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Dominican University Hosts First College Debate 2016: Engaging America’s Youth

Thursday, April 07, 2016

By Gigi Gokcek, PhD and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar, PhD, EdD Young Americans are politically active, but not at the voting booth. According to a 2015 report from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University, a mere 19.9 percent of 18-to 29-year-olds voted in 2014 compared to 26.6 percent in […]

Is War Too Easy?

Thursday, April 07, 2016

Matthew Evangelista Although estimates vary, since November 2001 the United States has used armed drones—known more formally as unmanned or remotely piloted aerial vehicles—to kill several thousand people, among whom hundreds were noncombatants and perhaps unintentionally or mistakenly targeted. By contrast, during that same period, U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq —and the civil conflicts […]

Political Science in Real Time: Engaging the Middle East Policy Public

Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Marc Lynch A decade ago, very few political scientists had either the opportunity or the incentive to engage with the political public in a direct, unmediated way. Today, there is a dense and eclectic ecosystem of political science and international relations-focused blogs and online publications, where good work can easily find an audience through social […]

Beyond East and West: Reorienting Political Theory through the Prism of Modernity

Tuesday, April 05, 2016

Loubna El Amine While critiquing the dominance of the Western tradition in the discipline of political theory, recent methodological discussions in Comparative Political Theory (CPT) fail to move beyond the East-West dichotomy. More specifically, CPT does not offer the resources to deal with global convergence as embodied in the phenomenon of modernity. I focus on […]

A Minilateral Solution for Global Climate Change? On Bargaining Efficiency, Club Benefits, and International Legitimacy

Monday, April 04, 2016

Robert Falkner Gridlock in the multilateral climate negotiations has created growing scholarly and practical interest in the use of minilateral forums. A large variety of climate club proposals have been developed in recent years, which promise more effective bargaining among the main climate powers, better incentives to encourage mitigation efforts and discourage free-riding, and new […]

How to Get Away with Cholera: The UN, Haiti, and International Law

Friday, April 01, 2016

Mara Pillinger, Ian Hurd, Michael N. Barnett The legalization of world politics is often celebrated for reducing impunity for those who contribute to humanitarian crises. This may sometimes be true but the opposite is also true. In 2010, United Nations peacekeepers unwittingly brought cholera to Haiti and sparked an epidemic. Nearly a million people were […]

Rethinking the Political Science Fiction Nexus: Global Policy Making and the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Charli Carpenter A burgeoning literature in IR asserts there is a relationship between pop cultural artifacts and global policy processes, but this relationship is rarely explored using observational data. To fill this gap, I provide an evidence-based exploration of the relationship between science-fiction narratives and global public policy in an important emerging political arena: norm-building […]

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Hotels and conference spaces for meetings as large as APSA are contracted at least 5 years in advance. We are happy to have been able to select cities the membership indicated were highly desirable to them, and that were able to provide us with non-Labor Day weekend dates. APSA's 117th Annual Meeting will be held in Seattle September 29-October 3, 2021 at the Washington Convention Center and Sheraton Seattle. APSA's 118th Annual Meeting will be held in Montreal September 14-18, 2022 at Palais des congrès de Montréal/The Montreal Convention Center and the Westin Montreal. APSA had done in-depth analysis to be able to make these changes. Learn more.

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Perspectives on Politics
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Replication and Data Research Transparency (DA-RT)
Providing appropriate access to evidence, and research transparency or interpretability, are among the most important topics in the social sciences today. Recent discussions of implementation of guidelines in social science journals are engaging many APSA members and revealing many compelling views. Therefore, we provide a variety of materials to inform this vital discussion. Read the presidents’ statement on implementation of guidelines in the APSR.

A Proposal for a New APSA Journal
APSA proposes adding a new online-only open access journal to its publication portfolio. This journal will be free of all paywalls or subscription requirements, meaning that it will be accessible to anyone in the world with an Internet connection. Read the proposal.