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From: Nassef M. Adiong <nassef.adiong at yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:11 PM
Subject: Call for Paper Proposals for the MESA 2011 Co nference for the
Proposed Panel on "Islam and International Relations: Mutual Perceptions ”
To: MESA-GSO at listserv.arizona.edu


    Call for paper proposals for the proposed panel on “Islam and
International Relations: Mutual Perceptions” for the 2011 MESA Conference (1-4
December 2011, Washington DC).



Dear Colleagues,



Greetings!



I would like to invite you to contribute a research/study paper for the
panel on “Islam and International Relations: Mutual Perceptions” for the
coming MESA annual conference. The deadline for submission of panel
proposals is on 15 February 2011. Please read the abstract of the panel
below.



*For a very long time, the Muslim world was regarded as an outsider from the
cultural and normative pretext and state relations of the West. Even during
the reign of the Ottoman Empire, scholars of International Relations (IR)
excluded her as a subordinated non-ally or stealth ally of major European
powers. It is now apparent that there is an imperative motivation why
Islamic discourses gradually dominate contemporary international relations
and events, e.g. Palestinian question, Iranian nuclear issue, Arab oil, gas
and Turkish water resources, rise of extremist movements, terrorism,
post-war Afghanistan and Iraq, tensions in the Maghreb countries, Sudanese
conflict, Muslim rebels in Southeast Asia, and how all of these events
affect the West in a theory-praxis spectrum. *

*     If IR scholars and members of the English School of International
Relations were able to associate and converge their thoughts on
conceptualizing International Relations with Christianity, this is of course
majority of them are Christians. Then, it is a precedent and an indication
that along the strand of the Abrahamic Faiths Islam is putatively feasible
and probable to understand and interpret IR. *

*     The objectives of the panel are to show juxtaposed positions of mutual
perceptions between Islam and IR based on conceived notions of sensitive
conceptions like sovereignty, state, human rights, gender, and etcetera, to
eliminate deplorable and pejorative (mis)conceptions of IR scholars towards
Islam and vice versa, and add or put Islam in the epitome of global
discourse of international relations as a major causal factor that affects
the behaviors of every actors in the international community particularly
those which have interest and peculiar relations with the Muslim world. The
panel will examine two outstanding inquiries that will guide the panel in
hoping to find, discover or create patterns of tangency. Questions below
magnify the totality of where the panel will lead at and to what extent it
is presented and analyze.*

*            1. How International Relations scholars perceived the field of
Islam?*

*            2. How Islamic scholars (Muslims or non-Muslims) perceived the
field of IR?*

*     The organizer humbly hopes that through this panel, we may able to add
to the realm of literature on how human races and civilizations are linked
through intellectual, cultural, economical, and social exchanges
particularly on the relations between the East (Islam) and the West
(International Relations). *



Kindly please send your abstract (200 to 400 words) and a short one-page CV
to nassef.adiong at yahoo.com before 13 February 2011.


Sincerely,



Nassef Adiong

PhD student in International Relations

Middle East Technical University,

Ankara, Turkey
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