30 June — 1 July 2022 · Hertie School, Berlin, Germany.
The 2022 edition at the Hertie School introduced the European Security Studies Best Paper Prize for PhD students and early-career academics, presented for the first time at the closing ceremony.
The full programme of panels, roundtables and papers, as it ran. Open a session to see its papers and speakers.
Registration & Coffee
Introductory Remarks
Roundtable 1: The War in Ukraine
Military Technology
Un-Hyping Hypersonic Weapons
Technology as Status Anchor: How Russia Perceives Artificial Intelligence
Drone Use in Ukraine: Claims and Implications
External Sponsorship and Conflict Intervention
Carpe Diem: When Foreign Sponsors Intervene Directly in Civil War
The Uneasy Relation of Proxy War and States' Interests. Pursuing Strategic Opportunities in Civil Wars
If You Can't Beat 'em, Join 'em: Conceptualizing Non-State Armed Group Interaction
The Logic of Diaspora Sponsorship to Rebel Organizations
Lunch
Arms Procurement and Transfers
Why States Arm – and Why They Sometimes Do So Together
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'Aiding and Assisting' Atrocity Crimes? Britain's Prevention Paradox in Yemen
European Arms Collaboration All at Sea? Competition and Co-operation Over Global Naval Exports
Cyber Arms Transfer: Meaning, Limits and Implications
Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
The Impact of Commercial Military Actors on Armed Conflict Termination, 1980–2010
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Domestic Operations and Outsourcing of Security. What Implications for the Military?
A Source of Escalation or a Source of Restraint? Whether and How Civil Society Affects Mass Killings
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Rules, Expertise, and the Rise of the Regulatory Security State
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Military Professionalism in Crisis: The Present and Future of Democratic Civil-Military Relations
What Does Military Professionalism Mean? A Contested Concept in the Post-Heroic Society
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The Democratic Military in Internal Missions: Professionalism in an Era of Climate, Health and Humanitarian Crises
USA, 'Military Politics on the Battlefield: Strategy and Effectiveness in War'
Military Professionalism under Political Polarization
Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Veterans, Novices, and Patterns of Rebel Recruitment
The Human Dignity Case Against Administrative Detention
Blurring the Lines: Sovereignty and Consent in the Fight against Terrorism
Between the Scylla of 'Ontological Lethargy' and the Charybdis of 'Epistemological Terrorism': Revisiting the critical vs orthodox divide in Terrorism Studies
Coffee Break
Roundtable 2: Navigating the Academic Job Market
Defence Cooperation and Military Assistance
Military Assistance and National Security
Understanding NATO Entanglement in Non-Member Conflicts: Evidence from Bosnia, 1993-95
The Migration-Defence Nexus: Unravelling the Effect of Migration on Defence Efforts in the Transatlantic Community
Military Expenditure, External Threats and Fiscal Consolidation: A Survey Experiment in Italy
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Norm Violation, Sanctions, and the Punitive Use of Force
Norm Violations and Punishment Beyond the Nation-State. Normative Orders, Authority, and Conflict in International Society
Deciphering International Punishment: Literary, Legal and Political Insights from the Global South
Sanctions and the Authority of Legitimate Punishment in International Politics
Punishment, Panopticum and the Contingency of Legal Norms - A Legal-Philosophical Perspective of the War in Ukraine
Military Interventions
Russia's Way of War: Comparing Russian Strategy and Operations in Ukraine and Syria
The Adaptation Cascade: The Global Diffusion of All-Female Military Units in Military Interventions
Trade-Offs in the Use of Military Power: Lessons Learned from French Military Operations Abroad
Visualizing American Military Interventions Abroad
Cybercrime and International Security
Unpacking Cyber Affordances in the Context of State-Cybercrime: A Criminological Perspective
On the Peace and Security Implications of Cybercrime – The Need for an Integrated Approach
The UN Cybercrime Negotiations: Harmonisation and Universality or Polarisation and Fragmentation?
Business as Usual or New Forms of Collaboration? Non-State Actors in UN Cybercrime Governance
Lunch
Weapons of Mass Destruction: Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
The Possible Impact of Sole Purpose Policy on the NATO Alliance
The US Rebalancing from Europe to the Indo-Pacific: Risks for Deterrence Failure and Inadvertent Escalation
Ideology and Risk: The Neuroscience of Nuclear Reversal
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The Lesser Evil? Experimental Evidence on Nuclear and Chemical Weapon 'Taboos'
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Foreign Information Influence as an (Inter)National Security Threat
Does Russian Antagonistic Strategic Narration Trigger Destabilising Psychological Effects? An Experimental Study in Sweden and the Netherlands
News Media and (In)Security in Ukrainian Border Regions: An Assessment of Threats and Vulnerabilities
How RT and Sputnik Cover the News in Mali: a Textual Analysis of Russia's Information Influence in Francophone Africa
The Online Reception of Russia and Chinese News Coverage of the US 2020 Election
Coffee Break
Roundtable 3: Devising an Effective Publication Strategy
Award of the European Security Studies Best Paper Prize
Concluding Remarks
Cocktail
Reconstructed from the conference's final printed programme.
Each year, the EISS conference is organised on a rotational basis in a different European country. The 2022 conference was held at the Hertie School.
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