VOL.15 NO.12 Dec 5, 2003
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Announcements
----IBPP Special Services The IBPP Editorial Board will develop articles on specific topics requested by the readership. The Board will also provide analyses for the professional use of readers at their request. If you would like to make a request or need additional information, contact bloomr@erau.edu. ----IBPP International Editor Nominations The International Bulletin of Political Psychology (IBPP) is requesting nominations for a number of Regional Editor positions. Regional Editors should (1) work and live outside the United States; (2) be fluent in English; (3) encourage IBPP submissions from colleagues, students, political activists, mass media representatives, and others; (4) facilitate the development of these submissions; and--if they desire--(5) translate IBPP issues and articles into local languages for educational purposes. Regional Editors may wish to create their own network of editors to ensure representation of political psychology ideas from as many populations as possible. Please help make IBPP truly international. Interested parties may contact the IBPP editor via email: bloomr@erau.edu, telephone: 928-777-3837, or post: Director, Terrorism, Intelligence, and Security Studies, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 3700 Willow Creek, Prescott, AZ 86301, USA. ----Conferences 2nd Global Conference, Transformations in Politics, Culture, and Society, Vienna Austria, December 8-10, 2003 URL: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/transform/transform03cfp.htm Middle East/North Africa Regional Conference on Psychology, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 13-18, 2003 Email: info@menarcp.org 34th Annual Conference of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850, High Point University, North Carolina, USA, February 19-22, 2004 Contact: fschneid@highpoint.edu State Violence and Humanitarian Response Conference, Centre for the Cultural History of Modern War (University of Manchester) April 15-17, 2004 URL: http://www.art.man.ac.uk/HISTORY/research/war/stateviolence/call.htm Twelfth European Conference on Personality, Groningen, The Netherlands, July 18-22, 2003 Web site: http://www.ppsw.rug.nl/~ecp12 Email: ECP12@ppsw.rug.nl Seventeenth Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, August 2-6, 2004 Twenty-Eight International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China, August 8-13, 2004 URL: http://www.icp2004.psych.ac.cn Sixth Delphi International Psychoanalytic Symposium, Patras, Greece, October 27-31, 2004 Email: Delphi@med.upatras.gr ---Online Journals/Courses Kritika Kultura This product is billed as “a pioneering refereed Philippine electronic journal committed to the promotion of scholarship.” Access at http://www.ateneo.edu/kritikakultura. Eras Eras is an on-line journal edited and produced by postgraduate students from the School of Historical Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Papers are accepted from the disciplines of history, archaeology, ancient history, religion, theology, and Jewish civilization. Eras is a fully refereed journal intended as an international forum for current or recently completed Masters and PhD students to publish original research, commentary, and reviews. Access the journal at http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/eras. Email: Eras@arts.monash.edu.au. Athenea Digital An online journal on social thought and research. Access the journal at http://www.blues.uab.es/athenea. Qualitative Methods in Various Disciplines II: Cultural Sciences Available at http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm. Transcend Peace University, Cluj, Romania Representative Courses: Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means//Global Conflicts and Nonviolence//Peacebuilding and Empowerment //Peace Journalism//Peace and the Arts//Nonmilitary Aspects of Security URL: http://www.transcend.org/tpu ----Contemporary Books/Journals/Articles Baer, R. (2002). See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA’s War on Terrorism. Crown. (This text highlights and entertainingly describes common intelligence issues such as the human versus the technical, careerism, headquarters versus field personnel dynamics, and the roles of covert action and espionage.) Belli, G. (2002). The Country Under My Skin: A Memory of Love and War. Knopf. (A narrative of the nonrevolutionary treatment of women within political revolutionary movements.) Grondin, J. (2003). Hans-Georg Gadamer: A Biography. (J. Weinsheimer, Trans.). Yale University Press. (An intellectual biography of the 20th century German philosopher who contributed so significantly to hermeneutics and clear philosophical writing.) Hart, J. L. (2003). The CIA’s Russians. A career intelligence officer with access to case files and to psychologists provides vignettes and commentary on the psychology of treason—specifically, Soviet citizens who worked against their country for the United States. Helms, R. (2003). A look over my shoulder: A life in the CIA. Random House. (An autobiography most valuable for its casual asides on the practice of intelligence and the characters of political and intelligence figures.) Norton, M.B. (2002). In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. Knopf. (An alternative approach to causal analysis of a well-known historical event and an example of the import of socio-historical analysis of stigma and socio-pathology.) Pipes, R. (2003). The Degaev Affair. Yale University Press. (The nexus of academic and terrorist is one with historical precedent. The author (and noted historian) provides an entertaining and insightful analysis of one such case.) Post, J.M. (2003). The Psychological Assessment of Political Leaders. University of Michigan Press. (This text describes the history and contemporary status of employing the scientific and clinical behavioral sciences to assess national leaders “at a distance.” Applications for profiling of Saddam Hussein and Bill Clinton are featured.) Rustmann, F.W., Jr. (2002). CIA, Inc.: Espionage and the Craft of Business Intelligence. Brassey’s, Inc. (A professional exposition of business intelligence based on generalization from governmental intelligence activities.) Shulsky, A.N., & Schmitt, G.J. (2002). Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence. (3rd ed.). Brassey’s, Inc. (Probably the best English language introductory textbook on intelligence matters.) |
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