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We are currently accepting submissions until Friday, March 27, 2009. Papers related to the themes of international security and international justice are especially welcome, although non-related papers are accepted as well.

Most Recent Issue:

Volume10 Issue1
Governance and Accountability

Accountability, according to political scientist Andreas Schedler, exists when one party is obliged to (1) inform another of its own actions, (2) provide justification for such decisions, and (3) suffer punishment in the case of misconduct. This edition investigates several ways in which governments are handling issues of accountability towards disadvantaged minorities, citizens at large, and even the international state system. This volume also features exclusive interviews with two very different world leaders. Members of the SJIR staff had the opportunity to meet former Pakistani President, Pervez Musharraf and conduct an electronic interview to ask him pressing questions on nuclear proliferation, Pakistani-Indian relations, and his time in office. It is especially interesting to reflect upon the President’s concept of sovereignty in light of what Pascal Lamy, the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, shares about the same issue in a separate interview. Mr. Lamy draws from his experience as the head of one of the most prominent international organizations to call for more effective international institutions and a global democratic system.