Militarism: Political Economy, Security, Theory

MESSAGE TO CONFERENCE DELEGATES

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Upon arrival, all conference delegates are kindly requested to go to room RB 14 in order to get their badge and conference pack. Roon RB 14 is located on the ground floor of the Russell Building. The registration desk will be open on Thursday 14 May from 11.00 until 17.00, and on Friday 15 May from 08.30 until 14.30. All delegates should make sure to get their badge before attending the panels, as un-registered individuals will not be allowed into the conference venues.

All conference rooms are located in two buildings: Russell Building (RB) and Education Development Building (EDB). Please check the campus map (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/aboutus/findus/documents/campusmap.pdf), they are buildings no. 14 and 17 respectively.

If you require further information on travel information, campus location etc., please check the following link: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/aboutus/findus/

REGISTRATION FOR THE CONFERENCE NOW CLOSED

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Registration for the international conference on "Militarism: Political Economy, Security, Theory" on 14-15 May 2009 is now closed.

For all enquiries please contact Dr. Anna Stavrianakis and Dr. Iraklis Oikonomou on:

militarismconference@gmail.com

Thank you.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME (FINAL)

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“Militarism: Political Economy, Security, Theory”
An international conference at the Centre for Global Political Economy, Department of International Relations, University of Sussex, 14-15 May 2009.

Conference Programme

DAY 1 – Thursday, 14 May 2009

13.15 – 13.30: Welcome, Room EDB 121

Iraklis Oikonomou and Anna Stavrianakis (Conference organisers, Department of International Relations, University of Sussex)

13.30 - 15.00: A1 Plenary Panel, Room EDB 121

THEORISING MILITARISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Chair: Anna Stavrianakis

- Thomas Reifer (University of San Diego, USA & Transnational Institute)

US Militarism & the “Myths of Empire” in the Longue Duree: From the Anglo-American Hegemonic Transition to the Rise & Demise of the New Deal World Order, late 19th to 21st Century

- Martin Shaw (University of Sussex)

21st Century Militarism: A historical-sociological framework for transformations of war-society-relations

15.00-15.30: Break

15.30 - 17.00: A2.1 Parallel Panel, Room EDB 317

STATE, SECURITY AND THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Chair: Iraklis Oikonomou

- Bryan Mabee (Queen Mary, University of London)

The United States as a National Security State: Crisis, Transformation and the Political Economy of Security

- Jocelyn Mawdsley (University of Newcastle)

The EU and Armaments: Towards a Military-Industrial Complex?
- Frank Sliper (Campagne tegen Wapenhandel & Transnational Institute)

The European Defence Agency at five

15.30 – 17.00: A2.2 Parallel Panel, Room EDB 309

MILITARISM IN ARAB-ISRAELI RELATIONS
Chair: Clemens Hoffmann

- Anne de Jong (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

The True Enemy: Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance

- Yoav Peled (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

From Oslo to Gaza: The Remilitarization of the Israeli-Arab Conflict

- Yoram Peri (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

"Next Summer Syria will Launch a War": How the Media Create National Security Misconceptions

15.30 – 17.00: A2.3 Parallel Panel, Room RB 22

APPROACHES TO MILITARISM, PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT
Chair: Jennifer Pedersen

- Spiridon Litsas (University of Macedonia, Greece)

Democratic Peace and Militarism in the 21st Century

- Naison Ngoma (Institute for Security Studies, South Africa)

Militarization and Militarism in Africa: A Driver or Hindrance of Socio-Economic and Political Stability?

- Nicola Short (York University, Canada)

Militarism and the Political Economy of Development: A Gramscian Reading

17.15 - 19.00: A3 Keynote speech, Room EDB 121
Introduction: Jan Selby

- James Der Derian (Brown University, USA)

The Scholar as Warrior: Culture as the Killer Variable of Counter-Insurgency

- Film viewing: Cultural Warriors

20.00: Conference Dinner, Brighton

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DAY 2 – Friday, 15 May 2009

09.30 - 11.00: B1.1 Parallel panel, Room EDB 309

CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF MILITARISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Chair: Stefan Elbe

- Daniel Neep (University of Exeter)

Conscription, Militarism and Authoritarianism in Contemporary Syria

- Ludmila du Bouchet (University of Cambridge)

Transnationalised militarisation in Yemen. Processes and paradoxes of an encounter in the 'Global War on Terror'

- Anna Stavrianakis (University of Sussex)

At Arms' Length? UK-Saudi arms deals, dependent state formation and hegemonic forms of militarisation

09.30-11.00: B1.2 Parallel panel, Room RB 12

CAPITALISM AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MILITARISM
Chair: Steffan Wyn Jones

- İsmet Akça (Yildiz Technical University, Turkey)

The articulation(s) and disarticulation(s) between militarism and capitalism in the age of neoliberalism: The case of Thurkey in the post-1980 period

- Peter Custers (University of Leiden, The Netherlands)

Military Keynesianism today – an innovative discourse

- Ayesha Siddiqa (Independent expert, Pakistan)

Expansion of the Security Sector: A Case study of Pakistan

11.00 - 11.30 Break

11.30 – 1315: B2.1 Parallel Panel, Room RB 12

THE MILITARISATION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION?
Chair: Frank Slijper

- André Barrinha (University of Kent)

Justifying the European Defence Agency: from national security to global economy?

- Ben Hayes (Statewatch & Transnational Institute)

Full Spectrum Dominance: Corporate and Military Influences on EU Security Policy

-Iraklis Oikonomou (University of Sussex)

Kopernikus/GMES and the militarisation of EU space policy

11.30 – 13.15: B2.2 Parallel Panel, Room EDB 309

GENDERED MILITARISMS
Chair: Nicola Short

- Paul Higate (University of Bristol)

Militarizing the Everyday: Men, Masculinities, and the Private Security Company

- Yiannis Karakatsianis (University of Athens, Greece)

A local gender society of South Greece and its militarisation after World War II: Characteristics of violence in South Peloponnese

- Jennifer Pedersen (Aberystwyth University)

Raging against the (war) machine: the Raging Grannies in post-9/11 North America

13.15 - 14.30 Lunch

14.30 – 16.00: B3.1 Parallel Panel, Room EDB 309

SECURITY, CITIZENSHIP AND RESISTANCE
Chair: Anne de Jong

- Paul Amar (University of California, Santa Barbara & University of Bristol)

Operation Princess in Rio de Janeiro: Policing ‘Sex Trafficking’, Strengthening Worker Citizenship, and the Urban Geopolitics of Security in Brazil

- Victoria Basham (University of Bristol)

Biographies of Militarism, Mobility and Resistance: An Agenda for Research into the Negotiation of Identity and (In)security
- Evren Balta Paker (Yildiz University, Turkey)

Citizen Rebels, Citizen Militia: The Militarization of Internal Security Practices in Russia and Turkey

- Alison Howell (University of Manchester)

Militarism and the Governance of Soldiers’ Psyches: From Stoicism to Therapeutics

14.30 – 16.00: B3.2 Parallel Panel, Room RB 12
MILITARISM, CONFLICT AND CONTROL
Chair: Lauren Greenwood

- Aaron Edwards (Royal Military Academy)

Militarism, Ethnic Conflict and Terrorism: Drawing a Line Under the Past
- Stuart Gordon (Royal Military Academy)

Hearts and Minds: Soft Power, Civil Society and Changing Military Competences

- Björn Müller-Wille (Royal Military Academy)

Measuring of Effects (MoE) in Afghanistan

16.00 – 16.30: Break

16.30 – 17.45: B4 Plenary Roundtable, Room EDB 309

CONNECTING ACADEMICS, PRACTITIONERS AND ACTIVISTS

Chair: Kees van der Pijl
Opening remarks: Kate Hudson (Head, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament)

Other participants: Naison Ngoma; Yoav Peled; Ayesha Siddiqa

WHO IS WHO - OUR CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

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İsmet Akça is assistant professor at the Political Science and International Relations Department at Yıldız Technical University (İstanbul, Turkey). His Phd dissertation is entitled “Militarism, Capitalism and the State: Putting the Military in its Place in Turkey”. His research areas covers social and political theory with a spefic focus on theories of state; political sociology of Turkey, specifically conducting research on the state, militarisation in political and economic spheres, capitalist socio-political transformation, and the politics of neoliberalism.

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Paul Amar serves as Assistant Professor in the Law & Society Program with appointments in Global Studies, Feminist Studies, Latin American Studies and Middle East Studies. Prof. Amar is a political scientist and urban ethnographer specializing in security politics, police-military relations, humanitarian law and authoritarian states. He researches the transnational and urban dynamics of police militarization as well as state violence against racial and sexual minorities in the cities of Latin America and the Middle East. Dr. Amar has worked at the United Nations, and on behalf of community struggles to fight police brutality and military atrocity, and to strengthen institutions of citizenship and cultures of legality.

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Evren Balta Paker received her degrees from Columbia University and CUNY-Graduate Center (New York, USA). She is currently teaching at Yildiz University where she has also served as a board member of the Global Studies Center. She has received grants from Mellon Foundation, American Association for University Women, and Kennan Institute. Her research and scholarly concerns deal with civil wars, internal security practices, para-military organisations, state centralisation, and human rights in conflict-ridden socities. She has completed a manuscript (co-edited with ismet Akça) on National Security, Military, and the State in Turkey: 1908-2008.

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Dr. Victoria Basham is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bristol and an associate of the Centre for International and Security Studies, York University. Her research explores the politics of militarization, identity, (in)security and the everyday. She has recently published articles on the negotiation of subjectivity in the British military and is now developing work on torture and military identity, on subjectivity, governmentality and surveillance and on resisting militarization. She is currently a consultant at the Open University, working on a project entitled 'Governing through the Future' with Dr Claudia Aradau. She is also a member of the C.A.S.E. Collective

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Dr. Peter Custers (www.petercusters.nl) has a long record of engagement with the thematic of militarism, both as an activist and as a researcher/theoretician. In the 1980s, he was an active participant in the Dutch peace movement against the threat of nuclear war. He helped coordinate the activities of a small coalition advocating civil disobedience and non-cooperation (Bonk). Subsequently, he did sustained research into the political economy of arms’ production, which research amongst others has resulted in the comprehensive theoretical study ‘Questioning Globalized Militarism. Nuclear and Military Production and Critical Economic Theory’ (Tulika Publishers, New Delhi, India/Merlin Press, London, United Kingdom, 2007) . During the last one and a half years he has been based at the International Institute for Asian Studies (I.I.A.S.), Leiden, the Netherlands.
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Stuart Gordon is an academic in the Department of Defence and International Affairs at the Royal Military Academy. He is also a Research Fellow at Reading University and a member of the Board of International Advisers to Liverpool Hope University’s Centre for War and Peace Studies. He is currently the programme director for the Academy’s ‘Measuring the Effectiveness of Stabilisation Operations Programme’ and a part of a research project, based in Tuft’s University’s Feinstein Center, that is exploring the use of development assistance in conflict environments. He specialises in the politics of conflict.

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Dr. Alison Howell is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Politics at the University of Manchester, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Her research cuts across the fields of critical security studies, global governance, and the history and sociology of medicine and health in order to interrogate how psychology and psychiatry are increasingly being used as tools for governing ‘unruly’ populations in global politics. She is presently working on publishing a book based on her PhD thesis, Madness in International Relations: Therapeutic Interventions and the Global Governance of Disorder(s), which considers how mental health policies are deployed on the bodies of suspected terrorists, post-conflict populations, and soldiers. Currently, she is conducting research on the growth of new mental health policies and practices in Iraq.

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Spyridon N. Litsas is a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Macedonia (Greece). He holds a Ph.D in International Relations from the University of Durham. He has published various articles in reputable Greek and international journals. His main academic interests lies within the field of International Relations Theory, Turkish Politics and Foreign Affairs, Middle East and Islam, War Theory. At the moment he is working on his first monograph, about War Theory and Rationalism.

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Bryan Mabee is Lecturer in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London. His research is focused on the interaction between war, security and political development from the perspective of international relations. His current work examines the interconnections between globalisation and security; the relationship between war, statebuilding and security in the United States; and private violence and the political economy of security. He has recently completed a book on the globalisation of security.

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Dr. Naison Ngoma is the Head of the African Security Sector Governance Programme at the Institute for Security in Pretoria. He has taught international relations, research methodology and security related subjects served at the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa in the post of Expert on Post-conflict Reconstruction and Peace Building. Dr. Ngoma has published works on civil-military relations; defence management; post-conflict reconstruction and security sector reform. Among some of his recent works, is a book entitled "Prospects of a Security Community in Southern Africa".

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Iraklis Oikonomou is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex and a researcher at the Hellenic Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is currently working on a post-doctoral research project funded by the European Foreign and Security Policy Studies programme, studying the emergence and contradictions of an EU space policy for security and military purposes. His main research interests are EU armaments policy and the political economy of European Security and Defence Policy.

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Yoram Peri is Founder of the Rothschild-Caesarea School of Communication, and the Head of the Chaim Herzog Institute for Media, Politics and Society, in Tel Aviv University, where he is a Professor of Political Sociology and Communication. He was the political advisor to the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Israeli daily, Davar. At present he is a visitor professor at the center for Israel Studies, American University, Washington DC. Prof. Peri has published five books and dozens of scholarly articles in books and academic journals, as well as editorials, commentaries and op-ed articles. His latest book, Generals in the Cabinet Room: How the Military Shapes Israeli Policy (2006), was recognized as one of the "best of the best" by the Association of American University Presses, the American Association of School Librarians and the Public Library Association. His previous book, Brothers at War: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Culture War in Israel (2005), received the Prime Minister's Prize, and was named as the best book in social sciences for 2006 by the Israeli Political Science Association. In 2004 Stanford University Press published his book Telepopulism: Media and Politics in Israel, and his first book Between Battles and Ballots: Israeli Military in Politics (1983) is still consider a must book for the understanding of Civil-Military relations in Israel. A frequent commentator on radio and television, Prof. Peri has served as Chair of the Association of Editors of Israeli Dailies and has lectured at universities and research centers in more than one dozen countries, including Harvard University and Dartmouth College, USA, Sciences-Po in Paris France, and others.

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Martin Shaw is currently Research Professor in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex, where he held the Chair of International Relations and Politics from 1995 to 2008. He was previously a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Durham (1970-72), and then Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor of Sociology at the University of Hull (1972-95). His work has focused on the sociology of global politics, war and genocide. His books include Marxism and Social Science, London: Pluto, 1975; Dialectics of War, London: Pluto, 1988; Post-Military Society, Cambridge: Polity, 1991; Global Society and International Relations, Cambridge: Polity, 1994; Civil Society and Media in Global Crises, London: Pinter, 1996; Theory of the Global State, Cambridge University Press, 2000 and War and Genocide, Cambridge: Polity, 2003, The New Western Way of War, Cambridge: Polity, 2005, and What is Genocide? Cambridge: Polity, 2007. His personal website is www.martinshaw.org and he is contributes a monthly column to www.opendemocracy.net
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Nicola Short is Associate Professor of Political Science at York University (Canada) and a visiting scholar at the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex for the 2009 Summer Term. Her current research examines the political economy of inequality and difference in world affairs from the perspective of Gramscian political theory. Dr. Short is the author of The International Politics of Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Guatemala (Palgrave: 2007). She holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and an MA in Peace Research from the University of Bradford.
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Frank Slijper (1970) works at the Dutch Campaign against Arms Trade (Campagne tegen Wapenhandel) and has been a researcher and campaigner on arms trade issues since he graduated in 1993 as an economist (international economic relations) on Dutch military procurement and offset policies. His most recent English publications include From Venus to Mars – the European Union’s steps towards the militarisation of space (TNI, 2008); Project Butter Factory - Henk Slebos and the A.Q. Khan nuclear network (TNI, 2007) and The Emerging EU Military-Industrial Complex (TNI, 2005). For more on the Dutch Campaign Against Arms Trade: http://www.stoparmstrade.org/

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Anna Stavrianakis is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex. Her main research areas are the arms trade and military globalisation; and NGOs and global civil society. She is currently working on a book on NGO activity in relation to the arms trade, to be published by Zed Books.

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT ACCOMMODATION

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http://www.sussex.ac.uk/aboutus/findus/wheretostay.php

This is a list of University of Sussex approved hotels and guest houses in the Brighton & Hove area. All of these establishments have been visited and approved by the University Approved hotels working panel and will be reviewed annually.
Brighton is a lively, busy city 24 hours a day! The hotels and guests houses have been selected to offer those coming to stay in Brighton a wide choice of accommodation in different locations to suit all budgets and requirements.
The hotels located in the centre of the city will be lively and probably a little noisy, especially if they face the seafront. This will be great for some visitors but others may wish to request a quieter room (to the rear of the hotel) or choose a hotel away from the city centre.
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GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT TRAVEL

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Arriving from overseas
By air
The closest airport to Brighton is London Gatwick, which is 30 minutes away by train. London Heathrow is around two hours away by coach. European budget airlines tend to fly to Luton, Stansted and London City airports, but please be aware that these are some distance away from Brighton, although public transport links are available.
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Channel tunnel rail link
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Eurostar London St Pancras
Sea
Cross-channel car and passenger ferries operate between Dieppe in France and Newhaven, which then has a direct train link to Falmer. From Portsmouth or Southampton, take the train to Brighton and change for Falmer. From any other port, take the train to London and travel from Victoria train station via Brighton.

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Travel from the UK
Train
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Coach
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Taxi
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Car
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CALL FOR PAPERS

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THE CALL FOR PAPERS IS NOW CLOSED. THANK YOU.

Call for Papers: “Militarism: Political economy, security, theory.”

Conference at the Centre for Global Political Economy in the Department of International Relations, University of Sussex, UK

14-15 May 2009

Militarism and militarisation – the social processes associated with the production and valorisation of organised violence – have long been central issues on the International Relations agenda. Cold War concerns over arms races, military expenditure, vast numbers of people under arms, arms sales to the Third World, and militaristic attitudes and practices that promote organised violence, were all topics hotly debated in the literature. With the end of the Cold War, the dissolution of the USSR, a drop in military budgets, and the rise of discourses around human rights and humanitarian intervention, concerns around militarisation were relegated to the sidelines. The militarised US-led response to 9/11, characterised by the war in Iraq and rising military budgets around the world but especially in the USA, has signalled a return to centre stage of military force as an arbiter of international relations and prompted a resurgence in the literature on militarism and militarisation.

Associated with the broadening of the IR agenda in the post-Cold War era, there is growing recognition that militarism and militarisation cannot only be thought of in terms of the traditional distinction between internal and external security. They have spread into the internal realm through the intensification of surveillance, the creation of new bodies of control, and the reform of the legal and institutional context through which states administer their internal security affairs.. Feminist scholars are examining masculinities and the role of gender relations in promoting militaristic attitudes, policies and practices, and the racialised nature of coercion and control is increasingly being recognised. Cold War concerns over the militarisation of civil institutions such as the university, fields such as space, and various geographical regions, have returned, albeit in a seemingly radically new context. Along the way, the literature from the 1980s seems to have been sidelined, cast aside as out of date, given its backdrop of superpower competition and a bipolar world.

The Centre for Global Political Economy (CGPE) in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex aims to bring together scholars, practitioners and activists working on militarism and militarisation from a diverse range of theoretical approaches in a two-day conference. The guiding ethos of the conference asks what the current state of play is in the literature on militarism, what we can learn from old debates and what newer debates can contribute; how the phenomenon of militarism can be theoretically, empirically and practically located at the crossroads between international political economy, security studies and international relations; and how academics, practitioners and activists can learn from each other.

We welcome papers on themes including, but not limited to:
- old and new theories of militarisation and militarism;
- discourses and ideologies of militarisation;
- class, arms production and the military-industrial complex;
- gender dynamics and the (re)production of militarism;
- the racialised nature and effects of militarism;
- North-South relations, domination and resistance in processes of militarisation;
- the militarisation of internal security practices;
- regional, inter- and transnational institutions, agents, policies and mechanisms of militarisation;
- the international relations of militarism;
- the relationship between academic and practitioner research on militarism.

The organisers welcome the submission of proposals for both panels and papers. Please send a short abstract (approx. 300 words per paper) to Dr. Anna Stavrianakis and Dr. Iraklis Oikonomou at militarismconference@gmail.com by 9 February 2009. A provisional conference programme will be announced on 1 March 2009. Papers should be sent by 30 April 2009.