The Winter Feature has been chosen!
January 15, 2012
The 2012 Winter Feature has been selected! Each year the Winter issue of Expressions runs a feature which explores the topic chosen for the National Conference of the CPSSA. This year's feature is:
"The Responsibility to Protect: A Cosmopolitan Argument for the Duty of Humanitarian Intervention"
By Karina Sangha, University of Victoria
This article examines the Responsibility to Protect and the ethical foundations upon which it stands. It relies on cosmopolitan ethics to establish the existence of universal moral principles that apply to all humanity. Furthermore, it establishes that universal human rights impose universal moral duties, which states, through the proverbial social contract, are obligated to fulfill. Should a state fail to protect the basic rights of its citizens, it is in violation of the social contract, and given the existence of universal moral principles, it then falls on the international community to protect its fellow humanity.
The Editorial Staff would like to congratulate the author and thank them for submitting to Expressions!
(The article can be read here)
Message to Authors
November 1, 2011
All authors who have submitted papers for review will be contacted ocne the peer review process is complete.
If your paper is selected for publication, you will be contacted by the Editorial Board in order to begin any edits that may be require. If your paper is not selected we thank you for submitting to Expressions; and we invite you to keep submitting articles for review.
Chris Bordeleau
Editor of the National Journal
Canadian Political Science Students' Association
Peer Review is underway!
November 1, 2011
Our Associate Editors and Board Members have begun the process of reviewing submissions for the upcoming issue of Expressions.
This issue will be released in time for the upcoming 2012 National Conference of the CPSSA at the University of Manitoba. In accordance with the conference's theme, Human Rights: A Canadian Perspective, Expressions will run a 4000-5000 word feature article on the subject of human rights. The title of this paper will be released as soon as the peer review process is complete.
Expressions will not be accepting submissions while the peer review process is ongoing.
2012 CPSSA Conference
September 14, 2011
The University of Manitoba will be hosting the 2012 National Conference. The topic selected for this conference is nationally relevant, regionally applicable and academically stimulating: Human Rights: A Canadian perspective. With a theme as all encompassing as human rights, the conference will provide delegates with a wide range of thought provoking issues to be presented, discussed and debated. Academic sessions include human trafficking, aboriginal politics, human security, the role of the welfare state and more. As the topic of human rights cannot be confined solely to the discipline of political science, the conference will include perspectives from a multitude of departments, including law, philosophy, sociology, education, women and gender studies, and native studies.
Registration will be opening soon. For registration forms and information, feel free to visit the conference's website; http://www.cpssa.ca/
A call for papers
We are currently looking for papers in the fields of International Relations, Political Theory, Canadian Politics, and Comparative Politics, that have received an A- or higher.
All submissions will undergo the peer-review process, and the names of each author will be ommitted for privacy.
If interested, please send any submissions to expressions.CPSSA@gmail.com. Be sure to include the class your paper was written for, and the university you are attending in the email.
Introducing Expressions
Expressions is the student-run, peer-reviewed journal of the Canadian Political Science Students' Association.
The journal is published twice each year, and features high-quality undergraduate papers from all four disiciplines of Political Science; International Relations, Political Theory, Comparative Politics, and Canadian Politics.
For the Fall 2011 issue, students are welcome to submit papers on any topic of their choosing, there is no planned theme. However, the 2012 National Conference of the CPSSA will focus on the politics of Human Rights. As such the Winter 2012 issue of Expressions will focus on the same topic.
There is no length requirement/limit for submissions, however each issue must feature one paper from each sub-topic of political science; this may create length restrictions.
If you are interested in being published, please send any submissions to:
expressions.CPSSA@gmail.com
We are also still looking for volunteers to help with publishing. In particular, we are in need of someone to act as our French language editor. Again, if you're interested please send us an email.
Chris Bordeleau
Editor of the National Journal
Canadian Political Science Students' Association
University of Victoria
