Dear All,

On behalf of the international editorial team, I would like to introduce the first issue of Global Discourse. This Andrew Linklater Special Issue features a full interview with Linklater as well as a symposium on his ‘Critical Theory and World Politics’, including a substantive reply from the author. Also included are articles on E.H. Carr and Gadamerian analysis of Gulliver’s Travels, published alongside substantive, referees’ reviews, essays on Western conceptualisation of, and engagement with, Sub-Saharan Africa, an audio lecture on the rights of refugees and further book review symposia on ‘Chasing Dragons’ by Kyle Grayson and ‘Difference and Giveness’by Levi R. Bryant, both with substantive replies from the authors. The articles, essays and reviews are available on the Contents page.

Global Discourse is a developmental journal of research in politics and international relations. We aim to provide a forum for the expression and development of distinctive research projects – particularly those which transcend disciplinary boundaries. We accept high quality submissions from any theoretical and methodological perspective and encourage debate between paradigms and schemas.

Free to access, and open to submissions from postgraduates and academics alike, Global Discourse publishes peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed material in a variety of forms: full articles accompanied by formal reviews; less formal essays; interviews; book review symposia, and mp3 audio and visual presentations.

Importantly, the journal is designed to act as a springboard for authors, providing a forum for the development of their work. Authors retain copyright and can submit their revised and developed work elsewhere six months after publication in Global Discourse.

Information on submitting work to Global Discourse can be found on the Information for Authors page.

For further information, please contact myself at m.t.johnson@ncl.ac.uk or refer to the Contacts and Organisation page for details of the relevant regional editorial teams.

With best wishes,

Matthew Johnson.

Editor-in-Chief.

About the Title

Global Discourse is a developmental journal which publishes two issues per annum. The publication is an international collaboration between postgraduate students and young academics seeking to develop a well-read, high-quality journal publishing work on all areas of politics and international relations.

With an international network of editors, referees, and contributors in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, the US, The Caribbean and Continental Europe, Global Discourse is a conglomeration of individuals, schools and postgraduate journals seeking to develop a forum for the expression and development of distinctive research projects – particularly those which transcend disciplinary boundaries. The journal accepts high quality submissions from any theoretical and methodological perspective and encourages debate between paradigms and schemas.

Aims

Global Discourse aims to draw individuals, schools, organisations, and existing politics and international relations postgraduate journals, into an overarching collaborative forum which re-engages discourse between author and reader. As a fully peer-reviewed, online journal, Global Discourse seeks to provide a critical, developmental forum for postgraduates and young academics.

The journal aims to review its own content by publishing 1-2,000 word formal reviews and replies to each published article as well as encouraging less formal dialogue through moderated discussion boards.

By enabling authors to retain copyright and to withdraw contributions following a full six month period of issue, the journal aims to encourage the development of papers for submission to more established publications. Nothing is lost, but much can be gained, by submitting work for publication in Global Discourse.

In order to satisfy the guidelines of other journals, authors who wish to remove their article and submit elsewhere will not be entitled to claim the original submission at Global Discourse as  a peer reviewed publication. In such cases, Global Discourse will function solely as a developmental forum for working papers and comments provided will be informal. However, those who do wish to publish with Global Discourse as a forum of final publication are entitled to claim the submission as a fully peer reviewed publication.

The journal also aims to develop a more dynamic book review section, with intensive discussion of a single text by several reviewers published alongside replies from the author/s.

Call for Papers

Global Discourse accepts high quality submissions from any theoretical and methodological perspective and encourages debate between paradigms and schemas. As such, we encourage contributions from such disciplines as anthropology, cultural studies, economics, education, geography, history, law, media studies, philosophy, psychology, social policy and sociology.

Global Discourse accepts a wide range of contributions, from short research notes of 2-4,000 words to full-length articles of up to 9,000 words including all notes and references.

The First Issue

For the first issue, we have a full statement of intent by Martin Weber, University of Queensland, and an article on power within court societies by Jeremy Paterson, Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University.

We have a book review symposium on Difference and Givenness: Deleuze’s Transcendental Empiricism and the Ontology of Immanence, with replies from the author, Levi R.Byrant, Professor of Philosophy at Collin College, Texas.

Future reviews include Disrespect: The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory by Axel Honneth and Chasing Dragons: Security, Identity, and Illicit Drugs in Canada by Kyle Grayson.