27 Światowy Kongres Nauk Politycznych

The IPSA World Congress of Political Science is the preeminent international gathering of political scientists working in academia, research and consulting who present their research over four days and 500+ panels.

The Congress will provide you with a great opportunity to present your work and discuss political science and international relations with global scholars. It will also include local and regional representation. For the very first time, the Local Organizing Committee is composed of colleagues from five regional countries, with the aim of strengthening ties with the global community. The Congress will also coexist with the biennial Congress of the Argentina political science association, the Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Político (SAAP) which will have a large contingent of students.

Politics in the Age of Transboundary Crises: Vulnerability and Resilience

Domestic and international politics are notably challenged by complex transboundary problems that include climate change, cyber terrorism, global migration flows, financial instability and the COVID-19 pandemic, among others. These problems are transboundary in the sense that they traverse state boundaries in an era of intense global connectivity.  Disruptions in one part of the world quickly move around the globe through highly integrated global networks.

Transboundary issues expose the grave consequences of the tragedy of the commons as coordinated global responses are frequently inadequate and sometimes absent. Global collective action so urgently required to comprehensively manage transboundary issues is found wanting. States are challenged to manage effects on citizens and political institutions, often muddling through with vulnerabilities evident across the layers of political life.

But citizens, states and the global system are also resilient. The international order was briefly interrupted by the freezing of politics during the COVID-19 pandemic. States sought to respond to the immediate challenges of the pandemic, yet as the early waves passed through, global politics resumed along pre-pandemic fault lines. State capacity is a crucial focus in terms of collaborative approaches among both state and non-state actors to address the so-called ‘wicked’ problems in the age of transboundary crises. Many governments experience ‘rally around the flag’ effects with sharp increases in support following the political shocks of a transboundary problem (financial crisis, political violence, natural disaster, etc.) but these effects are temporary with normal politics through citizens, social movements, political parties and leaders inevitably reasserting itself. Transboundary dynamics also create opportunities. The diffusion of debates and action on human rights and specifically on matters relating to gender equality, anti-racism and LGBT rights have benefited from global coalitions of citizens and civil society organizations.

In order to investigate, understand and contribute to academic and public debates on these complex transboundary problems and opportunities, the discipline of political science needs conceptual lenses and theoretical approaches that span traditional disciplinary boundaries and cross over social, cultural, economic, religious, ethnic, sexual and linguistic delineations. Connecting theory and praxis is also important. Transboundary approaches are called for and these might include but are not limited to interdisciplinarity, sub-field pluralism and diversity of methodological approaches. We invite proposals for panels and roundtables on topics relevant to the theme using both domestic and international analytical lenses and focusing on multiple units of analysis that include citizens, social movements, political parties, leaders, public policies, states and IOs. We especially encourage international participation and collaboration by scholars across boundaries.

Local Organizing Committee (LOC)

• Martín D’Alessandro (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Co-Chair)
• María Laura Perera Taricco (Universidad Católica Argentina, Co-Chair)
• Oscar Oszlak (Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad; Honorary Chair)
• Catalina Smulovitz (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)
• Juan Pablo Laporte (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
• Fernando Domínguez Sardou (Universidad Católica Argentina)
• Clarisa Demattei (Universidad Católica Argentina)
• Cintia Pinillos (Universidad Nacional de Rosario)
• Diego Ferreyra (Universidad Católica Argentina)
• Mauro Saiz (Universidad Católica Argentina)
• Rocío Annunziata (Universidad Nacional de San Martín)
• Martina Ferrero (Universidad Católica Argentina)
• Mario Miceli (Universidad Católica Argentina)
• Daniel Buquet (Universidad de la República, Special guest member)
• Jesús Tovar Mendoza (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Special guest member)
• Vanessa Elias de Oliveira (Universidade Federal do ABC, Special guest member)
• Juan Carlos Gómez (Instituto Colombiano de Estudios Superiores de Incolda, Special guest member)