Liberal Wars: Strategy, History, Ideology
Thursday 5 July (Graduate Day)
Old Whiteknights House, University of Reading
Provisional Programme
10.00-10.20 Tea and coffee
10.20 Welcome
Session One: 10.30-12.30
1.1 Wars and laws
Jerome Devitt (Trinity College, Dublin), ‘Liberal conundrum: the suspension of habeas corpus in Ireland in 1866.’
Maxime Brebant (Reading), ‘The prosecution of German War Criminals after the Second World War in Europe: A missed opportunity?’
Joy Reddy (Reading), ‘Making the transition: the problems with applying the law of international armed conflict to civil wars.’
1.2 Liberal ways of fighting
Lena Clausen (Berlin), ‘Liberal states at war: variances in their conflict behaviour.’
Norma Rossi (Reading), ‘Counterinsurgency and the Liberal Way of War.’
Ross Mahoney (Birmingham), ‘Air power and a liberal way in war: the West’s quest to remove battle from war.’
Mark Clegg (Aberdeen), ‘Protecting deployed servicemen during war: some implications of liberal strategic cultures.’
12.30-13.30 Lunch
Session Two: 13.30-15.30
2.1 Postwar assumptions
Charlie Standley (Reading), ‘Recreation or operations? The kidnapping of British security forces in Palestine 1945-1948.’
Danny Steed (Reading), ‘The Role of Assumptions in British Strategy and Intelligence during the 1956 Suez Crisis.’
Victoria Glass (Manchester), ‘How did liberal British scientists justify their participation in the warfare state during the mid-twentieth century?
Laura Kottos (Reading), ‘European integration between Eurafrica and a European commonwealth: liberal communities and late colonial reforms (1947-57).’
2.2 Liberal wars and liberal ideology
David Hughes (Brookes), ‘Contemporary liberal wars and their origins.’
Blake Ewing (Oxford), ‘Neo-conservative liberalism: an aggressive approach to ideology’
Jonathan Leader Maynard (Oxford), ‘Ideologies of war: comparing liberal and authoritarian justificatory resources for mass violence.’
Iain Stewart (Manchester), ‘War and the Liberal Regime in the writings of Raymond Aron’
15.30-16.00 Tea
3.1 Reacting to liberal wars
Ben Whitham (Reading), ‘Reading Neoliberalism in the War on Terror.’
Malte Riemann (Reading), ‘A (not so) liberal warrior: Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, the U.S. Military and the Liberal Way of War.’
Owen Thomas (Exeter), ‘Public Inquiry and Illiberal Ways of War.’
Corinne Heaven (Reading), ‘The politics of UN Security Council fact-finding missions.’
3.2 Prospects for liberal wars
David Blagden (Oxford), ‘The return of prudence and the end of dreams? Global multipolarity, structural pressure, and the twilight of liberal interventionism.’
Catherine Jones (Reading), ‘Challenging the possibility of liberal wars: China and the challenges in authorising UN peacekeeping missions.’
Lukas Milevski (Reading), ‘Liberal Wars, illiberal allies, and peace as the failure of policy.’
Stephanie Churchill (Reading), ‘The development of responsibility to protect.’
18.00 Drinks
19.00 Informal dinner in Central Reading