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*International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention 2015* *Panel proposal – call for papers* *Convenor: Hannah Petersen, PhD Candidate City University London, Visiting Fellow Harvard GSAS* *Scarcity and Decision-making in Global Political Economy* The basic economic principle of scarcity has an almost uncontested claim to universal applicability in the field of IPE – and yet its management depends on a variety of factors besides the purely material issue of scarcity; i.e. the perception of scarcity, ideas about scarcity governance, and interests matter greatly. Scarcity of resources, both productive and institutional, is on the increase as a political and public concern. Access to natural resources, mainly water, food and energy, is even perceived as "the security risk of the 21st century" (Mildner 2011). Furthermore the newest economic crisis has added scarcity worries of a different sort: scarcity of jobs, scarcity of public services, and scarcity of opportunity. Scarcity repercussions cut across issue-, regional and political borders, yet its governance is usually fought out in a rather opaque fashion among policy-makers and stakeholders on all levels of decision-making. There is a long tradition of literature on scarcity, and there is ongoing multifaceted research into political decision-making in the past decades – however the two rarely seem to overlap. This panel aims to discuss diverse examples of scarcity governance to tease out the discourse around it at the sub-national, national and international level, paying close to attention to factors other than factual material scarcity influencing the perception of scarcity and subsequent decision- and policy-making. *Participants should submit a title, key words and abstract (200 words) by May 26 and those interested in discussing/ chairing should submit an email to:* *hannah.peterse...@city.ac.uk* <hannah.peterse...@city.ac.uk> *International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention* New Orleans, February 15th-18th, 2015 http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/NewOrleans2015.aspx -- Dr Hayley Stevenson Senior Lecturer Department of Politics University of Sheffield Convenor, BISA Environment Working Group <http://www.bisa-environment.net/> *Recently published* *Democratizing Global Climate Governance*<http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/political-theory/democratizing-global-climate-governance?format=HB>(with John S. Dryzek). *Institutionalizing Unsustainability: The Paradox of Global Climate Governance <http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4zp9f66p#>*. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
