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Dear colleagues,

The International Political Science Association (IPSA) and the International
Political Science Abstracts https://journals.sagepub.com/home/iab seek
articles for the journal's Trends in International Political Science rubric.
Every year, International Political Science Abstracts receives over
30,000 articles from around the globe, providing us with an unparalleled
access to articles published in and around our discipline. Trends seeks to
build on this material, determining six burgeoning currents in political
science, and publishing articles written by leading experts on these
trending topics. We provide a bibliography and seek articles of
approximately 3500-4000 words, taking into account a bibliography we provide
. After the revision process, the Trends article is then published as the
first chapter of each bi-monthly issue of the International Political
Science Abstracts and distributed to libraries around the world in both
print and database editions. The project has been a great success, in some
cases leading to over 12,000 downloads within 18 months of publication.

We are currently soliciting authors to write articles on the following
subjects:

1. Elite behavior in authoritarian regimes;
2. Regime change;
3. Proxy wars;
4. Politics of Intersectionality;
5. Deglobalization

If you are interested in writing an article in English on one of these
topics, we ask that you please send an email to express your interest
by August
1 2025 to Trends.IPSA@gmail.com with copy to Stephen Sawyer <
ssawyer@aup.edu  ssawyer@aup.edu> and Daniel Stockemer <
daniel.stockemer@uottawa.ca >. Kindly include a CV that highlights your
expertise (i.e., publications, teaching or research). We will contact
selected authors with the relevant article titles and abstracts and expect
a first draft of the Trends article by November 10, 2025.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or need any
further information.

Stephen W. Sawyer
Co-Editor, International Political Science Abstracts

Daniel Stockemer
Co-Editor, International Political Science Review

Jacob Bromberg

Managing Editor, Trends in International Political Science

https://www.ipsa.org/publications/abstracts
https://journals.sagepub.com/home/iab

Dear colleagues,

I am delighted to invite you to present at and participate in an interdisciplinary conference “Mass Atrocities, Environmental Degradation, and Communities’ Rights: Lived Experiences from the Peripheries” hosted by the Dundee Just Transition Hub, the University of Stirling and the Congress of Nations and States. The event will take place from 18-21 May 2026 in Dundee, Scotland.

We welcome submissions on topics which intersect with the theme of the conference, including but not limited to:

• Mass atrocities: prevention; perpetration and impunity; intersections with environmental degradation; intersections with climate change; trauma, grief, and memory; Reparations, mitigation, adaptation, and loss and damage
• Indigenous peoples and minority groups: self-determination; indigenous and traditional knowledges and alternative futures; indigenous and traditional responses to atrocities, environmental degradation and climate change; transitions to net zero including for example, energy transitions, transitions to circular economies, transitions in food production and farming, transition in transports and in the built environment; reparations, mitigation, adaptation, and loss and damage; the meanings of clean energy; the different meanings of just transitions
• Environmental degradation: environmental violations; ecocide; traditional ecological knowledge; ecological, environmental, climate and social justice: synergies and clashes; water protection, water policies and water rights; free, prior and informed consent; rights of nature.

Proposals can be submitted in the following formats: - Papers, Performance, Displays, Literary Works, and Artistic Work.
For papers a 200-word abstract is required.
For all other proposals, a 100-word summary OR a two-minute video explaining the performance/artwork/or display will be required.
The last date to submit a proposal for this conference is October 15, 2025 at 12 pm midnight (ET). Please submit your proposal using the form https://forms.office.com/e/itSFjTuWKB

Please circulate the call to your colleagues and networks as well!

Best wishes,
Edzia
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Dr Edzia Carvalho SFHEA (she/her)
Division Quality Assurance and Enhancement Lead
Lecturer (Grade 8, Teaching and Research)
Politics and International Relations
Division of Energy, Environment and Society
School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, University of Dundee
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Recent publications:

• Artificial Intelligence in Digital Self-Diagnosis Tools: A Narrative Overview of Reviewshttps://www.mcpdigitalhealth.org/article/S2949-7612(25)00049-5/fulltext https://www.mcpdigitalhealth.org/article/S2949-7612(25)00049-5/fulltext (Mentzou et al, 2025, Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health)
• Qualitative Election Study of Britain Pre-Election Transcripts, 2024https://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/857595/ (Oliver, Carvalho, and Winters, 2024, UK Data Service)
• Qualitative Methods of Data Generation and Analysishttps://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781803922614/book-part-9781803922614-20.xml (Carvalho, 2024 in Research Methods in Human Rights, Edward Elgar)
  Projects: The Qualitative Election Study of Britain (QESB)https://qesb.info/; Social AI Research and Education Network (S-ai-REN)https://s-ai-ren.org.uk/; Dundee Just Transition Hubhttps://www.dundee.ac.uk/issr/dundee-just-transition-hub

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