Rationale:

While the field of International Relations continues to focus our attention on questions of power, identity, sovereignty, legitimacy, and political action, Global and Transnational Politics represents an emerging research agenda which recognises that there are also political relations and issues that are essentially trans-national in nature, and trans-regional or even global in scope. Thus, global and transnational studies adds to the agenda of political studies a focus on political processes that transcend or transect territorial borders, that
directly connect disparate levels of political and social life and, in some sense reformulates or transforms conventional categories of analysis.

Purpose/Aims of Group:

• to further engagement between International Relations and Global Politics
• to explore connections between and among political processes that operate at all levels or
   scales: the local, national, international, trans-national, and global
• to promote efforts to theorize and conceptualise the interface between international
   and global politics
• to further our understanding of the nature and direction of current trends of change in global
   and transnational politics
• to promote greater theoretical and methodological innovation and inter-disciplinarity in
   International Relations and Global Politics
•  to build a network of scholars with an interest in contirbuting to these aims

Convenors:

Professor Sandra Halperin ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
Dr. Chris Rumford ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Department of Politics and International Relations/
Centre for Global and Transnational Politics
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX UK

Webpage:

 http://www.globalandtransnationalpolitics.com/

Call for papers:

The Centre for Global and Transnational Politics at Royal Holloway is hosting the Global Studies Association annual conference ‘Challenging Globalization’ on 2nd – 4th September 2009. All BISA members are invited to submit abstracts with a view to presenting a paper at the conference. Keynote speakers include Walter D. Mignolo, Faisal Devji, and Ronnie D. Lipschutz. Full details of the conference can be found at: http://cgtp.rhul.ac.uk/gsa-annual-conference-2-4-sept/