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Monday 18 December

Theorising Sovereignty

Time: 4pm - 5.30pm
Chair and Discussant: Alex Gourevitch
Speakers: Prof Colin Wight (University of Exeter) Sovereignty, Structure and Agency
Tanja Aalberts (Leiden University) Sovereignty as Discipline
Philip Cunliffe (King's College London) Why is there so much International Theory? Agency and Sovereignty in IR
Silviya Lechner (Aberystwyth) Sovereignty: What to Criticise and How to Do It


Tuesday 19 December

Differing Conceptions of Sovereignty: Russia, Europe and the Middle East

Time: 11am - 12.30pm
Chair and Discussant: Alex Gourevitch
Speakers: James Heartfield (Westminster) The Unpatriotic Bourgeoisie: How Theories of International Relations Misread European Integration
Elizabeth Teague (Foreign Office) The Concept of ‘Sovereignty’ in Contemporary Russian Political Discourse
Clemens Hoffman (Sussex) The Creation of Modern Sovereignty in the Middle East: Geopolitical Plurality as a Pre-Modern Historical Legacy

Politics Without Sovereignty? Agency in Contemporary International Relations

Time: 2pm - 3.30pm
Chair and Discussant: Philip Cunliffe, Chris Brown
Participants: Christopher Bickerton (Oxford) Alex Gourevitch (Columbia) James Heartfield (Westminster) David Chandler (Westminster) Tara McCormack (Westminster)


Sovereignty, Security And Intervention

Time: 4pm - 5.30pm
Chair and Discussant: Philip Cunliffe
Speakers: Vanessa Pupavac (Nottingham) Domesticating Foreign Policy: FCO and Gender Mainstreaming
Giovanna Bono (Vrije University, Brussels) The 'Securitisation' of EU External Action After 9/11: An Assessment
Tara McCormack (Westminster) The Ethics of Human Security
Alex Gourevitch (Columbia) National Insecurities: Foreign Policy and America's Domestic Impasse


Wednesday 20 December

Sovereignty And Order: Democracy and International Law

Time: 9am - 10.30am
Chair and Discussant: Tara McCormack
Speakers: Oystein Tunsjo (Aberystwyth) Contemporary Dilemmas in the Taiwan Strait
Jae-Won Lee (Denver) International Law and its Impact on the Promortion and Consolidation of Demcracy as the Emerging post-Cold War and 21st Century Standard of Civilisation: China, South Korea and Iraq
Page Wilson (LSE) British Foreign Policy and the Crime of Aggression
Charlotte Steinorth (LSE) Democratisation and International Law in the 21st Century: Whither the Democratic Entitlement?
Lisa Aronsson (LSE) Power Politics or International Justice? The US-EU Split Over ICC