Archive · 4th Annual Conference

2021 — Lisbon

3 - 4 September 2021 · ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal · In person and online.

Conference gallery

A hybrid panel at the 2021 EISS Conference: three panellists at a microphoned table beneath a screen of remote participants.
A panellist presenting a slide on technology transfer and export controls at the 2021 EISS Conference.
A panellist speaking at the 2021 EISS Conference, with two fellow panellists alongside.
A panellist facing the projection screen during a hybrid session, remote speakers shown in a video grid, 2021 EISS Conference.
Delegates walking through the venue foyer at the 2021 EISS Conference in Lisbon.
An opening address from the lectern beside the EU and Portuguese flags, 2021 EISS Conference, Lisbon.
A speaker addressing the room from the glass lectern, EU and Portuguese flags alongside, 2021 EISS Conference.
Delegates, including a naval officer, in conversation in the venue foyer at the 2021 EISS Conference, Lisbon.
Delegates seated under parasols on the venue terrace during a break at the 2021 EISS Conference, Lisbon.
Two panellists at the table, one speaking into a microphone, at the 2021 EISS Conference, Lisbon.
From the archive

Conference programme

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

Day 1 — Friday 3 September

  1. 9h45 to 10h

    Coffee

  2. 10h to 10h15

    Introductory Remarks

    Auditorium B2.03

    Chair:Bruno Cardoso Reis (Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon), Hugo Meijer (Sciences Po)

  3. 10h15 to 10h45

    Keynote — Security Studies 2020: Blindsided by Brexit?

    Auditorium B2.03

    View papers (1)

    1. Security Studies 2020: Blindsided by Brexit?

      Presenter: Anne Deighton (University of Oxford)

  4. 11h to 12h30

    Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance

    Auditorium B2.03

    Chair:Niccolò Petrelli (Roma Tre University)

    View papers (4)

    1. To What Extent EU's 'Effective Multilateralism' is An Adequate Mean to Counter Hybrid Threats?

      Presenter: Pascal Carlucci (University of Coventry)

    2. How Minilateralism Shapes NATO's Decision-Making Process

      Presenter: Christelle Calmels (Sciences Po)

    3. Offsetting Brexit in Defence Cooperation: Trust Matters

      Presenter: Ben Kienzle (King's College London) · Richard Whitman (University of Kent) · Mark Webber (University of Birmingham)

    4. EU Military Capabilities in the Post-Cold War: A Response to Systemic Pressures

      Presenter: Bruna Rohr Reisdoerfer (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)

    WMD Non-Proliferation and Arms Control

    Room B2.01

    Chair:Michal Onderco (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

    View papers (4)

    1. Plans are Worthless, But Planning is Everything

      Presenter: Nina Silove (ETH Zurich)

    2. Managing Assurance and Deterrence Demands in Heterogeneous Alliances: The Case of Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons and the Future of Nuclear Sharing in NATO

      Presenter: Tobias Bunde (Hertie School of Governance)

    3. NATO as a Nuclear Alliance

      Presenter: Andrew C. Carroll (Columbia University)

    4. American Strategies of Retrenchment versus Inhibition

      Presenter: Paul van Hooft (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  5. 12h30 to 14h

    Lunch

  6. 14h to 15h30

    Military Technology

    Auditorium B2.03

    Chair:Kristin Ven Bruusgaard (University of Oslo)

    View papers (4)

    1. Integration of Technical Exploitation in Military Organisations

      Presenter: Paul Oling (Joint IT Command of the Dutch Ministry of Defence) · Paul van Fenema (Netherlands Defence Academy) · Bas Rietjens (Netherlands Defence Academy)

    2. Dynamics of Cyber Proliferation

      Presenter: Max Smeets (ETH Zurich)

    3. Strategic Autonomy, European DTIB and Technological Complexity

      Presenter: Mauro Gilli (ETH Zurich) · Zoe Stanley (Nanyang Technological University)

    4. Autonomous Weapons Systems in International Law

      Presenter: Verena Jackson (Bundeswehr University Munich)

    Terrorism and Counterterrorism

    Room B2.01

    Chair:Bernhard Blumenau (University of St Andrews)

    View papers (4)

    1. How Terror Evolves: The Emergence and Spread of Terrorist Techniques

      Presenter: Yannick Veilleux-Lepage (University of Leiden)

    2. Live-Streaming of Terrorism: Context, Potential Effects and Challenges

      Presenter: Sandro Nickel (Aalborg University)

    3. Downgrading or Upsizing Strategies: How Rebels Learn About the Right Repertoire of Violence

      Presenter: Luis De la Calle (CIDE, Mexico City; Carlos III University, Madrid)

    4. Comparative Analysis of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Counter-Terrorism Efforts

      Presenter: Aybike Yalcin Ispir (Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University)

  7. 15h30 to 16h

    Coffee Break

  8. 16h to 17h30

    Military Interventions

    Auditorium B2.03

    Chair:Marina Henke (Hertie School)

    View papers (4)

    1. A Post-Liberal Age of Security? Authoritarian Interventionism in the Middle East and Northern Africa

      Presenter: Hanna Pfeifer (HSFK Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF))

    2. France and the United States interventionism in North Africa and in the Middle East in the 21st century: A Strategic Cross-Over?

      Presenter: Salomé Tulane (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)

    3. The Dilemma of Security Force Assistance: The Fight against Boko Haram, Military Aid, and Deepening Autocracy in Cameroon and Chad

      Presenter: Kristen Harkness (University of St Andrews)

    4. What are They (T)asked to Do? Introducing the Peace Operations Mandates (POM) Dataset

      Presenter: Evgenija Kroeker (Oxford University)

    Arms Procurement and Transfers

    Room B2.01

    Chair:Phillips O'Brien (University of St Andrews)

    View papers (4)

    1. What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Dual-use Goods?

      Presenter: Ana Sánchez Cobaleda (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)

    2. Arms Without Influence? Defense Industrial Policy and Burden-Sharing in the Transatlantic Community

      Presenter: Jordan Becker (Vrije Universiteit Brussel/US Army)

    3. European Naval Procurement under Global Competition: Why So Underwhelming and Should We Think of It as Even 'European'?

      Presenter: Brendan Flynn (National University of Ireland Galway)

    4. The Proliferation of Military Drones in Europe – Not So Easy, Not So Cheap, but NATO and the EU Can Help

      Presenter: Dominika Kunertova (ETH Zürich)

  9. 18h to 20h

    Cocktail

Day 2 — Saturday 4 September

  1. 10h to 10h30

    Coffee break

  2. 10h30 to 12h

    Thinking European Security through India

    Auditorium B2.03

    Chair:Sandra Destradi (German Institute of Global and Area Studies)

    View papers (4)

    1. An Indian Perspective on Security and the Use of Force: The Case of the Responsibility to Protect

      Presenter: Raphaëlle Khan (IRSEM-University of Pennsylvania)

    2. Opening the Black Box of Defence Procurement and Planning Processes: What Drives India to Develop International Defence Partnerships?

      Presenter: Nicolas Blarel (Leiden University)

    3. Peacock in a Coal Mine: European Understanding of Environmental Loss in India

      Presenter: Damien Carrière (IRSEM-Paris 7 University)

    4. India's New Security Approach to the European Union

      Presenter: Constantino Xavier (Centre for Social and Economic Progress – New Delhi)

    Intelligence

    Room B2.01

    Chair:Peter Jackson (University of Glasgow), Damien Van Puyvelde (University of Glasgow)

    View papers (4)

    1. Breaking the ONE: The Evolution of the National Intelligence Estimate Production Cycle (1965-1976)

      Presenter: Giordana Pulcini (Roma Tre University)

    2. Intelligence Services and Hybrid Warfare: The Case of Ukraine

      Presenter: Jan Mericka (Czech Technical University)

    3. Power Projection, Deterrence Strategies and Escalation Dynamics: From Near-Crisis to Crisis to War

      Presenter: Steven Lobell (University of Utah)

    4. Rethinking Intelligence Services: Learning from Society. Towards a Project of Shared Intelligence

      Presenter: Fernando Velasco (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)

  3. 12h to 13h30

    Lunch

  4. 13h30 to 15h

    European Defense and Security

    Auditorium B2.03

    Chair:Anne Deighton (University of Oxford)

    View papers (4)

    1. Slowly Moving Towards a European Defense? The Feasible Compromise between France and Germany in the post-Brexit Context

      Presenter: Alberto Cunha (King's College London)

    2. Building the Best Tank: Institutions and the Choice to Embrace Radical Change

      Presenter: Marc DeVore (University of St Andrews)

    3. Analyzing Small States' Use of Military Power: From Ends-Ways-Means to Objectives, Frameworks and Capabilities

      Presenter: Jan Werner Mathiasen (Royal Danish Defence College)

    4. Crisis Management and Partnership Peacekeeping: Coordination Between the EU, AU, and UN

      Presenter: Maline Meiske (University of Oxford)

    Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State

    Room B2.01

    Chair:Chiara Ruffa (Swedish Defense University)

    View papers (4)

    1. From Confrontation to Cooperation: Non-State Armed Group-UN Interactions in Peace Operations

      Presenter: Jenniina Kotajoki (Uppsala University)

    2. The State Monopoly of Violence as Organized Hypocrisy: The Privatization of UN Peacekeeping Operations

      Presenter: Eugenio Cusumano (University of Leiden) · Oldrich Bures (Metropolitan University Prague)

    3. Strategic Consequences of Tactical Alliances. The Case of the US-led Coalition Against Islamic State Allying with the Syrian Democratic Forces

      Presenter: Anne Sofie Schøtt (Royal Danish Defence College)

    4. The Rise of Cybersecurity Warriors?

      Presenter: Moritz Weiss (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

  5. 15h to 15h30

    Coffee Break

  6. 15h30 to 17h30

    Keynote Multidisciplinary Roundtable — Studying Security. A Multidisciplinary Perspective

    Auditorium B2.03

    Chair:Luís Nuno Rodrigues (University Institute of Lisbon / ISCTE)

    Discussants:Phillips O'Brien (University of St Andrews), Flavia Gasbarri (King's College London), Helena Carreiras (University Institute of Lisbon / ISCTE), Steven Lobell (University of Utah)

  7. 17h45

    Concluding Remarks

    Auditorium B2.03

    Chair:Bruno Cardoso Reis (University Institute of Lisbon / ISCTE), Hugo Meijer (Sciences Po)

Reconstructed from the conference's final printed programme.

Host & venue

ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon

Center for International Studies, ISCTE-IUL · Av.ª das Forças Armadas, 1649-026 Lisboa, Portugal.

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