Pardee Center Researchers Present at ISA 2010
A number of Research Fellows and Affiliates of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future attended and presented their research at the 51st Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA). ISA is the largest and most prestigious global organization of international studies scholars and its 51st Annual Convention was held at New Orleans, LA, on the theme: Theory versus Policy? Connecting Scholars and Practitioners.
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Boston University Pardee Center, spoke as a panelist at at roundtable titled “Big Ideas in Global Environmental Politics,” and argued that the biggest idea remains the idea of linking development and environmental policy.
Dr. Miquel Munoz, Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the BU Pardee Center, was a panelist at a conference roundtable on “The Politics of Global Climate Change: Linking Theory and Practice”, a discussant at another roundtable titled “Too Close for Comfort? Theory, Practice and Politics of Participatory Research in Global Environmental Politics,” and presented his ongoing research on “Estimating the Direct Costs of MEA COPs” at a panel on “Treaty Implementation Challenges for Secretariats and Parties.”
Moeed Yusuf, Research Fellow at the Pardee Center, was on the program as co-author (with Ahmet S. Tekelioglu) on a paper titled “Moving Away from Coup Making: A Comparative Analysis of the Turkish and Pakistani Militaries,” presented at a panel on “Turkey in Europe, Turkey in the Middle East.”
Prof. Kevin Gallagher, and Prof. Henrik Selin, both Pardee Center Faculty Fellows and BU Professors of International Relations, presented a joint paper on “Rethinking NAFTA and the Environment: Lessons from European Integration,” in a panel on “Comparative Regional Environmental Governance.” Prof. Gallagher was also a participant in a roundtable titled “Life, New-Death, and Resurrection of the IMF and World Bank: And the Role of Public Intellectuals from the Debt Crisis through the Current Economic Crisis.” Prof. Selin presented a paper (co-authored with Stacy D. VanDeveer) on “The Transatlantic Politics of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading” at a panel on “Global Carbon Market Politics.”