Sovereignty poses the question of 'who rules?'. For this reason, the focus of this section will be on understanding agency and power in international politics. Being on the frontier between political and international theory, sovereignty forces us to consider what is distinctive about International Relations (IR). Understood as supreme authority within a given territory, the idea of sovereignty entails that there can be no supreme authority above the sovereign state. This makes sovereignty the 'enabling concept' of IR. But how has this conventional understanding of sovereignty changed in recent years, and what are the implications of these changes?

Across the 1990s, non-state actors such as the United Nations, European Union and non-governmental organizations, alongside ideas of human rights, global civil society and Globalization, laid siege to state sovereignty. More recently, the voting down of the European Constitution and the rise of China and India seem to be rolling back the 'transnational' developments of the 1990s. There are calls to 'bring the state back in', through nation-building, ideas of 'shared sovereignty' and 'country ownership' in development.

How should we understand this oscillation in the politics of sovereignty since the end of the Cold War? Are those states emerging from nation-building ‘properly’ sovereign? What are the dynamics of 'state failure', where anarchy becomes the condition of domestic rather than international society? What do processes such as European integration tell us about the changing nature of sovereignty? How is the struggle for power between states expressed today in IR? To what extent have the 'inside' and 'outside' become blurred? These are some of the questions that we shall explore in this section. Panel titles include 'Theorising Sovereignty', 'State-building as state failure' and 'European integration: a process without a subject?' We welcome both theoretical and empirical papers, in fields including, but not restricted to these themes.

Deadline for registration: 13 April 2007.

Deadline for paper submission: 31 August 2007.

Time:	11am - 12.45pm
Chair and Discussant:	James Heartfield (University of Westminster)
Speakers:	(1)Philip Cunliffe (King's College London) Sovereignty as Responsibility: A Critique
	(2)Sylvia Lechner (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) Sovereignty and Territoriality: The Plight of Presentism in Contemporary Social Science
	(3)Alex Pritchard (Loughborough University)Nuff SAID - The Anarchist Critique
	(4)Cormac Mac Amhlaigh (European University Institute) Resurrecting the Leviathan: Ultimate authority and political theory in the constitutional conflicts of the European polity

Time:	1.45pm - 3.30pm
Chair and Discussant:	Chris Bickerton (University of Oxford)
Speakers:	(1)Rebecca Adler-Nissen (University of Copenhagen) Simulating sovereignty: when member states opt out of the EU
	(2)Kathrin Birkel (Radboud University, Nijmegen) Danger of Dilution? EU integration, multi-level governance and the concept of sovereignty
	(3)Ali Tekin (Bilkent University) Sharing Sovereignty: Turkey’s Sovereignty Culture and the EU
	(4)Gerry van der Kamp-Alons (Radboud University Nijmegen) Sovereign States and their Autonomy: French and German Decision- Making concerning the Agricultural Chapter of the Uruguay Round of GATT-Negotiations

Time:	4.00pm - 5.45pm
Chair and Discussant:	Philip Cunliffe (King's College London)
Speakers:	(1)Sascha Wertes (University of Duisburg/Essen) Contested sovereignty: a critical reading of R2P and the current debates on failed states
	(2)Henry Radice (LSE) Internationalism: Bringing the state back into progressive international politics
	(3)Rolf Schwarz (Graduate Institute of International Studies) Slicing up the cake: divisible sovereignty in the pre and post- Westphalian order
	(4)Jean-Francois Drolet (University of Oxford) Sovereignty for a New American Century

Time:	4.00pm - 5.45pm
Chair and Discussant:	Giovanna Bono (Institute for European Studies, VUB)
Speakers:	(1)Andrew Glencross (European University Institute) Federalism, confederalism and sovereignty: understanding the democracy game in the EU
	(2)James Heartfield (University of Westminster) Europe, Russia and the 'non-historic peoples'
	(3)Chris Bickerton (University of Oxford) Legitimacy, identity and interest in EU foreign policy
	(4)Gorm Rye Olsen (University of Roskilde) The EU and the post September 11 Security agency: the EU's policies towards Africa

Time:	8.45am - 10.30am
Chair and Discussant:	Tara McCormack (University of Westminster)
Speakers:	(1)Lee Jones (University of Oxford) ASEAN and Intervention in Southeast Asia: the Perils of Projection
	(2)Emily Paddon (University of Oxford) UN-authorized intervention in Rwanda: problems of impartiality
	(3)David Chandler (University of Westminster) Empowering Africa? Vulnerability, climate change and development
	(4)Keith Stanski (University of Oxford) Sovereignty, intervention and environment in the global south

Time:	11.00am - 12.45pm
Chair and Discussant:	David Chandler (University of Westminster)
Speakers:	(1)Giuliu Venneri (University of Trento) Turning Sarajevo into a 'European' capital? Trajectories of sovereignty in the reorganization of Bosnia and Herzegovina
	(2)Morten Boas (Fafo - Institute for Applied International Studies)Making plans for Liberia
	(3)Liisa Laakso (University of Jyväskylä) Difficult political dimensions of the Cotonou Agreement
	(4)Giovanna Bono (Institute for European Studies, VUB) New forms of state-building practices: the case of security sector reform and the role of Europe

Time:	11.00am - 12.45pm
Chair and Discussant:	(1)Chris Gilligan (University of Ulster)
Speakers:	(2)Martin Geiger (University of Bonn) Migration management and local outcomes: Albania, BiH and Ukraine
	(3)Gerry Boucher (Queen's University Belfast)Theorizing 'illegal' immigration in developed liberal democracies
	(4)Festus Ikeotuonye (University College Dublin) The 'container model' paradox: borders, frontiers and the states own image of itself

Time:	1.45pm - 3.30pm
Chair and Discussant:	Vanessa Pupavac (University of Nottingham)
Speakers:	(1)Tara McCormack (University of Westminster) Human security and human insecurity
	(2)David Bosold Beyond liberal bio-politics: Imagining a post-human security form of individual security
	(3)Nadine Voelkner (University of Sussex) Managing security at a distance: the global governmentality of human (in)security

Time:	4.00pm - 5.45pm
Chair and Discussant:	Lee Jones (University of Oxford)
Speakers:	(1)John Heathershaw (University of Notre Dame) The Simulation and Dissimulation of Sovereignty in Post-Conflict Spaces: the case of security sector reform in Tajikistan
	(2)Berit Bliesemann de Guevara (Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg) Of Sovereignty and Other Façades: International intervention, security sector reform and stateness in Bosnia and Herzegovina
	(3)Daria Isachenko (HU Berlin) On the Politics of Informal States: Re-centering the State and Decentering Sovereignty?

Time:	8.45am - 10.30am
Chair and Discussant:	David Chandler (University of Westminster)
Speakers:	(1)Matteo Tondini (IMT-Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies) From neo-colonialism to a light footprint approach
	(2)Caroline Hughes (University of Birmingham) Rethinking Political Community in post-intervention states: Cambodia and East Timor compared

Time:	8.45am - 10.30am
Chair and Discussant:	Chris Bickerton (University of Oxford)
Speakers:	(1)Tim Montgomery (University of Sheffield) Inside-out: perspectives on sovereignty from states that both are and are yet to be
	(2)Ondrej Ditrych (Institute of International Relations, Praha) Fading Sovereignty as a Security Problem
	(3)Oisin Tansey (University of Oxford) Non-State Entities, Sovereignty and Democracy

Time:	11.00am - 12.45pm
Chair and Discussant:	Philip Cunliffe (King’s College London)
Speakers:	(1)Peter Rade (Corvinus University Budapest) Rebuilding of failed states
	(2)Barton Edgerton (LSE) The concept of sovereignty in Grotius
	(3)Ben Holland (LSE) Roman property law, representation, and the invention of the nation-s state: a constructive criticism of a constructivist case