Department of International Relations

Research in Progress seminar archive

Please note that papers are works in progress and should not be cited without permission

 

Spring 2013

Research in Progress seminar series, Spring 2013 [PDF 99.75KB]

18/02/13 Cengis Gunes - Turkey’s Kurdish Question: dilemmas of war and peace [PDF 214.66KB]

11/02/13 Maia Pal - Historical Materialism and International Law: Struggle for Jurisdictional Accumulation [PDF 254.32KB]

04/02/13 Yuval Millo - Performativity and Politics in the Analysis of Financial Markets: a social studies of finance approach [PDF 81.43KB]

28/01/13 Liam Campling - Mainstreaming environment and development at the WTO? Fisheries subsidies, the politics of rule-making and the elusive `triple win’ [PDF 295.47KB]

 

Autumn 2012

Research in Progress Seminar Series Autumn 2012 [PDF 95.30KB]

10/12/12 Gurminder Bhambra - Unrealised Potentialities of Citizenship: Thinking Through Orientalism and Race [PDF 232.51KB]

03/12/12 Andrei Gomez - Oil, Development and Insurgency [PDF 303.35KB]

26/11/12 Geoff Kennedy - Republics, Empires and Historical Materialism [PDF 163.67KB]

05/11/12 Elspeth Van Veeren - Materialising Post-9/11 Security [PDF 2.71MB]

29/10/12 Paul Higate - The Private Militarised and Security Contractor as Geocorporeal Actor [PDF 254.47KB]

22/10/12 Rosemary Shinko - Theorising embodied resistance practices in IR [PDF 633.11KB]

15/10/12 Feride Asli Ergul - A Communicative Turn in IR: The Case of the Arab Spring [PDF 276.21KB]

01/10/12 David Blaney - The Relative Virtues of Adam Smith’s Theodicy [PDF 389.87KB]

 

Spring 2012

Research in Progress seminar series, Spring 2012 [PDF 65.28KB]

20/02/12 Antonio Cerella - The Sacred into the Space ‐The Space of the Sacred: A Genealogy of Modern Politics [PDF 335.85KB]

13/02/12 Luke Cooper - International Relations in the Age of Accelerated Change [PDF 863.28KB]

30/01/12 Julian Saurin - The metabolism of the international : nature, environment and world order [PDF 10.82KB]

23/01/12 Fabio Petito - Global Islamism and World Society [PDF 300.15KB]

 

Autumn 2011

Research in Progress seminar series Autumn 2011 [PDF 244.45KB]

05/12/11 Jean-François Drolet - American Neo-Conservatism [PDF 216.24KB]

28/11/11 Mat Watson - The Limits of Orthodox IPE Historiography: Reclaiming for IPE the Enlightenment Tradition of Market Scepticism [PDF 112.37KB]

07/11/11 Kees Van der Pijl - NATO Wars, Militarised IR: Is Western Discipline Faltering? [PDF 144.57KB]

24/10/11 Sam Knafo - Financial Bubbles and the Political Economy of Speculation [PDF 70.08KB]

17/10/11 Ronnie Lipschultz - (World) War makes the (World) State, and the (World) State makes (World) War, with apologies to Charles Tilly [PDF 240.01KB]

10/10/11 Earl Gammon - The Psycho- and Socio-genesis of Neo-liberalism [PDF 254.03KB]

 

Spring 2011

Research in Progress seminar series, Spring 2011 [PDF 8.03KB]

14/03/11 Andrew Davenport - Adorno, Agamben and the Sovereign Exception [PDF 173.46KB]

07/03/11 David Chandler - International Statebuilding: The Rise of Post-Liberal Governance [PDF 66.06KB]

28/02/11 Stacey Gutkowski - Secular Ways of War [PDF 216.55KB]

21/02/11 Richard Saull - Capitalist Development and the Far Right [PDF 253.90KB]

31/01/11 Norihisa Yamashita - Unthinking Hegemonic Cycles [PDF 105.01KB]

24/01/11 George Lawson - The New Great Transformation

17/01/11 Cynthia Weber (Sussex), 'Rethinking Violence in State/Citizen Relations'.

 

Autumn 2010

Research in Progress seminar series, Autumn 2010 [PDF 30.51KB]

22/11/10 Joseph A. Camilleri - Energy Governance in the Era of Climate Change [PDF 294.16KB]

15/11/10 Robbie Shilliam - Africa in Aotearoa: Anti-colonial struggles and the global decolonial imagination [PDF 290.56KB]

08/11/10 Jonathan Joseph - Governmentality and its Limits [PDF 147.18KB]

25/10/10 Colin McInnes - The International Politics of Global Health

18/10/10 Rorden Wilkinson - Predictions, politics and political economy: The poverty of the Doha Round and the least developed countries

11/10/10 Campbell Craig - Historical Sociology of the Nuclear Revolution

 

Spring 2010

Research in Progress seminar series, Spring 2010 [PDF 66.52KB]

15/03/10 Chris May - The Rule of Law: its Rhetoric and Meaning in Global Politics [PDF 42.56KB]

08/03/10 Shane Brighton - Clausewitz and the Canon? - Remarks on the Political Theory of Fighting [PDF 209.28KB]

01/03/10 John Hobson - Eurocentric Foundations of IR Theory

22/2/10 Seung-Wook Baek - From De-linking to Re-linking: Late Developmentalist Illusion and the Haunted Legacy of Socialism in China [PDF 516.79KB]

15/02/10 Andrei Gomez Suares - Geopolitics and Genocide: a Critical Account of the Genocide of the Union Patriotica in Columbia (1985-2010) [PDF 66.59KB]

08/02/10 Alex Colas - Marxism and Geopolitics [PDF 61.30KB]

01/02/10 Ben Selwyn - Trotsky, Gerschenkron, and the Political Economy of Late Development

25/01/10 Martin Shaw - The International Relations of Genocide: From Twentieth Century Europe to the Twenty-First Centure World [PDF 134.29KB]

18/01/10 Ronnie Lipschutz - 21st Century Liberalism and the Fusing of Public and Private [PDF 156.29KB]

 

Autumn 2009

Autumn 09 Series Programme [PDF 69.36KB]

07/11/09 Nicola Pratt - Gender Mainstreaming in International Security - Empowering Women or Facilitating US Empire Building? [PDF 55.95KB]

30/11/09 Leandro Vergara Camus - The Political Economy of the Development Alternatives of the Landless Movement in Brazil and the Zapatistas in Chiapas

23/11/09 Peter Newell - The Politics of Climate Capitalism [PDF 120.20KB]

16/11/09 Clemens Hoffman - The Pax Ottomanica from the 19th to the 21st Century - On the (im)possibility of Turkish Regional Hegemony [PDF 226.43KB]

09/11/09 Lisa Smirl - Space of Aid: Spatial Practice and the Built Environment in Humanitarian Assistance [PDF 241.57KB]

02/11/09 Andreas Behnke - Eternal Peace, Perpetual War?: A Critical Investifaction in Kant's Conceptualisation of War [PDF 97.14KB]

26/10/09 Stefanie Ortmann - Russia as a Virtual Great Power [PDF 93.16KB]

19/10/09 Hugo Radice - Understanding Neoliberalism: Finance and the Dynamics of Capitalism in the Present Crisis [PDF 69.18KB]

12/10/09 Sergio Catignani - Organisation Culture and Hypocrisy: Explaining US Army Resistant to Counter-Insurgency in Iraq (2003-2007) [PDF 211.96KB]

05/10/09 Kirsten Ainley - Virtue Ethics and International Relations [PDF 130.87KB]

 

Spring 2008

Autumn 08 Series Programme [PDF 60.98KB]

Jan Selby - Peace Processes: A Genealogy and Critique [PDF 28.07KB]

Barrie Axford - Culture and Consciousness in the Study of Global Systems [PDF 225.92KB]

Peter Ives - The Missing Language Question in Globalisation Debates: A Gramscian Approach to Global English [PDF 164.98KB]

Rosaleen Duffy - Illicit Gemstone Mining in Madagascar: Transnational networks, criminalization and global integration [PDF 87.44KB]

Fabio Petito - Dialogue of civilisations as an Alternative Model for World Order [PDF 149.04KB]

Nafeez Ahmed - IR and Empire: An Incestuous Relationship? The Socail Relations of Imperial Voilence and Genocide [PDF 76.45KB]

Claudia Aradau - Forget Equality? Security, Liberty and the 'War on Terror' [PDF 104.83KB]

Julian Saurin - Failed states, false creations : prologue of a new imperial theme [PDF 37.48KB]

 

Autumn 2007

Autumn 07 Series Programme [PDF 74.09KB]

Michael Byers and Adriana Sinclair - American and European Concepts of Sovereignty: Two Side of the Same Coin [PDF 269.11KB]

Graham Harrison - Make Poverty History: Africanisation and the Erosion of Global Social Justice [PDF 44.28KB]

Jim Whitman - Governance challenges of technological systems covergence [PDF 72.89KB]