Events
EVENTS 2015
Nationalism in Rising Powers - Workshop Program
Charles de Bleury Room, Hilton Garden Inn
Montreal, May 9, 2015
8.15-8.45 Continental Breakfast
8.45-9.00 John A. Hall: Introduction
The Era of World Wars
9.00-11.15
Isabel Hull: ‘Official and Unofficial Nationalisms in Imperial
Germany’s Leap to War in 1914’
Sinisa Malesevic: ‘Rising Power in Miniature: Balkan Wars and
Serbian Nationalism’
Helmut Smith: Comment
11.15-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.30
Jeremy Yellen: ‘Nationalism as Internationalism in 1940s Japan
Krishan Kumar: Comment
12.30-1.30 Lunch
The Past and the Present
1.30-3.30
Peter Gries: ‘“Power Transitions” and the Perception of Threat:
Nationalism. “China’s Rise”, and the Future of US-China Relations
Jessica Chen Weiss: Authoritarian Audiences in International Crises:
A Real-History Survey-Experiment in China
Lorenz Luthi: Comment
2.45-3.45
Zoltan Buzas: ‘How nationalism helps internal balancing but hurts
external balancing: the case of East Asia’
Benny Miller: Comment
3.45-4.00 Tea
4.00-5.00
Khavita Khory: ‘India Rising: Nationalism and Status in World
Politics’
T.V. Paul: Comment
Conclusions
5.00-6.00
William Wohlforth
Decline Management and
Power Transitions
31 January 2015
Hotel 1010, rue Sherbrooke O.,
Montréal
By invitation only
9:00-10:30. IR,
Sociological, and Cultural Perspectives on Decline Management
Frédéric
Mérand (Political Science, Montréal) – Decline in International
Relations
John Hall
(Sociology, McGill) – Decline in Historical Sociology
Jonathan
Sachs (English, Concordia) – Decline Management as a Cultural
Practice
Discussant : Pierre Martin (Political
Science, Montréal)
11:00-12:45. Global
Historical Cases
Cecily Hilsdale (Art History,
McGill) – Culture and Decline in late Byzantium
Prerna Singh (Government,
Harvard) – Development and Decline in South Asia
Nancy Turgeon (Global Studies,
Sussex) – Late Imperial China Coping with Geopolitical Decline: 19th
Century Reforms following Western Involvement in East Asia
Discussant :
Olivier Schmitt (Political Science, Montréal, McGill)
Lunch
14:00-15:15. The Decline of
Europe
Frédérick-Guillaume Dufour
(Sociology, UQAM) – Weber and the Colonial Temptations of the German
Historical School
Xavier Lafrance (Political
Science, UQAM) – Coping with Decline in Nineteenth-Century France:
Analyzing the Elites’ Solutions
Discussant :
Antoine Rayroux (Political Science, Montréal)
15:45-17:00. The Decline of
the West
Julian Go (Sociology, Boston)
– Decline and Colonial Legacies
Richard Lachmann (Sociology,
SUNY) – British and US reactions to military defeats
Discussant :
Joshua Shifrinson (Government, Texas A&M)
17:00-18:00. Wrap up and
book project
19:30. Dinner.
This workshop is sponsored by the
McGill/Université de Montréal Centre for International Peace and
Security Studies (CIPSS;
http://cepsi-cipss.ca)
and is funded by the Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et
la culture (FQRSC)—project on 'Globalization and the Changing
National Security State' (see
http://www.gnss.mcgill.ca/)
EVENTS 2014
2014 Speaker Series – UdeM
Roland Paris,
Ottawa, 15 avril 2014, Anti-Diplomacy: The Foreign Policy of Stephen
Harper
Joe Clark, 11 septembre: Agir de concert: le Canada dans un monde en
mouvement.
Eric Helleiner (Waterloo), 9 octobre 2014, The Status Quo Crisis:
Global Financial Governance after the 2008 meltdown
Lene Hansen (Copenhague):
Visual Securitization: Taking Security Studies from the Word to the
Image, jeudi 6 novembre 2014, 16h
Michael Doyle (Columbia):
The Responsibility to Protect, jeu 19 février 2015, 16h
Stéphane Roussel, ENAP, « La dimension idéologique de la politique
étrangère canadienne », 31 mars 2015
FALL 2014 CIPSS SPEAKER SERIES
September 12: Roundtable on Challenges
Facing Pakistan
Husain Haqqani (Boston University) author of:
Magnificient Delusions: Pakistan, The United States, and an Epic
History of Misunderstanding And Aqil Shah author of:
The Army and Democracy: Military Politics in Pakistan
Moderated by T.V. Paul, Author of The Warrior State:
Pakistan in the Contemporary World
Leacock 232: 12:00-1:30pm ***
September 12: C. Uday Bhaskar (Society
for Policy Studies, New Delhi)
Ripe for Rivalry or Cooperation? The Indian Ocean in the 21st
Century
Arts 160: 3:30-5:00pm
September 19: Zoltan Buzas (Drexel
University)
Nationalism and Balancing: Lessons from East Asia
September 26: Adam Stulberg (Georgia
Institute of Technology)
Energy Security Dilemmas
October 3: Shibashis Chatterjee
(Jadavpur University, Kolkata)
South Asia as a Region: Contesting Images and Possibilities
October 10: Viping Narang (MIT)
Strategies of Proliferation
October 17: Ove Korsgaard (Aarhus
University, Denmark)
A New European Order? Similarities and Differences Between 1864 and
2014
October 24: Thomas Blom Hansen
(Stanford University)
The Afterlife of the Two Nation Theory: India’s Rise and the Muslim
Minority
October 31: Norrin Ripsman (Concordia
University)
Neoclassical Realism: A Research Agenda
November 7: Arthur Stein (UCLA)
Recurring Crises and the Origins of War
November 7: Rawi Abdelal (Harvard
University)
Russia, Europe, and the Gas Revolution: Firms and Geopolitics in the
Age of Shale
In Collaboration with the European Union Center for Excellence:
Leacock 808: 2:45-4:15pm
November 21: Tai Ming Cheung (UCSD)
China's Emergence as a Military Technological Power:
How Innovative?
*** In Collaboration with the Institute for
the Study of International Development (ISID) and the Canadian
International Council (CIC), Montreal Branch
All talks are in Leacock Building Room
429 from 12:00-1:30pm unless indicated otherwise
EVENTS 2013
RISING POWERS:
IS PEACEFUL ACCOMMODATION POSSIBLE?
Workshop Program
Hilton Garden Inn, Downtown
380 Sherbrooke St. West
Montreal, Quebec H3A0B1
Ph: 514-840-0010
Montreal, Saturday, November 2, 2013
Room Charles de Bleury (11th Floor)
8:00-8:20: Continental Breakfast
8:20-10:00 am: Panel I: Mechanisms of
Accommodation I
1. International Relations Theory and the
Accommodation of Rising Powers: T.V. Paul
2. Examining the Dynamic Theories of
International Politics (Charles Doran, John Hopkins)
3. Balance of Power/Realism (Steven Lobell,
Utah)
Discussants: Miles Kahler (UCSD)
Coffee Break: 10:00-10:15 AM
10:15-11:45 am: Panel II: Mechanisms
of Accommodation II
4. Globalization, Interdependence, and Major
Power Accommodation. (Philip Potter, Michigan)
5. What Would E.H. Carr Say? How International
Institutions Address Peaceful Political Change (Krzysztof Pelc,
McGill University)
6. Accommodating Ideas (Mlada Bukovansky,
Smith College)
Discussants: Frederic Merand (UdM)
James Der Derian
(University of Sydney)
11:45-1:00: Panel III: Successful
Cases
7. Seizing the Day or Passing the Baton?
Power, Illusion and Empire (John A. Hall and Ali Zeren, McGill)
8. Rising Powers: China (Lorenz Luthi, McGill)
Discussant: Mark Brawley (McGill)
1:00-2:00: Lunch Break
2:00-3:15: Panel IV: Failed Cases
9. Case Studies in Accommodation and
Containment: Great Britain and Germany Prior to the Two World Wars
(Norrin Ripsman, Concordia)
10.Allies versus Japan (Jeff Taliaferro,
Tufts)
Discussant: Theodore McLauchlin (UdM)
3:15-3:30: Tea Break
3:30-5:00 Panel V: Current Cases
11. China's Bargaining Strategies for a
Peaceful Accommodation after the Cold War (Kai He, Utah
State)
12. A Reluctant Global Power? Global Linkages
and New Domestic Imperatives in India (Aseema Sinha,
Claremont-McKenna College)
13. Brazil as a Revisionist Status Quo Power?
(David Mares, UC San Diego)
14. Time to Get Out of the Cold? The Peaceful
Accommodation of a Resurgent Russia (Nicola Contessi, McGill)
Discussants: Vincent Pouliot (McGill)
5:00-6:00 Concluding Panel:
Is Peaceful Status Accommodation Possible?
6:00-7:00: Reception, Room Charles de
Bleury
Sunday: November 2, 2013:
8:00-10:00 AM:
Contributor's Breakfast Meeting, Room
President Kennedy (Ist Floor)
This workshop is sponsored by the
McGill/Université de Montréal Centre for International Peace and
Security Studies (CIPSS;
http://cepsi-cipss.ca) and is funded by the Fonds
québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC)—project
on 'Globalization and the Changing National Security State' (see
http://www.gnss.mcgill.ca/)
Fall 2013
CIPSS Speaker Series
September 20: Global Governance
and International Paternalism
Michael Barnett (George Washington
University)
Thompson House Ballroom: 11:30 - 1:00pm
October 11: Neoclassical
Realism, Policy Drift, and Indian Foreign Policy
Rajesh Basrur (Nanyang Technological
University)
Leacock 429: 11:30-1:00PM
October 25: China Goes
Global: The Partial Power
David Shambaugh (George Washington
University)
Leacock 429: 11:30-1:00PM
November 1: A Reordered
World? Emerging Economies and Global Governance
Miles Kahler (University of California
– San Diego)
Leacock 429: 11:30-1:00PM
November 13: Travels in Quantum
Realities: Berlin, Sydney, Montreal
James
Der Derian (University of Sydney)
Leacock
429: 11:30-1:00PM
November 22: Atomic Aversion:
Experimental Evidence on Taboos, Traditions, and the Non-Use of
Nuclear Weapons
Scott Sagan (Stanford University)
Leacock 429: 11:30 – 1:00pm
Winter 2013
CIPSS Speaker Series
January 18: [Title TBA]
Milja Kurki (Aberystwyth University)
Leacock 429: 11:30-1:00PM
January 25: The Tragedy of Canadian Diplomacy: Reflections on the Writing of
Canadian International History
David Meren (Université de Montréal)
Leacock 429: 11:30-1:00PM
February 14: The Trilemma and Trade Policy: Exchange Rates, Financial
Openness, and WTO Disputes
Mark Copelovitch (University of Wisconsin)
Leacock 429: 1:30-3PM
March 15: [Title TBA]
Alexandre Debs (Yale University)
Leacock 429: 11:30-1:00PM
March 22: [Title TBA]
Yonatan Lupu (George Washington University)
Leacock 429: 11:30-1:00PM
March 28: [Title TBA]
Srdjan Vucetic (University of Ottawa)
Leacock 429: 1:30-3PM
April 12: [Title TBA]
Christopher Goscha (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Leacock 429: 11:30-1:00PM
EVENTS 2012
Fall 2012
CIPSS Speaker Series
September 28: Human Rights, Democracy,
and International Conflict
Jessica Weeks (Cornell University)
Leacock 429: 11:30-1:00PM
October 5: The Transformation of
Peacekeeping Operations into Civilian Protection Operations
Frédéric Mégret (McGill University) Leacock 429: 11:30-1:00PM
October 19: The Price of Influence:
Geopolitics and Human Rights in Central Asia
Alexander Cooley (Columbia University) Leacock 429:
11:30-1:00PM
November 9: The Value and Values of
Diplomacy: Moral Psychology and the Pursuit of Security in 1920s
Europe
Brian Rathbun (University of Southern California)
Leacock 429: 11:30-1:00PM
November 16: Can We Adapt to Climate
Change in the Canadian Arctic?
James Ford (McGill University)
Leacock 429: 11:30-1:00PM
November 23: International
Interventionism, Institutional Reform, and
Order Maintenance – A View from the Trenches, Greece 1821-2012
Tassos Anastassiadis (McGill University)
Leacock 429: 11:30 – 1:00pm
November 30: Revisiting Second Image
Reversed – Lessons from Turkey and Thailand
Ayse Zarakol (University of Cambridge)
Leacock 429: 11:30-1:00PM
EVENTS 2011
Winter 2011 CIPSS Workshop on International Security & Political
Economy
January 14: Lt. Col. Simon Bernard (Canadian Forces), “Joint
Operation Task Force in
Afghanistan”
February 9:
John Hall
(McGill University), “Nationalisms and Wars”
February 11:
Marc-Antoine Dumas (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade),
"The Canadian Arctic and Canadian Arctic Security"
February 18:
Theresa Cardinal Brown (United States Department of Homeland
Security), "Border Security and its Impact on Canada/U.S. Relations"
March 10:
Vidya Nadkarni (University of San Diego), "The Paradox of
Sino-Indian Relations: Strategic Rivalry and Burgeoning Trade”
March 21:
William J. Norris (Princeton University), “Chinese Economic
Statecraft: Security Implications”
March 24:
Severine Autesserre (Columbia University) and Myriam Denov
(McGill),
“War-Torn
Societies and External Interventions: A Fieldwork Conversation”
EVENTS 2010
Fall 2010 CIPSS
Workshop on International Security & Political Economy
September 17: Daryl Press (Dartmouth College), “How Much is
Enough? Testing Theories of Nuclear Deterrence”
September 24: Benjamin Miller
(University of Haifa), “Optimists, Pessimists or Skeptics:
Explaining Variations in Post-Cold War International and Regional
Security”
October 1: Andrew Bennett (Georgetown University), “Where
Mistakes were Made: The Politics and Psychology of Blame for Iraq”
and “Doing Qualitative Methods” (Special Seminar)
October 8:
Hendrik Spruyt (Northwestern University), “Juggling the New
Triad--Energy, Environment and Security: A Case Study of the
Canadian Oil Sands”
October 13:
Vinod Aggarwal (UC Berkeley), “The Financial Crisis, “New”
Industrial Policy, and the Bite of Multilateral Trade Rules
October 25:
Deborah Larson (UCLA), “Status and Rising Powers: Applying the
Social Identity Theory”
October 29:
Charles Glaser (George Washington University), “Rational Theory
of International Politics”
November 5: Craig
Parsons (University of Oregon), “How
to (and How Not to) Make a Constructivist Contribution in
International Security”
November 12:
Jeffrey Legro (University of Virginia), “Unipolarity: The Future
of an Overvalued Concept”
November 19:
Michael Williams (University of Ottawa), “The Politics of
Security: Securitization, Power, and Practice”
Conference: When Regions Transform: Theory and Change in World
Politics
Saturday, 1 May 2010
Hilton Garden Inn
380 Sherbrooke St W – Montreal
Session I:
8:15-9:30am
T.V. Paul
(McGill University), “IR Theories and Regional Transformation”
Barry Buzan
(LSE), “How Regions Were Made, and the Legacies of that Process for
World Politics”
Discussant:
Norrin Ripsman (Concordia)
Session 2:
9:30-10-45am – Realist Perspectives
Dale Copeland
(University of Virginia), “Realism and Neorealism in the Study of
Regional Conflict”
Jeff Taliaferro
(Tufts University) (Presented by Zhiming Chen),“Neoclassical
Realism and Regional Orders”
Discussant:
Stefanie von Hlatky (Georgetown)
Session 3:
11:00am-12:30pm - Liberal Perspectives
John M. Owen
(University of Virginia), “Economic Interdependence and Regional
Peace”
Frederic Merand
(UdeM) and Stephanie Hoffman (Graduate Institute, Geneva), “Regional Instittuions a la
Carte: Mechanism of Variable Geometry in Europe”
John R. Oneal
(University of Alabama), “Transforming Regional Security Thorough
Liberal Reforms”
Discussant: Peter
Jones (University of Ottawa)
Session 4:
2:00-3:15pm - Constructivist Perspectives
Amitav Acharya
(American University), “Ideas, Norms and Regional Orders”
Vincent Pouliot
(McGill University), “A Practice Theory of Regional Transformation"
Discussant:
Michael Lipson (Concordia University)
Session 5: 3:30-4:45pm – Eclectic Perspectives
John A. Hall (McGill University),
“Europe: Banalities of Success”
Norrin Ripsman (Concordia University), “Why Regional
Peacemaking Begins with States and not Societies”
Discussant: Vincent Pouliot (McGill
University)
Roundtable:
Is the European Model Replicable in Other Regions?(McGill
University, Friday, April 30, 2010.
Chaired
by by T.V. Paul
(McGill) - With:
John
A. Hall (McGill)
Amitav
Acharya (American University)
John
Owen (University of Virginia)
Peter Jones (University of
Ottawa)
Dale
Copeland (University of Virginia)
Closing
Remarks by Peter Guay (Canadian International Council)
Co-sponsored with the Centre for International Peace and Security
Studies (CIPSS) in Collaboration with Canadian International Council
(CIC) Montreal The Report can be accessed
here.
EVENTS 2009
Fall 2009
CIPSS Workshop on International Security & Political Economy
September 18,
2009: Imad Mansour (McGill University), “A Neoclassical
Realist Analysis of Foreign Policy Strategies in the Israeli-Syrian
Enduring Rivalry”
October 9, 2009:
Erica Chenoweth (Weslayan University), “War Initiation and
Transnational Terrorism”
October 16, 2009:
Sarah Kreps (Cornell University), “Alliance Behavior
in America's Post-Cold War Interventions”
October 30,
2009: Ben Rowswell, Representative of Canada in Kandahar (DFAIT)
November 6,
2009: Roland Paris (University of Ottawa), “Saving Liberal
Peacebuilding”
November 20,
2009, Wendy Wong (University of Toronto), “From Principles to
Norms: The Role of Organizational Structure in Human Rights NGOs”
EVENTS 2008
Conference: Weak States and South Asia's Security Predicament
Le Meridien Hotel, 1808 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal
Friday, October 3, 2008
Panel
I:
8:30-10:00 General Papers I
Paper 1: State Capacity and South Asia's Insecurity Dilemmas: An
Introduction
T.V. Paul (McGill University)
Paper 2: State, Nations and Regional Security Orders
Benjamin Miller (University of Haifa)
Discussant: Norrin Ripsman (Concordia)
Panel
II:
10:15-11:30
General Papers II
Paper 3: State Formation, Consolidation and the Security Challenge:
Why Developing Countries are Not Becoming Stronger and More Secure
Matthew Lange (McGill University)
Paper 4: State Failure and States Poised to Fail: South Asia and
Developing Nations
Robert I. Rotberg (Harvard)
Discussant: Vincent Pouliot (McGill)
Panel
III:
11:30-1:00: Country Studies I
Paper 5: India: Soft State with Multiple Security Challenges
Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Center for Policy Research, New
Delhi)
-To be presented by Siddharth Banerjee (Sauve
Foundation Fellow)
Paper 6: Identity, Polity and Foreign Policy in Contemporary India
David Malone (IDRC) and Rohan Mukherjee (Princeton
University)
Discussant: Sankaran Krishna (University of Hawaii)
Panel
IV:
2:00-3:15 Country Studies III
Paper 7: Islamist Violence in India After the 1990s
Christophe Jaffrelot (Sciences Po, Paris)
Paper 8: Weak State, Failed State, Garrison State: The Pakistan
Saga
Lawrence Ziring (Western Michigan University)
Discussant: Daniel Markey (Council on Foreign Relations)
Panel
V:
3:15-5:15: Country Studies IV
Paper 9: Afghanistan: A Very Weak State in the Path of Power
Rivalries
Rsaul Baksh Rais (LUMS)
Paper 10: Sri Lanka: Challenges in State Consolidation and Minority
Integration
Sankaran Krishna (University of Hawaii)
Discussant: Mari-Joelle Zahar (UdM)
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Panel VI: 9:00-10:15 Country Studies IV
Paper 11: Bangladesh: A Weak State With Multiple Security Challenges
Ali Riaz (Illinois State University)
Paper 12: Nepal: A Weak State Sandwiched between Two Major Powers?
Maya Chadda (William Paterson University)
Discussant: Erik Kuhunta (McGill)
Panel VII: 10:30-12:00: Regional Perspectives
Paper 13: Economic Globalization and the Weak States of South Asia
Baldev Raj Nayar (McGill)
Paper 14: Civil Society and Weak States in South Asia
Mustapha Kamal-Pasha (University of Aberdeen)
Paper 15: Rays of Hope: The Not So Weak States of South Asia
Amitabh Mattoo and Happymon Jacob (Jammu University)
Discussant: Sunil Mani (Center for Development Studies, Trivandrum)
12:00-1:00: Concluding Session
and Launching of the South Asian Academic Network (SARCAN)
Webpage: Presentation by Manish Thapa (Asian Study Center for
Political & Conflict Transformation, Katmandu)
3:30-5:30: Transforming South Asia: A Roundtable
(This Roundtable took place at Omni Hotel, 1050 Sherbrooke St. West,
Corner, Peel. The event was co-sponsored by Canadian International
Council and McGill Center for Developing Area Studies)
Chair: T.V. Paul, McGill University
Participants:
David Malone (IDRC)
Daniel Markey (Council on Foreign Relations)
Sunil Mani (Center for Development Studies, Trivandrum)
Sujit Dutta (IDSA,
New Delhi)
Philip Oxhorn (McGill)
Amitabh Mattoo (Jammu University)
Fall 2008
REGIS Workshop on International Security & Political Economy
September 26,
2009, Jeffrey Hart (Indiana University), “Globalization and
Global Governance in the 21st Century”
October 10, 2008,
Robert Jackson (Boston University), “Solidarism or Pluralism:
Political Ideas of the American Union and the European Union”
October 17, 2008,
Beth Simmons (Harvard University), “Credible Commitment and
the International Criminal Court”October 31, 2008, David Kang
(Dartmouth College), “Status and War in International Relations”
November 7, 2008,
Ninna Tannenwald (Brown University), “Targeted Killings and
the War on Terror: The Decline of the Norm Against Assassination?”
November 14 2008,
Ian Hurd (Northwestern University), “States and Rules, Norms
and Interests”
November 21,
2008, David Holloway (Stanford University), “Is Nuclear
Reduction/Disarmament Feasible?”
EVENTS 2007
ISSS/ISAC Conference:
Global Security Challenges: When New and Old Issues Intersect
19-20 October
2007
Doubletree Plaza
Hotel Montreal Centre-Ville
505 Sherbrooke
Street East, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2L 4N3
Session I:
Friday: October 19, 2007: 8:00-9:45 am
Panel IA: Neo-classical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy (Room
Bellefleur)
Chair and Discussant - Greg Kennedy, King's College London
Paper 1 - Jeffrey Taliaferro, Tufts University, Steven E. Lobell,
University of Utah and Norrin M. Ripsman, Concordia University, ‘The
Statesman, the State, and the Balance of Power: Neoclassical Realism
and the Politics of Grand Strategic Adjustment'.
Paper 2 - Steven E. Lobell, University of Utah, ‘Threat Assessment,
the State, and Foreign Policy: A Neoclassical Realist Model'.
Paper 3 - Norrin M. Ripsman (Concordia University, ‘Domestic
Interests and Foreign Security Policy: A Neoclassical Realist
Approach'.
Paper 4 - Mark Brawley, McGill University, ‘Strategic Calculations
in a Permissive Environment: A Neoclassical Realist Approach to
Balancing in the 1930s'.
Paper 5 -
Brian Schmidt, Carleton University,
The Iraq War: Realism Versus Neoconservativism'.
Panel 1B: Civil-Military Relations and Military Transformation (Room:
Fortin)
Chair and discussant – Warren Chin, King's College London
Paper 1 - Gary Schaub, Jr., Air War College, ‘Parameters of "The
Unequal Dialogue": High-Level Civil-Military Relations'.
Paper 2 - James Forsyth, Air Command and Staff College,
‘Privatization of Defense: Assessing Officer Attitudes and
Understanding'.
Paper 3 - Everett Dolman, School of Advanced Air & Space Studies,
American Officer Visions of American Interests'.
Paper 4 – Sam Alvaro,
Carleton University, ‘The Re-Imagined Military in an Age of Global
Risks'.
Paper 5 - Michael Lipson, Concordia, ‘Logics
of Cat Herding: Approaches to Interorganizational Coordination in
Complex Peace Operations'.
Panel IC: Nuclear Politics (Room Matisse)
Chair and Discussant – Stefanie von Hlatky, University of Montreal.
Paper 1 -
Abbey Jorstad, University of Denver, ‘Images of insecurity: the link
between images of the opponent and opaque nuclear deterrence'.
Paper 2 - Siddharth Mallavarapu, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
‘‘Liminal' Conjunctions: Re-Visiting The July Opinion
Of The World Court'.
Paper 3 – Randy Willoughby, San Diego, ‘Mixing old wine and the
genie in the bottle: a non-proliferation perspective on French
nuclear power and nuclear weapons'.
Paper 4 - Eric Honda, ‘Failure to Launch: Testing the Success of the
North Korean Nuclear Option Through Three-Party-Deterrence Not
Six-Party Talks'.
Paper 5 – Andrew Dorman, King's College London, ‘The Politics of
Trident Replacement'.
Panel ID: East Asian Security Issues - (Room Colville)
Paper 1 –
Yukiko Amakawa, Teikyo University, ‘U.S.-Japan Security Relations
in Abe Administration'.
Paper 2 – Adam Moore, Northern Kentucky University, ‘The
Veto: A Look at its Past and Present, and the Future Significance of
China on the Security Council'.
Paper 3 - Elizabeth Wishnick, Montclair State University.
‘Energy and Environmental Issues in Sino-Japanese Relations: Towards
an Energy Security “Risk Community”?'
Paper 4 – Kate Jefferson & Elizabeth Fausett, University Of Arizona,
‘China: Assessing Dissatisfaction With The Status Quo In The 21st
Century'.
Paper 5 –
Richard W. Chadwick, University of Hawaii,
‘Foreign Policy Challenges in the 21st Century:
Disentangling the New Patterns of Interlaced Threats and
Opportunities in East Asia'.
Session II:
Friday, October 19, 2007: 10:15:AM-11:45am
Panel 2A: Conflict and the International System (Room:
Bellefleur)
Chair and discussant – Medha Bisht, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Paper 1 –
Timothy W. Crawford, Boston College, ‘Wedge Strategies and Power
Politics'.
Paper 2 –
Felix Kuntzsch, Université Laval, ‘In Defense Of Rational Choice –
The Politics Of Ethnic Violence And The Case Of Nagorno-Karabakh'.
Paper 3 - Rahel Suissa, Haifa, ‘The evolution and reduction of
enduring rivalries as a learning process-state conflict versus state
and non-state conflict'.
Paper 4 – J.Lippert, Institut Europeen Des Relations Internationales
In Brussels, ‘Inevitable War Or Undesirable Peace ? An Approach Of
The Sociology Of War'.
Paper 5 – Walter C. Soderlund & E. Donald Briggs, University of Windsor, SEQ
CHAPTER \h \r 1“The ‘CNN Effect' and
Humanitarian Intervention: Evidence from the 1990s Reconsidered”.
Panel 2B –Terrorism and Violence (Room: Fortin)
Paper 1 - Tricia Bacon-Gonzalez, (Georgetown), ‘Terrorist
Safehavens: One size does not fit all'.
Paper 2 - Chris Demchak, Arizona, ‘Wars Of Disruption In A Complex
World Of Chronic Violent Threats'.
Paper 3 – Ilan Danjoux, Manchester, ‘Collaborative Securitisation:
Merging Public Opinion Research and Security Studies'.
Paper 4 - Stephen Saideman, McGill University, ‘Xenophobia's Silver
Lining: When Hate Causes Peace'.
Paper 5 - Jorge Andrés Rave, Université du Québec à Montréal, “To
securitise or not to securitise: the securitisation of the
Colombian Crisis during the Clinton Years.”
Panel 2C – Nuclear Weapons, Proliferation and Arms Control (Room
Colville)
Chair and discussant – John Migiletta, Tennessee State University
Paper 1-
Robert Williams,
Pepperdine University, ‘The Surprise
Attack Conference of 1958 and the Origins of the ‘New Thinking' in
Arms Control'.
Paper 2 –
Ben Bonin, University of New Mexico, ‘One More is One too Many:
Reorienting US Nonproliferation Policy towards NPT RevCon 2010 and
Beyond'.
Paper 3 - Frank Ronald Cleminson, ‘Using Multilateral Arms Control
as an effective alternative to war'.
Paper 4 – Bill Eliason, Old Dominion University, ‘Bound To Deny?
Nuclear Proliferation And Its Dangers'.
Panel 2D – New security challenges in South Asia (Room Matisse)
Chair and discussant - Raj Kishor Singh, University Of Agra
Paper 1 - Tanuja Singh, ‘Ethnic Violence And Terrorism-A Threat To
Humanity In South Asia”.
Paper 2 - Supriyasingh, Womens College Patna, ‘Terrorism Beyond
Boundaries Of India'
Paper 3 - Rajesh Kharat, University Of Bombay, ‘Challenges To
Security In South Asia:A Case Study Of Migration In India'
Paper 4 - K.S. Singh, University Of Agra, ‘Human Security-Problems
and Prospects”
Paper 5 - Muhammad Islam, Bahria University, Islamabad, ‘Pakistan:
Security Threats and Responses in the Post-9/11 Era'
Paper 6 - Nabarun Roy,
Carleton University, ‘Global Terrorism' to the rescue of India's
great power aspiration?'.
Session III:
Friday, October 19, 2007: 2:00-3:45pm
Panel 3A – Diplomacy and the International System ( Room: Fortin)
Chair and discussant -
Greg Kennedy, King's College London.
Paper 1 –
Patrick C. Bratton, Hawai‘i Pacific University, ‘The Effects of
Governmental Structure on Coercive Signals and Orchestration'.
Paper 2 – Lawrence Rubin, UCLA,
‘Who's Afraid of an Islamic State?'
Paper 3 - Medha Bisht, Jawaharlal Nehru University, ‘New
World Order: Emerging Spaces In International Relations'.
Paper 4 – Mark Sachleben, Shippensburg, ‘Solving Transnational
Issues through a Traditional IGO? The UN Security Council fumbling
for a role with non-traditional security threats'.
Paper 5 –
Gallia Lindenstrauss & Amir Lupovici, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, ‘Ontological Security and the Overuse of Threats: How
Threats of a Third World War were voiced over
Nakhichevan'.
Panel 3B – Terrorism and Strategy for Securing the Homeland
(Room: Bellefleur)
Chair: Paul R. Viotti; Discussants: Jeffrey Larsen and James Wirtz
Paper 1 - Robert H. Dorff, ‘The Search for National and Homeland
Security'
Paper 2 - James M. Smith and Brent J. Talbot, ‘Terrorism and
Deterrence by Denial'
Paper 3 - Paul R. Viotti, ‘Toward a Comprehensive Strategy for
Terrorism and Homeland Security'
Paper 4- Veronica Kitchen and Gregory Moore, ‘Multinational and
Transnational Cooperation in Homeland Security'
Paper 5- Kevin Quigley, Dalhousie University, ‘Critical
Infrastructure Protection in Comparative Perspective'.
Panel 3C – Nuclear Weapons and Global Security (Room: Colville)
Chair and Discussant – Kalu N Kalu, Auburn University Montgomery
Paper 1 – Marina Mateski,
Old Dominion University, ‘Nuclear renaissance: Can Russia lead?'.
Paper 2 – Mark Hilborne, King's College London, ‘Russian Policy on
Space Weapons and Ballistic Missile Defence'.
Paper 3 – Wade L. Huntley, University of British Columbia, ‘Nuclear
nonproliferation: a role for “responsibility”?'.
Paper 4 – Ekaterina Piskunova, University of Montreal, ‘Russian
Foreign Policy and Iran Nuclear Program: Pragmatism Above All'.
Paper 5 -
Tae-Hyung Kim,
Daemen College, ‘North
Korea's Nuclear Ambition: Choice or Necessity?'
Panel 3D - New security challenges in South Asia (Room: Matisse)
Chair and discussant – T.V. Paul, McGill University
Paper 1 - Kailash Nath, Asar Software Technologies,
‘Glass-Half-Full Vs. Glass-Half-Empty: Multiple Paradoxes Of
Development And Security In India'.
Paper 2 - Neda Zawahri, Cleveland State University, ‘The
Environment and National Security along the Euphrates,
Ganges-Brahmaputra, Indus, Tigris, and Yarmouk Rivers'.
Paper 3 – Kavita R. Khory, Mount Holyoke College, ‘Diaspora
Politics And South Asian Security'.
Paper 4 – Lawrence Prabhakar, Madras Christian College, and Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore, ‘Regional Maritime Security
Complex of Southern Asia-Indian Ocean: The Intertwining of
traditional and non-traditional security concerns'.
Session IV:
Friday 19, 2007: 4:00-5:45 pm
Panel 4A – Governance, Security and Foreign Policy (Room: Fortin)
Paper 1 - Cao Feng, Chinese People's Public Security University &
Wang Shacheng, Harvard University, ‘Intelligence: Study In Public
Security Administration'.
Paper 2 - Jon J. Rosenwasser, Office of the Director of National
Intelligence, ‘TBC – Intelligence, US Foreign Policy and terrorism'.
Paper 3 – M. Patrick Cottrell & Mark Nance, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, ‘After Hierarchy? Governance and Security in a
Post-9/11 World'.
Paper 4 – William C Martel, Tufts, ‘Defining Victory: Implications
for Iraq'.
Paper 5 - Benjamin Miller, University of Haifa, Explaining Changes
in US Grand Strategy: The Rise of Offensive Liberalism and the War
in Iraq.
Paper 6 – Murali Venugopalan, Western Illinois University, ‘The
Necessary Gambit'.
Panel 4B –
Terrorism –
Dealing Strategically with Terrorism (Room: Bellefleur)
Chair: Jeffrey Larsen; Discussants: Michael Opheim and Nicholas
Bowen
Paper 1 - Jeffrey Larsen and James Wirtz, ‘WMD Terrorism: New
Threats, Revised Responses'.
Paper 2 - Alexander C. Diener and Timothy Crawford, ‘Democracy,
Civil Society and the Damage-Limitation Component of Strategy'.
Paper 3 - Terrence M. O'Sullivan, ‘Comparative Risk Analysis :
Biological Terrorism, Pandemics and Other Forgotten Catastrophic
Disaster Threats'.
Paper 4 – Omar Ashour, McGill, ‘Lions Tamed? An Inquiry into the
Causes of De-Radicalization of Armed Islamist Movements'.
Paper 5 – Andrew D. Grossman, Erin Franzen, A Martini, Albion
College, Strategy in the Car Bomb Age? Deterrence by Denial, the
DHS, and Homeland Security.
Panel 4C – New thinking on Insurgency and Counterinsurgency? (Room:
Matisse)
Chair and discussant – Theo Farrell, King's College London.
Paper 1 – Warren Chin, King's College London, ‘Adaptation and
Change to the new Strategic Environment: British Counter-insurgency
in Iraq and Afghanistan'.
Paper 2 – Ora Szekely and Virginia DiGaetano, McGill,
‘The Counter-Insurgency Myth in Historical Perspective'.
Paper 3 – Andrea Dew, Harvard University, ‘Non-State
Armed Groups and the Erosion of Constraints on Targets and Tactics:
A Post-Cold War Security Challenge'.
Paper 4 – Anna Gielas, RWTH Aachen, Germany.
Harvard University, ‘Asymmetric
Conflicts between States and Non-state Actors: Containment of the
New Wars'.
Paper 5 – Cdr Brigid Pavilonis, United States Coast Guard Academy,
‘Understanding
Small War: The Influence of Planning and Perception on Operational
Outcomes'.
Panel 4D – Africa (Room: Colville)
Paper 1 – Carmel Davis, University of Pennsylvania, ‘The African
Cockpit: Oil, Terrorists, China, and AFRICOM'.
Paper 2 – John H. P. Williams, East Carolina University, ‘Chaos At
The Border: Tanzania And The 1994 Rwandan Genocide'.
Paper 3 –
Jide
Okeke, University of Leeds, The Prospects of the ‘Responsibility to
Protect' principle in Darfur”.
Paper 4- Roman Hagelstein,
University of Tuebingen, ‘Where and
When does Violence Pay Off? The Algerian Civil War'.
Paper 5 – Nadra Hashim, Calgary, ‘Zanzibar and Political Inversion:
fluke or prototype'.
Dinner Speaker: Professor Desmond Morton, McGill University
Saturday, 20 October, 2007
Session V:
Saturday 20, 2007: 8:15-10:00am
Panel 5A – Hegemony and US Foreign Policy (Room: Bellefleur)
Chair and discussant -
Professor Greg Kennedy, King's College London.
Paper 1 – Doru
Tsaganea', Metropolitan College of New York, ‘Hegemony - Freely
Accepted Leadership or Domination?'.
Paper 2 –
Tudor Onea, Queen's University, The American Empire and its
Discontents: the Perspective of War under American Predominance.
Paper 3 –Evan Resnick, Yeshiva University, ‘Engagement as Inducement or
Reward? Lessons From America's Policy towards Kaddafi's Libya,
Apartheid South Africa, and Saddam Hussein's Iraq'.
Paper 4 –Catherine Moses, Georgia College and State University, ‘The
War on Drugs: Implications for the War on Terror'.
Paper 5 –
Peter Dombrowski, Naval War College, & Professor Andrew L. Ross,
University of New Mexico, ‘The Political Economy of the U.S. Grand
Strategy Debate Revisited'.
Paper 6 – Allan S Layug, De La Salle University, ‘Legitimacy Crisis
as a Global Security Challenge'.
Panel 5B – Terrorism, International Cooperation and Policy Responses
(Room: Fortin)
Chair and discussant - Commodore Kelly Williams, Assistant to the
Chief of Maritime Staff.
Paper 1 –
H. Brinton Milward, University of Arizona, Jörg Raab, Tilburg
University & René M. Bakker, Tilburg University, ‘Problems Shape
Policy: The Resilience of Dark Networks'.
Paper 2 - Abdul Ghafur Hamid & Professor Khin Maung Sein,
International Islamic University Malaysia, ‘The Global Security
Threat Of Nuclear Terrorism And International Law: Issues,
Challenges And Prospects'.
Paper 3 - Michael Andrew Berger, University of St. Andrews,
Coercion versus Terror: Understanding State Policy Options for
Countering Terrorist Organizations with Coercive Means.
Paper 4 - Kalu N. Kalu, Auburn University Montgomery, ‘Strategic
Fusion: What Lessons for International Counterterrorism?'.
Paper 5 –
Joe P. Dunn, Converse College, ‘Teaching about Terrorism/National
Security: Two Classroom Models'.
Panel 5C – Biology, Memory and Security (Room: Colville)
Chair and Discussant, Stuart Croft, Warwick University.
Paper 1 - Brian Rappert, Exeter University 'International Security,
Biotechnology, and Research Methods'.
Paper 2 - Michael Dillon, Lancaster University, 'Biopolitics of
Security in the 21st Century'.
Paper 3 - Andrew Hoskins, Warwick University, 'In Memory of
Security'.
Paper 4 – Captain Nils N. French, Canadian Army, ‘Social Epidemics
and the Human Element'.
Panel 5D - European Security Issues
(Room Matisse)
Chair and discussant -
Professor Gale A. Mattox, U.S. Naval Academy.
Paper 1 – Heidi Hardt,
Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva (HEI),
‘Regionalization of Peacebuilding: The European Union as an
Institutional Role Model'.
Paper 2 – Helena Carrapico, European University Institute, Florence,
‘The European Union and Organized Crime: Threat Perception and the
Making of a Security Policy'.
Paper 3 - Manuel Amarilla Mena, Centre for the International
Promotion of Security, ‘Global
challenges for the security of the European states. The European
Security Agenda'.
Paper 4 –
Vincent Pouliot, McGill, ‘The Logic of Practicality at the
NATO-Russia Council'.
Paper 5 –
Kajsa Ji Noe Oest, University of Copenhagen/Havard University ‘The
Shanghai Cooperation Organization – a Threat or Opportunity for
Europe?'
.
Paper 6 -
Peter Stockburger, University of San Diego School of Law, ‘One
giant leap backward for humankind: the consequence of the European
Union's apathy toward Romania's Article 98 Agreement with the US'.
Session VI:
Saturday 20, 2007: 10:15-12:00am
Panel 6A – US Foreign Policy and Anti-Hegemonic Challenges (Room:
Bellefleur)
Chair and discussant -
Dr. John Miglietta, Tennessee State University.
Paper 1 –Michael C. Desch, Texas A & M University, “Liberal Tradition and
American Illiberal Hegemony”.
Paper 2 –
Gabriela Marin Thornton, Texas A & M University, “The EU in
America's Foreign Policy: The Bush Administration's Case”.
Paper 3 - Joseph R. Cerami, Texas A & M University, “Reforming the
National Security Policymaking and Interagency Processes: Questions
of Policy, Strategy, and Structure”.
Paper 4 –Christopher Layne, Texas A & M University, “Realist Theory
and America's China Strategy”.
Panel 6B – Security in the
Digital Age
(Room: Fortin)
Chair and Discussant –
Chris Demchak, Arizona,
Demchak@U.Arizona.Edu
Paper 1 -
Panayotis A. Yannakogeorgos, Rutgers, ‘On the Terrorist Misuse of
Cyberspace: Implications for International Counterterrorist Efforts,
and Proposals for Governing the Electromagnetic Wilderness'.
Paper 2 –
Patryk Pawlak, European University Institute, ‘Where the Rubber
hits the Road: Smart borders of the future in Transatlantic
Relations'.
Paper 3 –
Tom Winston, Endicott College, ‘An Economic Analysis of Privacy vs.
Security Online'.
Paper 4 –
Raju K Thadikkaran, Mahatma Gandhi
University, ‘Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in the Era of
Globalization: Security Issues and Concerns Revisited'.
Panel 6C – 'Warriors, Transformations, and Spatiality (Room:
Colville)
Chair and Discussant, Stuart Croft, Warwick University.
Paper 1 – Terry Terriff, Birmingham University, 'Warriors and
Innovators: Military Change and Organizational Culture in the US
Marine Corps'.
Paper 2 - Wendy Pullan, Cambridge University, 'The Reciprocities of
space and security in Jerusalem'.
Paper 3 - Theo Farrell, Kings College London, ‘Transformation and
Counter-transformation in the British Army.'
Paper 4 - Kwang-Jin Kim, University of Missouri-Columbia, Lt Col
Doo-Hyeong Lee, Hangyang & Sengkwon You, Missouri-Colombia, ‘Force
Structure and Interstate Conflict Behavior'.
Panel 6D – European Security (Room: Matisse)
Chair and discussant – Andrew Dorman, King's College London
Paper 1 –
Dieter Dettke, ‘In Search of Normalcy: Germany's Foreign and
Security Policy Between ‘Realpolitik' and the Civilian Power
Paradigm'.
Paper 2 - Gale A. Mattox, U.S. Naval Academy, ‘The New European
Security Paradigm'.
Paper 3 –
Fred Cocozzelli, St. John's University, ‘The Endgame in Kosovo:
Critical Junctures in the Making of the Status Decision'.
Paper 4 –
Mary Frances Lebamoff, Loyola University Chicago, “Complex
Power-Sharing as Conflict Resolution: Macedonia and the Ohrid
Framework Agreement 2001”.
Paper 5 - Jenny H Peterson, University of British Columbia, ‘Crime
as a security threat: Exploring the criminality discourse in
post-conflict Kosovo'.
Session VII:
Saturday 20, 2007: 1:30-3:15pm
Panel 7 – Global Security Challenges (Room Bellefleur)
Chair and Discussant: Kailash Nath, Asar Software Technologies
Paper 1 – Eric Ziegelmayer, St. Lawrence University, ‘Global
Cities, Global Security: the global politics of urbanization'.
Paper 2 – Annelies Z. Kamran, The City University of New York, ‘Security
Space: A Framework for Understanding the Global Governance of
Security'.
Paper 3 – Gemma Marolda, University of Pittsburgh, ‘States,
International Institutions and Global Governance: Rethinking
Security in the 21st Century'.
Paper 4 –Julia Trombretta, TU Delft, ‘Environmental Security: the
Transformation of Security'.
Paper 5 - Harini Sivalingam, McGill, ‘Discourses of Fear and
Victimization: the Impact of National Security Legislation on the
Tamil-Canadian community'.
Session VIII:
Saturday 20, 2007: 3:15-5:00pm
Panel 8 - Wars and Civil Wars (Room Bellefleur)
Chair and Discussant – Mary Frances Lebamoff, Loyola University of
Chicago.
Paper 1 –
Maya Ollek, McGill, ‘Rebellions, Insurgent Groups, and Civil War
Termination in Eritrea and South Sudan'.
Paper 2 – Ariel Zellman, Northwestern University, ‘Weak States,
Civil Militia, and State Deconstructive Violence'.
Paper 3 – Adam Lockyer, University of Sydney, ‘Understanding
warfare in civil wars: Afghanistan from the Cold War to present.'
Paper 4 – Andrea C Perkins, San Francisco State University, ‘Child
Soldier Recruitment from a Global Perspective: Consequences of State
Failure and the Obscurity of Human Rights in Complex Political
Emergencies'.
Paper 5 – Alex McDougall, Calgary, ‘State Power and the Political
Economy of War and Peace in Colombia'.
Paper 6 - Theo McLauchlin, McGill, ‘Civil War and State Building in
Uganda'.
The Conference
is Sponsored by:
Co-sponsored by:
2007 REGIS Workshop on International Security & Political Economy
September 28,
2007, Daniel Drezner, (Tufts University), “Tragedy of the
Global Institutional Comons”
October 5 2007,
Susan Hyde (Yale University), “The Observer Effect in
International Politics: Evdence from a Natural Experiment”
October 12, 2007,
Judith Kelley (Duke University), “Who Keeps International
Commitments and Why?”
October 19, 2007,
Jeremy Weinstein (Sanford University), “Dynamics of Civil
War”
November 9, 2007,
Alex Thompson (Ohio State University), “Principal Problems:
UN Weapons Inspections in Iraq and Beyond”
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FQRSC funded research project
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