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Final Conference Programme 2009

BISA 2009 Panel Programme

Monday: Session 1 at 3.00pm - 4.30pm


1.1) 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 - 11.00am


2.1) 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
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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 – 1.00pm


3.1) 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 – 4.00pm


4.1) 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 – 6.00pm


5.1) 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?


Wednesday: Session 6 at 9.30am – 11.00am


6.1) Capitalism at a Crossroads: Crisis and Contradictions in the Political Economy of Accumulation – Junior Common Room Stamford Hall
Working Group: IPEG
Convenor: Paul Lewis (Warwick)
Chair: Paul Lewis (Warwick)
Bastiaan van Apeldoorn (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Naná de Graaff (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Henk Overbeek (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) – A Return of State Capitalism? Theorizing the contradictions of neo-liberal globalization and the global financial crisis
Duncan Wigan (Sussex) – Financial Innovation and the State: The Causes and Uncertain Consequences of the End of the World as we Knew it
Paul Lewis (Warwick) and James Perry (Copenhagen Business School) – Price Wars: The politics of the financial crisis as a battle over income distribution

6.2) The European Union and the Fights Against Terrorism – Rothley John Foster Hall
Convenor: Catherine Sowerby (RMAS)
Chair: Catherine Sowerby (RMAS)
David Brown (RMAS) – The European Union and Internal Security: A Critical Assessment
Catherine Sowerby (RMAS) – The Role of Definitions in The European Union\'s Fight Against Terrorism
Franz Eder (Innsbruck) – Europe and the Transnational Terrorist Threat from the Maghreb

6.3) Law, Politics and International Relations – Senior Common Room Gilbert Murray Conference Centre
Working Group: CRIPT
Convenor: Andreja Zevnik (Aberystwyth)
Chair: Patrick Thomas (Aberystwyth)
Discussant: Silviya Lechner (KCL)
Nika Svarc (Ljubljana and Leeds) – Using Force in International Affairs: The role of International Law in Contemporary International Politics
Richard Huzzay (Birkbeck) – Dialogue, Legitimation and World Order in the American Century
Michael Mulligan (BUE) – Sovereignty, Jurisdiction and the Extra - Territorial Exception

6.4) Approaches to Peace Building – Lounge Stamford Hall
Convenor: BISA
Chair: Roger MacGinty (St Andrews)
Chrissie Steenkamp (Oxford Brookes) – Violence, peace processes and reconstruction
David Lewis (Bradford) – The failure of a liberal peace: Sri Lanka's counterinsurgency in global perspective

6.5) Gender, Power and Political Violence – Oakham John Foster Hall
Working Group:  Gendering International Relations
Convenor: Laura J Shepherd (Birmingham)
Chair: Linda Ahall (Birmingham)
Sara  Ababneh (Oxford) Women inside Hamas: politics of everyday resistance
Marjaana Jauhola (Aberystwyth) – 'The Girl Child of Today is The Woman of Tomorrow'“ Fantasizing  the Adolescent Girl as the Future Hope in Post-Tsunami Reconstruction Efforts in Aceh
Paul Kirby (LSE) – Sexual Violence and the Social Logics of Gender in War

6.6) The Ethics of Violence – Tilton John Foster hall
Convenor: BISA
Chair: Hugh Dyer (Leeds)
Thomas Moore (Westminster) – Living the Army Values: Warrior Diplomats and the War on Terror
Anthony j Langlois (Flinders) – Is Global Justice a Mirage?
Naomi Head (Aberystwyth) – Judgement and Communicative Ethics:  exploring claims of necessity in response to political violence
Seán Molloy (Edinburgh) – Fatal Breach: The Problematic Relationship between Ethics and Politics in the Political Writings of Immanuel Kant.

6.7)Foreign Policy Analysis: The Promise and Pitfalls of Theoretical Integration – Livingstone Room Gilbert Murray Conference Centre
Convenor: Kai Oppermann (Cologne)
Chair: Kai Oppermann (Cologne)
Discussant: Kai Oppermann (Cologne)
Klaus Brummer (FAU Erlangen-Nűrnberg) – Bureaucratic Politics and Poliheuristic Theory
Jim Buller (York) – Linkage Politics: The National-International Connection in British Politics
Sebastain Harnisch ( Ruprecht-Karls-Univeritȁt Heidelberg) and Raimund Wolf(Ruprecht-Karls-Univerität Heidelberg) – Merger or Acquisition? Ideational and Republican Liberalism and the Foreign Politics of Germany's Grand Coalition
Yong-soo Eun (Warwick) – A Theoretical Scheme for a Fuller and Deeper Explanation of Foreign Policy

6.8) Understanding Humanitarian Intervention – Swithland John Foster Hall
Convenor: BISA
Chair: Jenny Peterson (Manchester)
Adrian Gallagher (Sheffield) – Genocide and its threat to international stability  
Henry Radice (LSE) – Humanitarianism and International Political Theory: A Reconsideration
Jide Martyns Okeke (Leeds) – Contextualising the 'Responsibility to Protect' in Darfur
Charles Hunt (Queensland) – "Mainstreaming the Responsibility to Protect in Peace Operations: Strategic Opportunities and Operational Realities."

6.9) After Development? Rethinking the Theories, Histories and Ethics of Capitalist Development – Wardens Room Stamford Hall
Working Group: Historical Sociology
Convenor: George Lawson (LSE)
Chair: George Lawson (LSE)
Discussant: Mustapha Pasha (Aberdeen)
Julian Germann (York, Toronto) – Rethinking hegemony and the global development of capitalism: A critical appraisal of neo-Gramscian approaches
Matt Davies (Newcastle) – Making Development Work: Work and Creativity in Development Theory and Policy
Robbie Shilliam (Victoria, Wellington) – Redemption from Development: Amartya Sen, Rastafari and Promises of Freedom

6.10) EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements: Power Asymmetry, Policy Leverage and Negotiating Dynamics – Library Stamford Hall
Working group: Africa and International Studies
Convenor: William Brown (Open University) and Tony Heron(Sheffield)
Chair: William Brown (Open University)
Tony Heron(Sheffield) – Understanding the Cariforum-EU Economic Partnership Agreement
Stephen Hurt (Oxford Brookes) – Economic Partnership Agreements: The Southern African experience
Stephen Buzdugan (Manchester) – The EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreement and the  

6.11) Workshop: What's in a Module? Discussion of 'Syllabi' / 'Module Outline' in International Relations (63) Quenby John Foster Hall
Convenor: J Simon Rofe (Leicester) and Carolyn Shaw (Wichita)

6.12)  'Post-America? Rethinking Critical Perspectives Beyond US Hegemony'
JAIR 1 Games Room/TV Room Stamford Hall
Chair: Stuart Croft (Warwick)
Shiho Nakada (Paris 1 / Hitotsubashi) - 'The Internationalization of IR Theories.'
Hiroakai Ataka (Warwick) and Ikuo Gonoi (Japan Society of Promotion of Science) -
'The Embeddedness of Global Governance.'
Joao Nunes (Aberystwyth) - 'Defining Power and Freedom: Critique and Political
Transformation in Security Studies.'

Wednesday: Session 7 at 11.30am – 1.00pm


7.1) Capitalism and Social Purpose – Oakham John Foster Hall
Convenor: Michael Fini (Warwick)
Chair: Randall Germain (Carleton)
Phoebe Moore (Salford) – Peer Production and the Precariat Worker: Final Countdown for Capitalism?
Owen Parker (Warwick) – The Purpose(s) of Cosmopolitan Government in Europe
Adam Sneyd (McMaster) – 'Social purpose, consumer control and African cotton'
Marc Froese (Canadian University College) – Bridging the Concerns of Behavioural Economics and IPE: Towards a Narrative Theory of Political Agency

7.2) Counter terrorism – Rothley John Foster Hall
Convenor: BISA
Chair: Richard Jackson
Discussant: Richard Jackson
Yi-Lun Tsai (Manchester) –  In what ways did the framing of US military personnel and detainees under US custody by major newspapers contributed to the level of tolerance towards the use of Torture/Harsh Interrogation Techniques?
Edgar Tembo (Sheffield) – Moving Towards A Qualitative Assessment of US Counter-terrorism Strategy After 9/11

7.3) International Development – Swithland John Foster Hall
Convenor: BISA
Chair: TBC
Derek McDougall (Melbourne) – Australia's Engagement with its “Near Abroad”: A Change of Direction under the Rudd Labour Government (2007- )?
Zoe Pflaeger (Birmingham) – Developmental Strategies of Empowerment in a Post-Washington Consensus Era
Sappho Xenakis (LSE) – Pride and Prejudice: a Critique of Comparative Corruption Analysis

7.4) Telling Stories: Representations of Gender in Popular Culture – Library Stamford Hall
Working Group:  Gendering International Relations
Convenor: Laura J Shepherd (Birmingham)
Chair: Laura J Shepherd (Birmingham)
Jill Steans (Birmingham) –  Myths of the Motherhood and Motherlands
Linda Ahall (Birmingham) – 'In times of war, heroism is not just for men'
Christina Rowley (Bristol) – 'What home was always supposed to be': Rehabilitating the Vietnam War in We Were Soldiers
Laura J Shepherd (Birmingham) – Feminism Incorporated: Gender and Policy in The West Wing

7.5) De-Colonialising International Relations: Dividing Practices and the Study of World Politics – Tilton John Foster hall
Working Group: Poststructural Politics
Convenor: Wei Yin (Manchester)
Chair: Mustapha Pasha (Aberdeen)
Discussant: Mustapha Pasha (Aberdeen)
Giuilia Carabelli (Queens) – Dividi et Impera: On the practices of making-breaking Mostar.
Sara Ababneh (Oxford) – Female Islamists Under Feminist Scrutiny: The Structural Effects of Islamic Political Activism in Occupied Palestine
Ben Garner (Manchester) – When neoliberalism met postcolonialism: The 'dual nature' of culture at UNESCO

7.6)Roundtable: US Foreign Policy in a Time Of Crisis – Senior Common Room Gilbert Murray Conference Centre
Working Group: US Foreign Policy
Convenor: Adam Quinn (Birmingham)
Chair: Inderjeet Parmer (Manchester)
Trevor McCrisken (Warwick)
John Dumbrell (Durham)
Mark Phythian (Leicester)
Lee Marsden (UEA)

7.7) EU as a Political Actor – Livingstone Room Gilbert Murray Conference Centre
Convenor: BISA
Chair:TBC
Tommi Koivula (National Defence University of Finland) – Autonomy or Adaptation:  EU Agenda, Member States and the Logic of Crisis Management
Oriol Costa (UAB) – From minefield to leadership. The EU and the second image reversed of the Ottawa Convention
Ana Paula Brandão (NICPRI, Minho) – European Union: a post-Westphalian security actor in the fight against transnational terrorism
Kai Oppermann (Cologne) – Plebiscitary Politics and European Integration. The Politics of Calling Referendums on the EU
Tina Freyburg (ETH Zurich) & Anne Wetzel (ETH Zurich / Lucenre) – External Governance as Venue-shopping: Framing of Norm Transfer in EU Environmental Cooperation with Neighbouring Countries

7.8) History and Explanation in IR 1 – Lounge Stamford Hall
Working Group: Historical Sociology
Convenor: Adam Humphreys (Oxford)
Chair Robbie Shilliam
George Lawson (LSE) – 'The Eternal Divide?:  History and International Relations'
Adam Humphreys (Oxford) – 'Beyond the Nomothetic-Idiographic Distinction: What IR Can Learn From History'
Campbell Craig (Aberystwyth) – 'Deductive Approaches to American Cold War History'
Simon Curtis (LSE) – 'The Annales School and Historical Sociology in IR'

7.9) 'Exploring New Sites of Instability/Insecurity in the 'Post-American' world'
JAIR Games Room/TV Room Stamford Hall
Chair: Stuart Croft (Warwick)
Kazuyo Mitsuhashi (Bradford) 'Japan's Future Role in Peacekeeping: Emergence of
Multilateral Approach or Strategic Choice Under US-Japan Relations?'
Sandy Livingston (Aberdeen) 'The Fall of Adam or the Conversion of Paul: The
Politics of Religion in Considering a Post-American World.'
Tamara Enomoto (Tokyo) 'Revival of Tradition in the Era of Global Therapeutic
Governance: The Case of ICC Intervention in the Situation in Northern Uganda.

7.10) ISA Roundtable Panel: The Transatlantic IPE Divide? Quenby John Foster Hall
Convenor: ISA
Chair:Catherine Weaver (University of Texas at Austin)
Philip G.  Cerny (Rutegers-Newark)
Benjamin J. Cohen (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Michael J. Tierney (William & Mary)