2019 — Paris

The Discreet Evolution of Collective Defense within the European Union

Presenter: Elie Perot (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

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)

Stronger Together? Austria's Strategy of Defense Cooperation

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

The Sino-Russian Rapprochement and Its Implications for Europe

Presenter: Simon Saradzhyan (King's College London)

Norway and the Arctic: Climate Policy and Energy Paradigm

Presenter: Florian Vidal (Panthéon-Assas University)

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)

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

Presenter: Adrien Estève (Sciences Po)

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)

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

Presenter: Ash Rossiter (Khalifa University)

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

Presenter: Michael Carl Haas (ETH Zurich)

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

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

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

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

Parties, Exit and European Security and Defense

Presenter: Stephanie Hofmann (Graduate Institute Geneva)

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)

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

Presenter: Jonas Schneider (ETH Zurich)

When do Legislatures Matter in Civil-Military Relations?

Presenter: Stephen Saideman (Carleton University)

Globalized Authoritarianism, Intelligence Cooperation and Transnational Repression

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

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

Presenter: Aviva Guttmann (King's College London)

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

Presenter: Constant Hijzen (Leiden University)

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

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

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

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

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

Presenter: Eugenio Cusumano (Leiden University)

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

Presenter: Chiara Ruffa (Uppsala University)

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

Presenter: Matthew Kearns (Newcastle University)

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

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

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)

Negotiations with Terrorist Groups and the "No Talks" Paradigm

Presenter: Anna Muehlhausen (University of Erfurt)

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

Presenter: Étienne Dignat (Sciences Po)

The Military-Entrepreneurial Complex: Commercial Innovation and State Access

Presenter: Sophie-Charlotte Fischer (ETH Zurich)

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

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

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)

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

Presenter: Olivier Schmitt (University of Southern Denmark)

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)

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

Presenter: Silvia D'Amato (European University Institute)

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)

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)

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

Presenter: Eva Ziegler (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

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

Presenter: Brendan Flynn (National University of Ireland Galway)

The Political Economy of Drones on the European Defense Market

Presenter: Dominika Kunertova (University of Southern Denmark)

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

Presenter: Antonio Calcara (LUISS Rome)

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

Presenter: Albertine Bloemendal (Leiden University)

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)

Inhibition or Control: European Autonomy and US Grand Strategy

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

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

Presenter: Liviu Horovitz (Johns Hopkins University)

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

Presenter: Joseph O'Mahoney (University of Reading)

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

Presenter: Giordana Pulcini (Roma Tre University)

Uninsured Allies: When Do States Divest from Nuclear Latency?

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

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)

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

Presenter: Ilaria Parisi (École normale supérieure)

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)

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

Presenter: Julia Berghofer (European Leadership Network)

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

Presenter: Guillaume de Rougé (École normale supérieure)

Discursive Practices and the Construction of Mercenaries as Illegitimate Fighters

Presenter: Helene Olsen (King's College London)

The Normative Limits on Counter-violence by Discretionary States

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

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

Presenter: Chris van der Borgh (Utrecht University)

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)