Call for Papers












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                                              CALL FOR PAPERS

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                    the 5th Geopolitical Conference: Strategic and Geopolitical Issues in the Contempo
                         Geopolitical importance of unrecognized states and territorial non-state

                        actors (Causes and consequences of the border change in post-Cold War World)
                                               November 2015



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            * Conference fees, travel bursaries, accommodation
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            There are no conference fees, but the participants are expected to cover their accommodati
            expenses in full. The organizers will provide information about suitable accommodation.



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            * Registration

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            Please send your abstracts of max. 500 words before September 1, 2015, to martinriegl@emai

            "mailto:martinriegl@email.cz"] / riegl@fsv.cuni.cz [ URL "mailto:riegl@fsv.cuni.cz"]
            Abstracts will be selected by the organizing committee.
            Successful abstract authors will be invited no later than September 15, 2015 to submit the

            papers and participate as paper givers in the conference.




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            * Notes for the authors

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            Your paper should be submitted to the conference organizers as an e-mail attachment. The p

            no longer than 45, 000 characters including spaces. All manuscripts should be written in E
            manuscript should include the title, author’s names, institution, address, and e-mail addr
            be using Times New Roman font, size 12, double spaced, for body of the text.

            Full-length papers have to be submitted (via the above mentioned e-mail address) by Octobe
            A monograph will be published in due course. The organizing committee will review the subm
            select for publication.



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            * Keynote speaker
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            To be announced



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            * Conference Outcome
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            Special issue of a journal listed in Scopus database.



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            * Schedule
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            A. The tasks of the conference will be assigned by the conference prep. team, and the memb
            evaluation will be organised by the end of August, 2013 (Central European Time)
            B. Abstract submission – September 1, 2015

            C. Abstract Selection for the Conference will be achieved by September 15, 2014 (Central E
            D. Full-paper submission for the Conference will be achieved by the end of October, 2015 (
            Time)

            E. The conference proceedings will be published during the year 2015 (2016?).




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            * The organizers particularly welcome abstracts on the following topics

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            • Causes and consequences of the border change in post-Cold War World

            • Geopolitical importance of unrecognized entities
            • Anomalous and specific forms of de facto statehood
            • Geopolitical interests of patron states

            • The international community approaches towards unrecognized entities
            • International legal sovereignty of unrecognized states
            • Internal dynamics within particular unrecognized entities

            • Internal self-determination and fragmentation of the political map
            • Strategies of unrecognized states: recognition through democratization
            • Legitimacy of unrecognized states

            • The role of unrecognized states in Russian foreign policy
            • 21.centuty: beyond territorial sovereignty?