstrate financial need. Preference will be given to junior scholars from developing countries, and who are not from the country where the meeting is held. =20 It is incumbent upon the nominator to indicate how the Scholar meets these three criteria, recognizing that the Selection Committee will be most persuaded by arguments related to the first criterion; self-nominations are welcomed. =20 The person selected as Junior Scholar will be expected to present a paper on a scheduled panel and make a short presentation upon introduction at the IPE Reception at the ISA Annual Meeting.=20 Whenever possible, the Junior Scholar should also have the opportunity to serve as a discussant on another relevant panel in an effort to introduce the Scholar's ideas an intellect to the broadest array of ISA/IPE members. The Junior Scholar will be presented with a certificate at the IPE Reception and UP TO $1000.00 to cover travel expenses related to attending the conference. The Committee recommends that some standardized policy be adopted to help future Selection Committees make choices. We present this currently as draft recommendations for consideration by the IPE section. By way of discussion, let me note that some people felt quite strongly that any reference to policy in the Senior Scholar criteria was inappropriate, others felt just as strongly that it absolutely needed to be there. Some members thought that the Senior Scholar should be "required" to serve on a junior scholar/graduate student panel as a discussant. Several ideas were discussed related to ensuring that the Senior Scholar would be very actively involved in the ISA Meetings. With respect to the Junior Scholar selection a similar range of opinions was expressed. Some thought that the lack of systematic review in the past and the paucity of past applications indicated that IPE money might be better spent on some other activity that would serve a larger group of younger scholars. Others felt we needed to be more active in soliciting nominations and spending even more money on a junior scholar. These are all issues which need to be discussed and decided by the IPE business meeting attendees. One more note on process and outcome. This year the Committee had strong competition for the Senior Scholar selection. The proposals we received were thorough and well Documented. This was not the case for the Junior Scholar selection. Here,the committee received only one nomination which was accompanied by only a brief description of the individual and a CV. The individual did not apply to present a paper, and there was no indication from the individual or from the nominator what might be presented.=20 Hence, we decided not to identify a Junior Scholar this year. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 UPCOMING ELECTIONS TO THE IPE EXECUTIVE The 1994-95 IPE Executive Committee consists of the individuals listed below. Several changes to the executive will occur at the Chicago meetings so we will need to have elections of officers. The changes are the following: (1) Two members of the Governing Council are retiring, Kurt Burch and Dimitris Stevis, so that two more must be elected. (2) Vicki Golich is stepping down as IPE Section Vice President to take up the position of ISA Vice President. We therefore need to elect a Vice President for 1995-96. (3) We need a new Program Chair for the 1996 San Diego meetings. I am proposing that the Vice President take on the responsibility of the Program Chair for this year (and will recommend that the constitution be changed to have the Vice President the Program Chair on an annual basis). (4) The Senior/Junior Scholar Committee members serve only for one term. Normally there are three members to this committee. The IPE Governing Council is proposing to change the functions of this committee (see elsewhere in this NEWSLETTER) and elections will be needed for these positions. IPE PRESIDENT AND SECTION CHAIR (1994-96) Lorraine Eden, School of International Affairs, =09 =09Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Phone 613-788-2600x6661 (office) 613-788-6655 (dept) Fax 613-788-2889 Email leden@superior.ccs.carleton.ca VICE PRESIDENT (1994-96) Vicki Golich, Political Science, California State =09University =09-San Marcos, San Marcos, California, USA =0992096-0001. Phone 619-750-4144 Fax 619-750-4111/4030 Email: vicki_golich@csusm.edu SECRETARY AND IPE NEWSLETTER EDITOR (1994-96) Roe Goddard, International Studies, THUNDERBIRD, The =09American Graduate School of International Management, =09Phoenix, Arizona,USA 85306. Phone 602-978-7181 Fax =09602-439-9622 Email: goddardr@mhs.t-bird.edu IPE PAST PRESIDENT (1994-96) Ken Stiles, Political Science, Loyola University, 6525 =09North =09Sheridan, Chicago, Illinois 60626. Phone 312-508-=098647. Fax =09312-508-3646. Email: kstiles@.......... IPE GOVERNING COUNCIL MEMBERS The IPE Governing Council consists of the President, =09Vice =09President, Past President and Secretary, together =09with the =09six additional members listed below: (1993-95)=20 Kurt Burch, Political Science, University of Delaware, =09Newark,Delaware USA 19716. Email: kurt@bach.udel.edu (1993-95) Dimitris Stevis, Political Science, Colorado State =09University,Fort Collins, Colorado USA 80523. Phone 303-491-5156 Fax 303-491-5156=20 Email: dstevis@vines.colostate.edu =20 (1994-96)=20 Lev Gonick, 6849 E. Paradise Lane, Phoenix, Arizona =0985254. Phone 602-998-6956; fax 602-998-7065.=20 Email: gonick@csf.colorado.edu (1994-96)=20 Marianne Marchand, University of Amsterdam, =09Netherlands. Email: mmarchand@sara.nl (1994-96)=20 Kenny Thomas, Political Science, University of Missouri =09at =09St.Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA 63121-4499. Phone 314-553-5839 Fax 314-553-6757 Email: skpthom@umslvma.umsl.edu (Ken Thomas), SENIOR/JUNIOR SCHOLAR SELECTION COMMITTEE (1994-95) Vicki Golich, University of California at San Marcos =09(Chair) (see above) Philip Cerny, Political Science, University of York, =09York =09Y01 5DD, UK. PHone 44-904-433947 Fax 44-904-433563 Email: pgc3@tower.york.ac.uk =20 Renee Marlin-Bennett, School of International Service, =09The =09American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, =09Washington=09 =09DC 20016. Phone 202-885-1636 Fax 202-885-2494 Email: rmarlin@american.edu Roger Tooze, International Studies, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham NG11 8NS, UK. Phone 44-602-486685 Fax 44-602-486632 Email: ins3toozeri@nottingham-trent.ac.uk WORLD HISTORICAL SYSTEMS SUB-SECTION CHAIR Bob Denemark, Political Science, University of =09Delaware,Newark, Delaware 19716, USA. Phone 302-451-2009 Fax Email: denemark@strauss.udel.edu =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES The IPE Executive is proposing the following changes to the constitution of the IPE section. These will be discussed and voted on at the general meeting on Wednesday, February 22, 1995.=20 Any questions should be directed to Lorraine Eden, section president [email: leden@superior.ccs.carleton.ca]. These changes -- if passed at the annual meeting -- would take effect the following year [i.e. at the 1996 annual meeting]. [unchanged] Election of officers of the IPE section shall take place at the annual business meeting of the IPE section in conjunction with the ISA Convention. Proposed Changes: 1. The President and Section Chair of the IPE section shall serve for a ONE YEAR term. In addition to the general responsiblities of presidency, the IPE President serves as the Treasurer for the IPE section and also chairs the committee selecting the IPE Distinguished Scholar. [Now the president is elected for a two year term and is also program chair. The president is Treasurer but does not have responsibility for the senior scholar committee.] 2. The Vice President serves for a ONE YEAR TERM and is PRESIDENT ELECT. During that one year term the Vice President is also PROGRAM CHAIR for the IPE section.=20 [Now the vice president is a two year term and does not immediately become president of the section. The vice president heads up the senior and junior scholar committee.] 3. The SECRETARY of the IPE section serves for a two year term. The secretary is the IPE NEWSLETTER EDITOR and has the responsibility for editing and publishing the IPE NEWSLETTER. He or she may be re-elected for a further one year term. [This is basically unchanged from current practice.] 4. [unchanged] In addition, there shall be five rotating members of the Governing Council; two elected one year and three elected the subsequent year. Each individual serves a two year term. 5. The OFFICERS of the IPE section consist of the President, Past President, Vice President [President Elect/Program Chair], and Secretary [IPE Newsletter Editor] and the president/chair of the World Historical Systems subsection.=20 [The change here is to add the president of the WHS subsection as an officer of the section.] 6. These officers together with the five elected individual members constitute the Governing Council of the Section. The president of SWIPE [the Society of Women in IPE] and the IPEnet systems operator shall also be members of the Governing Council.=20 [The change here is the addition of SWIPE and IPEnet executives to the governing council.] 7. For proposals re the Junior Scholar [and the committee] see the report of the Senior/Junior Scholar committee by Vicki Golich elsewhere in this Newsletter. ____________________________________________________________ JOURNAL OF WORLD SYSTEMS RESEARCH The first batch of papers published in the Journal of World-Systems Research is now available from csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/journals/ Please send feedback to Chris Chase-Dunn =20 chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Here is the table of contents: JOURNAL OF WORLD-SYSTEMS RESEARCH gopher:\\csf.colorado.edu\wsystems\journals\ ISSN 1076-156X CONTENTS OF FIRST BATCH Volume 1, 1995 Number 1: David Wilkinson, "From Mesopotamia through Carroll Quigley to Bill Clinton: world historical systems, the civilizationist and the president" Number 2: Myron J. Frankman, "Catching the bus for global development: Gerschenkron revisited" Number 3: Stephen B. Bunker and Paul S. Ciccantell, "Restructuring markets, reorganizing nature: an examination of Japanese strategies for access to =20 raw materials" Number 4: Christoph Scherrer, "The commitment to a liberal world market order as a hegemonic practice: the case of the USA" THEMATIC SECTION: Hegemonic Rivalry: Past and =20 Future Number 5: Volker Bornschier, "Hegemonic decline, West European unification and the future structure of the core" Number 6 : Christopher Chase-Dunn and Bruce Podobnik, "The next world war: world-system cycles and trends" Number 7: George Modelski, "From leadership to organization: the evolution of global politics" Number 8: Walter L. Goldfrank, "Beyond cycles of hegemony: economic, social and military factors" Number 9 : Gerd Junne, "Global cooperation or rival trade blocs?" Number 10: Tieting Su, "Clashes of 'life spaces' and other logics of hegemonic rivalry"=20 Number 11: John Borrego, "Models of integration and development in the Pacific " Number 12: Albert Bergesen and Roberto Fernandez, " Who has the most fortune 500 firms?: A network analysis of global economic competition, 1956- =20 1989" Number 13: Brigitte Schulz, "Germany, the United States and future inter-core conflict" Number 14: Erich Weede, " Future hegemonic rivalry between China and the West?"=20 Number 15: Terry Boswell, "Hegemony and bifurcation points in world history" Number 16: Book Reviews: 16:1 Boswell on Wagar; 16.2 Dassbach on Perrucci; 16.3 Hall on Frank and Gills; 16.4 Joffe on Algaze; 16.5 Dunaway and =20 Clelland on Gereffi and Korzeniewicz. Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu ____________________________________________________________ FIRST THREE ISSUES OF RIPE NOW AVAILABLE The first three issues of our associated journal Review of International Political Economy is now available. As members you can subscribe at a special low rate of $35. There will be 3 issues this year and four issues from 1995. The first issue contains an essay by the editors on why they have launched the journal =93Forum for heteredox international political economy=94 which begins a series of short papers on the Nature of IPE, following with papers from Stephen Krasner and Geoff Hodgson. There are articles by Makoto Itoh on the Japanese economy, John Agnew on territory in IR, Jeffry Frieden on exchange rate politics, Andre Drainville on Open Marxism and IPE, Timothy Sinclair on the credit rating process and Razeen Sally on domesticity of multinational enterprises. In the second issue (due out July 1994) we continue with the Nature of IPE discussion with paers from Susan Strange and Peter Burnham. There are articles by Vincent Mahler on the Lome Convention, by Jill Hills on GATT, Ankie Hoogvelt and Masae Yuasa on =93Lean Production=94 and David Wightman on Europe and the dollar. The issue also contains a debate on =93What went wrong in Eastern Europe=94 instigated by Gunder Frank with comments by Alec Nove, Robert Denemark and Jerzy Hausner. ____________________________________________________________ REPORT ON SWIPE =09The Society for Women in IPE welcomes new members to attend the ISA session, Women in the Profession on February 24, 8:30am-10:15am. Our membership has grown in leaps and bounds!=20 Activities include the recent publication of IPE syllabi which are available at a modest fee of $2 from Audie Klotz or Christine Ingebritsen. We also co-sponsored the ISA/West meetings at the University of Washington, and continue to benefit from our institutional connections to the Jackson School of International Studies. Our newsletter informs members of recent publications in the=20 field of IPE, job opportunities, conference and workshop possibilities and SWIPE member activities. =20 =20 For more information about SWIPE, contact: =09=09=09=09Christine Ingebritsen =09=09=09=09DL-20 =09=09=09=09University of Washington =09=09=09=09Seattle, WA 98195 =20 =09=09=09=09FAX: 206-685-9173 __________________________________________________________ ISA-WEST 1995 ANNUAL MEETING =09Plans for the ISA/WEST meeting are moving forward. James Scarritt of the University of Colorado at Boulder is the Program Chair. This year's meeting will be held on the university campus, October 20-21. Please mark your calendar and pass the word to interested colleagues. =20 =20 ___________________________________________________________ =09=09=09=09 RESTAURANTS AROUND THE CHICAGO HILTON A - Berghoff - 17 West Adams B - Italian Village - 71 West Monroe=20 C - Wall Street Deli - 55 West Monroe D - The Exchange - 172 West Adams E - Exchequer Pub - 226 South Wabash F - Kenny's Ribs - 12 E. Jackson G - Miller's Pub - 134 S. Wabash H - J. Randolph's - 151 N. Michigan I - Boudin Bakery - 20 N. Michigan Clark Dearborne State Wabash Michigan | | | | |H --------|-------|------|------|------|--------- Washington | | | | |I --------|-------|------|------|------|--------- Madison | | |HOTEL | | --------|-------|-B-C--|------|------|--------- Monroe | | | |G | --------|-D-----|----A-|------|------|--------- Adams | | | |E | --------|-------|------|-F----|------|--------- Jackson Thanks to Ken Stiles for this =93insider information. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY SECTION 1996 PANEL PROPOSALS Please give some thought to forming a panel, presenting a paper and/or acting as a chair or discussant, in an IPE-sponsored panel at the 1996 International Studies association conference to be held in San Diego, California, April 16-20, 1996. Please complete and return this conference proposal to the IPE Program Chair as soon as possible. NOTE THAT THE IPE PROGRAM CHAIR HAS NOT BEEN SELECTED YET; THE POSITION IS TO BE FILLED AT THE IPE ANNUAL MEETING. PERSONAL INFORMATION Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . =20 Institution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . =20 Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . =20 Mailing Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . =20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . =20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .=20 Office Phone ......................Office Fax. . . . . . . . =20 Email. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . =20 I would like to ORGANIZE A PANEL OR ROUNDTABLE on the following theme (to be formally considered as a panel proposal, the chair must enclose or forward details of all panellists together with full mailing addresses and paper abstracts, plus a paragraph description of the panel theme by the submission deadline): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . =20 I would like to PRESENT A PAPER on the following topic (to be formally considered, the author must enclose or forward a one-two page abstract of the paper by the submission deadline): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . =20 I am willing to chair a session on the following topics: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . =20 I am willing to be a discussant on the following topics: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . =20 Note that (1) participants can appear on the program in a maximum of two capacities (e.g. as a chair in one session and paper giver in another); (2) proposals should be submitted to one section or to the ISA Conference Chair, but not to more than one section simultaneously. Preliminary Program for the IPE-Section of the International Studies Association, Annual Meetings, Chicago, 21-25 February. For more information about the International Studies Association and details about the Annual Meeting contact isa@byu.edu IPEnet invites all panelists to send us your conference papers electronically. We have created an ISA95 directory and look forward to a healthy selection of conference papers. If you maintain your own gopher or W3 site (with the ISA paper), please send us relevant http or node information so we may link your paper to our ISA95 Directory. Copies on disk (in any format) can be sent to Lev Gonick, Internet Projet, SBS-3051 ASU-West, 4701 W. Thunderbird Rd. Phoenix, AZ. 85069-7100. We will upload your conference paper. For your information, a permanent copy of this program is available in the announcements directory of the IPEnet. csf.colorado.edu -> Thematic_Archive -> announcements -> conference.ISA95.program IPENet=D5s WWW site is at http://csf.colorado.edu/ipe Panel Wed-A-12 Economic Policy and National Security Chair: James Wirtz, Naval Postgraduate School Post-Cold War Military Outlays: Political Economic Factors Christer Crantz, Wayne State University Artificial Intelligence: Comparative Policies and Pursuits Ingeborg Mehser, Free University of Berlin Military Industry in Iraq and Israel Timothy D. Hoyt, Johns Hopkins University Discussant: James Wirtz, Naval Postgraduate School Panel Wed-A-13 Trade and Conflict Chair: Audie Klotz, University of Illinois-Chicago A Reexamination of the Relationship between Trade and Conflict Richard M. Tucker, Indiana University Bound to the Mast: Foreign Economic Policy as a Commitment Device Lara S. Skalnes, University of Oregon Economic Sanctions: Less than Ineffective? Zachary Selden, University of California-Los Angeles Trade and Security in International Politics David M. Rowe, Ohio State University Panel Wed-A-14 Taxes, Subsidies, and Multinational Corporations Chair: Kenneth Thomas, University of Missouri-St. Louis European Union Regulation of Competition for Investment: Lessons for North America Kenneth Thomas, University of Missouri=3DD1St. Louis Investment Subsidies and Adverse Selection Jean-Francois Wen, Wilfred Laurier University Sovereignty and Integration: Taxation Policy of the European Union Mirjam van Bergen, European Institute of Public Adminstration The OECD and the Taxation of Multinational Enterprises Michael Webb, University of Victoria Discussants: Timothy J. Sinclair, York University (Canada) and Lorraine Eden, Carleton University Panel Wed-B-14 Labour, Capital, and the Internationalization of the State Chair, Jeffrey Harrod,Institute of Social Studies The Internationalization of the State and the marginalization of Labour: The Turkish Case Nilgun Onder, York University Internationalization of the Corporatist State and the Crisis of Labour Representation: The Case of Sweden Magnus Ryner, York University From=20Movement to Mobility to Mobilization: On the Limits and Promises of Labour Organization in the Context of Restructuring and Migration Helene Pellerin, York University Associations and Economic Governance in Poland Lorene Allio, Emory University Discussant: Jeffrey Harrod, Institute of Social Studies Panel Wed-B-15 Redesigning the Future: Technology, Policy, Context Chair:Jose V. Ciprut, University of Pennsylvania Civilian-Military R&D: Exploitation and Control Gerald Epstein, US Office of Technology Assessment Post-Cold War Armaments Budgeting in Developed Countries William R. Thomas, US Congressional Budget Office=D4 Daniel Gallik, US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Nuclear Arsenals: Denuclearization and Proliferation Jack Nunn, US Office of Technology Assessment Discussants: Alan H. Shaw -US Office of Technology Assessment and Jo Husbands, National Research Council Paenl Wed-C-9 International Trade and International Law Chair: Imtiaz Hussain, Center for the Research and Teaching of Economics=3DD1Mexico National Laws, NAFTA Panels, and Multinational Provisions: Two-Way Traffic in North American Dispute Settlement Imtiaz Hussain, Center for the Research and Teaching of Economics=3DD1Mexico The Role of Negative Sanctions in International Trade Law Compliance, 1948-94 Kathleen Horohoe, University of Michigan International Trade Agreements and Environmental Protection: No Place for Production-related Measures? Andreas Ziegler, University of St. Gallen Regional Integration: A Case Study of the Caribbean Comunity [CARICOM] P. K. Menon, University of the West Indies Discussant: Nancy S. Mandel, California Bar, Pennsylvania Bar, and District of Columbia Bar Panel Wed-C-16 Roundtable: Global Transformations:Rethinking Karl Polanyi after Fifty Years Chair: Robert Latham, Social Science Research Council Participants: Susan Strange Warwick University Eric Helleiner Trent University Sam Nolutshungu University of Rochester Mustapha K. Pasha American University Miranda Scheurs University of Maryland York University Panel Wed-C-17 Sustainable Development: IPE and Conflict Issues Chair: Jose Bolivar Rocha Federal University of Paraiba/ University of Wisconsin Application of a Policy Approach to Development Studies: Institutional Rational Choice in Marginalized Urban-Housing Communities Judith Weddle, University of Kansas Mixed Economic Strategy and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa's Development Kidane Mengisteab Old Dominion University Assessing Sustainable Development in Peru and Thailand Ann Kelleher, Pacific Lutheran University Political Conflict, Economic Development, and Basic Human Needs:Problems of Specification and Estimation Loren King, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Discussants: Jose Bolivar Rocha Federal University of Paraiba/University of Wisconsin Dale Murphy MIT Panel Wed-D-2 Theme Roundtable Roundtable: Rise and Demise: Comparing World Systems Chair: Barry K. Gills, University of Newcastle Participants: William H. McNeill University of Chicago Matthew Melko Wright State University Jonathan Friedman University of Lund George Modelski University of Washington Respondents: Christopher Chase-Dunn, Johns Hopkins University Thomas Hall, DePauw University Panel Wed-D-14 What's in a Name? Defining International Public Problems Chair: Renee Marlin-Bennett, American University Public Problem Renee Marlin-Bennett, American University Defining International Problems in the Middle East and North Africa Joseph W. Roberts, University of Utah Jeffrey K. Ratcliffe,University of Utah Neither Food nor Farming: "Issue Areas," the Uruguay Round, and IR Theory Robert Wolfe, Queen's University Technology, Globalization, and the Culture ; Debate Gillian Youngs, Nottingham Trent University Republican Public Sphere and Global Political Economy Heikki Patomaki, University of Turku (Finland) Discussant: Claire T. Sjolander, University of Ottawa Panel Thu-A-12 The Political Economy of Trade Policy Chair: Roe Goddard, American Graduate School of International Management Can Protectionism Be Overcome? The Political Economy of LDC Success in Textiles, Apparel, and Steel Trade Steven G. Livingston, State University of New York=3DD1Albany An Investigation of the Links between Tariff Revenue and Trade Policy Liberalization in Developing Countries Christopher Lenhardt, University of Michigan Sunder Ramaswamy, Middlebury College Is Industrial Policy Nationalist or Internationalist? Lessons from the US and EU Semiconductor Industries Christine Margerum,Northwestern University Independence, Dependence, Interdependence and Cooperation Lui Hebron, lowa State University Discussants: Roe Goddard,American Graduate School of International Management and Cheng-Tian Kuo,University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panel Thu-A-13 The Institutions of International Cooperation Chair: Duncan Snidal,University of Chicago Compliance Mechanisms in International Agreements George Downs,Princeton University US Policy and International Compliance Robert Keohane, Harvard University International Agreements Charles Lipson, University of Chicago=D4 Ken Abbott, Northwestern Law and Duncan Snidal,University of Chicago Discussants: Judith L. Goldstein, Stanford University and James Morrow, Stanford University Panel Thu A-19 Export Policy and Security: Thein Challenges of Contemporary Technology Chair: David M. Rowe, Ohio State University Rethinking East Asia s Security Equations Jose V. Ciprut, University of Pennsylvania Dual-Use Technology Controls and Security William J. Long, Georgia Institute of Technology Cooperation and Conflict: Export Controls in East Asia Richard T. Cupitt, University of Georgia Discussant: David M. Rowe,Ohio State University Panel Thu-B-1 Theme Panel Knowledge Dynamics of Global Governance I Chair: James Rosenau, George Washington University Borrowing Authority, Mark Amen,University of South Florida Economic and Financial Analysis Considered as Knowledge Dynamics of Global Governance Timothy J. Sinclair, York University Who Knows ? The Place of Local Knowledge in Global Environmental Governance Ronnie D. Lipschutz, University of California=3DD1Santa Cruz Renegade States in International Affairs: A Conceptual Exploration=20 Lorraine Eden, Carleton University and Charles F. Hermann, Ohio State University Discussant: Raymond Duvall, University of Minnesota Panel Thu-B-9 Structural Adjustment: IPE and Conflict Issues Chair: Carlos E. Juarez, University of California=3DD1San Diego Economic Adjustment and Ethnic Conflict in Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia Alison Brysk, Pomona College and Carol Wise, Johns Hopkins University Countries: Venezuela and Mexico Alberto Martinez C., Simon Bolivar University Consolidating Apartheid: The Role of the IMF in Negotiations with Apartheid South Africa Horace Bartilow, University of Dayton Economic Liberalization in Latin America: A Critique of Neo- orthodoxy and the =3DD2Washington Consensus=3DD3 on Policy Reform Carlos E. Juarez, University of California=3DD1San Diego Economic Performance, Adjustment. and Political Conflict in the Third World Juha Auvinen, University of Helsinki Discussant: Mark E. Denham, University of Toledo Panel Thu-B-10 Regional Power Struggles, Buffer States, and the Rise of System Challengers Chair: Matthew Krain, Indiana University The Venetian-Genoese Regional Rivalry and the Rise of Portugal as a Global Power David Kelly, Indiana University A Buffer-Zone in the Ancient Hawaiian World System: The Pololu Valley, Hawaii Elena Ermolaeva and Christopher Chase-Dunn, Johns Hopkins University The Japanese Phoenix and the Transformation of East Asia: World Economy, Geopolitics, and Asian Regionalism in the Long I Twentieth Century Thomas Reifer, SUNY=3DD1Binghamton Impacts of Increasing Integration in the World Economy on Regional Inequality and t Well-Being in China in the Early 1990s Fengxiang Song, Kansas State University Hegemonic Transition and the Creation of the 'Greater China" Ian Robert Douglas,University of Newcastle Discussant: Kurt Burch, University of Delaware Panel Thu-C-13 Knowledge Dynamics of Global Governance II Chair: Richard W. Mansbach,lowa State University The United States and the Globalization of Information: The Hegemonic Implications of Foreign Policy Edward A. Comor, American University Surveiilance and Multilateralism Martin Hewson, York University Logic of Ungovernability Robert Latham, Social Science Research Council Metaphors of Social Closure and Global Governance Ronen Palan, University of Newcastle Discussant: Michael G. Schechter, Michigan State University Panel Thu-C-1 4 The Political Economy of Aid Flows Chair: Timothy J. McKeown, University of North Carolina Two Aid Hegemons: Japanese-American Interactions and Aid Allocations to Latin America Saori N. Katada, The World Bank Interest Groups and US Commodity Flows under PL 480 Polly Diven, Grand Valley State University Free Rider Supporter. or Competitor? Japanese and American Aid to East Asia Margaret Tolbert, University of North Carolina North-South or East-West-South? The Naming and (Re)conceptualizing of Western European Aid Policies since 1989 Marianne Marchand, University of Amsterdam and Karin Fierke University of Amsterdam Discussant: Jonathan R. Strand, University of Nebraska Panel Thu-D-3 Roundtable: IPE Distinguished Scholar Award Honoring Robert O.Keohane Chairs: Duncan Snidal, University of Chicago Participants: Helga Haftendorn, Free University of Berlin Richard Higgott, University of Manchester Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University Stephen Krasner, Stanford University Charles Lipson, University ot Chicago IPE program continued (Friday and Saturday panels) Panel Fri-A-3 Globalization and State Policy Effectiveness I: Core State Politics Beyond National Security? The International Integration of Defense Industries Andrew Latham, University of Manitoba Financial Globalization and the Residual State: The Despatialization of the Territorial State Philip G.Cerny, University of York On the Road to Capitalism? East Europe and the Global Economy Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University US Foreign Economic Policy in an Era of Globalization: Economic Identity and a New Economic Nationalism Mary B. Geske, Williams College Discussants: Richard Higgott,University of Manchester Randall Germain, University of Shetfield Panel Fri-A-14 Transnational Capital and the Environment: Positive or Negative Impact? Chair:John McCormick, Indiana University=3DD1Indianapolis Foreign Direct Investment and Sustainable Development: A Research Agenda Jennifer Metzger, Rutgers University Hazards on the Move: The Global Political Economy and the Toxic Waste Trade Jennifer Clapp, York University Capital Mobility or Ecological Sustainability? Transnationals versus Local Resource Use Regimes Dulcey Lorraine Simpkins, University of Michigan Discussant: Virginia Ann Haufler, University of Maryland Panel Fri-A-16 The Political Economy of US Trade Policy Chair: Michael J. Frantantuono, Dickinson College Trade Politics in the US Senate from Tokyo round to NAFTA Pierre Martin, University of Montreal The Politics of US Export Flows William Dixon, University of Arizona and Bruce Moon, Lehigh University The Politics of Free Trade in the US House of Representatives: Explaining the NAFTA Vote William P. Avery, University of Nebraska Howard G. Romanko, University of Arizona Discussant: Michael J. Frantantuono, Dickinson College Panel Fri-B-5 Beyond Sovereignty l: Multinationals, Natural Resources, and the Environment Chair:Matthias Finger, Columbia University Multinationals' Changing Perception of Global Environmental Issues and Problems Matthias Finger, Columbia University Organizational Dynamics of Ecological Crisis Tom Princen,University of Michigan Natural Resource Policy and State-building: The Case of Oil in Algeria, Iran, and Kuwait Miriam Lowi, Trenton State College Checkmate: Environmental Politics and Multinational Mining in the Venezuelan Andes Roland Ely, Universidad de los Andes Discussant: Karrin Scapple, Southwest Missouri State University Panel Fri-B-13 Foreign Investment and Trade in the Americas Chair: Nancy S. Mandel California Bar, Pennsylvania Bar, and District of Columbia Bar NAFTA, Multinational Corporations, and Foreign Investment, Alan M.Rugman, University of Toronto US Outward Direct Investment and US Exports in the Manufacturing Sector: An Empirical Analysis Edward M. Graham, Institute for International Economics Recent Mexican Trade Cases Key Legal and Economic Issues Nancy S. Mandel, California Bar, Pennsylvania Bar, and District of Columbia Bar Mexico: Foreign Investment and Trade Kurt Unger, CIDE (Mexico) Discussant Robert T. Kudrle, University of Minnesota Panel Fri-B-14 GATT: The Road from ITO to WTO Chair:Dale L. Smith, Florida State University The Failure of the International Trade Organization=D4 Florida State University The Political Economy of the Most-FavoredNation Rule Richard Sherman, University of Washington Whither International Trade'? Taking Stock of the Uruguay Round Razeen Sally, London School of Economics National Labor Organizations and the Emerging World Trade Organization Christopher Candland ,Columbia University Discussants, Robert Wolfe Queen's University and John Kroll Dartmouth College Panel Fri-C-10 Beyond Sovereignty Il: Environmental Regimes and Ecological Crisis Chair: Howard Warshawsky, Roanoke College The Loss of Global Fisheries, Sovereignty and the National Interest Herman Prager, Northeast Louisiana University Discussant: Juliann Allison, Binghamton University Panel Fri-C-13 The New Regionalisms after Socialism Sponsors: Chair: Karin Fierke, University of Amsterdam Reconstructing East and Central European Political Economies Malcolm Grieve, Acadia University The Spectre of Organized Crime in the Post Soviet Era Arms, Drugs,and Other Goodies Kiaras Gharabaghi, Dalhousie University Overlapping Identities and the State: Can Hungarian Minorities Be Tied to Democratic States in Eastern Europe? Ann Grimths, Dalhousie University Economic Interdependence and Ukrainian Security Policy Paul D'Anieri, University of Kansas Discussants, Earl F. Gibbons, Thunderbird School of Int'l Management Panel Fri-C-14 Globalization and State Policy Effectiveness II: The State and Multinational Corporations Chair: Stephen J. Kobrin, Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies Mulitnationals, Two-Level Games, and the European Community Maria Green Cowles, American University The Metamorphosis of Global Corporations from Servants of the State to Servants of the Market: The Case of Commercial-Class Aircraft Manufacturing Vicki Golich, California State University=3DD1San Marcos Strategic Alliances and State Control of Economic Actors Stephen J. Kobrin, The Lauder Institute of Management and Intemational Studies Convergence and Fissure? MNC Behavior in the Triad Simon Reich, University of Pittsburgh and Louis Pauly University of Toronto Discussants: Tony Porter, McMaster University and Alan M. Rugman University of Toronto Panel Fri-D-6 Environmental Degradation in World Historical Systems Perspective Chair: Bob Denemark, University of Delaware Species-Being to Eco-Being: The Rise of Post-World System Morality Albert Bergesen, University of Arizona Accumulation. Environmental Degradation, and Core-Periphery Relations in the World System, 2500 B.C.E. to 1993 C.E. Sing Chew, Humbolt State University and Daniel Blain, Humbolt State University Emissions from Industrial Production in the Post-War Era: The Political Economy of Energy Efficiency in the World System,1950-90 Peter Grimes, Johns Hopkins University and Timmons Roberts, Tulane University Global Restructuring and the Environment: Notes towards a World System Analysis David Smith, University of California=3DD1Irvine Discussants: Andre Gunder Frank, University of Amsterdam and Aseem Prakash,Indiana University Panel Fri-D-12 Negotiating the Terrain of Culture: Rethinking Agency in IPE Chair: Matt Davies, University of Denver How the Underdogs Survive Neoliberalism Culture, Global Accumulation Strategies, and Informal Economies Matt Davies, University of Denver The Reinvention of Africa: African Writers, Political Consciousness, and Aesthetic Form Elizabeth M. Davies, University of Toronto=D4 Native Hawaiian Sovereignty Struggles Oneida Mascarenas, Metropolitan State College of Denver Situational Objectives, or Notes on Reading the Cultural World System in the 90s Henry Schwarz, Georgetown University Discussant: Mark Laffey, Kent State University Panel Fri-D-13 Developmental Lessons from Asia Chair: Timothy Shaw, Dalhousie University Learning from the Japanese: The Implications of the Japanese Development, 1868-1939, for Africa and Asia E. Wayne Nafziger, Kansas State University How Others Learn: Meiji Japan's Integration and Reformulation of Neoclassical Economics L.H.M.Ling, Syracuse University Asian Development and Economic Reform in Africa Howard Stein, Roosevelt University Malaysia and Thailand: Models for Economic Development at the Margins'? Richard Stubbs, McMaster University Discussants M. Ramesh, University of New England=3DD1Australia and Chyungly Lee University of Maryland Panel Fri D-19 The EU as a Polity: How and for Whom? Chair: Madeleine Hosli, European Institute of Public Administration EU Social Policy in the 1990s: Did Maastricht Square the Circle? Robert Geyer, University of Wisconsin=3DD1Madison EU Political Integration and Capital Exit Mark Aspinwall, London School of Economics Citizen Discourse and Practice in a Nonstate The EC/EU Citizenship Policy Packages Antje Weiner, Carleton University Regional Interests and Economic Integration: Multilevel Politics in the European Union John Constantelos, Duke University Discussant: Maria Green Cowles, American University The Political Economy of EU Trade Policy Chair: John T. S. Keeler, University of Washington United They Stand? The European Community and Agricultural Trade Liberalization in the GATT Sophie Meunier, University of Chicago Nordic Agricultural Reform: From National to Transnational Protectionism Christine Ingebritsen, University of Washington European Standards Networks and the Forrnation and Integration of Global Markets Anthony R. Zito, University of Pittsburgh and Michelle Egan University of Pittsburgh Taking Stock of the Lome Convention: A Panacea for Underdevelopment or a Grandiose Benevolence? Olufemi Babarinde, Thunderbird School of Int'l Management Discussants: Robert Paarlberg, Wellesley College and John T. S.Keeler, University of Washington Panel Sat-A-13 Foreign Investment and the Nation State Chair: DeAnne Julius, Chief Economist, British Airways Evaluating the Perils: Regulating Inward Foreign Investment Leslie Elliott Armijo, Northeastern University Foreign Direct Investment and Government Preference Formation:Recent News from the Czech Republic John Gould, Columbia University Economic Nationalism and National Economic Identity in China George T. Crane, Williams College The Politics of Privatizing Regulated Industries in Argentina Laura Hastings, University of Pittsburgh Discussant: Fei-Ling Wang, J Georgia Institute of Technology Panel Sat-A-14 Civil Societies in the Global Political Economy l: Sub-Saharan Africa Chair: Gerald Schmitz, Library of Parliament, Canada The Development of Civil Societies: The Compatibilities and Contradictions of Transnational and National Processes Sandra MacLean, Dalhousie University Civil Society's Responses to Structural Adjustment in Africa Julius Nyang'oro, University of North Carolina=D4 Larry Swatuk, York University Popular Participation and the Limits of "Apolitical Development": The World Bank and Nongovernmental Organizations=20 Paul Nelson, Church World Service and Lutheran World Relief Discussant: Gerald Schmitz, Library of Parliament, Canada Panel Sat-A-19 Globalization and State Policy Effectiveness III: Labor Market Policies Chair: Martin Schain, NYU Globalization and International Labor Markets Jeanette Money, UC-Davis Policy Effectiveness and the Regulation of Immiigration in Europe Martin A. Schain Globalization and Regionalization in High-Technology Labor Markets Sally Hayward, Nottingham Trent University Neoliberalism and US Immigration Policy Migration Control in an Era of Economic and Political Interdependence Debra DeLaet, University of Notre Dame Discussant: William Haller, University of Pittsburgh Panel Sat B-15 Dimensions of the US-Japan Relationship Chair: Neil Richardson, University of Wisconsin - Madison US Economic Policy toward Japan during the Clinton Administration: A Midterm Report Card Michael J. Frantantuono, Dickinson College Institutional Adjustment to Changed Power Distributions: Japan and the United States in the IMF David P. Rapkin, University of Nebraska and Joseph U. Elston University of Nebraska Southeast Asian Agendas and Realities: Simon Reich, University of Pittsburgh, Davis B. Bobrow, Uniersity of Pittsburgh and Steve Chan, University of Colorado The US-Japan Relationship: Implications for Trade Blocs Neil Richardson, University of Wisconsin=3DD1Madison Discussant:, Hideo Sato, University of Tsukuba Paenl Sat-B-16 Civil Societies in the Global Political Economy II: Asia and the Americas Civil Societies, States, and the International System: Meaning,Practice, and Identity in Malaysia and Singapore Sheila Nair, University of Minnesota Redefining Civil Society in the Global Political Economy: NGOs,Transnational Networks, International Donor Agencies, the Prospect for Democratic Governance in Indonesia James V. Riker, University of Wisconsin=3DD1Madison Regionalization and Human Rights: Civil Society Responses to NAFTA Laura MacDonald, Carleton University Social Movements and the Struggle for Democracy in Guatemala: From Despair to Hope Tammy Hall, Dalhousie University Discussant: Marianne Marchand, University of Amsterdam Panel Sat-B-17 Roundtable: A New International Aviation Regime? A Roundtable on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Chicago Air Transport Convention Chair: Martin Staniland, University of Pittsburgh Participants: Gerald Bernstein, Stanford Research Institute Vicki Golich, California State University=3DD1San Marcos DeAnne Julius, Chief Economist. British Airways Paul Mifsud, KLM Royal Dutch Shell Airlines Michael Pustay, Texas A & M University Joseph T. Schwieterman, DePaul University Jeffrey Shane, Wilmer, Cuttler, and Pickering David W. Thornton, University of South Carolina Panel Sat-C-13 Strategic Approach in East European Marketization Chair: Gabor Bakos, Institute of Economics=3DD1Budapest Hungarian Responses to the Challenges of the Nineties Karoly Foldes, Hungarian Academy of Sciences On Investment in Environment in Poland and Eastern Europe during the Transformation Period Wojciech Bienkowski, International Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management (Poland) Gabor Bakos, Institute of Economics=3DD1Budapest Can Japanese Experience of Industrial Policy Be Helpful for East European Economic Reform? Ken Morita, Hiroshima University Russian Local Authorities in the Transitional Period Alexander Barskii, Central Economics and Mathematics Institute-Moscow Discussant: Iliana Zloch, Harvard University Panel Sat-C-15 The United States: Between Europe and Asia, within North America Chair: Guy Poitras, Trinity University Globalization, Regionalization, and Hegemonic Strategy: The United States between Europe and Asia Morten Ougaard, Copenhagen Business School Regional Trade Strategies: US Policy in North America toward East Asia Guy Poitras, Trinity University Discussant: Richard Sherman, University of Washington Panel Sat-D-2 Beyond Traditional IPE: Feminist and Green Perspectives Chair: Deborah Stienstra, University of Winnipeg A Further Step beyond the Three Orthodoxies: IPE from a Green Perspective Eric Helleiner, Trent University Some Feminist Musings on World Orders and World Ordering Deborah Stienstra, University of Winnipeg Women, Statecraft, and Political Equality Craig N. Murphy, Wellesley College Discussant: Annica Young-Kronsell, Lund University Paenl Sat-D-6 Globalization and Regionalism Chair: Jeffrey Hart, Indiana University Jeffrey Hart, Indiana University On Spaces, Borders, and States: Critical Inquiries into IR Theory=20 Michael Niemann, Trinity College Just How "Worldly" Is the "New World Order?": An Analysis of Post-World War II Trade Flows Robert G. Blanton III, University of South Carolina Discussant: Steve Rosow, SUNY=3DD1Oswego Panel Sat-D-12 Private Regimes and International Governance Chair Stephen Krasner, Stanford University Conflict Resolution and Dispute Settlement in Private International Trade Relations: A Return to "Medieval Internationalism"? A. Clair Cutler, University of Victoria Learning to Cope The Development of Risk Management Regimes Virginia Ann Haufler, University of Maryland Industry Cycles and the Relationship between Interstate and Private Regimes Tony Porter, McMaster University The Failure of Contemporary International Monetary Cooperation How the Success of International Trade and Investment Has Doomed a Global Monetary Regime Michaela Dabringhausen, University of Chicago Discussants: Michael Webb, University of Victoria and Deborah L.Spar, Harvard Business School =20 From leden@ccs.carleton.ca Sun Feb 19 10:23:16 MST 1995 >From leden@ccs.carleton.ca Sun Feb 19 10:23:13 1995 Received: from alfred.ccs.carleton.ca (alfred.ccs.carleton.ca [134.117.1.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id KAB20634; Sun, 19 Feb 1995 10:23:11 -0700 Received: from superior by alfred.ccs.carleton.ca (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA11431; Sun, 19 Feb 95 12:29:11 EST From: leden@ccs.carleton.ca (Lorraine Eden) Received: by superior (4.1/Sun-Client) id AA23923; Sun, 19 Feb 95 12:27:32 EST Message-Id: <9502191727.AA23923@superior> Subject: IPE section financial statement and revised Agenda To: ipe@csf.colorado.edu (IPEnet), wsn@csf.colorado.edu (World Historical Systems Network) Date: Sun, 19 Feb 95 12:27:32 EST Cc: Lorraine_Eden@ccs.carleton.ca (Lorraine Eden) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] IPE SECTION ANNUAL MEETING The annual meeting for the IPE Section will take place on Wednesday, February 22, from 12:20-1:20 p.m. in Conference Room 4C of the Chicago Hilton. A brief agenda follows: ---------------------------- Agenda for the Annual Meeting 1. Report from the IPE Section President and Program Chair Annual Report Financial Report 2. Proposed Constitutional Changes/Re-chartering of Section 3. Report from the IPE Senior/Junior Scholar Committee 4. Election of Officers Vice President Program Chair Governing Council Members (2 or 3 to be elected) Members of other committees 5. Reports from: IPE Newsletter Editor WHS Subsection IPEnet WSnet IPE Yearbook RIPE 6. Other Business Workshop on Intellectual Property: R. Marlin-Bennett Other Business --------------------------------- 1994 FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR THE IPE SECTION ============================================================ BALANCE (AS OF 12-31-93) $ 5,964.32 EXPENDITURES FOR PERIOD JANUARY - DECEMBER 1994 Related to 1994 ISA Convention IPE reception 414.86 IPE Distinguished Scholar reimbursements (R. Vernon) 190.34 IPE Distinguished Scholar reimbursements (L. Eden) 35.54 IPE Junior Scholar reimbursements (J. Cherry) 1,803.00 Mail charges 17.00 University of Toledo (IPE Newsletter) 690.92 ------- Not Related to 1994 ISA Convention 0.00 -------- Total Expenditures for 1994 3,151.66 ======== RECEIPTS FOR PERIOD JANUARY - DECEMBER 1994 January 1994 345.46 February 1994 223.42 March 1994 291.29 April 1994 516.29 May 1994 263.14 June 1994 157.20 July 1994 201.13 August 1994 221.80 September 1994 358.97 October 1994 173.00 November 1994 258.63 December 1994 365.32 ------- Total Receipts for 1994 3,375.65 ======= Average 1994 Receipts per month 281.30 ======== SURPLUS OR DEFICIT FOR 1994 223.99 ======== BALANCE AS OF DECEMBER 31, 1994 $ 6,188.31 ======== OUTSTANDING FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS IPE co-sponsorship of Fall 1994 meetings of ISA West (no invoice received) (max) 1,000.00 IPE Newsletter (Thunderbird) (?) -------- ANTICIPATED SURPLUS OR DEFICIT FOR 1994 (776.01) ========= ANTICIPATED END-OF-YEAR BALANCE $ 5,188.31 ======== ============================================================ PROPOSED 1995 IPE SECTION BUDGET ============================================================ ANTICIPATED END-OF-YEAR BALANCE FOR 1994 $ 5,188.31 FORECAST OF EXPENDITURES FOR 1995 IPE Reception at 1995 ISA Convention 600.00 1995 IPE Distinguished Scholar reimbursements 600.00 Mail charges for IPE Newsletter 100.00 Awards to Previous IPE Distinguished Scholars 800.00 IPE Newsletter costs 400.00 ------- Estimated Total Expenditures 2,500.00 FORECAST OF REVENUES FOR 1995 (assumed monthly average of 280.00, unchanged membership & unchanged section fees) 3,360.00 --------- FORECAST SURPLUS OR DEFICIT 840.00 ======== ANTICIPATED END-OF-YEAR BALANCE FOR 1995 $ 6,048.31 ======== ============================================================  -- ------------- Lorraine Eden Professor of International Affairs The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6 CANADA Phone 613-788-2600x6661 [office] 613-788-6655 [department] Fax 613-788-2889 Email leden@superior.ccs.carleton.ca From leden@ccs.carleton.ca Sun Feb 19 10:32:05 MST 1995 >From leden@ccs.carleton.ca Sun Feb 19 10:32:01 1995 Received: from alfred.ccs.carleton.ca (alfred.ccs.carleton.ca [134.117.1.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id KAA21143; Sun, 19 Feb 1995 10:31:58 -0700 Received: from superior by alfred.ccs.carleton.ca (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA11664; Sun, 19 Feb 95 12:37:55 EST From: leden@ccs.carleton.ca (Lorraine Eden) Received: by superior (4.1/Sun-Client) id AA24570; Sun, 19 Feb 95 12:36:14 EST Message-Id: <9502191736.AA24570@superior> Subject: proposed 1995-2000 charter for the IPE section: for comments To: ipe@csf.colorado.edu (IPEnet), wsn@csf.colorado.edu (World Historical Systems Network) Date: Sun, 19 Feb 95 12:36:13 EST Cc: Lorraine_Eden@ccs.carleton.ca (Lorraine Eden) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Dear IPE members of the International Studies Association: The IPE section must be re-chartered this year. I have drawn up a proposal for a new charter [based on the previous one] which we will have to discuss [at least in general form] at the IPE annual meeting on Wednesday, February 22. A copy follows. any comments would be welcome. Thanks, L. Eden, IPE President and Section Chair PROPOSED CHARTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY SECTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION FOR 1995-2000 I. NAME This organization shall be known as the International Political Economy (IPE) Section of the International Studies Association, or as IPE/ISA. II. PURPOSES 1. The aim of IPE/ISA is to encourage research and promote the exchange of ideas in the field of international political economy. The Section seeks to assist its members in keeping abreast of developments in the analysis of the international political economy. 2. The Section encourages theoretical, conceptual, and methodological diversity. IPE/ISA encourages scholarly interchange across numerous disciplines, including political science, economics, international relations, sociology, business, anthropology, history, and the social sciences broadly defined. 3. The Section encourages research collaboration and communication with scholars throughout the world. The Section also encourages efforts to communicate with policy making communities and other interested groups outside the scholarly community. 4. IPE/ISA emphasizes rigorous and diverse research on international political economy. The Section sponsors panels and round tables, reporting on current research in this field, at each national ISA convention and at other scholarly meetings. III.RELATIONSHIPS 1. IPE/ISA encourages cooperative relationships with other Sections and Regions of ISA and other professional and scholarly organizations which share its interests. 2. The IPE Section includes a subsection, World Historical Systems, devoted to the historical study of world systems from comparative and critical perspectives. 3. IPE/ISA encourages the dissemination of research on international political economy through its sponsorship of the International Political Economy Yearbook and IPEnet, an electronic network linking researchers worldwide in the field of international political economy (current address: ipe@csf.colorado.edu), and its association with the journal Review of International Political Economy (RIPE). The Section communicates with its members through the IPE Newsletter and IPEnet. IV. MEMBERSHIP 1. Any member of ISA sharing the purposes and interests of this section may become a member upon payment of annual dues to the IPE section. 2. Members shall be entitled to: a. attend, participate in, and vote at the annual IPE business meeting; b. sponsor nominations for IPE officers; c. be eligible for nomination to elective office; d. propose panels to be sponsored by the section at the ISA annual convention; e. make nominations for the review board and specific volume editors of the International Political Economy Yearbook; and f. receive general communications regarding the activities of the section. V. OFFICERS 1. The officers of IPE/ISA will consist of a President, an Executive Committee and a Governing Council. 2. The President will be elected at the annual business meeting of the IPE Section. He or she will serve for one year, and may be re-elected for a second one-year term. The President will conduct the annual business meeting, convene the Executive Committee and Governing Council as needed, coordinate section activities, and with the consent of the Governing Council make appointments to committees. To fill vacancies on the Council, the President may appoint a temporary replacement. The President also acts as Treasurer of the Section. 3. The Vice President will be elected at the annual business meeting of the IPE Section. He or she will serve for a one- year term, and may be re-elected for a second one year term. The Vice President is responsible for organizing for the IPE sponsored panels and round tables at the upcoming ISA annual convention. The Vice President, in addition to his or her Program Chair duties, is the incoming President-Elect for the Section. 4. The Secretary will be elected at the annual business meeting of the IPE Section. He or she will serve for a two-year term. The Secretary is also Editor of the IPE Newsletter. He or she may be re-elected for a second two-year term. The Editor/Secretary is responsible for keeping minutes of meeting, and editing and distributing the IPE Newsletter to the section membership. 5. The immediate Past President will serve as a voting member of the Executive Committee for one year. 6. The World Historical Systems subsection elects its own officers. The Chair of the WHS subsection is a member of the IPE Executive Committee. 7. The IPE Executive Committee consists of the President, Vice President, Past President, Secretary, and the Chair of WHS. The IPE Executive shall: a. review the annual budget and set annual dues; b. approve expenditures proposed by either the President, individual Council members, or members of the IPE Section; c. assist the President in the performance of his or her responsibilities. d. assist the Program Chair in organizing IPE activities and panels at the annual ISA convention. 8. All members of the IPE Executive are members of the Governing Council. The President will coordinate the Council's activities, and is a voting member of the Council. 9. A maximum of six and minimum of five members-at-large will be elected to the Governing Council for two-year terms at the annual business meeting. Terms will be staggered such that three council members are elected one year and two/three the next year. 10. The Governing Council shall: a. discuss professional and financial matters of interest to the IPE Section; b. assist in organizing IPE activities and panels at the annual ISA convention c. appoint a Nominating Committee to nominate persons to positions on the IPE Governing Council and as Council members. The majority of that committee must be comprised of persons not presently serving on the Council. d. appoint such committees as are necessary to run the IPE Section. e. propose the establishment of subsections of the IPE Section, at the request of at least a dozen members, who wish to focus more clearly on a specific IPE theme, or set of themes. Such proposals shall be subject to a majority vote at the annual IPE business meeting. f. arrange for the IPE Section to be re-chartered by the Governing Council of the International Studies Association, every five years, as required by the ISA's Regions and Sections Handbook. 11. If the President resigns, the Governing Council will select an acting President from its membership to serve until the next IPE business meeting. VI. NOMINATIONS AND ELECTIONS 1. The Nominating Committee shall seek to ensure a slate representative of the diversity within the Section, including various disciplines, intellectual and methodological stances, ages and sexes, institutions, and geographic locations. 2. The names of one or more nominees for each vacant position shall be made known to the IPE membership at least six weeks before the annual meeting. 3. Additional nominations sponsored by at least ten members and received by the President at least six weeks before the annual meeting shall also appear on the ballot. 4. Elections by secret ballot shall be held at the annual meeting. VII. CHARTER AMENDMENTS 1. Amendments to the IPE Section Charter may be proposed by the IPE Executive, the Governing Council, or by a petition of at least ten members. 2. Proposed amendments shall be submitted to the IPE President not later than two months before the annual meeting, and shall be discussed and voted on at the annual meeting. 3. If the annual meeting vote is favorable, the amendments shall be submitted to a mail ballot of the members, becoming effective when adopted by a two-thirds majority of those responding within one month of mailing. 4. Approved amendments shall be submitted to ISA officers. VII. TRANSITION 1. This Charter shall come into effect upon ratification by a majority of IPE/ISA members by mail ballot and approval by the ISA.  ------------- Lorraine Eden Professor of International Affairs The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6 CANADA Phone 613-788-2600x6661 [office] 613-788-6655 [department] Fax 613-788-2889 Email leden@superior.ccs.carleton.ca From leden@ccs.carleton.ca Sun Feb 19 12:21:33 MST 1995 >From leden@ccs.carleton.ca Sun Feb 19 12:21:31 1995 Received: from alfred.ccs.carleton.ca (alfred.ccs.carleton.ca [134.117.1.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id MAA01721; Sun, 19 Feb 1995 12:21:29 -0700 Received: from superior by alfred.ccs.carleton.ca (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA14902; Sun, 19 Feb 95 14:27:29 EST From: leden@ccs.carleton.ca (Lorraine Eden) Received: by superior (4.1/Sun-Client) id AA04824; Sun, 19 Feb 95 14:25:49 EST Message-Id: <9502191925.AA04824@superior> Subject: ISA Overflow Hotels To: ipe@csf.colorado.edu (IPEnet), wsn@csf.colorado.edu (World Historical Systems Network) Date: Sun, 19 Feb 95 14:25:48 EST Cc: Lorraine_Eden@ccs.carleton.ca (Lorraine Eden) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Someone asked for this information to be re-loaded on IPEnet. The Chicago Hilton is full. ISA Headquarters has arranged more rooms at: 1. Congress HOtel 312-427-3800 2. Blackstone Hotel 312-427-4300 3. Essex Hotel 312-939-2800 All are on Michigan Avenue a quick walk from the Hilton. LE ------------- Lorraine Eden Professor of International Affairs The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6 CANADA Phone 613-788-2600x6661 [office] 613-788-6655 [department] Fax 613-788-2889 Email leden@superior.ccs.carleton.ca From leden@ccs.carleton.ca Sun Feb 19 12:24:38 MST 1995 >From leden@ccs.carleton.ca Sun Feb 19 12:24:29 1995 Received: from alfred.ccs.carleton.ca (alfred.ccs.carleton.ca [134.117.1.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id MAA01862; Sun, 19 Feb 1995 12:24:27 -0700 Received: from superior by alfred.ccs.carleton.ca (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA14961; Sun, 19 Feb 95 14:29:20 EST From: leden@ccs.carleton.ca (Lorraine Eden) Received: by superior (4.1/Sun-Client) id AA04982; Sun, 19 Feb 95 14:27:41 EST Message-Id: <9502191927.AA04982@superior> Subject: Conference phone number for ISA To: ipe@csf.colorado.edu (IPEnet), wsn@csf.colorado.edu (World Historical Systems Network) Date: Sun, 19 Feb 95 14:27:40 EST Cc: Lorraine_Eden@ccs.carleton.ca (Lorraine Eden), vicki_golich@csusm.edu (Vicki Golich), goddardr@mhs.t-bird.edu (Roe Goddard), kurt@strauss.udel.edu (Kurt Burch), mmarchand@sara.nl (Marianne Marchand), dstevis@vines.colostate.edu (Dimitris Stevis), skpthom@umslvma.umsl.edu (Ken Thomas), pgc3@tower.york.ac.uk (Phil Cerny), rmarlin@american.edu (Renee Marlin-Bennett), ins3toozeri@nottingham-trent.ac.uk (Roger Tooze), u27903@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU (Audie Klotz), ingie@u.washington.edu (Christine Ingebritsen), lcr@rienner.com (Lynne Rienner), chriscd@jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu (Christopher Chase-Dunn), r.p.palan@newcastle.ac.uk (Ronen Palan), fac3148@uoft01.utoledo.edu (Mark Denham) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Philip Schrodt writes: > From @cmsa.Berkeley.EDU:ISACONF@UKANVM.BITNET Thu Feb 16 13:58:32 1995 > Message-Id: <9502161858.AA14009@alfred.ccs.carleton.ca> > Date: Thu, 16 Feb 95 12:48:54 CST > From: Philip Schrodt > Subject: Conference phone number for ISA > The phone number for the ISA headquarters at the Hilton during the > conference will be > 312-294-6750 > The conference phone number at KU will not be active after Monday, 20 Feb, > though we will be taking last-minute changes in the program up until > noon on the 20th (these will be included in a "Last Minute Changes" sheet). > > Feel free to post this information to your members if you have email lists. > > See you all next week. > > Phil Schrodt > ISA'95 Program Co-chair > -- ------------- Lorraine Eden Professor of International Affairs The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6 CANADA Phone 613-788-2600x6661 [office] 613-788-6655 [department] Fax 613-788-2889 Email leden@superior.ccs.carleton.ca From FDEYO@ACSPR1.acs.brockport.edu Mon Feb 20 12:30:45 MST 1995 >From FDEYO@ACSPR1.acs.brockport.edu Mon Feb 20 12:30:45 1995 Received: from acshp1.acs.brockport.edu (acshp1.acs.Brockport.EDU [137.21.161.252]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id MAA11879 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 12:30:40 -0700 From: FDEYO@ACSPR1.acs.brockport.edu Message-Id: <199502201930.MAA11879@csf.Colorado.EDU> Received: from acspr1.acs.brockport.edu by acshp1.acs.brockport.edu with SMTP (1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA20551; Mon, 20 Feb 95 14:26:16 -0500 Received: (from user FDEYO) by ACSPR1.acs.brockport.edu; 20 Feb 95 14:30:55 EST To: WSN@csf.colorado.edu Subject: pewspanels96 Date: 20 Feb 95 14:30:55 EST Now that the PEWS PROCESS dialogue re the selection of panels has died down a bit, may I suggest for now that we (ASA PEWS folks) do the following for next year: use the WSN to develop panel proposals for the Aug "96 meetings or send proposals to Dale Wimberley, our Sec't Treasurer, or me, our current ruling oligarch, to be compiled for our incoming Chair and Council in August. Why? Mainly to broaden and democratize the initial panel suggestion process beyond the handful of PEWS members who happen to show up at our annual business meeting. Secondarily, while panel ideas should still be proposed at the business meeting as in the past, an existing pool of suggestions will greatly reduce the pressure to consume scarce meeting time begging for panel proposals, while also emancipating the new chair/council from the need to focus on panel solicitation during the few weeks they have for panel submission to the ASA, permitting them instead to concetnrate on evaluation and discussion of existing proposals. In response to on-going concerns re the exclusion of many PEWS members from internet dialogues, I will be repeating this call in the PEWS NEWS. Two further issues: first, Dale Wimberley has suggested we establish a PEWS-dedicated electronic network rather than continuing to clog the WSN with PEWS business. Any reactions? Second, I am asking Dave Smith, Diane Davis, and Shelley Feldman (not yet confirmed) to think a bit about our collective response to the membership problem..and to consider various possibilities already aired on the WSN, in PEWS NEWS, and elsewhere. These council members, constituted here as a "membership committee," will make suggestions to be discussed at the Aug council meeting and noted at the business meeting, thereafter to be passed along to the incoming chair. Meanwhile, let's stick with the PEWS PROCESS label to quickly identify input letters on the WSN. Fred Deyo, chair, PEWS. From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Mon Feb 20 19:34:18 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Mon Feb 20 19:34:17 1995 Received: from jhuml1.hcf.jhu.edu (jhuml1.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.86]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id TAA20701 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 19:34:17 -0700 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu by jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu (PMDF V4.3-9 #5488) id <01HNACJQF8QOH146ED@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 21:34:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 21:33:51 -0500 (EST) From: Christoph Chase-Dunn Subject: Re: pewspanels96 In-reply-to: <199502201930.MAA11879@csf.Colorado.EDU> To: FDEYO@ACSPR1.acs.brockport.edu Cc: Multiple recipients of list Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Thanks to Fred Deyo for suggesting that suggestions for the ASA prgoram be aired on WSN prior to the annual business meeting. Good idea. Re the notion that PEWS needs it own separate mailing list so as not to clog WSN, I dont think so. WSN does not have that much traffic except when there is an International Studies Meeting going on. There is no reason to set up a separate list. I think about half of the 400 subscribers to WSN are members of PEWS. The other half are mostly political scientists who are interested in world-systems. It is already a small audience. No reason to divide it further. We need to get the rest of the PEWS members to subscribe to wsn. chris Professor Christopher Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu From denemark@strauss.udel.edu Mon Feb 20 23:05:26 MST 1995 >From denemark@strauss.udel.edu Mon Feb 20 23:05:25 1995 Received: from strauss.udel.edu (strauss.udel.edu [128.175.13.74]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id XAA10158 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 23:05:24 -0700 Received: (from denemark@localhost) by strauss.udel.edu (8.6.8/8.6.6) id BAA03241; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 01:05:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 01:04:59 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Denemark To: world system network Subject: ISA Activities Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association will begin this coming Wednesday in Chicago. The World Historical System Sub-Section has a number of activities planned. First, the IPE Section Meeting (we are formally a sub-set of that body, and a show of support for our candidates, etc. at the regular business meeting never hurts) will be held on Wednesday, Feb 22nd. at l2:30 pm in onference Room 4C of the Chicago Hilton Hotel. Second (IMPORTANT), our business meeting will be on Saturday, Feb 25th at l2:20 in Conference Room 4G. Three issues of importance will be discussed. A quick review of plans for our up-coming meeting in Lund, Sweden will be presented. We will begin plans for our panels for the next ISA meeting, scheduled for next April in San Diego CA. We will also be looking for someone to coordinate our two or three panels at those meetings. While I will be happy to act as go-beteen with the IPE section and the ISA, I can't do the actual planning for next year. Anybody feeling particularly altruistic? Two or three panels aren't that tough to put together. Anybody need points for tenure&promotion or job search files? Anybody have an intellectual agenda. . . Third, we are sponsoring 3 panels. All are "D" panels that meet from 3:30 to 5:l5. I don't have room assignments yet. l. Wednesday D-2: Roundtable: Rise and Demise: Comparing World Systems This panel is our now annual review of a soon to be published work. This year Barry Gills' will chair the panel and Chris Chase-Dunn and Tom Hall are presenting their _Rise and Demise: Comparing World Systems_ to a panel of discussants including: William H. McNeill (Emeritis Chicago) Matthew Melko (Wright State) Jonathan Friedman (Lund) George Modelski (Washington) 2. Thursday B-l0: Regional Power Struggles, Buffer States, and the Rise of System Challengers This panel is our 'grad student' panel. One of a couple of different things we've been trying to keep life interesting. The chair and most paper givers are grads. Chair: Matthew Krain (Indiana) Papers: David Kelly (Indiana) "The Venetian-Genoese Regional Rivalry and the Rise of portugal as a Global Power" Elena Ermolaeva and Chris Chase-Dunn (Hopkins) "A Buffer-Zone in the Ancient Hawaiian World System: The Polulu Valley, Hawaii" Thomas Reifer (SUNY-Binghamton) "The Japanese Phoenix and the Transformation of East Asia: World Economy, Geopolitics, and Asian Regionalism in the Long 20th Century" Fengxiang Song (Kansas State) "Impacts of Increasing Integration in the World Economy on Regional Inequality and Well-Being in China in the Early l990s" Discussant: Kurt Burch (Delaware) 3. Friday D-6: Environmental Degradation in World Historical Systems Perspective Chair: Bob Denemark Papers: Sing Chew (Humboldt State) "Accumulation, Environmental Degradation, and Core-Periphery Relations in theWorld System, 2500 BCE to l993 CE" Albert Bergesen (Arizona) "Species-Being to Eco-Being: The Rise of Post-World system Morality" Peter Grimes (Hopkins) and Timmons ROBERTS (Tulane) "Emissions from Industrial Production in the Post-War Era: The Political Economy of Energy Efficienty in the World System, l950-l990" David Smith (UC-Irvine) "Global Restructuring and the Environment: Notes Toward a World System Analysis" Discussants: Aseem Prakash (Indiana) J. M. Blaut (Illinois-Chicago) I hope to see everyone in Chicago. From STEVEM@EINSTEIN.UNIPISSING.CA Tue Feb 21 07:32:19 MST 1995 >From STEVEM@EINSTEIN.UNIPISSING.CA Tue Feb 21 07:32:18 1995 Received: from dns1.unipissing.ca (dns2.unipissing.ca [192.197.167.65]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id HAA07537 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 07:32:16 -0700 Received: from smtpgate.unipissing.ca by dns1.unipissing.ca (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA09345; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 09:32:45 -0500 Received: by smtpgate.unipissing.ca with Microsoft Mail id <2F4A238A@smtpgate.unipissing.ca>; Tue, 21 Feb 95 09:31:54 PST From: Steve Muhlberger To: "WSN (World systems)" Subject: WSN as a PEWS forum Date: Tue, 21 Feb 95 09:31:00 PST Message-Id: <2F4A238A@smtpgate.unipissing.ca> Encoding: 8 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 I am not a PEWS or ASA member and am never likely to be. However, I think it would be silly for you PEWS members to set up a separate list for official PEWS business. Thbe amount of traffic is hardly overwhelming, and I am quite capable of hitting the "D" key; also, who would sign up for an "official business only" list? Steve Muhlberger From denemark@strauss.udel.edu Tue Feb 21 18:37:00 MST 1995 >From denemark@strauss.udel.edu Tue Feb 21 18:36:59 1995 Received: from strauss.udel.edu (strauss.udel.edu [128.175.13.74]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id SAA12073 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 18:36:58 -0700 Received: (from denemark@localhost) by strauss.udel.edu (8.6.8/8.6.6) id UAA24904; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 20:36:36 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 20:36:35 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Denemark To: world system network Subject: ISA Panel Correction Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII My posting on World Historical System Sub-section activities at the International Studies Association contained an error. I suggested that all of our panels were "D" panels (3:30-5:l5pm). That is incorrect. Our Wednesday and Friday panels are "D" panels, but our Thursday Panel, "Regional Power Struggles, Buffer States, and the Rise of System Challengers" is actually panel B-l0, and meets from l0:30-l2:l5. I'm sorry for any confusion this posting caused. I hope to see many of you at the ISA panels, and at our Saturday Business Meeting. Bob Denemark From rozov@adm.nsu.nsk.su Thu Feb 23 00:09:41 MST 1995 >From adm!adm.nsu.nsk.su!rozov@nsu.nsk.su Thu Feb 23 00:09:41 1995 Received: from nsu.nsk.su (mx.nsu.nsk.su [193.124.209.71]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id AAA08212 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 00:08:13 -0700 Received: by nsu.nsk.su (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA00144 for WSN@csf.colorado.edu; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 12:47:20 +0600 Received: by adm.nsu.nsk.su (UUPC/@ v5.09gamma, 14Mar93); Thu, 23 Feb 1995 12:43:20 +0600 To: WSN@csf.colorado.edu Message-Id: Organization: Novosibirsk State University From: "Nikolai S. Rozov" Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 12:43:18 +0600 X-Mailer: Mail [v1.8 MSDOS] Subject: Re: Re1: constructive typology Lines: 89 I am very grateful to Jack Owens for detailed comments to the "Constructive Typology of Societal Systems" which was posted on 25 January 1995 by me (Nikolai S. Rozov) and I would like now to clear some questions of the 1st part of Jack's message. Jack: It seems to me that the test of the value of a societal typology should be the degree it assists in the analysis of human action, where adequate account is taken both of the relatively stable factors and of change... Nikolai: I doubt that it is the unique or main test. The major role of human action analysis belongs to rather old sociological tradition (M.Weber, P.Sorokin, T.Parsons). My position is more close to the modern sociology (f.e. by A.Giddens) and integrated social-historical sciences (I.Wallerstein) which deal also with macrosocial events, structures and processes, long-term trends, political, military and economic blocks, international conflicts and wars, hegemonies, etc. I don't think that issues of this kind can be reduced to human actions problematique (although they surely include human actions). Namely for macrosociological problems and problems of theoretical history (von Bertalanffy) we need a clear taxonomy (typology) of societal systems (w-s, societies, civilizations, etc.) Nikolai Jan 25: The taxons in typology should not differ essentially in volume and meaning from their correspondent concepts. (The task is not a terminological revolution but conceptual clarification and systematization.) Jack: Nikolai, could you explain what you mean here? Nikolai: I tried again but it occured too long. This point is not very principal and I will send an answer directly to Jack and anybody else who is interested. Nikolai Jan 25. R3. The criteria of "essential" must be flexible because of development of our thought, research interests and values. Jack: I wonder if it would not be useful to recognize the need for flexibility also exists because a group we study may have developed in such a way that the "essential" changes. Nikolai: I agree but I would like to emphasize the significance of OUR more or less voluntary EPISTEMOLOGICAL DECISIONS of what features of group (societal system) in definite historical period we consider as essential in given study. Nikolai Jan 25: R4. The typology should be provided with the criteria and methods for empirical identification of s-systems. Jack: My assumption here is that the ultimate goal is comparison. Is this an accurate conclusion, Nikolai? Nikolai: It's a pity I cannot agree with you here, Jack. I have nothing agains comparison method and tradition in history but why should be comparison an ultimate goal for typology or any other mean of analysis? To be honest I suppose that the comparative approach is one of the primary empirical stages in research process. Really, when we lack a system of general concepts and theories what else can we do as to make comparison descriptions? I think that comparison is one of euristic ways (means, methods, research techniques) for distillating and creation of general concepts, paradigms and theories. The interest to comparing world-systems (f.e. writings of Chris Chase-Dann) tells me that w-s analysis is still a young discipline. I appreciate very much that Chris and other scholars pay more attention not to details of comparison but to invention of new conceptual tools of analysis. After the elaboration of sufficient conceptual apparatus new research tasks will be more actual. My own version of ultimate goal of research is rather traditional (see f.e. K.Popper or I.Lakatos) - to invent a complex of flexible deductive theories that can be applied for setting and solving of explanation, prediction and practical problems. Surely it's only my private position and this question is open for discussion. Nikolai ################################################################## Moderator of the e-list PHILOFHI (PHILosophy OF HIstory) Nikolai S. Rozov, Ph.D., Dr.Sc.(Social Philosophy) Dept.Philosophy, Novosibirsk State University ADDRESS: 630090, Novosibirsk, Pirogova 2, Russia FAX: 7/3832/35 52 37 E-MAIL: rozov@adm.nsu.nsk.su ################################################################## From SKSANDER@grove.iup.edu Thu Feb 23 09:09:53 MST 1995 >From SKSANDER@grove.iup.edu Thu Feb 23 09:09:50 1995 Received: from acorn.grove.iup.edu (acorn.grove.iup.edu [144.80.128.8]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id JAA03046 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 09:09:48 -0700 Received: from grove.iup.edu by grove.iup.edu (PMDF V4.3-13 #2467) id <01HNDXJ3UYDG9QV47M@grove.iup.edu>; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 11:09:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 11:09:19 -0500 (EST) From: s_sanderson To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-id: <01HNDXJ3UYDI9QV47M@grove.iup.edu> Organization: Indiana University of Pennsylvania X-Envelope-to: wsn@csf.colorado.edu X-VMS-To: NETMAIL%"wsn@csf.colorado.edu" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I want to retrive one of the articles from the electronic Journal of World-Systems Research but haven't retrieved anything in so long that I have forgotten the commands. Is there someone out there who knows them and can pass them along. Thanks. Stephen Sanderson From PODOBNIK@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU Thu Feb 23 11:08:36 MST 1995 >From PODOBNIK@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU Thu Feb 23 11:08:35 1995 Received: from JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU (jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.2]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id LAA16300 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 11:08:20 -0700 Message-Id: <199502231808.LAA16300@csf.Colorado.EDU> Received: from JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU by JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 9115; Thu, 23 Feb 95 12:57:59 EST Received: from JHUVM (NJE origin PODOBNIK@JHUVM) by JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 9114; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 12:24:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 12:23:47 EST From: Bruce Podobnik Subject: Protest Roett memo! To: WSN As most of you already know, Riordan Roett, the Director of Latin American Studies at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, recently published a memo in which he called for the elimination of the Zapatistas and also suggested that the Mexican government might not find it convenient to honor the results of upcoming elections. In order to increase the pressure on Director Roett, the following letter has been circulated within the Hopkins community and has been signed by a number of students. We urge you to draft a protest as well, and mail it to the following addresses: Riordan Roett Director of Latin American Studies School of Advanced International Studies 1740 Massachusetts Ave. N.W. Washington DC 20036 Dean George Packard School of Advanced International Studies 1740 Massachusetts Ave. N.W. Washington DC 20036 President William Richardson 242 Garland Hall Johns Hopkins University 34th and Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218 Thanks, Bruce Podobnik podobnik@jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu -------------------------------------------------------- LETTER OF PROTEST TO: Riordan Roett, Director of Latin American Studies Copies forwarded to Dean George Pratt, SAIS, and President William Richardson, Johns Hopkins University. FROM: Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University. RE: Memo Written by Director Roett regarding the current situation in Mexico. Director Roett: Feb. 22, 1995 We are writing in order to express our extreme dismay and outrage regarding statements contained in your document, "Chase Manhattan's Emerging Market's Group Memo," dated January 13, 1995. According to published reports, this document also served as the basis for a public presentation which you made at a January 11 seminar, organized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In both the memo and in the seminar, you offer recommendations to the Administration of President Ernesto Zedillo as to how to sustain foreign investor confidence in Mexico following the recent financial crisis. Two of your recommendations strike us as being particularly irresponsible. 1) In your memo you state, with reference to the government of President Zedillo: "The government will need to eliminate the Zapatistas to demonstrate their effective control of the national territory and of security policy." As Director of Latin American Studies at SAIS, you must have been aware that the Mexican government had been building up its security presence in Chiapas throughout the latter part of 1994. We believe that it was extremely irresponsible of you to make a public statement of this sort in such a highly- charged context. We would also note that Mexican security forces began a large-scale takeover of former rebel areas on February 9 (New York Times, Feb. 21 1995, A13), less than a month after your memo was published. Although news reports are sporadic, it appears that Mexican security forces are engaging in the widespread violation of the human rights of citizens in the region. 2) In your memo you also state, with reference to upcoming elections at the state-level in Mexico: "The Zedillo administration will need to consider carefully whether or not to allow opposition victories if fairly won at the ballot box." As you must know, Mexico has a very troubling history of electoral corruption. In recent Presidential elections, however, halting progress towards reforming the electoral process and ensuring that fair electoral outcomes are honored has been made. We therefore believe that it is extremely irresponsible of you to suggest that PRI, for whatever reason, might now want to reverse its efforts towards instituting truly fair democratic procedures in Mexico. We formally request from you a clarification regarding these points. We also call on you to publicly retract your statements by writing letters to the Mexican administration of Ernesto Zedillo, to the investors which attended your seminar, and to the Hopkins community. Given that your memo has been widely discussed and condemned on the Internet, we also suggest that you publish a retraction in that medium as well. Respectfully, (signatures deleted) From dassbach@mtu.edu Thu Feb 23 11:43:58 MST 1995 >From dassbach@mtu.edu Thu Feb 23 11:43:57 1995 Received: from mtu.edu (mtu.edu [141.219.70.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id LAA19792 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 11:43:56 -0700 Received: from social2 (social2.yth.mtu.edu [141.219.41.32]) by mtu.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA08380 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 13:43:29 -0500 Message-Id: <199502231843.NAA08380@mtu.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: mtu.edu: Host social2.yth.mtu.edu claimed to be social2 X-Sender: dassbach@youth.yth.mtu.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.3b4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 13:43:28 -0500 To: WSN@CSF.COLORADO.EDU From: dassbach@mtu.edu (Carl H.A. Dassbach) Subject: FYI - URL for European Sociologist The European Sociologist has a www site at the following address: http://www.qub.ac.uk/socsi/miller/esaintro.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Carl H.A. Dassbach E-mail: DASSBACH@MTU.EDU Dept. of Social Sciences Phone: (906)487-2115 Michigan Technological University Fax: (906)487-2468 Houghton, MI 49931 USA From I.R.Douglas@newcastle.ac.uk Fri Feb 24 05:53:29 MST 1995 >From I.R.Douglas@newcastle.ac.uk Fri Feb 24 05:53:27 1995 Received: from cheviot.ncl.ac.uk (cheviot.ncl.ac.uk [128.240.2.10]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id FAA07233 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 1995 05:51:37 -0700 Received: from TOWN4.ncl.ac.uk by cheviot.ncl.ac.uk id (8.6.9/ for ncl.ac.uk) with SMTP; Fri, 24 Feb 1995 12:51:17 GMT Received: from TOWN4/MAILQUEUE by TOWN4.ncl.ac.uk (Mercury 1.13); Fri, 24 Feb 95 12:51:16 GMT0BST Received: from MAILQUEUE by TOWN4 (Mercury 1.13); Fri, 24 Feb 95 12:50:56 GMT0BST From: "I.R.DOUGLAS" To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 12:50:46 GMT0BST Subject: (Fwd) Senate Bill to Regulate Internet (fwd) Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.22) Message-ID: <2EB10DF223E@TOWN4.ncl.ac.uk> ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 18:53:54 -0700 (MST) From: steven meinking To: Foucault List Cc: Design-L Subject: Senate Bill to Regulate Internet (fwd) Reply-to: foucault@jefferson.village.virginia.edu *** PROTECT THE INTERNET. READ THIS MESSAGE *** This document is an electronic Petition Statement to the U.S. Congress regarding pending legislation, the "Communications Decency Act of 1995" (S. 314) which will have, if passed, very serious negative ramifications for freedom of expression on Usenet, the Internet, and all electronic networks. The proposed legislation would remove guarantees of privacy and free speech on all electronic networks, including the Internet, and may even effectively close them down as a medium to exchange ideas and information. For an excellent analysis of this Bill by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), refer to the Appendix attached at the end of this document. The text to S. 314 is also included in this Appendix. This document is somewhat long, but the length is necessary to give you sufficient information to make an informed decision. Time is of the essence, we are going to turn this petition and the signatures in on 3/16/95, so if you are going to sign this please do so ASAP or at least before midnight Wednesday, March 15, 1995. Even if you read this petition after the due date, please submit your signature anyway as we expect Congress to continue debating these issues in the foreseeable future and the more signatures we get, the more influence the petition will have on discussion. And even if Congress rejects S. 314 while signatures are being gathered, do submit your signature anyway for the same reason. Please do upload this petition statement as soon as possible to any BBS and on-line service in your area. If you have access to one of the major national on-line services such as CompuServe, Prodigy, AOL, etc., do try to upload it there. We are trying to get at least 5000 signatures. Even more signatures are entirely possible if we each put in a little effort to inform others, such as friends and coworkers, about the importance of this petition to electronic freedom of expression. Here is a brief table of contents: (1) Introduction (this section) (2) The Petition Statement (3) Instructions for signing this petition (4) Credits (Appendix) Analysis and text of S. 314 (LONG but excellent) ******(2) The Petition Statement In united voice, we sign this petition against passage of S. 314 (the "Communications Decency Act of 1995") for these reasons: S. 314 would prohibit not only individual speech that is "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent", but would prohibit any provider of telecommunications service from carrying such traffic, under threat of stiff penalty. Even aside from the implications for free speech, this would cause an undue - and unjust - burden upon operators of the various telecommunications services. In a time when the citizenry and their lawmakers alike are calling for and passing "no unfunded mandates" laws to the benefit of the states, it is unfortunate that Congress might seek to impose unfunded mandates upon businesses that provide the framework for the information age. An additional and important consideration is the technical feasibility of requiring the sort of monitoring this bill would necessitate. The financial burden in and of itself - in either manpower or technology to handle such monitoring (if even legal under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act) - would likely cause many smaller providers to go out of business, and most larger providers to seriously curtail their services. The threat of such penalty alone would result in a chilling effect in the telecommunications service community, not only restricting the types of speech expressly forbidden by the bill, but creating an environment contrary to the Constitutional principles of free speech, press, and assembly - principles which entities such as the Internet embody as nothing has before. By comparison, placing the burden for content control upon each individual user is surprisingly simple in the online and interactive world, and there is no legitimate reason to shift that burden to providers who carry that content. Unlike traditional broadcast media, networked media is comparatively easy to screen on the user end - giving the reader, viewer, or participant unparalleled control over his or her own information environment. All without impacting or restricting what any other user wishes to access. This makes regulation such as that threatened by this S. 314 simply unnecessary. In addition, during a period of ever-increasing commercial interest in arenas such as the Internet, restriction and regulation of content or the flow of traffic across the various telecommunications services would have serious negative economic effects. The sort of regulation proposed by this bill would slow the explosive growth the Internet has seen, giving the business community reason to doubt the medium's commercial appeal. We ask that the Senate halt any further progress of this bill. We ask that the Senate be an example to Congress as a whole, and to the nation at large - to promote the general welfare as stated in the Preamble to the Constitution by protecting the free flow of information and ideas across all of our telecommunications services. ******(3) Instructions for signing the petition ====================================== Instructions for Signing This Petition ====================================== It must first be noted that this is a petition, not a vote. By "signing" it you agree with *all* the requests made in the petition. If you do not agree with everything in this petition, then your only recourse is to not sign it. In addition, all e-mail signatures will be submitted to Congress, the President of the United States, and the news media. Including your full name is optional, but *very highly encouraged* as that would add to the effectiveness of the petition. Signing via an anonymous remailer is highly discouraged, but not forbidden, as an attempt will be made to separately tally signatures from anonymous remailers. Because this is a Petition to the U.S. Congress, we ask that you state, as instructed below, whether or not you are a U.S. citizen. We do encourage non-U.S. citizens to sign, but their signatures will be tallied separately. Signing this petition is not hard, but to make sure your signature is not lost or miscounted, please follow these directions EXACTLY: 1) Prepare an e-mail message. In the main body (NOT the Subject line) of your e-mail include the ONE-LINE statement: SIGNED You need not include the "<" and ">" characters. 'SIGNED' should be capitalized. As stated above, your full name is optional, but highly recommended. If you do supply your name, please don't use a pseudonym or nickname, or your first name -- it's better to just leave it blank if it's not your full and real name. If you are a U.S. citizen, please include at the end of the signature line a 'YES', and if you are not, a 'NO'. All signatures will be tallied whether or not you are a U.S. Citizen **************************************************** Example: My e-mail signature would be: SIGNED dave@kachina.altadena.ca.us Dave C. Hayes YES **************************************************** 2) Please DON'T include a copy of this petition, nor any other text, in your e-mail message. If you have comments to make, send e-mail to me personally, and NOT to the special petition e-mail signature address. 3) Send your e-mail message containing your signature to the following Internet e-mail address and NOT to me: =========================== s314-petition@netcom.com =========================== 4) Within a few days of receipt of your signature, an automated acknowledgment will be e-mailed to you for e-mail address verification purposes. You do not need to respond or reply to this acknowledgement when you receive it. We may also contact you again in the future should we need more information, such as who your House Representative and Senators are, which is not asked here as it is unclear whether such information is needed. Thank you for signing this petition! ******(4) Credits The petition statement was written by slowdog , super.net.freedom.fighter. The rest of this document mostly collated from the net by Dave Hayes, net.freedom.fighter. Much help came from Jon Noring, INFJ and self.proclaimed.net.activist who made a few suggestions and will be tallying the signatures. Thanks to the EFF and CDT for the excellent analysis of the bill. (p.s., send your signature to s314-petition@netcom.com) ******(Appendix) Analysis and text of S. 314 [This analysis provided by the Center for Democracy and Technology, a non-profit public interest organization. CDT's mission is to develop and advocate public policies that advance Constitutional civil liberties and democratic values in new computer and communications technologies. For more information on CDT, ask Jonah Seiger .] CDT POLICY POST 2/9/95 SENATOR EXON INTRODUCES ONLINE INDECENCY LEGISLATION A. OVERVIEW Senators Exon (D-NE) and Senator Gorton (R-WA) have introduced legislation to expand current FCC regulations on obscene and indecent audiotext to cover *all* content carried over all forms of electronic communications networks. If enacted, the "Communications Decency Act of 1995" (S. 314) would place substantial criminal liability on telecommunications service providers (including telephone networks, commercial online services, the Internet, and independent BBS's) if their network is used in the transmission of any indecent, lewd, threatening or harassing messages. The legislation is identical to a proposal offered by Senator Exon last year which failed along with the Senate Telecommunications reform bill (S. 1822, 103rd Congress, Sections 801 - 804). The text the proposed statute, with proposed amendment, is appended at the end of this document. The bill would compel service providers to chose between severely restricting the activities of their subscribers or completely shutting down their email, Internet access, and conferencing services under the threat of criminal liability. Moreover, service providers would be forced to closely monitor every private communication, electronic mail message, public forum, mailing list, and file archive carried by or available on their network, a proposition which poses a substantial threat to the freedom of speech and privacy rights of all American citizens. S. 314, if enacted, would represent a tremendous step backwards on the path to a free and open National Information Infrastructure. The bill raises fundamental questions about the ability of government to control content on communications networks, as well as the locus of liability for content carried in these new communications media. To address this threat to the First Amendment in digital media, CDT is working to organize a broad coalition of public interest organizations including the ACLU, People For the American Way, and Media Access Project, along with representatives from the telecommunications, online services, and computer industries to oppose S. 314 and to explore alternative policy solutions that preserve the free flow of information and freedom of speech in the online world. CDT believes that technological alternatives which allow individual subscribers to control the content they receive represent a more appropriate approach to this issue. B. SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS OF S. 314 S. 314 would expand current law restricting indecency and harassment on telephone services to all telecommunications providers and expand criminal liability to *all* content carried by *all* forms of telecommunications networks. The bill would amend Section 223 of the Communications Act (47 U.S.C. 223), which requires carriers to take steps to prevent minors from gaining access to indecent audiotext and criminalizes harassment accomplished over interstate telephone lines. This section, commonly known as the Helms Amendment (having been championed by Senator Jesse Helms), has been the subject of extended Constitutional litigation in recent years. * CARRIERS LIABLE FOR CONDUCT OF ALL USERS ON THEIR NETWORKS S. 314 would make telecommunication carriers (including telephone companies, commercial online services, the Internet, and BBS's) liable for every message, file, or other content carried on its network -- including the private conversations or messages exchanged between two consenting individuals. Under S. 314, anyone who "makes, transmits, or otherwise makes available any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or other communication" which is "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent" using a "telecommunications device" would be subject to a fine of $100,000 or two years in prison (Section (2)(a)). In order to avoid liability under this provision, carriers would be forced to pre-screen all messages, files, or other content before transmitting it to the intended recipient. Carriers would also be forced to prevent or severely restrict their subscribers from communicating with individuals and accessing content available on other networks. Electronic communications networks do not contain discrete boundaries. Instead, users of one service can easily communicate with and access content available on other networks. Placing the onus, and criminal liability, on the carrier as opposed to the originator of the content, would make the carrier legally responsible not only for the conduct of its own subscribers, but also for content generated by subscribers of other services. This regulatory scheme clearly poses serious threats to the free flow of information throughout the online world and the free speech and privacy rights of individual users. Forcing carriers to pre-screen content would not only be impossible due to the sheer volume of messages, it would also violate current legal protections. * CARRIERS REQUIRED TO ACT AS PRIVATE CENSOR OF ALL PUBLIC FORUMS AND ARCHIVES S. 314 would also expand current restrictions on access to indecent telephone audiotext services by minors under the age of 18 to cover similar content carried by telecommunications services (such as America Online and the Internet). (Sec (a)(4)). As amended by this provision, anyone who, "by means of telephone or telecommunications device, makes, transmits, or otherwise makes available (directly or by recording device) any indecent communication for commercial purposes which is available to any person under the age of 18 years of age or to any other person without that person's consent, regardless of whether the maker of such communication placed the call or initiated the communication" would be subject of a fine of $100,000 or two years in prison. This would force carries to act as private censors of all content available in public forums or file archives on their networks. Moreover, because there is no clear definition of indecency, carriers would have to restrict access to any content that could be possibly construed as indecent or obscene under the broadest interpretation of the term. Public forums, discussion lists, file archives, and content available for commercial purposes would have to be meticulously screened and censored in order to avoid potential liability for the carrier. Such a scenario would severely limit the diversity of content available on online networks, and limit the editorial freedom of independent forum operators. ADDITIONAL NOTABLE PROVISIONS * AMENDMENT TO ECPA Section (6) of the bill would amend the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (18 USC 2511) to prevent the unauthorized interception and disclosure of "digital communications" (Sec. 6). However, because the term "digital communication" is not defined and 18 USC 2511 currently prevents unauthorized interception and disclosure of "electronic communications" (which includes electronic mail and other forms of communications in digital form), the effect of this provision has no clear importance. * CABLE OPERATORS MAY REFUSE INDECENT PUBLIC ACCESS PROGRAMMING Finally, section (8) would amend sections 611 and 612 of the Communications Act (47 USC 611 - 612) to allow any cable operator to refuse to carry any public access or leased access programming which contains "obscenity, indecency, or nudity". C. ALTERNATIVES TO EXON: RECOGNIZE THE UNIQUE USER CONTROL CAPABILITIES OF INTERACTIVE MEDIA Government regulation of content in the mass media has always been considered essential to protect children from access to sexually-explicit material, and to prevent unwitting listeners/views from being exposed to material that might be considered extremely distasteful. The choice to protect children has historically been made at the expense of the First Amendment ban on government censorship. As Congress moves to regulate new interactive media, it is essential that it understand that interactive media is different than mass media. The power and flexibility of interactive media offers a unique opportunity to enable parents to control what content their kids have access to, and leave the flow of information free for those adults who want it. Government control regulation is simply not needed to achieve the desired purpose. Most interactive technology, such as Internet browsers and the software used to access online services such as America Online and Compuserve, already has the capability to limit access to certain types of services and selected information. Moreover, the electronic program guides being developed for interactive cable TV networks also provide users the capability to screen out certain channels or ever certain types of programming. Moreover, in the online world, most content (with the exception of private communications initiated by consenting individuals) is transmitted by request. In other words, users must seek out the content they receive, whether it is by joining a discussion or accessing a file archive. By its nature, this technology provides ample control at the user level. Carriers (such as commercial online services, Internet service providers) in most cases act only as "carriers" of electronic transmissions initiated by individual subscribers. CDT believes that the First Amendment will be better served by giving parents and other users the tools to select which information they (and their children) should have access to. In the case of criminal content the originator of the content, not the carriers, should be responsible for their crimes. And, users (especially parents) should be empowered to determine what information they and their children have access to. If all carriers of electronic communications are forced restrict content in order to avoid criminal liability proposed by S. 314, the First Amendment would be threatened and the usefulness of digital media for communications and information dissemination would be drastically limited. D. NEXT STEPS The bill has been introduced and will next move to the Senate Commerce Committee, although no Committee action has been scheduled. Last year, a similar proposal by Senator Exon was approved by the Senate Commerce committee as an amendment to the Senate Telecommunications Bill (S. 1822, which died at the end of the 103rd Congress). CDT will be working with a wide range of other interest groups to assure that Congress does not restrict the free flow of information in interactive media. TEXT OF 47 U.S.C. 223 AS AMENDED BY S. 314 **NOTE: [] = deleted ALL CAPS = additions 47 USC 223 (1992) Sec. 223. [Obscene or harassing telephone calls in the District of Columbia or in interstate or foreign communications] OBSCENE OR HARASSING UTILIZATION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVICES AND FACILITIES IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA OR IN INTERSTATE OR FOREIGN COMMUNICATIONS" (a) Whoever-- (1) in the District of Columbia or in interstate or foreign communication by means of [telephone] TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVICE-- (A) [makes any comment, request, suggestion or proposal] MAKES, TRANSMITS, OR OTHERWISE MAKES AVAILABLE ANY COMMENT,REQUEST, SUGGESTION, PROPOSAL, IMAGE, OR OTHER COMMUNICATION which is obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent; [(B) makes a telephone call, whether or not conversation ensues, without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person at the called number;] "(B) MAKES A TELEPHONE CALL OR UTILIZES A TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, WHETHER OR NOT CONVERSATION OR COMMUNICATIONS ENSUES,WITHOUT DISCLOSING HIS IDENTITY AND WITH INTENT TO ANNOY, ABUSE, THREATEN, OR HARASS ANY PERSON AT THE CALLED NUMBER OR WHO RECEIVES THE COMMUNICATION; (C) makes or causes the telephone of another repeatedly or continuously to ring, with intent to harass any person at the called number; or [(D) makes repeated telephone calls, during which conversation ensues, solely to harass any person at the called number; or] (D) MAKES REPEATED TELEPHONE CALLS OR REPEATEDLY INITIATES COMMUNICATION WITH A TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, DURING WHICH CONVERSATION OR COMMUNICATION ENSUES, SOLELY TO HARASS ANY PERSON AT THE CALLED NUMBER OR WHO RECEIVES THE COMMUNICATION, (2) knowingly permits any [telephone facility] TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITY under his control to be used for any purpose prohibited by this section, shall be fined not more than $[50,000]100,000 or imprisoned not more than [six months] TWO YEARS, or both. (b)(1) Whoever knowingly-- (A) within the United States, by means of [telephone] TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVICCE, makes (directly or by recording device) any obscene communication for commercial purposes to any person, regardless of whether the maker of such communication placed the call or INITIATED THE COMMUNICATION; or (B) permits any [telephone facility] TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITY under such person's control to be used for an activity prohibited by subparagraph (A), shall be fined in accordance with title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. (2) Whoever knowingly-- (A) within the United States, [by means of telephone], makes BY MEANS OF TELEPHONE OR TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, MAKES, TRANSMITS, OR MAKES AVAILABLE(directly or by recording device) any indecent communication for commercial purposes which is available to any person under 18 years of age or to any other person without that person's consent, regardless of whether the maker of such communication placed the call OR INITIATED THE COMMUNICATION; or (B) permits any [telephone facility] TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITY under such person's control to be used for an activity prohibited by subparagraph (A), shall be fined not more than $[50,000] 100,000 or imprisoned not more than [six months] TWO YEARS, or both. (3) It is a defense to prosecution under paragraph (2) of this subsection that the defendant restrict access to the prohibited communication to persons 18 years of age or older in accordance with subsection (c) of this section and with such procedures as the Commission may prescribe by regulation. (4) In addition to the penalties under paragraph (1), whoever, within the United States, intentionally violates paragraph (1) or (2) shall be subject to a fine of not more than $[50,000] 100,000 for each violation. For purposes of this paragraph, each day of violation shall constitute a separate violation. (5)(A) In addition to the penalties under paragraphs (1), (2), and (5), whoever, within the United States, violates paragraph (1) or (2) shall be subject to a civil fine of not more than $[50,000] 100,000 for each violation. For purposes of this paragraph, each day of violation shall constitute a separate violation. (B) A fine under this paragraph may be assessed either-- (i) by a court, pursuant to civil action by the Commission or any attorney employed by the Commission who is designated by the Commission for such purposes, or (ii) by the Commission after appropriate administrative proceedings. (6) The Attorney General may bring a suit in the appropriate district court of the United States to enjoin any act or practice which violates paragraph (1) or (2). An injunction may be granted in accordance with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. (c)(1) A common carrier within the District of Columbia or within any State, or in interstate or foreign commerce, shall not, to the extent technically feasible, provide access to a communication specified in subsection (b) from the telephone of any subscriber who has not previously requested in writing the carrier to provide access to such communication if the carrier collects from subscribers an identifiable charge for such communication that the carrier remits, in whole or in part, to the provider of such communication. (2) Except as provided in paragraph (3), no cause of action may be brought in any court or administrative agency against any common carrier, or any of its affiliates, including their officers, directors, employees, agents, or authorized representatives on account of-- (A) any action which the carrier demonstrates was taken in good faith to restrict access pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection; or (B) any access permitted-- (i) in good faith reliance upon the lack of any representation by a provider of communications that communications provided by that provider are communications specified in subsection (b), or (ii) because a specific representation by the provider did not allow the carrier, acting in good faith, a sufficient period to restrict access to communications described in subsection (b). (3) Notwithstanding paragraph (2) of this subsection, a provider of communications services to which subscribers are denied access pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection may bring an action for a declaratory judgment or similar action in a court. Any such action shall be limited to the question of whether the communications which the provider seeks to provide fall within the category of communications to which the carrier will provide access only to subscribers who have previously requested such access. ********************************************* NOTE: This version of the text shows the actual text of current law as it would be changed. For the bill itself, which consists of unreadable text such as: [...] (1) in subsection (a)(1)-- (A) by striking out `telephone' in the matter above subparagraph (A) and inserting `telecommunications device'; From OWENJACK@fs.isu.edu Fri Feb 24 11:23:43 MST 1995 >From OWENJACK@fs.isu.edu Fri Feb 24 11:23:42 1995 Received: from ux1.isu.edu (ux1.isu.edu [134.50.254.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id LAA04159 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 1995 11:23:40 -0700 Received: from FS.ISU.EDU ([134.50.250.3]) by ux1.isu.edu with SMTP (1.37.109.15/16.2) id AA092750119; Fri, 24 Feb 1995 11:21:59 -0700 Received: from FS/MAILQUEUE by FS.ISU.EDU (Mercury 1.13); Fri, 24 Feb 95 11:26:09 -0600 Received: from MAILQUEUE by FS (Mercury 1.13); Fri, 24 Feb 95 11:26:06 -0600 From: "J B Owens" Organization: Idaho State University To: WSN@csf.colorado.edu Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 11:25:59 MDT Subject: Thanks for grad program info Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.22) Message-Id: <25229F1275D@FS.ISU.EDU> I want to thank everyone who responded to my query about Sociology graduate programs offering work in world-systems research. My daughter has just had to make an unexpected, rapid, and disruptive move to a new apartment in Madrid, but as the dust now seems to be settling, I suspect that you will begin to hear from her soon. Jack J. B. "Jack" Owens Department of History Idaho State University Pocatello, ID 83209 USA Voice: (208) 233-8589 e-mail: owenjack@isu.edu www: http://isuux.isu.edu/~owenjack From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Fri Feb 24 16:20:48 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Fri Feb 24 16:20:47 1995 Received: from jhuml2.hcf.jhu.edu (jhuml2.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.87]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id QAA03210 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 1995 16:20:46 -0700 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu by jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu (PMDF V4.3-9 #5488) id <01HNFQXDRIN4HQ1H03@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Fri, 24 Feb 1995 18:20:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 18:20:24 -0500 (EST) From: Christoph Chase-Dunn Subject: Intl Soc. for Comp. Study of Civilizations meeting (fwd) To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Professor Christopher Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 11:36:50 -0500 From: David M Fahey To: Multiple recipients of list WORLD-L Subject: Intl Soc. for Comp. Study of Civilizations meeting The International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations will hold its 24th annual meeting on 15-18 June 1995 at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio 45435. Jan Gabbert (classics) is in charge of local arrangements. For details phone Terry Miles or Jane Schelb at the Wright State Conference Center (513-873-5512). My source for this information is the chair of the program committee, Corrine Gilb (415-299-9241). David Fahey (Miami Univ.) dfahey@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu From THALL@DEPAUW.EDU Sun Feb 26 10:56:29 MST 1995 >From THALL@DEPAUW.EDU Sun Feb 26 10:56:19 1995 Received: from depauw.edu (DEPAUW.EDU [163.120.1.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id KAA21086; Sun, 26 Feb 1995 10:56:17 -0700 Received: from DEPAUW.EDU by DEPAUW.EDU (PMDF #5830 ) id <01HNI89FIP3K00GRW6@DEPAUW.EDU>; Sun, 26 Feb 1995 12:59:02 EST Date: 26 Feb 1995 12:59:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas D. [Tom] Hall, THALL@DEPAUW.EDU" Subject: Should this book be reprinted? To: arch-theory@mailbase.ac.uk Cc: ane@mithra-orinst.uchicago.edu, ipe@csf.colorado.edu, world-l <@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU:world-l@ubvm.bitnet>, wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-id: <01HNI89FIYQQ00GRW6@DEPAUW.EDU> X-VMS-To: ARTH X-VMS-Cc: ANE IPE WL WSN MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT M E M O R A N D U M TO: WSN, IPE, ANE, ARCH-L, HWORLD, WORLD-L FROM: Thomas D. Hall, THALL@DEPAUW.EDU Christopher Chase-Dunn, CHRISCD@JHUNIX.HCF.JHU.EDU RE: Reprinting Core/Periphery Relations DATE: February 26, 1995 ATTENTION: Those who dislike book notices, or are on more than one of the listservs in "TO" hit "DEL" now! Westview has notified us that our edited collection is entirely out of stock. As editors we, naturally, would like to see it reprinted, but are aware it may have run its course. Because in the last two years people from each of the listservs above have corresponded with us about the collection, we are posting this general request. Should this collection be reprinted? If yes have you, or would you, use it in a class? Could you send replies to: Tom Hall thall@depauw.edu or if you want write directly to: Dean Birkencamp Acquisition Editor Westview Press 5500 Central Avenue Boulder, CO 80301 Thanks, in advance, to all who respond. Apologies to all others for this mail. Table of Contents: Chase-Dunn, Christopher, and Thomas D. Hall. 1991. CORE/PERIPHERY RELATIONS IN PRECAPITALIST WORLDS. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. INTRODUCTION. Chase-Dunn, Christopher, and Thomas D. Hall. Pp. 1-4 1. Chase-Dunn, Christopher, and Thomas D. Hall. Conceptualizing Core/Periphery Hierarchies for Comparative Study. Pp. 5-44. 2. Schneider, Jane. Was There a Precapitalist World-system? Pp. 45-66 [The only reprint of her classic 1977 article] 3. Gills, Barry K., and Andre Gunder Frank. 5000 Years of World System History: The Cumulation of Accumulation. Pp. 67-112 4. Wilkinson, David. Core, Peripheries, and Civilizations. Pp. 113-166 5. Sanderson, Stephen K. The Evolution of Societies and World- Systems. Pp. 167-192 6. Peregrine, Peter. Prehistoric Chiefdoms on the American Midcontinent: A World-system Based on Prestige Goods. Pp. 193-211 7. Hall, Thomas D. The Role of Nomads in Core/periphery Relations. Pp. 212-239 8. Feinman, Gary M., and Linda M. Nicholas. The Monte Alban State: A Diachronic Perspective on an Ancient Core and Its Periphery. Pp. 240-276 EPILOGUE. Chase-Dunn, Christopher, and Thomas D. Hall. Pp. 277-290 INDEX 291-300  From pdm1@cornell.edu Tue Feb 28 05:51:45 MST 1995 >From pdm1@cornell.edu Tue Feb 28 05:51:44 1995 Received: from postoffice.mail.cornell.edu (POSTOFFICE.MAIL.CORNELL.EDU [132.236.56.7]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id FAA26783 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 05:51:43 -0700 Received: from [132.236.102.72] (CU-DIALUP-0058.CIT.CORNELL.EDU [132.236.102.72]) by postoffice.mail.cornell.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA29996 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 07:51:16 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 07:51:16 -0500 X-Sender: pdm1@postoffice.mail.cornell.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu From: pdm1@cornell.edu (Philip McMichael) Subject: PEWS award, 1995 Colleagues -- please note that there is just ONE MONTH left for nominations (including self-nominations) to be made (to Philip McMichael, Rural Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853) for the 1995 PEWS award. 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