01
Mar
2009
Early Deadline to Register (Paper Givers)
Paper givers who wish their names to appear in the printed program must be registered by this date. Registration fees increase as of March 2, 2009.
01
Jan
2009
Deadline for Completing RC Panel Descriptions
Research Committees must submit completed panel descriptions, including - in addition to paper titles and paper abstracts - the names of session chairs, speakers and discussants.
01
Nov
2008
Abstract & Panel Submission
Deadline to submit all abstract and session proposals, including the number and the titles of Research Committee panels. Participants may make their submissions by either creating an identification account or by logging in.
01
Nov
2008
Travel Grants & Awards
Deadline to submit travel grant requests and award nominations. Participants may make their submissions by either creating an identification account or by logging in.
The term “global discontent” sums up many of the challenges of our times. Globalization, while old in origins, has come to dominate our lives during the last couple of decades. If technological change has been the driving force, the collapse of the bipolar world system has opened the floodgates for it to reach all corners of the world. Internationalization as a phenomenon has been with us for a long time. As communication and transportation systems around the world improved, we were constantly told that the world was becoming a smaller place. But globalization as a process is of more recent vintage. It refers not only to the speed with which information, money and goods travel around the world but also to the reorganization of the world economically and politically in ways that were not possible before. Finally, globalization has become an ideology. Its proponents perceive the world through this cognitive framework and mobilize it in their efforts to shape how the world system operates and where it should be going.