In rich and diverse ways, these phenomena pose increasingly complex and fluid challenges to theory and practice. The mass anxiety which may accompany them with regard to domestic affairs limits the responses available to governments at the same time that these governments must increasingly either fashion coalitions with non-state actors or find themselves bypassed by events. To make the situation even more analytically demanding, there is little doubt that an increasing number of states and of non-state actors around the globe have the capacity to reach across their borders for good or for ill. There are then growing needs and possibilities for transnational non-governmental groupings to affect domestic policies and a global civil society. Accordingly, organizers of the 1997 program seek to engage experts from a wide range of disciplines, national experiences, and normative orientations.
Dialogue needs to reach beyond the social sciences, as well as beyond political science.
Explanations, predictions and prescriptions need to be explored by practitioners as well as academics. And to the maximum possible extent, experts should be drawn from beyond North America and Western Europe. We welcome proposals for panels and individual papers on the broad range of topics and approaches bearing on the insecurity issues centered on threats more than enemies. It is preferable to send proposals for papers or panels directly to the most relevant section organizers. Any proposals received after that date are unlikely to be considered for the 1997 program.