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A well-written and exciting historical account of the way in which regional science and the formation of the society associated with the field, Regional Science Association International, developed. It starts with the rise of Hitler, the advent of the Keynesian Revolution, the intense mathematization of economics and relates how an individual's creative thinking effectively combated the strong resistance of conventional social sciences. The text has been written by the founder of the Regional Science Association and current President of the North American Regional Science Council. It is of interest to regional scientists, economists, sociologists, urban- and regional planners, geographers, and transportation researchers.

The Caucus for a New Pol'al Sci emerged from a meeting of graduate students at the 1967 convention of the Amer Pol'al Sci Assoc. It Is based on a demand for a new relevance in pol'al sci. Pol'al set is considered irrelevant if it is uncritical of society & assumes the values & soc priorities of corrupt bur'cies, powerful elites or unjust soc practices. The 'established' pol'al set profession is accused of justifying everything in the Amer pol'al system as unique & workable & of condemning attempts to change it. Stability, rather than change, is the highest value, & conflict may be resolved peacefully & fairly within the existing system. Behavioralism, emphasizing the fact/value dichotomy & preoccupied with questions of method & model-building, supports these conservative tendencies. Pol'al sci'ts have become ideologues of the gov. Professionalism & its rewards are determined less by the values & ethics of the discipline than by the values & ethics of the soc & pol'al status quo. There are 3 prospective lines of development for radical pol'al sci: (1) a primarily theoretical one-the development of new paradigms for res & pol'al analysis or new modes of inquiry; (2) the politization & democratization of the APSA & the reform of the discipline, teaching, curricula-with the CNPS as the pinwheel for reform; (3) the creation of a res-action pol'al sci focusing on criticism of Amer instit's & analyses of alternative soc priorities. IPSA.

My interest in the world of politics began when I was a high school student. However, in the authoritarian structure of Soviet society political science as an independent scientific discipline, was, for a long period, considered to be a "capitalist" science. When I was in Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University there was no major in political science so I chose history as my major because it was the closest.

This article shows empirically, theoretically and statistically that domestic (or 'home-grown') terrorism in Western Europe occurs more frequently in countries with majoritarian political systems (typically first-past-the-post electoral systems and single-party governments) than in countries with consensus political systems (typically countries with PR electoral systems and coalition governments). Based on a survey of all domestic terrorist incidents in Western Europe from 1985 to 2010, the article shows strong negative correlations between consensus institutions and levels of terrorism; that is, the more disproportional the political system is, the higher the levels of terrorism are likely to be. Thus domestic terrorism tends to occur when minorities are excluded from the decision-making process on matters they find important. These findings indicate that constitutional engineering provides a more promising model of counterterrorism than the prevailing orthodoxy.

Part of a symposium, "The Concept of Gender: Research Implications for Political Science." The concept of gender was adopted by feminist scholars in the 1970s to distinguish culturally specific characteristics associated with masculinity & femininity from biological features associated with sex. Despite the work of feminist scholars, feminist political science has still not become a dominant paradigm within the discipline. This article traces the emergence of gender as an analytic category in feminist scholarship & argues that feminist methodology offers the discipline unique perspectives which deserve more serious incorporation into undergraduate & graduate curriculum. Furthermore, by refusing to incorporate feminist scholarship that challenges some basic presuppositions of the disciplines, political scientists violate their own scientific norms of objectivity & systemacity. References. R. Prince

Tensions have been mounting rapidly since Russia massed 100,000 troops on the Ukrainian border in December. What does Putin hope to achieve? How should the West respond if the Russians do invade? Can the tensions be defused by the US-Russia talks in Geneva?

This seminar will reflect on how policy and art can work together to better understand human mobility in the context of climate change. It will discuss recent developments in the international governance of climate change related migration, and explore the role of art in raising awareness, creating a frame for dialogue and discussion, and activating change.

Kim Quaile Hill (PS: Political Science and Politics, July 2004) seeks to
debunk five "myths about the physical sciences" that "pose notable hurdles for appreciating
the social sciences as legitimate scientific enterprise" (467). One of these myths is that
"the physical sciences have always been highly successful in explaining their subject
matter." Hill complains that political science students are "ignorant of the history of
science" and therefore they fail to "appreciate the differences between young and mature
scientific disciplines…. If students can appreciate that all sciences were once youthful—as
political science still is today—they will have a useful perspective by which to understand
why and how the knowledge base of our discipline is limited" (469).