Total international membership in APSA continues to reach new highs in absolute and relative terms, surpassing December's record number of 2,031 to reach 2,081 for the first time in August 2007. This represents 14.1% of APSA total membership, also a record high.
Targeted International Membership (TIM) was initiated in June 2005 on the recommendation of the International Committee and the endorsement of the Council. Under this experimental program, overseas scholars (with the exception of those in countries classified as Upper Income by the World Bank) can become full members of APSA for $45 annually. The program is to be evaluated by the Committee after three years (June 2008).
TIM membership to date peaked at 331 members in June 2006, was 295 in December 2006, and currently stands at 251. This decline could be attributed to the renewal cycle, but APSA will work to market the program to lapsed, new, and renewing members more aggressively. The original goal was to reach 300 by 2008. The response to TIM has allowed APSA to identify new clusters of interested political scientists and potential members, including in:
- Brazil
- Chile
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- Argentina
- Singapore
- Mexico
- Hong Kong
- Thailand
- Czech Republic
- Venezuela
- Taiwan
- Philippines
- Russia
- Lebanon
- Hungary
The table shows overall international membership numbers as of August 2007.
For more information, email Bahram Rajaee at brajaee@apsanet.org.
Meeting Attendance by International Members, 1999–2007
Complementing the growth of international membership is the increased participation of international members at the Annual Meeting since 2004. Overall meeting attendance has grown from 5,818 in 1999 to 7,300 in 2006, and 2007 attendance is expected to surpass that mark.
Upcoming International Events
2007
October 25–27: Muslim World in Transition: Contributions of the Gulen Movement, London, http://gulenconference.org.uk.
November 2–3: Global Policy and Development Conference: Homeland Security and the Nation-State in the Post-9/11 World, New Orleans, LA, tom.lansford@usm.edu.
November 1–4: Leadership: Impact, Culture, and Sustainability, Vancouver, British Columbia, www.ila-net.org/.
November 6–9: Globalization: Migration, Citizenship and Identity, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, www.kennesaw.edu/globalinstitute/globalizationconf.html.
November 15–17: Matchpoints in Globalisation: The Knowledge-Based Economy, Identities and the Transforming State, Aarhus, Denmark, http://www.matchpoints.dk.
November 15–17: International Symposium on Media and Politics, Ege University, Turkey, www.mp.ege.edu.tr.
November 16–18: Global Conference: Pluralism, Inclusion and Citizenship, Salzburg, Austria, www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/diversity/pluralism/pluralism.htm.
November 30: The First Melbourne Conference on World Affairs: Sacralist Challenges to the Sovereign State, The University of Melbourne, Australia, www.politics.unimelb.edu.au/scssconf/.
December 5–7: Europe and Asia between Islam and the United States: The lesson of Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Lebanon, Melbourne, l.anceschi@latrobe.edu.au.
December 7–9: Peace and Conflict Resolution Conference 2007, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, www.tomorrowpeople.org/peace/conference.htm.
2008
January 11–12: Collective Action and Social Exclusion in Europe, école Normale Supérieure de Lyon, www.ul.ie/~lcs/lyon-2007-english.
February 21–24: International Conference on Inter-Asian Connections, Dubai, UAE, www.ssrc.org/program_areas/global/papers/.
March 12–15: Politics and the Religious Imagination, Trinity Western University's Religion, Culture, and Conflict Research Group, Langley, British Columbia, www.twu.ca/rcc.
March 29: Bridging Multiple Divides, International Studies Association 2008 Conference, San Francisco, CA, www.isanet.org/sanfran2008/.
May 19–22: International Digital Government Research Conference, Hilton Bonaventure Hotel, Montreal, www.dgo2008.org.
June 12–13: Thinking (With)Out Borders: International Political Theory in the 21st Century, University of St Andrews, Scotland, al51@st-andrews.ac.uk.
June 23–26: International Conference on Politics & International Affairs, Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, Greece, www.atiner.gr/docs/Politics.htm.
July 23–26: Global International Studies Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, www.wiscnetwork.org.
Complete List
For a complete list of upcoming conferences, visit the APSA conference calendar at: www.apsanet.org/section_181.cfm.
