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Monday 19 December

Failed States, Failed Solutions

Time: 4pm - 5.30pm
Chair and Discussant: Philip Cunliffe
Speakers: Daniel Lambach (Cologne) Exporting Instability: The regional implications of fragile states
Alastair Fraser (Oxford) Post conditionality? Does Harrison’s ‘sovereign frontier’ add to our understanding of politics in aid-dependent states?
Aidan Hehir (Limerick) Defending the West: Re-conceptualising self-defence and the end of sovereignty


Tuesday 20 December

Beyond Sovereignty I: Reconstituting Norms, Reconstituting Borders

Time: 11am - 12.30pm
Chair and Discussant: Chris Bickerton
Speakers: Nick Vaughan Williams (Aberystwyth) Borderscape: Territory, sovereignty, power
Jeff Pugh (John Hopkins) Whose Brother’s Keeper? International Trusteeship as a Tool for Creating Peace
Constantinos Laoutides (Aberystwyth) Responsible Emancipation in Secessionist Politics: Prospects and Setbacks
Dominik Zaum (Oxford) Sovereignty and Statebuilding in International Society

Interrogating the Post-Westphalian Consensus

Time: 2pm - 3.30pm
Chair and Discussant: Chris Bickerton
Speakers: RBJ Walker (Keele) State Sovereignty / System Sovereignty: Schmitt, Kelsen, Kant
Philip Cunliffe (King’s) Politics Without Sovereignty: Sovereignty, Subjectivity and Authority
Jean-Francois Drolet (Oxford) Sovereignty and Responbility: The Hegemonisation of a Liberal Body of Ideas
TBC

Beyond Sovereignty II: Global Regionalism: Africa, Americas, Europe

Time: 4pm - 5.30pm
Chair and Discussant: Chris Bickerton
Speakers: James Heartfield (Westminster) European Integration as a process without a subject
Helene Gandois (Oxford) The African regionalist challenge to sovereignty
Par Engstrom (Oxford) Who is your Sovereign Now? Human Rights and the Promotion of Democracy in the Americas.


Wednesday 21 December

International State-Building and Its Limits

Time: 9am - 10.30am
Chair and Discussant: William Bain
Speakers: Will Bain (Aberystwyth) In Praise of Folly: International Administration and the Moral Breakdown of International Society
Chris Bickerton (Oxford) State-building without democratization? EU Accession, and the Limits of Good Governance in Central and Eastern Europe
Prof David Chandler (Westminster) Trusteeship: From Colonialism to Phantom States

Roundtable: ‘Nation building: A decade after Dayton’

Time: 11am - 12.30am
Chair and Discussant: Chris Bickerton
Speakers: Lawrence Freedoman (King's COllege London)
Dominik Zaum (Oxford University)
Prof David Chandler (Westminster)