Conference Announcement "Constructing World Order" 5th Pan-European Conference Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR) European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) The Hague (Netherlands) September 9-11, 2004
Main Themes: - International Relations Theory meets International Law The Fifth Pan-European Conference on International Relations will take place in The Hague - the Legal Capital of the World. The Peace Palace hosting the International Court of Justice, the Yugoslav Tribunal, the International Criminal Court, Europol and other international law serving institutions symbolise the construction of a world order in which ideas matter as much as material power. With the international courts around the corner, the Netherlands Congress Centre offers a fine setting for a new round in the debate about the intertwinement of International Relations Theory and International Law. In the late 19th Century, the International Peace Conferences in The Hague set the stage for the first wave of international relations studies. Drowned in good intentions and the Second World War, this mainly legalistic wave of International Relations was labelled Idealism. Nevertheless, more than a hundred years later, international cooperation is beyond original dreams - but nightmares of major warfare are back as well. What did we learn over the past century? Are we still in a fruitless debate between Idealism and Realism? Can new approaches, notably Social Constructivism, shed new light on the analysis? How will International Relations Theory meet International Law in the historical setting of The Hague? - The European Union meets New Members On May 1st, 2004, the European Union intends to enlarge its membership with ten states. Chairing the EU in the second half of 2004, the Netherlands will have to play a strong coordinating role in organizing the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) of Heads of State and Government at which the outcome of the European Convention will be sealed. The Fifth Pan-European Conference will provide a timely input in both academic and public debates about Europes future. Additionally, the conference will present an early opportunity to evaluate the enlargement process that started fifteen years ago, in Berlin in 1989. Scholars from both sides of the table can discuss the negotiations on the basis of their outcomes. This conference wants to be pan-European indeed, in order to analyse the societal, economic, political, legal and military consequences of Europes new deal. We welcome panels that combine both academics and practitioners. - Anarchy meets Hierarchy The final theme combines the others at a higher level of abstraction. How do traditional and new schools of thought in International Relations cope with the variety of politically relevant structures in the present world society, such as the international system, the world economy, international society, and the fruits and perils of globalisation? What does the English School have to say about failed states in well-ordered subsystems? How does International Political Economy accommodate to changes in the mutually constitutive nature of state and markets? Will Strategic Studies and Security Studies grasp the transformation of war? Can International Relations survive without an echo of inside/outside logic? (And should it try?) Conference Programme Convenors: - Prof.Dr. Richard Higgott (Director, UK ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation and Professor in International Politics at the University of Warwick) - Prof.Dr. Jaap H. de Wilde (Director, Centre for European Studies at the University of Twente and Professor in European Security Studies at the Free University Amsterdam) - Dr. Eleni Tsingou (Research Fellow, UK ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation and Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Warwick) To contact the Conference Organisers, send an e-mail to: [email protected] Conference Website: http://www.sgir.org/conference2004/ _________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org/ Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://agd.polylog.org/cal/
