APSA Congressional Fellowship Program 2005–2006 office assignments.

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As we approach the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006, the American Political Science Association is financially sound, able to support a wide range of professional programs and projects to serve the membership. This strong condition arises from a solidly positive balance of assets against liabilities, and an operating budget well-matched to APSA's current scope and activities.

With five years of experience under our collective belt, the French Politics Group (FPG) (a related group of the APSA) has moved into a new phase of network development and international collaboration across North America, Europe, and other continents. The goal of this article is to map out these networking efforts, to present the ingredients for our success, and, in so doing, provide some possible avenues of collaboration for other APSA members to consider in their own efforts to develop international work groups and networks.

In January, 2006, APSA staff met with the President Alexander Nikitin of the Russian Political Science Association (RPSA) for discussions at the National Office in Washington, D.C. APSA is interested in establishing functional and research-based ties with scholarly communities overseas and these talks were an encouraging part of this process. As a start, APSA has agreed to provide RPSA with information on news and events in the discipline, while the RPSA has invited Thomas Remington, department chair at Emory University, to serve as a plenary speaker at their upcoming Annual Meeting in Moscow this October.

Upcoming International Events: 2006

Committees of the American Political Science Association.

This list celebrates the generous contributions of our members in giving to one or more of the following programs from 1996 through 2005: APSA awards, programs, the Congressional Fellowship Program, and the Centennial Campaign. APSA thanks these donors for ensuring that the benefits of membership and the influence of the profession will extend far into the future. In future years, APSA will update and print this list annually in the January issue of PS.