Keynote & introductory remarks

Introductory remarks: Hugo Meijer and Alain Dieckhoff, Sciences Po CERI.

Keynote: Stephen Brooks (Dartmouth College) and Barry Posen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

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Day 1 — Thursday 27 June

  1. 9h to 9h30

    Introductory Remarks

    Simone Veil Lecture Hall

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    1. Introductory Remarks

      Presenter: Alain Dieckhoff (Director of the Center for International Studies (CERI), Sciences Po) · Presenter: Hugo Meijer (Founding Director of the EISS, Sciences Po-CERI)

  2. 9h30 to 11h

    Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance

    Simone Veil Lecture Hall

    Chair:Adrian Hyde-Price (University of Gothenburg)

    Discussants:Adrian Hyde-Price (University of Gothenburg)

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    1. The Discreet Evolution of Collective Defense within the European Union

      Presenter: Elie Perot (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

    2. Lifting Pooling and Sharing to a Higher Level: The European Air Transport Command

      Presenter: Carolyn Moser (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law)

    3. Stronger Together? Austria's Strategy of Defense Cooperation

      Presenter: Laure Gallouet (University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès)

    4. The Sino-Russian Rapprochement and Its Implications for Europe

      Presenter: Simon Saradzhyan (King's College London)

    Climate Change and Security Actors

    Room H 101

    Chair:Krystel Wanneau (Free University Brussels (ULB) / Laval University)

    Discussants:Krystel Wanneau (Free University Brussels (ULB) / Laval University)

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    1. Norway and the Arctic: Climate Policy and Energy Paradigm

      Presenter: Florian Vidal (Panthéon-Assas University)

    2. Regionalization of Environmental Security and the Role of the Military: South Asia as a Case in Point

      Presenter: Dhanasree Jayaram (Manipal Academy of Higher Education/University of Lausanne)

    3. Climate Change and the US Military: Changes and Continuities Under the Trump Administration

      Presenter: Adrien Estève (Sciences Po)

    4. Money Rather Than Muscles: China's Approach to Post-Polar Arctic Security

      Presenter: Mikaa Mered (Free Institute for the Study of International Relations (ILERI)/NEOMA Business School)

  3. 11h to 11h30

    Coffee Break

    Main Hall

  4. 11h30 to 13h

    Military Innovation in the Long Peace

    Simone Veil Lecture Hall

    Chair:Andrea Gilli (NATO Defense College)

    Discussants:Andrea Gilli (NATO Defense College)

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    1. Modelling the Role of 'Hype' in the Development Trajectory of 'Long-Fuse' Defense Technologies

      Presenter: Ash Rossiter (Khalifa University)

    2. Failing to Succeed: The KPz 70 and German Innovation in Armored Warfare, 1963-71

      Presenter: Michael Carl Haas (ETH Zurich)

    3. Keeping Pace: Technological Change and Military Innovation in the Italian Armed Forces

      Presenter: Leopoldo Nuti (Roma Tre University) · Presenter: Niccolò Petrelli (Roma Tre University)

    4. Planning to Escalate to Deescalate: Military Alliances and Innovation during France's Cold War

      Presenter: Marc R. De Vore (University of St Andrews)

    The Domestic Politics of Security and Defense

    Room H 101

    Chair:Alice Pannier (Johns Hopkins University)

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    1. Parties, Exit and European Security and Defense

      Presenter: Stephanie Hofmann (Graduate Institute Geneva)

    2. Debating Military Interventions: Party-Political Patterns of Justifications for Using Armed Force in Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom

      Presenter: Wolfgang Wagner (Free University of Amsterdam)

    3. Not Whether but When: The Influence of Leaders on Foreign Policy

      Presenter: Jonas Schneider (ETH Zurich)

    4. When do Legislatures Matter in Civil-Military Relations?

      Presenter: Stephen Saideman (Carleton University)

  5. 13h to 14h

    Lunch

    Main Hall

  6. 14h to 15h30

    Intelligence

    Simone Veil Lecture Hall

    Chair:Claudia Hillebrand (Cardiff University)

    Discussants:Claudia Hillebrand (Cardiff University)

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    1. Globalized Authoritarianism, Intelligence Cooperation and Transnational Repression

      Presenter: Fiona B. Adamson (School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS))

    2. Libyan Covert Actions in Europe, the Palestinian Armed Struggle, and Western Intelligence (1972-74)

      Presenter: Aviva Guttmann (King's College London)

      Open in the Anthology

    3. Of Ticking Bombs: Intelligence in the Counter-Terrorism Domain, 1970-Present

      Presenter: Constant Hijzen (Leiden University)

    4. Is Pessimism Well-Founded? Intelligence Analysis and the Intentions of Competitor States

      Presenter: Andreas Lutsch (Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences)

    What Do You Want to Die For? Military Recruitment in Comparative Perspective

    Room H 101

    Chair:Joakim Berndtsson (University of Gothenburg)

    Discussants:Joakim Berndtsson (University of Gothenburg)

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    1. We Are Army After All? Military Recruitment in the Netherlands and Germany

      Presenter: Jutta Joachim (Radboud University) · Presenter: Andrea Schneiker (University of Siegen)

    2. The Visuality of Military Recruitment: US and UK Militaries and PMSCs Compared

      Presenter: Eugenio Cusumano (Leiden University)

    3. Masculine Cultures, Exclusion Mechanisms and Retention of Female Personnel in the Military

      Presenter: Chiara Ruffa (Uppsala University)

    4. Neoliberal Governmentality and Military Recruitment: Governing the Working Class Male Soldier

      Presenter: Matthew Kearns (Newcastle University)

  7. 15h30 to 16h

    Coffee Break

    Main Hall

  8. 16h to 17h30

    Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism

    Simone Veil Lecture Hall

    Chair:Peter Neumann (King's College London)

    Discussants:Peter Neumann (King's College London)

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    1. Little Ado About Something: A Gender Perspective of EU and UN Counter-Terrorism Strategies

      Presenter: Laura Berlingozzi (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies)

    2. Al-Baghdadi's Revenge: Identifying the Strategic Value of Vengeance Narratives in the Islamic State's Propaganda

      Presenter: Marie Robin (Panthéon-Assas University/University of Southern Denmark)

    3. Negotiations with Terrorist Groups and the "No Talks" Paradigm

      Presenter: Anna Muehlhausen (University of Erfurt)

    4. Hostages and Counter-Terrorism: The Fallacies of the Realist Approach

      Presenter: Étienne Dignat (Sciences Po)

    Military Technology

    Room H 101

    Chair:Moritz Weiss (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

    Discussants:Moritz Weiss (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

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    1. The Military-Entrepreneurial Complex: Commercial Innovation and State Access

      Presenter: Sophie-Charlotte Fischer (ETH Zurich)

    2. China's Efforts in Civil-Military Integration and International Implications

      Presenter: Tai Ming Cheung (University of California San Diego)

    3. Making the U.S. Defense Innovation Base More Effective in the Digital Arms Race with China: The Increasing Engagement of the Pentagon and Traditional Defense

      Presenter: James Cross (Franklin Venture Partners)

    4. NATO, Emerging Technologies, and Future Warfare: Overcoming the Alliance's Strategic Dilemma

      Presenter: Olivier Schmitt (University of Southern Denmark)

  9. 17h30 to 19h30

    Cocktail

    Main Hall

Day 2 — Friday 28 June

  1. 9h30 to 11h

    Military Interventions

    Simone Veil Lecture Hall

    Chair:Chiara Ruffa (Uppsala University)

    Discussants:Chiara Ruffa (Uppsala University), Stephen Saideman (Carleton University)

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    1. A Case Study: Russia's Special Operations Command in Military Interventions

      Presenter: Emmanuel Dreyfus (Panthéon-Assas University/National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO)) · Presenter: Michael Gjerstad (University of Southern Denmark)

    2. Converging and Conflicting Dynamics of Cooperation: European Security Efforts in Sahel

      Presenter: Silvia D'Amato (European University Institute)

    3. Analyzing the Individual Strategic Practices of Deployed Officers in Multilateral Military Operations: An Analytical Framework

      Presenter: Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen (Royal Danish Defense College) · Presenter: Annemarie Peen Rodt Poucher (Royal Danish Defense College)

    4. Reluctant to Intervene? The Ambiguous Politics of Peacekeeping in the Case of Emerging Powers

      Presenter: Nicole Jenne (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) · Presenter: Rafael Duarte Villa (Universidade de Sao Paulo)

    Arms Procurement and Transfers

    Room H 101

    Chair:Jocelyn Mawdsley (Newcastle University)

    Discussants:Jocelyn Mawdsley (Newcastle University)

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    1. Exports of Second-Hand Arms: Increasing the Competition for Arms Producing Firms

      Presenter: Eva Ziegler (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

    2. Understanding the Politics of European Naval Procurement: Always Just Beyond the Horizon?

      Presenter: Brendan Flynn (National University of Ireland Galway)

    3. The Political Economy of Drones on the European Defense Market

      Presenter: Dominika Kunertova (University of Southern Denmark)

    4. Between Power and Plenty: The New EU Defense-Industrial Initiatives and the Transatlantic Relationship

      Presenter: Antonio Calcara (LUISS Rome)

  2. 11h to 11h30

    Coffee Break

    Main Hall

  3. 11h30 to 13h

    The Past, Present and Future of Transatlantic Security

    Simone Veil Lecture Hall

    Chair:Mario Del Pero (Sciences Po)

    Discussants:Mario Del Pero (Sciences Po)

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    1. Private Diplomacy and Transatlantic Burden Sharing During Detente: A View from the Netherlands

      Presenter: Albertine Bloemendal (Leiden University)

    2. Theories of Balancing and US Grand Strategy: Unpacking the Europe vs. East Asia Tradeoff

      Presenter: Linde Desmaele (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) · Presenter: Luis Simón (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

    3. Inhibition or Control: European Autonomy and US Grand Strategy

      Presenter: Paul van Hooft (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))

    4. The Future of European Security Architecture: Back to Lady Thatcher and her Ententes

      Presenter: Liviu Horovitz (Johns Hopkins University)

    WMD Non-Proliferation and Arms Control

    Room H 101

    Chair:Eliza Gheorghe (Bilkent University)

    Discussants:Eliza Gheorghe (Bilkent University)

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    1. The Violation that Strengthens the Norm: India's 1974 Nuclear Explosion and the Global Nonproliferation Regime

      Presenter: Joseph O'Mahoney (University of Reading)

    2. The Politics of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: The Carter Administration, the INFCE Program, and Italy

      Presenter: Giordana Pulcini (Roma Tre University)

    3. Uninsured Allies: When Do States Divest from Nuclear Latency?

      Presenter: Ulrich Kuehn (University of Hamburg) · Presenter: Tristan A. Volpe (US Naval Postgraduate School)

    4. Implications of the Current Frictions within the Alliance and the Further Build-up of European Defense for Nuclear Deterrence in Europe

      Presenter: Tom Sauer (University of Antwerpen)

  4. 13h to 14h

    Lunch

    Main Hall

  5. 14h to 15h30

    History and Prospect for a European Deterrent

    Simone Veil Lecture Hall

    Chair:Frédéric Gloriant (University of Nantes)

    Discussants:Frédéric Gloriant (University of Nantes)

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    1. The Franco-German Security Dialogue as a First Step for a Deeper French European Engagement

      Presenter: Ilaria Parisi (École normale supérieure)

    2. European Perceptions of Nuclear Deterrence in the Era of Trump and Putin and the Path to European Strategic Autonomy

      Presenter: Tara Varma (European Council of Foreign Relations)

    3. German View on a European Deterrent: the Cold War, and Prospects

      Presenter: Julia Berghofer (European Leadership Network)

    4. France, European Defense and Deterrence Since the End of the Cold War

      Presenter: Guillaume de Rougé (École normale supérieure)

      Open in the Anthology

    Private Actors, Armed Conflict, and the State

    Room H 101

    Chair:Sibylle Scheipers (University of St Andrews)

    Discussants:Sibylle Scheipers (University of St Andrews)

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    1. Discursive Practices and the Construction of Mercenaries as Illegitimate Fighters

      Presenter: Helene Olsen (King's College London)

    2. The Normative Limits on Counter-violence by Discretionary States

      Presenter: Luis de la Calle (Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE))

    3. Local State-Society Transformations and Everyday Security Provisioning in San Salvador

      Presenter: Chris van der Borgh (Utrecht University)

    4. Offshore Balancing, Special Operations Forces (SOF) and the Hybrid Agencies of Democratic Warfare

      Presenter: Evren Eken (Suleyman Demirel University, Galatasaray) · Presenter: Eylem Ozkaya Lassalle (Suleyman Demirel University, Galatasaray)

  6. 15h30 to 17h30

    Concluding Keynote Panel — Pulling Back or Staying In? US Grand Strategic Options and their Implications for Europe

    Simone Veil Lecture Hall

    Chair:Thierry Balzacq (Sciences Po-CERI)

    Discussants:Stephanie Hofmann (Graduate Institute Geneva), Adrian Hyde-Price (University of Gothenburg)

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    1. Pulling Back or Staying In? US Grand Strategic Options and their Implications for Europe

      Presenter: Stephen Brooks (Dartmouth College) · Presenter: Barry Posen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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