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NEW TITLE: International Relations and the Arctic Increased global interest in the Arctic poses challenges to contemporary international relations, and many questions surround exactly why and how Arctic countries are asserting their influence and claims over their northern reaches and why and how non-Arctic states are turning their attention to the region. This first systematic study of Arctic international relations,...

Sanchita Saxena’s interviews by Voice of America and the Wilson Center on her new book

The launch of Sanchita Saxena’s new book, Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka, at the Wilson Center was an extremely successful one. The Wilson Center highlighted the book again in an interview of Dr. Saxena, who is the Executive Director of the Institute for South Asia Studies (ISAS) and the Director of the Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at University...

How is public relations shaping globalization efforts and practices in countries that have historically been under Western control?

As “former public relations practitioners with agency and corporate experience who now teach and conduct research in the field,” Patricia Curtin (University of Oregon) and Kenn Gaither (Elon University) explained in their book that “[w]ithin the cultural-economic model, public relations practitioners act as cultural intermediaries, putting representations and identities into circulation to create shared meaning.” The purpose of their study is to...

Emily’s List Candidates Are Quiet on Abortion ?

Today’s Wall Street Journal article, “Emily’s List Candidates Are Quiet on Abortion,” reports that “none of Emily’s List’s statewide candidates in Southern states refer to abortion in their TV ads or in the issues section of their websites, including Wendy Davis, the Texas lawmaker whose filibuster of antiabortion legislation catapulted her into a gubernatorial campaign.” Is this surprising? Perhaps not,...

LASA 2014: Democracy and Memory

The theme for this year’s LASA congress–democracy and memory–is a highly important one which presses scholars to consider critical questions regarding the impact of collective memory and institutional development. From the LASA website, these questions are: Does this past, shaped by collective memories that are themselves constructed of narratives, shared experiences, and interpretations of everyday life, as well as of...

Happy Earth Day! Learn why 350 is the most important number today!

On Earth Day, what else can you do for the environment in addition to skipping meat? You should read this and visit 350.org! “We’re taking the latest science—the climatologists’ assessment, after the great Arctic melt of 2007, that 350 parts per million carbon dioxide is the most we can safely have in the atmosphere—and trying to use a wide variety...

RMMLA 2013 Annual Convention — A Great Success!

With much gratitude to the RMMLA committee, in particular Joy Landeira and Christopher Lupke, Cambria Press had a very productive and enjoyable time at the RMMLA 2013 annual convention. Cambria Press director Toni Tan was heartened to meet many scholars daring enough to push the envelope when it comes to scholarship, given how Toni Tan‘s speech was one in which she strongly...

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