Wednesday 27th
Session 1: 15.00 – 16.30
1.1) Advancing the neoliberal cultural transformation in Africa: Sites, actors, leverages (Boardroom Level 5)
Working Group: Africa &IS
Convenor: Jörg Wiegratz (Sheffield)
Chair: Jörg Wiegratz (Sheffield)
Discussant: Carl Death (Aberystwyth)
Sophie Harman (City) Governing Health Risk in Africa by Buying Behaviour
Nadine Beckmann (Oxford) The commodification of misery: Markets for healing, markets for sickness
Sojin Lim (Manchester) The neoliberal legacy of the Paris Declaration: different responses, practicesand outcomes of implementation in Tanzania
1.2) Causal Explanation in IR (Boardroom Level 6)
Convenor: Joerg Friedrichs (Oxford)
Chair: Milja Kurki (Aberystwyth)
Discussant: Milja Kurki (Aberystwyth)
Adam Humphreys (Oxford) Explaining International Relations: A Question-Based Approach
Hidemi Suganami (Aberystwyth) Causal explanations and moral judgements: their linkages in history and social science
Joerg Friedrichs (Oxford) Causal mechanisms and social patterns: thinking within or without the box
1.3) New Critical Perspectives on the WTO (Conference Room 1)
Working Group: IPEG
Convenor: Matthew Eagleton-Pierce (LSE)
Chair: Matthew Eagleton-Pierce (LSE)
Robert Ackrill (Nottingham Trent), Adrian Kay (ANU) & Ben Richardson (Warwick) Sustainability and WTO Disputes: The Case of Biofuel Certification and Polycentric Governance
Valbona Muzaka (Southampton) Matthew L. Bishop (University of the West Indies) Whither the WTO?
Matthew Eagleton-Pierce (LSE) Beyond Mere Symbolism: An Anatomy of Symbolic Power in the WTO
Rorden Wilkinson (Manchester) & James Scott (Manchester)The Politics of Predictions: The Role of Computer Modelling in the Doha Round
1.4) Power Shifts, Global Health Diplomacy & Foreign Policy (Conference Room 2)
Convenor: Adam Kamradt-Scott (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Chair: Stefan Elbe (Sussex)
Discussant: Stefan Elbe (Sussex)
Jenny Qu Wang (Vienna) Global Health Governance in China: The Case of Chin’s Health Aid to Foreign Countries
Alexia Duten (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat, Munster) The Oslo Declaration: flogging a dead horse?
1.5) Reconceptualising Gender, Race and Sexuality after 9/11: Panel 1 (Conference Room 3)
Working Group: Gendering IR
Convenor: Nicola Pratt (Warwick)
Chair: Catherine Eschle (Strathclyde)
Katherine Allison (Manchester) The War on Terror and the Agential Muslim Woman
Rosa Vasilaki (Bristol) 'Resistance' versus 'victimization' the dilemmatics of Islamic agency
Khursheed Wadia (Warwick) Muslim Women as Political Actors in the UK since 9/11
1.6) The Study of State Violence and State Terrorism: Overcoming the Theoretical, Conceptual, Methodological and Political Challenges (Conference Room 3a)
Convenor: Ruth Blakeley (Kent)
Chair: Richard Jackson (Aberystwyth)
Discussant: Ruth Blakeley (Kent)
David Maher (Kent) and Andrew Thomson (Kent) The Political Economy of Colombia's Demobilisation Process and the Continuation of State Terror
Anthony Mckeown (Bristol) The structural production of state terrorism: capitalism, imperialism and international class dynamics
Asima Shaikh (KCL) (Title not provided)
1.7) Religion and Security Studies (Conference Room 4)
Working Group: IR, Security and Religion
Convenor: Luca Mavelli (Sussex)
Chair: Stuart Croft (Warwick)
Discussant: Stuart Croft (Warwick)
Luca Mavelli (Sussex) The Securitization and Desecuritization of Islam
Stacey Gutkowski (Sussex) Emotion, Military Orientalism and the Secular
Sara Silvestri (City) British government responses in two eras of political violence: continuities and variations in the definitions of security and national interest
1.8) International Cooperation and Conflict in East Asia (Conference Room 4a)
Convenor: BISA
Chair: Lee Marsden (UEA)
Mutsumi Hirano ( ) Search of Visions: Japan’s Foreign Policy since 1989
Alex Miles (John Moores) Dealing with a Rogue: US-North Korea relations in the Clinton era
Yeon Ho LEE(Yonsei University) & Jeong Shim KANG(Yonsei University) The Changjitu Project and China-North Korea Economic Cooperation: Agential Interests and the Institutionalization of Cooperation
David Blagden (Oxford) International Commerce, Power Convergence and Conflict Incentives
1.9) Forum on Democracy Promotion as foreign Policy: Perspectives, Issues, and Challenges (Conference Room 5)
Convenor: Nicolas Bouchet
Chair: Inderjeet Parmar (Manchester)
Jonas Wolff (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt) German democracy promotion as foreign policy
Pär Engström (Human Rights Consortium, University of London)Swedish democracy promotion as foreign policy
Tsveta Petrova (Cornell) Polish democracy promotion as foreign policy
Jörg Faust (German Development Institute) Citizens' Attitudes towards European Democracy Promotion
Hans Agné (Stockholm) Democracy promotion as foreign policy – theoretical issues and challenges
Renske Doorenspleet (Warwick)Democracy promotion as foreign policy – the democratization perspective on the recipient’s side
1.10) The Micro-Politics of Global Humanitarianism (Conference Room 6)
Convenor: John Heathershaw
Chair: Stephen Hopgood (SOAS)
John Heathershaw (Exeter)Humanitarian Reasoning: Legends and Lives in Contemporary Global Humanitarianism
Lisa Smirl (Sussex) Drive-By Development: The Micro-Politics of Sports Utility Vehicles in Humanitarian Assistance
Jenny Peterson (Manchester) Individual agency as humanitarian politics: when individual and institutional responses diverge
BISA Plenary Lecture 18.00-19.00
Location:
Weston Theatre
The Global Transformation
Understanding the 19th Century in International Relations
Montague Burton Professor
Barry Buzan
London School of Economics and Politics
Thursday 28th
Session 2: 9.30 – 11.00
2.1) Expanding the Disciplinary and Methodological Boundaries of IR (Boardroom Level 5)
Convenor: BISA
Chair: Ruth Blakely (Kent)
Vincent Druliolle (Essex) Remembering and its places in post-dictatorship Argentina
Stephan Petzold (Aberystwyth) Towards a sociology of knowledge production in IR. Understanding scholarly practices in the history of an academic discipline
Katerina Dalacoura (LSE) Culture and International Relations Theory: Mapping the Field through an Interdisciplinary Approach
2.2)Historical Sociology and War (Boardroom Level 6)
Convenor:Bryan Mabee (Queen Mary)
Chair:Bryan Mabee (Queen Mary)
Tarak Barkawi (Cambridge) Bombing Asians: Orientalism and the Rise of American Airpower
Bryan Mabee (Queen Mary)Liberal Militarism, National Security Ideology and the US National Security State: Revisiting the 'Liberal Moment'
Alex Anievas (Cambridge) The Cataclysm of Development: The Thirty Years ™ Crisis of 1914-1945
2.3) International Relations through International Organisations (Conference Room 1)
Convenor: BISA
Chair: Jason Ralph (Leeds)
Andrea Betti (Trento) Invoking International Justice: The UK and the Process of Ratification of the International Criminal Court Treaty
Alexander Brown (UEA) CERF, Hypothetical Insurance, and Global Justice
David Lewis (Bradford) The OSCE and the SCO: regional organisations and contested norms in Central Asia
2.4) Power in US Foreign Policy (Conference Room 2)
Working Group: US Foreign Policy
Convenor: Adam Quinn (Birmingham) and Lee Marsden (UEA)
Chair: Inderjeet Parmar (Manchester)
Felix Berenskoetter (SOAS) Hegemony by Invitation: Neoclassical realism, soft power and US-European relations
Nicholas Kitchen (LSE) Still the American System: Structural Power and the durability of Hegemony
Edward Lock (UWE) How hard is military power? A call for Constructivist Realism.
Adam Quinn (Birmingham) In defence of Waltzian simplicity: the nature of power and the coming American decline
Patrick Thomas (Aberystwyth) Paine's Failed Vision of an Exceptional America: The Images and Debates that Haunt Obama's America
2.5)Rethinking Desecuritization Practices in World Politics (Conference Room 3)
Convenor:Thierry Balzacq (Namur)
Chair: TROMBETTA M. Julia (Delft)
BALZACQ, DEPAUWSarah Leonard (University of Salford/Sciences Po Paris, CEE) The Political Limits of Desecuritization:Security, Arms Trade, and the EU’s Economic Targets
Juha VUORI (Turku) Peace, Harmony, and Development Chinese Foreign Policy Maxims as Pre-Emptive Desecuritization
Lene Hansen (Copenhagen) “Re-reading Desecuritization: Uncovering the Normative-Political in the Copenhagen School”
2.6) Rethinking Intervention (Conference Room 3a)
Convenor: John MacMillan (Brunel)
Chair: George Lawson (LSE)
John MacMillan (Brunel) Rethinking Intervention
David Williams (City) Development, 'Intervention' and International Order
Lee Jones (Queen Mary) Sovereignty, Intervention and Social Order: The Case of Cold-War Southeast Asia
2.7)Teaching About Terrorism 1: Academic freedom, Terrorism and Power (Conference Room 4)
Working Group: Critical Studies on Terrorism
Convenor: David Miller (Strathclyde)
Chair: Helen Dexter (Manchester)
Discussant:Richard Jenkins
Rod Thornton (Nottingham) No judgement was made by us: How two innocent men came to be arrested on terrorism charges at the University of Nottingham in May 2008
David Miller (Strathclyde), Tom Mills (Strathclyde) & Steven Harkins (Strathclyde) Teaching About Terrorism The debate about Academic Freedom
2.8) The Critical Turn in the Study of Classical Realism: Current Achievements and Future Prospects (Conference Room 4a)
Working Group: CRIPT
Convenor: Vassilis Paipais (LSE)
Chair: Beate Jahn (Sussex)
Alexander Reichwein (Goethe University-Frankfurt) The Critical Moment in Classical Realism
Kamila Stullerova (Aberystwyth) Realism must live dangerously: Political theory's contribution to classical realism
Sean Molloy (Edinburgh) Deleuze and Guattari and the Reinterpretation of Realism
Daniel Levine (Colgate) Why Hans Morgenthau Was Not a Critical Theorist
Vassilis Paipais (LSE) Realism, Tragedy and Critical International Theory
2.9) The Financial Architecture after the Implosion of the Financial-led Growth Model: Is Europe Proposing an Alternative System? (Conference Room 5)
Working Group: IPEG
Convenor Miguel Otero-Iglesias (Oxford Brookes)
Chair: Philip G Cerny (Rutgers)
Stefano Pagliari (LSE)Protection or protectionism? Comparing the US and European response to the global financial crisis
Mattias Vermeiren (Ghent)The Global Imbalances and the Contradictions of European Monetary Power
Miguel Otero-Iglesias (Oxford Brookes)`Currency War' between the US and China: Where Does the EU Stand?
Huw Macartney (Manchester) Reconstituting Neoliberalism: the politics of EU-level crisis responses
2.10) Foreign Policy and Security: Middle East, Pakistan, and America (Conference Room 6)
Convenor: BISA
Chair: Stuart Croft (Warwick)
Amnon Aran (City) Containing Territorial Transnational Actors: Israel, Hezbollah, and Hamas
Oz Hassan (Warwick) America’s Imperial Right and Emancipatory Wrongs for the Middle East
M W Aslam (Fordham)Understanding the ‘Pak’ in ‘AfPak’: The Obama Administration’s Policy towards Pakistan at the Mid-Term in 2010
2.11) Wealth, Health and Food (In)Security (Syndicate C/D)
Convenor: BISA
Chair: Sophie Harman (City)
Carol Longbottom (Bradford) Will the recently reformed Committee on World Food Security become ‘the’ international forum for food and agricultural governance or just another talking shop?
Joao Nunes (Warwick) Health, Security and Emancipatory Politics
Jonathon Louth (Chester) Security and Reproductive Health in Cambodia: A ‘Pro-Natalist’ Agenda?
Preslava Stoeva(Richmond) Governance of Health or Management of Disease? - Constructing a Framework for Analysis
2.12) The principles of war and the military profession (Syndicate E/F)
Convenor: Jan Angstrom (Uppsala)
Chair: Jan Angstrom (Uppsala)
Anders Palmgren (Swedish National Defence College) Clausewitz and German Military Thought between Paris and Verdun
Alaric Searle (Salford) Fuller, the British Army and the institutionalization of the Principles of War
Jan Angstrom (Uppsala) & JJ Widen (Swedish National Defence College) Modern Armed Forces and the Spread of the idea of Principles in War
2.13) US, UK and Wider Concepts of Minimum Nuclear Deterrence (Cockcroft Theatre)
Working Group: US Foreign Policy
Convenor: Andrew Futter (Birmingham)
Chair:
Nick Ritchie (Bradford) UK Nuclear Weapons Policy: Deconstructing Minimum Deterrence
Tom Sauer (Antwerp) Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Minimum Deterrence
Andrew Futter (Birmingham) US Ballistic Missile Defence and Minimum Nuclear Deterrence
Kristan Stoddart (Aberystwyth) Minimum Nuclear Deterrence in Theory and Practice
2.14) BISA 2011 Journal Workshop Open Roundtable (Weston Theatre)
Convenors: Sara Dorman (Edinburgh) & William Brown (Open)
Chair: Sara Dorman (Edinburgh)
Editors
Kim Hutchings (LSE) Review of International Studies
Sara Dorman (Edinburgh) African Affairs
Giles Mohan (OU) Review of African Political Economy
Catherine Scott (KCL) Conflict Security and Development
Session 3: 11.30 – 13.00
3.1) 30 Years of Critique: Critical Theorizing and World Politics (Boardroom Level 5)
Convenor: Joao Nunes (Warwick)
Chair: Joao Nunes (Warwick)
Kimberly Hutchings (LSE)
Mustapha Pasha(Aberdeen)
Michael C. Williams (Ottawa)
Richard Wyn Jones (Cardiff University)
3.2) Ten Years On: The Construction of Nuclear Threats since September 11 (Boardroom Level 6)
Working Group: US Foreign Policy
Convenors: Michelle Bentley (Southampton)Chris Kitchen (Sheffield)
Chair: Jamie Gaskarth (Plymouth)
Trevor McCrisken (Warwick) The Anonymous Little Man in the Raincoat with a Heavy Suitcase: Nuclear Fear in an Age of Terror
Chris Kitchen (Sheffield) Constructions of the Nuclear Threat from Iran in British Foreign Policy since September 11
Michelle Bentley (Southampton) 9/11 Times a Thousand: Constructing the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism
3.3) Security governance or strategic theory? Different theoretical approaches to the study of asymmetric security relations (Conference Room 1)
Convenor: Charlotte Wagnsson (Swedish National Defence College)
Chair: Charlotte Wagnsson (Swedish National Defence College)
Discussant: Jan Ãngstrom (Uppsala)
Arita Holmberg (Swedish National Defence College) Relations among state and non-state actors and the prospects for security governance: The case of the implementation of UN Security Council resolution 1325
Malena Britz (Swedish National Defence College) Non-governmental actors in Nordic Security Co-operation
Magnus Christiansson (Swedish National Defence College) Risk Societies at War: What Consequences for the Strategist?
3.4) The Chilcot Inquiry: A Critical Examination (Conference Room 2)
Working Group: Security & Intelligence Studies
Convenor: Robert Dover (Loughborough)
Chair: Mark Phythian (Leicester)
Paul Rogers (Bradford)
Robert Dover (Loughborough)
3.5) Gender, Biopolitics and Contemporary Security Practices (Conference Room 3)
Convenor: BISA
Chair: James Pattison (Manchester)
Linda Åhäll (Birmingham) Heroines, Monsters, Victims: Telling stories of female agency in political violence
Julia Welland (Manchester) Haunted soldiers: doings, undoings and the need for a bio-male body
James Fitzgerald (Dublin City) & Maura Conway (Dublin City) Between ‘Post-Politics’ and ‘Bio-Politics’: What Space for Right-Wing Terrorism
Halit Mustafa Tagma (Sabanci) A Coalition of Killing: Sovereignty and Subjectivity in the War on Terror
3.6) The Middle East: Realism’s Last Outpost? The Challenge of Alternative Theoretical Voices (Conference Room 3a)
Convenor: James Worrall (Leeds)
Chair: Naomi Head (Glasgow)
James Worrall (Leeds) Reading Booth in Beirut: Is Hezbollah an Emancipatory actor?
Faiz Sheikh (Leeds) Islamic ideology's challenge to the discipline of International Relations (IR)
Simon Mabon (Leeds) Ayatollah Khomeini: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
Alam Saleh (Leeds)Identity and Societal Security in Iran
3.7) Peace through Europeanisation: Assessing the Export of Governance to the Western Balkans (Conference Room 4)
Working Group: South East Europe
Convenor: Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik (Aston)
Chair: JelenaObradovic-Wochnik (Aston)
Discussant: Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik (Aston)
Dimitris Papadimitriou (Manchester) & Petar Petrov (Maastricht) The EU in Kosovo: Conflict Prevention through Conditionality or Europeanisation through Crisis Management?
Adam Fagan (Queen Mary) Building the Kosovan state: EU development assistance in Mitrovica and Pristina
Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic (LSE) Limits of Europeanisation as State-building: Private Sector Development Agenda in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Gemma Collantes-Celador (City)'Europeanising' Bosnia: The Fabrication of Statehood through Police Reform
3.8) Teaching About Terrorism 2: Academic Freedom, Pedagogy and Practice (Conference Room 4a)
Working Group: Critical Studies of TerrorismBISA Leaning and Teaching
Convenor: Helen Dexter (Manchester)
Chair:
Ayla Gol (Aberystwyth) Designing modules for research-based teaching in Islamic Studies
James Fitzgerald (Dublin City) & Anthony F. Lemieux (Dublin City) Signifying ‘Terrorism’ in a post-9/11 Academic Environment: Reflections on a Collaborative Class
Helen Dexter (Manchester) and Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet (Manchester) Teaching terrorism: ethical and methodological problems, pedagogical suggestions
David Miller (Strathclyde), Tom Mills (Strathclyde) and Steven Harkins (Strathclyde) Teaching about Terrorism: How it is done in the UK and what problems it causes.
3.9) The Missing Link? International Organisations and the Evolution of the International (Conference Room 5)
Working Group: Sovereignty and its Discontents
Convenor: Philip Cunliffe (Kent)
Chair: Justin Rosenberg (Sussex)
Discussant: Justin Rosenberg (Sussex)
Kees van der Pijl (Sussex) Imperial Sovereignty and Global Governance
Lee Jones (Queen Mary) State Transformation and the Rescaling of Security: Understanding the Politics of Non-Traditional Security
Philip Cunliffe (Kent) International Organisation as Social Organisation
3.10) Putting the Politics back into Global Public Health (Conference Room 6)
Convenor: Adam Kamradt-Scott (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Chair: Sophie Harman (City)
Discussant: Sophie Harman (City)
Adele Langlois (Lincoln) The Global Polio Eradication Initiative: a global success but a local failure?
Stefan Elbe (Sussex) Let Them Eat Tamiflu: The Global Rise (and Fall) of a Medical Countermeasure
Simon Rushton (Aberystwyth) The power of human rights in global health governance: the case of HIV-related travel restrictions
Adam Kamradt-Scott (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) Challenging the Powers That Be: Indonesia, WHO & Virus-sharing
3.11) Defeat, Desistance, Degeneration and Failed Resuscitation: Case Studies in Critical Terrorism Studies (Cockcroft Theatre)
Working Group: Critical Studies on Terrorism
Convenor: George Kassimeris (Wolverhampton)
Chair: George Kassimeris (Wolverhampton)
Discussant: Ryan Williams (Cambridge)
George Kassimeris (Wolverhampton) Why Terrorists Give Up? Analyzing Individual Exit from Greece's Revolutionary Organizations
Charlotte Heath-Kelly (Aberystwyth) Do you remember revolution? 'Radicalisation' and memory.
Lee Jarvis (Swansea) Al-Qaeda: No Bark. No Bite. No Problem?
Peter Lehr (St Andrews) Nexus Issues: Alliances between International Terrorism and Transnational Organized Crime
3.12) Labour Rights and Wrongs in International Politics (Syndicate C/D)