Please find attached to this e-mail the Call for Papers of a forthcoming AHRC-funded symposium open to PhD students based at a UK institution working in any field of Scandinavian Studies, namely to any PhD student doing research on ANY aspect of the histories, cultures or languages of the Nordic countries. Students who are working on comparative research projects where aspects of the histories, cultures and languages of the Nordic countries are compared to those of other countries are also encouraged to apply.
The Nordic Research Network: PhD Symposium of Scandinavian Studies in the UK, hosted by the Department of Scandinavian Studies at University College London, will take place on 9-10 September 2010. The Call for Papers will remain open until 30 April 2010.
CONTACT EMAIL: nrn2010@googlemail.com
Yours sincerely,
The Organisers
Elettra Carbone
John Mitchinson
Orri Tomasson
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2008-11-20
Scandinavian Politics
Hej to all on the Scandinavian politics list,
Various notices.
1. PSA CONFERENCE, April 2009 (www.psa.ac.uk/2009). There may be room for just one more paper on our panel. Let me know sharpish if you're keen.
Here are some additional items that might be of interest.
2. LONDON EVENTS (courtesy of Mary Hilson)
Book launch: Helsinki Catch - European Security Accords 1975
The book deals with the CSCE process (Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, later OSCE) from the Finnish perspective and covers the period of CSCE's early phases, including the negotiation of the so-called Helsinki Accords up to the end of the Cold War and the transformation of Europe. The author is one of Finland's most renowned CSCE experts, Ambassador Markku Reimaa, who participated in the Conference throughout its various phases and led the Finnish delegation at the Stockholm Conference on Confidence and Security-building Measures and Disarmament in Europe.
The seminar will take place at UCL, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Room 433, 16 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW (for maps and directions please see www.ucl.ac.uk/maps). The event is organised by the Finnish Embassy, and will be followed by a reception to which all attending the seminar are invited. If you would like to attend, or if you would like further details, please contact Ms Anna-Leena Raittinen at the Embassy of Finland on 020 7838 6237 or anna-leena.raittinen@formin.fi. RSVP by Friday 21 November.
PS: Don't forget the UCL Nordic-Baltic Study Day on 28th November (www.ucl.ac.uk/~tjmsrcm/NBRG/NBRGHomepage.htm). All are welcome, but places are limited (due to the size of the room) so please let me know (m.hilson@ucl.ac.uk) as soon as possible if you would like to attend.
3. SCHOLARSHIPS AND STIPENDIUMS FROM MANCHESTER
The Democracy, Citizens and Elections Research Network (DCERN) at the University of Manchester (www.dcern.org.uk) would like to publicise upcoming opportunities for visiting research positions/fellowships at Manchester. Schemes are open to international and domestic doctoral students and those holding their PhD and vary from one month up to three years. For further information see:
* University of Manchester Simon and Hallsworth Fellowships for early-career scholars in social sciences and political economy to conduct a programme of research at the University of Manchester. www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/simonhallsworth/
Deadline Jan 2009
* University of Manchester Simon and Hallsworth Visiting Professorships to enable established researchers to come to Manchester for a period of 2 - 12 weeks to work with colleagues. Applications due in Jan 2009. Further details available from dcern@manchester.ac.uk .
* Newton fellowship scheme - aims to attract the best postdoctoral researchers to the UK for up to two years. They cover a range of disciplines, including the social sciences. Applications for October 2009 are now open. You can find out more at
www.newtonfellowships.org/
* The British Academy visiting fellowship scheme enabling early-career scholars to attend a UK institution for 2-6 months (deadline 12 Jan):
www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/intl/visfells.cfm
Please email dcern@manchester.ac.uk for further details on this or any of the above opportunities.
4. CALL FOR PAPERS: Annual European Graduate Conference on Political Parties (AEGCPP - www.aegcpp.org.uk), Monday 16th February 2009 at the University of Birmingham.
Best,
Nick Aylott.
--
Dr Nicholas Aylott, senior lecturer (docent) in political science
School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University, Stockholm
SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
www.sh.se/samhallsvetenskaper
Various notices.
1. PSA CONFERENCE, April 2009 (www.psa.ac.uk/2009). There may be room for just one more paper on our panel. Let me know sharpish if you're keen.
Here are some additional items that might be of interest.
2. LONDON EVENTS (courtesy of Mary Hilson)
Book launch: Helsinki Catch - European Security Accords 1975
The book deals with the CSCE process (Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, later OSCE) from the Finnish perspective and covers the period of CSCE's early phases, including the negotiation of the so-called Helsinki Accords up to the end of the Cold War and the transformation of Europe. The author is one of Finland's most renowned CSCE experts, Ambassador Markku Reimaa, who participated in the Conference throughout its various phases and led the Finnish delegation at the Stockholm Conference on Confidence and Security-building Measures and Disarmament in Europe.
The seminar will take place at UCL, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Room 433, 16 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW (for maps and directions please see www.ucl.ac.uk/maps). The event is organised by the Finnish Embassy, and will be followed by a reception to which all attending the seminar are invited. If you would like to attend, or if you would like further details, please contact Ms Anna-Leena Raittinen at the Embassy of Finland on 020 7838 6237 or anna-leena.raittinen@formin.fi. RSVP by Friday 21 November.
PS: Don't forget the UCL Nordic-Baltic Study Day on 28th November (www.ucl.ac.uk/~tjmsrcm/NBRG/NBRGHomepage.htm). All are welcome, but places are limited (due to the size of the room) so please let me know (m.hilson@ucl.ac.uk) as soon as possible if you would like to attend.
3. SCHOLARSHIPS AND STIPENDIUMS FROM MANCHESTER
The Democracy, Citizens and Elections Research Network (DCERN) at the University of Manchester (www.dcern.org.uk) would like to publicise upcoming opportunities for visiting research positions/fellowships at Manchester. Schemes are open to international and domestic doctoral students and those holding their PhD and vary from one month up to three years. For further information see:
* University of Manchester Simon and Hallsworth Fellowships for early-career scholars in social sciences and political economy to conduct a programme of research at the University of Manchester. www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/simonhallsworth/
Deadline Jan 2009
* University of Manchester Simon and Hallsworth Visiting Professorships to enable established researchers to come to Manchester for a period of 2 - 12 weeks to work with colleagues. Applications due in Jan 2009. Further details available from dcern@manchester.ac.uk .
* Newton fellowship scheme - aims to attract the best postdoctoral researchers to the UK for up to two years. They cover a range of disciplines, including the social sciences. Applications for October 2009 are now open. You can find out more at
www.newtonfellowships.org/
* The British Academy visiting fellowship scheme enabling early-career scholars to attend a UK institution for 2-6 months (deadline 12 Jan):
www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/intl/visfells.cfm
Please email dcern@manchester.ac.uk for further details on this or any of the above opportunities.
4. CALL FOR PAPERS: Annual European Graduate Conference on Political Parties (AEGCPP - www.aegcpp.org.uk), Monday 16th February 2009 at the University of Birmingham.
Best,
Nick Aylott.
--
Dr Nicholas Aylott, senior lecturer (docent) in political science
School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University, Stockholm
SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
www.sh.se/samhallsvetenskaper
2008-10-26
Scandinavian Politics: events in London
Dear all on the Scandinavian Politics list,
The following two events in London may be of interest to some. Details are provided by Mary Hilson of the Department of Scandinavian Studies, University College London.
1) Conference: Nordic Media in Theory and Practice, UCL, 7-8 November
2008
Organised by Reuters Institute for Study of Journalism in Oxford, in association with Department of Scandinavian Studies at UCL. For more information see http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/news/item/article/nordic-media-in-theory-and-practice-7-8-november.html
2) Baltic-Nordic Study Day, UCL, 28 November 2008
This event launches a new research group on the Baltic-Nordic region, linking the UCL Department of Scandinavian Studies and the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. The Study Day will bring together researchers from UCL and other universities in London and the
CEELBAS (www.ceelbas.ac.uk) network. See
www.ucl.ac.uk/~tjmsrcm/NBRG/NBRGHomepage.htm or follow the link
from the UCL Department of Scandinavian Studies homepage (www.ucl.ac.uk/scandinavian-studies/welcome). All are welcome to
attend.
Best,
Nick Aylott.
--
Dr Nicholas Aylott, senior lecturer (docent) in political science
School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University, Stockholm
SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
www.sh.se/samhallsvetenskaper
The following two events in London may be of interest to some. Details are provided by Mary Hilson of the Department of Scandinavian Studies, University College London.
1) Conference: Nordic Media in Theory and Practice, UCL, 7-8 November
2008
Organised by Reuters Institute for Study of Journalism in Oxford, in association with Department of Scandinavian Studies at UCL. For more information see http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/news/item/article/nordic-media-in-theory-and-practice-7-8-november.html
2) Baltic-Nordic Study Day, UCL, 28 November 2008
This event launches a new research group on the Baltic-Nordic region, linking the UCL Department of Scandinavian Studies and the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. The Study Day will bring together researchers from UCL and other universities in London and the
CEELBAS (www.ceelbas.ac.uk) network. See
www.ucl.ac.uk/~tjmsrcm/NBRG/NBRGHomepage.htm or follow the link
from the UCL Department of Scandinavian Studies homepage (www.ucl.ac.uk/scandinavian-studies/welcome). All are welcome to
attend.
Best,
Nick Aylott.
--
Dr Nicholas Aylott, senior lecturer (docent) in political science
School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University, Stockholm
SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
www.sh.se/samhallsvetenskaper
2008-09-23
[Fwd: Call for papers: Labour Markets and Welfare States. The Nordic Model in Comparative and Transnational Historical Perspectives]
Possibly of interest to some on the Scandinavian Politics list...
--
Dr Nicholas Aylott, senior lecturer (docent) in political science
School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University College, Stockholm
SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
www.sh.se/samhallsvetenskaper
Please feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be interested. To join the Scandinavian Politics mailing list, send a message to me, the convenor (nicholas.aylott@sh.se). If you want to send something to the list, or if you don't want to receive these occasional messages, just let me know. See also www.psa.ac.uk/spgrp/scandinavia/
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Call for papers: Labour Markets and Welfare States. The Nordic Model in Comparative and Transnational Historical Perspectives
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:25:33 +0300
From: aalanko@mappi.helsinki.fi
Dear recipient,
could you please forward the below call for papers to your e-mail lists?
With best wishes, Anna Alanko
**
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Labour Markets and Welfare States. The Nordic Model in Comparative and
Transnational Historical Perspectives
The conference "Labour Markets and Welfare States. The Nordic Model in
Comparative and Transnational Historical Perspectives" takes place in
Stockholm, 13-15 May 2009
Organizers: The Nordic Centre of Excellence: The Nordic Welfare State
- Historical Foundations and Future Challenges (NCoE NordWel) in
cooperation with the Department of History, Stockholm University.
Since the 1930s, the Nordic countries have been singled out as a
special case in international politics. In comparative welfare state
research the concept The Nordic Model has become a standard term.
However, the Nordic model is often and inadequately described in terms
of distinct social policy configuration when it is better seen as a
particular complex of welfare policies, labour market institutions,
and gender relations which has emerged in the Nordic countries over
the last century. According to this interpretation, two principles
characterize the model. On the one hand, a universalist idea of social
rights based on citizenship, and on the other hand, the normalcy of
wage work as the social form of labour.
The second international conference organized by the NCoE NordWel is
devoted to the historically contingent interconnectedness of welfare
states and labour markets. We invite proposals for papers that analyze
these complex relations in a broad historical perspective covering the
period from ca 1900 to the present. Papers can be both theoretical and
empirical in their approach. They can deal with particular cases,
focus on national themes or have a comparative/transnational
perspective. Among the suggested themes are
* Comparative analysis of labour markets and welfare states
* Gender, wage work, family policies and welfare states
* Labour market policies and activation policies - continuities and
discontinuities
* Sectorialized wage work (health care, social services) in the making
of welfare states
* Unions, employers and welfare states
* Migration, global labour markets and national welfare policies
* Changing and competing concepts, images and definitions of work and welfare
Paper proposals (1/2 page) should be submitted to the following e-mail
address: nils.edling@historia.su.se. The deadline for submissions of
abstracts is December 15, 2008. Authors of submitted abstracts will be
notified not later than January 15, 2008.
NCoE NordWel will provide accommodation for all participants with
accepted papers. Travel grant can be applied for in connection with
abstract submission.
Nordic Centre of Excellence The Nordic Welfare State - Historical
Foundations and Future Challenges, NCoE NordWel, is a
multi-disciplinary, cross-national research network of seven partner
units in Nordic universities. The Centre started its activities in
March 2007 as a part of NordForsk Centre of Excellence. For more
information, see: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/nord-wel/.
--
Anna Alanko
Coordinator
NCoE NordWel
Nordic Centre of Excellence: The Nordic Welfare State - Historical
Foundations and Future Challenges
Dept. of Social Science History
P.O. Box 54 (Snellmaninkatu 14A)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
Tel +358 (0)9 191 249 58
Fax +358 (0)9 191 249 42
E-mail anna.alanko@helsinki.fi
Www: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/nord-wel/
--
Dr Nicholas Aylott, senior lecturer (docent) in political science
School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University College, Stockholm
SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
www.sh.se/samhallsvetenskaper
Please feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be interested. To join the Scandinavian Politics mailing list, send a message to me, the convenor (nicholas.aylott@sh.se). If you want to send something to the list, or if you don't want to receive these occasional messages, just let me know. See also www.psa.ac.uk/spgrp/scandinavia/
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Call for papers: Labour Markets and Welfare States. The Nordic Model in Comparative and Transnational Historical Perspectives
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:25:33 +0300
From: aalanko@mappi.helsinki.fi
Dear recipient,
could you please forward the below call for papers to your e-mail lists?
With best wishes, Anna Alanko
**
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Labour Markets and Welfare States. The Nordic Model in Comparative and
Transnational Historical Perspectives
The conference "Labour Markets and Welfare States. The Nordic Model in
Comparative and Transnational Historical Perspectives" takes place in
Stockholm, 13-15 May 2009
Organizers: The Nordic Centre of Excellence: The Nordic Welfare State
- Historical Foundations and Future Challenges (NCoE NordWel) in
cooperation with the Department of History, Stockholm University.
Since the 1930s, the Nordic countries have been singled out as a
special case in international politics. In comparative welfare state
research the concept The Nordic Model has become a standard term.
However, the Nordic model is often and inadequately described in terms
of distinct social policy configuration when it is better seen as a
particular complex of welfare policies, labour market institutions,
and gender relations which has emerged in the Nordic countries over
the last century. According to this interpretation, two principles
characterize the model. On the one hand, a universalist idea of social
rights based on citizenship, and on the other hand, the normalcy of
wage work as the social form of labour.
The second international conference organized by the NCoE NordWel is
devoted to the historically contingent interconnectedness of welfare
states and labour markets. We invite proposals for papers that analyze
these complex relations in a broad historical perspective covering the
period from ca 1900 to the present. Papers can be both theoretical and
empirical in their approach. They can deal with particular cases,
focus on national themes or have a comparative/transnational
perspective. Among the suggested themes are
* Comparative analysis of labour markets and welfare states
* Gender, wage work, family policies and welfare states
* Labour market policies and activation policies - continuities and
discontinuities
* Sectorialized wage work (health care, social services) in the making
of welfare states
* Unions, employers and welfare states
* Migration, global labour markets and national welfare policies
* Changing and competing concepts, images and definitions of work and welfare
Paper proposals (1/2 page) should be submitted to the following e-mail
address: nils.edling@historia.su.se. The deadline for submissions of
abstracts is December 15, 2008. Authors of submitted abstracts will be
notified not later than January 15, 2008.
NCoE NordWel will provide accommodation for all participants with
accepted papers. Travel grant can be applied for in connection with
abstract submission.
Nordic Centre of Excellence The Nordic Welfare State - Historical
Foundations and Future Challenges, NCoE NordWel, is a
multi-disciplinary, cross-national research network of seven partner
units in Nordic universities. The Centre started its activities in
March 2007 as a part of NordForsk Centre of Excellence. For more
information, see: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/nord-wel/.
--
Anna Alanko
Coordinator
NCoE NordWel
Nordic Centre of Excellence: The Nordic Welfare State - Historical
Foundations and Future Challenges
Dept. of Social Science History
P.O. Box 54 (Snellmaninkatu 14A)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
Tel +358 (0)9 191 249 58
Fax +358 (0)9 191 249 42
E-mail anna.alanko@helsinki.fi
Www: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/nord-wel/
2008-03-19
Scandinavian Politics: conference, summer school, MSc
Dear all on the Scandinavian politics list,
I attach files on three things that might be of interest: a conference on the Nordic welfare state, a summer school on the same topic, and an MSc in Political Economy.
Best,
Nick Aylott.
--
Dr Nicholas Aylott, senior lecturer (docent) in political science
School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University College, Stockholm
SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
www.sh.se/samhallsvetenskaper
Please feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be interested. To join the Scandinavian Politics mailing list, send a message to me, the convenor (nicholas.aylott@sh.se). If you want to send something to the list, or if you don't want to receive these occasional messages, just let me know. See also www.psa.ac.uk/spgrp/scandinavia/
Ämne:
Call for papers: Workfare policies and welfare state legitimacy, 11-12 September 2008, Bergen
Från:
Heidi Haggrén
Datum:
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:20:02 +0200
Till:
"Nicholas Aylott",schulte@werknetz.com,info@espanet.org,henvendelser@fosam.uio.no,hiscj@hum.au.dk,sekretariatet@nsuweb.net
Please circulate this Call for papers to all potentially interested.
Best wishes,
Heidi Haggrén
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Call for papers:
Workfare policies and welfare state legitimacy
Conference 11-12 September 2008 at
Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, Bergen
Arranged by Nordic Centre of Excellence, NordWel: The Nordic Welfare State
– Historical Foundations and Future Challenges:
https://blogs.helsinki.fi/nord-wel/
CONFERENCE THEME
A common trend in the welfare policies of many European countries is the
increase in measures targeted at ‘high risk’ groups, such as the long-term
unemployed. These policies can be seen as a reaction to problems related to
an increasing differentiation in the labour market, problems related to
long-term unemployment and to the growth of immigrant groups.
The political answers to this problem have been similar all over the Western
world. The general trend of the reforms have been towards ‘active measures’
rather than passive, ‘sanctions’ rather than positive incentives, ‘duties’
rather than rights. These are key elements in a ‘new welfare contract’
between the citizen and the government, saying that ‘high risk’ recipients
groups have to meet certain participation requirements in order to receive
welfare benefits. This trend implies i.a. a move from universal welfare
programs and services, to selective, means-tested ones.
This conference puts focus on those types of policy measure that can be
summarized under the term of ‘workfare’. This literally means
‘work-for-your-welfare’, but should here include all kind of policies that
involve certain participation requirements of the welfare recipients.
The aim of conference is to approach the question of the effects of workfare
policies on welfare state legitimacy from various perspectives and regarding
different policy levels:
- the normative level (general values guiding welfare policies, social
policy ‘goals’ in the different countries),
- the structural or systemic level (including the specific organisational
structures for realizing workfare policies, the role of workfare policies in
relation to other social policy measures and their role in the changing
modes of social and economic regulation), and
- the level of workfare policy practices (the implementation of workfare
policies), as well as the level of outcomes of measures taken.
Relevant themes for the conference are:
- How is workfare conceptualised in contemporary welfare discourses?
- What are the origins and paths of international diffusion of workfare ideas?
- How does workfare relate to older emphases of work and employment ?
- What are the structure and reasons for political support for workfare
ideas in different countries?
- How are workfare policies legitimized in the public debate in different
Nordic and non-Nordic countries?
- What are the impacts of workfare policy goals on structural and
institutional design, and do these affect the legitimacy of the system?
- What are the attitudes and experiences, and their respective determinants,
of those engaged in implementing welfare policies at a ‘grass-root level’?
- How legitimate are workfare policies among the general population in
different countries?
- What are the effects of workfare policies, especially from the viewpoint
of the most vulnerable groups?
- How could we theoretically interpret workfare policies in the context of
the changing forms and function of the state (e.g. discussions on ‘welfare
state’-‘workfare state’ and ‘welfare state’-‘competition state’)?
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
More detailed information on the programme will be available in March.
See https://blogs.helsinki.fi/nord-wel/
SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACT
Dead-line for abstract submission is 7 May 2008.
An abstract must include: ½ page and full contact details of author. The
abstract should be sent to the following e-mail address:
Helena.Blomberg@helsinki.fi
ACCEPTANCE OF PAPER PROPOSALS
Information about the acceptance of paper proposals will be sent out to
authors by 7 June 2008.
ACCOMMODATION AND TRAVEL COSTS
Accommodation will be paid for the participants accepted to present a paper.
Travel grant can be applied for in connection with abstract submission.
Nanna Kildal Pauli Kettunen Helena Blomberg
Stein Rokkan Centre for University of Helsinki University of Helsinki
Social studies
-- Heidi Haggrén, M.Soc.Sc. Coordinator NCoE NordWel Nordic Centre of Excellence: The Nordic Welfare State - Historical Foundations and Future Challenges Dept. of Social Science History P.O. Box 54 (Snellmaninkatu 14A) FIN-00014 University of Helsinki Tel +358 (0)9 191 249 58 Fax +358 (0)9 191 249 42 E-mail heidi.haggren@helsinki.fi =
Ämne:
Call for Papers - NordWel Summer School 2008: State, Society & Citizen – the Multilayered Historicity of the Welfare State
Från:
Heidi Haggrén
Datum:
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:45:44 +0200
Till:
"Nicholas Aylott",schulte@werknetz.com,info@espanet.org,henvendelser@fosam.uio.no,hiscj@hum.au.dk,sekretariatet@nsuweb.net
Please circulate this Call for papers to all potentially interested.
Best wishes,
Heidi Haggrén
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NordWel Summer School 2008
State, Society & Citizen – the Multilayered Historicity of the Welfare State
Date: 21-26 August 2008
Place: Helsinki
Organisers: NCoE NordWel in cooperation with the Danish Research School for
History and Nordic Research School for Contemporary History.
We invite Ph.D.-students and young researchers from different backgrounds
both within and outside the Nordic countries to participate in discussing
the history of the welfare state, its preconditions and how we ought to
study it.
Old and new perspectives on the welfare state
Welfare States has and can be studied from a number of theoretical and
methodological approaches, with various chronological perspectives and with
a focus on different empirical phenomena. As stated in the title “State,
Society & Citizen – the Multilayered Historicity of the Welfare State” our
aim is to stimulate cross-disciplinary and multi-perspective discussions on
the welfare state as a historical phenomena and concept.
The welfare state is to be understood as a broad concept and papers at the
summer school can include papers on welfare institutions; historical and
social preconditions; ideas, visions and critiques; transnational and
comparative perspectives as well as studies of agents and social movements.
The Summer School will – inspired by new trends with in welfare research -
challenge our often very narrow national and contemporary understanding of
the welfare state. Our aim is to bring together Ph.D.-students and young
researchers and stimulate a discussion that will challenge and maybe bring
us beyond well established concepts and understandings.
We invite proposals for papers that deal with welfare and welfare state in a
broad historical perspective. Papers can be both theoretical and empirical
in their approach. They can deal with national themes or have a comparative
perspective. The list of possible themes seems almost infinite but papers
could deal with topics such as
* The historical development of social security and service systems
including both the 20th Century as well as the long historical roots and
preconditions for the contemporary welfare state
* The political history of the welfare state including political and
ideological discussions on welfare, the role of political parties as well as
the role of social movements.
* Visions of society including the role of ideology, the history of
theories about society, social movements and alternative visions of the good
society, discussions on gender equality, the welfare state as utopia or
dystopia in politics or arts.
* Conceptual perspectives on the welfare state including the role of
ideology and ideas, the use of theories and theoretical perspectives.
* Transnational perspectives including policy transfer, export of
welfare systems, the relationship between the national and international,
and the role of international organizations and ideas
* The normative underpinnings of the welfare state model including value
systems of the welfare state, gendering of welfare systems, the normative
charges of work, the role of religion and contemporary challenges to the
normative foundation.
* Institutional perspectives including the relationship between local
and national (state and municipality), between the public and the private,
policy studies and the role of expert and knowledge.
Teachers include, among others, Bo Stråth (University of Helsinki, Finland),
Janet Nyman (Open University, UK), Adalbert Evers (Giessen University,
Germany), Pauli Kettunen (University of Helsinki, Finland), Pirjo Markkola
(Åbo Akademi University, Finland) and Klaus Petersen (University of Southern
Denmark, Denmark).
The summer school is designed for Nordic and international PhD students and
postdoctoral researchers. The course is composed of a series of guest
lectures and workshops. Guest lectures and senior scholars will act as
discussants in the workshops as well as the PhD students.
The course program will be updated on the NordWel home page at
http://blogs.helsinki.fi/nord-wel/.
Participants who complete the summer school successfully are credited with
10 ECTS credits.
Course fee
The Course fee is 100 Euros. Travel costs and accommodation will be financed
by NCoE NordWel and the Danish Research School for History.
How to apply
PhD students and young researchers interested in participating in the summer
school should send an abstract (½ page) and a short biography by email no
later than 30 April 2008 to coordinator Heidi Haggrén:
heidi.haggren@helsinki.fi, + 358 9 191 24958.
Contact
For inquiries or comments, contact Coordinator Heidi Haggrén via e-mail:
heidi.haggren@helsinki.fi, or by phone: + 358 9 191 24958.
NordWel Summer School 2008 will cooperate with Concepta Helsinki Summer
School 2008: Introduction to Conceptual History (http://www.concepta-net.org)
Organizing committee
Professor Pauli Kettunen, Dept. of Social Science History, University of
Helsinki
Professor Pirjo Markkola, Department of History, Åbo Academy University
Professor Klaus Petersen, Centre for Welfare State Research, Univ. of
Southern Denmark
Contact: Heidi Haggrén: heidi.haggren@helsinki.fi, + 358 9 191 24958.
-- Heidi Haggrén, M.Soc.Sc. Coordinator NCoE NordWel Nordic Centre of Excellence: The Nordic Welfare State - Historical Foundations and Future Challenges Dept. of Social Science History P.O. Box 54 (Snellmaninkatu 14A) FIN-00014 University of Helsinki Tel +358 (0)9 191 249 58 Fax +358 (0)9 191 249 42 E-mail heidi.haggren@helsinki.fi =
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I attach files on three things that might be of interest: a conference on the Nordic welfare state, a summer school on the same topic, and an MSc in Political Economy.
Best,
Nick Aylott.
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Dr Nicholas Aylott, senior lecturer (docent) in political science
School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University College, Stockholm
SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
www.sh.se/samhallsvetenskaper
Please feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be interested. To join the Scandinavian Politics mailing list, send a message to me, the convenor (nicholas.aylott@sh.se). If you want to send something to the list, or if you don't want to receive these occasional messages, just let me know. See also www.psa.ac.uk/spgrp/scandinavia/
Ämne:
Call for papers: Workfare policies and welfare state legitimacy, 11-12 September 2008, Bergen
Från:
Heidi Haggrén
Datum:
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:20:02 +0200
Till:
"Nicholas Aylott"
Please circulate this Call for papers to all potentially interested.
Best wishes,
Heidi Haggrén
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Call for papers:
Workfare policies and welfare state legitimacy
Conference 11-12 September 2008 at
Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, Bergen
Arranged by Nordic Centre of Excellence, NordWel: The Nordic Welfare State
– Historical Foundations and Future Challenges:
https://blogs.helsinki.fi/nord-wel/
CONFERENCE THEME
A common trend in the welfare policies of many European countries is the
increase in measures targeted at ‘high risk’ groups, such as the long-term
unemployed. These policies can be seen as a reaction to problems related to
an increasing differentiation in the labour market, problems related to
long-term unemployment and to the growth of immigrant groups.
The political answers to this problem have been similar all over the Western
world. The general trend of the reforms have been towards ‘active measures’
rather than passive, ‘sanctions’ rather than positive incentives, ‘duties’
rather than rights. These are key elements in a ‘new welfare contract’
between the citizen and the government, saying that ‘high risk’ recipients
groups have to meet certain participation requirements in order to receive
welfare benefits. This trend implies i.a. a move from universal welfare
programs and services, to selective, means-tested ones.
This conference puts focus on those types of policy measure that can be
summarized under the term of ‘workfare’. This literally means
‘work-for-your-welfare’, but should here include all kind of policies that
involve certain participation requirements of the welfare recipients.
The aim of conference is to approach the question of the effects of workfare
policies on welfare state legitimacy from various perspectives and regarding
different policy levels:
- the normative level (general values guiding welfare policies, social
policy ‘goals’ in the different countries),
- the structural or systemic level (including the specific organisational
structures for realizing workfare policies, the role of workfare policies in
relation to other social policy measures and their role in the changing
modes of social and economic regulation), and
- the level of workfare policy practices (the implementation of workfare
policies), as well as the level of outcomes of measures taken.
Relevant themes for the conference are:
- How is workfare conceptualised in contemporary welfare discourses?
- What are the origins and paths of international diffusion of workfare ideas?
- How does workfare relate to older emphases of work and employment ?
- What are the structure and reasons for political support for workfare
ideas in different countries?
- How are workfare policies legitimized in the public debate in different
Nordic and non-Nordic countries?
- What are the impacts of workfare policy goals on structural and
institutional design, and do these affect the legitimacy of the system?
- What are the attitudes and experiences, and their respective determinants,
of those engaged in implementing welfare policies at a ‘grass-root level’?
- How legitimate are workfare policies among the general population in
different countries?
- What are the effects of workfare policies, especially from the viewpoint
of the most vulnerable groups?
- How could we theoretically interpret workfare policies in the context of
the changing forms and function of the state (e.g. discussions on ‘welfare
state’-‘workfare state’ and ‘welfare state’-‘competition state’)?
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
More detailed information on the programme will be available in March.
See https://blogs.helsinki.fi/nord-wel/
SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACT
Dead-line for abstract submission is 7 May 2008.
An abstract must include: ½ page and full contact details of author. The
abstract should be sent to the following e-mail address:
Helena.Blomberg@helsinki.fi
ACCEPTANCE OF PAPER PROPOSALS
Information about the acceptance of paper proposals will be sent out to
authors by 7 June 2008.
ACCOMMODATION AND TRAVEL COSTS
Accommodation will be paid for the participants accepted to present a paper.
Travel grant can be applied for in connection with abstract submission.
Nanna Kildal Pauli Kettunen Helena Blomberg
Stein Rokkan Centre for University of Helsinki University of Helsinki
Social studies
-- Heidi Haggrén, M.Soc.Sc. Coordinator NCoE NordWel Nordic Centre of Excellence: The Nordic Welfare State - Historical Foundations and Future Challenges Dept. of Social Science History P.O. Box 54 (Snellmaninkatu 14A) FIN-00014 University of Helsinki Tel +358 (0)9 191 249 58 Fax +358 (0)9 191 249 42 E-mail heidi.haggren@helsinki.fi =
Ämne:
Call for Papers - NordWel Summer School 2008: State, Society & Citizen – the Multilayered Historicity of the Welfare State
Från:
Heidi Haggrén
Datum:
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:45:44 +0200
Till:
"Nicholas Aylott"
Please circulate this Call for papers to all potentially interested.
Best wishes,
Heidi Haggrén
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NordWel Summer School 2008
State, Society & Citizen – the Multilayered Historicity of the Welfare State
Date: 21-26 August 2008
Place: Helsinki
Organisers: NCoE NordWel in cooperation with the Danish Research School for
History and Nordic Research School for Contemporary History.
We invite Ph.D.-students and young researchers from different backgrounds
both within and outside the Nordic countries to participate in discussing
the history of the welfare state, its preconditions and how we ought to
study it.
Old and new perspectives on the welfare state
Welfare States has and can be studied from a number of theoretical and
methodological approaches, with various chronological perspectives and with
a focus on different empirical phenomena. As stated in the title “State,
Society & Citizen – the Multilayered Historicity of the Welfare State” our
aim is to stimulate cross-disciplinary and multi-perspective discussions on
the welfare state as a historical phenomena and concept.
The welfare state is to be understood as a broad concept and papers at the
summer school can include papers on welfare institutions; historical and
social preconditions; ideas, visions and critiques; transnational and
comparative perspectives as well as studies of agents and social movements.
The Summer School will – inspired by new trends with in welfare research -
challenge our often very narrow national and contemporary understanding of
the welfare state. Our aim is to bring together Ph.D.-students and young
researchers and stimulate a discussion that will challenge and maybe bring
us beyond well established concepts and understandings.
We invite proposals for papers that deal with welfare and welfare state in a
broad historical perspective. Papers can be both theoretical and empirical
in their approach. They can deal with national themes or have a comparative
perspective. The list of possible themes seems almost infinite but papers
could deal with topics such as
* The historical development of social security and service systems
including both the 20th Century as well as the long historical roots and
preconditions for the contemporary welfare state
* The political history of the welfare state including political and
ideological discussions on welfare, the role of political parties as well as
the role of social movements.
* Visions of society including the role of ideology, the history of
theories about society, social movements and alternative visions of the good
society, discussions on gender equality, the welfare state as utopia or
dystopia in politics or arts.
* Conceptual perspectives on the welfare state including the role of
ideology and ideas, the use of theories and theoretical perspectives.
* Transnational perspectives including policy transfer, export of
welfare systems, the relationship between the national and international,
and the role of international organizations and ideas
* The normative underpinnings of the welfare state model including value
systems of the welfare state, gendering of welfare systems, the normative
charges of work, the role of religion and contemporary challenges to the
normative foundation.
* Institutional perspectives including the relationship between local
and national (state and municipality), between the public and the private,
policy studies and the role of expert and knowledge.
Teachers include, among others, Bo Stråth (University of Helsinki, Finland),
Janet Nyman (Open University, UK), Adalbert Evers (Giessen University,
Germany), Pauli Kettunen (University of Helsinki, Finland), Pirjo Markkola
(Åbo Akademi University, Finland) and Klaus Petersen (University of Southern
Denmark, Denmark).
The summer school is designed for Nordic and international PhD students and
postdoctoral researchers. The course is composed of a series of guest
lectures and workshops. Guest lectures and senior scholars will act as
discussants in the workshops as well as the PhD students.
The course program will be updated on the NordWel home page at
http://blogs.helsinki.fi/nord-wel/.
Participants who complete the summer school successfully are credited with
10 ECTS credits.
Course fee
The Course fee is 100 Euros. Travel costs and accommodation will be financed
by NCoE NordWel and the Danish Research School for History.
How to apply
PhD students and young researchers interested in participating in the summer
school should send an abstract (½ page) and a short biography by email no
later than 30 April 2008 to coordinator Heidi Haggrén:
heidi.haggren@helsinki.fi, + 358 9 191 24958.
Contact
For inquiries or comments, contact Coordinator Heidi Haggrén via e-mail:
heidi.haggren@helsinki.fi, or by phone: + 358 9 191 24958.
NordWel Summer School 2008 will cooperate with Concepta Helsinki Summer
School 2008: Introduction to Conceptual History (http://www.concepta-net.org)
Organizing committee
Professor Pauli Kettunen, Dept. of Social Science History, University of
Helsinki
Professor Pirjo Markkola, Department of History, Åbo Academy University
Professor Klaus Petersen, Centre for Welfare State Research, Univ. of
Southern Denmark
Contact: Heidi Haggrén: heidi.haggren@helsinki.fi, + 358 9 191 24958.
-- Heidi Haggrén, M.Soc.Sc. Coordinator NCoE NordWel Nordic Centre of Excellence: The Nordic Welfare State - Historical Foundations and Future Challenges Dept. of Social Science History P.O. Box 54 (Snellmaninkatu 14A) FIN-00014 University of Helsinki Tel +358 (0)9 191 249 58 Fax +358 (0)9 191 249 42 E-mail heidi.haggren@helsinki.fi =
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2007-11-20
Scandinavian Politics: workshop on Nordic-EU co-operation
Dear all on the Scandinavian Politics list,
Here's a call, from Ian Manners of the Danish Institute for International Studies, for paper proposals. It's for a workshop on 'The Impact of Nordic-EU Cooperation' at the NOPSA 2008 Conference in Tromsø, Norway, August 6th-9th 2008. Ian invites people to submit abstracts to him by the 15th January 2008.
The full list of workshops at the NOPSA conference is attached.
Best,
Nick Aylott.
--
Dr Nicholas Aylott, senior lecturer (docent) in political science
School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University College
SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
www.sh.se/samhallsvetenskaper
Please feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be interested. To join the Scandinavian Politics mailing list, send a message to me, the convenor (nicholas.aylott@sh.se). If you want to send something to the list, or if you don't want to receive these occasional messages, just let me know. See also www.psa.ac.uk/spgrp/scandinavia/
________________________________
THE IMPACT OF NORDIC-EU COOPERATION
The workshop provides an opportunity for academic engagement on the question of the impact of Nordic-EU cooperation - in terms of Nordic-EU scholarship, Nordic-EU policy cooperation, and the interaction between the two. The workshop encourages work that analyses and evaluates the impact of Nordic scholarship on EU questions, with a particular interest in the power of such scholarship to shape questions on the vision of the EU. The workshop will seek to raise awareness of Nordic scholarship in the EU intellectual field, clarify controversies regarding differing Nordic perspectives, and suggest new EU research questions which collaborative Nordic scholarship could address. The workshop will seek to encourage far greater interaction and collaborative work between scholars based in Nordic research institutes or in universities working on EU questions.
By 'impact', we firstly mean evidence of the ability of Nordic-EU scholarship to shape debates in the wider EU studies community. Secondly, we mean evidence of the impact of Nordic-EU policy cooperation on policy making in the EU institutions. Finally, by 'impact' we are also interested in the interaction between Nordic-EU scholarship and Nordic-EU policy cooperation - is there any evidence of such scholarship shaping policy cooperation or vice versa?
Prior to the end of the Cold War, the impact of Nordic scholarship and membership of the European Union, as represented by Denmark, was relatively small. With the 1995 enlargement of the EU and the entry of Finland and Sweden, there was much expectation of a greater role for Nordic policy ideas and analysts. The workshop welcomes papers and participants that intend to take stock of Nordic-EU scholarship and Nordic-EU policy cooperation. It encourages participants who wish to engage with the particularly difficult task of analysing such Nordic-EU cooperation. This task is difficult because of the dense paths that link together the academic, policy, and political worlds. In addition, the challenge of critical self-evaluation and reflection is one which has proved difficult over the past 12 years.
One of the central aims of the workshop is be to develop a far greater self-conscious awareness of Nordic-EU scholarship and policy cooperation, and to promote new areas of EU research that collaborative groups of Nordic scholars could work together in.
The working language of the workshop is English.
Workshop convenors:
Ian Manners
Danish Institute for International Studies
ima@diis.dk
Catharina Sørensen
Danish Institute for International Studies
cas@diis.dk
The deadline for sending abstracts is January 15, 2008. Please send your abstract to Ian Manners at ima@diis.dk
Here's a call, from Ian Manners of the Danish Institute for International Studies, for paper proposals. It's for a workshop on 'The Impact of Nordic-EU Cooperation' at the NOPSA 2008 Conference in Tromsø, Norway, August 6th-9th 2008. Ian invites people to submit abstracts to him by the 15th January 2008.
The full list of workshops at the NOPSA conference is attached.
Best,
Nick Aylott.
--
Dr Nicholas Aylott, senior lecturer (docent) in political science
School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University College
SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
www.sh.se/samhallsvetenskaper
Please feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be interested. To join the Scandinavian Politics mailing list, send a message to me, the convenor (nicholas.aylott@sh.se). If you want to send something to the list, or if you don't want to receive these occasional messages, just let me know. See also www.psa.ac.uk/spgrp/scandinavia/
________________________________
THE IMPACT OF NORDIC-EU COOPERATION
The workshop provides an opportunity for academic engagement on the question of the impact of Nordic-EU cooperation - in terms of Nordic-EU scholarship, Nordic-EU policy cooperation, and the interaction between the two. The workshop encourages work that analyses and evaluates the impact of Nordic scholarship on EU questions, with a particular interest in the power of such scholarship to shape questions on the vision of the EU. The workshop will seek to raise awareness of Nordic scholarship in the EU intellectual field, clarify controversies regarding differing Nordic perspectives, and suggest new EU research questions which collaborative Nordic scholarship could address. The workshop will seek to encourage far greater interaction and collaborative work between scholars based in Nordic research institutes or in universities working on EU questions.
By 'impact', we firstly mean evidence of the ability of Nordic-EU scholarship to shape debates in the wider EU studies community. Secondly, we mean evidence of the impact of Nordic-EU policy cooperation on policy making in the EU institutions. Finally, by 'impact' we are also interested in the interaction between Nordic-EU scholarship and Nordic-EU policy cooperation - is there any evidence of such scholarship shaping policy cooperation or vice versa?
Prior to the end of the Cold War, the impact of Nordic scholarship and membership of the European Union, as represented by Denmark, was relatively small. With the 1995 enlargement of the EU and the entry of Finland and Sweden, there was much expectation of a greater role for Nordic policy ideas and analysts. The workshop welcomes papers and participants that intend to take stock of Nordic-EU scholarship and Nordic-EU policy cooperation. It encourages participants who wish to engage with the particularly difficult task of analysing such Nordic-EU cooperation. This task is difficult because of the dense paths that link together the academic, policy, and political worlds. In addition, the challenge of critical self-evaluation and reflection is one which has proved difficult over the past 12 years.
One of the central aims of the workshop is be to develop a far greater self-conscious awareness of Nordic-EU scholarship and policy cooperation, and to promote new areas of EU research that collaborative groups of Nordic scholars could work together in.
The working language of the workshop is English.
Workshop convenors:
Ian Manners
Danish Institute for International Studies
ima@diis.dk
Catharina Sørensen
Danish Institute for International Studies
cas@diis.dk
The deadline for sending abstracts is January 15, 2008. Please send your abstract to Ian Manners at ima@diis.dk
2007-05-12
Scandinavian Politics: new Danish party
To all on the Scandinavian Politics mailing list,
Here are three notices - about developments in Danish party politics, news of an interesting-sounding research network, and a report of a recent research workshop.
1. A NEW PARTY has been launched in Denmark. Flemming Juul Christiansen of the University of Aarhus has kindly contributed this report.
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A new centre party, New Alliance (nyalliance.dk) was formed on Monday by Danish MP Naser Khader, who broke with the Social Liberal Party. Khader was designated as party leader. With him at his press conference were his two co-founders, MEPs Anders Samuelsen and Gitte Seeberg, who used to be a Social Liberal and a Conservative, respectively.
The break came after disagreement between Khader and the party leader, Marianne Jelved, over the strategy and policies of the Social Liberals. Khader became an MP in 2001. He soon showed his skills with the press but rose to fame during the "cartoon crisis" last year. Born in Syria, he sided with the views of the government on freedom of speech. He founded the organisation Democratic Muslims, which stressed the integration of immigrants into democracy and liberal values. Polls showed that he was very popular with the public. Other parts of the Social Liberal Party advocated less critical stances. In addition, Khader has argued in favour of co-operation with the Liberal-Conservative government instead of strict opposition.
Samuelsen is also known for liberal points of view. Seeberg has been critical of the government's co-operation with the Danish People's Party. A number of leading businessmen support the new party.
New Alliance states that it seeks to build compromises across the blocs in Danish politics. It wants to limit the influence of the Danish People's Party. It favours tax reform. It is pro-European. Finally, it favours strict immigration policies - stricter than those that applied before the present government constellation was formed in 2001, but less strict than the current ones.
Now the party needs around 20,000 signatures to get on the ballot. During its first day, the party apparently attracted over 1,000 members.
The Social Liberals have avoided party splits since the beginning of the 1960s (the Peace Policy Party failed to win representation in 1964). New Alliance may shake up the Danish party system, which has been static since the 2001 election. It may take voters from the present government and the Social Liberals.
----------
2. I've been contacted by Joachim Koops from the Department of Political Science, University of Kiel, Germany. He's alerted me to a newly formed research grouping, NETWORK NORTHERN EUROPE, based at Kiel. An English version of their website (www.politik.uni-kiel.de/nne/) is promised soon. This certainly looks like a very interesting development.
3. Lee Miles of Liverpool University has sent me the following report of a WORKSHOP that was held in April, which our Scandinavian Politics Specialist Groups helped to fund.
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EMINENT ACADEMICS AND POLICY-MAKERS DEBATE FUSION IN LIVERPOOL
On April 26th the FUSE-EUROPA programme, based in the Europe in the World Centre (EWC) at the University of Liverpool, hosted a prestigious international workshop that brought together prominent academics from eight countries, as well as policy-makers representing Denmark, Finland, Sweden, the UK and the European Parliament, to examine comparatively the complex relationship between the EU and the Nordic countries. This workshop was highly distinctive in that it provided a useful opportunity not only for the researchers working on fusion approaches to introduce new thinking and fresh concepts on fusion to a broader audience, but also to enable policy-makers to respond directly and inform about their ongoing research. The workshop fostered independent assessments of the utility of the fusion approaches for explaining the priorities and behaviour of Nordic policy-makers and how such policy-makers value their country's relationship with the European Union. The workshop attracted an audience of over 30 for each session.
In the first session, Professor Lee Miles (Jean Monnet Professor, EWC Director and leader of the FUSE-EUROPA research programme) delivered a paper discussing the functional utility of fusion approaches to the study of Nordic policy-making, which was followed by two interventions by Professor Clive Archer (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Magnus Lindh (Karlstad University, Sweden). The paper by Lee Miles was warmly received and a vibrant debate that lasted for over an hour ensued. The second and third sessions then provided opportunities to relate fusion concepts to the particular policy-making attitudes in the respective Nordic countries. Dr Teija Tiilikainen (Helsinki University) gave a highly stimulating talk on the successful integration of Finnish policy-makers into the workings of the EU. This was followed by a co-written paper by Professor Lee Miles (author of Fusing in Europe? Sweden in the European Union), Professor Rutger Lindahl and Dr Daniel Naurin (both Göteborg University, Sweden) that examined the Swedish case, arguing that Swedish policy-makers are in fact 'selective supranationalists', and not as commonly presented, 'ardent intergovernmentalists'.
Attention then turned to Norway and Iceland and participants explored whether fusion approaches could have relevance in evaluating policy-makers' behaviour in non-EU states. In a session chaired by Stewart Arnold (advisor to Diana Wallis MEP), Professor Baldur Thorhallsson (University of Iceland), who is widely acknowledged as Iceland's leading expert on Iceland-EU relations, reviewed the priorities and participation of Icelandic policy-makers in the European Economic Area. This was accompanied by a paper by Professor Jarle Trondal (Agder University College, Norway), who argued that Norwegian policy-making now represented a form of 'differentiated fusion'. The final session also included a review of the day's proceedings, and the process of national adaptation using fusion, by Dr Andreas Maurer, an award-winning academic from the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin and co-editor of Fifteen into One?, one of the leading academic works using fusion approaches. The proceedings and papers of this highly successful workshop will form the basis of a new edited volume, to be published in 2008.
----------
Best,
Nick Aylott.
--
Dr Nicholas Aylott, senior lecturer (docent) in political science
School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University College
SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
www.sh.se/samhallsvetenskaper
Here are three notices - about developments in Danish party politics, news of an interesting-sounding research network, and a report of a recent research workshop.
1. A NEW PARTY has been launched in Denmark. Flemming Juul Christiansen of the University of Aarhus has kindly contributed this report.
----------
A new centre party, New Alliance (nyalliance.dk) was formed on Monday by Danish MP Naser Khader, who broke with the Social Liberal Party. Khader was designated as party leader. With him at his press conference were his two co-founders, MEPs Anders Samuelsen and Gitte Seeberg, who used to be a Social Liberal and a Conservative, respectively.
The break came after disagreement between Khader and the party leader, Marianne Jelved, over the strategy and policies of the Social Liberals. Khader became an MP in 2001. He soon showed his skills with the press but rose to fame during the "cartoon crisis" last year. Born in Syria, he sided with the views of the government on freedom of speech. He founded the organisation Democratic Muslims, which stressed the integration of immigrants into democracy and liberal values. Polls showed that he was very popular with the public. Other parts of the Social Liberal Party advocated less critical stances. In addition, Khader has argued in favour of co-operation with the Liberal-Conservative government instead of strict opposition.
Samuelsen is also known for liberal points of view. Seeberg has been critical of the government's co-operation with the Danish People's Party. A number of leading businessmen support the new party.
New Alliance states that it seeks to build compromises across the blocs in Danish politics. It wants to limit the influence of the Danish People's Party. It favours tax reform. It is pro-European. Finally, it favours strict immigration policies - stricter than those that applied before the present government constellation was formed in 2001, but less strict than the current ones.
Now the party needs around 20,000 signatures to get on the ballot. During its first day, the party apparently attracted over 1,000 members.
The Social Liberals have avoided party splits since the beginning of the 1960s (the Peace Policy Party failed to win representation in 1964). New Alliance may shake up the Danish party system, which has been static since the 2001 election. It may take voters from the present government and the Social Liberals.
----------
2. I've been contacted by Joachim Koops from the Department of Political Science, University of Kiel, Germany. He's alerted me to a newly formed research grouping, NETWORK NORTHERN EUROPE, based at Kiel. An English version of their website (www.politik.uni-kiel.de/nne/) is promised soon. This certainly looks like a very interesting development.
3. Lee Miles of Liverpool University has sent me the following report of a WORKSHOP that was held in April, which our Scandinavian Politics Specialist Groups helped to fund.
----------
EMINENT ACADEMICS AND POLICY-MAKERS DEBATE FUSION IN LIVERPOOL
On April 26th the FUSE-EUROPA programme, based in the Europe in the World Centre (EWC) at the University of Liverpool, hosted a prestigious international workshop that brought together prominent academics from eight countries, as well as policy-makers representing Denmark, Finland, Sweden, the UK and the European Parliament, to examine comparatively the complex relationship between the EU and the Nordic countries. This workshop was highly distinctive in that it provided a useful opportunity not only for the researchers working on fusion approaches to introduce new thinking and fresh concepts on fusion to a broader audience, but also to enable policy-makers to respond directly and inform about their ongoing research. The workshop fostered independent assessments of the utility of the fusion approaches for explaining the priorities and behaviour of Nordic policy-makers and how such policy-makers value their country's relationship with the European Union. The workshop attracted an audience of over 30 for each session.
In the first session, Professor Lee Miles (Jean Monnet Professor, EWC Director and leader of the FUSE-EUROPA research programme) delivered a paper discussing the functional utility of fusion approaches to the study of Nordic policy-making, which was followed by two interventions by Professor Clive Archer (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Magnus Lindh (Karlstad University, Sweden). The paper by Lee Miles was warmly received and a vibrant debate that lasted for over an hour ensued. The second and third sessions then provided opportunities to relate fusion concepts to the particular policy-making attitudes in the respective Nordic countries. Dr Teija Tiilikainen (Helsinki University) gave a highly stimulating talk on the successful integration of Finnish policy-makers into the workings of the EU. This was followed by a co-written paper by Professor Lee Miles (author of Fusing in Europe? Sweden in the European Union), Professor Rutger Lindahl and Dr Daniel Naurin (both Göteborg University, Sweden) that examined the Swedish case, arguing that Swedish policy-makers are in fact 'selective supranationalists', and not as commonly presented, 'ardent intergovernmentalists'.
Attention then turned to Norway and Iceland and participants explored whether fusion approaches could have relevance in evaluating policy-makers' behaviour in non-EU states. In a session chaired by Stewart Arnold (advisor to Diana Wallis MEP), Professor Baldur Thorhallsson (University of Iceland), who is widely acknowledged as Iceland's leading expert on Iceland-EU relations, reviewed the priorities and participation of Icelandic policy-makers in the European Economic Area. This was accompanied by a paper by Professor Jarle Trondal (Agder University College, Norway), who argued that Norwegian policy-making now represented a form of 'differentiated fusion'. The final session also included a review of the day's proceedings, and the process of national adaptation using fusion, by Dr Andreas Maurer, an award-winning academic from the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin and co-editor of Fifteen into One?, one of the leading academic works using fusion approaches. The proceedings and papers of this highly successful workshop will form the basis of a new edited volume, to be published in 2008.
----------
Best,
Nick Aylott.
--
Dr Nicholas Aylott, senior lecturer (docent) in political science
School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University College
SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
www.sh.se/samhallsvetenskaper
2007-02-27
call for papers - The Image of Sweden
Hej to all on the Scandinavian Politics list,
This call for papers is on behalf of Mary Hilson (University College London).
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CALL FOR PAPERS - "The Image of Sweden - comparisons over time and space"
Session to European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, 27 Feb to 1 March 2008.
Paper proposals are invited for a session for the ESSHC 2008 (www.iisg.nl/esshc). Please submit abstracts of no more than 500 words, in English, to Mary Hilson (m.hilson@ucl.ac.uk) or Jenny Andersson (jenny.andersson@sh.se) no later than 23 March 2007 (the deadline for submitting the proposal to the ESSHC is 1 April).
THE IMAGE OF SWEDEN - COMPARISONS OVER TIME AND SPACE
The Nordic countries, and particularly Sweden, have functioned as a role model and trope in political discourse in Europe and elsewhere. The 'Model', characterised foremost by its coupling of economic efficiency and social welfare, has been a source of influence for various political discourses, mainly on the Left, from Marquis Childs' well-known characterisation of Sweden as the 'middle way' during the 1930s to contemporary interest among politicians such as Gordon Brown and Ségolène Royal. As the Polish historian Kazimierz Musial has argued, the Nordic countries have been seen to embody a particular version of modernity, a modernity defined by a specific political socio-economic rationality, a pragmatic social engineering, a democratic consensus culture, and a modernist logic of embracing economic and technological change.
In this manner, the idea of the Nordic model has often acted as a utopia, a place where one looks for influence and inspiration for the construction of societies on the European continent and elsewhere. Correspondingly, for discourses mainly of the Anglo-Saxon or American right, Sweden has been a dystopia, a quasi-totalitarian system associated with control, melancholy and suicide. A utopia, in Reinhart Kosellecks' term, is a place to which dreams and aspirations not judged possible in the immediate time horizon or within the specific spatial context are relocated, for instance, the dream of equality.
Importantly, utopia is not only the sphere of the desirable but also the sphere of what is deemed near impossible in the present, or in the specific political space. The projection of political dreams onto a utopia in the form of the small countries in the north of Europe can thus reveal something not only about the aspirations of those political discourses which have been inspired by the north, but also about the limits of these discourses and their perceptions of the cultural, social, economic and strategic problems in domestic political struggles. The gaze on Sweden is thus a reflection - projection, deflection - of various European political and cultural struggles. Similarly, the European gaze on Norden has a constructive role in the interior construction of Norden. In periods of praise, it leads to self-images of grandeur. In periods of crisis and critique, such as in the 1990s, it adds to the erosion of self-esteem and casts doubt on the specificity and validity of the Model and the related question of who we are.
The aim of this session is to examine the dynamics of this omplicated interplay between images and self-images in the cultural, social and economic construction of Norden, from a multitude of perspectives and settings. We are interested in the motivations and rationales for interest in the Nordic model from other political contexts at different points in time during the 20th century, and in how these displays of interest interact with self-images within Norden. Our emphasis is thus on the reflective logic in this as a complicated process of cultural and political interaction over time, that, from the 1930s to the late 1990s and 2000s, displays also ongoing reinterpretation and rereading of what Norden is in line with changes in European politics. We also hope to shed light on aspects of Norden that are little understood, such as the influence of Norden in extreme left and right wing discourses. We invite proposals for papers around these themes.
Session organisers:
Jenny Andersson, Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University
College, Stockholm, jenny.andersson@sh.se
Mary Hilson, Department of Scandinavian Studies, University College London, m.hilson@ucl.ac.uk
----------
Best,
Nick Aylott.
--
Dr Nicholas Aylott, senior lecturer (docent) in political science
School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University College
SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
www.sh.se/statsvetenskap
Please feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be interested. To join the Scandinavian Politics mailing list, send a message to me, the convenor (nicholas.aylott@sh.se). If you want to send something to the list, or if you don't want to receive these occasional messages, just let me know. See also www.psa.ac.uk/spgrp/scandinavia/
This call for papers is on behalf of Mary Hilson (University College London).
----------
CALL FOR PAPERS - "The Image of Sweden - comparisons over time and space"
Session to European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, 27 Feb to 1 March 2008.
Paper proposals are invited for a session for the ESSHC 2008 (www.iisg.nl/esshc). Please submit abstracts of no more than 500 words, in English, to Mary Hilson (m.hilson@ucl.ac.uk) or Jenny Andersson (jenny.andersson@sh.se) no later than 23 March 2007 (the deadline for submitting the proposal to the ESSHC is 1 April).
THE IMAGE OF SWEDEN - COMPARISONS OVER TIME AND SPACE
The Nordic countries, and particularly Sweden, have functioned as a role model and trope in political discourse in Europe and elsewhere. The 'Model', characterised foremost by its coupling of economic efficiency and social welfare, has been a source of influence for various political discourses, mainly on the Left, from Marquis Childs' well-known characterisation of Sweden as the 'middle way' during the 1930s to contemporary interest among politicians such as Gordon Brown and Ségolène Royal. As the Polish historian Kazimierz Musial has argued, the Nordic countries have been seen to embody a particular version of modernity, a modernity defined by a specific political socio-economic rationality, a pragmatic social engineering, a democratic consensus culture, and a modernist logic of embracing economic and technological change.
In this manner, the idea of the Nordic model has often acted as a utopia, a place where one looks for influence and inspiration for the construction of societies on the European continent and elsewhere. Correspondingly, for discourses mainly of the Anglo-Saxon or American right, Sweden has been a dystopia, a quasi-totalitarian system associated with control, melancholy and suicide. A utopia, in Reinhart Kosellecks' term, is a place to which dreams and aspirations not judged possible in the immediate time horizon or within the specific spatial context are relocated, for instance, the dream of equality.
Importantly, utopia is not only the sphere of the desirable but also the sphere of what is deemed near impossible in the present, or in the specific political space. The projection of political dreams onto a utopia in the form of the small countries in the north of Europe can thus reveal something not only about the aspirations of those political discourses which have been inspired by the north, but also about the limits of these discourses and their perceptions of the cultural, social, economic and strategic problems in domestic political struggles. The gaze on Sweden is thus a reflection - projection, deflection - of various European political and cultural struggles. Similarly, the European gaze on Norden has a constructive role in the interior construction of Norden. In periods of praise, it leads to self-images of grandeur. In periods of crisis and critique, such as in the 1990s, it adds to the erosion of self-esteem and casts doubt on the specificity and validity of the Model and the related question of who we are.
The aim of this session is to examine the dynamics of this omplicated interplay between images and self-images in the cultural, social and economic construction of Norden, from a multitude of perspectives and settings. We are interested in the motivations and rationales for interest in the Nordic model from other political contexts at different points in time during the 20th century, and in how these displays of interest interact with self-images within Norden. Our emphasis is thus on the reflective logic in this as a complicated process of cultural and political interaction over time, that, from the 1930s to the late 1990s and 2000s, displays also ongoing reinterpretation and rereading of what Norden is in line with changes in European politics. We also hope to shed light on aspects of Norden that are little understood, such as the influence of Norden in extreme left and right wing discourses. We invite proposals for papers around these themes.
Session organisers:
Jenny Andersson, Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University
College, Stockholm, jenny.andersson@sh.se
Mary Hilson, Department of Scandinavian Studies, University College London, m.hilson@ucl.ac.uk
----------
Best,
Nick Aylott.
--
Dr Nicholas Aylott, senior lecturer (docent) in political science
School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University College
SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
www.sh.se/statsvetenskap
Please feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be interested. To join the Scandinavian Politics mailing list, send a message to me, the convenor (nicholas.aylott@sh.se). If you want to send something to the list, or if you don't want to receive these occasional messages, just let me know. See also www.psa.ac.uk/spgrp/scandinavia/
2006-12-18
workshop on the EU and the Nordic states
Hej to those on the Scandinavian Politics list,
Let me draw your attention to a workshop on April 26th 2007 that the Scandinavian Politics Specialist Group, in association with the FUSE-EUROPA research programme, is sponsoring.
It's being run by the Europe in the World Centre at the University of Liverpool, and convened by Lee Miles. Its title is:
THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE NORDIC STATES: FUSION AND THE FUTURE
Further details are available on our group's website (www.psa.ac.uk/spgrp/scandinavia).
Best,
Nick Aylott.
--
Dr Nicholas Aylott, senior lecturer (docent) in political science
School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University College
SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
www.sh.se/statsvetenskap
Please feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be interested. To join the Scandinavian Politics mailing list, send a message to me, the convenor (nicholas.aylott@sh.se). If you want to send something to the list, or if you don't want to receive these occasional messages, just let me know. See also www.psa.ac.uk/spgrp/scandinavia/
Let me draw your attention to a workshop on April 26th 2007 that the Scandinavian Politics Specialist Group, in association with the FUSE-EUROPA research programme, is sponsoring.
It's being run by the Europe in the World Centre at the University of Liverpool, and convened by Lee Miles. Its title is:
THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE NORDIC STATES: FUSION AND THE FUTURE
Further details are available on our group's website (www.psa.ac.uk/spgrp/scandinavia).
Best,
Nick Aylott.
--
Dr Nicholas Aylott, senior lecturer (docent) in political science
School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University College
SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
www.sh.se/statsvetenskap
Please feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be interested. To join the Scandinavian Politics mailing list, send a message to me, the convenor (nicholas.aylott@sh.se). If you want to send something to the list, or if you don't want to receive these occasional messages, just let me know. See also www.psa.ac.uk/spgrp/scandinavia/
2006-11-20
NISA conference, May 2007
Hej to all on the list,
Marjo Koivisto of the LSE has asked me to send out information about the
conference of Nordic International Studies Association (NISA) in May 2007.
Further details are below.
Best,
Nick Aylott.
Please feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be
interested. To join the Scandinavian politics mailing list, send a message
to me, the convenor (nicholas.aylott@sh.se). If you want to send something
to the list, or if you don't want to receive these occasional messages,
just let me know. See also www.psa.ac.uk/spgrp/scandinavia/
--
Dr Nicholas Aylott, senior lecturer (docent) in political science
School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University College
SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
www.sh.se/statsvetenskap
----- Forwarded by Nicholas Aylott/Personal/Sodertorn on 2006-11-20 15:16
wrote on 2006-11-14 18:30:04:
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>
>
> CALL FOR PANELS AND PAPERS
>
>
>
> The Nordic International Studies Association (NISA) invites panel
> and paper proposals for a new conference on topical issues in world
politics.
>
>
>
> The conference -
>
>
>
> Power, Vision and Order in World Politics
>
>
>
> - will be held on 23-25 May 2007 at the University of Southern
> Denmark, Odense, Denmark. All international studies academics and
> practitioners - members or non-members of NISA, Nordic or
> international - are welcome to participate. Participation of
> doctoral students is particularly encouraged, and they may apply for
> travel grants.
>
>
>
> The deadline for both panel and paper proposals is 1 December 2006.
> Please send your proposal to the head of the organising committee,
> Sten Rynning (sry@sam.sdu.dk).
>
>
>
> The best papers of the conference will be published in a special
> issue of Cooperation and Conflict in 2008.
>
>
>
> For more information about the focus of the conference, the
> organization, fees, travel and other issues, please consult the
NISAhomepage:
> http://www.ps.au.dk/nisa/
>
>
>
> *
>
>
>
> NISA has also decided to establish a
>
>
>
> PRIZE FOR THE BEST ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN COOPERATION AND CONFLICT
>
>
>
> The first Prize - 500 euros - covers the years 2005 and 2006. The
> Prize will be awarded at the 2007 conference. The board of NISA and
> the editors of Cooperation and Conflict act as the nomination committee.
>
>
>
> *
>
>
>
> NISA was founded in October 1991 to promote research, advanced study
> and contact among academics and practitioners in the field of
> international studies in the Nordic countries. NISA encourages the
> advancement of knowledge across disciplinary boundaries, analytical
> approaches, institutions, and nations. The journal Cooperation and
> Conflict has been the Association's most visible form of activity.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> NISA conference
>
> University of Southern Denmark
>
> 23-25 May 2007
>
>
>
> Power, Vision, and Order in World Politics
>
>
>
>
>
> When President H. W. Bush in the wake of the 1991 Gulf War called
> for a new world order he illuminated an enduring phenomenon in the
> history of international relations: the idea that the conclusion of
> major wars or confrontations become moments of creation and the
> source of new orders. Following more than a decade of uncertainty,
> turmoil, and sometimes war we ask the discipline of international
> studies to reassess this relationship between turning points and order.
>
>
>
> The original insight into the phenomenon usefully highlighted the
> connection between power and order: the great powers who won the
> contest that recently came to an end can now use their muscle to
> build a new order that reflects their vision of politics, society,
> and economics. Sometimes these great powers are in agreement and
> form concerts; sometimes they disagree and form hostile alliances.
> This view of power and order may not be an appropriate means for
> understanding current world politics where preponderant power seems
> to go hand-in-hand with disorder.
>
>
>
> Our ambition with this conference is therefore to invite debate on
> the relationship between power, vision, and order. We hope to
> provoke new thoughts on the conceptualization of power and order.
> Must we now give priority to conceptualizations of relations that
> transcend the state - processes of globalization and the formation
> of a type of stateless global governance? Must we emphasize ideas
> over material interests and investigate the formation of identities
> through social interaction and, perhaps, the making of a benevolent
> Kantian anarchy? Must we retain a focus on the state but privilege
> the ways in which restraint and legitimacy in state policy help
> generate enduring constitutional-type orders? Conversely, should we
> look at states and the way in which states in common develop
> international societies? Or, should we look at states and the way in
> which groups of states tend to come into confrontation because their
> conceptions of society and politics are at odds? With this topic -
> power and order - we hope to take stock of the intellectual field,
> clarify controversies, and suggest new research questions.
>
>
>
> We hope also to stimulate new empirical findings into the
> relationship between power, vision, and order. We encourage
> participants to present their studies of major turning points and
> processes of war, peace, and governance, and we welcome diversity in
> terms of approaches, method, and focus. We thus hope to generate new
> insights into, say, the great power conferences that ended up
> producing not peace but cold war following the Second World War, or,
> say, the macro-sociological processes that produced this cold war.
> And we hope that these insights will feed back into the debate on
theory.
>
>
>
Marjo Koivisto of the LSE has asked me to send out information about the
conference of Nordic International Studies Association (NISA) in May 2007.
Further details are below.
Best,
Nick Aylott.
Please feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be
interested. To join the Scandinavian politics mailing list, send a message
to me, the convenor (nicholas.aylott@sh.se). If you want to send something
to the list, or if you don't want to receive these occasional messages,
just let me know. See also www.psa.ac.uk/spgrp/scandinavia/
--
Dr Nicholas Aylott, senior lecturer (docent) in political science
School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University College
SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
www.sh.se/statsvetenskap
----- Forwarded by Nicholas Aylott/Personal/Sodertorn on 2006-11-20 15:16
***************************************************************************
>
>
> CALL FOR PANELS AND PAPERS
>
>
>
> The Nordic International Studies Association (NISA) invites panel
> and paper proposals for a new conference on topical issues in world
politics.
>
>
>
> The conference -
>
>
>
> Power, Vision and Order in World Politics
>
>
>
> - will be held on 23-25 May 2007 at the University of Southern
> Denmark, Odense, Denmark. All international studies academics and
> practitioners - members or non-members of NISA, Nordic or
> international - are welcome to participate. Participation of
> doctoral students is particularly encouraged, and they may apply for
> travel grants.
>
>
>
> The deadline for both panel and paper proposals is 1 December 2006.
> Please send your proposal to the head of the organising committee,
> Sten Rynning (sry@sam.sdu.dk).
>
>
>
> The best papers of the conference will be published in a special
> issue of Cooperation and Conflict in 2008.
>
>
>
> For more information about the focus of the conference, the
> organization, fees, travel and other issues, please consult the
NISAhomepage:
> http://www.ps.au.dk/nisa/
>
>
>
> *
>
>
>
> NISA has also decided to establish a
>
>
>
> PRIZE FOR THE BEST ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN COOPERATION AND CONFLICT
>
>
>
> The first Prize - 500 euros - covers the years 2005 and 2006. The
> Prize will be awarded at the 2007 conference. The board of NISA and
> the editors of Cooperation and Conflict act as the nomination committee.
>
>
>
> *
>
>
>
> NISA was founded in October 1991 to promote research, advanced study
> and contact among academics and practitioners in the field of
> international studies in the Nordic countries. NISA encourages the
> advancement of knowledge across disciplinary boundaries, analytical
> approaches, institutions, and nations. The journal Cooperation and
> Conflict has been the Association's most visible form of activity.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> NISA conference
>
> University of Southern Denmark
>
> 23-25 May 2007
>
>
>
> Power, Vision, and Order in World Politics
>
>
>
>
>
> When President H. W. Bush in the wake of the 1991 Gulf War called
> for a new world order he illuminated an enduring phenomenon in the
> history of international relations: the idea that the conclusion of
> major wars or confrontations become moments of creation and the
> source of new orders. Following more than a decade of uncertainty,
> turmoil, and sometimes war we ask the discipline of international
> studies to reassess this relationship between turning points and order.
>
>
>
> The original insight into the phenomenon usefully highlighted the
> connection between power and order: the great powers who won the
> contest that recently came to an end can now use their muscle to
> build a new order that reflects their vision of politics, society,
> and economics. Sometimes these great powers are in agreement and
> form concerts; sometimes they disagree and form hostile alliances.
> This view of power and order may not be an appropriate means for
> understanding current world politics where preponderant power seems
> to go hand-in-hand with disorder.
>
>
>
> Our ambition with this conference is therefore to invite debate on
> the relationship between power, vision, and order. We hope to
> provoke new thoughts on the conceptualization of power and order.
> Must we now give priority to conceptualizations of relations that
> transcend the state - processes of globalization and the formation
> of a type of stateless global governance? Must we emphasize ideas
> over material interests and investigate the formation of identities
> through social interaction and, perhaps, the making of a benevolent
> Kantian anarchy? Must we retain a focus on the state but privilege
> the ways in which restraint and legitimacy in state policy help
> generate enduring constitutional-type orders? Conversely, should we
> look at states and the way in which states in common develop
> international societies? Or, should we look at states and the way in
> which groups of states tend to come into confrontation because their
> conceptions of society and politics are at odds? With this topic -
> power and order - we hope to take stock of the intellectual field,
> clarify controversies, and suggest new research questions.
>
>
>
> We hope also to stimulate new empirical findings into the
> relationship between power, vision, and order. We encourage
> participants to present their studies of major turning points and
> processes of war, peace, and governance, and we welcome diversity in
> terms of approaches, method, and focus. We thus hope to generate new
> insights into, say, the great power conferences that ended up
> producing not peace but cold war following the Second World War, or,
> say, the macro-sociological processes that produced this cold war.
> And we hope that these insights will feed back into the debate on
theory.
>
>
>
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