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Call for Papers: Issue 6 on Democracy and Law
 Democracy and law are central themes of global studies. Nowadays international politics seems to be interceded via a multitude of legal practices and processes, bringing the role of, and need for, international law into sharp relief. Yet particularly since the emergence of the ‘war on terror’ many have questioned the efficacy of international law...
Deadline May 1st 2012
Read more about the issue and submission guidlines here
ISSUE 5 'Imperialism, Finance, #Occupy'
The fifth issue features articles on resistance to war, the Occupy movement in Canada, the nexus of imperialism and financialism, and the investment surveillance mechanisms used by global finance to curtail non orthodox economic policies. The issue also features a large Occupy IR and IPE symposium with contributions by critical scholars from throughout the world on the Occupy Wall Street movement.
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Claudia Aradau |
Leslie Sklair |
Manfred Steger |
Illan Rua Wall |
Four New Editorial Advisory Board Members
The JCGS is excited to announce a further wave of highly respected scholars joining our editorial advisory board. Claudia Aradau is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at King's College, University of London. Leslie Sklair is Professor Emeritus in Sociology at the London School of Economics. Manfred Steger is Professor of Global Studies at RMIT University and Professor of Political Science, University of Hawai'i-Manoa. Illan Rua Wall is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Oxford Brookes University.
Read more about the new members of the advisory board and why they wish to support the journal here.
Previously, December 2011, the journal took on three equally distinguished scholars: David Chandler. Faisal Devji and Benjamin Noys. Read why they wished to support the journal here.
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 The JCGS has entered into an agreement to be a partner journal for the relaunched Global Studies Association (GSA). The GSA is a multi-disciplinary scholarly association set up in order to address the vast social, political & economic transformations of global scope which are impacting upon the world today.Read more about the GSA here.
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 "The recent uprising of Greek society against the PASOK government, seen as complicit with the International Monetrary Fund (IMF) in imposing austerity measures upon the country, cannot be understood as an isolated event. It has to be understood as an episode in the revival of an international wave of protest, the likes of which the world has not witnessed since 1968..." read more |
May 17th, 2011: Professor Costas Douzinas joins the editorial advisory board
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 Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Professor Costas Douzinas, joins the journal's editorial advisory board. His books include 'The End of Human Rights' and 'Human Rights and Empire'. Costas' talk, which launched the inaugural issue of the JCGS, can be watched here. |
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