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You are cordially invited. Islam in International Relations: Politics and Paradigms analyses the interaction between Islam and IR. It shows how Islam is a conceptualization of ideas that affect people’s thinking and behaviour in their capacity to relate with IR as both discipline and practice. This approach challenges Western-based and defined epistemological and ontological foundations…

Congratulations to Dr Imène Ajala! The Co-IRIS team is very proud to announce the first volume of the “Islam and International Relations” series in partnership with Gerlach Press. In a global context marked by terrorist threats, Muslim communities in the West have come under increasing scrutiny. Sensitive questions on identity arise with regard to their foreign…

1st Panel: “Islam and Democracy” The two terms in the title of this section are contentious and therefore the first thing the abstracts and papers have to do is define what they mean. The papers could address: Democratic practice in any historical context, comparative Nation-state practices, or theoretical arguments. The call for papers will focus…

Below is an excerpt from Inside Higher Ed‘s piece written by Elizabeth Redden. Another scholar from overseas had a difficult time entering the U.S. for the conference. Nassef Manabilang Adiong, the founder of the Philippine International Studies Organization, came from Manila to Baltimore via Tokyo and Detroit. He said he was about to board his flight…