Call for Papers

The inaugural edition of the Journal of Global Faultlines, tentatively due for release in September 2013, will be focused on critically analyzing two key terms, Global Faultlines and Global Shifts.  These two interrelated terms may very well prompt any number of corollary questions such as, but not limited to, the following:

 

  • What will replace the Old Order?
  • How can Washington protect its interests in the new global era?
  • How much international disruption will attend the transition from the old to the new?
  • How should the behavior of new Emerging Powers be interpreted?
  • What impact will these Emerging Powers have on the existing global engagements with traditional partners?
  • Whether the rise of the Emerging Powers is an opportunity for or threat to the future of global development?
  • What opportunities does engagement with the new Emerging Powers from the Global South provide to social movements and other grassroots organizations to advance their interests and those of the oppressed by playing one global power against another?
  • How will the Emerging Powers respond if their economic interests are threatened?
  • Is it accurate to assume that the Emerging Powers on the UN Security Council will act as a collective and will they put their group interests above their national interests and regional identities?
  • Does or should the rising economic power of the Emerging Economies mean an end to the North–South framing of global power structure?
  • What is the role of human agency to play a part in an increasingly interdependent world?
  • As economic power shifts to the Emerging Powers, will politics follow?

 

The papers can be theoretical, methodological or empirical, and they can examine any subject related to the Global Faultlines and Global Shifts. All manuscripts shall be subject to a double-blind reading, ensuring the integrity of the peer-review process. All submissions should be between 6,000 and 12,000 words, and include abstracts of no more than 200 words (in Microsoft Word file format).

 

We welcome those interested to please submit their papers and proposals, and all
relevant inquiries.  Please contact: b.gokay@keele.ac.uk or see the journal website for more information.

Submission Guidelines

The editorial board of the Journal of GlobalFaultlines invites the submission of articles, book review essays and book reviews that contribute to the debates related to the wider discussions of Global Faultlines and Global Shifts. If authors are unsure about the fit of a proposed article, send us a brief synopsis (one page) to look at and give an opinion on suitability, style etc.

Contributors should send manuscripts as attachments in Word format by e-mail to:

 

* Bulent Gokay ( b.gokay@keele.ac.uk) for substantive articles

 

* Ilia Xypolia ( i.xypolia@keele.ac.uk) for review articles and book reviews

 

The length of the articles will vary, but should probably be between 8,000 and 10,000 words (including footnotes). Manuscripts should be typed double spaced in twelve point font, with subheads in 14 point; have wide margins and page numbers; should not have right-margin justification. The manuscript should contain: a title page; an abstract of 150 words or less; the body of the text; a list of cited references. Please use either minimal footnotes or preferably no footnotes at all. Citations are to follow the Harvard System, i.e., in the text they are to be by author’s name and year of publication (Gokay 2008), and at the end of the paper in alphabetical order of authors’ surnames. Works by the same author and published in the same year are to be distinguished by letters appended to the year. Illustrations should be discussed in the text and should be numbered sequentially with Arabic numbers (e.g. Figure 2). Captions for illustrations should be typed together on a separate page (labelled Figure Captions) and not included on the illustration itself. Illustrations must be of professional quality.