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CFP- Volume on Think Tanks and the Culture of Strategic Thinking in Eurasia

Posted by: Hasan Ali Karasar <karasar at hotmail.com>



Think Tanks and the Culture of Strategic Thinking in Eurasia

Editors:
Dr. Hasan Ali Karasar, Bilkent University Department of International 
Relations
    (Ankara, Turkey)
Hasan Kanbolat, Centre for Eurasian Strategic Studies-ASAM (Ankara, Turkey)

In this edited volume, the history, establishment, institutionalization, 
political affiliations and international relations of the think-tanks of 
Eurasian countries will be taken under focus. Although in the modern 
meaning of the phrase, "think-tanks" are new to Eurasia, the culture of 
strategic thinking has got very deep historical roots. The contributors 
encouraged to write on this topic while employing the modern terminology 
of the concept. The articles can be descriptive or analytic. The aim of 
the editors is not to prepare an almanac but descriptive entries are 
also welcomed. Length of the articles should be minimum 1,000 words and 
maximum 10 thousand words.

Articles must be in English, original and not published before. They 
should be written Times New Roman, size 12, double spaced and either in 
RTF or in MS Word 97-2003 versions, to be submitted electronically to 
the editors.

Deadlines: May 1, 2008 - Article Titles with a brief abstract (100
words). September 1, 2008 - Articles (final versions). Both
titles/abstracts and final versions of the articles should be sent to
the e-mails of the both editors: Karasar at bilkent.edu.tr, 
hkanbolat at asam.org.tr


Proposed titles for the contributions (All other titles are welcomed
as long as they are related with the title of the work):

  - Identifying the Think-tanks of Eurasian Countries (max. three
    entries for each country)
  - Think-tanks and Contemporary Strategic thinking in a theoretical 
framework
  - Historical Background of the "Culture of Strategic Thinking in Eurasia"
  - Specialized think-tanks in Eurasia (max. three entries for each country)
  - Think-tanks' influence on the foreign policy decision making
    processes in Eurasia
  - Think-tanks and their foreign partners, foreign think-tanks in Eurasia
  - Public opinion and the think-tanks in Eurasia
  - State sponsored think-tanks versus private think-tanks
  - Think-tanks and their political affiliations in Eurasia
  - Eurasianism and think-tanks
  - Cooperation and relations between the think-tanks of Eurasian countries


Eurasian Countries included into this volume are the countries of
Eastern and Southeastern (Balkan) European countries, all fifteen
former Soviet republics, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Mongolia,
Pakistan, India and People's Republic of China.

Format and Style

Spelling:
American spelling should be used throughout. Numbers from one to ten
should be spelled out; other numbers should be given as numerals.

Names:
Use original spelling in languages that use Latin alphabet. For
transliteration of all other languages (such as Russian, Chinese,
Arabic, Persian, etc.) into English, please employ Library of Congress 
system.

Sub-headings
Should be numbered accordingly, italic and in title case.

Footnotes:
The number of notes should be kept to a minimum. They should be
numbered consecutively throughout the article, using a raised numeral
in the text, to correspond to a list of notes placed at the bottom of
each page. Please use Chicago Manual of Style Online for details.

Images and Figures:
If figures or images are to be included, they should be at least 300
dpi (high-resolution) in order to be printed clearly in the journal.



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