Political Science and International Relations News from SAGE

Dear Dr Lindner,

SAGE Publications will attend the forthcoming 47th Annual ISA Convention
March 22-25 2006 at the Town & Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego. Please remember to visit the SAGE stand and take advantage of the conference discount!

SAGE Books

Global Civil Society 2005/6
Edited by Helmut Anheier Center for Civil Society, School of Public Policy and Social Research, UCLA, Mary Kaldor and Marlies Glasius both at Centre for Civil Society and Centre for the Study of Global Goverance, LSE
The Global Civil Society Yearbook is the standard work on all aspects of contemporary global civil society for activists, practitioners, students and academics alike.

The SAGE Handbook of Nations and Nationalism
Edited by Gerard Delanty University of Liverpool and Krishan Kumar University of Delhi
This Handbook gives readers a critical survey of the latest theories and debates and provides a glimpse of the issues that will shape their future.

Measuring Attitudes Cross Nationally
Lessons from the European Social Survey
Edited by Roger Jowell, Caroline Roberts, Rory Fitzgerald and Gillian Eva all at City University
This book, written by members of the design and implementation team for the groundbreaking European Social Survey (ESS), reviews current best practice in the conduct of cross-national, cross-cultural quantitative research.

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SAGE Journals

International Relations

Announcing:
Tragedy, Ethics and International Relations A Panel organised by International Relations for the ISA Venue: Royal Palm Salon 2 Date: Friday March 24th - 3.45 - 5.30pm Refreshments will be available.
- Chair - Toni Erskine, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
- Tragedy or Scepticism? Defending the Anti-Pelagian Mind in World Politics - Nicholas J. Rengger, University of St. Andrews, UK
- Tragedy, Ethics and International Relations - Mervyn Frost, King’s College, London, UK
- Tragedy, Politics and Political Science - Richard Ned Lebow, Dartmouth College, USA
- Tragedy, Progress and the International Order - James Mayall, University of Cambridge, UK
- Discussant - J. Peter Euben, Duke University, USA

For more information contact Toni Erskine

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European Journal of International Relations
Published in association with Standing Group on International Relations of the ECPR

Recent Highlights:
- Friedrich Kratochwil History, Action and Identity: Revisiting the 'Second' Great Debate and Assessing its Importance for Social Theory
- Michael C. Williams What is the National Interest? The Neoconservative Challenge in IR Theory
- Michael Cox Beyond the West: Terrors in Transatlantia
- John M. Hobson and J. C. Sharman The Enduring Place of Hierarchy in World Politics: Tracing the Social Logics of Hierarchy and Political Change
- John Gerard Ruggie Reconstituting the Global Public Domain - Issues, Actors, and Practices
- Stefano Guzzini The Enduring Dilemmas of Realism in International Relations

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Security Dialogue
Published in association with International Peace Research Institute, Oslo
"One of the best journals for security issues of the world" - Ulrich Beck

Recent Highlights
- Gunhild Hoogensen and Svein Vigeland Rottem - Gender Identity and the Subject of Security
- Jürgen Altmann - Military Uses of Nanotechnology: Perspectives and Concerns
- Taylor Owen - Human Security - Conflict, Critique and Consensus: Colloquium Remarks and a Proposal for a Threshold-Based Definition
- Paul Roe - Securitization and Minority Rights: Conditions of Desecuritization
- Edward Newman - A Normatively Attractive but Analytically Weak Concept Weiss
- Lori Handrahan - Conflict, Gender, Ethnicity and Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Special Issues & Special Sections
- Volume 36 Issue 3: 2 special sections: The Report of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change And European Security and Transatlantic Relations in the Age of International Terrorism
- Volume 36 Issue 4: special section on Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
- Volume 37 Issue 1: special section on Theorizing the Liberty-Security Relation

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Journal of Peace Research
Published in association with International Peace Research Institute, Oslo

Top Dowloaded Articles:
- Mikael Eriksson & Peter Wallensteen Armed Conflict, 1989-2003
- Alfred L. McAlister Moral Disengagement: Measurement and Modification
- Michael L. Ross What Do We Know about Natural Resources and Civil War?
- Jonathan Fox The Rise of Religious Nationalism and Conflict: Ethnic Conflict and Revolutionary Wars, 1945-2001
- Karl R. de Rouen & David Sobek The Dynamics of Civil War Duration and Outcome

Recent Special Issue: Demography and Violence (Volume 42/Issue 4 2005).

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Now published by SAGE!
Journal of Developing Societies
A Forum on Issues of Development and Change in All Societies

Recent Themed Issues
- Special issue on 'Latin American Conglomerates and Economic Groups under Globalization'. Co-edited by guest editors Alex E. Fernández Jilberto
- Special issue on 'Bangladesh', edited by Anil B. Deolalikar
- A special double issue on 'Critical Perspectives on Inter-American Relations: Essays on Globalization, Regionalization and Unilateralism in the Americas'. Co-edited by guest editors Jorg Nef and Harry Vanden

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Other Key Journals Include:

Armed Forces & Society - New to SAGE in 2005!
Comparative Political Studies
East European Politics and Societies
European Union Politics
International Politics Science Review
International Studies
Journal of Conflict Resolution
Review of Radical Political Economics
The Annals

Kind regards
Lorna McConville
SAGE Publications
Tel: +44 (0)20 7324 8500
www.sagepub.co.uk
lorna.mcconville@sagepub.co.uk