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Making International Collaboration Work: A Third Update from the French Politics Group of APSA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2007

Andrew Appleton
Affiliation:
Washington State University
Amy Mazur
Affiliation:
Washington State University

Extract

This is the third in a series of articles about the activities of the French Politics Group (FPG), charting the institutionalization of our research and teaching partnerships with our colleagues in France. In last year's essay for PS (April, 2006: 389–91), we discussed 10 lessons we had learned in pursuing successful international collaboration. Following yet another productive year of ever-increasing collaborative activities on both sides of the Atlantic, it appears that this prescription for success has continued to work. As evidence, one need only look at FPG-sponsored activities at the APSA annual meeting. In Philadelphia in 2006, the group hosted five panels with an average attendance of 25 people. Attendees at our (open bar) Friday, late-night cocktail party declared it to be the toast of the APSA social scene. We have seen an increased attendance of French political scientists as well (20, compared to two in 2001). Finally, an APSA-sponsored roundtable has laid the foundation for a French “State of the Discipline” to be published in collaboration with the Association Fran[,]caise de Science Politique (AFSP). Here, we revisit the top 10 key ingredients to our growing and highly fruitful collaboration in hopes of spurring on others to invest their time and limited resources to contribute to the internationalization of the discipline and APSA.

Type
INTERNATIONAL
Copyright
© 2007 The American Political Science Association

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