International Association for Political Science Students

International Association for Political Science Students

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Abbreviation	IAPSS
Formation	1998
Type	International Student's Association
Legal status	Association
Purpose	Educational / Academic
Headquarters	Nijmegen, Netherlands
Region served	Worldwide
Membership	Student Associations / Individuals
Official language	English
President	Jannick Burggraaff
Main organ	General Assembly
Website	iapss.org

The International Association for Political Science Students (IAPSS) is the international association for political science students and students interested in political science issues. The association is politically independent, non-profit and student-run. It executes programs and services worldwide and aims to have global impact in the international political science sphere.

IAPSS sees itself as an umbrella organization for local, regional and national political science student associations and offers a wide range of political science programs and services for both association and individual members. It hosts a number of international political science conferences, study trips and a summer school each year - exclusively dedicated to the promotion of political science students knowledge development, their scientific research and publications. The IAPSS own journal POLITIKON and the online-blog A Different View publish student works on a regular base. Half-a-dozen official IAPSS delegations are sent to major political science conventions and congresses annually. Academic panels at IAPSS' conferences are exclusively designed for the presentation of research projects from political science undergraduates, graduates and post-graduates. Members receive a comprehensive online collection of relevant opportunities from the political science sphere twice a month. An online career center provides one of the largest collection of political science related data, information and websites as well as an introduction to the discipline itself.

History

The idea of a permanent international political science students' network was first discussed in 1996, when students from Leiden University visited colleagues in Rome. The first IAPSS General Assembly was held in Leiden, the Netherlands, in 1998, where the Association was founded and legally registered.

During the following years, IAPSS evolved from a network to an institutionalized governing body. In 2003 a permanent seat was established as the association's headquarters in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2004, the first annual "Executive Committee" (ExCom) was elected, coordinating programs and services on various levels directly from the Slovenian capital. By 2005, the incorporation of a new association in Slovenia was finalized and succeeded the previous Dutch based body. Due to internal measures of centralization and its proximity to the EU's capital Brussels, IAPSS is reloacting its headquarters to Nijmegen, the Netherlands, by May 1, 2013. Based on a resolution taken by the 16th General Assembly 2013 in Rome, Italy, the realization of all portfolio programs will be coordinated from IAPSS' new permanent seat, located at Radboud University Nijmegen. The headquarters' relocation was accompanied with a full revision of the statues and internal regulations of the association.

As by 2013, IAPSS has embraced more than 80 political science student associations and more than 15,000 students from over 60 different countries from Europe, Asia and Latin America, North America and Africa. It holds active relationships with other major political science associations including the International Political Science Association (IPSA), the International Studies Association (ISA), the American Political Science Association (APSA) and the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) as well as a range of student-run associations from around the globe such as the Association des États Généraux des Étudiants de l'Europe (AEGEE) and the Young Transatlantic Initiative (YTI).

Structure

IAPSS maintains a system of multi-level membership, including associations and ordinary individual members (both with voting rights) and selected honorary and alumni members. Annual elections select the different governing bodies:

• the General Assembly (GA): composed by all the association and individual members as well as honorary and alumni members (the two latter without the right of vote), it decides on the guidelines and annual framework of the association, elects the other bodies and decides on statute changes, the annual budget as well as proposals from members and policy resolutions.
• the Executive Committee (ExCom): composed by seven members of at least three different nationalities (president, secretary general, treasurer and 4 regular board members) is the executive body of the Association, it executes IAPSS' annual agenda and portfolio including a range of large-scale conferences, publications, delegations and other membership services. The ExCom is responsible to realize all resolutions and decisions taken by the General Assembly;
• the Supervisory Committee (SupCom): composed by three members of different nationalities, monitors the work of ExCom and overviews the financial administration of the Association;
• the Editorial Board (EB): composed by a multinational team of editors publishes both POLITIKON and A Different View on a quarterly and respectively monthly basis in the name of the Association.

Events

Annual Conference & General Assembly

The Annual Conference and General Assembly (AC/GA) is the principal event of the association and is held yearly. It is organized by one of the association members, elected by the GA itself.

The AC/GA is divided in two parts: the annual conference, made up of panels, seminars, lectures and debates, on a specific theme regarding political science, chosen by the association member which organizes the AC/GA; and the General Assembly which discusses and approves guidelines and elects the IAPSS bodies for the next legislative term. The event usually takes place in a country's capital or major town and lasts 5–6 days. From 2013 onwards, two IAPSS General Assemblies are held annually, with a spring and an autumn edition.

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16th IAPSS general assembly 2013, Rome, Italy

Year	City	Title
1998	Leiden	The Foundation Conference
1999	Oslo	European Security beyond 2000
2000	Debrecen	Nations and Minorities
2001	Rome	Humankind and Globalisation
2002	Bucharest	New Europe: The Quest for Identity and Legitimacy
2003	Ljubljana	New Wind
2004	Marburg	Good Knowledge: Education as an Object of Trade
2005	Moscow	The End of the Transition Paradigm
2006	Amsterdam	Global Crime
2007	Amsterdam	Globalising Citizenship
2008	Thessaloniki	The Future of Governance in the 21st Century
2009	Ljubljana	The Future of Political Science
2010	Leiden	Water Politics
2011	Lisbon	World Leadership
2012	Bremen	The States they are A-changing
2013	Rome	Global Justice
2013	Bucharest	Collective Action Problems in the Contemporary World
2014	Nijmegen	Universality of Human Rights in the 21st Century
2015	Prague	New Threats to Security

World Congress for Political Science Students

Large demand and the internationalization of the association led towards the installation of an annual World Congress for Political Science Students, as IAPSS' largest event to take place in spring on an annual base. The 1st World Congress was held in 2014 and incorporated a large-scale international political science conference and an IAPSS General Assembly.

Year	City	Title
2014	Thessaloniki	The Limits to Global Governance
2015	London	Cooperation, Conflict and Security

Academic Conferences

Aside from the AC/GA, IAPSS organizes several international conferences throughout the year on political science issues. It is organized by one of the association members, elected by the GA, and focusses exclusively on the examination of a selected political science topic, the promotion of student research projects and inputs of academic, civil and political actors from the political science arena.

Year	City	Title
2006	Trieste	Non-violence: history, politics, rights, international value?
2007	Cluj-Napoca	Sovereignty in a globalizing world
2008	Rome	The Giant's rise
2009	Belgrade	Stand up for peace
2011	Thessaloniki	European Identity
2013	Budva	Challenges to the Global Political Economy

Other events

Year	City	Type	Title
2000	Marburg	IAPSS Regional Conference	Post Cold War Europe
2001	Bucharest	IAPSS Regional Conference	The Bridges Network
2002	Ljubljana	IAPSS Regional Conference	Good Morning Terrorism
2003	Reykjavík	IAPSS Regional Conference	Globalization and National Identity
2004	Helsinki	IAPSS Nordic Conference	The Role of Nordic Cooperation in Enlarging Europe
	Cluj-Napoca	IAPSS Summer school	Reinforcing IAPSS Team
	Leiden	IAPSS Regional Conference for Northern Europe	European Integration
2005	Bern/Zurich	IAPSS Regional Conference	Neutrality in International Context: Good, Bad or just Making Rich?
2006	Rome	"Old, New and Future Europe" Conferences	Europe – Plurality of the Identities
	Ljubljana	"Old, New and Future Europe" Conferences	Europe in the World
	Bucharest	"Old, New and Future Europe" Conferences	Further European Enlargement
2007	Ljubljana	IAPSS International seminar	Youth Bridging the Gap: Reaching out to the Roma
2008	Ljubljana	IAPSS Going Green	Confronting Energy and Climate Change Policies

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IAPSS Member Association SSE Cluj promoting the 2006 Europe Day in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

IAPSS Political Science Journals and Review

POLITIKON

See also: Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science

"Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science" (also Politikon) is the principal academic review of the Association. Founded in 2001, it is published quarterly, with a short two-year hiatus from 2009 to 2011, due to a comprehensive redefinition process.

Politikon publishes undergraduate and graduate student articles from around the world. The peer-review and supervision process involves academic experts from across the world and abstracts from Politikon are included in the International Political Science Association’s (IPSA) Annual International Political Science Abstracts.

A Different View

See also: A Different View

A Different View (also ADV) is the Association's online blog with a critical touch. Founded in 2005 as a monthly online magazine, ADV deals with a wide range of topics including political, social, cultural, economic affairs. It gives undergraduate and graduate students from around the world the opportunity to shed light on the issues that their countries face through the publication of blogposts.

Journals in Planning

By summer 2014, IAPSS will release two new journals. On the one hand, Encuentro Latino Americano (ELA), will focus on politics of, in and about Latin America, with articles published in Spanish, English and Portuguese. Secondly, the Journal for Political Theory and Analysis (JPTA) will seek to foster the scientific work of PhD and post-graduate students in the field of political theory, published in English.

Executive Committee

The Association is run by an eight-member Executive Committee (ExCom). Executive Committee members coordinate respective departments and are responsible for the execution of the Association's portfolio. From 1999 to 2004, the Chairperson of the Member Association responsible to organize the annual Academic Conference & General Assembly (ACGA) served also as President of the association. From October 1, 2004 these positions were detached, and the IAPSS Executive Committee (ExCom), was established as a permanent board and led by an annually elected president.

The Executive Committee is furthermore assisted by a large number of departmental coordinators who support the board in the execution of its operations.

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Participants of the 16th IAPSS General Assembly 2013, Rome, Italy

IAPSS Executive Committee 2015/2016

Position	Person
President	Jannick Burggraaff
Secretary General	Andrea Kovarova
Treasurer and Vice-President	Catherine Mackay
Head of Academics	Vit Simral
Head of World Congress	Philipp Aepler
Head of Autumn Convention	Filipa Brandao
Head of Events	Florian Zabel
Head of Public Relations and International Cooperation	Riina Bhatia

IAPSS Presidents since 1998

Year	President
1998	Matthijs Luijke
1999	Halvard Leira
2000	Ferenc Pénzes
2001	Alessio Sanguinetti
2002	Claudiu Craciun
2003	Blaž Gorjup
2004	Stefan Cibian Cornelia Schöler
2004–2005	Matija Kovač
2005–2006	Yvon Braam
2006–2007	Iana Stantieru
2007–2008	Alexandros Samaras
2008–2009	Alejandro Delmar Injoque
2009–2010	Yoana Balchova
2010–2011	Luca Martinelli
2011–2012	Pedro Manuel Costa
2012–2013	Philipp Aepler
2013–2014	Philipp Aepler
2014–2015	Philipp Aepler
2015–2016	Jannick Burggraaff

See also

IAPSS Partners

• International Political Science Association
• International Studies Association
• European Consortium for Political Research
• American Political Science Association
• Association des États Généraux des Étudiants de l'Europe
• UNESCO
• Council of Europe
• Radboud University Nijmegen

External links

• Official website