Archive · 2nd Annual Conference

2018 — Paris

21 — 22 June 2018 · University Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2), Paris, France.

Programme highlights

Keynote

Beatrice Heuser (University of Glasgow) — “Security Studies in Europe: An Agenda”. The second EISS conference expanded the thematic sections established at the 2017 inaugural edition.

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Conference programme

The full programme of panels, roundtables and papers, as it ran. Open a session to see its papers and speakers.

Day 1 — Thursday 21 June

  1. Opening Remarks & Keynote Speech

    Amphithéâtre 1

    Chair:Hugo Meijer (European University Institute, Italy)

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    1. Security Studies in Europe: An Agenda

      Presenter: Beatrice Heuser (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

  2. Defense Cooperation

    Salle 214

    Chair:Ulrich Krotz (European University Institute, Italy)

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    1. Protégé Panic: Alliance Fears and the Trump Administration

      Presenter: Alexander Lanoszka (City, University of London, United Kingdom) · Zack Cooper (Center for Strategic and International Studies, United States)

    2. Strategies for Obtaining United Nations Security Council Approval

      Presenter: Stefano Recchia (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)

    3. Small State, Big Impact? Iceland’s First National Security Policy

      Presenter: Page Wilson (University of Iceland, Iceland) · Audur Ingolfsdottir (University of Akureyri, Iceland)

    4. Japan’s Defense Partnerships in the Asia-Pacific: Motivations, Constituent Components and Limitations

      Presenter: Elena Atanassova-Cornelis (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

    5. Nordic and Nordic-Baltic Defense Cooperation after the Ukraine Crisis

      Presenter: Ida Maria Oma (Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies, Norway)

    Collective Security and Strategic (In)Stability in Cyberspace

    Salle 315

    Chair:Frédérick Douzet (University Paris-8, France)

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    1. Cyberspace and the Recourse to Offensive Actions

      Presenter: Stéphane Taillat (St Cyr Military Academy, France)

    2. Cyber Attacks as a Threat to International Peace and Security: The Action of the UN Security Council

      Presenter: Annachiara Rotundo (University of Naples, Italy)

    3. The Impact of Academic Research on States’ Approach and Practice on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations

      Presenter: François Delerue (Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM), France)

    4. International Legality of Cyberweapons

      Presenter: Joanna Kulesza (University of Lodz, Poland)

    5. Chinese Perspectives on Security in Cyberspace

      Presenter: Rogier Creemers (University of Leiden, Netherlands)

  3. Lunch

  4. Military Interventions

    Salle 214

    Chair:Peter Viggo Jacobsen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

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    1. Russia’s Military Intervention in Georgia, Ukraine and Syria: An Analysis of Russia’s Strategic Culture, Perceptions and Relative National Power

      Presenter: Domitilla Sagramoso (King’s College London, United Kingdom) · Simon Saradzhyan (Harvard University) · Nabi Abdullaev (Control Risks, United States)

    2. Brexit and the Future of European Military Coalitions

      Presenter: Katharina Wolf (European University Institute, Italy)

    3. The Recurring Logic of French Military Interventions in Africa and their Implications for Barkhane and the Sahel

      Presenter: Nathaniel Powel (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland)

    4. Military Interventions, Liberal Militarism and Republican Restraints on Power

      Presenter: Kevin Blachford (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)

    5. Can and Want. But How? Russia’s Approaches to Use of Military Force in International Relations

      Presenter: Katarzyna Zysk (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Norway)

    Private Actors and Conflict

    Salle 315

    Chair:Elke Krahmann (University of Kiel, Germany)

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    1. A Public and Private Norm for Force? Authorities’ Assemblages and Re-Specification of State in the International Control of Private Security

      Presenter: Cyril Magnon-Pujo (University Lumière Lyon 2, France)

    2. Analyzing Private Military and Security Contractors’ Power in Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives

      Presenter: Berenike Prem (University of Kiel, Germany)

    3. The Anti-Mercenary Norm and United Nations’ Use of Private Military and Security Companies

      Presenter: Oldrich Bures (Metropolitan University Prague, Czech Republic) · Jeremy Meyer (Metropolitan University Prague, Czech Republic)

    4. The Insurgents’ Right to Surrender and New Military Technologies: The Risk of Lawfare via the European Court of Human Rights

      Presenter: Philippe Bou Nader (Panthéon-Assas University (Paris II), France)

    5. Redefining Statehood in Conflict: Local Militias, Transnational Actors and Security Governance in Mali

      Presenter: Edoardo Baldaro (University of Naples, Italy)

  5. Coffee Break

  6. Alliances and Military Innovation

    Salle 214

    Chair:Alexander Lanoszka (City, University of London, United Kingdom)

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    1. Testing Traditional Alliances Ability to Contain China’s Rise

      Presenter: Claudia Astarita (Sciences Po, France)

    2. All Options on the (Latency) Table: The Impact of Carrots and Sticks on Nuclear Latency Roll-Back

      Presenter: Rupal Mehta (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States) · Molly Berkemeier (Texas A & M University, United States) · Paige Price Cone (University of Chicago, United States) · Rachel Whitlark (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)

    3. The British Army, Modern Fire and Basic Military Training: 1871-1918

      Presenter: Jean-Philippe Miller-Tremblay (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), France)

    4. Italian Military Transformation: Defense Industry Trends and National Leadership

      Presenter: Marco Valigi (University of Bologna, Italy) · Gabriele Natalizia (Link Campus University, Italy)

    5. Consequences of Military Technology Evolutions on the Rare-Metal Needs: Assessment of the Supply Security

      Presenter: Raphaël Danino-Perraud (Laboratoire d’Économie d’Orléans (LEO) / Bureau des Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM), France)

    Asymmetric Threats, Non-State Actors and Domestic Politics

    Salle 315

    Chair:Silvia D’Amato (University of Florence, Italy)

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    1. Ballot Boxes and Surgical Strikes: Indian National Security Choices in Electoral Campaigns

      Presenter: Karthika Sasikumar (San Jose State University, United States)

    2. Understanding and Countering Violent Extremism: Exploring the Discursive Construction of Transnational Counter-Terrorism Programming at the Security-Development Nexus

      Presenter: Ann-Kathrin Rothermel (University of Potsdam, Germany)

    3. How Foreign State Support Affects Rebel Groups: Evidence from Angola

      Presenter: Quint Hoekstra (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)

    4. Migrant Rescuing as Organized Hypocrisy. EU Maritime Missions Offshore Libya between Humanitarianism and Border Control

      Presenter: Eugenio Cusumano (Leiden University, Netherlands)

    5. Reconceptualizing the Military Assistance: Evaluating Norwegian Support to Building Integrity in the Defense Institutions in Western Balkans

      Presenter: Islam Jusufi (Epoka University, Albania)

  7. Military Technology

    Salle 214

    Chair:Mauro Gilli (ETH-Zurich, Switzerland)

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    1. Prompt Global Strike and the New Fog of War

      Presenter: Mischa Hansel (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

    2. Spacepower in the International System: Measuring Power in Heaven

      Presenter: Bleddyn Bowen (University of Leicester, United Kingdom)

    3. Technological Singularity and War: Artificial Intelligence and the Radical Transformation of Human-Machine Relations

      Presenter: Raluca Csernaton (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic)

    4. Why is Spin-in Not Yet a Win-Win? Obstacles to Technology Transfer of Autonomy from the Civilian to the Military Sector

      Presenter: Maaike Verbruggen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

    5. Towards a European ‘Offset Strategy’? Procurement and Emerging Technologies

      Presenter: Daniel Fiott (European Union Institute for Security (EUISS), France)

    WMD Non-Proliferation and Arms Control

    Salle 315

    Chair:Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer (University of Oslo, Norway)

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    1. The 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: Moral Idealism or Transformative Change of the Global Nonproliferation Regime?

      Presenter: Margarita Petrova (Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, Spain)

    2. Schrodinger’s Panda – Quantum Technology in China

      Presenter: Raymond Wang (Middlebury Institute of International Studies / Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

    3. How to Think About Nuclear Crises

      Presenter: Mark Bell (University of Minnesota, United States)

    4. Breathing New Life into NPT? Likely Impact of the Ban Treaty on the NPT Review Process

      Presenter: Michal Onderco (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands)

    5. Nuclear Alliances: Strategies of Extended Nuclear Deterrence and the Pursuit of Hegemony

      Presenter: Eliza Gheorghe (Yale University, United States)

Day 2 — Friday 22 June

  1. Europe and Nuclear Deterrence in the Era of Putin, Trump and Brexit

    Salle 214

    Chair:Corentin Brustlein (French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), France)

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    1. The Atlantic Alliance’s Cohesion at Risk? Current Euro-Atlantic Challenges Seen through the Lens of the Second Berlin Crisis (1958-1963)

      Presenter: Frédéric Gloriant (École Normale Supérieure, France)

    2. U.S. END and Nuclear Use: “Finally” a Bipolar Problem

      Presenter: Christine Leah (independent researcher)

    3. The Resurgence of European Insecurity: Lessons Learned (and Forgotten) from the Euromissile Crisis (1977-1987)

      Presenter: Ilaria Paris (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, France)

    4. Envisaging Alternatives for Europe’s Nuclear Order

      Presenter: Elmar Hellendoorn (Harvard University, United States)

    5. Words Matter. Donald Trump and the Credibility of US Extended Nuclear Deterrence

      Presenter: Hiroshi Nakatani (University of Reading, United Kingdom)

    Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism

    Salle 315

    Chair:Isabelle Duijvesteijn (Leiden University, Netherlands)

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    1. Rethinking (Counter) Terrorism, the Enemy ‘Within’, Cyber Strategies and Construction of Narratives in the Fight Against Terrorism

      Presenter: Elizabeth Sheppard (Université François Rabelais-Tours, France)

    2. Into the Vacuum: How the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and Islamic State Insurgencies Exploited the Syrian Civil War and Iraqi Crisis from mid 2014-mid 2017

      Presenter: John Holland-McCowan (King’s College London, United Kingdom)

    3. The International Systemic Impact of Terrorism: from Sarajevo to 9/11

      Presenter: Bruno Reis (University Institute of Lisbon - ISCTE, Portugal)

    4. Defining, Labelling, Listing: The Construction of the Terrorist ‘Other’ since the End of the 19th Century

      Presenter: Corentin Siret (Université de Caen, France)

    5. Influencing the Feeling of Security?

      Presenter: Michael T. Oswald (Free University Berlin, Germany)

  2. European Grand Strategy

    Salle 214

    Chair:Marina Henke (European University Institute, Italy)

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    1. What are the EU’s Grand Strategic Options in Response to American Restraint?

      Presenter: Marina Henke (Northwestern University / European University Institute, Italy) · Paul van Hooft (European University Institute, Italy)

    2. What Political Forces Shape European Security on the World Stage?

      Presenter: Luis Simón (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

    3. Now End of History: Ruptures and Tectonic Shifts?

      Presenter: Beatrice Heuser (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

    4. European Military Capability Needs in an Age of American Restraint

      Presenter: Mauro Gilli (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

    5. Quo Vadimus? U.S.-EU Counter-Terrorism Cooperation in an Age of Uncertainty

      Presenter: Carlotta Minnella (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)

    Hybrid Threats, Criminal Insurgency and the Path Toward Multi-Domain Security

    Salle 315

    Chair:David Garcia Cantalapiedra (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

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    1. Hybrid Threats: Terrorism, Transnational Organized Crime and a New Concept of Security

      Presenter: David Garcia Cantalapiedra (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

    2. Organized Crime in Latin-America: How Brazilian Organizations Are Changing the Rules of the Game

      Presenter: Carolina Sampó (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)

    3. Criminal Networks in Africa: a New Door of Latin America Traffics?

      Presenter: Raquel Barras Tejudo (EuroMesco/Carnegie, Lebanon)

    4. The Blurred Line between Insurgency and Organized Crime in Afghanistan

      Presenter: María Barco Martínez (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

    5. The Crime/Terror Nexus in Europe. Initial Results from a Multi-Method Approach

      Presenter: Daniela Pisolu (Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Austria)

  3. Lunch

  4. Intelligence

    Salle 214

    Chair:Antonio Diaz (University of Cádiz, Spain)

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    1. Military Intelligence and Top-secret Interrogation Centers in the Second World War

      Presenter: Simona Tobia (Université de Toulouse, France)

    2. Keeping Secrets: Surveying the Factors Affecting Professional Discretion

      Presenter: Damien Van Puyvelde (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

    3. Intelligence ‘Failure’ and the 2004 Madrid Train Bombings

      Presenter: Frennie Warner (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

    4. Hunting Terrorist Suspects: the Role of Police Intelligence in Fighting Terrorism in Europe

      Presenter: Hager Ben Jaffel (King’s College London, United Kingdom)

    5. Cyber Action Russia and Intelligence

      Presenter: Jamel Metmati (Cyber Chair of Saint-Cyr, France)

    6. Short presentation on the IAFIE’s research activities and initiatives

      Presenter: Bob de Graaf (Chair of the European Chapter of IAFIE (International Association For Intelligence Education))

    Arms Production and Transfers

    Salle 315

    Chair:Matthew Uttley (King’s College London, United Kingdom)

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    1. The Metamorphosis of ‘Capability’: British Defense Equipment Support Policy Since 2010

      Presenter: Benoit Giry (Centre Émile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France) · Andy Smith (Centre Émile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France)

    2. Cooperation and Non-Cooperation in European Defense Procurement: the “Italian Job”

      Presenter: Antonio Calcara (Ph.D. Candidate, LUISS, University “Guido Carli” in Rome, Italy)

    3. Producing Airpower: Neo-Liberalism and Complex Weaponry

      Presenter: Marc R. DeVore (University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom)

    4. Informal Institutions, Trust and the Design of Privatization

      Presenter: Moritz Weiss (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany)

    5. Arms Procurement, Transfers and Defense Industries as a Means of Gaining Autonomy: The Case of the Gulf States

      Presenter: Emma Soubrier (Université Clermont Auvergne, France)

  5. Coffee Break

  6. Democratization and Politicization of Military Issues in Europe

    Salle 214

    Chair:Delphine Deschaux-Dutard (University of Grenoble Alpes, France)

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    1. What [European] Women [Really] Want? A Critical, Feminist Approach to Understanding Gendered Aspects of Public Opinion on European Union’s Security and Defense Policy

      Presenter: Karen Devine (Dublin City University, Ireland)

    2. Policy Mood and Policy Responsiveness on the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy

      Presenter: Pierangelo Isernia (University of Siena, Italy) · Francesco Olmastroni (University of Siena, Italy)

    3. Party Political Contestation of Military Interventions

      Presenter: Wolfgang Wagner (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)

    4. It’s the Americans, Stupid... Is it? Understanding the French (Suspect) Plebiscite for European Defense

      Presenter: Cyrille Thiébaut (European University Institute, Italy / Paris 1 CESSP, France)

    5. An EU Inspired Cloud of Multilateral Antipathy? The British Public and Foreign Policy Attitudes on the Eve of Brexit?

      Presenter: Thomas Scotto (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)

    Security and Deterrence in Asia

    Salle 315

    Chair:John Nilsson Wright (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)

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    1. The Evolution of US Alliances in Northeast Asia: Japan and South Korea

      Presenter: Matteo Dian (University of Bologna, Italy)

    2. US-Chinese Maritime Security and the Consequences for Europe’s Relations with Washington and Beijing

      Presenter: Liselotte Odgaard (Royal Danish Defense College, Denmark)

    3. Coping with ‘Grey Zone Situations’: Japan’s Strategy in the East China Sea

      Presenter: Cécile Pajon (French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), France)

    4. A Weapon of the Weak? Cyberwarfare and China’s Threat Perception

      Presenter: Simone Dossi (University of Milan, Italy)

    5. Consistent Inconsistency: The Unintended Consequences of the US ‘Spoiling’ a Region?

      Presenter: Catherine Jones (University of Warwick, United Kingdom)

  7. Concluding Session: Open Discussion on the EISS

    Amphithéâtre 1

  8. Cocktail

    Appartement décanal (12 place du Panthéon, 75005 Paris)

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University Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2)

92 rue d’Assas, 75006 Paris, France.

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