Professor David Chandler

British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference 2008, University of Exeter. David Chandler is co-convening two panels on Global Governmentality with Professor Hiroyuki Tosa, Kobe University:

4.6) THE USES OF GLOBAL GOVERNMENTALITY
Convenors: David Chandler (Westminster ) Hiroyuki Tosa (Kobe)
Chair: David Chandler (Westminster )
Hiroyuki Tosa (Kobe , Japan ) Anarchical Governance: One Aspect of Global Governmentality
Nicholas Kiersey (Virginia) Both Scalable and Historical: In Defence of the Biopolitical Contribution to the ‘Debate About Empire’
William Vleck (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London) Power and the Practice of Security/Governmentality in Global Finance
Jana Honke (Free University, Berlin) and Jan Bachmann (Bristol) Governing Security Abroad: Local Practices and Effects of the Global Anti-Terror Discourse in an ‘ Anchor State ’
Tore Fougner (Bilkent, Turkey) Made to Compete? A Governmentality Perspective on Inter-State Competition

6.5) THE LIMITS OF GLOBAL GOVERNMENTALITY
Convenors: David Chandler (Westminster) Hiroyuki Tosa (Kobe)
Chair: Hiroyuki Tosa (Kobe , Japan)
David Chandler (Westminster) The Strange Death of Liberal IR and the Biopolitical Critique
Francois Debrix (Florida International) Beyond Biopolitics: Rethinking the Linkage Between Governmentality and the State of Exception
Nadine Voelkner (Sussex) Practices of Global Governmentality: Unpicking Human Security Programmes
Tara McCormack (Westminster) The Separation of Security and Development and the End of Biopolitics? Re-thinking Security and Development After the Cold War
Christian Buger (EUI) Governmentality and its Cultural (Br)Others: Inquiring into the Peacebuilding Assembalge

David Chandler will be contributing to the States and Security programme conference ‘Field Research and Ethics in Post-Conflict Environments’, the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

David Chandler will be giving a presentation at the Royal Irish Academy Committee for International Affairs annual high-level conference entitled ‘A Responsibility to Protect?’: Sovereignty vs. Intervention. This conference will be opened with an address by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Michéal Martin T.D.

Colonel Colm Doyle, former head of the European Union Monitoring Mission in Sarajevo and former Chief of Staff at the UN Headquarters, New York
Mr Gareth Evans, President of International Crisis Group, Brussels and former Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
Professor David Chandler, Centre for the Study of Democracy at Westminster University
Professor Jennifer Welsh, Department of International Relations at Oxford and Editor `'Humanitarian Intervention and International Relations’ (2003)
Dr Jakkie Cilliers, Executive Director of the Institute for Security Studies, South Africa, member of International Advisory Board of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)
Dr Sara Pantuliano, Overseas Development Institute, UK, former leader of UNDP Sudan’s Peace Building Unit

David Chandler will be a judge for the South London Qualifying Round of the Debating Matters Competition, Graveney High School, South London.

David Chandler will be external examiner for a PhD viva at the Department of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast.

David Chandler will be chair and discussant for the session on democracy and international statebuilding at the Millennium Annual Conference 2008, ‘Interrogating Democracy in International Relations’, at the London School of Economics. Keynote Speaker: David Held, London School of Economics, Opening Address: Ian Clark, Aberyswyth University, Closing Address: Chantal Mouffe, University of Westminster. Registration deadline Friday 17 October. Further information here.

David Chandler will be giving a presentation at the seminar series on ‘“terrorist lists” proscription, designation and human rights’. A series of seminars at the College of Law in London, organised by the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, Statewatch and the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities.

National security, proscription and foreign policy: 'war on terror', new world order?

Speakers: Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development Paul Rogers, Professor of Peace Studies, Bradford University and OpenDemocracy's International Security Editor David Chandler, Professor of International Relations, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster

By labelling some struggles as 'terrorist' and others as legitimate, the major world powers have entrenched George W. Bush's distinction between 'good' and 'evil'. What are the 'deep politics' of the 'war on terror'?

The seminar is free and will be held in Room SG01, College of Law, 14 Store Street WC1E 7DE, from 6.30-8.30pm. Further information available here.

David Chandler will be speaking at the symposium on The Work of History in International Law and Empire hosted by the International Humanitarian Law Project at the London School of Economics (in collaboration with the Institute for International Law and the Humanities, and the International Criminal Justice Project, both at the University of Melbourne).

David Chandler will be conducting a site visit at the Department of Political Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario for a midterm major collaborative research project review for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

'Global Governance: Rethinking the Relationship between Agency, Power and Morality', presentation at the session 'Morality and International Politics I: Towards a New Normativity', 2.30-4.00pm.

'Institution-building: Rethinking the Governance State', presentation at the session 'From Peace-building to Institution-building', 4.30-6.00pm.

David Chandler will be giving a lecture on 'Regional Leaders and the Quest for Stability: Approaches to Peace- and State-building' at the 12th Deutsche Gesellschaft für Aüswartige Politik e.V. (DGAP) International Summer School, ‘Regional Leaders, Global Challenges: Issues, Interests and Strategies’, Berlin, 6-19 July 2008 (draft programme).

David Chandler will be giving a paper, ‘Rethinking the Demand for Global Governance: The Demise of Representational Politics and the Outsourcing of Policy-making’, at the International Law and Ethics Conference on ‘World Governance’, University of Belgrade, 27-29 June 2008 (full information here).

David Chandler will be giving a presentation on 'The European Union and the Meaning of Statehood in the Western Balkans' at the British Council, Terazije 8/I, Belgrade (7pm, for invitation click here / for flyer click here).

David Chandler will be moderating a discussion ‘From Internal Consolidation towards EU Integration’ with Judy Batt, Research Fellow, EU Institute for Security Studies, France, Milan Nič, Consultant to the HR/EU Special Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Denis Hadzovic, Secretary General, Centre for Security Studies (CSS), Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE) seminar, ‘Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Integration Challenge: From Internal Consolidation towards EU Integration’, Casa de Galicia, 8 Casado del Alisal, Madrid (full information here).

David Chandler will be giving a paper ‘Too Much and Not Enough: The Limits of Critical Approaches to Post-Conflict Reconstruction’, at Panel I: Theoretical Perspectives, at the Workshop on Critical Approaches to Post-Conflict Policy: Post-Conflict Development or Development for Conflict, Department of International Development, University of Oxford, 25-26 June 2008 (for programme click here).

David Chandler will be presenting a paper, ‘The Discourse and Practice of Statebuilding as “Crisis Management”: Questioning Traditional Frameworks of Power’ at the workshop ‘Inside practices of peace- and statebuilding’, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Oslo, 12-13 June (for programme click here).

David Chandler will be presenting a paper, 'Why is Crisis Management the Central Mechanism of EU Regulation in the Balkans?' at the session 'Perspectives on EU Conflict Management: Insights from International Relations', at the ESRC funded workshop, 'The European Union as a Global Conflict Manager: Conceptual and Theoretical Perspectives', Council Chamber, Wessex House, University of Bath (for programme click here) .

David Chandler will be discussing Empire in Denial with the London Book Club, 7pm, The Hansom Cab, 86 Earls Court Road, Kensington. For more details click here.

David Chandler will be giving a paper on 'The Foundation of Peace, Democracy and Stability in the Balkans', with the Bosnian, Serbian, Albanian and Macedonian ambassadors to Turkey at the International Balkan Congress, 'Interaction among the Balkan Nations', Namık Kemal University Congress Center, Tekirdağ, 24-26 April 2008 (for programme click here).

8.30am chair and discussant for panel 'Politics of Margin', sponsored by International Political Sociology.

10.30am chair and discussant for panel 'Hearts and Minds: Narratives of Human Rights and Humanitarianism in Iraq and Afghanistan', sponsored by Human Rights.

4.00-5.30pm Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding reception, exhibition hall. Come along to discuss submissions, subscriptions, the first year of the journal, etc., and have a drink on us!

8.30am chair for panel 'Critical Approaches to Security in Europe I: When the International becomes European: The Circulation of Practices between European and International Arenas', sponsored by International Political Sociology.

10.30am chair for panel 'Fresh Perspectives on Statebuilding I: Rethinking Institutionalism', sponsored by Peace Studies.

10.30am roundtable panelist for 'Globalization, Statebuilding and the Occupation of Iraq II', sponsored by Convention Theme.

8.30am roundtable panelist for 'Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about IR (But Were Too Afraid to Ask)', sponsored by Innovative Panel.

3.45pm chair for panel 'Why Organizations Matter for Peacebuilding', sponsored by International Organization/Peace Studies.

David Chandler will be presenting a paper on 'The Human Security Paradox: How Nation States Grew to Love Cosmopolitan Ethics', at the international conference, 'Globalization, Difference, and Human Securities', Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan, 12-14 March 2008. Conference programme.

David Chandler will be responding to Professor Martin Shaw's opening panel presentation on 'International Relations and Peace Studies', ESRC Research Seminar Series: Human Security – Concepts and Applications, London School of Economics, 26-27 February 2008.

David Chandler will be presenting a paper on 'Security, Insecurity and the Limits of Biopolitical Analysis' as part of the International Relations Distinguished Speaker series, Department of Social Studies, University of Lapland. 4.00 p.m, Lecture Hall 5 (LS 5). Chair: Julian Reid, Professor of International Relations, University of Lapland. All Welcome!

Westminster Roundtable: ‘The Future for Kosovo’. With the declaration of Kosovo’s independence expected in early February. A group of Westminster staff and students discuss the likely responses to the declaration and its implications for the region. Discussants: David Chandler, Aidan Hehir, Ferit Jashari, Gezim Selaci.

Part of the Westminster International Relations Forum, Spring Semester Seminar Series, 'War and Peace'. All seminars will take place Thursday evenings, 6.00 - 7.30pm, Westminster Forum, 5th floor, Centre for the Study of Democracy, 32-38 Wells Street, London W1T 3UW (nearest tube: Oxford Circus). The seminars are informal discussions open to all. Wine and nibbles will be provided. Further information available here.

Debate at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, 7.00pm, Nash Room, ICA, The Mall, London.

After the war in Iraq and with pressure growing on Western governments to take action in Darfur, a panel of experts from across the political spectrum debate whether armed humanitarian intervention has ever really helped the vulnerable, and what agendas lie behind the much-vaunted "responsibility to protect".

Speakers: Clare Short MP, Geoffrey Robertson QC, founder and head of Doughty Street Chambers, and author of Crimes Against Humanity; Jonathan Steele, senior foreign correspondent for The Guardian and author of Defeat: Why They Lost Iraq; David Chandler, professor of international relations at the University of Westminster and author of Empire in Denial: The Politics of State-Building. Chair: Anthony Dworkin, executive director, the Crimes of War project and editor of Crimes of War.

David Chandler will be giving a presentation, 'Transitions from Peacebuilding to Statebuilding: The Impact of Conditionality on Post-conflict Reconstruction', at the day workshop, 'From Peacebuilding to Statebuilding: Assessing NATO and EU Conditionality in Bosnia-Herzegovina'. Other speakers include Jamie Shea, Director of Policy Planning Unit, NATO, and Professor Judy Batt, Institute for Security Studies, Paris. Chatham House, St James' Square, London.

David Chandler will be speaking at the Westminster Round Table:
‘What does it mean to Engage Critically with IR?', with Dibyesh Anand, Aidan Hehir and Tom Moore. Venue, Westminster Forum, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. Details, and details of further Westminister International Relations Forums, available here.

David Chandler will be talking on 'Post-Territorial Politics: Ethics and Activism in the International Sphere' at the University of Aberdeen, Department of Politics and International Relations (PIR) research seminar series. The start will be 14.00 rather than 15.00 as advertised. For more details of the PIR seminar series click here.

David Chandler will be giving a keynote presentation to the Bosnian parliament. The venue is the Bosnia-Herzegovnia Parliamentary Assembly, the White Hall (House of Peoples)

09:30 – Welcome address: Boris Divjak, Transparency International (TI) BiH Chair of BoD

10:00 – Keynote address: Prof. David Chandler: Transparent and Accountable Government – The Road to State-building and to European perspectives (title TBC)

11:00 – Q&A and discussion – moderator Srdjan Blagovcanin, Executive Director TI BiH

13:30 – Panel discussion: State-building – governance and development under international administrations

16:30 – Closing of the Open Parliament: Beriz Belkic, BiH Parliamentary Assembly Speaker

David Chandler will be appearing as a studio guest on Worldview (18 Doughty Street TV) this coming Thursday 20th September 2007. This week's show is on "The Petraeus Report: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose?'''. View programme.

Alan Mendoza of The Henry Jackson Society is joined by Prof. David Chandler of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster, Paul Smyth, head of the Aerospace and Information Studies Programme at the RUSI, and James Denselow of the Council for Arab-British Understanding. Following the findings of the Petraeus Report, released last week, Alan and guests discuss whether this is just a case of "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose" and ask what it will mean for the strategy in Iraq.

David Chandler will be speaking at the Royal Geographical Society annual conference at a debate on "Critical Territorial Politics". Bridgett Kendall will Chair the debate, other speakers are Sir Bernard Crick, Hilary Wainwright and Tony Benn. 11.00am, Institute of British Geographers/ Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR.

The panel debate will explore how the role of territorial nation-states is being challenged from a range of perspectives, changing the nature of political action and activism in the process. The panel will examine how some radical activists are seeking to develop a post-territorial politics through developing new, post-territorial political movements. They will explore the nature of such movements, how they connect to the general public and institutions of elected accountability. Whether they represent a significant challenge to the dominant neo-liberal order, how these movements justify their actions and whether they could be made more effective.

David Chandler will be talking on 'The Limits of Ethical Humanism and the Attraction of Post-Territorial Politics’, South Place Ethical Society, Conway Hall, London, 11.00am, 3 June 2007. Further details here.

David Chandler will be presenting a paper on 'The EU's Promotion of Democracy in the Balkans: The Power of Simulation and the Simulation of Power', at a conference on the ‘La fin du moment démocratique? Un défi pour l'Europe’, organised by CERI, Sciences-Po, Paris. Other speakers include, Zaki Laïdi, Olivier Roy, Jacques Rubnik and Anatol Lieven. For further details, please visit the conference website here.

David Chandler will be at Oxford University debating the value of war crimes tribunals with Sir Franklin Bernam QC former Legal Adviser to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office British Delegation to the International Conference that drew up the Statute of the International Criminal Court. The Hive event is being held in the Bernard Sunely Room at St Catherine's College and is scheduled to start 8.15.

The Inaugural Lecture of Professor David Chandler, 'The Attraction of Post-Territorial Politics: Ethics and Activism in the International Sphere', The Old Cinema, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street

Today the site of politics appears to have shifted from the national sphere to the global. Global politics tops the domestic political agenda - from climate change and the war on terror to saving Africa and promoting democracy and human rights. Radical activism from Greenpeace to Al-Qaeda to the anti-globalisation movement directly works in the global sphere, by-passing state-based politics. What is the dynamic driving the globalisation of the political? Does it reflect the extension of moral identification and community or a retreat from political engagement?

Professor Chandler has written widely on ethics and power in the international sphere, particularly on ideas of global democracy, civil society and human rights. He is also the editor of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding.

6pm with a drinks reception to follow.Please RSVP to Janine Batcock, j.batcock@wmin.ac.uk, 020 7911 5789

Humanitarian Interventionism and International Law World Disarmament Campaign AGM & Spring Conference Speakers Prof. David Chandler (University of Westminster) 'Humanitarian Intervention: Ideal and Reality' Rt. Hon. Lord Archer of Sandwell Q.C. (President WDC) ' Responsibility to Protect'. 10.30am - 4.30pm. Wesley's Chapel, 49 City Road, London EC1Y 1AU Tube@ Old Street & Moorgate. Tea & Coffee available - bring own lunch. Registration and Admission free - Donations Welcomed! World Disarmament Campaign PO Box 28209 Edinburgh EH9 1ZR editor.worlddisarm@ntlworld.com

David Chandler will be presenting a paper, ‘Rethinking Security: From State Security to Human Security’ at the ‘New Debates on International Security’ panel ‘Security in a Changing World’ conference sponsored by NATO and the Department of International Relations, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding – meet the editor Routledge cordially invites you to a drinks reception at the 8th Annual ISA Convention 4pm – 5pm Routledge journal booths 1511 & 1513 Chicago Hilton, Chicago, Illinois

12 - 1pm, 401 Stevenson Hall Professor Chandler will be presenting a paper, ‘Empire in Denial: From Human Rights Intervention to State-Building’ International Studies Seminar Series Illinois State University, Click here for Seminar Series website.

David Chandler will be presenting a research seminar on Empire in Denial Le Centre d’études et de recherches internationales (CERI), Sciences Po, Paris. Click here for details.

Centre for the Study of Global Governance Public Panel Debate ‘Do global and regional connections help or hinder democracy? Global civil society, communication and the media’ Date: Thursday 1 February 2007 Time: 6.30 - 8.00pm Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, London School of Economics. A diverse panel of speakers will discuss how global civil society is using different forms of communication to spread democracy and promote human rights around the world. New spaces for debate – on web-based forums, alternative media, satellite television and other channels of communication – have been created. But to what extent do these realms enable greater citizen engagement in decision-making? Speakers: Fowziyah Abu-Khalid, writer, poet and Assistant Professor at the Sociology Department of the King Saud University; Miguel Darcy de Oliveira, Director of the Institute for Cultural Action; David Chandler, Professor of International Relations, Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster; Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty; Monroe Price, Director of the Project for Global Communications Studies at the University of Pennsylvania; chaired by Professor Mary Kaldor, Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance. This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For further information email Fiona Holland at F.C.Holland@lse.ac.uk. Click here for the LSE website.

Time: 7.00pm, Venue: Post Graduate Common Room, 4th floor, Centre for the Study of Democracy, 32-38 Wells Street, London W1T 3UW (nearest tube Oxford Circus) Westminster International Relations Forum, Spring Term 2007 Seminar Programme, ‘DEVELOPMENT AND INTERVENTION’. Discussion on Amartya Sen's book Development as Freedom and more broadly on Sen's views of empowerment, security and materialism. It is open to all and it will be a discussion in an informal working group environment. Refreshments will be provided. Speakers: Daniel Ben-Ami (author of Cowardly Capitalism) Douglas Bulloch (LSE) David Chandler (author of Empire in Denial) Dan Greenwood (CSD, Westminster) Further information on future seminars in the series available here.

Professor David Chandler and Professor Jennifer Welsh (Oxford) will be discussants at the SAID workshop, 'Southern Responses to the New Interventionism' at Nuffield College, Oxford University. A full timetable of all paper presenters is now available on the SAID website: If you are interested in attending this workshop, please contact the workshop convenor, Lee Jones (lee.jones@politics.ox.ac.uk). Further information here.

Goldsmiths College, University of London Politics Department Governance and Democracy Autumn 2006 Seminar Programme: 5pm in RHB309 Professor David Chandler (Westminster), The Empire of Denial. Click here.

David Chandler will be speaking on Empowering Africa at Africa Prospects for Peace and Development Conference. On Thursday 9 and Friday 10 November 2006, a conference open to all students and external participants with an interest in Africa. Aims The conference will cover a range of countries and a range of topics such as democracy and conflict, ethnic identity, small-scale industry and rural development, public sector reform and natural resource management, with case-studies from Angola, Ghana, Tanzania and the Republic of South Africa. External speakers include: Raphael Kaplinsky (Open University) on the Impact of China and India on African Development Frederick Nixson (University of Manchester) on Industrialization in Africa John Toye (University of Oxford) on Current Prospects for Africa Alan Whiteside (University of KwaZulu-Natal) the Impact of HIV/AIDS in Africa Conference Details This conference is hosted by the Bradford Centre for International Development and the Department of Peace Studies. The conference is open to all students at the University of Bradford and external participants with an interest in Africa. There is no conference fee, but external participants will be responsible for all of their own costs. External participants wishing to attend should register with Jill Gulbrandsen (g.m.gulbrandsen@bradford.ac.uk), Departmental Secretary at the Bradford Centre for International Development. Click here.

David Chandler will be giving the opening address at the CRIPT Graduate Workshop on International Political Theory: Towards a Post-Human International Politics? Organised by CRIPT - A BISA working group and Goldsmith’s College, London. Place: The Cinema – Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmith’s College, London. Click here.

University of Sussex International Relations Research in Progress Seminar Series Autumn 2006: Empire in Denial: The Politics of State Building 3:00pm until 5:00pm @ Arts C233 Speaker: David Chandler, University of Westminster Discussant: Kees Van Der Pijl

University of Manchester Centre for International Politics Research Seminars O.2.2 Dover Street Building, 3:00-4:30 David Chandler (Westminster) Empire in Denial. Click here for details.

Battle of Ideas conference David Chandler will be speaking on a panel discussion: Empire of Regulation or Lawless World? at the Battle of Ideas 2006 conference, Royal College of Art, Saturday 28 - Sunday 29 October 2006. Click here for details.

Millennium conference David Chandler will be speaking at the Millennium: Journal of International Relations 35th Anniversary conference; 'Theory of the International Today', Saturday 21 Sunday 22 October 2006. For programme click here. For registration form click here.

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