[IPO] CfP EISA Warsaw

[Hubert Zimmermann]

The European International Studies Association (formerly SGIR-ECPR)  
has accepted my proposal for a 10-panel Section on the ‘Financial  
Crisis and the Eurozone: IPE in Question’ at their next Pan-European  
Conference in Warsaw Sep 18-21 this year. I am keen to make this an  
interdisciplinary forum for heterodox and critical political  
economists discussing the Eurozone crisis in all its multifaceted  
dimensions (without regard to which particular professional discipline  
they work). Ultimately my ambition would be to put together a  
comprehensive interdisciplinary Heterodox Eurozone Crisis Reader to  
help counter the what I consider to be a lack of recognition of  
heterodox and critical analysis on the EU and Eurozone (cf. my recent  
piece in the 2012 Volume of Millennium: Journal of International  
Studies.)

I would be keen to encourage anyone with an interesting paper or panel  
proposal to submit an application. This can be done here on the  
official Conference website:
https://www.conftool.pro/paneuropean2013/index.php?page=login

General info about the conference can be found here:
http://www.8thpaneuropean.org/

Please note that the deadline for submissions is FEBRUARY 24 2013  
MIDNIGHT CET.

For further info, please find below the section concept that I  
submitted to EISA. Given the organisation, I was pitching it  
especially with reference to International Relations and IPE, but I am  
looking for a genuinely interdisciplinary forum.

The Financial Crisis and the Eurozone: International Political Economy  
in Question
The financial crisis challenges social science. The British Queen  
famously asked why economics failed to predict it, and studies have  
remarked critically on its foundational assumptions (e.g. Wade, 2012).  
However, the Eurozone crisis indicates that the challenge is more  
extensive and does not exempt IR. European integration scholarship did  
not identify, let alone predict, that there might be a problem (Ryner,  
2012). Even IPE has been rather underwhelming as a guide on causes and  
effects (Manokha, 2011). The latter is especially concerning, since  
IPE supposedly emerged to address ‘new instablities’ (the collapse of  
Bretton Woods, the oil crisis, globalisation), which were beyond the  
traditional disciplines (Ravenhill, 2005). Clearly, IPE struggles to  
convert into practice its ambition to offer a holistic and integral  
analysis of production and power with fine grained analysis, which was  
supposed to offer an intellectual guide to developments in the world  
economy in an era characterised by profound secular transformations.  
This section seeks papers of, and discussions between, scholars  
committed to improve the extent to which IPE lives up to these  
foundational ambitions in its study of the Eurozone crisis. The  
section encourages interdisciplinary debate between scholars working  
in fields such as IR, economics, business, sociology, geography,  
history and indeed any area of the social sciences or humanities.
If you have any questions, please get in touch.


All the best, Magnus

J. Magnus Ryner,
Reader in International Political Economy,
Department of European and International Studies,
King's College London,
East Wing, Strand,
London, WC2R 2LS,
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel.: +44 (0)20 7848 2481
FAX: +44 (0)20 7848 2450
magnus.ryner at kcl.ac.uk

----- Ende der weitergeleiteten Nachricht -----