Dear Friends,



Lesley Terris and I are organizing an international conference on *New
**Directions
for International Relations* at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy
and Strategy at IDC-Herzliya, Israel. The conference will take place on July
10-12, 2009 and will cover the following topics:



Behavioral Approaches to IR

Rational Choice and IR

Quantitative and Formal Analysis of Conflict and Conflict Resolution

Negotiations and Mediation in International Conflicts

Methodological Innovations in IR



The program will also include a special panel on Conflict Resolution in the
Middle East: Bridging the Gap between Academia and Practice.



This conference is a follow-up to the conference on New Directions for IR
that was organized by Alex Mintz and Bruce Russett at Yale University in
2004. Papers summarizing the Yale conference appear in *New Directions for
International Relations: Confronting the Method-of-Analysis
Problem*(Lexington 2005).



We invite you to submit a 100 word proposal on any one of the above topics
to Lesley Terris at [log in to unmask] or Alex Mintz at [log in to unmask]
The deadline for proposal submission is November 30, 2008.




All the best,

Alex







Prof. Alex Mintz
Dean
Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy &
Director, Program on Applied Decision Analysis (PADA)
IDC-Herzliya, Israel

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