Call for Papers

COVID-19. Pandemic and global crisis

Calendar of the call:

  • 1 January 2021: deadline for submission of articles.

Please refer author guidelines

The crisis originated by Covid-19 has triggered a major disruption in the realm of international relations and globalization networks. The crisis has challenged major international organizations and represents the most important global financial turbulence in many years, perhaps since Second World War. Furthermore, it has deeply altered perceptions on political practice, or the legitimacy of representation. It has generated without any doubt the most volatile scenario of distrust and social anxiety since the September 11 terrorist attacks. Moreover, it has had an important impact in the field of media, the management of public freedoms or the uncertainties that this context opens for the future of the global agenda.

In its mission to address the most relevant matters related to the field of International Relations, Comillas Journal of International Relations aims to open a space for reflection on all these matters, and it invites scholars and specialists to participate in a monographic issue dedicated to this topic. The journal publishes contributions both in English and Spanish.

While this is not an exhaustive list, we invite contributions dealing with the following matters:

  • Health governance.
  • Economic impact of the crisis. Future perspectives.
  • Theoretical framework from the perspective of international relations relative to COVID-19.
  • European Union’s response to the crisis.
  • Democracy and representation in the face of the pandemic.
  • ¿A change in global order? USA, China, Rusia and Europe. Different responses to the same challenge. Future scenarios.
  • Ideology and mindsets in the wake of the crisis. The new emergence of populism.
  • The COVID-19 crisis in historical perspective.

 

TRUMP’S AMERICA. The Transformation of U.S. Domestic and International Policy

Calendar of the call:

  • 1 January 2021: deadline for submission of articles.

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Coordinator of the Monographic Issue: Pedro Rodríguez pjrodriguez@comillas.edu (Universidad Pontificia Comillas).

President Donald J. Trump’s first term in office has forced a radical transformation in both international and domestic U.S. politics. His arrival at the White House in 2016, in line with the populist impulse repeated in all kinds of democratic systems, took place outside the traditional American political parameters based on consensus and the building of pluralistic coalitions of voters. In contrast, Trump has shown that in the current climate of disaffection and extreme political polarization, the U.S. Presidency can be won by cultivating only a certain sector of the American electorate.

On the domestic political front, President Trump has succeeded in redefining what is considered acceptable and unacceptable of a U.S. president, with an expansive view of executive powers and privileges. Subject to an impeachment process with insufficient votes in the Senate for his removal of office, Trump has capitalized on the crisis of mediation that exists in almost all Western democracies. In his case, this has meant permanent conflict, even during a crisis as serious as the COVID-19 pandemic, against his political opponents, government institutions, bureaucracy, experts, and the media.

On the domestic political front, President Trump has succeeded in redefining what is considered acceptable and unacceptable of a U.S. president, with an expansive view of executive powers and privileges. Subject to an impeachment process with insufficient votes in the Senate for his removal of office, Trump has capitalized on the crisis of mediation that exists in almost all Western democracies. In his case, this has meant permanent conflict, even during a crisis as serious as the COVID-19 pandemic, against his political opponents, government institutions, bureaucracy, experts, and the media.

In terms of foreign policy, President Trump has also posed a constant offensive front against the rules of the liberal international order, ironically established under U.S. leadership after World War II. Within this redefinition of the role of the United States in the world, the Trump Administration has promoted foreign policy that is subordinated to more pragmatic unilateralism, questioning everything from traditional alliances to international free trade. “America First” as a foreign policy doctrine has meant a step back in the global prestige of the United States and the de facto renunciation of that international leadership that has characterized the so-called Pax Americana.

In its mission to address the most relevant matters related to the field of International Relations, Comillas Journal of International Relations aims to open a space for reflection on all these matters, and it invites scholars and specialists to participate in a monographic issue dedicated to this topic. The journal publishes contributions both in English and Spanish.

While this is not an exhaustive list, we invite contributions dealing with the following matters:

  • American Foreign Policy under Trump and International Relations Theories.
  • The Trump’s Administration and the International Liberal Order.
  • The bilateral Spain-U.S. relationship since 2016.
  • The Populist Challenge to Bureaucracy and Expertise in American Foreign Policy.
  • United States vs. China. Thucydides’ Wishful Thinking.
  • The Art of the Bluff and Fake Force as Tools for Trump’s Foreign Policy.
  • “America First” and the Role of the United States in the World.
  • International Trade as a zero-sum Game.
  • The Tolerant Affinity with the Growing Autocrats Around the World.
  • The Wall, Immigration, Refugees and Human Rights under the Trump Administration.
  • President Trump and Europe: from NATO to Brexit.
  • Trumpism in the Middle East.
  • The “Special relationship” with Russia.
  • The Transformation of the U.S. Presidency under Donald J. Trump.
  • Populism Impact in American Politics.
  • Political Polarization and Trump’s Failed Impeachment.
  • Rule of Law, Truth and Ethics in the White House./li>
  • President Trump’s Management of the COVID-19 Crisis.
  • The Revolution in American Political Communication.
  • Fake News: Mediation’s Crisis and the Media as the Enemy of the People.

 

Sports and International Relations

Calendar of the call

  • 1 January 2021: deadline for submission of articles.

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Coordinator: Javier González del Castillo javigc@comillas.edu (Universidad Pontificia Comillas).

As an almost ubiquitous part of modern life, sport has a powerful ability to touch individuals and societies around the world in a way that traditional forms of diplomacy rarely can. The sports competition always carries social and political messages for the spectators. The ways in which sport operates represent an increasingly global business that generates economic benefits and chains between a wide range of actors, which have profound consequences for diplomacy. Sport is also a metaphor for competing identities within policies at all levels. Nowhere is the diffusion and redistribution of political and economic power in our globalized world more visible than in international sport.

After many years of forgetting, the field that blend sport and diplomacy is attracting renewed academic attention. Comillas Journal of International Relations invites authors to reflect and contribute with works that address any aspect related to the use of sport as soft power in international relations.

Comillas Journal of International Relations is a quarterly scientific journal edited as an Open Access Journal by the Department of International Relations (Faculty of Human and Social Sciences) of the Universidad Pontificia Comillas. The journal follows strict standards in its editorial process that guarantee the excellence and relevance of the texts published therein. We intend to be a reference, and to see it recognized with the inclusion of the journal in the most prestigious indexes and databases ... but above all we intend to be really useful, inside and outside the University. Comillas Journal of International Relations consists of the following indexes and international databases: DOAJ, ERIH, REDIB, OCLC, CIRC, and Dialnet.