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BISA 2009 Panel ProgrammeMonday: Session 1 at 3.00pm - 4.30pm1.1) Symbolic Action in the World Economy - Swithland John Foster Hall Working group: IPEG Convenor: André Broome (Birmingham) Chair: Stuart Shields (Manchester) André Broome (Birmingham) and Liam Clegg (Birmingham) – Keeping Score: The International Monetary Fund and Sovereign Creditworthiness Arthur Muhlen-Schulte (Copenhagen Business School) – Developing Trust? The Symbolic Value of UNDP Reform Leonard Seabrooke (Warwick) – 'The IMF and Institutional Diversity in National Tax Reform: Is there Flack to Who Backs Flat Tax over VAT Packs?' Michael Fini (Warwick) and Lena Rethel (Warwick) – New Kids on the Block? Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Promotion of Corporate Governance 1.2) Thinking Critically about Responding to Terrorism - Rothley John Foster Hall Working Group: CST Convenor: Nicholas Michelsen (KCL) Chair: Marie Breen Smyth (Aberystwyth) James Malcolm (Warwick) – The general public's role in Counter- terrorism ‘a critical analysis' Carlotta M. Minnella (Oxford) – Countering radicalisation: converging policies, evolving norms, changing cultures? Kathryn Fisher (LSE) – “Reflecting on the 'Critical': The Potential of Post-Structuralism in Researching British Counter-Terrorism between 1968 and 2009” 1.3) Norman Angell: A Hundred Years of ‘The Great Illusion’ - Library Stamford Hall Convenor: Lucian M Ashworth (Limerick) Chair: Lucian M Ashworth (Limerick) Andrew Williams (St Andrews) Norman Angell and his French Contemporaries, 1905 - 1914 Martin Ceadal (Oxford) – The ambiguous and altering “Great Illusion” of Norman Angell, 1909-38 Torbjørn L Knutsen (NTNU) – Cowboy Philosopher? A Centenary Appreciation of Norman Angell's Great Illusion Lucian M Ashworth (Limerick) – Left turn - with doubts? Norman Angell's work as a Labour Party intellectual 1.4) The Liberal Way of War: The Limits of Peace Building - Livingstone Room Gilbert Murray Conference Centre Convenor: Dominik Zaum (Reading) Chair: Alan Cromartie (Reading) Discussant: Alan Cromartie (Reading) John Heathershaw (Exeter) – International Peace Building as Virtual Politics Mandy Turner (Bradford) – The Limits of Peace building under Occupation: An Analysis of the Palestinian Reform and Development Plan Roger MacGinty (St Andrews) – The Hybrid Peace Dominik Zaum (Reading) – The State you’re in: International Administration, Peace building, and Local Ownership in Post-Conflict Societies 1.5) Gendered Religious Practices, Women's Human Rights and Security: The European Context – Tilton John Foster Hall Working Group: Religion, Security and IR Convenor: Niamh Reilly (NUIG) Chair: Stacey Scriver (NUIG) des Ilker Ataç (Wien) – Internationalization of the Headscarf Issue in the European Context: Negotiating Gender, Religion and Citizenship Niamh Reilly (NUIG) – State-Faith Relations and the Prospects for Women's Human Rights: Rethinking the Interplay of Feminism and Secularism in Europe Sara Silvestri (Cambridge and City University London) – Unveiled Issues about Europe's Muslim women: theoretical reflections from an empirical study Roberta Guerrina (Surrey) – Democracy, Gender and Religion: Intersectionality in current policy discourses 1.6) Poststructuralism, Critique and International Relations – Oakham John Foster Hall Working Group: Poststructural Politics Convenor: Patrick Pinkerton (Manchester) Chair: Martin Coward (Sussex) Doerthe Rosenow (KCL) – Poststructuralism and the Onto-politics of Resistance Emily Jackson (Durham) – Life-Population-Subject in the Contemporary Production of Biopolitical Spaces 1.7) Counter Insurgency Past and Present – Senior Common Room Gilbert Murray Conference Centre Convenor: BISA Chair: Alistair Finlan (Aberystwyth) Christopher Griffin (Southern California and Sorbonne Nouvelle) – A Revolution in Colonial Military Affairs: Lyautey, Gallieni, and the 'Tache d'huile'. Paul Dixon (Kingston) – Hearts and Minds? Winning domestic support for British counterinsurgency operations from Palestine to Afghanistan Tom Hill (KCL) – Measuring Progress and Effectiveness in Counter-Insurgency Operations: Leveraging Social Science 1.8) National Identities and European Integration: Greece, Turkey and the Cypriot Question – Lounge Stamford Hall Convenor: BISA Chair: Kai Oppermann (Cologne) George Christou (Warwick) – The European Commission as a Security Actor in the Cyprus Conflict Apostolos Agnantopoulos (Dublin City) – National Identities and European Integration: the case of Greece Alexander Bürgin (Izmir) – How to Escape Normative Entrapment? Framing in Discourse about Turkey's EU Membership Perspective Athena Gkouti (Aberystwyth) – European Union, Human Rights, Conditionality and Legitimation 1.9) 'Trans-Western' Theory of International Relations: A Theoretical and Analytical Reinterpretation from the Asian View - Wardens Room Stamford Hall Convenor: Josuke Ikeda (Ritsumeikan) Chair: Josuke Ikeda (Ritsumeikan) Josuke Ikeda (Ritsumeikan) – The Meaning of the World: Toynbee and Nakamura on (Inter)Civilization Tomoya Kamino (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) – Utopia and Reality: Rohyama Masamichi towards the Asian Greater Regional Order in the Pre-war Asia Shiro Sato (Ryukoku University) – The First Great Debate in Japan: Realism, Marxism and Utopianism Asami Miyazaki (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) – Between the Theory and Policy: Transnational Networks for Environmental Governance in East Asia 1.10) Workshop: Designing Simulations and Role Play Exercises Quenby John Foster Hall Convenor: J Simon Rofe (Leicester) and Carolyn Shaw (Wichita) Tuesday: Session 2 at 9.30am - 11.00am2.1) Power, Legitimacy and International Organisations – Library Stamford Hall Convenor: BISA Chair: Earl Gammon (UEA) (TBC) Ahmed Ali Salem (Zayed) – International Relations Theory and International Organizations: Realism, Constructivism, and Collective Security in the League of Arab States Karen Tucker (Bristol) – Discipline and punish? Reflections on the WTO's management of its relationship with the non-governmental sphere Matthew Eagleton-Pierce (LSE) – Uncovering Symbolic Power in the WTO 2.2) Thinking Critically about Responding to Terrorism – Rothley John Foster Hall Working Group: CST Convenor: Nicholas Michelsen (KCL) Chair: Jonathan Gilmore (Kingston) Discussant:TBA David Millar (Strathclyde) – Countering Virtual Jihad: The Terror 'Experts' James Fitzgerald (Dublin City) – A Discursive Battlefield: The 'West', 'Islamic Terrorism' and the dialectic struggle for meaning in hegemonic and counter-hegemonic discourse Nicholas Appleby (Newcastle) – Reconceptualising Political Violence 2.3) Non-Anglo Saxon Perspectives on the English School – Senior Common Room Gilbert Murray Conference Centre Convenor: John Williams (Durham) Chair: Tim Dunne (Exeter) Jason Ralph (Leeds) – International Society and its Exceptions: Locating Carl Schmitt within the English School Wookhee Shin (Seoul National University) –In pursuit of East Asian International Theory Mathias Albert (Bielefeld) and Barry Buzan (LSE) – One or many? The problem of a social whole in IR theory Mikael Baaz (Gothenburg) – Introducing Legal Realism to the English School of International Relations 2.4) Reassessing Critiques of Liberal Peace – Tilton John Foster Hall Convenor: David Chandler (Westminster) Chair: Tom Moore (Westminster) David Chandler (Westminster) – The Uncritical Critique of Liberal Peace Meera Sabaratnam (LSE) – Decolonising critique: 'subject' responses to the liberal peace in Mozambique Timor Sharan (Exeter) – The Liberal Peace in Afghanistan Philip Cunliffe (Kent) – Liberal Peace and Political Autonomy 2.5) Religion Gender and Security – Oakham John Foster Hall Working Group: Religion, Security and IR Convenor: Rosemary Durward (RMAS) Chair: Rosemary Durward (RMAS) Erin Wilson (RMIT) – Subduing Violence: Expanded Understandings of Religion and Conflict Analysis Naveed Sheikh (Keele) – Al-Qa'ida and the Retrieval of Gender, or Bin Laden: the feminist 2.6) A New Architecture of International Politics: Buildings Spaces and Political Violence – Livingstone Room Gilbert Murray Conference Centre Convenor: Martin Coward (Sussex) Chair: Mark Duffield (Bristol) Discussant: Alice Hills (Leeds) Martin Coward (Sussex) – 'Network-centric Violence, Critical Infrastructure and the Urbanisation of Security Lisa Smirl (Cambridge) – Do not disturb: The affective significance of the “grand hotel” in international politics Sara Fregonese (Royal Holloway) – The Hybrid Sovereignties of Urbicide: Beirut 1975/2008 be 2.7) Roundtable: Harold Nicolson and the Distinction Between Foreign Policy and Diplomacy – Junior Common Room Stamford House Working Group: Diplomacy Convenor: Paul Sharp (Minnesota Duluth) Chair: Paul Sharp (Minnesota Duluth) John Young (Nottingham) – Nicolson, the House of Commons and the Lessons of Diplomacy David Clinton (Baylor) – Nicolson's distinction between foreign policy and diplomacy: an American view 2.8) Memory and Narrative in World Politics – Lounge Stamford House Convenor: Andre Broome (Birmingham) Chair: Andre Broome (Birmingham) Amin Samman (Birmingham) – (Re-)imagining the crises of global capital Alexandra Homolar-Riechmann (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt) – Security Narratives and US Defence Policy after the Cold War Emily Pia (Birmingham) – Politics of Memory and Conflict: the Case of Cyprus 2.9) The Politics of Energy and Environment – Quenby John Foster Hall Convenor: BISA Chair: Ronnie Lipschutz (Santa Cruz and Royal Holloway) Joerg Friedrichs (Oxford) – If Cassandra was Right: How Different Parts of the World would React to a Global Energy Crunch Ronnie Lipschutz (Santa Cruz and Royal Holloway) – The Governmentalization of “Lifestyle” and the Biopolitics of Carbon Namrata Panwar (National Chung Hsing University) – India and China competing over Myanmar Energy resources 2.10) Human Security Building in Conflict-Prone States – Swithland John Foster Hall Working Group: Human Security Convenor: Owen Greene (Bradford) Chair: Owen Greene (Bradford) Ryerson Christie (Bristol) – Reading Human Security through PRTs in Afghanistan: Enactment of Security Zinthiya Ganehpanchan (Loughborough) and – Protectors or protagonists: the security sector and human security Emma McClean (Westminster) – Towards a UN Human Security framework? 2.11) Roundtable on the Challenges to Trust-Building in Nuclear Worlds – Senior Common Room John Foster Hall Convenor: Nicholas Wheeler Chair: Nicholas Wheeler Aaron Hoffman (Purdue University) Marek Kohn (University of Brighton, Applied Ethics) Campbell Craig (Aberystwyth) Richard Tauwhare (FCO) Tuesday: Session 3 at 11.30am – 1.00pm3.1) Global Crisis and the Renewal of Economic Sociology II – Junior Common Room Stamford Hall Working group: IPEG Convenor: Earl Gammon (UEA) and Johnna Montgomerie (Manchester) Chair: Earl Gammon (UEA) Eleni Tsingou (Warwick) – Revolving Doors and Linked Ecologies in the World Economy: Policy Locations and the Practice of International Financial Reform Ben Jacoby (Warwick) – Everyday IPE and Economic Sociology: Credit, Consumption and Social Practice Johanna Montgomerie (Manchester) – Our Obsolete Market Mentality? Consumerism in a market civilization 3.2) The Future is Critical: The Critical Turn in 'Terrorism Studies' – Rothley John Foster Hall Convenor: Marie Breen Smyth (Aberystwyth) Chair: Paul Rogers (Bradford) Charlotte Heath-Kelly (Aberystwyth) – Imagining Futures within Critical Terrorism Studies Richard Jackson (Aberystwyth) – Critical Terrorism Studies: An Explanation, a Defence, and a Way Forward Marie Breen Smyth (Aberystwyth) – Critical ˜Terrorism' Studies and Counter-terrorism: the case of 'Suspect Communities' Ayla Gol (Aberystwyth) – A Critical Re-thinking of Political Violence and Ethnic Nationalism: The Case of the Kurds in Turkey 3.3) Classical International Relations and Political Thought – Tilton John Foster Hall Working Group: CRIPT Convenor: Andreja Zevnik (Aberystwyth) Chair: Andreja Zevnik (Aberystwyth) Discussant: Chris Brown (LSE) Patrick Thomas (Aberystwyth) – International Theory, Difficulty in Political Theory Amelia Heath (Newcastle) – E.H. Carr and a Post-Positivist discussion about agency and structure Lorenzo Ranalli (Edinburgh) – Classical Realism and Contemporary IR Theory: unpredictable change as a function of time Alex Prichard (Bristol) – 'Beyond the Anarchy Problematique: Classical Anarchism and International Relations' 3.4) Evaluating Stabilisation Strategies in Failed and Fragile States – Wardens Room Stamford Hall Convenor: Björn Müller-Wille (RMAS) Chair: Stuart Gordon (RMAS) Discussant:TBA Stuart Gordon (RMAS) – 'The Stabilisation Agenda: A New Policy Discourse?' Björn Müller-Wille (RMAS) – Measuring of Effects“ experience and best practice from Iraq and Southern Afghanistan 3.5) Building Security: Secular and religious Discourses about Engaging with and Resisting Women and Human Rights – Oakham John Foster hall Working Group: Religion, Security and IR Convenor:Sara Silvestri (Cambridge and City University London) Chair: Sara Silvestri (Cambridge and City University London) Rosemary Durward (RMAS) – Tracking the progress of UNSCR 1325 Sandy Livingston (Aberdeen) – Jesus and the Fragile Lambs Shenaz Bunglawala (LSE) – Muslim women and self expression: between security and equality meta-narratives 3.6) Russia-US Relations – Lounge Stamford Hall Convenor: Natasha Kuhrt (KCL) Chair:Roland Dannreuther (Edinburgh) Jenny Mathers (Aberystwyth) – Pressing the Reset Button on Russia Valentina Feklyunina (Glasgow) – 'Defining Democracy: Competing Discourses in US-Russia relations' Maxine David (Surrey) – Leadership Issues in Foreign Policy Behaviour: the US and Russian Cases Natasha Kuhrt (KCL) – Russia, the US and regional security in Central Asia 3.7) Understanding the Middle East – TV Room Stamford Hall Convenor: BISA Chair: Lee Marsden Amnon Aran (LSE) – The 2006 War between Israel and Hezbollah: The impact of the Decision-Making Process Osman Hassan (Warwick) – America's Freedom Dilemma: Definitions, national interests and the pursuit of Middle Eastern Democracy. Nanci Hogan (Manchester) – “Fragile rays of hope: It's not all doom and gloom in the Israel/Palestine conflict” 3.8) Winning Afghanistan – Senior Common Room Gilbert Murray Conference Centre Convenor: Jan Angstrom (Swedish National Defence College) Chair: Jan Willem Honig (KCL) Discussant: Caroline Holmqvist-Jonsater (Swedish Institute of International Affairs) Lisa Hultman (Swedish National Defence College) – The Violent Struggle for Control: Treatment of Civilians in the Afghan War Robert Egnell (Swedish National Defence College) – Winning the hearts and minds of the Afghani population Jan Angstrom (Swedish National Defence College) – Strategy and the Regional Dynamics of the Afghanistan War 3.9) Roundtable: On the Outcome of the UN Copenhagen Climate Summit – Livingstone Room Gilbert Murray Conference Centre Working Group: Environment Convenor: John Vogler (Keele) Chair: Hugh Dyer (Leeds) John Vogler (Keele) Robert Falkner (LSE) David Humphreys (Open University) Chukwunerije Okerekeke (Oxford) Martin Williamson (FCO) 3.10) EU in the Balkans: Politics, Compatibilities and Impact – Junior Common Room Stamford Hall Working Group: South East Europe Convenor: Denisa Kostovicova (LSE) Chair: Denisa Kostovicova (LSE) Discussant: Mary Martin (LSE) Gemma Collantes-Celador (City University London) and Ana E. Juncos (Bristol)– The Reform of Border Management in the Western Balkans: Safeguarding EU External Borders or Preparing for EU Integration? Denisa Kostovicova (LSE) – 'Kosovo-isation' of Serbia's Europeanisation: European Enlargement vs. European Security and Defence Policy in Western Balkans John Gledhill (LSE) – Integrating the Past: European Integration, Historical Reckoning, and Constrained Sovereignty in Central and Eastern Europe 3.11) Governance and Empire – Swithland John Foster Hall Convenor: BISA Chair: Inderjeet Parmer (Manchester) Wanda Vrasti (McMaster) – The “Global Passion for Compassion” or How Neoliberal Government Functions through the Rule of Affect Ryoko Nakano (National University Singapore) – Empire as Society: The Work and Contribution of Yanaihara Tadao Paulo Rigueira (Bath) – Sovereignty and the United Nations: A Critical Constructivist Approach Demitrios Katsikas (LSE) – Struggling for Influence in Global Governance: Transnational Hybrid Structures, Structural Power, and Institutional Complementarities 3.12) Global Civil Society in Africa: Critical Perspectives and Practices 1 - Senior Common Room John Foster Hall Working group: Africa and International Studies Convenor: Carl Death (Aberystwyth) Chair: Stephen Hurt (Oxford Brookes) Eileen Connolly (Dublin City) – The construction and impact of civil society in aid dependent countries 'campaigning on Gender in Tanzania Carl Death (Aberystwyth) – Power and Protests: Representing Civil Society in South Africa at the 2002 Johannesburg Summit Clive Gabay (Open University) – Disciplining anti-poverty: The Global Call to Action (GCAP) against Poverty and the MDGs in Malawi Tuesday: Session 4 at 2.30pm – 4.00pm4.1) NeoLiberalism after the Crisis – Junior Common Room Stamford Hall Working Group: IPEG Convenor: Huw Macartney (Manchester) Chair: Johnna Montgomerie (Manchester) Randall Germain (Carleton) – World Politics and Financial Order: evolution or rupture Or Raviv (Sussex) – The Credit Crunch and the Europeanisation of global finance Adriana Nilsson (Manchester) – Varieties of regulatory capitalism: bridging the gap? Huw Macartney (Manchester) – Disagreeing to Agree: Financial Crisis Management within the 'Logic of No Alternative' 4.2) The Politics of Spectacular Terrorism – Rothley John Foster Hall Working Group: CST Convenor: Nicholas Michelsen (KCL) Chair: Richard Jackson (Aberystwyth) Discussant: Richard Jackson (Aberystwyth) Cerwyn Moore (Birmingham) – A Critical Analysis of Spectacular Terrorism: Chechnya, Narrative and Suicide Terrorism Neville Bolt (KCL) – Terrorism and the Image Nicholas Michelsen (KCL) – Suicide terrorism, (bio)politics and Death. 4.3) Roundtable: Theorising the Identity of International Political Theory – Swithland John Foster Hall Working Group: CRIPT Convenor: William Bain (Aberystwyth) and Andreja Zevnik (Aberystwyth) Chair: William Bain (Aberystwyth) David Boucher (Cardiff) William Bain (Aberystwyth) Chris Brown (LSE) Beate Jahn (Sussex) Nicholas Rengger (St Andrews) 4.4) Building a Just and Durable Peace in Practice – Lounge Stamford Hall Convenor: Joanna Herman (UEL) Chair: Chandra Sriram (UEL) Discussant: Chandra Sriram (UEL) Joanna Herman (UEL) – Achieving a Just and Durable Peace? The Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia Anders Persson (Lund) – A dynamic conception of just peace: EU and the Middle East peace process Stefanie Kappler (St Andrews) – Liberal Peacebuilding's Representation of the Local: The Case of Bosnia Olga Martin-Ortega (UEL) – Transitional justice and the rule of law in Bosnia: the War Crimes Chambers 4.5) Women and Sexuality in War and Political Violence – Wardens Room Stamford Hall Working Group: Gendering International Relations Convenor: Jenny Mathers (Aberystwyth) Chair: Jenny Mathers (Aberystwyth) Carol Burke (California) – Prostitutes, the Iraqi Justice System and US Reconstruction Efforts Ellie Hearne (International Peace Institute) – Participants, Enablers, or Preventers? The Role of Women in Political Violence 4.6) The Ethics and Politics of International Law – Oakham John Foster Hall Working group: Bi-Law Convenor: Kirsten Ainley (LSE) Chair:Kirsten Ainley (LSE) Discussant: Stephanie Carvin (Royal Holloway) Kirsten J Fisher (McGill) – Punishment and Expression in ICL: What Message? To Whom? David Jason Karp – Moral Responsibility, International Law and Political Choices Kirsten Ainley (LSE) – The International Criminal Court: Equality Before the Law or the West Prosecuting the Rest? 4.7) Obama's Foreign Policy: Early Assessments 1 – Senior Common Room Gilbert Murray Conference Centre Working Group: US Foreign Policy Convenor: Adam Quinn (Birmingham) Chair: Nicholas Kitchen (LSE) Nicholas Kitchen (LSE) – Détente or Decline? The Obama Administration Engages the World Adam Quinn (Birmingham) – Wishes and necessities: Obama's realism, his critics and the reality of American decline J Simon Rofe (Leicester) – “Reset” or “Overload” - US-Russian relations under Obama and escaping from the Legacy of GWB 4.8) On Security, Violence and Stability: Reflecting on Counter-Insurgency Practice – TV Room Stamford Hall Working Group: Insurgencies and Small Wars Convenor: Andrew Mumford (Hull) Chair: Andrew Mumford (Hull Andrea Baumann (Oxford) – The Concept of' 'Stabilisation': Vector for Coherence or Perfunctory Consensus in Twenty-First Century Interventions? Sergio Catignani (Sussex) – “Being COINED to Death”: The 4th Brigade (Airborne) Andrew Mumford (Hull) – Borders, Security and Violence: The External Support Dynamic in Perpetuating Insurgencies John Alexander (RAF) – The RAF's Counter-Insurgency Operations During the Arab Revolt in Palestine from 1936-39 Kersti Larsdotter (Swedish National Defence College) – The Study of Counterinsurgency: Some Critical Reflections 4.9) British Defence Policy under New Labour: Internal Implications – Library Stamford Hall Convenor: David Brown (RMAS) Chair: David Brown (RMAS) Anthony Forster (Durham) – New labours Governance of the British Army Martin Smith (RMAS) – 'The UK and Nuclear Weapons: Present and Future' Donette Murray (RMAS) – The Chinese Dragon 4.10) Environmental Governance and the Global Economic Crisis – Livingstone Room Gilbert Murray Conference Centre Working Group: Environment Convenor: Chukwumerije Okereke (Oxford) Chair: David Humphreys (Open University) Piers Revell (Plymouth) – Sustainable and Unsustainable Money: An IPE Perspective Fariborz Zelli (German Development Institute and Tyndall Centre) – Technologies for Adaptation to Climate Change: a Stepchild of International Climate Negotiations Lucy Ford (Oxford Brookes) – Ecovillages as permacultures of resistance: challenging capitalist value logics? 4.11) International Alliances in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries – Tilton John Foster Hall Working Group: International History Convenor:Carolyn Kitching (Teeside) Chair:Gaynor Johnson (Salford) Conan Fischer (Strathclyde) – The Stresemann Memoirs Scandal of 1932 Gaynor Johnson (Salford) – Lord Robert Cecil and the Conduct of International Diplomacy, 1918-1939 Shohei Sato (Oxford) – Anglo-American relations over the Persian Gulf, 1964-1971 4.12) Global Civil Society in Africa: Critical Perspectives and Practices II – Senior Common Room John Foster Hall Working group: Africa and International Studies Convenor: Carl Death (Aberystwyth) Chair: Carl Death (Aberystwyth) Morten Boas (Oslo, Institute for Applied International Studies) – MEND me: violence as empowerment in the Niger Delta Mark Duffield (Bristol) – Urbicide in Sudan: International opposition or complicity? Sarah Bracking (Manchester) – Power-sharing, unity agreements and 'African solutions to African problems': comparative paths to 'democratic' governance in Kenya and Zimbabwe Cyril Obi (Nordiska Afrikainstituet, Uppsala) – Selling Security or Engendering Conflict? Transnational Private Security Actors in Nigeria's Oil-rich Niger Delta Tuesday: Session 5 at 4.30pm – 6.00pm5.1) Global Crisis and the Renewal of Economic Sociology I – Junior Common Room Stamford Hall Working group: IPEG Convenor: Earl Gammon (UEA) and Johnna Montgomerie (Manchester) Chair: Duncan Wigan (Oxford Brookes) Chris Clarke (Warwick) – The Constitution of the Moral Individual in Theories of Market Relations Michael F Keating (Richmond, American International University London) – Crisis? What Crisis Theory? Ekaterina Svetlova (Zeppelin) – Why Did No One See It Coming? A Sociological Approach to Financial Crises Paul Copeland (Manchester) – An interdisciplinary before his time? Polanyi's Contribution to Political Economy Earl Gammon (UEL) – Escaping the Inevitable: An Economic Sociology of Environmental Crisis 5.2)Roundtable: Learning From the Failure of the War on Terror – Rothley John Foster Hall Working Group: CST Convenor: Nicholas Michelsen (KCL) Chair: Marie Breen Smyth (Aberystwyth) Paul Rogers (Bradford) – Addressing the Lack of Impact of the Failure of the 'War on Terror' on New Thinking in Defence Security Jonathan Gilmore (Kingston) “A Kinder Gentler Machine Gun Hand?” Counterinsurgency, Human Security and the War on Terror Marie Breen Smyth (Aberystwyth) – Addressing the Failure of Counter-Terrorism in the War on Terror Corinna Mullin (SOAS) – The United States and its Post-”War on Terror” Politics 5.3) Alternative Notions of Subject and Law in International Relations – Swithland John Foster Hall Working Group: CRIPT Convenor: Simona Rentea (Aberystwyth) and Andreja Zevnik (Aberystwyth) Chair : William Bain (Aberystwyth) Simona Rentea (Aberystwyth) – Vital norms and the biopolitics of life Caroline Williams (Queen Mary) – Configuring the Body Politics with Spinoza Andreja Zevnik (Aberystwyth) – Alternative ontology of being and law: from Scotus and Spinoza to Lacan and Deleuze 5.4) Cultural Practices of War – Lounge Stamford Hall Convenor: BISA Chair: Andy Williams Mikko Tyrvainen (Helsinki) – Making a particular universal: The French security culture and the emergence of European defence Omayma Al-Khaffef (Manchester) – Reading Iraqi Resistance Post March 2003 Alastair Finlan (Aberystwyth) – Exploring Social Practices in War: The American and British Military Experience in Afghanistan 2001-2009 Frank Foley (KCL) – Norms, threat perceptions, and the development of British and French operations against Islamist terrorism 5.5) Roundtable: Feminism, Agency, Creativity:The Possibility of Feminist Public Intellectuals – Library Stamford Hall Working Group: Gendering International Relations Convenor: Raluca Soreanu (UCL) and Marysia Zalewski (Aberdeen) Chair: Marysia Zalewski (Aberdeen)and Raluca Soreanu (UCL) Marysia Zalewski (Aberdeen) Raluca Soreanu (UCL) Vivienne Jabri (KCL) Laura J Shepherd (Birmingham) 5.6) Obama's Foreign Policy: Early Assessments 2 – Senior Common Room John Foster hall Working Group: US Foreign Policy Convenor: Adam Quinn (Birmingham) Chair: Simon Rofe (Leicester) Discussant: Linda Miller (Brown) Alex Waddan (Leicester) – President Obama: Plus ca change? Tim Lynch (ISA, University of London) – Barak Obama and the Third Bush Term- A Competent Version Ruth Deyermond (KCL) – From 'overload' to 'reset'? US policy towards Russia after the George W. Bush presidency" 5.7) British Defence Policy under New Labour: External Projection – Senior Common Room Gilbert Murray Conference Centre Convenor: Martin Smith (RMAS) Chair: Martin Smith (RMAS) Alistair Shepherd (Aberystwyth) – The European Turn in British Defence Policy Steven Haines (Geneva Centre for Security Policy) – 'A World full of terror to the British Mind' - The Blair Doctrine and British Defence Policy Oliver Daddow (Loughborough) – Speech as Policy: Tony Blair and the Construction of British Foreign Policy 5.8)Climate Security – TV Room Stamford Hall Working Group: Environment Convenor: John Vogler (Keele) Chair: John Vogler (Keele) Monika Barthwal-Datta (UCL) 'India's Rhetoric on Climate Security' Maria Julia Trombetta (Delft) – Climate security and global governmentality Owen Greene (Bradford) – Mitigating the impacts of climate change on conflict, security and development: international debates and responses Caroline Kuzemko (Warwick) – The Re-politicisation of UK Energy: from 'the Markets' back to the State? 5.9) EU, Democracy Promotion and Normative Power: Neo-Colonialism in EU's External Relations – Tilton John Foster Hall Working Group: International Mediterranean Studies Convenor: Giselle Bosse (Maastricht) Chair: Mike Foley (Aberystwyth) Discussant: David Chandler (Westminster) Milja Kurki (Aberystwyth) – Why concepts matter: 'Democracy' in EU Democracy Promotion Giselle Bosse (Maastricht) – From Neo-Colonial Governance to Genuine Partnership? Elena Korosteleva (Aberystwyth) – Ready, Steady, Go: Is the EaP a Suitable Framework for Dealing with Eastern Europe? Tom Casier (Kent) – The EU and its Eastern Neighbours: a Hierarchy of Interests? Michelle Pace (Birmingham) – Liminality in EU-Hamas Relations 5.10) Aspects of ASEAN and Regionalism – Livingstone Room Gilbert Murray Conference Centre Convenor: BISA Chair: Stuart Croft Mutsumi Hirano (LSE) – Human Security as a Concept Embodying Foreign Policy Visions and Principles: A Case of Japan Jinsoo Park (Warwick) – Sino-Japanese competitive coexistence, East Asian regionalism and Governance: the CMI case Yong Wook Lee (Korea University) – 'We-ness' without the United States: Contesting Neoliberalism and East Asian Monetary Cooperation Stephen Aris (Birmingham) – Regime Security: a model of regionalism for weak states Ki-Young Sung (Warwick) – Success and failure in dealing with North Korea : Has issue-linkage worked?
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