Newletter

Newletter April 1998

Dear Colleagues:

A few late-breaking items have come in that did not make it into the

newsletter.

1. The ESS section will be electing a new chair. Philippe LePrestre has

served the two-term limit. So, please send your nominations to the

Nominating Committee, Miranda Schreurs, Dept. of Government and Politics,

Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742; Fax: (301) 314-9690; Email:

MSCHREUR@bss2.umd.edu.

2. ESS member publications:

Marvin S. Soroos, “The Thin Blue Line: Preserving the Atmosphere as a

Global Commons,” Environment, Vol. 40, No. 2, March 1998, 6-13, 32-35.

Environment and Security: Discourses and Practices, edited by Miriam R.

Lowi and Brian R. Shaw, MacMillan Publishing, forthcoming.

Alan Rugman and John Kirton with Julie Soloway, eds., Trade and the

Environmnt: Economic, Legal and Policy Perspectives, Edward Elgar:

Cheltenham, UK, 1998.

3. Announcements from the Center for Research on North America (CISAN) at

the National Autonomous University of Mexico:

The publication of a book on “Renewed Federalism in North America” in the

spring of 1999. This will contain a series of essays from academics and

specialists from Canada, the United States and Mexico as a result of a

recent trinational conference held by CISAN in Mexico City.

December 3rd, 1998 – CISAN Seminar to review the results of the Binational

Study U.S.-Mexico on Migration Issues.

For additional information, please contact: CISAN, Torre II de Humanidades,

Piso 10, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico D.F., Tel: (52 5) 623-0010 Fax: (52

5) 550-0379, e-mail: estradav@servidor.unam.mx