Conference Programme 2015
Panel Panel Name Paper Title Institution No. Name
Session 1: Wednesday 0900-1030
1 Discourses of Heroism and International Relations (Roundtable) Room: Great Harry 12th Floor Jenny Mathers Convenor Aberystwyth University University of Massachusetts Jane Parpart Chair Boston Lori Crowe York University Jenny Mathers Aberystwyth University Alexandra Martins Lisbon University Ane M.O. Kirkegaard Malmo University College Matthew Morgan York University Barbara Falk Canadian Forces College
2 Physics’ Politics: re-thinking world and social relations (Roundtable) Room: Great Eastern 12th Floor Carolin Kaltofen Convenor Aberystwyth University Carolin Kaltofen Chair Aberystwyth University Milja Kurki Aberystywth University Heikki Patomäki University of Helsinki Michele Acuto University College London Colin Wight University of Sydney Audra Mitchell University of York Katharina Hone Aberystwyth University
3 Analysing the Influence of Regional and Political Groups at the UN Room: Mortimer Room London School of Karen E. Smith Convenor Economics Sam Daws Chair University of Oxford Group politics in the debates on gender London School of Karen E. Smith equality and sexual orientation Economics discrimination at the United Nations Group politics in the UN debates on global development policy: From the Millennium Mary Farrell Plymouth University Development Goals to the post-2015 development agenda Elisabeth Johansson- The ‘politics’ of the Middle East: Group Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Nogues politics at the United Nations Internacionals
4 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Armaments production and transfers in times of Austerity and Globalization Room: Beaufort Metropolitan University Andre Gilli Convenor Prague Hugo Meijer Chair King's College London Trevor Taylor Discussant Cranfield University / RUSI Varieties of Defense-Industrial Capitalisms? Conceptualizing the Moritz Weiss LMU University of Munich Response to Globalization by Rising Powers Why Limited European Cooperation on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles? Defense Metropolitan University Andre Gilli Industrial Policies and Tecnological Prague Change International Hierarchies, Export Dependence and Arms Transfers . Hugo Meijer King's College London Comparing US and French Defence Export Policies
5 Followership in the Context of US Selective Engagement: American Allies’ Quest for Status in Multinational Military Interventions Room: Britannia 12th Floor Justin Massie Convenor UQAM Stefanie von Hlatky Chair Queen's University America’s “loyal ally” and its “best friend (whether we like it or not”): the Joseph T. Jockel St. Lawrence University Netherlands and Canada in U.S.-led military inventions
First Mover Advantage? US Coalitions, Grand-Strategic Followership, and University of New South Alan Bloomfield Australia's Obsession with ‘Beating the Wales Brits in’
Ticket to ride: Italy’s participation to Università Cattolica del Andrea Locatelli multilateral missions and the preservation Sacro Cuore of its international status Università degli Studi di Andrea Carati Co-Author Milano Top-tier contributor: Canada’s national Université du Québec à Justin Massie role conception in salient US-led Montréal coalitions of the willing
6 Foreign Policy Making in Coalition Governments (Interpretivism Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Neville Oliver Daddow Convenor University of Leicester Juliet Kaarbo Chair University of Edinburgh Coalition government and foreign policy: Jamie Gaskarth Plymouth University the British case All Talk or Real Change? British Foreign Victoria Honeyman Policy under New Labour and the Leeds University Cameron Government Fours Ways for Populists to Affect Radboud University Bertjan Verbeek Foreign Policy Nijmegen Radboud University Andrej Zaslove Co-Author Nijmegen Radboud University Davide Vittori Co-Author Nijmegen Regional Actors and Coalition Politics in Nicolas Blarel India: Obstruction and Constructive University of Leiden Engagement Niels van Willigen Co-Author University of Leiden Who Gets What in Foreign Affairs? Explaining the Portfolio Allocation in the Kai Oppermann University of Sussex Foreign Policy Executive in Coalition Governments Klaus Brummer Co-Author
7 Genealogies of the Theologico-Political in International Relations Room: Discovery 12th Floor Vassilios Paipais Convenor University of St Andrews Nicholas Rengger Chair University of St Andrews Nicholas Rengger Discussant University of St Andrews The God of International Society: National University of Will Bain Metaphysics, Politics, and the Theory of Singapore International Society
First Image Revisited: Human Nature, Vassilios Paipais University of St Andrews Original Sin and International Relations Romantic Realism and the Renewal of Adrian Pabst University of Kent Political Theology
8 Global and (Trans)National Politics and Activism in Cyberspace Room: Mayflower 12th Floor Leonie Maria Tanczer Convenor Queen's University Belfast Leonie Maria Tanczer Chair Queen's University Belfast
Res in Media: The postnational Goethe-Universität Ben Kamis territorialisation of virtual space Frankfurt
Cyber in the Era of Social Networks: Daphna Canetti Political Effects and Cyber Policy University of Haifa Regulation
Terrorists or Heroes? An Analysis of Helin Alagöz Gessler Istanbul Şehir Universit Hacktivism and Cyber Security in Turkey
Is there a transnationalization of public Sebastian Stier spheres? A comparison of two global Heidelberg University political issues Stefan Steiger Co-Author Heidelberg University Wolf J. Schünemann Co-Author Heidelberg University
9 Interpretations of terrorism, radicalisation and extremism and their unequal and subjective application Room: Nimrod 12th Floor Anthony Richards Convenor University of East London Andrew Silke Chair University of East London The uses and abuses of 'terrorism': Anthony Richards implications for the search for analytical University of East London utility
Joel Busher Local moral worlds of extremism: a theory Coventry University
The need for conceptual precision: what John Morrison University of East London 'terrorism researchers' actually research
10 Irregular migrants as active subjects in global politics – new research strategies for understanding the reflexive use of power by the disenfranchised (Politics Sponsored Panel 1) Room: Tower Suite 2 Michael Strange Convenor Malmö University Vicki Squire Chair University of Warwick The political agency of irregular migrants: Vicki Squire An academic analysis of problematic University of Warwick terms?
Representing or excluding? – The role of the international human rights regime in Michael Strange Malmö University respect to the political agency of child irregular migrants Anna Lundberg Co-Author Malmö University Agency or Resistance? The lived Amanda Beattie experience of the United Kingdom Family Aston University VISA Regime
Agency and normalcy: Portrayals of Alexandria Inne University of East Anglia migrants in popular culture
Silence, Privilege and Presence: Questions Heather L. Johnson Queen’s University Belfast for Solidarity
11 The International Political Economy of Trade Policy in the Middle East: promoting integration and cooperation? Room: Golden Hind 12th Floor Nottingham Trent Imad El-Anis Convenor University Nottingham Trent Imad El-Anis Chair University From a Common Market to an Economic Ashraf Mishrif Union: The GCC and the Challenges King's College London Ahead
The Impact of GAFTA: Analysing Nottingham Trent Imad El-Anis Economic Integration and Political University Cooperation in the Middle East
US Trade Policy to the Middle East: a Saad Almanaie comparative analysis of US trade policy to King's College London Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt An Assessment of the Economic and Political Impacts of the Agadir Nottingham Trent Tarik Oumazzane Agreement: promoting peace and stability University in the Middle East and North Africa?
12 Bringing Africa ‘back-in’: A Critical Exploration of Neopatrimonialism, State Failure and Other Africanist Theories of Nonfulfillment (Africa and IS Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Tower Suite 1 Marta Iniguez de Convenor University of Cambridge Heredia Marta Iniguez de Chair University of Cambridge Heredia Zubairu Wai Discussant Lakehead University Understanding the Postcolonial African Amy Niang State beyond 'Sovereign Statehood' as Witwatersrand University Singular Horizon
Mohamed Haji Bringing the State ‘Back-In’: The State University of Oxford Ingiriis Collapse in Somalia
Sally Matthews Alternatives to Development in Africa Rhodes University
The Role of “Nationalism” and Gemma Bird “Continentalism” in Post-Colonial African University of Sheffield Citizenship
13 Global Historical Sociology (Historical Sociology Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Tower Suite 3 London School of George Lawson Convenor Economics National University Janice Bially Mattern Chair Singapore
Julian Go Towards a Global Historical Sociology Boston University
London School of George Lawson Co-Author Economics “Waiting for the Barbarians”: Perceptions Ayse Zarakol of “Rising Powers” in Historical Cambridge University Perspective Worlding the Rise of the West: The Multi- John M. Hobson Sheffield University Civilizational Roots of Modernity
Hierarchy is What Middlemen Make of it: London School of Iver B. Neumann The Case of the Steppe Nomads Economics Einar Wigen Co-Author Oslo University
Session 2: Wednesday 1100-1230
14 Debating Resilience in International Relations (Roundtable) Room: Discovery 12th Floor Jonathan Joseph Convenor University of Sheffield Jonathan Joseph Chair University of Sheffield Claudia Aradau King's College London Charlotte Heath-Kelly University of Warwick Philippe Bourbeau University of Cambridge Nicholas Michelsen King's College London
15 Mapping the nexus between critical peacebuilding and transitional justice: reflections on power, agency and resistance in post-conflict contexts (Roundtable) Room: Nimrod 12th Floor Jelena Obradovic- Convenor Aston University Wochnik Catherine Baker University of Hull Rebekka Friedman King's College London London School of Denisa Kostovicova Economics Laura Martin University of Edinburgh Egmont Institute, Brussels Valerie Arnould & University of East London Goldsmiths, University of Sari Wastell London Anna DiLellio The New School
16 BRICS in Global Comparative Perspective (BISA @ 40 Sponsored Panel) Room: Tower Suite 1 Andrew Cooper Convenor University of Waterloo Andrew Cooper Chair University of Waterloo University of the West Matthew Louis Global Development Beyond ‘The Rise of Indies, St Augustine, Bishop the BRICS’ Trinidad & Tobago Testing the “Club Culture” of the BRICS: Consolidation via the New Development Andrew Cooper University of Waterloo Bank or fragmentation beyond a restrictive state-based model?
The Political Economy of Governance a Nicola Phillips University of Sheffield ‘Global Value Chain’ World Frederick W. Mayer Co-Author Duke University The Return of China to the Centre of the John M. Hobson University of Sheffield Global Economy Seeking Security in Africa: China’s Chris Alden Evolving Approach to Africa’s Peace and LSE Security Architecture
17 Issues raised by the European Union as an international security actor Room: Great Eastern 12th Floor Adrian Treacher Convenor University of Sussex Canterbury Christ Church André Barrinha Chair University Canterbury Christ Church André Barrinha Discussant University A civilian European strategic culture? Laura Chappell University of Surrey Assessing the EU's peace project basis Petar Petrov Co-Author University of Maastricht The export of security technologies: some Jocelyn Mawdsley Newcastle University ethical dilemmas for the EU Bureaucratic incrementalism verses Grand Strategy: Common Security and Defence Simon Sweeney University of York Policy (CSDP) and the triumph of rhetoric over substance Norm advocacy and military operations: Trineke Palm the changing character of EU military VU University Amsterdam operations
18 Researching Covert State Violence: Innovations in Theory, Method and Use of Data Room: Britannia 12th Floor Ruth Blakeley Convenor University of Kent TBC Discussant State Complicity in Human Rights: Ruth Blakeley University of Kent Innovative Approaches Sam Raphael Co-Author Kingston University Jonathan Leader Perpetrator Diversity in Covert State Oxford University Maynard Violence
19 The Foreign Policies of Coalition Governments: Going to the “Extreme”? (Foreign Policy Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Neville Jamie Gaskarth Convenor Plymouth University University of Illinois at Sibel Oktay Chair Springfield Juliet Kaarbo Discussant University of Edinburgh The Irrelevance of Radical Parties in Fabrizio Coticchia Coalition Foreign Policy: Italy and the EUI Extremity Hypothesis Jason Davidson Co-Author EUI The Effect of Prime Ministers in Coalition University of Illinois at Sibel Oktay Foreign Policy Behavior: An Integrated Springfield Approach From Factions to Fractions: Indian Foreign Yang Lu Policy Role-taking Across Different University of Heidelberg Coalitional Settings Gordon Friedrichs Co-Author University of Heidelberg Coalition Crises and Great Power Wars: Joe Hagan Insights and Evidence from IR Theory and West Virginia University Historical Cases
20 The International Ebola Response and Global Health Security (Global Health Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Tower Suite 2 Anne Roemer-Mahler Convenor University of Sussex Anne Roemer-Mahler Chair University of Sussex Global Health Security Failure? The Adam Kamradt-Scott World Health Organization’s Mishandling University of Sydney of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa
João Nunes Ebola: From Neglect and Back University of York
Is Ebola ‘a threat to international peace Christian Enemark Aberystwyth University and security’? Peacekeeping and Public Health: Lessons Sara Davies from the Ebola outbreak for UN QUT peacekeeping missions Simon Rushton Co-Author University of Sheffield War on Ebola: New Operations for a New Royal Military Academy Catherine Sowerby Era? Sandhurst
21 Beyond production: Situating social reproduction – household, community, global political economy? (IPEG Sponsored Panel) Room: Great Harry 12th Floor Dani Tepe-Belfrage Convenor University of Sheffield Stuart Shields Chair Manchester University Genevieve Le Baron Discussant University of Sheffield The household as the site of everyday Johnna Montgomerie Goldsmiths College financial crises
Micro-Finance and the (re)Production of Sophia Price Leeds Beckett University Self-exploiting female financial subjects
The promise of the ‘Big Society’ – how Dani Tepe-Belfrage University of Sheffield Britain is failing it’s ‘Troubled Families’
22 Advances in Technology-Enhanced Learning and Teaching in International Studies (Learning and Teaching Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Mayflower 12th Floor
London Metropolitan Steven Curtis Convenor University J Simon Rofe Chair SOAS Screen Capture Technology in Politics and Emma Mayhew IR: Goodbye Word, Hello Creative, Visual University of Reading Learning Multimedia Learning (MML): Using University of David Roberts Images to Engage Students and Convey Loughborough Meaning in IR Helen Drake Co-Author Data drenching and the thirst for London Metropolitan Andrew Moran knowledge: How BA International University Relations students use the internet
23 Anarchy Reconsidered Room: Golden Hind 12th Floor Alex Prichard Convenor University of Exeter National University of Will Bain Chair Singapore
Marcial A. Garcia Sovereignty and Anarchy: Eternal Fluminense Federal Suarez Dilemma University Restructuring Anarchy: Complex Phil Cerny Interdependence and the Antinomies of University of Manchester Globalisation Alex Prichard Ontological Anarchy and IR Theory University of Exeter No friends, no enemies, no hegemony: the Christian Pfenninger international as an assemblage of ‘porous University of Westminster sovereignties’ Taming the International Anarchy. David Memorial University, Lucian Ashworth Mitrany and Classical Realist Newfoundland Reinterpretations of Global Politics
24 Changing practices of sovereignty in light of history and theory (CRIPT Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Tower Suite 3 Danielle Young Convenor Aberystwyth University Kamila Stullerova Chair Aberystwyth University Sovereignty as a practice: Hobbes and the Kamila Stullerova Aberystwyth University making of alternate sovereignty Modernity and Sovereignty: An historical, Danielle Young Aberystwyth University theoretical, practical relationship The International and Historical Time: Andrew Davenport Aberystwyth University Elements of a Critique Swati Srivastava Private Sovereigns in World Politics Northwestern University Non-State Authority and the Duty to David Jason Karp University of Sussex Protect Human Rights
25 Turkey's Role in the World Room: Beaufort Roland Dannreuther Chair University of Westminster Socially Distributed Foreign Policy: A Redefinition of Agency in International Ihsan Dogramaci Bilkent Erdem Ceydilek Relations in the Age of a Global Digital University Public Sphere Comparing Democratic Prospects in Murat Somer Turkey and Tunisia: Values, Learning, and Koç University Strategic Choices 26 Debating Deterrence and Nuclear Weapons Room: Mortimer Room Chair TBC Compellence and Deterrence in Territorial Catarina Thomson and Policy Disputes: Experimental Test of University of Exeter Audience Costs Bhumitra Chakma Nuclear Zero and South Asia University of Hull Cruise Missiles - A Growing Asymmetic Salma Shaheen Kings College London Threat? The Use and Nonuse of Chemical, Susan B. Martin Biological and Nuclear Weapons in the Kings College London Vietnam War
Session 3: Wednesday 1330-1500
27 Disorder in World Politics (Review of International Studies Sponsored Roundtable) Room: Tower Suite 3 London School Of George Lawson Convenor Economics London School Of George Lawson Chair Economics Charli Carpenter Amherst London School Of Tarak Barkawi Economics Justin Rosenberg Sussex University
28 Teaching popular culture and world politics – towards a global conversation (Roundtable) Room: Golden Hind 12th Floor Nick Robinson Convenor University of Leeds Marcus Schulzke Chair University of Leeds University of Waterloo, Veronica Kitchen Canada Canadian Forces Barbara Falk College/Royal Military Chris Hendershot York University, Canada Nick Robinson University of Leeds
29 Irregular migrants as active subjects in global politics – new research strategies for understanding the reflexive use of power by the disenfranchised (Politics Sponsored Panel 2) Room: Discovery 12th Floor Michael Strange Convenor Malmö University Michael Strange Chair Malmö University The local, everyday politics and negotiations of migrant irregularity. Some Reinhard Schweitzer University of Sussex insights from ongoing research in London and Barcelona Employing Agency: A Study of the Neil James Wilson Rewriting of UNHCR’s Approach to City University London Urban Refugees, 1997-2009 A Political Voice in a (Hostile) Polity: Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler Conceptualising the case of Asylum University of Reading Seekers in Israel Aliens’ struggles: claiming agency by University of Nottingham, Raffaela Puggioni enacting dissensus Ningbo China Translating Erratic Struggles: reflections University of California, Lorenzo Rinelli on the relationship between political Rome Center agency and irregularity in Lampedusa
30 Reflecting on the war in Iraq ‘after’ Chilcot (Foreign Policy Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Neville Jamie Gaskarth Convenor Plymouth University London School of James Strong Chair Economics Politics, morality, strategy and law: London School of James Strong Competing conceptions of legitimacy in Economics Tony Blair’s rhetoric of war Piers Robinson Deception and the Path to War in Iraq University of Manchester Eric Herring Co-Author University of Bristol External interferences on Iraq’s foreign Zana Gulmohamad University of Sheffield policy post-Saddam Iraq: How the Department for International Karolien Michiels University of Aberystwyth Development prepared for war Is British military intervention still Université de la Sorbonne Pauline Schnapper possible after Iraq? Nouvelle Paris 3
31 Spatial Practices of Postcolonial Governance: Inequalities, Exclusions and Potentials (Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Britannia 12th Floor Terri-Anne Teo Convenor University of Bristol Elisa Wynne-Hughes Convenor Cardiff University Simon Philpott Chair Newcastle University Carl Death Ungoverned spaces and counter-conducts University of Manchester The Postcolonial Practices of Yvonne Rinkart Aberystwyth University Contemporary Aviation Multiculturalism and the politics of Terri-Anne Teo (mis)recognition: Singapore’s ‘China- University of Bristol born’ population and Tiong Bahru The Government of Troubled Families: Joe Turner Policing the Domestic Space of University of Sheffield Postcolonial Citizenship Self-Governance in Zero-Tolerance Zones: Elisa Wynne-Hughes the spatial politics of stop street Cardiff University harassment campaigns in Cairo
32 The role of Israel in global militarism Room: Mayflower 12th Floor James Eastwood Convenor SOAS TBC Chair Jan Selby Discussant University of Sussex Reconsidering the Israel-as-laboratory Rhys Machold thesis Moral armies? Israeli military ethics and James Eastwood SOAS Anglo-American militarism The Israeli ‘smart city’: between urban Leila Stockmarr warfare and mundane policing
33 'Combatants', 'terrorists' and 'victims' in conflict transformation: comparing Greece, Italy and Northern Ireland Room: Great Eastern 12th Floor University of George Kassimeris Convenor Wolverhampton
University of George Kassimeris Chair Wolverhampton Marie Breen-Smyth Discussant University of Surrey The role of memorialisation in Anna Bull University of Bath reconciliation Desistance and Transformation among Peter Shirlow Queens University Belfast Former Political Prisoners Talking to Greek Terrorists: Discussing University of George Kassimeris Individual Entry and Exit Wolverhampton
34 Analysing the European Union's military capacity Room: Mortimer Room Adrian Treacher Convenor University of Sussex Adrian Treacher Chair University of Sussex Adrian Treacher Discussant University of Sussex CSDP in times of multiple crises: still Patrick Mueller University of Vienna stuck in the Joint Decision trap? The EU, the military budgets and the Delphine Deschaux-Dutardquestion of European military capacities: a University of Grenoble path towards decline or hyper soft power?
On the limits of budgets and defence planning: a comparative analysis of how David Galbreath University of Bath European states are reforming their militaries Simon Smith Co-Author
35 Contemporary pathways of African states: IR, statehood and change (Africa and IS Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Tower Suite 2 William Brown Convenor The Open University William Brown Chair The Open University African Agency Post-2015: developmental University of Massachusetts Timothy Shaw versus fragile/failed states Boston Beyond the Gatekeeper state: IR Sara Dorman perspectives on African states in the 21st University of Edinburgh century The changing geography of IPE: Gateways Elizabeth Cobbett University of East Anglia to Africa Will Uganda avoid the “Governance” Mbarara University of Pamela Mbabazi Curse in a potentially volatile region? Science & Technology
36 Towards a ‘Multi-Partner World’? Concepts, Prospects and Challenges Room: Great Harry 12th Floor Danish Institute for Trine Flockhart Convenor International Studies Danish Institute for Trine Flockhart Chair International Studies Mark Webber NATO and Russia - Partnership in Retreat University of Birmingham Partnership as statecraft in a pluralistic and Danish Institute for Trine Flockhart unequal world International Studies Stabilisation through partnership: a viable Annemarie Peen Rodt University of Roskilde strategy in an unequal world? The rise of partnership diplomacy: How Thomas Renard global powers adapt to a changing global Egmont Institute order
38 Black Widows’, ‘Good Girls’ and ‘Sacrificial Lambs’: Re-encountering the Women who fight the ‘War on Terror’ (Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Beaufort Nadya Ali Convener University of Reading Nadya Ali Chair University of Reading Megan Armstrong Discussant Newcastle University Narratives of Recovery: Sacrifice, Gender Victoria Basham University of Exeter and the Legitimation of War Good Girls, Bad Boys and Terrorists: Louise Pears Audiences, Gender and Narrative Identity University of Leeds in Homeland Smells like Teen Spirit: the Young ‘Jihadi Nadya Ali University of Reading Brides’ of the Islamic State
39 Measuring & Evaluating Causes and Solutions in Conflict, Violence and (In)security Room: Nimrod 12th Floor Ruth Blakeley Chair University of Kent For Better or Worse? The Impact of U.S. Ciaran Gillespie Military Aid on Human Security in University of Surrey Mexico and Pakistan Communication, Communication, David Curran Communication: Training Military Coventry University Personnel for Civil-Military Relations Unequal Approaches to Overseas Aid: The James Flint Plymouth University Case of Afghanistan
Session 4: Wednesday 1530-1700
40 The Decline in Violence: What are the implications for IR? (Roundtable) Room: Discovery 12th Floor Philip Cunliffe Convenor University of Kent Philip Cunliffe Chair University of Kent London School of Chris Coker Economics Ken Booth Aberystwyth University Sinisa Malesevic University College Dublin Christine Sylvester University of Connecticut London School of Chris Brown Economics
41 Power and Inequality in Transitional Justice: The Case of Sierra Leone (Roundtable) Room: Mortimer Room Kirsten Ainley Convenor London School of Kirsten Ainley Chair London School of Rebekka Friedman King's College London Paul Jackson University of Birmingham Wayne Jordash QC Doughty St Chambers
Trinity Chambers, Matthew R. Crowe Newcastle
42 The Future of British International Theory: After the English School (Roundtable) Room: Tower Suite 1 Ian Hall Convenor Griffith University Oliver Richmond Chair University of Manchester Queen Mary, University of Kim Hutchings London Vivienne Jabri King's College London Nick Rengger University of St Andrews Patricia Owens University of Sussex
43 International Security: Theoretical and Methodological Issues (European Journal of International Security sponsored Roundtable) Room: Tower Suite 2 Tim Edmunds Convener University of Bristol Tim Edmunds Chair University of Bristol Ruth Blakeley University of Kent Anthony King University of Exeter Adrian Hyde-Pierce University of Gothenburg Christian Bueger Cardiff University
44 Religion and Asylum: Addressing the global crisis of displacement through interfaith cooperation in research and practice (Roundtable) Room: Neville Erin Wilson Convenor University of Groningen Luca Mavelli Chair University of Kent Bethan Lant Praxis Community Projects Sadia Kidwai Islamic Relief Worldwide Church of England, Martin Kettle Churches Refugee Network
45 The International Ebola Response: A Failure of Global Health Governance? (Global Health Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Tower Suite 3
Anne Roemer-Mahler Convenor University of Sussex
Anne Roemer-Mahler Chair University of Sussex London School of Hygiene Clare Wenham Ebola: Whose responsibility? & Tropical Medicine Risk and (In)Action: Comparing the Cases Sudeepa Abeysinghe University of Edinburgh of H1N1 and Ebola Inverting Health Systems and Extraverting Emma-Louise Ebola: The politics of health in West University of Leeds Anderson Africa Ebola and the Bursting of the Global Queen Mary University of Sophie Harman Health Bubble: From global back to London international health governance
46 War and intervention in (post)colonial places (Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Britannia 12th Floor Meera Sabaratnam Chair SOAS Expressions of decolonial knowledge in Mechthild Exo Free University Berlin Afghanistan Fault in the stars? Buddhist nationalism Newman Theological Anupama Ranawana and just war theory College Hybridity, Security and International Institute of International Jan Daniel Intervention: The Case of UNIFIL in Relations, Prague Southern Lebanon
47 Building Communities in Online Learning in IR (Learning and Teaching Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Nimrod 12th Floor London Metropolitan Steven Curtis Convenor University Alasdair Blair Chair De Montfort University Teaching Diplomacy With Twitter: London Metropolitan Steven Curtis Extending Communities of Learning and University Training Twiplomats Addressing Inequality in Opportunities for Tom Corfield Learning: Online Learning Communities, The Student Room MOOCs and the Student Experience Ashley Cox Co-Author SOAS Designing a Community-Based Learning Kristina Klinkforth Freie Universität Berlin System for Digital Instruction Stefan Hohenberger Co-Author Freie Universität Berlin Markus Laspeyres Co-Author Freie Universität Berlin Flipped Classroom, Flipped Assessment: Yenn Lee Experience of Designing and Running a SOAS MOOC on Research Methods J Simon Rofe Co-Author SOAS
48 Cyber Security and Cyber Warfare Room: Great Eastern 12th Floor Charlotte Heath-Kelly Chair University of Warwick Deterring Cyber Warfare: Bolstering Bradley Thayer University of Iceland Strategic Stability in Cyberspace Cyber Conflict and Psycholgical IR Mischa Hansel Perspectives: Explaining Misattributions Justis Liebig Univeristy and Misunderstandings
Cyber Defense vs. Public Health: Security Center for International Frank L.Smith III and Trust in Organizational Fields Security Studies
Neoliberalism and the Ideological Canterbry Christ Church André Barrinha Construction of British Cybersecurity University
49 Europeanization and Turkey: Changing Dynamics, Challenges and Responses (South East Europe Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Golden Hind 12th Floor Queen Mary University of Ceren Zeynep Ak Convenor London Jelena Obradovic- Chair Aston University Wochnik Queen Mary University of Ceren Zeynep Ak Discussant London Europeanization of Public Debates and Alper Kaliber Civil Society in Turkey: Kurdish Question Kemerburgaz University Revisited Turkey and the European Conspiracy: framing conspiratorial accounts of Julian de Medeiros University of Kent Erdoğan’s New Turkey and the EU accession process The EU as an identity shift facilitator? Natalia Piotrowska University of Kent Turkey’s case
50 From Weak to Strong State: The Domestic Dynamics of India's Rise Room: Mayflower 12th Floor Anit Mukherjee Convenor RSIS, NTU, Singapore Rudra Chaudhuri Chair King's College London Rudra Chaudhuri Discussant King's College London ‘Weak’ domestic players and constraints Rajesh Basrur RSIS, NTU, Singapore on India’s rise The Policy Implications of the Absence of Walter Ladwig King's College London Military Experience in the Lok Sabha Weak States, Strong Policies? A Study of Avinash Paliwal King's College London India\'s Taliban Dilemma Creating Military Effectiveness: Jointness Anit Mukherjee RSIS, NTU, Singapore in the Indian Military
51 Sending States, Emigrants & Diasporas: New Trends & Novel Approaches in Political Science Room: Great Harry 12th Floor Gerasimos Tsourapas Convenor SOAS Maria Koinova Chair University of Warwick Explaining the Rise of Diaspora Victoria University of Alan Gamlen Institutions Wellington Government vs. Party Efforts to Expand to Maria Koinova Diasporas Abroad: Kosovo as a Case of University of Warwick Contested Sovereignty Sending States and the Making of Intra- Fiona Adamson SOAS Diasporic Politics Erdoğan's Diaspora Policy Towards Turks Maria Grazia Martino in Germany: From Turkishness to the Freie Universität Berlin "Common Islamic Civilization"?
52 Economic Security and Labour Standards Room: Beaufort Chair TBC Unstable Foundations? Economic Nicholas Lees Inequality, Labour Market Structures and Brunel University, London the Democratic Peace A Reassessment of the Institutional Determinants of Wage Inequality: Andrew Morton Theories from Comparative Political University of Leeds Economy and Role of Law and 'Legal Institutions in Labour Market Outcomes
Session 5: Thursday 0900-1030
53 Rethinking the origins of modern international order (Historical Sociology and IR Working Group Sponsored Roundtable) Room: Tower Suite 3 London School of George Lawson Convenor Economics Ayse Zarakol Chair Cambridge University Jennifer Mitzen Ohio State University Patricia Owens Sussex University London School of Martin Bayly Economics London School of George Lawson Economics
54 Methods and Critique (Poststructural Politics Working Group Sponsored Roundtable) Room: Tower Suite 2 Elisa Wynne-Hughes Convenor Cardiff University Georgia Institute of Tahseen Kazi Convenor Technology Georgia Institute of Tahseen Kazi Chair Technology Jef Huysmans The Open University Stina Hansson University of Gothenburg Sofie Hellberg University of Gothenburg Christian Bueger Cardiff University David L. Blaney Macalester College Mark B. Salter University of Ottawa
55 Reflecting on the impact of Roy Bhaskar on international relations (Roundtable) Room: Great Harry 12th Floor Jonathan Joseph Convenor University of Sheffield Jonathan Joseph Chair University of Sheffield Jonathan Joseph University of Sheffield Colin Wight University of Sydney Heikki Patomäki University of Helsinki Milja Kurki Aberystwyth University Alex Hoseason Aberystwyth University
56 Locating the Field of International Relations (IR) in Cyberspace: Insecurities, Inequalities, Incongruities Room: Beaufort Leonie Maria Tanczer Convenor Queen's University Belfast Leonie Maria Tanczer Chair Queen's University Belfast Canterbury Christ Church Andre Barrinha Discussant University Myriam Dunn Cavelty Cyberspace/s and Cyberpower/s ETH Zurich Global Cyber Security: Challenges for Madeline Carr Aberystwyth University International Politics European Governance of Digital Spaces: Helena Farrand- An Exploratory Analysis of Cyber Aston University Carrapico Security and Cyber Crime Agencies and their Regulatory Potential Cyber Security and the Securitisation of Leonie Maria Tanczer Queen's University Belfast Hacking and Hacktivism
57 Reimagining international spaces and actors through postcolonial and decolonial lens (Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Neville Mustapha K. Pasha Chair Aberystwyth Decolonizing the "International"? On the Tugba Basaran symbolic power of "international University of Kent knowledge" and its limits Université Libre de Christian Olsson Co-Author Bruxelles Decolonizing the soldier: British, Indian London School of Tarak Barkawi and imperial forces in the war against Economics Japan
Rethinking ‘South- South’: Entangled Jana Hoenke security practices between Africa and University of Edinburgh Latin America Markus Michael Co-Author Freie Universität, Berlin Müller Narratives of redemption: The meaning of Yoav Galai University of St Andrews afforestation in Israel
58 Beyond The Peacekept: Paradoxes And Unintended Consequences Of Liberal Conflict Room: Britannia 12th Floor Philip Cunliffe Convenor University of Kent Philip Cunliffe Chair University of Kent Jonathan Fisher Discussant University of Birmingham Dictating Peace: Peacekeeper Philip Cunliffe University of Kent Contributions from Authoritarian States “We have found a new way of doing things”: Intervention, sovereignty and the Jonathan Fisher University of Birmingham domestication of the international community in Rwanda "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it": the invention of a Paul Jackson University of Birmingham UK mythology of intervention in Sierra Leone
59 Feasts and famines, high fashion, sexism, dodgy disclosure and the Corporation Room: Nimrod 12th Floor Mark Brewer Convenor Northumbria University Mark Brewer Chair Northumbria University Towards a New Taxonomy of Sanctions in Konstantinos Sergakis Corporate Law: Fighting Inequality in University of Bristol Capital Markets Balancing the Boardroom: Can Lessons be Sue Turner Northumbria University Learned? Chrysostomos The importance of consumer insights in Northumbria University Apostolidis fighting inequality in the food sector
Global Inequality and the Corporation: An Mark Brewer Northumbria University examination of the High World of Fashion
60 Crossroads of war, violence, and inequality in African states Room: Mayflower 12th Floor London School of Caroline Varin Convenor Economics HRH Tessy de Chair SOAS Luxembourg
Kate Fanning Discussant Regent's University London
Gender Inequality, Exploitation & Sabrina White Regent's University London Peacekeeping Economies Mikaela Smit Violence, Inequalities and Health Imperial College London Security, Equality, and Coercion in post- Jennifer Melvin University of London conflict Rwanda Violence and the Securitisation of London School of Caroline Varin Inequality Economics 61 Critical Terrorism Studies: An Internal Critique (Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Tower Suite 1 James Fitzgerald Convenor Dublin City University Maura Conway Chair Dublin City University Back to the state? A fieldwork-based Harmonie Toros argument in favour of critical engagement University of Kent with state actors
A Genealogical analysis of Royal Holloway University Akil N Awan (counter)radicalisation in a post-9/11 of London environment Beyond the Margins? The James Fitzgerald Presence/Absence of ‘Poststructuralism’ in Dublin City University Critical Terrorism Studies Legislating for Otherness: Proscription Lee Jarvis University of East Anglia Powers and Parliamentary Debate Australian National Tim Legrand Co-Author University
62 Europe’s Energy Security after Ukraine: The Case of CEE (Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group Sponsored Panel Room: Mortimer Room Wojciech Ostrowski Convenor University of Westminster Natasha Kuhrt Chair King's College London Russia, Europe and Energy Sector Roland Dannreuther University of Westminster Governance in CEE CEE Energy Security: The Case of Eamonn Butler University of Glasgow Hungary
Wojciech Ostrowski CEE Energy Security: The Case of Poland University of Westminster
CEE Energy Security: The Case of London School of Dimitar Bechev Bulgaria Economics
63 Geopolitics, Economics and the State in the Middle East (Historical Sociology Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Discovery 12th Floor Daniel Neep Convenor Georgetown University Daniel Neep Chair Georgetown University Explaining state failure in Iraq; beyond the London School of Toby Dodge Sykes-Picott delusion Economics Neoliberalism and the Police State in the Michael Farquhar Global South: The Case of Egypt since SOAS Sadat Shaping the Syrian State: the Historical Daniel Neep Georgetown University Sociology of Economic Expertise'
64 The IR of China Room: Great Eastern 12th Floor Richard Whitman Chair University of Kent John Bailey Vulnerability and Threat Perception The University of Otago The Self-Concious Rise of a Low-Status Danish Institute for Andreas Bøje Forsby State: Chines Identity, Grand Strategy, and International Studies Status Inequality Chinese Strategic Narratives, or Why we Michael Barr Should Abandon the Concept of 'Soft Newcastle University Power' China and the Politics of Great Power: Beverley Loke Role, Responsibility and Power University of Oxford Inequalities Strategic Uncertainty in the Asia-Pacific: Elena Atanassova- Drivers, Responses and Evolving Regional University of Antwerp Cornelis Order
65 Gender Politics: Empowerment and Disempowerment Room: Golden Hind 12th Floor Ruth Blakeley Chair University of Kent International Politics and the Substantive Kirsten Haack Representation of Women: Locating Northumbria University 'Critical Mass' in the International Gender Justice in the UN Security Council Sahla Aroussi Coventry University on Women, Peace and Security Can you Securitize without Gendering? Security Rhetoric, Perception of Jonathan Caverley MIT Leadership, and Female Political Candidates Gender Justice and the Global Stellenbosch University Pieter Fourie Development Industry: South Africa & (South Africa) Canada considered Colleen O'Manique Co-Author Trent University (Canada) Political Conflict and Gender Equality in University of Nebraska- Jody Neathery-Castro Education" The Case of Turkey Omaha Session 6: Thursday 1100-1230
66 Method in Our Madness? Postpositivist knowledge production in IR (Review of International Studies Sponsored Roundtable) Room: Tower Suite 3 Queen Mary, University of Kimberly Hutchings Convenor London Queen Mary, University of Kimberly Hutchings Chair London Iver Neumann London School of Lene Hansen University of Copenhagen Christine Sylvester University of Connecticutt Janice Bially-Mattern National University Milja Kurki Aberystwyth University
67 The Place of Technology in Environmental Politics I (Environment Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Tower Suite 2 Hayley Stevenson Convenor University of Sheffield Michael Keary Chair Aberystwyth University The technological pivot: The role of Michael Keary technological change in green political Aberystwyth University thought Profiting from Planetary Protection: Paul Tobin Ecological Modernization, Renewable University of York Energy and Climate Policy Transformative Energy Technologies for a Björn-Ola Linnér Low-Carbon World: Sense-making in University of Oxford Energy System Governance
To be or not to be: a study of ambivalence Humboldt-Universität zu Katharine N. Farrell and ambiguity in the design and Berlin implementation of geoengineering projects
68 Green Africa: Environmental politics and transformations in governance (Africa and IS Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Discovery 12th Floor Carl Death Convenor University of Manchester Rosaleen Duffy Chair SOAS Chuks Okereke Discussant University of Reading “Rhino poaching is out of control!” Bram Büscher Violence, Heroes and the Politics of Wageningen University Hysteria in online Conservation The green state in Africa: Environmental Carl Death University of Manchester politics and theories of modernisation
A Tale of Poachers and Terrorists: Green Rosaleen Duffy SOAS Militarisation in Sub-Saharan Africa From CAMPFIRE to REDD+: Learning Elizabeth P. Harrison lessons from Zimbabwe’s experiences University of Leeds with CBNRM
69 BISA @40 Sponsored Roundtable: Global Health and Inequality Room: Tower Suite 1 Colin McInnes Convenor Aberystwyth University Colin McInnes Chair Aberystwyth University Queen Mary, University of Sophie Harman London Aberystwyth and London Clare Wenham School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Adam Kamradt-Scott University of Sydney Simon Rushton University fo Sheffield Stefan Elbe University of Sussex
70 Dancing, Inverting, Reflecting, Remaking: New Approaches to Engaging IR Students in the (Learning and Teaching Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Neville London Metropolitan Steven Curtis Convenor University London Metropolitan Steven Curtis Chair University Making and Remaking the Political: Alasdair Blair Engaging Students in a Policy De Montfort University Commission
Inverting the Large Lecture Class: Active University of Duisburg- Caroline Kärger Learning and Diversity in an Introductory Essen IR Course University of Duisburg- Daniel Lambach Co-Author Essen Groove is in the Heart: Teaching Felix Rösch Coventry University International Politics through Dance
Reflecting on the Worlds of Inequality: Alison Statham Experiences of Student Reflection and De Montfort University Reflective Learning Pedagogies of Authenticity: Michael Barr Autoethnography and the Boundaries of Newcastle University Writing and Assessment BISA-HEA Teaching Excellence Prize Jelena Obradovic Winner: Recording Security: Audio-Visual Aston University Projects in IR Assessment
72 Gulf power: Economic and political inequality in the Arab world Room: Beaufort Hannes Baumann Convenor King's College London Charlotte Heath-Kelly Chair University of Warwick Global and Arab Powers in Post-Mubarak Roberto Roccu Egypt: Relative Autonomy and the King's College London Emergence of Neoliberal Patronage Explaining the Impact of Emigration on Gerasimos Tsourapas Authoritarian Regime Durability: SOAS Evidence from Egypt Qatar and the UAE: The Politics of Khalid Almezaini Qatar University Foreign Aid Dependent neoliberalism: Gulf economic Hannes Baumann King's College London power in Lebanon
73 Including the ‘Others’ in IR: Moving beyond bifurcation and subjugated knowledge Room: Nimrod 12th Floor Ayla Gol Convenor Aberystwyth University Ayla Gol Chair Aberystwyth University Labelling of Pakistan as a “Violent Pariah Furrukh Khan Lahore University State”: Implications for FP and IR Engaging the ‘Other’ in IR: Imagining Ayla Gol regional international society in the Aberystwyth University Middle East
Rethinking “Conservative Democracy” in Caglar Ezikoglu Aberystwyth University the Muslim context: The case of Turkey
74 International Law and international relations: the role of non-state actors (International Law Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Britannia 12th Floor Math Noortmann Convenor Coventry University Math Noortmann Chair Coventry University Bridging the Legitimacy Gap: City College of Media and Mass Kai Bruns Diplomacy and the Legal Position of Communication Municipalities in International Law Stating the Crime: An Unconventional Paul Battersby Global Approach to Controlling RMIT University Paramilitary Actors Human Rights Diplomacy: are there Barbara Morazanni ethical differences between religious and DeMontfort University/Law ethnic conflicts prior to conciliation? The Role of Inequalities within the Benjamin Nutt Plymouth University International Criminal Court (ICC) System
75 Nuclear Ethics after Nye: Perspectives from Politics and Philosophy 1 (Global Nuclear Orders Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Great Harry 12th Floor The New School and N.A.J. Taylor Convenor University of Queensland Thomas Doyle, II Chair Texas State University Australian National Ramesh Thakur Nuclear Weapons: The State of Play 2015 University Morally (Ir)responsible approaches to Thomas Doyle, II Texas State University nuclear disarmament The Humanitarian Initiative: Building a Marianne Hanson Global Prohibition Regime Without the University of Queensland Nuclear Powers
76 Producing Multipolarity: Ontological difference; alternative to the West; or geopolitical strategy? (Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Mortimer Room Natasha Kuhrt Convenor King's College London Ruth Deyermond Convenor King's College London Natasha Kuhrt Chair King's College London Changing Configuration of Russian Far Eastern Federal Sergey Sevastyanov partnerships in Northeast Asia in the post- University, Vladivostok Crimea environment Producing multipolarity? Russian claims Stefanie Ortmann to Great Power status and the subversion University of Sussex of a Western-centric normative order
Imperial Legacies, Eurasian Futures? The Paul Richardson University of Manchester remaking of Russia’s eastern borders Ray Silvius Russia’s Putin Era Civilisational Project University of Winnipeg
77 The European Union in (Continuing) Crisis? Room: Golden Hind 12th Floor Nicola Phillips Chair University of Sheffield Once a PIIGS always a PIIGS? Divergent Samuel Brazys University College Dublin Recovery in the European Periphery When Eurocentrism Hits Home: The Neil Dooley Contradictions of the Response to the University of Sussex Eurozone Crisis From Washington Consensus to 'Berlin Holly Snaith Consensus'?: The Poltical Role of University of Copenhagen Austerity in Global Context Peter Nedergaard Co-Author University of Copenhagen
Session 6a: Thursday 1230-1400
146 Moral Compulsions, Everyday Resistance and Ethical Research Room: Neville Mikael Baaz Convenor University of Gothenburg Mikael Baaz Chair University of Gothenburg Royal Holloway, University Chris Rossdale Discussant of London Moral Compulsions, Everyday Resistance Stellan Vinthagen University of Gothenburg and Ethical Research Mona Lilja Text as Resistance and an ethical statement University of Gothenburg Love, hate, resistance and the ethics of Evelina Johansson University of Gothenburg feminist methodology The Ethical Aspects of the Strategy of Mikael Baaz University of Gothenburg Rupture
139 New Diplomacies Room: Discovery 12th Floor Stuart Murray Convenor Bond University Inderjeet Parmar Chair City University London SOAS, University of Simon Rofe Discussant London Michele Acuto Diplomacy, by cities? University College London Digital Diplomacy and the Making of the Corneliu Bjola Oxford University BRICS Brand Sports diplomacy: traditions and version Stuart Murray Bond University 2.0 Diplomatic interference in an age of real- Jennifer Cassidy Oxford University time governance 148 R2P in Practice (Intervention and the Responsbility to Protect Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Britannia 12th Floor Aidan Hehir Convenor University of Westminster
Adrian Gallagher Chair University of Leeds
Aidan Hehir Bahrain: Another R2P Blindspot? University of Westminster
R2P in Sudan's "Two Areas" - Remedy or University of Texas at Alan J. Kuperman Cause of Violence? Austin
How and Why the Responsibility to Hacettepe University, Pınar Gözen Ercan Protect Applies to the Case of Gaza? Turkey
Understanding a War Fought in the Name Adrian Gallagher of Two Norms: Pillar II in Action? The University of Leeds Case of Iraq
R2P or not R2P: Legitimacy through Nicola Langdon Plymouth University Media Framing in Libya and Syria
Session 7: Thursday 1400-1530
79 Piketty… Capital in the Twenty First Century (BISA@40 Sponsored Roundtable) Room: Tower Suite 3 Andrew Hindmoor Convenor University of Sheffield Andrew Hindmoor Chair University of Sheffield Jonathan Hopkin LSE Andrew Gamble Cambridge/Sheffield Martin O'Neil University of York
80 Aesthetics in International Studies: Artistic Practice and the Academy (Art and Politics Working Group Sponsored Roundtable) Room: Tower Suite 1 Kyle Grayson Convenor Newcastle University Kyle Grayson Chair Newcastle University Lola Frost Kings College London Elspeth Van Veeren Bristol University Saara Särmä University of Tampere Richard Jackson University of Otago Dublin Institute of John Hogan Technology
81 State, Revolution and Identity in the Middle East: Perspectives from Historical Sociology (Historical Sociology Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Tower Suite 2
Cemal Burak Tansel Convenor University of Nottingham Daniel Neep Chair Georgetown University Daniel Neep Discussant Georgetown University The Middle Eastern Question: Kamran Matin Conjunctural Lineages of the Current University of Sussex Crisis Rethinking the Revolution of 1908 and the Cemal Burak Tansel Crossroads in the History of the Modern University of Nottingham Middle East
82 Dominance and Disparity: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Inequalities of Power within the Global System (Africa and IS Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Discovery 12th Floor Simon Chin-Yee Convenor University of Manchester Elizabeth Harrison Chair University of Leeds The Namibia Peace Process of 1977-90 in The University of Grant Dawson Transnational and Global Perspective Nottingham, Ningbo, China
Burning Inequalities: Using fire to Alex Dorgan University of Sheffield renegotiate power in Kilombero, Tanzania
The Inequalities of Policy: The Simon Chin-Yee trickledown effect of climate change University of Manchester policy in Kenya
83 Heroism in IR: Security, Governmentality and Gender Room: Neville Jenny Mathers Convenor Aberystwyth University Jenny Mathers Chair Aberystwyth University Veronica Kitchen Discussant University of Waterloo Border Guards as Heroes: Immigration Cetta Mainwaring Controls and the Humanitarian Security University of Waterloo Nexus The Hero’s Last Battle: Military Heroism Brieg Powel Aberystwyth University and the Neoliberal Subject State Heroes, Gender Inequality and the University of Massachusetts Jane Parpart Legitimation of Rule: the Zimbabwe Case Boston Katarzyna Gendered Notions of Heroism in Central Aberystwyth University Kaczmarska Asia 84 Violent Democracies? Election-related Violence and Democratization in International Perspective Room: Britannia 12th Floor Sarah Jenkins Convenor Coventry University Carl Death Chair University of Manchester Jessica Ayesha Discussant Coventry University Northey Triggers of Election Violence in Sub- Blanquerna/Ramon Llull Andreu Sola-Martin Saharan Africa: A Comparative University Perspective Kenya, a country redeemed? The 'cosmetic Sarah Jenkins Coventry University peace' of the 2013 elections The ‘awkward calm’ of election violence Australian National Nicole Haley in Melanesia: PNG and Solomon Islands University compared.
85 Religion and Forced Migration: Investigating political subjectivity and belonging beyond the Room: Great Harry 12th Floor Luca Mavelli Convenor University of Kent Erin Wilson Chair University of Groningen Exceptional Subjectivities: Forced University of Central Antonio Cerella Migrants and the Archaeology of Lancashire Martyrdom Undocumented Migration, the Camp, and Luca Mavelli Postsecularity: Rethinking Solidarity University of Kent beyond Hospitality Life, Belonging and the Postsecular in Erin Wilson University of Groningen contemporary asylum politics Babes-Bolyai-University Pilgrim City: political belonging beyond Mariano Barbato Cluj-Napoca and the state Universität Passau
86 Reordering of Global Power in Civilizational Discourses, Europeanization, Energy Security and Humanitarian Intervention: Shift in Inequalities Room: Golden Hind 12th Floor C. Akça ATAÇ Convenor Cankaya University Chair Cankaya University A revival of civilizational discourses and reassessment of inequality: does 'Arab C. Akça ATAÇ Cankaya University Spring' entail a shift of power from the West to the East? The global myth of equality and national Didem Buhari-Gulmez self-determination in Europe (The cases of LSE Kosovo, Northern Cyprus and Crimea)
Shift in global power relations and the Pinar Ipek struggle of social forces against Bilkent University inequalities in energy security Shifting discursive powers in humanitarian intervention narrative: revisitng the Muge Kınacıoglu Hacettepe University principle of R2P and inequalities in responses to human suffering
87 “Let Me Empower You”: A critical inquiry into “the place of the powerless” in international Room: Mortimer 12th Floor Laura Mills Convenor Queen's University Belfast Debbie Lisle Chair Queen's University Belfast Levelling the Playing Field? The Global Laura Mills Governmentality of the Empowering Queen's University Belfast Women & Girls Through Sports Initiative More than Equal Citizens: Informality and Sobia Kaker Newcastle University Governance in a City in Crisis Author Framing in Introductory Kathryn Starnes Textbooks: What Mother Goose can teach University of Manchester us about marginalization
88 Recreationalised Violence, Terrorism and Security post 9/11 – visuality, identity and affect in a world of inequality (Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Beaufort James Fitzgerald Convenor Dublin City University David Mutimer Chair York University, Canada Visualising War and Terrorism? Towards Nick Robinson University of Leeds a Visual Analysis of Videogames Playing Soldiers: The Role of Identity in Robert Young University of Leeds the ‘Modern Military-Shooter’ Enabling fear, provoking reverence: the Lori Crowe affective problematic of the militarized York University, Canada hero
89 Russia in the World Room: Nimrod 12th Floor Roland Dannreuther Chair University of Westminster Russian Grand Strategy and its Promotion Zinaida Shevchuk Masaryk University of Armed Conflicts in the South Caucasus
Nottingham Trent Rick Simon Russia, Ukraine, and the New Imperialism University The Internal-External Security Nexus in Aglaya Snetkov Russia's Securty Agenda: The Case of ETH Zurich Crimea
90 Organising Inequality? International and Regional Organisations in IR Today Room: Mayflower 12th Floor Chair TBC Regional Actors in International Diana Panke Organizations: Towards a Regonalization University of Freiburg of International Negotiations? Moving Towards Inclusive Governance in Sarah Hamiduddin Queens University, Belfast International Development The Unwanted: Asylum in the EU form Nevena Nancheva University of Westminster Human Rights to Security
91 The Continuing Salience of the English School? Room: Great Eastern 12th Floor Chair TBC Arguing for Right and Wrong: Moral University of New South Stephen McGuinness Argument in the Thought of Hedley Bull Wales Within the Orbit of this Life': Natural Law Richard Devetak University of Queensland in International Relations Anarchical Societies: Anthropological Florida International Nicolas Terradas Investigations University The 'Economic Standard of Civilization': Florida International Onur Erpul An English School Approach to the Illict University Economy A Final Encounter? The English School Benjamin Zala University of Leicester meets Analytic Eclecticism
Session 8: Thursday 1600-1730
92 The Practice of Global Benchmarking (Review of International Studies Sponsored Panel) Room: Tower Suite 3 André Broome Convenor University of Warwick Kim Hutchings Chair QMUL Governing the world at a distance: the André Broome University of Warwick practice of global benchmarking
University of the Joel Quirk Co-Author Witwatersrand Benchmarking global development: Liam Clegg opaque responsibility and the limits of the University of York Millennium Development Goals
Human security benchmarks: governing Alexandra Homolar University of Warwick human wellbeing at a distance
Benchmarking global supply chains: the Genevieve LeBaron University of Sheffield power of the ‘ethical audit’ regime University of British Jane Lister Co-Author Columbia The limits of global authority: how the Norwegian Institute of Ole Jacob Sending World Bank benchmarks African International Affairs economies Jon Harald Sanders Norwegian Institute of Co-Author Lie International Affairs
93 Curiosity in IR: Method, Practice, Attitude (CRIPT Working Group Sponsored Roundtable) Room: Discovery 12th Floor Andreja Zevnik Convenor University of Manchester University of Central Antonio Cerella Chair Lancashire Claudia Aradau King's College Jef Huysmans Open University Andreja Zevnik University of Manchester
Maria Stern University of Gothenburg
94 International Security: The Contemporary Agenda (European Journal of International Security Sponsored Roundtable) Room: Tower Suite 1 Tim Edmunds Convenor University of Bristol Tim Edmunds Chair University of Bristol Theo Farrell King's College, London Vincent Pouliot McGill University Alexandra Gheciu University of Ottowa Christian Bueger Cardiff University 95 The Place of Technology in Environmental Politics II (Environment Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Nimrod 12th Floor Hayley Stevenson Convenor University of Sheffield Michael Keary Chair Aberystwyth University Beyond Optimism and Phobia? : Amanda Machin Zeppelin University Technology, Politics and Nature Theorising the relationship between agricultural technology and farmers’ skills: Philippa Kennedy SOAS a study of biotechnology-assisted participatory plant breeding Sustainability and the EU Controversy on Franz Seifert Agri‐Biotechnology: Radical Change or Ecological Modernisation? Governing the green way(s): the politics of Caitriona Carter Irstea Bordeaux smart transition Managing technology in risky waters: The Fay Madeleine Farstad University of York Norwegian ‘Lofoten-debate’
96 What is wrong with inequality? (International Relations Journal Sponsored Roundtable) Room: Tower Suite 2 Kamila Stullerova Convenor Aberystwyth University Kamila Stullerova Chair Aberystwyth University Ken Booth Aberystwyth University London School of Chris Brown Economics Chukwumerije University of Reading Okereke Rorden Wilkinson University of Sussex National University of Will Bain Singapore Pinar Bilgin Bilkent University
97 Philosophy and Reality: Where does Politics fit in? Room: Britannia 12th Floor Alexander Hoseason Convenor Aberystwyth University Hidemi Suganami Chair Aberystwyth University Between Philosophy and Social Science: Alexander Hoseason the Process of Circumscription in Theory Aberystwyth University and in Practice What difference does philosophy make to Hidemi Suganami Aberystwyth University causal inquiry in world politics? Politics of realism (reflections by an Milja Kurki Aberystwyth University ‘inconsistent’ realist) Philosophy and politics of causation: a Heikki Patomaki University of Helsinki dialectical post-critical realist perspective Adam Humphreys The promise of critical empiricism in IR University of Reading
98 Political legitimacy in Africa: construction and contestation (Africa and IS Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Beaufort Kathy Dodworth Convenor University of Edinburgh Paul Jackson Chair University of Birmingham Jana Hönke Discussant University of Edinburgh
Infrastructural power in conflict and state Jessica Hawkins formation: framing political legitimacy in University of Manchester spaces of displacement in northern Uganda
NGO legitimation as practice: crafting Kathy Dodworth University of Edinburgh political space in Tanzania Power, performance or permission? Exploring international non-governmental Róisín Read University of Manchester organisation (INGO) legitimacy in South Sudan Marta Iniguez de More than Surviving: Creativity and University of Cambridge Heredia Solidarity as Subverting Political Order
99 Security and Technology (BISA @40 Sponsored Roundtable) Room: Mortimer 12th Floor Convenor David Galbreath University of Bath Chair TBC Brian Rappert University of Exeter Elspeth Van Veeren University of Bristol Michael E. Smith University of Aberdeen David Galbreath University of Bath
100 International Law and International Relations: Theoretical Reflections (International Law Working GroupSponsored Panel) Room: Golden Hind 12th Floor Math Noortmann Convenor Coventry University Barbarra Mozeranni Chair DeMontfort University Retrieving Agency in IR/IL: a Historical Maia Pal Oxford Brookes University Sociology of Jurisdiction Towards an Antropology of Math Noortmann Coventry University Internationalism?
101 Nuclear Ethics after Nye: Perspectives from Politics and Philosophy 2 (Global Nuclear Orders Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Neville Thomas Doyle II Convenor Texas State University The New School and N.A.J. Taylor Chair University of Queensland The New School and N.A.J. Taylor Nuclear ethics as ecological ethics University of Queensland Nuclear Ethics and Global Security: University of New South Anthony Burke Reforming the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Wales Regime Nicholas J. Wheeler Co-Author University of Birmingham Scott Wisor Co-Author University of Birmingham Nuclear Ethics and Jus Post-Bellum Nicola Leveringhaus University of Oxford Considerations Alex Leveringhaus Co-Author University of Oxford Delft University of Behnam Taebi Justice and nuclear waste management Technology and Harvard
102 Global Gender Equality and Gender Violence: Sites of Action and Examing Narratives (Gendering IR Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Mayflower 12th Floor Narratives of Victimhood: Between Lydia Cole Collective Memory and Feminisms In Aberystwyth University Bosnia and Herzegovina International Governance and Abortion Queen Mary, University of Jennifer Thomson Rights: the case of Northern Ireland London Institutional Diversity: Mainstreaming, Roberta Guerrina malestreaming and consequences for University of Surrey gendering foreign policy discourse Katharine A. M. Co-Author University of Surrey Wright
103 Popular Culture and World Politics – Seeing and Hearing in a World of Inequality? (Art and Politics Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Great harry 12th Floor Nick Robinson Convenor University of Leeds Nick Robinson Chair University of Leeds Nick Robinson Discussant University of Leeds Quantifying Popular Culture and World Marcus Schulzke Politics: The Benefits of Taking a New University of Leeds Perspective on Visual Analysis Drawing Conclusions: Editorial Cartoons David Mutimer York University, Canada and the Response to 9/11 The Discourses of Intervention: A tripartite Analysis of Opposing Sites of Ryan O'Connor University of Leeds Production and Their Impact on Creating the Conditions of Possibility Lip-Syncing on the Communist Stage: Issues of Post-Colonialism, Shelley Zhang Representation, and Competition in Céline University of Toronto Dion and Song Zuying’s Duet of “Jasmine Flower”
104 New Perspectives on an Old Problem: Hopes and Challenges in Israel/Palestine Room: Great Eastern 12th Floor Mark Webber Chair University of Birmingham Multiple Insecurities:Village Conflict, Una McGahern Military Service, and the Palestinians in Newcastle University Israel
"Please, Keep This Terminal Clean." Jakub Zahora Architecture of New Israeli Checkpoints Charles University, Prague along the Green Line and the Politics of Sight The Soldier as a Sovereign: The Political Implications of the Israel Defense Forces' Sorana Jude Aberystwyth University Use of Violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Session 9: Friday 0900-1030
105 American Exceptionalism: An Idea that Made a Nation and Remade the World Room: Discovery 12th Floor Bjorknes University Hilde Restad Convenor College Emily Charnock Chair University of Cambridge
Adam Quinn University of Birmingham Bjorknes University Hilde Restad College London School of Nicholas Kitchen Economics Kyle Lascurettes Lewis & Clark College Gaurav Kampani University of Tulsa James Wilson U.S. Department of State
106 Anarchy and IR theory: relevant or relic? (Roundtable) Room: Tower Suite 1 Alex Prichard Convenor University of Exeter Hidemi Suganami Chair Aberystwyth University Alex Prichard University of Exeter Memorial University, Lucian Ashworth Newfoundland National University of William Bain Singapore Ayse Zarakol University of Cambridge
107 The Impact of IR as a Social Science (IR as a Social Science Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Tower Suite 3 Helen Louise Turton Convenor University of Sheffield Helen Louise Turton Chair University of Sheffield Felix Berenskoetter Discussant SOAS Re-imagining Academic Resistance to Impact in the British Context of the REF: Inanna Hamati-Ataya Aberystwyth University A Socio-Praxeological Perspective on Situated Social Engagement Leaping the interdisciplinary divide or Adriana Sinclair falling at the first hurdle? Lessons from IR- University of East Anglia international law’s interdisciplinarity’
Beate Jahn The political impact of the impact agenda University of Sussex
Impacting What? Impacting How? Felix Grenier Discourses Coalitions and the Diverse University of Ottowa Understandings of Scholarly Impact in IR
Impact and the Teaching of IR: the London Metropolitan Steven Curtis Missing Dimensions Explored University
108 The Legitimation of Inequalities (IPEG Sponsored Panel) Room: Tower Suite 2 Robin Dunford Convenor University of Brighton Robin Dunford Chair University of Brighton The Concept of the Market in the Matthew Eagleton-Pierce SOAS Legitimation of Neoliberalism Legitimising Inequality and Chasing Pritish Behuria SOAS Developmentalism in Rwanda The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) as organic Stuart Shields University of Manchester intellectual of neoliberal common sense in post-communist transition Saving World (Market) Society from Alex Nunn itselg? Risk and the new global politics of Leeds Beckett inequality The part played by economic growth in the Gareth Dale Brunel University legitimation of social inequality
109 The Magic Roundabout starts again: the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review Room: Beaufort Andrew Dorman Convenor King's College London Catarina Thomson Discussant University of Exeter David Dunn UK Drone Policy University of Birmingham
The Evolution and Current State of British Matthew Uttley Defence Policy Research within British King's College London Academia: An Empirical Assessment
Reassessing the UK military contribution Warren Chin King's College London to global counter terrorism
The Magic Roundabout strikes again: Andrew Dorman Britain and the challenge of defence King's College London reviews
110 Turkey’s Humanitarian Diplomacy: Pitfalls and Promises Room: Great Eastern 12th Floor B. Senem Cevik Convenor Ankara University Alp Ozerdem Chair Coventry University Turkey's Development Aid and Policy in Turkish National Police Mehmet Ozkan Somalia Academy Sertaç Canalp Military Assistance as a Public Diplomacy Turkish National Police Korkmaz Tool: Turkish Model in Afghanistan Academy Turkey’s Faith-Based NGOs: Eliminating B. Senem Cevik Regional Inequality Through Grassroots Ankara University Mobilization Flying Solo in World Politics: Turkey’s Royal Holloway, University M. Evren Eken Smart Power Problem of London
111 Whither cosmopolitanism? Room: Neville Mathias Koenig- London School of Convenor Archibugi Economics Richard Beardsworth Chair University of Aberystwyth Mathias Koenig- London School of Could a World State be Democratic? Archibugi Economics Whither Cosmopolitanism? The fate of Richard Beardsworth cosmopolitanism in a new era of University of Aberystwyth globalization Democratism: Towards a cosmopolitan Hans Agné explanatory approach to international Stockholm University politics
112 France, Germany and European Security Room: Golden Hind 12th Floor Adrian Treacher Convenor University of Sussex Jocelyn Mawdsley Chair University of Newcastle Jocelyn Mawdsley Discussant University of Newcastle Germany's role in European security: a Universidade Lusíada de Patricia Daehnhardt more assertive actor? Lisboa France and European security: still Adrian Treacher University of Sussex exceptional? Sleepwalking into energy insecurity: gas Royal Holloway College, Tom Dyson imports and Germany's response to University of London Russian revisionism
113 Rethinking Russia’s Relations with the ‘West’ (Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Britannia 12th Floor Valentina Feklyunina Convenor Newcastle University Pete Duncan Chair University College London Russia’s role in the Ukraine crisis in a Alexander Titov Queen’s University Belfast contemporary history perspective Russia–EU normative relations through a James Headley University of Otago Virtue Ethics lens The Crisis of ‘Spheres of Influence’ in the University of St.Andrews Iain Ferguson EU-Russia Relationship and University of Tartu Coexistence Concept in Russian Foreign St. Petersburg State Alexander Sergunin Policy: Return from Oblivion? University 114 Ethics in IR: Memory, Memorialisation & Emotion Room: Great Harry 12th Floor Nick Robinson Chair University of Leeds IR's personified state: emotional stories Katharina Hone Aberystwyth University and ethical judgments Pleasurable war? Sense, affect and Audrey Reeves University of Bristol consumption in wartime heritage tourism I Know How You Feel: Interpreting the The Australian National Renee Jeffery Emotions in International Relations University
115 The Global War on Terrorism and its Aftermath Room: Mortimer Room Ruth Blakeley Chair University of Kent (Inter)national Regimes of Inequality? The Universität der Bundeswehr Susanne Fischer Global War on Terrorism and its Munich Consequences
Why do Western States Use Controversial Samantha Newbery University of Salford Interrogation Techniques?
Keeping the Gloves On? Anti-Torture Frank Foley Norms and British Counterterrorism from King's College London the IRA to Al Qaeda
116 Global Development and Inequality? Strategies that Reinforce the Status Quo? Room: Nimrod 12th Floor Richard Whitman Chair University of Kent Is Inequality Inevitable for Small States Melissa Mavris University of Aberystwyth Studies? Inequality as the Core-Periphery Disparity: Wei-Lun Huang rethinking power from the view of social SOAS network theory Biopolitics and the Emergence of Colonial Georgia Institute of Tahseen Kazi India and the British Empire Technology
117 R2P: Forwards? Backwards? Consequences? Room: Mayflower 12th Floor Mark Webber Chair University of Birmingham The Responsibility to Protect and Conflict European University Ruben Reike Prevention: The Implications of Institute Criminalizing R2P A Little Bit of Something, or a Whole Lot of Nothing?: Postcolonial Angst, Post- University of New South Alan Bloomfield Gaddafi Chaos, and Ruling Out 'Regime Wales Change' to Consolidate R2P A new tool for the humanitarian Centre for Trust, Peace and intervention toolbox? Re-assessing the Paul Holtom Social Relations, Coventry normative framework for arming non-state University actors
Session 10: Friday 1100-1230
118 Women and Political Transformation: Moving Beyond Gender Inequality (Roundtable) Room: Discovery 12th Floor Joyce P. Kaufman Convenor Whittier College Fidelma Ashe University of Ulster Carmel Roulston University of Ulster Helen Basini Unviersity of Limerick Kristen P. Williams Clark University University of Massachusetts Jane Parpart Boston
119 Civil Society and the Eurocrisis: Southern European Perspectives (NGOs Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Great Harry 12th Floor Angela Crack Convenor University of Portsmouth Erla Thrandardottir Chair City University London
The impact of the economic crisis on civil Marilena Simiti society: Non Governmental Organizations University of Piraeus and hybrid Voluntary Organizations
Re-examining the weakness of civil University of the Asteris Huliaras society in the European South: Some Peloponnese neglected factors Re-conceptualizing citizenship, rights and London School of Armine Ishkanian responsibilities after the wake of the 2008 Economics crisis Can NGO sector evaluation methodologies University of the Sotiris Petropoulos be copied to Southern Europe? The case of Peloponnese Greece Networking Grassroot Protest Initiatives in University of the Eugenia Vathakou Spain and Greece Peloponnese University of the Nikolaos Tzifakis Co-Author Peloponnese 120 The ethics and politics of convergence (Environment Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Neville Hayley Stevenson Convenor University of Sheffield Lucy Ford Chair Oxford Brookes University Jenneth Parker Discussant Schumacher Institute Values and Interests: justice norms in Hugh Dyer international relations and global University of Leeds environmental politics Climate Change Governance: The Alix Dietzel Importance of Convergence in the Face of University of Sheffield Diversity Gabriela Kuetting Global political ecology and the challenge ofRutgers growth/consumption University Lucy Ford Co-Author Oxford Brookes University
121 The Responsibility to Protect and Humanity (Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Tower Suite 1 Adrian Gallagher Convenor University of Leeds Aidan Hehir Chair University of Westminster Why Common Humanity? Framing the Andreas Papamichail Responsibility to Protect as a Common University of St Andrews Response Hannah Partis- Co-Author University of St Andrews Jennings The Responsibility to Protect as London School of Henry Radice Humanitarian Negotiation: A Space for the Economics ‘Politics of Humanity’? R2P from Below: Does the British Public Graeme Davies View Humanitarian Intervention as Ethical University of Leeds and Effective? Robert Johns Co-Author University of Leeds Reframing the RtoP Debate: The Role of Samuel Jarvis University of Sheffield Common Humanity
122 Ruins, extinctions and collapses: the endings and afterlives of international politics (Poststructural Politics Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Tower Suite 2 Martin Coward Convenor Newcastle University Kyle Grayson Chair Newcastle University Debbie Lisle The Afterlife of Border technologies Queen’s University Belfast University of Audra Mitchell Is IR going extinct? York/University of St. Andrews Secrecy in Ruins: Contemporary Seantel Anaïs University of Winnipeg Landscapes of Closure and Disclosure William Walters Co-Author Carleton University After life: urban infrastructure and the end Martin Coward Newcastle University of human security Carolin Kaltofen Dead Body Politics: Corpses that Matter Aberystwyth University
123 Strategy, rhetoric, and the nuclear threat: Examining Obama’s nuclear legacy (Global Nuclear Order Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Britannia 12th Floor Laura Considine Convenor University of Leeds Andrew Futter Chair University of Leicester Pragmatic Steps, Idealist Leaps: Obama’s Heather Williams Kings College London Nuclear Legacy The Single Biggest Threat: Obama's Michelle Bentley Royal Holloway Construction of Nuclear Terrorism Do We Still Understand Nuclear Laura Considine University of Leeds Weapons? Economic Sanctions and Inequality in the The Hague Institute for Agnese Macaluso US-Iran Nuclear Negotiations Global Justice
124 Power Politics: Relevance and Return? (BISA@40 Sponsored Roundtable) Room: Tower Suite 3 Mark Webber Convenor University of Birmingham Mark Webber Chair University of Birmingham James Sperling University of Akron Nicholas Wheeler University of Birmingham Justin Morris University of Hull Felix Berenskoetter SOAS Danish Institute for Trine Flockhart International Studies
125 Let us take theory to the streets: extricating International Relations from hierarchy, inequality and exclusion Room: Nimrod 12th Floor Madhan Mohan Convenor Jawaharlal Nehru University Jaganathan Marco Vieira Chair University of Birmingham Sustaining inequality indefinitely: the Madhan Mohan culpability of mainstream International Jawaharlal Nehru University Jaganathan Relations
Vocalising inequality: screaming voices, Amna Sunmbul Jawaharlal Nehru University stumbling voices, silenced voices Equality or inequality? Revisiting the Abhishek Choudhary Jawaharlal Nehru University principle of sovereign equality Shibu Muraleedharan Inequality, insecurity and securitisation in Kerala University Nair Premalatha the neo-liberal world
126 Norms and local agency in transitional justice in the Western Balkans (South East Europe Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Mayflower 12th Floor Dr Jelena Obradovic- Convenor Aston University Wochnik Dr Gemma Collantes- Chair City University London Celador Dr Jelena Obradovic- Discussant Aston University Wochnik Assessing the Regional Approach to London School of Denisa Kostovicova Transitional Justice: Testing the RECOM Economics initiative in the Western Balkans Heroes, Courts and Normative Clashes: Ivor Sokolić How the transitional justice process has University College London affected norm building in Croatia Might makes right: transitional justice and Jessie Hronesova compensation schemes in Bosnia and Oxford University Herzegovina Public Memory and the "normalisation" of London School of Sarah Correira inter-ethnic relations in Biljeljna after Economics Dayton
127 Performativity and the Words of Inequality: Naturalising Inequalities through Discourse Room: Mortimer Room Xavier Mathieu Convenor University of Sheffield TBC Chair Elisa Wynne-Hughes Discussant Cardiff University Postcolonial encounters and US nuclear Tanvi Pate identity: India as the 'other' in US nuclear University of Warwick narratives Logics of protection, performativity and Beatrice Chateauvert- parrhesia: disruption International Security University of Sussex Gagnon narratives Performing ‘inferior’ agency as a way to Xavier Mathieu naturalise inequality: the case of the University of Sheffield colonial encounter
128 Popular Culture and World Politics: Insights and Analysis in a Period of Inequality Room: Beaufort Nick Robinson Convener University of Leeds Aggie Hirst Chair City University Beyond the “Dolls” in Dollhouse: Matt Davies Reimagining Gender, Subjectivities and Newcastle University Conditions of Possibility Amanda Chisholm Co-Author Newcastle University Planet of the Australians: Indigenous Simon Philpott Athletes and Australian Football’s Sports Newcastle University Diplomacy Visualizing Experience: Theorizing Lene Hansen Graphic Narratives as Instances of Foreign University of Copenhagen Policy Text-Image Constellations
129 Hegemony, Governance and Social Relations Room: Golden Hind 12th Floor Nicola Phillips Chair University of Sheffield International State- ness: between western Aristotle University of Themistoklis Tzimas hegemony and imperialist fragmentation Thessaloniki Towards a Social History of Samuel Knafo University of Sussex Financialisation Jonathan Joseph Hegemonic Governmentality University of Sheffield Philippe Bourbeau Calculative Practices in World Politics University of Cambridge Stephane Baele Co-Author University of Exeter Thierry Balzacq Co-Author University of Namur
130 Post' Conflict in Praxis & Theory Room: Great Eastern 12th Floor Richard Whitman Chair University of Kent Conflict, Reconciliation, and Temporal Sarah Maddison University of Melbourne Complexity Legitimacy within Criminality? Attitudes Suda Perera towards armed group activity in the University of Birmingham eastern DRC Peacebuilding and the Depoliticization of London School of Simone Datzberger the Civil Society: Sierra Leone [2002- Economics and Political 2013]. Science Christine Cheng Conflict Capital King's College London
Session 11: Friday 1330-1500
131 The United Kingdom and Nuclear Weapons (Global Nuclear Order Working Group Sponsored Roundtable) Room: Great Harry 12th Floor Andrew Futter Convenor University of Leicester Adam Quinn Chair University of Birmingham Nick Ritchie University of York University of Birmingham David Dunn & University of Leicester Suzanne Doyle University of East Anglia Kristan Stoddart Aberystwyth University
132 The Future of Great Power Management (Roundtable) Room: Discovery 12th Floor Benjamin Zala Convenor University of Leicester Benjamin Zala Chair University of Leicester Tim Dunne University of Queensland Justin Morris University of Hull Laust Schouenborg Roskilde University
Alexander Astrov Central European University
133 Legal, philosophical and ethical entanglements of the Subaltern Subject (Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Tower Suite 3
Gore Capitalism’ and Contemporary Louiza Odysseos Forms of Coloniality: Rethinking Impunity University of Sussex in the Juárez Feminicide, Twenty Years on
The Gravedigger: a death-bound subject Shubranshu Mishra University of Kent, Brussels and the act of bearing witness Contingent subalternity in IR: The case of Shabnam Holliday Plymouth University Iran’s democracy movement
Understanding Global Inequalities by Alpen-Adria-Universität Claudia Brunner Investigating Epistemic Violence Klagenfurt
134 Politics of the Environment and Climate Change (Environment Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Neville Hayley Stevenson Convenor University of Sheffield Hayley Stevenson Chair University of Sheffield Examining International Climate Change Owen Greene Adaptation Aid: tensions between University of Bradford environmental and conflict resilience
Layers of European Peripherality: Thomas O'Brien Environmental Governance in Bulgaria Cranfield University and Hungary
An example of public policy for climate Lavinia Udrea change mitigation and its ethical Keele University dimensions in a developed country Towards a Just and More Effective Chukwumerije Climate Regime: Public Participation and University of Reading Okereke Institutional Reform
135 Inequality in the Financial World: Reform, Innovation, and Change in Everyday Finance (IPEG Sponsored Panel) Room: Tower Suite 2 Chris Clarke Convenor Warwick Chris Clarke Chair Warwick The Contested Political Economy of Adrienne Roberts Manchester Gender-Lens Investing Civil Society and the Everyday Politics of Johnna Montgomerie Goldsmiths Reforming Retail Finance Everyday Debt and Peer-to-Peer Lending: Chris Rogers Re-Casting or Re-Entrenching a Morality Warwick Play? Chris Clarke Co-Author Warwick Private Finance, Public Goods: Pension Or Raviv Durham Policy Reform After the Crisis
136 Reaching and operating power-sharing peace settlements Room: Beaufort Dawn Walsh Convenor University of Birmingham Gemma Collantes- Chair City University London Celador Power Sharing and Transitional Justice in Argyro Kartsonaki University of Birmingham Contemporary Peace Agreements They haven’t gone away, you know’: Henry Jarrett Ethno-national divisions in Northern University of Exeter Ireland. Coordination mechanisms and entrenched Dawn Walsh guarantees in complex power-sharing University of Birmingham settlements “A Mutually Hurting Stalemate”?: Using Peter McLoughlin Zartman to Explain the Northern Ireland Queens University Belfast Peace Process
137 Negativity and critique: Adorno and International Relations theory Room: Mortimer Room Matthew Fluck Convenor University of Westminster Carolin Kaltofen Chair Aberystwyth University Andrew Davenport Discussant Abersytwyth University Derrida, Adorno and the Subject/Object Aggie Hirst Relation: Inversion, Subversion and the City University Enduring Spectre of Onto-Politics Sacrifice and Substitution: Theodor Adorno’s diagnosis of the unreason of Thomas Houseman University of Manchester reason and its relevance to International Relations Clarity as obscurity: the ideology of Matthew Fluck University of Westminster transparency in international relations
140 Power, politics and popular culture: The interplay of identity and political practice in the popular imagination of security Room: Britannia 12th Floor Georg Loefflmann Convenor Warwick University Jutta Weldes Chair University of Bristol Kyle Grayson Discussant Newcastle University Screening Security: How Superheroes Are Julian Schmid University of Vienna Saving World Politics “Regeneration Through Violence”: Re- reading American Wars of Democracy Royal Military Academy Malte Riemann Promotion through Robert A. Heinlein’s Sandhurst Starship Troopers This is (not) the End: Religion, the Apocalypse, and the City in Film and Cahir O’Doherty Newcastle University Politics between the Invasion of Iraq and the Surge
The construction of borders and the other Goethe-University Isabella Hermann in modern science-fiction-movies as Frankfurt am Main response to challenges of our real world
The Pentagon vs. Aliens – The Military- Georg Loefflmann Entertainment-Industrial Complex and the Warwick University Popular Culture of National Security
141 Challenges for the British Foreign Secretary (Roundtable sponsored by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) Room: Tower Suite 1 Foreign and Paul Bentall Convener Commonwealth Office Foreign and Chair Jennifer Medcalf Commonwealth Office Lawrence Freedman KCL Donna Lee University of Bradford Jamie Gaskarth Plymouth University Richard Whitman University of Kent
142 Russian Foreign Policy: Rethinking the Terms of Engagement (Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Golden Hind 12th Floor Valentina Feklyunina Convenor Newcastle University Stefanie Ortmann Chair University of Sussex The World Governance as the Prerequisite Russian State University for Vladimir Pryakhin for Survival: Contribution of Russian the Humanities Religious Philosophy
Russia and Turkey in Eurasia: diverging or David Svarin King's College London converging interests?
BRICS as part of Russia’s soft power Yulia Kiseleva King's College London policy Producing Status Anxiety? Narratives of Valentina Feklyunina the End of the Cold War in Russian Newcastle University History Textbooks
Natasha Kuhrt Russia: The legality/legitimacy gap King’s College London
143 Making the Peace, Securing the Peace Room: Nimrod 12th Floor Chair TBC Beyond Post-Liberal Peace: Rebuilding María Martín de Université libre de feminist identities in the political economy Almagro Iniesta Bruxelles (ULB) of peacebuilding Bringing Pacifism Back into IR: Post- Richard Jackson Liberal Peacebuilding and the Nonviolent University of Otago State Levelling acute asymmetry? Negotiating London School of Sophie Haspeslagh with 'terrorists' and the inception of peace Economics processes. Tensions and synergies: how reintegration Walt Kilroy of ex-combatants interacts with Dublin City University transitional justice
Session 12: Friday 15:30-1700
144 Small States and International Security: Europe and Beyond (Roundtable) Room: Discovery 12th Floor Bradley Thayer Convenor University of Iceland Bradley Thayer Discussant University of Iceland Baldur þórallsson University of Iceland Anders Wivel University of Copenhagen
145 Ukraine, Russia and the 'West' (Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group Sponsored Roundtable) Room: Neville Valentina Feklyunina Convenor Newcastle University Valentina Feklyunina Chair Newcastle University Anna Matveeva King's College London Marc Berenson King's College London King's College London, Joint Services Command Deborah Sanders and Staff College Shrivenham Peter Duncan University College London Bettina Renz University of Nottingham
147 NGOs and the State: Mitigating Inequalities (NGOs Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Tower Suite 3 Erla Thrandardottir Convenor City University London Angela Crack Chair Portsmouth University What factors explain the nature and length Maryam Zarnegar of service NGOs’ relationships with Arcadia University Deloffre government? NGOs, global inequalities and the Gilberto Algar-Faria University of Bristol theoretical-empirical disconnect
The Wisdom of the Many in Global Hayley Stevenson Governance: An Epistemic-Democratic University of Sheffield Defence of Diversity and Inclusion
Expanding International Society: A Erla Thrandardottir Proposal on the International Legal City University London Recognition of NGOs Vincent Charles University of Southern Co-Author Keating Denmark
149 Indian Foreign Policy (Interpretevism Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Tower Suite 2 Ian Hall Convenor Griffith University Ian Hall Chair Griffith University Jamie Gaskarth Discussant Plymouth University From Vajpayee to Modi: The BJP’s Rudra Chaudhuri changing approach to Indian Foreign Kings College London Policy Narendra Modi’s Foreign Policy Beliefs: Ian Hall Griffith University Interpreting the Political Biographies The Third India-Africa Forum Summit Simona Vittorini 2015. Charting Narendra Modi's Africa SOAS Policy Plus ça change, plus ça reste le même? Nicolas Blarel Modi, BJP and India’s policy towards the Leiden Middle-East
150 Political management of personal debt (IPEG Sponsored Panel) Room: Tower Suite 1 Chair TBC Adrienne Roberts Discussant University of Manchester The Strike Debt campaign: Challenging Kirsten Forkert University of Birmingham the individualising logic of debt morality Eleanor Kofman Debt, Migration and Social Reproduction Middlesex University
151 International vs. domestic power games: A battle of (un)equals (South East Europe Working Group Sponsored Panel) Room: Britannia 12th Floor Gemma Collantes- Chair City University, London Celador Queen Mary University of Adam Fagan Discussant London Opening Up the Data. Fighting New School for Public Anna Di Lellio Government and International Corruption Engagement, New York in Kosovo
New School for Public Georges Labreche Co-Author Engagement, New York
The Limits of EU Member State Building Canterbury Christ Church Soeren Keil – The Case of Kosovo University Gëzim Krasniqi Co-Author University College London
152 Solutions from Below? Social Movements and Inequality? Room: Great Harry 12th Floor Chair TBC A Micro Structural Approach in Dealing with Deep Rooted Socio-Economic Nemanja Dzuverovic University of Belgrade Inequalities: The Importance of Local Peace Formations The Revolutionary Imagination and the London School of Nawal Mustafa Colonial-Modern: Power, Narrative, and Economics Performance
The novelty of a global present?: Marta Bashovski University of Victoria classification and the politics of protest
Intermestic Interventions and the utility of Feargal Cochrane transnational civil society for sustainable University of Kent security
153 Human Rights and Justice: Debating Acheivements Room: Mortimer Room Chair TBC Beyond Adjudication: International Nicole De Silva University of Oxford Courts' Influence through Socialization Which (and whose) knowledge matters? Corinne Heaven Commissions of Inquiry and the UN University of Reading Human Rights Council Towards a Post-humanist Conception of St Mary's University Birgit Schippers Human Rights? College Belfast Economic Rights and the Presidency of Courtney Hercus Macquarie University Jimmy Carter Changing the rules: Developing countries Anette Stimmer University of Oxford and international law
154 Managing Migration, Regulating Refugees: From the Local to the Global Room: Golden Hind 12th Floor Chair TBC Unequal Governors: States, International Oleg Korneev Organisations and NGOs as Governors of University of Sheffield Migration in Central Asia and Beyond
Processes of international norm diffusion – international society and local agents: Justyna Janicka Loughborough University Displaced Persons in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina Revisiting Social and Economic Inequalities among Refugees: A Reyhan Guner Bilkent University Comparative Study of Syrian Refugees in Turkish Camps and on Turkish Streets Protecting Internally Displaced Persons: Phil Orchard University of Queensland Norms and Regime Complexes
155 Democracy and State Building in the Middle East: Arrested Development? Room: Beaufort Roland Dannreuther Chair University of Westminster State-Building and Entrenched Social London School of Andrew Delatolla Insecurity: Why Power Sharing Failed in Economics and Political Lebanon and Iraq Science Egypt 4 Years after Mubarak: A Tale of School of Global Studies, Arne F. Wackenhut High Expectations and Dashed Hopes University of Gothenburg Democratic Elections and Violence: Indiana University-Purdue James M. Lutz Effects of Inequality University at Fort Wayne
156 Re-evaluating the Developed-Developing Nexus Room: Nimrod 12th Floor Chair TBC Domestic institutions and power Global Public Policy Clara Weinhardt asymmetries: the missing link in trade Institute negotiations between unequal partners Anke Moerland Co-Author Maastricht University
The geopolitics of debt: the Global South Andreas Antoniades University of Sussex between resilience and vulnerability
From Contestation to Assimilation: The Silke Trommer Changing Character of Civil Society at the University of Helsinki WTO Perpetuating inequality: tax treaties London School of Martin Hearson between developed and developing Economics countries