A Summer of Conferences at the Chair of International Politics

The lecture-free period was an active time for academic exchange at the Chair of International Politics. Several team members traveled to international conferences to present and discuss their latest research findings.

The conference season opened with the 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations (EISA) in Lisbon from September 1 to 4. Prof. Dr. Anna Holzscheiter presented two papers there. She introduced the paper "Representing the (Il)liberal Future? Transnational Advocacy Networks and the Political Mobilization of Youth in the European Union," co-authored with Ilaria Pitti and Jonathan Josefsson. A second paper, written in collaboration with Andreas Papamichail, Sharifah Sekalala, Lisa Forman, and Pedro Alejandro Villareal Lizzáraga, addresses the contestation of liberal values in the context of global health politics and global health law ("Sitting on the Fence of the Liberal International Order? Contested Liberalism in Global Health Law and Politics"). In addition, she participated in a roundtable on the new Oxford Handbook of Norms Research in International Relations and contributed to a Special Session on new research methods as part of the "ECD Methods Café."

Dr. Ivan Bakalov also attended the conference in Lisbon. He presented his paper "Public-Private Enforcement Partnership: Capital Accumulation and the Market for Violence in Russia" and chaired a panel on "Corporate Power, Civil Society and the Boundaries of Global Governance." Immediately afterward, he deepened his focus on Russia's political economy on September 9 and 10 at a workshop at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) in Berlin, titled "Rethinking Rent and Capital in Russia: The Spatial Political Economy of the Extractivist State."

The following week, from September 8 to 11, the ECPR General Conference took place at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. There, Lea Bellmann presented her research on the impact of far-right counter-mobilization on Pride events ("Bridging the Void in Protection: Between State Security and Collective Safety in Times of Far-Right Mobilization Against Pride Parades"). Additionally, she served as Chair and Discussant for the panel "Collective Action Under Authoritarianism, Repression and Democratic Backsliding." The findings of her research on Pride Parades were already the focus of two other events this summer: a conference in Gdansk in June ("PROTEST! Expression, Organization and Impact in a Central and Eastern European Perspective") and the REXKLIMA Workshop in Dresden in July.

With the many new impressions gathered during the semester break, our team is now heading into the winter semester. We look forward to seeing our students again in the various seminars starting in October and to welcoming the new first-year students to the university!