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*ECAAR News
*Links
*In Other News
*Funding Opportunities
*ECAAR Publications
*Action Corner
*Upcoming Events
*ECAAR NEWS*
* This is the First Anniversary issue of NewsNotes. It is also the beginning
of ECAAR's 15th year. NewsNotes has been a very successful endeavor for
ECAAR. Since our initial issue last January the number of subscribers has
more than tripled. Members, and even non-members, are starting to send in
listings for conferences, and announcements for upcoming publications. We
hope you enjoy this monthly reminder of what's going on at ECAAR. Please
use it as a way to keep in touch with us and with other like-minded colleagues.
The recent past has been a time of great energy and growth for ECAAR. We
now have three full time and one part time staff. We have just returned
from successful ASSA/AEA meetings, where members, Board members and colleagues
presented thought-provoking papers. We are working on some exciting new
projects, our international affiliates are growing, and we look forward to another
good year. For more detailed information about our past year, you can request
a copy of our 2003 Annual Report by emailing ecaar@ecaar.org
* At the annual Board meeting in San Diego, four new members joined our Board
of Directors: Donna Katzin, Daniel McFadden, William Sharpe, and Lucy Webster.
Please visit the “Directors” page of our website (http://www.ecaar.org/Directors.htm)
to learn more about our new Board members.
* "Only when India and Pakistan cap their military spending, and ‘beat their swords
into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks’, will we know that they
have agreed not to use their swords against each other and to stop learning the
arts of war." So begins Dr. Ahmad Faruqui in his op-ed, "A Genuine
Change of Heart" which recently appeared in the Pakistani Daily Times.
The article addresses the recent advances in the South Asian peace process,
and quotes from ECAAR Board member Jurgen Brauer's paper, "Why is Peace so Difficult
to Obtain?" http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_13-1-2004_pg3_2
*ECAAR Board member Ann Markusen's article, "The Case Against Privatizing
National Security," was recently published in the fall issue of Governance
(Vol. 16, No. 4: 471-501). In the article, Markusen documents how, since
the mid-1990s, the US Pentagon has accelerated efforts to outsource weapons, battlefield
and base support operations and troop training, invoking competition-based savings
and better quality. She reviews the arguments for and against such privatization
and summarizes recent Pentagon outsourcing experience. She concludes that the
current enthusiasm for privatization is driven largely by commercial concerns
and lobbying rather than real gains to the nation and citizens, that it poses
dangers of monopolization and undue political influence, and that current contracting
practices lack verification and mandatory evaluation safeguards to deliver promised
results. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/servlet/useragent;jsessionid=bQSYN0kAXtlb?func=callWizard&wizardKey=salesAgent:1074189376094&action=show
*The global economy is on many people's minds these days as job growth languishes,
headlines announce layoffs, jobs shift overseas and governments hammer out free-trade
agreements that further open the world to globalization. In a recent interview
in the Seattle Times, Joseph Stiglitz and Alwyn Scott talk about
the "jobless recovery" and issues of free trade and globalization. http://www.ecaar.org/network/NewsNotes/stiglitz.htm
*Call for papers:
ECAAR-UK, along with the Arms Production and Trade Group, the University of the
West of England and the University of Bristol will sponsor the Eighth Annual
Conference on Economics and Security on June 24-26 in Bristol, UK. The
conference will include a public lecture, plenary sessions with keynote speakers,
and specialist workshop streams. Proposed topics include: European Security;
Economics of the RMA; Globalization and the Restructuring of the MIC; Economics
of Conflict and Post-conflict Reconstruction; Economics of the Arms Trade; Procurement
and Offsets; Arms Races, Offsets and Alliances; Peace Science; Conversion and
Demilitarisation; and Policy Responses. Offers of papers on other related
topics are also welcome. For more information about submitting an abstract,
please see: http://carecon.org.uk/Conferences/Conf2004/Call2004.pdf
*LINKS*
*The Progressive Response (PR) is produced weekly by the Interhemispheric
Resource Center (www.irc-online.org) as
part of its Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF) project. FPIF, a "Think Tank Without
Walls," is an international network of analysts and activists dedicated to "making
the U.S. a more responsible global leader and partner by advancing citizen movements
and agendas." FPIF is joint project of the Interhemispheric Resource Center and
the Institute for Policy Studies. For more information on FPIF and joining
the network, visit the FPIF website at http://www.fpif.org/.
* Amnesty International Canada has compiled a moving retrospective of photographs
of the year's triumphs and failures of human rights, entitled Human Rights,
A Year in Pictures 2003. http://www.amnesty.ca/slideshow/2003/
*IN OTHER NEWS*
*ECAAR member E. Wayne Nafziger and Juha Auvinen have a new book coming out. Economic
Development, Inequality and War: Humanitarian Emergencies in Developing Countries
will be available from Palgrave Macmillan (http://www.palgrave-usa.com/)
in early 2004. Economic Development, Inequality and War shows how economic
decline, income inequality, pervasive rent seeking by ruling elites, political
authoritarianism, military centrality and competition for mineral exports contribute
to war and humanitarian emergencies. Economic regress and political decay bring
about relative deprivation, and the perception by social groups of injustice arising
from a growing discrepancy between what they expect and get. Nafziger and Auvinen
indicate that both economic greed and social grievances drive contemporary civil
wars. Finally, the authors also identify policies for preventing humanitarian
emergencies.
*ECAAR members Christos Kollias (Technological Education Institute of Larissa,
Greece) and Gulay Gunluk-Senesen (Istanbul University, Turkey) have a new
book, Greece and Turkey in the 21st Century: Conflict or Cooperation?
A Political Economy Perspective, published by Nova (http://www.novapublishers.com/detailed_search.asp?id=1-59033-753-0).
This book stems from the network that has developed over the years between
Greek and Turkish academics working mainly on issues of defense economics and
their belief that the complex bilateral relations of the two countries should
be approached and analyzed in a multidisciplinary way. This book presents
the economics of Greek-Turkish relations that aren’t readily available in international
literature. The book is unique in bringing Greek and Turkish scholars together
in the same volume on one hand, and on the other hand, scholars from different
disciplines, a first step toward mutual understanding in various dimensions.
*Call for papers for the 2nd International Conference on Defence, Security
and Economic Development. Conference topics include: The Economics of
Conflict, Security and Cooperation; The Political Economy of Regional Security
in South East Europe; Workshop on Greek-Turkish Bilateral Relations; Defence Spending,
Economic Growth and Peace Dividends; Peace Science; Arms Races and Arms Trade;
The Economics of Alliances; The Economics of European Defence; Defence Industry,
Military Protocol, Offsets, Military Procurement and Industrial Policy; Workshop
on the Prospects of the Greek Defence Industry. Papers on other topics are
welcomed.
Abstracts of about 300 words should be send via surface mail, fax or e-mail to
Christos Kollias, Department of Business Administration, TEI of Larissa, Larissa
411 10, Greece Fax : ++ 2410 611994 / 613147 e-mail: kollias@teilar.gr
*Call for papers: The Centre for Global Political Economy at Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver, Canada, is organizing an international conference, The WTO and Beyond:
Global Governance and State Power in the 21st Century, July 15-16, 2004. Papers
are invited. Proposals for papers, which should include a one page abstract,
should be submitted to: cgpe@sfu.ca by February 15, 2004. For
more information on topics please see: http://www.sfu.ca/~cgpe/projects.html
An edited collection of selected papers is expected to result from the conference.
Some travel subsidies may be available. Updated information about the conference
will posted on the Centre for Global Political Economy's web page: http://www.sfu.ca/cgpe
*Call for papers: Lisbon Conference on Defence and Security Terrorism
as a Global Threat: Models and Defence Strategies, July 1-2, 2004. The
2004 Lisbon Conference on Terrorism is jointly organized by the National Defence
Institute (IDN), the Army Command and Staff College (IAEM), the Military Academy
(AM) and the Centre for Research on Financial Economics (CIEF) of the Faculty
of Economics and Business of the Technical University of Lisbon (ISEG). The Conference
will be held at IDN, Calçada das Necessidades, 5, 1399-017 Lisbon, during
the 1st and 2nd of July of 2004.
Paper proposals and registration should include an abstract of not more than 500
words to be submitted before March 2, 2004 to Prof. Carlos Barros, ISEG, Rua Miguel
Lupi, 20, 1249-078 Lisboa, Portugal. Abstracts can also be submitted via email
to cbarros@iseg.utl.pt under the
following rules: Word format, font 12, Times New Roman, under the subject
field “ Lisbon Conference on Terrorism 2004”. Please provide: author’s name, affiliation,
address, telephone and email address. Designate one of the thematic areas
shown below where your paper fits best and indicate also your preference of the
subjects/areas (empirical or theoretical) of the papers to discuss. Everyone who
presents a paper is expected to discuss a paper at another session:
a. The Determinants of Terrorist Actions: from National to Global
Agents.
b. Economic, Political and Other Contexts of National Defense Strategies.
c. National and Collective Defense Strategies: Geopolitical Perspective
and International Legitimation.
d. Economic, Political and Religious Contexts of Terrorism.
e. Geopolitical Perspectives and Strategies of Terrorist Organizations.
Accommodation is provided free by the organization of the conference for up to
20 participants at the Army Command and Staff College (IAEM, Instituto de Altos
Estudos Militares). A fee of 100 € will be asked at arrival to help financing
social events and main meals.
For additional information, please contact CIEF- ISEG, Rua Miguel Lupi, 20, 1249-78
Lisboa. Tel.: 351 213906850; email: cief@iseg.utl.pt
*FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES and
JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS*
* The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) announces a competition for collaborative
Action Research Grants to qualified teams (such as scholars, NGO professionals,
journalists, and lawyers) who currently reside or work in places beset by violent
conflicts directly tied to issues of natural resources. These grants are
part of a project that will create a global network of researchers - whose focus
will be globalization and conflict - pursuing conflict analysis by using a variety
of empirical and theoretical methods. The geographical areas of interest
in this grant round are: The Andes (Columbia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru), Indonesia,
and the Philippines. http://www.ssrc.org
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) also offers a number of fellowships,
including a fellowship for US scholars to visit and engage in collaborative activities
with members of projects supported by the Economic and Social Research Council
(ESRC) in Britain between May 2004 and April 2005. Approximately ten research
fellowships of up to $7,500 (approx. £5000) will be awarded. This
fellowship is a pilot project designed to encourage communication and cooperation
between social scientists in Great Britain and the United States, and to explore
and develop possibilities for future exchanges to be organized by the ESRC and
the SSRC.
* The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation ( http://www.jackkentcooke.org/ ) Graduate
Scholarship Program offers students and recent alumni from any accredited college
or university in the United States the opportunity to compete for graduate scholarships.
The program will award approximately thirty-five scholarships to college seniors
or recent graduates to attend graduate programs in the fall of 2004. The awards
will provide funding for tuition, room and board, books, and other required fees
for the length of the graduate degree program, up to six years. The maximum
award per student is $50,000 per year. To be eligible for the program, an
applicant must be a college senior or have graduated from college since May 1999;
have been accepted into a full-time graduate degree program at an accredited university
to begin studies in fall 2004, or be accepted into such a program by the April
30, 2004, application deadline; and have a cumulative undergraduate grade point
average 3.5 or better. US citizenship is not required. Eligible candidates
for the scholarship must be nominated by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation faculty
representative at their undergraduate institution. (The list of designated faculty
representatives is available at the foundation's Web site.) Candidates may not
apply directly to the foundation. See the foundation's Web site for complete program
guidelines and application procedures. http://jackkentcooke.org/jkcf_web/content.aspx?page=Grad
* The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University seeks an
experienced teacher/scholar for a position in economy and culture. Candidates
should have a Ph.D. in economics, business, history, geography, sociology, anthropology
or a related field; they should have a demonstrated interest in some combination
of the following: economics and culture; business and society; history of economic
thought; great books in political economy; politics, law and the economy; environmental
economics and policy; sustainability and socially responsible business; business
ethics; business and literature; non-profits and the independent sector. Applicants
should be prepared to create interdisciplinary courses and to advise students
with concentrations in various combinations of those interests. They seek someone
who is committed to alternative forms of learning and teaching and whose academic
practice and research cross the boundaries of disciplines and cultures. An ideal
candidate possesses a love of teaching, a commitment to non-traditional education,
and a dedication to individual mentoring of students.
This position is at the Assistant Professor level, tenure-track, with a starting
date of September 1, 2004. Send letter of application and curriculum vitae
only, no later than February 15, 2004, to Chair, Faculty Search Committee, Gallatin
School of Individualized Study, New York University, 715 Broadway, New York, NY
10003.
*ECAAR PUBLICATIONS*
*The ECAAR Review 2003. Titled "Conflict or Development?" this edition
has a regional focus on Africa, the site of most of the world's current armed
conflicts. In its pages some of the leading economists of the day analyze
and reflect on the relationships among military spending, domestic and foreign
policy, security, and human welfare. Features include country studies and sections
on business and conflict and "Trends in World Military Expenditure." Written in
clear English, with informative maps, tables, and graphs, the series is designed
to inform the debate among policymakers, activists, journalists, academics, students,
and citizens worldwide.
You can order the Review at http://www.ecaar.org/Review_files/order.htm
We believe the Review can be a valuable teaching tool in economics, political
science, and international relations courses. If you are interested in teaching
this book, please contact Kate Cell (Katecell@ecaar.org)for a copy to review.
* "The Full Cost of Ballistic Missile Defense" The study estimates
that the total life-cycle cost for a layered missile defense system could reach
$1.2 trillion through 2035. You can order a copy of the report from the
http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/nmd/fullcost.html
co-sponsor of the study, or download the PDF file from http://www.ecaar.org/index.htm.
*ACTION CORNER*
* Canadian ECAAR member Morris Miller forwards us this announcement from Science
for Peace (www.scienceforpeace.sa.utoronto.ca):
"Paul Martin [Canada's Prime Minister] is going to Mexico on Monday, January 12
to discuss entering the US missile defence program with George W. Bush.
Far from defending Canada, the Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD), as the program
is called, does not work technically, has already caused other countries to increase
their nuclear arsenals in response and includes plans to put weapons in space.
Please, lend your voice to the cause." If you are in Canada, call Paul
Martin's office toll-free and leave a message saying that you want Canada to stay
out of US BMD. Toll-free number for Paul Martin's office: 1 (866) 599-499. Paul
Martin's website: http://www.paulmartintimes.ca. Even
though the event has passed, there is still time to express your opinion on this.
*In November, Republican House negotiators blocked a provision that would have
created criminal penalties for war profiteers and cheats who try to defraud American
taxpayers and cash in on the relief and reconstruction efforts in Iraq. The provision
has now been introduced as a stand-alone bill. The War Profiteering Prevention
Act would penalize war profiteers who defraud American taxpayers -- its objective
is "to prohibit profiteering and fraud relating to military action, relief, and
reconstruction efforts in Iraq." This is hardly a radical or controversial proposal,
as similar laws were enacted after World War I, World War II and the Korean War.
As Patrick Leahy, one of the bill's authors, stated when the provision was originally
removed from the Iraq supplemental: "This provision would have sent a message:
if you cheat American taxpayers while our men and women are dying in Iraq, you
will go to jail." This provision was stripped from the $87 billion supplemental
appropriation; now, the bill has been introduced on its own. Particularly in light
of recent questions about Halliburton and price-gouging, the bill should be passed
quickly to ensure, as President Roosevelt once declared, that "a few do not gain
from the sacrifices of the many." You can urge your Senators and Representatives
to support the bill at: http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=16156
* Anyone who would be willing to put an ECAAR flyer up on a departmental bulletin
board or similar venue, please contact Thea Harvey, Development Manager at theaharvey@ecaar.org.
We would like News Notes to be a way for ECAAR members and our community to keep
in touch. We will include, if you send them to us, notices on events and
publications that you are involved with.
*UPCOMING EVENTS*
*January 23rd. The next meeting of the Study Group on the Economics of
Security in a Post-9/11 World will be held at 66 W 12th street, in Room 510,
New York, NY. The formal session will run from 2:30 to 4; coffee and tea
will be available from 2 p.m., and refreshments and informal discussion will continue
afterwards until 4:30 or so. The presenter will be Johanna Mendelson-Forman,
Senior Program Officer for Peace, Security, and Human Rights at the United Nations
Foundation. She will address the issue of Post-Conflict Reconstruction in
Iraq, on which she has been working intensively on her own and in networkhip
with analysts from other organizations such as the Open Society Institute and
the Center for Strategic and International Studies. To RSVP, please email or call
Frida Berrigan (berrigaf@newschool.edu) or 212-229-5808
ext. 112.
*January 23, 2004- June 18, 2004. The Practice of Peace: Winning Strategies
& Effective Tools. A weekly series presented by Cultures of Peace
Education Project, a project of Pathways to Peace, in Tiburon, California.
http://www.ucandanc.org/
*January 25-27, 2004,
Washington, DC. The Nuclear Policy Research Institute hosts Three Minutes to
Midnight: NPRI Symposium on the Impending Threat of Nuclear War. Join
scientists, policy-makers, military and medical experts from around the world
for three days of analysis, insight and strategy. At this landmark symposium,
nuclear abolitionists, weapons designers and supporters of nuclear weapons as
a deterrent will come together for the first time ever to discuss and debate the
role of nuclear weapons in the 21st century. More information and online
registration at: http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/documents/conference.htm
*February 21-28, 2004. Intensive training seminar in Education for Peace
& Conflict-Free Conflict Resolution sponsored by The International Education
for Peace Institute in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hertzegovina. http://www.efpinternational.org/news/events-activities.html
*May 30-June 18, 2004. Summer Peacebuilding Institute, Conflict Transformation
Across Cultures, sponsored by the Center for Social Policy and Institutional
Development at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont.
http://www.sit.edu/contact/institute/index.html
* June 3- 8, 2004. WIIS 2004 Summer Symposium for Graduate Students in International
Affairs. The Women in International Security Summer Symposium
is an intensive six-day program in Washington, DC comprising seminars on security
issues with leading policy experts, career development workshops, a crisis simulation,
student research presentations, and unique networking opportunities. http://wiis.georgetown.edu/
*June 9-11, 2004 at the Tinbergen Institute at the University of Amsterdam. The
second Peace Science Conference. Organized by the network of European
Peace Scientists (NEPS). Registration fee will be €35. More information
will be posted as it becomes available.
* June 18-20, 2004. 2nd International Conference on Defence, Security
and Economic Development, at TEI of Larissa, Larissa, Greece. For more
information see above, or email kollias@teilar.gr
*June 24-26, 2004. ECAAR-UK, along with the Arms Production and Trade Group,
the University of the West of England and the University of Bristol will sponsor
the Eighth Annual Conference on Economics and Security in Bristol, UK.
Watch this website for updates: http://carecon.org.uk/
*July 1-2, 2004. Lisbon Conference on Defence and Security, Terrorism
as a Global Threat: Models and Defence Strategies. In Lisbon, Portugal.
For more information contact: CIEF- ISEG, Rua Miguel Lupi, 20, 1249-78 Lisboa.
Tel.: 351 213906850; email: cief@iseg.utl.pt
* July 15-16, 2004. The Centre for Global Political Economy at Simon Fraser
University, Vancouver, Canada is organizing an international conference, The
WTO and Beyond: Global Governance and State Power in the 21st Century.http://www.sfu.ca/~cgpe/projects.html
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