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> > *Subject:* *PhD position in political geography / critical security > studies, Uni of Geneva, Switzerland* > This position is part of a large multi-team multi-disciplinary > geography / IR / political science project on regions, security, and > international crises. > > Open to candidates with a Master's degree in geography, political > science and/or critical IR. English & French essential. > > Full details of the position > here: > https://jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=1&p_web_page_id=22177 > > > *Which region? The politics of the UN Security Council P5 in > international security crises* > > A project funded by SNF (100017L_162925) and led by Professors Andreas > Wenger (Forschungsstelle für Sicherheitspolitik ETH-Zentrum), Nadine > Godehardt (German Institute for International and Security Affairs) > and Juliet Fall. Academics and policy circles agree that there is a > need for greater involvement of regions and regional actors in > international security governance. There is, however, little agreement > on what this entails and how it should work: the concept of the > region/regional remains essentially contested within international > politics. International actors have put forward overlapping and > contradictory plans for a regional solution to insecurity in > Afghanistan or more recently over crises in Libya, Syria and Ukraine, > identifying the region as different spaces, including different > actors. While it is now commonplace for international actors to assert > the importance of the region, regional voices and regional solutions, > key questions about how they politically and spatially represent and > articulate regions are largely neglected. > > This project thus aims to theorise and empirically investigate how > international actors politically constitute the region/regional and > its role during international security crises. It also investigates > what impact this has on international efforts at governing such > security crises. > > The UN Security Council remains the key international forum and actor > for representing, debating and responding to international security > crisis. And its Permanent Five members are the most significant > influences on the UNSC position on a security crisis. In this project, > we examine how China, France, Russia, UK and US politically constitute > regions, regional actors and regional organisations during > international security crises; and analyse how they assert these > positions in UNSC meeting and debates. Our analysis is centred on > three recent case studies of international security crises: > Afghanistan (2011), Syria/Iraq/ISIS (2011- 2016); Ukraine/Crimea > (2014-2016). In all of these crises, the designation of the region and > the role for regional actors has been disputed and contested. In so > doing, the project will address three primary research objectives: > > * To assess how the greater emphasis on and legitimacy attributed to > the region/regional in international politics effects the > governance of international security crises. > * To investigate how key international actors (the P5, UNSC) are > representing the region/regional in international security crises, > and what effects this is having on their perspective on the crises. > * To evaluate the degree to which perspectives on the > region/regional, and its role in efforts at governing > international security, are contested among key international > actors (the P5, UNSC). > > Please apply online. > Queries can be addressed to Juliet Fall if you require additional > information or if you wish to know more about working at the > University of Geneva. > > Further information in French about our Department > here: http://www.unige.ch/sciences-societe/geo/ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
