The British International Studies Association 43rd Annual … · 2020. 8. 27. · The British International Studies Association 43rd Annual Conference 13th thto 15 June 2018, Bath,

The British International Studies Association 43rd Annual

Conference 13th to 15th June 2018, Bath, UK.

Dear Colleague,

Welcome to Bath. The conference sessions are all based in the Apex City of Bath Hotel and

Bath Brew House. In this pack you will find:

• Conference schedule • Conference panel programme • Panel room grid • Working Group Business Meetings • Programme Participants List • Meeting Room Locations • Publishers Exhibition • Gendering International Relations Working Group Plenary

Please pick up your delegates badge from the registration desks in the Apex City of Bath Hotel,

so we know you are at the event.

We do hope you have an enjoyable time in the panel sessions and networking at this event.

Hope to see you again for our 44th conference at the Royal Society, London 2019.

Kindest regards

Conference Team

Programme Chair – Kyle Grayson, Newcastle University

Programme Chair Assistant – Sarina Theys, Newcastle University

Organisation & Registration – Gail Birkett and Student helpers

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE 2018

WEDNESDAY 13TH JUNE 2018

Time Session

7.00 - 16.15 Registration + Publishers Exhibition

7.00 - 8.00 Welcome Refreshments

8.00 - 9.30 Panel Session 1 (90 minutes)

9.30 - 10.00 Refreshment Break


11.30 - 11.45 Short Comfort Break

11.45 - 13.15 Panel Session 3 (90 Minutes)

13.15 - 14.15

Lunch Break 1 hour

Working Group Business meetings




19.00 - 21.00

Wine Reception & Prize Ceremony @

Historic Roman Baths

Sponsored by University of Bath.

(Free of charge but Ticket only event

due to limitations on numbers)

THURSDAY 14TH JUNE 2018

Time Session








13.15 - 14.45 Lunch Break 1.5 hours

13.30 - 14.45 Working Group Business Meetings




18.30 - 20.30

Gendering International Relations

Working Group Sponsored plenary

session

Lansdown 1 Ground Floor Apex Hotel

Wine reception sponsored by Sage

Publishing.

18.30 - 20.30

Postgraduate Network Wine reception

and gathering

The Atrium 1st Floor

FRIDAY 15TH JUNE 2018

Time Session








13.15 - 14.15

Lunch Break 1 hour

Working Group Business Meetings




2018 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

WA01: Wednesday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel Examining the EU’s Role in Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Sponsor: European Security Working Group Room: Bathwick room 1st floor Convenor: Adrian Treacher, University of Sussex Chair: Tim Edmunds, University of Bristol Resource dependency in conflict prevention and peacebuilding: How the EU, UN and OSCE exchange capabilities for a sustainable peace Ewa Mahr, Maastricht University * Hylke Dijkstra, Maastricht University ‘Constructing the capable state’: EU discourses and practices on local capacity building Ana E. Juncos Garcia, University of Bristol Civil-military synergies in EU conflict prevention and peacebuilding - a task-based analysis. Peter Horne Zartsdahl, Roskilde University A civilian European strategic culture? Assessing the EU's peace project basis. Laura Chappell, University of Surrey The EU's attempts at achieving sustainability in local ownership: voices from civil society in the Western Balkans, Horn of Africa and South East Asia Ryerson Christie, University of Bristol Gilberto Algar-Faria, University of Bristol

WA02: Wednesday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel Crisis, Austerity and New Configurations of Neoliberalism Sponsor: International Political Economy (IPEG) Room: Walcot Room 1st floor Convenor: Juanita Elias, University of Warwick Chair: Juanita Elias, University of Warwick Overcoming the Allure of Neoliberalism’s Market Myth: Implications for the Study of and Resistance to Neoliberalism Ian Bruff, University of Manchester Violence Against Women in Times of Austerity. Implications of Changes in the European Gender Regime for Southern European Women Iratxe Perea Ozerin , University of the Basque Country

Production, Trade and Migration: The Political Economy of Refugee Crisis Gorkem Altinors, Bilecik Seyh Edebali University, Turkey A “Bitter Mockery”: Resentment Politics and the Public Trust Scott G Nelson, Virginia Tech Joel T Shelton, Elon University Discourse of Political Agency During Austerity: Comparing Greece and Ireland Nuve YAZGAN, University of Surrey When does the IMF assign labour conditions? Exchange Rate Regimes, Fiscal Targets, and the IMF as an Independent Agent Saliha Metinsoy , University of Groningen

WA03: Wednesday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel Power, culture and resistance in Middle Eastern politics Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia (ISMMEA) Room: Widcombe Room 1st floor Convenor: Ayla Gol, Aberystwyth University Chair: Scott Thomas, University of Bath Eurocentric Knowledge Production in IR: Rethinking Orientalism and the Middle East Ayla Gol, Aberystwtyh University ‘Resistance Culture’: forging the narrative in the Axis of Resistance Edward Wastnidge, Open University ‘For faith and culture for the fatherland’: Militarism and class relations in Turkey, Osmaniye University Gönenç Uysal, Osmaniye Univeristy, Turkey Power Struggle of Underdogs in Turkey: Conceptualizing discursive power in an alternative radical model Omer Tekdemir, University of Leicester

WA04: Wednesday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel Unlearning academia: Disseminating postcolonial critique in/with non-academic contexts Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group (CPD) Room: Lansdown 1 Groundfloor Convenor: Franziska Mueller, University of Kassel Chair: Franziska Müller, University of Kassel Connecting the Dots – Timelines of Oppression and Resistance Daniel Bendix, glokal Berlin

mangoes & bullets – Materials for Racism- and Domination-Critical Thinking and Acting Chandra-Milena Danielzik, glokal Berlin “Bittersweet Pepper – Episodes from the Colonial Present” Franziska Mueller, University of Kassel

WA05: Wednesday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel ‘Memory, Identity and peacebuilding: narratives from Northern Ireland and the island of Ireland’ Sponsor: Peace and Conflict Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association of Ireland Room: Kingsmead 2 1st floor Convenor: Giada Laganà, National University of Ireland Chair: Giada Lagana, National University of Ireland ‘Memory beyond borders: the Irish state and dealing with the legacy of the conflict in and about Northern Ireland, 1969 to 2018’ Thomas Leahy, Cardiff University ‘2004 Irish Citizenship Referendum and 1916 Commemoration: memory, belonging and nation’ Anita Naughton, National University of Ireland Galway “A Taxonomy of a National Identity: How the ‘Northern Irish’ identity is understood and used by Young People and Politicians” Kevin McNicholl, Queens University of Belfast ‘Does European Union Forge Peace? A Study of Community Relations in Northern Ireland’ Giada Lagana, National University of Ireland “‘Tell me exactly what they did?’ Tracing the ideas of John Paul Lederach on the peacebuilding project in Northern Ireland Anna Tulin Brett, National University of Ireland Galway

WA06: Wednesday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel Relocating World Politics: Political Action Beyond States Sponsor: Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) Room: Brew House Meeting Room Convenor: Angela Crack, University of Portsmouth Chair: Angela Crack, University of Portsmouth Homes In-Between: Experiences of a Woman in War and Peace Ayça Kurtoğlu, Acıbadem University

Continuing Movements of Multilateralism: The case of transnational corporations and human rights Karen Buckley, University of Manchester Trust, transparency and legitimacy in NGO-donor relations Vincent Charles Keating, University of Southern Denmark Erla Thrandardottir, University of Manchester *

WA07: Wednesday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Roundtable The British Armed Forces’ engagement with Women, Peace and Security Sponsor: Gendering International Relations (GIRWG) Room: Camden Room 1st floor Convenor: Megan Bastick, University of Edinburgh Chair: Julia Welland, University of Warwick Megan Bastick, University of Edinburgh Sippi Azarbaijani-Moghaddam, St Andrews University Paul Higate, University of Bath Katharine Millar, LSE Hannah Wright, LSE

WA08: Wednesday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Roundtable ‘What difference does a name make?’: Power, legitimacy and ‘Foreign Fighters’ Sponsor: Historical Sociology and International Relations (HSIR) Room: Lansdown 2 Groundfloor Convenor: Malte Riemann, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Chair: Malte Riemann, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Christopher Kinsey, Kings College London Norma Rossi, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Helene Olsen, Kings College London

WB01: Wednesday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel The nature of illiberal governance in south-east Europe Sponsor: South East Europe Room: Camden Room 1st floor Convenor: Natalie Martin, Nottingham Trent University Chair: Catherine Baker, University of Hull

Why is Bosnia and Herzegovina most illiberal of all the Western Balkan countries? Marika Djolai, Institute of Development Studies Turkish politics since 2007: A series of illiberal events Natalie Martin, Nottingham Trent University The EU and autocrats, hand in hand? The reproduction of illiberal regimes as an outcome of the EU’s response to vulnerability and risk. Jonathan Webb, University of Sheffield

WB02: Wednesday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Legitimacy and NGOs Sponsor: Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) Room: Brew House Meeting Room Convenor: Angela Crack, University of Portsmouth Chair: Angela Crack, University of Portsmouth Who is your constituency? The political engagement of humanitarian organisations Andrew Cunningham, Independent analyst Envisioning Legitimacy: NGO Legitimation through and for Images Alpa Dhanani, University of Cardiff Denis Kennedy, College of the Holy Cross Towards a Virtual Public Sphere? Ethnographic Case Studies of Greenpeace and Amnesty’s Facebook and Twitter Amandine Hostein, University of Portsmouth

WB03: Wednesday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Rethinking identity: interrogating the ‘other’ in Russia’s international relations Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Room: Widcombe Room 1st floor Convenor: Precious Chatterje-Doody, The University of Manchester Chair: Precious Chatterje-Doody, The University of Manchester Discussant: Paul Richardson, The University of Birmingham The European Union and Russia: the visions of other in academic discourse Katarzyna Kaczmarska, Aberystwyth University Natalia Zaslavskaya, Saint Petersburg State University Beyond ‘state identity’: Russia as Great Power and the myth of the state in international relations Stefanie Ortmann, University of Sussex

From a Russian perspective on world events to Russia’s place in the world: how RT navigates ‘us’ and ‘them’ for its international audiences Precious Chatterje-Doody, The University of Manchester Relational process or substantialist attribute? Stigmatisation in Russian-Western relations and its impact on international society Adrian Rogstad, LSE

WB04: Wednesday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Liberal war and violence Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics (PPWG) Room: Kingsmead 2 1st floor Convenor: Tahseen Kazi, Georgia Southern University Chair: Christina Oelgemoller, Loughborough University Destabilising the ‘Super-Frontex’ Regime: From ‘Saving Lives’ to ‘Human Security’ Ali Bilgic, Loughborough University Humanity, Temporality and the Liberal Way of War Jamie Johnson, University of Leicester Norms are what machines make of it: Autonomous Weapons Systems and the normative dimension of international relations Hendrik Huelss, University of Kent

WB05: Wednesday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Panel: Identities, mobilities and rights: The relevance of citizenship Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group (CPD) Room: Walcot Room 1st floor Convenor: Terri Anne Teo, Nanyang Technological University Chair: Terri Anne Teo, Nanyang Technological University Chair: Gemma Bird, University of Liverpool Valuing citizenship: what can citizenship studies tell us about refugees lived experience? Gemma Bird, University of Liverpool The possibilities of affective empathy? Abjective Vulnerability & The Life in the UK Test Amanda Russell Beattie , Aston University Citizenship as Third Space Aoileann Aoileann Ní Mhurchú, University of Manchester Multiculturalism Beyond Citizenship

Terri Anne Teo, Nanyang Technological University

WB06: Wednesday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Ethics at the limits: traversing frontiers and boundaries for ethical thinking Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Group Room: Bathwick room 1st floor Convenor: Elke Schwarz, University of Leicester Chair: Elke Schwarz, University of Leicester New Materialism, Corporeality and Ethics Birgit Schippers, St Mary's University College Belfast The right to citizenship as a basic right Nicholas Schenk, University of Leicester ‘The Virtues of Anarchy’ Reconsidered: On Waltz, the Kantian Moralist Alex Prichard, University of Exeter Empire of Apps and Artificial Intelligence: An Exercise of ‘Ethical’ Bio-power Debangana Chatterjee, Jawaharlal Nehru University

WB07: Wednesday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Local dynamics of counter-terrorism: critical readings Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) Room: Kingsmead 1 1st floor Convenor: Alice Martini, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies Terrorism and biopolitical security: Sydney Siege case study Jessicah Mullins, University of New South Wales The Prevent Strategy in the NHS: Doctors, Safeguarding, and Surveillant Assemblages Charlotte Heath-Kelly, University of Warwick Rights in Counterterrorism as Blinders and Fantasies: Reflections on “Human Rights-Compliant Counterterrorism” Jayson Lamchek, National University of Singapore

WB08: Wednesday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Roundtable Contesting Power, Alternative Rules? Human Rights and International Security in Africa Sponsor: Africa & International Studies Room: Lansdown 2 Groundfloor Convenor: Kurt Mills, University of Dundee Chair: Kurt Mills, University of Dundee Kurt Mills, University of Dundee

Paul Bentall, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Andrea Birdsall, University of Edinburgh Henry Lovat, University of Glasgow Lars Waldorf, University of Dundee

WB09: Wednesday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Roundtable Diversifying IR: Problems and Progress within the Taught and Published Discipline Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Room: Lansdown 1 Groundfloor Convenor: Kiran Phull, London School of Economics Chair: Katharine Millar, London School of Economics Akanksha Mehta, University of Sussex Kerem Nisancioglu, SOAS University of London Laura J Shepherd, The University of Sydney Nivi Manchanda, Queen Mary University of London Kiran Phull, London School of Economics Ismene Gizelis, University of Essex

WC01: Wednesday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Gendered sites of everyday life in IPE Sponsor: International Political Economy (IPEG) Room: Walcot Room 1st floor Convenor: Juanita Elias, University of Warwick Chair: Ian Bruff, University of Manchester Resistance within Reproduction: The physical, embodied reappropriation of produced gendered aesthetics through cosplay Katarina H.S. Birkedal, University of St Andrews Mobility, race and gender amongst Bolivian market vendors in two cities Aiko Ikemura Amaral, University of Essex The “Demented” Everyday of Global Politics Tiina Vaittinen, University of Tampere Political Economy of the Plastic Bottle Marjaana Jauhola , University of Helsinki

WC02: Wednesday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel International Adjudication and its Discontents Sponsor: International Law (I-Law) Room: Lansdown 2 Groundfloor Convenor: Henry Lovat, School of Law, University of Glasgow Chair: Lars Waldorf, Law School, University of Dundee

International Tribunal Backlash: a Pluralist Approach Henry Lovat, School of Law, University of Glasgow ICC Preliminary Investigation >and Consequences for Relationships with States Party Rachel Kerr, Department of War Studies, King’s College London African Regional Responses to the ICC: Backlash or Constructive Engagement? Kurt Mills, School of Social Sciences, University of Dundee Backlash against the ICC: Responsiveness as Strategic Response Anni Pues, School of Law, University of Glasgow

WC03: Wednesday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Russia, China and regionalism in Central Asia Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Room: Kingsmead 2 1st floor Convenor: David Lewis, University of Exeter Chair: Filippo Costa Buranelli, University of St Andrews Discussant: David Lewis, University of Exeter China’s Rise, Russia’s Return? The de-centred politics of “rising powers” in Central Asia John Heathershaw, University of Exeter Catherine Owen, University of Exeter An expanded SCO: reinvigorated, or on the road to redundancy? Natasha Kuhrt, Kings College London The decoupling of Central Asia and Russia in the aftermath of the Soviet Union (1991-1995) Jeremy Smith, University of Eastern Finland

WC04: Wednesday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Imperial Legacies: Geopolitics, Strategy and the Political-Military Sponsor: Historical Sociology and International Relations (HSIR) Room: Lansdown 1 Groundfloor Convenor: Joseph Leigh, London School of Economics Chair: Nivi Manchanda, Queen Mary University of London Discussant: Brieg Powel, Aberystwyth University A Science Against Empire: Anti-Colonialism and Geopolitical Thought in Late-Colonial India Martin Bayly, London School of Economics The Pakistani Cold War Imaginary: Trajectories, Contentions and Transformations

Asad Zaidi, London School of Economics Periodizing Postwar Modernity: US Grand Strategy and the Trajectory of Cold War Liberalism Joseph Leigh, London School of Economics

WC05: Wednesday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Reflections on the Methodological Challenges and Opportunities of Researching War Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics (PPWG) Room: Bathwick room 1st floor Convenor: Victoria Basham, Cardiff University Chair: Paul Higate , University of Bath The Gendered Power Dynamics of Informed Consent in Researching the Female Partners of British Army Reservists Victoria Basham, Cardiff University Sergio Catignani, University of Exeter Engaging Military Afterlives Sarah Bulmer, University of Exeter David Jackson, University of Exeter Freedom of Information Legislation and the Democratic Oversight Narrative: Cause for Pause? Peter Finn, Kingston University Emotions and Engaged Research in Conflict Jenny Hedström, Monash University Wargaming with the US Military Aggie Hirst, King's College London

WC06: Wednesday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Shaping Space and Bending Borders – The Role of Conflict Brokers Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia (ISMMEA) Room: Brew House Meeting Room Convenor: Oliver Walton, University of Bath Chair: Akanksha Mehta, University of Sussex Towards a Theory of Spatial Brokers and Brokered Space Sharri Plonski, Queen Mary, University of London Systems in flux: borderlands, brokers and post-war politics in Nepal and Sri Lanka Jonathan Goodhand, School of Oriental and African Studies, University The Militia Fix: Ordering space in Myanmar’s contested borderlands Patrick Meehan, School of Oriental and African Studies, University The violence of brokerage: factions, labour and political order in Bangladesh

David Jackman, University of Manchester Communicating life on the margins: using literary comics to understand borderland brokers Oliver Walton, University of Bath

WC07: Wednesday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Decolonial Solidarity, Activism, and the Commodification of Struggle Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group (CPD) Room: Camden Room 1st floor Convenor: Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary University of London Chair: Anupama Ranawana, University of Aberdeen Beyond talking back. Decolonial Learning on Intervention and Solidarity through Blackness Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa, University of Portsmouth The decolonial subject and the problem of non-Western authenticity Marco Vieira, University of Birmingham The ethics of dehumanisation and the possibility of creaturely witnessing Oliver Kearns, University of Edinburgh ‘Non-African’ Refugee Entrepreneurs: The Racialised Management and Marketing of Syrian Refugees Lewis Turner, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute

WC08: Wednesday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Rules, Norms and Exceptions in World Politics Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory (CRIPT) Room: Kingsmead 1 1st floor Convenor: Kyle Grayson, Newcastle University Chair: Maria Garcia, University of Bath Global ungovernance as intended effects of norm-setting Ulrich Petersohn, University of Liverpool * Andrea Schneiker, University of Siegen Regionalism begets regionalism? The Transpacific Partnership (TPP)’s legacy and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Maria Garcia, University of Bath Crafting Peace— Explaining the Dynamics of Trilateral Cooperation between China-Japan-Republic of Korea 1999-2015 Yeajin Yoon, University of Oxford

WC09: Wednesday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel

World Politics and Illiberal Regimes: Identity, Ideology, and Investment Sponsor: South East Europe Room: Widcombe Room 1st floor Convenor: Sarina Theys, Newcastle University Chair: Danielle Beswick, University of Birmingham Nationalism in Turkey: the media coverage of Syrian refugees Nuray Aridici, University of Sheffield Russia's Foreign Direct Investments in the Post-Soviet South Caucasus Republics Samir Balakishi, University of Bristol Tracing the Development of a Political Polling Industry in the Arab world: Origins and Implications Kiran Phull, London School of Economics

WD01: Wednesday 14:15 PM - 15:45 PM Panel Interpretivism in English School theory Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Room: Brew House Meeting Room Convenor: Filippo Costa Buranelli, University St Andrews Chair: Mattia Cacciatori, University of Bath Discussant: Iain Ferguson, National Research University Higher School of Econ The English School: What Kind of Interpretivism? Cornelia Navari, University of Buckingham Bridging the divide: What the English School does, and why Charlotta Friedner Parrat, Uppsala University Informality in International Society: a conceptual approach Filippo Costa Buranelli, University of St Andrews

WD02: Wednesday 14:15 PM - 15:45 PM Panel Gender, performance and international summitry (1/2): Examining place and purpose Sponsor: South East Europe Room: Kingsmead 1 1st floor Convenor: Katharine A. M. Wright, Newcastle University Chair: Maxine David, Leiden University Discussant: Catherine Baker, University of Hull Beyond agenda setting: Gender, performativity and NATO Summits Katharine Wright, Newcastle University Lifting the Veil on Gender in Global Climate Governance Joanna Wilson, University of Manchester

The World Humanitarian Summit, ‘One Humanity’ and the iconography of the child: where does it leave humanitarianism? Róisín Read, University of Manchester Summits, negotiations and Brexit: Gendered implications for the UK withdrawal Roberta Guerrina, University of Surrey

WD03: Wednesday 14:15 PM - 15:45 PM Panel British Foreign Policy: Changing Powers, Changing Policies Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group Room: Widcombe Room 1st floor Convenor: Tara McCormack, University of Leicester Chair: Richard Whitman, University of Kent The war powers of the British parliament: What has been established, and what remains unclear? James Strong, Queen Mary, University of London Parliament and Britain’s Intervention in Iraq and Syria: Limiting the UK’s Military Ambitions? Thibaud Harrois, Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle British war powers and cybersecurity Tara McCormack, University of Leicester British Overseas Development Aid and International Identity Victoria Honeyman, University of Leeds

WD04: Wednesday 14:15 PM - 15:45 PM Panel Reconsidering 'responsibility' through a critical analysis of practices Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group (CPD) Room: Walcot Room 1st floor Convenor: Liam Midzain-Gobin, McMaster University Chair: Caroline Dunton, The George Washington University Discussant: Meera Sabaratnam, SOAS, University of London Revisiting Responsibility in International Relations: Accountability, Practice, and Foreign Policy Caroline Dunton, The George Washington University Decolonizing Responsibility through Indigenous Resurgence Liam Midzain-Gobin, McMaster University (Ir)Responsibility and the European Refugee ‘Crisis’: Performing the Humanitarian-Security Nexus

Michael Gordon, McMaster University Between regionalism and free movement: Rethinking responsibility with borderland communities in Central Africa Dieunedort Wandji, University of Portsmouth

WD05: Wednesday 14:15 PM - 15:45 PM Panel Security, Identity and Practices of Power and Ordering in Africa Sponsor: Africa & International Studies Room: Restaurant Groundfloor Convenor: Danielle Beswick, University of Birmingham Chair: Danielle Beswick, University of Birmingham “We are the liberation struggle people”: Imagining dominance in South Africa Luisa Calvete Portela Barbosa, SOAS University of London #StopThisMovie and the Pitfalls of Mass Atrocity Prevention: Framing of Violence and Anticipation of Escalation in Burundi’s Crisis (2015-2017) Andrea Purdekova, University of Bath Subjects and the State in Ghana’s prisons Laura Routley, Newcastle University Peace and security interventions in Africa: a new form of militarism? Marta Iñiguez De Heredia, IBEI The politics and practises of everyday urban control in Marrakech Jonas Hagmann, ETH Zürich

WD06: Wednesday 14:15 PM - 15:45 PM Panel International terrorism or local challenges? Critical assessments Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) Room: Kingsmead 2 1st floor Convenor: Alice Martini, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies Chair: Charlotte Heath-Kelly, University of Warwick Projections of sovereignty: (re)politicising the so-called ‘Islamic State’ Aaron Anfinson, University of Hong Kong Nadia Al-Dayel, University of Nottingham Demystifying the Religiosity in Religious Terrorism: A Case Study of Boko Haram in Nigeria Tarela Juliet Ike, University of East London Normative Turbulences: Protection and counterterrorism norms in Interventionary Security Governance in Africa

Louise Moe, Helmut Schmidt University A critical analysis of proscription: how the listing of armed groups as ‘terrorists’ affects peace Sophie Haspeslagh, London School of Economics and Politics

WD07: Wednesday 14:15 PM - 15:45 PM Roundtable Can we write a peer-review journal article in a day? An experiment in the co-production of academic knowledge Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics (PPWG) Room: Lansdown 1 Groundfloor Convenor: Alex Prichard, University of Exeter Chair: Alex Prichard, University of Exeter Chair: Ilan Baron, University of Durham Ilan Baron, University of Durham Justin Murphy, University of Southampton * Joneke Koomen, Willamette University

WD08: Wednesday 14:15 PM - 15:45 PM Roundtable Resilience as a new EU security strategy: challenging the foundations Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group Room: Camden Room 1st floor Convenor: Elena Korosteleva, University of Kent Chair: Elena Korosteleva, University of Kent Trine Flockhart, University of Kent Ana E. Juncos, University of Bristol Elena Pavlova, University of Tartu Ben Tonra, UCD, Ireland Elena Korostreleva, University of Kent Jonathan Joseph, Sheffield University *

WD09: Wednesday 14:15 PM - 15:45 PM Roundtable Researching Non-State Actors in International Security: Methodological Challenges and Advances Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Room: Lansdown 2 Groundfloor Convenor: Andreas Kruck, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Chair: Andrea Schneiker, University of Siegen Theodora-Ismene Gizelis , University of Essex Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Aberystwyth University Joakim Berndtsson, University of Gothenburg Ingvild Bode, University of Kent

Patrick Mello, Technical University Munich / University of Erfurt Andreas Kruck, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

WD10: Wednesday 14:15 PM - 15:45 PM Roundtable Feminist Communities and Mentorship Sponsor: Gendering International Relations (GIRWG) Room: Bathwick room 1st floor Convenor: Julia Welland, University of Warwick Chair: Julia Welland, University of Warwick Shirin Rai, University of Warwick Victoria Basham, Cardiff University Julia Welland, University of Warwick Jennifer Hobbs, University of Manchester

WE01: Wednesday 16:15 PM - 17:45 PM Panel Varieties of financial market development Sponsor: International Political Economy (IPEG) Room: Walcot Room 1st floor Convenor: Johannes Petry, University of Warwick Chair: Johannes Petry, University of Warwick The politics of oil and finance in Angola and Nigeria Rebecca Engebretsen, University of Oxford Florence Dafe, London School of Economics and Political Science Exchanges, states and markets in the internationalisation of China’s capital markets Johannes Petry, University of Warwick Investing for impact, financing for development: Pakistan’s start-up ecosystem Juvaria Jafri, City, University of London

WE02: Wednesday 16:15 PM - 17:45 PM Panel Cosmopolitan protection and the mutual constitution of hostile agencies and legitimate violence Sponsor: Intervention and Responsibility to Protect Room: Camden Room 1st floor Convenor: Timo Kivimäki, University of Bath Chair: Timo Kivimäki, University of Bath Comparing organisations through histories: learning from IPCC and IPBES Hannah Hughes, Cardiff University Whose interest? Whose peace? Pakistani military operations in the tribal areas and their impact on the violence in Afghanistan

Wali Aslam, University of Bath Secondary Institutions as Decompression Valves in International Society Mattia Cacciatori , University of Bath The Protection of People and the Scope of International Delegation. The Case of the ICC. Emanuela Koskimies , University of Helsinki Cosmopolitan power centricity and the mutual constitution of just violence: A study of interaction between hostile Syrian and American discourses of protection. Timo Kivimäki , University of Bath

WE03: Wednesday 16:15 PM - 17:45 PM Panel How (not) to do research on development, peace and security in Central Asia: Reflections, lessons, and new ways forward Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Room: Restaurant Groundfloor Convenor: Philipp Lottholz, University of Birmingham Chair: John Heathershaw, University of Exeter Discussant: David Lewis, University of Exeter Prospects for peace research in Central Asia. Between discourses of danger, normative divides and global challenges Anna Kreikemeyer, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy i Covert research in the Central Asian context: De facto usage, ethical issues and potential applications Philipp Lottholz, University of Birmingham Peculiarities of knowledge production in International Organisations: IOM and local knowledge on migration in Tajikistan Karolina Kluczewska, University of St Andrews Migration knowledge networks and communities of practice in Central Asia and beyond Oleg Korneev, University of Paris 13

WE04: Wednesday 16:15 PM - 17:45 PM Panel Process, Procedure, Protocol: Acting out Security in Contingent Worlds Sponsor: European Security Working Group Room: Bathwick room 1st floor Convenor: Nathaniel O'Grady, University of the West of England Chair: Ingvild Bode, University of Kent Chair: Audrey Reeves, Cardiff University Discussant: Charlotte Heath-Kelly, University of Warwick

Governing Security Machines: Politics of Maintenance, Evolution, and Protection George Glouftsios, Queens Belfast The Rise of Border Middle Management : Policing of Internal Schengen Borders in Switzerland Jean-Francois Clouzet, Universite Lyon Stephan Davidshofer, University of Geneva * Confronting the machine: authority, resistance, and protocol in predictive policing Matthias Leese, ETH Zurich

WE05: Wednesday 16:15 PM - 17:45 PM Panel The Politics of Victimhood in Deeply Divided Societies Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Room: Kingsmead 2 1st floor Convenor: Roddy Brett, University of St Andrews Chair: Christine Cheng, King's College Franco’s victims in Spain: The long road towards justice and recognition Rosa Ana Alija-Fernández, University of Barcelona Olga Martin-Ortega, University of Greenwich * Reconciliation in the making: Overcoming competitive victimhood through inter-group dialogue in Palestine/Israel Olga Burkhardt-Vetter, University of St. Andrews The Role of the Victims’ Delegations in the Santos-FARC Peace Talks Roddy Brett, University of St. Andrews

WE06: Wednesday 16:15 PM - 17:45 PM Panel Developing the Legal Framework for Modern Conflicts Sponsor: International Law (I-Law) Room: Kingsmead 1 1st floor Convenor: Vivek Bhatt, University of Edinburgh Chair: James Gow, Kings College London UK Drone Policy: Counterterrorism and its Effects on International Law Andrea Birdsall, University of Edinburgh Human Rights Law and Military Operations Abroad Noelle Quenivet, UWE Bristol Rules of Engagement: The Hidden Link Between Modern Conflicts David Bicknell, Kings College London Protection of Civilians: Problems of Law, Ethics and Gender Megan Bastick, University of Edinburgh

Managing World Risk Society: The UN, Human Rights, and Counter-terrorism Vivek Bhatt, University of Edinburgh

WE07: Wednesday 16:15 PM - 17:45 PM Panel Leading Responsibly, thinking ethically Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Group Room: Widcombe Room 1st floor Convenor: Elke Schwarz, University of Leicester Chair: Myriam Fotou, University of Leicester Discussant: Joe Hoover, Queen Mary University of London Hans Morgenthau, Virtue, and the Analysis of American Foreign Policy Biao Zhang, China University of Political Science and Law The Political Moment: Political Responsibility and Leadership Today Richard Beardsworth, University of Aberystwyth The Responsible Migrant Christina Oelgemoller, Loughborough University Theorising Responsible Nuclear Sovereignty Laura Considine, University of Leeds James Souter, University of Leeds

WE08: Wednesday 16:15 PM - 17:45 PM Panel Geopolitics, State (Re-)Formation and Identity Sponsor: Historical Sociology and International Relations (HSIR) Room: Brew House Meeting Room Convenor: Brieg Powel, Aberystwyth University Chair: Yavuz Dursun Tuyloglu, University of Sussex Territory, Property and War: Towards Synthesis in Conflict Studies and the Historical Sociology of the State Nicholas Lees, University of Liverpool The 'Scientific Frontier' from British India to the Paris Peace Conference: The Techno-Politics of Territory Kerry Goettlich, London School of Economics The culture of tolerance in Uzbekistan Gulrukh Rakhimova, Sophia University

WE09: Wednesday 16:15 PM - 17:45 PM Panel Vulnerable Migrants in Contested States Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees, and Diasporas Room: Lansdown 2 Groundfloor Convenor: Maria Koinova, University of Warwick

Chair: Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of Birmingham Discussant: Neil James Wilson, City, University of London Beyond Statist Paradigms: Diaspora Mobilisations and Contested Sovereignty in Europe and Its Neighbourhood Maria Koinova, University of Warwick A Vulnerable Threat? Examining U.S. Policy-making Towards Child Migrants Michaela Bruckmayer, University of Sheffield Citizenship for sale and the neoliberal political economy of belonging Luca Mavelli, University of Kent

WE10: Wednesday 16:15 PM - 17:45 PM Panel Nicholas Wheeler in conversation with Ken Booth Sponsor: N/A Room: Lansdown 1 Groundfloor Convenor: Sarina Theys, Newcastle University Chair: Nicholas J. Wheeler, University of Birmingham

TA01: Thursday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel Visualising Emotions in International Relations Panel Proposal Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Room: Bathwick room 1st floor Convenor: Heidi / Malte Wang-Kaeding / Kaeding, Trinity College Dublin / University of Surrey Chair: William A. Callahan, London School of Economics and Political Science Visuality, virtuality, and mass surveillance William A. Callahan , London School of Economics and Political Science Emotions and Media Coverage of Climate Security Issues Defne Gunay, Yasar University * Gizem Arikan, Trinity College Dublin Gizem Melek, Yasar University * IR in VR: Virtual Reality as Intervention Technology Ciaran Gillespie, University of Surrey Leaders, coping and emotions Malte Philipp Kaeding, University of Surrey Heidi NK Wang-Kaeding , Trinity College Dublin

TA02: Thursday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel

Grenfell/International Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics (PPWG) Room: Brew House Meeting Room Convenor: Dan Bulley, Oxford Brookes University Chair: Cian O'Driscoll, University of Glasgow Twin Towers: Grenfell and the World Trade Center Jenny Edkins, Aberystwyth University Understanding Imperfection: Aftermath narrative ownership and international learning after disaster Lucy Easthope, Whatever Next Productions Everyday Life (and Death) in the Global City Dan Bulley, Oxford Brookes University Grenfell: Media Responses and International Implications Anna Viola Sborgi, King's College London Islam and the Grenfell Tower Fire: a local tragedy with international ramifications Joseph Downing, CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université and LSE Richard Dron, University of Salford

TA03: Thursday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel Security practices and the making of (post)conflict areas Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group (CPD) Room: Walcot Room 1st floor Convenor: Thorsten Bonacker, University of Marburg Chair: Thorsten Bonacker, University of Marburg Securitization and Geopolitics: Russia’s Evolving Policy in Eurasia David Lewis, University of Exeter Re-Configurations of the Center-Periphery-Relations between Australia and Papua New Guinea Werner Distler, University of Marburg Postcolonial Security Practices? The Cameroonian Decolonization in Conflict Maria Ketzmerick, University of Marburg The perpetuation of global hierarchy through targeted killing practices in the “war on terror” Ingvild Bode, University of Kent Internal colonialism and the security practices of statebuilding Thorsten Bonacker, University of Marburg

TA04: Thursday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel

Implementing a Multi-faceted Responsibility to Protect Sponsor: Intervention and Responsibility to Protect Room: Kingsmead 1 1st floor Convenor: Jess Gifkins, The University of Manchester Chair: James Pattison, The University of Manchester Why Keep the Responsibility to Protect Intact? Pinar GÖZEN ERCAN, Hacettepe University The UK’s ‘Special Responsibilities’ in Post-Brexit Multilateralism Jess Gifkins, The University of Manchester Jason Ralph, The University of Leeds Failed Ideas and Contested Norms: Responsibility to Rebuild Outi Donovan, The University of Leeds

TA05: Thursday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel The Politics of Interventionism and insecurity in the Middle East Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia (ISMMEA) Room: Camden Room 1st floor Convenor: Ayla Gol, Newcastle University Chair: Ayla Gol, Aberystwyth University An Assessment of Domestic Motivations in Turkish Foreign Policy Behavior Towards Iran During the Arab Spring Cangul Altundas Akcay, Durham University From Identity Politics to Majoritarian Democracy in Turkey: Limits of AKP’s Constituent Counterrevolutionism Özlem Kaygusuz, Ankara University If walls could talk: Analysing insecurity narratives of the Israeli West Bank Separation Barrier Owen Thomas, University of Exeter * Aneta Brockhill, University of Exeter Violence against Arab women in peace and war Maria Holt, University of Westminster

TA06: Thursday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Roundtable Authors meet the critics: Andreas Bieler & Adam David Morton (2018) Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis (Cambridge University Press) Sponsor: International Political Economy (IPEG) Room: Lansdown 1 Groundfloor Convenor: Ian Bruff, University of Manchester Chair: Cemal Burak Tansel, University of Sheffield

Andreas Bieler, University of Nottingham Adam David Morton, University of Sydney Juanita Elias, University of Warwick Lara Montesinos Coleman, University of Sussex Ian Bruff, University of Manchester

TA07: Thursday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Roundtable The Normative Triangle? Russia, China, and the US in the contemporary international system Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Room: Lansdown 2 Groundfloor Convenor: Ruth Deyermond, King's College London Chair: David Galbreath, University of Bath Roland Dannreuther, University of Westminster Maxine David, University of Leiden Ruth Deyermond, King's College London Natasha Kuhrt, King's College London Nicola Leveringhaus, King's College London

TA08: Thursday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Roundtable Religion in IR: Assessing the Road Travelled, Sketching Future Horizons Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Room: Kingsmead 2 1st floor Convenor: Gregorio Bettiza, University of Exeter Chair: Bettiza Gregorio, University of Exeter Scott Thomas, University of Bath Fabio Petito, University of Sussex Katerina Dalacoura, London School of Economics and Political Science Stacey Gutkowski, King's College Vassilios Paipais, University of St Andrews

TA09: Thursday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Roundtable Feminism|Militarism – Reflections on IR and (de)militarisation on GIRWG’s 30th Anniversary Sponsor: Gendering International Relations (GIRWG) Room: Widcombe Room 1st floor Convenor: Kyle D. Catto, York University (Canada) Chair: Cynthia Enloe, Clarke University Hannah Partis-Jennings, King's College London Victoria Basham, Cardiff University Julia Welland, University of Warwick Kyle Catto, York University (Canada)

TB01: Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel

Policy Entrepreneurs and Foreign Policy Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group Room: Kingsmead 1 1st floor Convenor: Kai Oppermann, University of Sussex Chair: Klaus Brummer, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Discussant: Jamie Gaskarth, University of Birmingham Policy Entrepreneurs, Veto Players, and Foreign Policy Change Klaus Brummer, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Kai Oppermann, University of Sussex Foreign Policy Entrepreneurship and the End of U.S. Burma Sanctions Jürgen Haacke, LSE The Failure of Top Level Policy Entrepreneurs in the Trump Administration Roberta Haar, University College Maastricht

TB02: Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Feminist Global Political Economies of the Everyday: Practices of work, mobility & resistance Sponsor: International Political Economy (IPEG) Room: Walcot Room 1st floor Convenor: Juanita Elias, University of Warwick Chair: Amanda Chisholm, University of Newcastle upon Tyne Everyday Economies of Abortion Access Sydney Calkin, Durham University From recruitment to depletion: the feminist ethics of global labour chains Amanda Chisholm, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne Juanita Elias, University of Warwick Intersections of Power and Identity: The Gendered Construction of Food Producers in the Post-Colonial Nation of Trinidad and Tobago Merisa Thompson, University of Sheffield Negotiating the State through Everyday Security Governance: Street harassment and everyday in/security strategies in London and Cairo Jutta Weldes, University of Bristol Dancing between the local and the international: Kosovar women’s organizations’ everyday activism and resistance Itziar Mujika Chao, University of the Basque Country

TB03: Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel

Gender, performance and international summitry (2/2): Examining gendered practices Sponsor: Gendering International Relations (GIRWG) Room: Bathwick room 1st floor Convenor: Katharine A. M. Wright, Newcastle University Chair: Katharine A. M. Wright, Newcastle University Practising hegemonic masculinity: gender and the BRICS summits Karen Smith, Leiden University The Gay First Gentleman: Framing and Claiming Gauthier Destenay at the 2017 NATO Summit Matthew Hurley, Sheffield Hallam University Gender, public diplomacy and the Commonwealth Summit 2018 Georgina Holmes, University of Reading

TB04: Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel ‘Visioning’ African development: the continent’s (re)turn towards long-term national development strategies Sponsor: Africa & International Studies Room: Brew House Meeting Room Convenor: William Brown, The Open University Chair: Danielle Beswick, University of Birmingham Discussant: Laura Routley, Newcastle University Visioning African development futures: background and overview William Brown, The Open University South Africa’s National Development Plan: The Negotiated Transition Redux? Stephen Hurt, Oxford Brookes University Ethiopia’s Second Growth and Transformation Plan (GTPII): Tensions, Compromises and Historical (dis)continuities Elsje Fourie, Maastricht University Vision documents and business: judging a book by its cover? Tom Cargill, British Foreign Policy Group

TB05: Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel BISA PANEL Religion and International Relations (3) Peace, Violence, Religion, and the State in an Age of Global Extremism Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Room: Camden Room 1st floor Convenor: Scott Thomas , Bath Chair: Scott Thomas, Bath

Discussant: Scott Thomas , Bath HUGH MIALL’S THEORY OF CONFLICT EMERGENCE – A MIMETIC CRITIQUE Claudio Lanza, Westminster Tolstoy’s Political Thought: A Christian Anarcho-Pacifist Iconoclast Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, Loughborough University Reframing Muslim Radicalism: Libertarian Islam v. the State Zaheer Kazmi, Queens University Belfast Mapping and Assessing “Clash of Civilizations” Narratives in the Muslim World: The Cases of Saudi Arabia and Iran Farahnaz Karim, University of Exeter/Zayed University

TB06: Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Cancelled session

TB07: Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Roundtable Untangling the relationship between liberalism and illiberalism in South East Europe. Sponsor: South East Europe Room: Lansdown 1 Groundfloor Convenor: Jonathan Webb, University of Sheffield Chair: Daniela Lai, London School of Economics Koen Slootmaeckers, City, University of London Natalie Martin, Nottingham Trent University Jonathan Webb, University of Sheffield Marika Djolai, Institute of Development Studies

TB08: Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Roundtable On crushed and uncrushed hope: a critical conversation between anticolonial, Indigenous, and emancipatory forms of nationalism Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group (CPD) Room: Widcombe Room 1st floor Convenor: Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary University of London Chair: Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary University of London Anupama Ranawana, University of Aberdeen Tamara Soukotta, Erasmus University/Leiden University Pol Bargués Pedreny, University of Groningen Sara Salem, University of Warwick

TB09: Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Roundtable

Valuing Living Processes: beyond instrumental discourses in environmental politics Sponsor: Environment Working Group Room: Lansdown 2 Groundfloor Convenor: Jenneth Parker, The Schumacher Institute Chair: Joanne Yao, Durham University Lucy Ford, Oxford Brookes University Jenneth Parker , Schumacher Institute Victor Anderson, Global Sustainability Institute/Anglia Ruskin University Ross Gillard, University of York

TB10: Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Roundtable BISA PGN 'General Publishing Session/Meet the Publishers Event' Sponsor: BISA Postgraduate Network Room: Restaurant Groundfloor Convenor: Sarina Theys, Newcastle University

TC01: Thursday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel The International Political Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory (CRIPT) Room: Brew House Meeting Room Convenor: Liane Hartnett, LSE Chair: Joanne Yao, Durham University Discussant: Anthony Lang, St. Andrews Reinhold Niebuhr: The Law of Love and the Omnipresence of Power David Clinton, Baylor University The Christian Realist Pendulum: From Pacifism to Interventionism Vassilios Paipais, University of St. Andrews Niebuhr on Love, Justice and Race Liane Hartnett, LSE

TC02: Thursday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel The Historical Sociology of Social Emancipation in the 21st Century Sponsor: Historical Sociology and International Relations (HSIR) Room: Camden Room 1st floor Convenor: Luke Cooper , Anglia Ruskin University Chair: Luke Cooper, Anglia Ruskin University Discussant: Nivi Manchanda, Queen Mary University of London Rethinking the politics of uneven and combined development: from the end of the blueprint to

the embrace of multiple temporalities of social change Luke Cooper, Anglia Ruskin University Justin Rosenberg , University of Sussex * Bordering Subjects: Migrants and Legal Forms of Capital Accumulation Maïa Pal, Oxford Brookes University Democratic Confederalism and the International: A Sympathetic Critique of Öcalan’s State Theory Kamran Matin, University of Sussex A Fifth Generation of Revolutionary Theory? Jamie Allinson, University Of Edinburgh

TC03: Thursday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Analysing Narratives in an Age of Global Pluralism: Meaning, Contestation, Polyphony Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Room: Kingsmead 1 1st floor Convenor: Maren Hofius, University of Hamburg Chair: Felix Berenskoetter, SOAS, University of London Discussant: Chiara de Franco, University of Southern Denmark Concordia Discors of Civilization: The Narrative Dissonance in Russia’s Foreign Policy Iain Ferguson, National Research University Higher School of Econ Competing Narratives in the Crisis of Europe Katja Freistein, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University Frank Gadinger, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University A Structurationist Reading of Narratives: Exploring the Local Construction of Global Politics Maren Hofius, University of Hamburg Jan Wilkens, University of Hamburg The Sublime Aesthetic of Narrative Sarah Naumes, York University Dean Caivano, York University

TC04: Thursday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Africa in the world today: soft power profile, potentials and challenges Sponsor: International Relations and Diplomacy Committee of the South African Association of Political Studies Room: Walcot Room 1st floor Convenor: Christopher Afoke Isike, University of Pretoria Chair: Christopher Isike, University of Pretoria

Soft power and the currency of sports: (Re)thinking South Africa’s rising hegemony in Africa Olusola Ogunnubi, Mangosuthu University of Technology The impact of the ACIRC on South Africa’s soft power in Africa Marta Bridgman, South African Institute of International Affairs The failure of counter terrorism in Africa: Could the enhancement and application of soft power remedy the situation? Sven Botha, Monash South Africa Think women in politics, think Rwanda: converting global recognition into a soft power advantage Christopher Isike, University of Pretoria

TC05: Thursday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel New Issues in the Responsibility to Protect Sponsor: Intervention and Responsibility to Protect Room: Bathwick room 1st floor Convenor: Jess Gifkins, University of Manchester Chair: Jess Gifkins, University of Manchester Discussant: James Pattison, University of Manchester Reimagining ‘Virtue’ in the ‘Virtual’: Using Cyber-Means to Protect Vulnerable Populations from Mass Atrocity Crimes Rhiannon Neilsen, University of New South Wales How Prevention Can Be Improved Through Assistance under the Second Pillar of the Responsibility to Protect: A Constitutive Theory Approach Krisztina Csortea, King's College London After war, statebuilding from first principles Christine Cheng, King's College London Sovereignty as Responsibility: Unpacking the doctrine of the 'two sovereignties' Andrea Carati, University of Milan Divergent Interpretations of the R2P and Human Security: the implications of "Asian" and "Western" understandings for engagement with governance challenges in Myanmar Brendan Howe, Ewha Womans University

TC06: Thursday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel The EU, the West and International Threats and Challenges Sponsor: European Security Working Group

Room: Widcombe Room 1st floor Convenor: Adrian Treacher, University of Sussex Chair: André Barrinha, University of Bath Assessing Leadership Dynamics inside the Franco-German “Special Relationship”: The Cases of the Eurozone and Ukraine Crises Adrian Treacher, University of Sussex Regional Organisations and the Responsibility to Protect: The Case of the European Union Julia Schmidt, University of Exeter The EU and China’s Sea Disputes: Between Normative Politics and Power Balancing Andrew Cottey, University College Cork Conceptualising the Quiet Revolution:The Post-Fordist Military Logistics and Western Security Patrick Bury, University of Bath The politics behind the European Global Strategy: the normalization of European foreign policy cooperation Heidi Maurer, London School of Economics and Political Science

TC07: Thursday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel International Norms and Values through a Russian/Eurasian lens Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Room: Kingsmead 2 1st floor Convenor: Natasha Kuhrt, King's College London Chair: Previous Chatterje-Doody, The University of Manchester Carr Goes East: Reconsidering Power and Inequality in a Post-Liberal Eurasia Kevork Oskanian, University of Birmingham RUSSIA AND THE UN RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT CONCEPT Alexander Sergunin, St. Petersburg State University The Armor of God: Russian Orthodox Church in Defense of Putinism Jeremy Lamoreaux, BYU - Idaho

TC08: Thursday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Misrecognition in World Politics Sponsor: Review of International Studies (RIS) Room: Lansdown 2 Groundfloor Convenor: Ruth Blakeley, University of Sheffield Chair: Ruth Blakeley, University of Sheffield Misrecognition in World Politics Ole Jacob Sending, NUPI

Misrecognition and the making of a state: Ghana’s international relations under Kwame Nkrumah Julia Gallagher, Royal Holloway, University of London States before Relations: Institutionalised misrecognition and the performance of statehood Minda Holm, NUPI Sovereign Equality as Misrecognition Ayse Zarakol, University of Cambridge Agency (Mis)Recognition in International Violence: The case of French Jihadism Thomas Lindemann, Universite de Versailles

TC09: Thursday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Roundtable Prospects of the Democratic Left: Global and National Perspectives Sponsor: International Political Economy (IPEG) Room: Lansdown 1 Groundfloor Convenor: Richard Sandbrook, Department of Political Science, University of Tor Chair: Richard Sandbrook, Department of Political Science, University of Tor Ali Burak Guven, International Relations and International Politica Jeffery Webber, School of Politics and International Relations, Qu Richard Sandbrook, Department of Political Science, University of Tor

TC10: Thursday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Roundtable Feminist journeys to and across International Relations: a conversation Sponsor: Gendering International Relations (GIRWG) Room: Restaurant Groundfloor Convenor: Julia Welland, University of Warwick Chair: Julia Welland, University of Warwick Cynthia Enloe , Clark University Shirin Rai, University of Warwick Laura Shepherd , University of Sydney

TD01: Thursday 14:45 PM - 16:15 PM Panel Race, Postcoloniality and Whiteness in ‘Postsocialist’ Europe: South-East Europe and Global Formations of Race Sponsor: South East Europe Room: Kingsmead 2 1st floor Convenor: Catherine Baker, University of Hull

Chair: Kerem Nisancioglu, SOAS University of London Discussant: Kerem Nisancioglu, SOAS University of London Whiteness and nationhood at ‘the bulwark of Europe’: ‘postsocialist’ nationalisms and transnational racialized Islamophobia Catherine Baker, University of Hull ‘A special place?’ Race, migration, and genealogies of encounter Špela Drnovšek Zorko, University of Warwick Translating colonial difference: Progress and resistance in Serbian agriculture Katarina Kušić, Aberystwyth University Unexpected processes of (re-)racialization: the case of Bosniaks in Berlin Merima Šehagić, Freie Universität Berlin

TD02: Thursday 14:45 PM - 16:15 PM Panel Resistance, insecurity, action Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics (PPWG) Room: Widcombe Room 1st floor Convenor: Tahseen Kazi, Georgia Southern University Chair: Tatevik Mnatskanyan, Loughborough University London The Aegean sea as a humanitarian space: Daily practices of the Turkish Coast Guard Command Beste Isleyen, University of Amsterdam The Carnivalesque and Resistance in War on Terror Tatevik Mnatsakanyan, Loughborough University London The Governance of Everyday Insecurities: Stop street harassment campaigns and new social realities in Cairo Elisa Wynne-Hughes, Cardiff University

TD03: Thursday 14:45 PM - 16:15 PM Panel Situated Perspectives on the Colonial Global Order Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group (CPD) Room: Kingsmead 1 1st floor Convenor: Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary University of London Chair: Olivia Rutazibwa, University of Portsmouth Oil, Sovereignty and Hierarchy in the Global Order: Iran in the 1930s Evaleila Pesaran, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge

Resistance and Security networking in a time of fear: A Historical Reading of Iran’s Contemporary Foreign Policy Ane Kirkegaard, Malmö University The Subaltern Standpoint in the Geopolitical Imaginary - Retrieving the Local in Crimea Alvina Hoffmann, King's College London ‘A Most Valuable Propaganda Medium’: The First Twenty Years of the British Council in Cyprus (1935-1955) Maria Hadjiathanasiou, University of Nicosia South West Africa and International Society: C.A.W. Manning and the Dispute over a Class C Mandate David Long, Carleton University

TD04: Thursday 14:45 PM - 16:15 PM Panel Foreign Policy Making Beyond Western Contexts Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group Room: Bathwick room 1st floor Convenor: Victoria Honeyman, University of Leeds Chair: Danielle Beswick, University of Birmingham China's Nationalism Problem: Han-Centrism and International Politics Bradley Thayer, University of Oxford Populism and Indian Foreign Policy: The Politics of Representing ‘the People’ Thorsten Wojczewski , King's College London Presidential Personality and Foreign Policy Making: The Case of Iran Ameneh Mehvar, University of St Andrews

TD05: Thursday 14:45 PM - 16:15 PM Panel Conflict, Intervention and Gendered Insecurities Sponsor: Gendering International Relations (GIRWG) Room: Camden Room 1st floor Convenor: Julia Welland, University of Warwick Chair: Hannah Partis-Jennings, King's College London Conceptualising Recognition through a Feminist Lens: Post-conflict Justice Processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina Lydia Cole, Aberystwyth University Gender Equal Citizenship and Ethno-National Conflict: Women’s Political Activism and Public Participation During the Northern Irish Troubles Linda Eitrem Holmgren, Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University

Legitimacy Crisis? Sexual Exploitation in Peacekeeping Operations: exploring alternative discourses of international reaction in Central African Republic Sabrina White, University of Leeds

TD06: Thursday 14:45 PM - 16:15 PM Panel New Directions in Theorizing the International Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Room: Walcot Room 1st floor Convenor: Adam Humphreys, University of Reading Chair: Adam Humphreys, University of Reading Dancing crises away. Embodied forms of international sociability at the Congress of Vienna and the Rokumeikan Felix Roesch, Coventry University Neoclassical Realism: The Worst of Both Worlds Daniel Dunleavy , University of Kent No Child’s Play: Politics of Toy in Conflict and Post-Conflict Spaces Virginie Grzelczyk, Aston University Why we need to establish International Political Psychology Anna Beyer, University of Hull

TD07: Thursday 14:45 PM - 16:15 PM Panel Innovations in Interpretation: Revised Methods and New Approaches Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Room: Brew House Meeting Room Convenor: Ian Ferguson, RANEPA Chair: Ian Ferguson, RANEPA Discussant: Felix Berenskoetter, SOAS, University of London Restoring Symbolic Interactionism within IR: Interpreting Practices over Identity Bernardo Teles Fazendeiro, University of Coimbra Why IR scholars should care what states are talking about? Mor Mitrani, Bar Ilan University From Praxis to Meta-Praxis (and Para-Praxis): A Modest Interpretivist Approach to International Relations Antonio Di Biagio, University of St Andrews Actualism and Interpretivism: A Liaison Flaminia Incecchi , University of St. Andrews

TD08: Thursday 14:45 PM - 16:15 PM Panel

REF 2021 Update Session Sponsor: N/A Room: Lansdown 1 Groundfloor Convenor: Kyle Grayson, Newcastle University Charlie Jeffrey, University of Edinburgh

TD09: Thursday 14:45 PM - 16:15 PM Roundtable Coproduction and the voice of the subaltern Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics (PPWG) Room: Lansdown 2 Groundfloor Convenor: Alex Prichard, University of Exeter Chair: Alex Prichard, University of Exeter Meera Sabaratnam, SOAS Jonneke Koomen, Willamette University Nivi Manchanda, Queen Mary, University of London Aggie Hirst, King's College, London Lara Coleman, University of Sussex

TD10: Thursday 14:45 PM - 16:15 PM Roundtable BISA PGN 'Meet the Editors' [By invitation only] Sponsor: BISA Postgraduate Network Room: Restaurant Groundfloor Convenor: Sarina Theys, Newcastle University

TE01: Thursday 16:45 PM - 18:15 PM Panel An Almost Cyborg? At the Human-Drone Intersection Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) Room: Kingsmead 2 1st floor Convenor: Lindsay Clark, University of New South Wales, Canberra Chair: Rhiannon Neilsen, University of New South Wales The human heart of the Cyborg: Mapping the emotional terrain of British Reaper operators in their responses to remote drone killing Peter Lee, University of Portsmouth Drone Epistemology, Gender and Warfare Lorraine Bayard de Volo, University of Colorado Boulder Out-of-the-Loop: Exploring the Experiences of the Families of British Reaper Crews Lindsay Clark, University of New South Wales

TE02: Thursday 16:45 PM - 18:15 PM Panel Health (In)security and the Politics of Knowledge Sponsor: Global Health Working Group Room: Brew House Meeting Room Convenor: Adam Ferhani, University of Sheffield Discussant: Joao Nunes, University of York

Contagion, Exclusion, and the Corporeal: Performing Health Security Adam Ferhani, University of Sheffield Realist, radical, revolutionary? Emancipation and critical health security Joao Terrenas, University of York Imagin(ing) Epidemics – the visual securitization of Ebola Katharina Krause, Tubingen University

TE03: Thursday 16:45 PM - 18:15 PM Panel States and International Societies in Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary History Sponsor: British International History Group Room: Restaurant Groundfloor Convenor: David Clinton, Baylor University Chair: David Clinton, Baylor University The Origins and Implications of Military Autonomy Peter Campbell, Baylor University The Promise of Phronesis for International Ethics Stephen Sims, Rochester Institute of Technology The Political and Trans-political Character of Justice for Aristotle Elizabeth Goyette, Baylor University Thucydides’ View of International Pressure and Technological Innovation Jason Lund, Baylor University Interwar International Law and Organizations Influences on the Anglo-American Transition Jeremy Schmuck, Baylor University

TE04: Thursday 16:45 PM - 18:15 PM Panel Difficult heritage and soft power Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Room: Kingsmead 1 1st floor Convenor: David Clarke, University of Bath Chair: Wali Aslam, University of Bath Discussant: Anna Bull, University of Bath Remembering the First World War in France: the Historial de la Grande Guerre and Thiepval Museum Nina Parish, University of Bath * Eleanor Rowley, University of Bath Local Investment as Soft Power? The Oil Industry’s Role in Preserving Antebellum Heritage in Louisiana Jessica Rapson, King's College London Managing the Shared Heritage of War: The Russian-German Museum in Karlshorst’

David Clarke, University of Bath Zofia Woycicka, Centrum Badań Historycznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk * 'Troubles Tourism' and Soft Power Melissa Nisbett, King's College London

TE05: Thursday 16:45 PM - 18:15 PM Panel The Effectiveness of the Responsibility to Protect Sponsor: Intervention and Responsibility to Protect Room: Walcot Room 1st floor Convenor: Jess Gifkins, The University of Manchester Chair: Bola Adediran, University of Manchester The Responsibility to Protect Whom? Intervention, non-state actors, and the right to remain neutral Alex Leveringhaus, The University of Manchester Competing logics of protection: How the European Union practices protection of civilians Chiara De Franco, The University of Southern Denmark Circumventing the Security Council to implement R2P? Bola Adediran, University of Manchester

TE06: Thursday 16:45 PM - 18:15 PM Panel Law, war and crime in international order Sponsor: International Law (I-Law) Room: Lansdown 2 Groundfloor Convenor: Rachel Kerr, King's College London Chair: Rachel Kerr, King's College London Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems: The End of Humanity in International Humanitarian Law? Joanna L D Wilson, University of Glasgow The Bête Noire and the Noble Lie – The International Criminal Court and (the Disavowal of) Politics Christof Royer, University of St Andrews The Essence of an International Crime: A Constructivist Perspective Suwita Hani Randhawa, University of Oxford/University of the West of England Hugo Grotius and the Myth of the Grotian Tradition in International Relations William Bain, National University of Singapore

TE07: Thursday 16:45 PM - 18:15 PM Roundtable Decolonising Marx’s Capital Reading Group - http://bit.ly/2csSYSW

Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group (CPD) Room: Widcombe Room 1st floor Convenor: Kerem Nisancioglu, SOAS, University of London Chair: Kerem Nisancioglu, SOAS, University of London Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary, University of London Sara Salem, University of Warwick Maia Pal, Oxford Brookes University Nivi Manchanda, Queen Mary, University of London Meera Sabaratnam, SOAS, University of London

TE08: Thursday 16:45 PM - 18:15 PM Roundtable Contemporary European Security: Reflections and Considerations in an Age of Uncertainty Sponsor: European Security Working Group Room: Bathwick room 1st floor Convenor: Laura Chappell, University of Surrey Chair: Laura Chappell, University of Surrey David Galbreath, University of Bath Jocelyn Mawdsley, Newcastle University Andre Barrinha, University of Bath Katharine Wright, Newcastle University Simon Smith, Staffordshire University

TE09: Thursday 16:45 PM - 18:15 PM Roundtable Understanding Peace in the Arctic Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Room: Lansdown 1 Groundfloor Convenor: Nansen Professor Gunhild Hoogensen Gjorv, University of Akureyri/Arctic University of Norway Chair: Florian Stammler, University of Lapland Embla Eir oddsdóttir, University of Akureyri, Iceland Barbora padrtová, Masaryk University Aytalina Ivanova, North Eastern Federal University Nansen Professor Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv, University of Akureyri/Arctic University of Norway Marc Lanteigne, Massey University

TE10: Thursday 16:45 PM - 18:15 PM Roundtable Everything You’ve Wanted to Know About Editing a Journal (But Were Afraid to Ask) Sponsor: European Journal of International Security (EJIS) Room: Camden Room 1st floor

Convenor: Tim Edmunds, University of Bristol Chair: Kyle Grayson, Newcastle University Ruth Blakeley, University of Sheffield Toni Haastrup, University of Kent Kyle Grayson, Newcastle University Tim Edmunds, University of Bristol Victoria Basham, Cardiff University

FA01: Friday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel Emotions: Political Instrumentalization and Political Responsibility Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory (CRIPT) Room: Brew House Meeting Room Convenor: Sybille Reinke de Buitrago, IFSH/University of Hamburg Chair: Sybille Reinke de Buitrago, IFSH/University of Hamburg Discussant: Amanda Russell Beattie, Aston University Emotionalizing the Arctic? Sybille Reinke de Buitrago, IFSH/University of Hamburg Arctic Exceptionalism and Migration: Exclusionary Use of Trust in Northern European States Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv, UIT The Arctic University of Norway Contesting Emotional Governance: Empathy under Fire in the Israeli Public Sphere during Operation Protective Edge Naomi Head, Glasgow University

FA02: Friday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel South East Europe and the international (I): re-imagining the state, society and political economy Sponsor: South East Europe Room: Kingsmead 2 1st floor Convenor: Daniela Lai, London School of Economics and Political Science Chair: Katarina Kušić, Aberystwyth University Contested practices and neoliberal imaginaries: Understanding the cultural political economy of rule of law reform in Serbia Jonathan Webb, University of Sheffield The international political economy of socioeconomic injustice and the limitations of international intervention Daniela Lai, London School of Economics and Political Science

Re-imagining Citizenship and Belonging after Conflict and International Intervention: a Provocation from the Post-Yugoslav Space Maria-Adriana Deiana, Dublin City University No such thing as 'false consciousness': Serbian feminists' rejection of post-colonial subjectivity Leandra Bias, University of Oxford Back to the future: Balkanization and the Euro-Atlantic Integration Processes of Western Balkans Liridona Veliu, Dublin City University

FA03: Friday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel Facets of Friendship in International Relations Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Room: Walcot Room 1st floor Convenor: Felix Berenskoetter, SOAS, University of London Chair: Felix Berenskoetter, SOAS, University of London Friendship, enmity, and the political: Kristeva contra Schmitt Graham Smith, University of Leeds Decolonising Friendship Astrid Nordin, Lancaster University Trust in Friendship: A Matter of Faith? Felix Berenskoetter, SOAS, University of London Friends in War: A Realist-Constructivist Framework Arash Heydarian Pashakhanlou, Swedish Defence University

FA04: Friday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel New European Security Dimensions Sponsor: European Security Working Group Room: Widcombe Room 1st floor Convenor: Adrian Treacher, University of Sussex Chair: Adrian Treacher, University of Sussex Discussant: Heidi Maurer, LSE European Cyber-diplomacy in the post-liberal order Andre Barrinha, University of Bath The Internal-External Security Nexus in the fight against radicalisation: EU and French narratives under scrutiny Ana Paula Brandao, CICP - University of Minho The Securitization of Cyber in Germany – A discourse analysis of the German Bundestag 2013-2017 Konstantin Macher, Queen's University Belfast

The European Union’s External Governance of Organised Crime: a ripple effect or a sinking stone? Helena Farrand Carrapico, Aston University

FA05: Friday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel Data and Prejudice on Migration and Policy Making Sponsor: International Politics of Migration, Refugees, and Diasporas Room: Lansdown 2 Groundfloor Convenor: Maria Koinova, University of Warwick Chair: Luca Mavelli, University of Kent Labour Migrants in Qatar: Issues and Policy Developments Carol Lafferty, Community College of Qatar Data on the Displaced Tabitha Poulter, City, University of London Understanding Prejudice: From Weimar anti-Semitism to Islamophobia in Contemporary Britain Maryyum Mehmood, Dept of War Studies, King's College London Borders, Bodies, (un)Belonging and the ‘Precarity’ of the Territorialized State: The Case of Kashmir Ananya Sharma, Jawaharlal Nehru University

FA06: Friday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel Russian foreign policy towards its European neighbours Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Room: Kingsmead 1 1st floor Convenor: Natasha Kuhrt, King's College London Chair: Natasha Kuhrt, King's College London Nationalism and foreign policy: Insights from Russia’s war in Donbass Sofia Tipaldou, University of Manchester ‘Meddling in the West’s Backyard’? Russia’s Contemporary Balkans Policy James Headley, University of Otago Russia, Ukraine and the influence of presumed media influence in international relations Joanna Szostek, Royal Holloway University Energy Great Games in East Central Europe Roland Dannreuther, University of Westminster

FA07: Friday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Roundtable Virtue and Responsibility: how to build character and judgment globally Sponsor: Intervention and Responsibility to Protect

Room: Camden Room 1st floor Convenor: Jess Gifkins, The University of Manchester Chair: Jess Gifkins, The University of Manchester Jamie Gasgarth, The University of Birmingham Kirsten Ainley, London School of Economics and Political Science James Pattison, The University of Manchester Joe Hoover, Queen Mary University of London Anthony Lang, The University of St Andrews

FA08: Friday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Roundtable Interrogating Archives in International Relations Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group (CPD) Room: Bathwick room 1st floor Convenor: Kalathmika Natarajan, University of Copenhagen Chair: Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary, University of London Vipul Dutta, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India Alexander Davis, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Medha Medha, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Kalathmika Natarajan, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Sharinee Jagtiani, University of Oxford

FA09: Friday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Roundtable Pedagogies of Solidarity: Critique, Collaboration, and Care in the Neoliberal University Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics (PPWG) Room: Lansdown 1 Groundfloor Convenor: Aggie Hirst, King's College London Chair: Aggie Hirst, King's College London Daniel Dunleavy, University of Kent Aggie Hirst, King's College London Joe Gazeley, University of Edinburgh

FB01: Friday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Trump and the Unpredictability Doctrine Sponsor: US Foreign Policy Room: Lansdown 2 Groundfloor Convenor: Michelle Bentley, Royal Holloway, University of London Chair: Clara Eroukhmanoff, London South Bank University Discussant: Clara Eroukhmanoff, London South Bank University

Trump’s foreign policy narratives: Unpredictability creating opportunities for critical interventions Ben Fermor, University of Leeds Jack Holland, University of Leeds * A Piece of (Chocolate) Cake: Trump, Unpredictability, and Chemical Weapons Michelle Bentley, Royal Holloway, University of London The Unpredictability Doctrine in Trump’s Russia Policy Maxine David, Leiden University

FB02: Friday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel International Relations and Epistemic Crisis Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Room: Kingsmead 1 1st floor Convenor: Matthew Fluck, University of Westminster Chair: Hannah Hughes, Cardiff University Discussant: Hannah Hughes, Cardiff University The Historical Particularity of Causal Explanation Adam Humphreys, University of Reading Truth is a thing of this network: Foucault, Latour, and social totality Philip Conway, Aberystwyth University The Epistemic Crisis of Frankfurt School theory in IR Davide Schmid, University of Sheffield Epistemic concepts in modern international relations Matthew Fluck, University of Westminster

FB03: Friday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Science and Technology at War Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics (PPWG) Room: Bathwick room 1st floor Convenor: David Galbreath, University of Bath Chair: Paul Higate, University of Bath Scientific innovation and security concerns Brett Edwards, University of Bath Technology and boundless warfare David Galbreath, University of Bath The Third Offset as a sociotechnical imaginary - the super soldier and US military visions of the future Tom Hobson, University of Bath Binaries and boundary work: Conceptualising the complex landscape of cybersecurity Clare Stephens, Bristol University

FB04: Friday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Law, Justice, Global Governance and the Colonial Question Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group (CPD) Room: Walcot Room 1st floor Convenor: Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary University of London Chair: Alvina Hoffman, King's College London The imperialist in my trishaw: explorations on Lay Buddhist nationalism in post war Sri Lanka Anupama Ranawana, Centre for Poverty Analysis Colonialism, law and legitimacy: the transformations of the Israeli military legal system Maayan Geva, University of Roehampton Temporalizing and spatializing justice: narratives and discourses on retribution and redemption in international law Renato Sabbagh Bahia, Aberystwyth University Decolonising the philosophical anthropology of sustainability in global governance Jenneth Parker, The Schumacher Institute Re-Narrating San Francisco: The United Nations and Anti-Colonial Resistance Katy Harsant, University of Warwick

FB05: Friday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Understanding Foreign Policy: Prestige, Power and Strategy Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group Room: Widcombe Room 1st floor Convenor: Victoria Honeyman, University of Leeds Chair: James Strong, Queen Mary University of London The US Foreign Policy on Nuclear Programs and the Strategic Implications on Regional Security Complexes Hae Won Jeong, Abu Dhabi University The role played by Strategic Culture and Operational Code in Australia’s participation in the anti-ISIS coalition 2014–2017 Joakim Eidenfalk, University of Wollongong Frederik Doeser, Swedish Defence University Small State Foreign Policy in an Era of Great Power Politics Bec Strating, La Trobe University

The challenges of developing a coherent grand strategy' William James, University of Oxford The End of US Petrodollar Hegemony? David Hughes, University of Lincoln

FB06: Friday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel New Directions in Feminist IR Sponsor: Gendering International Relations (GIRWG) Room: Camden Room 1st floor Convenor: Julia Welland, University of Warwick Chair: Julia Welland, University of Warwick Can the situated learning of Unarmed Civilian Peacekeepers subvert Hegemonic Gender Regimes? Derek Oakley, Lancaster University Queer Civil-Military Relations: The Performative Citizenship of Support for the Troops and the Repeal of Don’t ask Don’t Tell Katharine Millar, London School of Economics Taking Militarism to Market: Entanglements of Race, Caste, Gender in marketing Nepali security Hanna Ketola, Newcastle University Integrating women, peace and security with countering violent extremism: can a leopard change its spots? Sahla Aroussi , Coventry University Refugees and Europe’s women, peace and security agenda: Wilful omissions Audrey Reeves, Cardiff University

FB07: Friday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Islamic and National Discourses of Insecurity Sponsor: International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia (ISMMEA) Room: Lansdown 1 Groundfloor Convenor: Ayla Gol, Aberystwyth University Chair: Maria Holt, University of Westminster The Islamic State group's expansion in South Asia Sharad Joshi, Middlebury Institute of International Studies National Discourses of ‘Othering’ and Exclusion Shivali Lawale, Symbiosis International University Iran and the West: The Constellation of Concepts and Entry into the International Society Alireza Shams Lahijani, LSE

FB08: Friday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel New Directions in IR Theory

Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory (CRIPT) Room: Kingsmead 2 1st floor Convenor: Sarina Theys, Newcastle University Chair: Roland Dannreuther, University of Westminster I think therefore IR: Assumptions of human nature in international politics Alena Drieschova, Cardiff University Interpretation and Rationality: Developing Donald Davidson’s Ideas in IR Nikolay Gudalov, Saint Petersburg State University Iran and Nuclear Weaponization: Why Do Mainstream Theories Fail to Explain Non-Weaponization Shameer Modongal, Jawaharlal Nehru University

FB09: Friday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Evaluating Regions and Rule-making in the Global Economy Sponsor: International Political Economy (IPEG) Room: Brew House Meeting Room Convenor: Johnna Montgomerie, Goldsmiths University of London Chair: John Ravenhill, Balsillie School of International Affairs What Does Germany Want? The Cris(e)s of the European Union and the Role of Germany Neil Dooley, University of Sussex Crafting Peace— Explaining the Dynamics of Trilateral Cooperation between China-Japan-Republic of Korea 1999-2015 Yeajin Yoon, University of Oxford Centralization of rule-making in the Eurozone Maja Savevska, Nazarbayev University

FB10: Friday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel The Future of BISA: Informal Conversations with Members of the Board of Trustees Sponsor: N/A Room: Restaurant Groundfloor Convenor: Kyle Grayson, Newcastle University

FC01: Friday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel International Relations and Space Security: The Arrival of Astropolitics Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Room: Walcot Room 1st floor Convenor: Bleddyn Bowen, King's College London

Chair: Sarah Lieberman, Canterbury Christ Church University Orbital canons: The evolution of strategic thinking on the military uses of outer space Michael Sheehan, Swansea University Spacepower in the International System: Measuring Power in Heaven Bleddyn Bowen, King's College London Beyond Earth, beyond the state: NewSpace and the international political economy of space security Mark Hilborne, King's College London Tim Stevens, King's College London * Foreign Policy Analysis: An underutilised research resource and the rise of India and China in space Dimitrios Stroikos, University of York Kevin Pollpeter, King's College London * Technopolitics above the Karman Line Cameron Hunter, University of Bristol

FC02: Friday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Contesting War Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Group Room: Widcombe Room 1st floor Convenor: Cian O'Driscoll, University of Glasgow Chair: Dan Bulley, Oxford Brookes Discussant: Elke Schwarz, University of Leicester Political Violence in the Private Sector Amy Eckert, Metropolitan State University Denver The Return of Reprisals Eric Heinze, University of Oklahoma Pacifism and the Critique of State Violence Iain Atack, Trinity College Dublin

FC03: Friday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Trust in Global Health Sponsor: Global Health Working Group Room: Lansdown 1 Groundfloor Convenor: Joao Nunes, University of York Chair: Anne Roemer-Mahler, University of Sussex Trusting Women, Trusting Government: The Politics of Trust in the Zika outbreak Clare Wenham, London School of Economics and Political Science Trust in global health research ethics Adele Langlois, University of Lincoln The Role of Trust in Resilient Health Systems Sonja Kittelsen, University of Oslo Vincent Keating, University of Southern Denmark

Inspiring communities: Trust and the idea of community in global health Joao Nunes, University of York Alexander Medcalf, University of York *

FC04: Friday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel South East Europe and the international (II): re-imagining justice, identity, and social mobilisation Sponsor: South East Europe Room: Kingsmead 2 1st floor Convenor: Daniela Lai, London School of Economics and Political Science Chair: Maria-Adriana Deiana, Dublin City University Discussant: Catherine Baker, University of Hull Victimhood in the post-Yugoslav space: beyond ethno-national and international conceptualizations Caterina Bonora, University of Bremen In between nationalising fields: Croatia’s policies towards Croats in Herzegovina Mate Subašić, University of Liverpool Protests to polling booths: electoral legacies of the Bosnian plenums Indraneel Sircar, London School of Economics and Political Science Partners in Peace: Dating and Reconciliation in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia Ivor Sokolić , London School of Economics and Political Science

FC05: Friday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Bridging Trust Deficits in the Global Nuclear Order Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working Group Room: Lansdown 2 Groundfloor Convenor: Ana Alecsandru, University of Birmingham Chair: Laura Considine, University of Leeds US–Russia: From “Great Irresponsibles” to Special Responsibles Ana Alecsandru, University of Birmingham * Nicholas J. Wheeler, University of Birmingham Bridging the Trust Deficit in the NPT after the Nuclear Ban Treaty Thomas E. Doyle, II, Texas State University (Dis)Trusting Deterrence Nick Ritchie , University of York Trust Among Friends: NATO's Changing Role in the Global Nuclear Order

Heather Williams, King’s College London

FC06: Friday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel The International Dimensions of Cybersecurity: Security and Governance Challenges of the Internet and Emerging Technologies such as the Internet of Things Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Room: Bathwick room 1st floor Convenor: Leonie Tanczer, University College London Chair: James S. Johnson, University of Leicester Discussant: André Barrinha, University of Bath A Difficult pas de deux: Ethics and Technology Transfers in International Security James Shires, University of Oxford Trust, Information Sharing and Incident Response: The Role of Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) in the International Cybersecurity Realm Leonie Maria Tanczer, University College London Jason Blackstock, University College London * The International Governance of Cyber Weapons Jacqueline Eggenschwiler, University of Oxford Jantje Silomon, University of Oxford The International Politics of the Internet of Things Madeline Carr, University College London

FC07: Friday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Organisations and institutions: responsibility and capacity for meeting environmental challenges Sponsor: Environment Working Group Room: Brew House Meeting Room Convenor: Ross Gillard, University of Leeds Chair: Ross Gillard, University of Leeds Chinese corporate social responsibility in the extractive sector Linda Etchart, Birkbeck Comparing organisations through histories: learning from IPCC and IPBES Hannah Hughes, Cardiff University The Miracle of Cooperation: Finding Common Ground in the Arctic Council Hannes Hansen-Magnusson, Cardiff University

FC08: Friday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Resolving Conflicts to Foster Durable Peace: Lessons Learned from Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations

Sponsor: Central and East European International Studies Association Room: Kingsmead 1 1st floor Convenor: Kyle Grayson, Newcastle University Chair: Andrew Payne, University of Oxford Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liber

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