Professor David Chandler

(published by Routledge, Critical Issues in Global Politics, forthcoming July 2010)

Latest Book:

Hollow Hegemony: Rethinking Global Politics, Power and Resistance

Philip Hammond, Spiked Review of Books, Issue 27, September 2009. Demystifying the ‘global ideology’ David Chandler’s new book Hollow Hegemony draws on the work of Marx and Engels to explain how the political class’s embrace of ethics and ‘global politics’ springs from their political weakness and isolation.

Peter Hitchcock, Radical Philosophy, Issue 162, July/August 2010: "Globality is not the battleground of the political but is the hollow metonym of sovereignty as the true site of political contestation and purposeful acts. I like this formulation not because it endorses sovereignty as a norm but because it continues to question its insinuation in otherwise value-laden discourses of the global with a concomitant persistence of territoriality in its suasion...In contrast to [R. B. J.] Walker's hobbling hesitation, Chandler offers the heurisic of the hollow that...is a call for reflexive theoretical clarification in the study of international relations."

Westminster International Relations Forum

Spring-Summer 2010 - Thursday series 'Security and the Subject'

Speakers include: Alex Pritchard, Ronnie Lipschutz, Philip Cunliffe, Jonathan Gilmore, Domenico Tosini, Daniel Ben-Ami, Clive Gabay, Michele Ledda, Kirsten Sellars.

Thursday evenings, 6.00-7.30pm, Westminster Forum, 5th Floor, 32-38 Wells Street, W1T 3UW (nearest tube Oxford Circus).

MY UPCOMING TALKS, PRESENTATIONS ETC.

David Chandler will be presenting a paper for the panel 'The Politics of the International Criminal Court and the Responsibility to Protect' at the international conference 'The International Criminal Court and the Responsibility to Protect: Synergies and Tensions', held at the Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki.

David Chandler will be giving a keynote presentation on 'Empowering the Individual? The Limits of Solidarity and Citizenship beyond the State' at the international conference 'Strangeness and Familiarity: Global Unity and Diversity in Human Rights and Democracy' at the Institute voor Multiculturele Vraagstukken, Groningen University, Netherlands.

David Chandler will be giving a paper at the international conference 'State Building in Divided Societies of the Post-Ottoman World', organised by the Middle East Office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Lebanese Association for Sociology in Beirut, Lebanon.

David Chandler will be presenting, chairing and a roundtable discussant at the 7th European Consortium for Political Research, Standing Group on International Relations conference, Stockholm University, Sweden. For more information click here.

Friday, 10 September, 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM World Community and World Order Chair: Yevgeni Roschin Discussant: Yevgeni Roschin Papers: Should States Have a Legal Right to Reputation? Applying the Rationales of Defamation Law to the International Arena Elad Peled; Transnational Business Actors - The Kingmakers of International Regimes? Andreas N Uhre; Beyond the International? Its the Same but Different: R2P, Human Rights and Sovereignty in a Post-Liberal World David Chandler; The New Nomos of the Earth: Towards a Critical Geo-politics of Global Terror and Counter-Terror Andreas Behnke

Saturday, 11 September, 9:00 AM – 10:45 AM Guardians of Peace: UN-Peacekeeping and Beyond Chair: David Chandler Discussant: Silke Weinlich Papers: Reinstating Order: How International Organizations Transfer the State Monopoly on Violence Ursula Schroeder; A New Focus on Known Security Actors: Spoiler Problems Within Peace Operations Frederik Trettin and Julian Junk; UN engagement of armed non-state actors: an argument for analytical eclecticism John E. Karlsrud

Saturday, 11 September, 11:15 AM - 1:00 PM What does it mean to be ‘critical’? Chair: Ian Bruff Roundtable Discussants: Susanne Soederberg, Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, David Chandler and Patrick Thaddeus Jackson

David Chandler will be giving a keynote presentation 'Neither International nor Global: Rethinking the Problematic Subject of Security' at the 10th Annual Conference of the Global Studies Association, 'Globalization and International Relations', Merton College, University of Oxford.

David Chandler will be attending a workshop for policy-makers followed by joining a roundtable panel discussion on 'Local Ownership, Sustainability of Development and Comprehensive Peace-building Efforts', organised by the Tampere Peace Research Institute, to held at the University of Pristina, Kosovo.

David Chandler will be speaking at a book launch for International Statebuilding: The Rise of Post-Liberal Governance, at the auditorium, National Library, Pristina, Kosovo. Details to be confirmed.

David Chandler will be attending the University of Aberdeen, School of Social Science, MA exam board as the external examiner for International Relations.

David Chandler will be presenting at the 'Intervention and Statebuilding' and 'Securities and their Subjects' panels with Tony Lang, Julian Reid, Aidan Hehir, Tara McCormack and Tom Moore at the inauguration of the Westminster University Security and International Relations programme. The keynote is Professor James Der Derian, Watson Institute. Further information available here.

David Chandler will be presenting a paper, 'Empowering the Individual? The Limits of Solidarity and Citizenship beyond the State' at the panel 'Human Rights and European and Global Citizenship' at the conference 'The Dynamics of Citizenship in the Post-Political World', held at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University. More information available here.

David Chandler will be attending the second seminar in the ESRC series 'Rethinking Intervention, Intervention in the Modern World' - 'Intervention, Revolution and War in the Long Nineteenth Century', Bristol University. More information on the seminar series (RES-451-26-0667) available here.

David Chandler will be participating at the Oxfam 'Words on Monday' event 'No Return to Realpolitik'.

Time: 19:00
Venue: Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG
Price: £9.50

British foreign policy that protects civilians from armed conflict is good for them - and good for Britain

Whatever the outcome of the general election, Britain's foreign policy over the next five years faces momentous challenges. This major debate could hardly be more topical, asking some of the toughest questions that, under any Government, the UK will face. Should Britain help distant countries find peace? Can we do it effectively, and do we benefit? Or, in a dangerous world, should we shed the illusion of shared interests and revert to an honest realpolitik based on national interest?

Introduction by Barbara Stocking, Chief Executive, Oxfam GB
Chaired by Jeremy Bowen, BBC Middle East Editor

Speakers to propose the motion:
Edward Davey MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow Foreign Secretary
Mary Riddell, Daily Telegraph columnist

Speakers to oppose the motion:
Peter Oborne, Daily Mail Political columnist
David Chandler, Professor of International Relations, University of Westminster

'The 'liberal interventionists' and 'realists' are both complacent Realpolitik is not the answer to the failures of the Iraq invasion – there's no such thing as an ethically neutral foreign policy', David Wearing, Comment Is Free, Guardian, 21 May 2010, available here.

David Chandler will be chairing the second session of the conference 'Killer Narratives: The Destructive Impact of Collective Nightmares', University of Westminster, London. Keynote speakers include Professor Mahmood Mamdami, University of Columbia. Further information here.

David Chandler will be presenting a paper on 'Normative Power, Member-Statebuilding and the Rise of Post-Liberal Governance', at the GARNET conference, 'The European Union in International Affairs II', Vrije University, Brussels. More information available here.

David Chandler will be presenting a paper on 'The Re-Centering of the Subject? Rethinking Autonomy, Agency and Resilience' at the Department of Politics and International Relations, 'Research in Progress' seminar, 3.00pm, University of Westminster, Wells Street.

David Chandler will be presenting a paper on ‘The EU and Post-Liberal Governance’ at the Belgrade University conference, ‘Europe in the Emerging World Order: Searching for a New Paradigm’, taking place at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Kraljice Natalije, 45, Belgrade.

David Chandler will be appearing on BBC Radio 4's World Tonight programme with Robin Lustig, on a panel broadcast from the Chatham House conference, 'Fragile States and the International Community', organized in association with Radio 4. Radio programme available here (audio file here).

FC03: Friday 1:45 PM - 3:30 PM
Beyond the Critique of the Liberal Peace I
Panel Sponsor(s): European Consortium for Political Research
Chair Susanna P. Campbell, Tufts University
Disc. David Chandler, University of Westminster
Governmentality Without Government: a Critical Examination of Post-conflict Disarmament Practices - Keith Raymond Krause: Graduate Institute, Geneva
The Hybrid Peace - Roger MacGinty: St. Andrew's University
Beyond the Metropolis: Postconflict Peacebuilding and Everyday Lives - David Roberts: University of Ulster
Liberal Imperialism in Africa? A Post-colonial Approach to Decision-making, Agency and Power in Practice - Meera Sabaratnam: London School of Economics and Political Science
Peacebuilding as a Liberal Project: Pathways to Institutionalization in International Organizations - Ole Jacob Sending: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

FD03: Friday 3:45 PM - 5:30 PM
Beyond the Critique of the Liberal Peace II
Roundtable Sponsor(s): Peace Studies
Chair Meera Sabaratnam, London School of Economics and
Political Science
Participant David Chandler, University of Westminster
Participant Severine Autesserre, Barnard College, Columbia
University
Participant Oliver Richmond, Rethinking Peace and Conflict
Studies
Participant Bruce D. Jones, New York University
Participant Robert Rotberg, Harvard University
Participant Susanna P. Campbell, Tufts University
Participant Paul Jackson, University of Birmingham

SA43: Saturday 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Global Justice on Trial: Dissenting Opinions on International Criminal Tribunals
Panel Sponsor(s): International Law
Chair Dov Jacobs, European University Institute
Disc. David Chandler, University of Westminster
The Question of Justice: Radhabinod Pal’s Dissent at the Tokyo Trials - Latha Varadarajan: San Diego State University
The Political Distortions of the ICC in Africa: Administration, Security, and Uncertainty - Adam R. Branch: San Diego State University
No Power, No Justice? Justice at the Nuremberg and Hague Versus Justice at the Russell Tribunal and the World Tribunal on Iraq - Jonathan Graubart: San Diego State University
“I Don’t Think I Would Give my Story”: Global Justice for Women at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda - Jonneke Koomen: Willamette University

BISA British Foreign Policy Working Group / Foreign and Commonwealth Office Workshop: ‘British Foreign Policy for the 21st Century’, India Office Council Chamber, FCO, Whitehall.

Panel 3: Ethics I.
Chair: Prof Mervyn Frost (Kings)
Discussant: Prof David Chandler (Westminster)
Prof Tim Dunne (Exeter) ‘Britain’s role in international society”
Dr Jamie Gaskarth (Plymouth) ‘British “leadership” and the ethics of British foreign policy’
Dr Jason Ralph (Leeds) ‘Another doctrine of international community?: Multilateralism and human rights in the special relationship after Bush.

David Chandler will be rapporteur and external examiner for a PhD viva at the École des Sciences Politiques / Sciences Po, Paris.

British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference, Leicester University.

David Chandler will be co-convening panel 2.4 'Reassessing Critiques of Liberal Peace', papers will be: David Chandler (Westminster) – The Uncritical Critique of Liberal Peace; Susanna Campbell (Tufts) – Determining Peace: rules, routines, and risk in international peacebuilding; Meera Sabaratnam (LSE) – Decolonising critique: 'subject' responses to the liberal peace in Mozambique; Timor Sharan (Exeter) – The Liberal Peace in Afghanistan; Philip Cunliffe (Kent) – Liberal Peace and Political Autonomy

He will also be discussant for panel 5.11 'EU, Democracy Promotion and Normative Power: Neo-Colonialism in EU's External Relations', papers will be Milja Kurki (Aberystwyth) – Why concepts matter: 'Democracy' in EU Democracy Promotion; Giselle Bosse (Maastricht) – From Neo-Colonial Governance to Genuine Partnership?; Elena Korosteleva (Aberystwyth) – Ready, Steady, Go: Is the EaP a Suitable Framework for Dealing with Eastern Europe?; Tom Casier (Kent) – The EU and its Eastern Neighbours: a Hierarchy of Interests?; Michelle Pace (Birmingham) – Liminality in EU-Hamas Relations

David Chandler will be teaching an intensive 6 session course, 'Debating Liberal Peace(building)' at the Department of International Relations, Charles University, Prague. Draft session outline and readings available here.

Debate and book launch: What is Radical Politics Today? With presentations by David Chandler, Doreen Massey and Saskia Sassen.

Those who are interested in attending should contact Catherine Fieschi (Director of Counterpoint, The Think Tank of the British Council). More information here.

What is Radical Politics Today? Published November 2009, by Palgrave Macmillan. Edited by Jonathan Pugh. Including original contributions from Zygmunt Bauman, Frank Furedi, Paul Kingsnorth, James Heartfield, Terrell Carver, Clare Short, Edward W. Soja, David Chandler, Hilary Wainwright, Dora Apel, Michael J. Watts, Jason Toynbee, James Martin, Jeremy Gilbert and Jo Littler, Doreen Massey, Gregor McLennan, Tariq Modood, Nick Cohen, Amir Saeed and David Bates, Alastair Bonnett, Ken Worpole, Sheila Jasanoff, Nigel Thrift, Will Hutton, Saul Newman, Chantal Mouffe, David Featherstone, Alejandro Colas and Jason Edwards, David Boyle, and Saskia Sassen.

'This collection is a model for the kinds of discussion we need to move forward.' — Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire, Multitude and Commonwealth.

'We need this sort of sustained critical discussion of the kinds of alternative politics available to us.' — James Tully (University of Victoria).

'A major contribution to the ongoing debate on the problems of our times.' — Lord Bhikhu Parekh

David Chandler will be joining Leeds Salon to debate the meaning of 'global politics' as part of the Together for Peace 'Leeds Summat', to be held at Leeds University Union. For more information go to the Leeds Salon website www.leedssalon.org.uk, also visit the Together for Peace website here.

David Chandler will be discussant for Vanessa Pupavac’s paper on ‘Emotional well-being in international politics’ at the seminar ‘Emotional well-being in education: implications for policy, pedagogy and purposes’, Nottingham University (part of the ESRC funded seminar series ‘Changing the Subject: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Emotional Well-Being and Social Justice’).

David Chandler will be presenting a paper on 'The EU and Southeastern Europe: The Rise of Post-Liberal Governance' at the 4th Annual Conference of the GARNET Network of Excellence (Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: The Role of the EU) convened by the Research Centre of International Economics (CIDEI), Sapienza University, Rome. More information here.

David Chandler will be presenting a paper on 'Culture and the Ethics of Peacebuilding' at the workshop on 'Liberal Peace and the Ethics of Peacebuilding', organised at the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Oslo.

David Chandler will be participating in the Inter-Disciplinary Net, 5th Global Conference on Pluralism, Inclusion and Citizenship, Salzburg, Austria.

David Chandler will be appearing as an expert witness on Radio 4's Moral Maze.

The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has opened at the UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He faces 11 counts of genocide, including complicity in the Srebrenica massacre in which 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed. It was one of the worst acts of atrocity in Europe since the Second World War. But is what we are about to see justice or revenge - A show trial organised by the victors, with TV coverage broadcast throughout the world, and eagerly viewed, especially in the Balkans. Can there ever be any morally certain and globally acceptable definition of what constitutes a war crime or will pragmatism and real politique always get in the way?

Witnesses:
John Laughland, author of Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the Corruption of International Justice, and A History of Political Trials from Charles I to Saddam Hussein.
Geoffrey Nice, the British QC who led the prosecution of the Serbian leader Slobodan Milosovic.
Professor David Chandler, Professor of International Relations at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster and editor of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding.
Mark Ellis, Executive Director, International Bar Association.

David Chandler will be presenting a paper, 'What do we do when we Critique Liberalism?' at the Millennium Annual Conference 'After Liberalism', London School of Economics. More information here. Draft paper available here.

David Chandler will be co-respondent to Roland Paris' keynote presentation 'Statebuilding in Theory and Practice' at the conference 'The Future of Statebuilding: Ethics Power and Responsibility in International Relations', University of Westminster. More information here.

David Chandler will be presenting a seminar paper on the 'Uncritical Critique of Liberal Peace' at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, School of International Relations, St Andrews University.

David Chandler will be participating in the one day workshop, 'Evaluating Peace Agreements', at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University (part of the department’s ‘Peace Agreement Evaluation’ project, sponsored by the UN Mediation Support Unit and the Canadian government).

David Chandler will be presenting a paper on 'The EU and Bosnia: Normative Power and the Liberal Peace' and chairing a roundtable session on 'The Problems and Perspectives of Peacebuilding in Bosnia', at the European Union Peacebuilding Framework (7) conference, 'Delivering Just and Durable Peace? Evaluating EU Peacebuilding strategies in the Western Balkans', Sarajevo.

early June - late August 2009, Japan

Teaching at Kobe University

His 15 lecture course on International Statebuilding, Biopolitics and Post-Liberal Institutionalism will run from 8 June until 27 July. The outline is available here.

Other teaching

David Chandler will be giving an intensive series of lectures on International Statebuilding at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo, 16-20 June.

Events

Julian Reid (King's College, London) 'Resilience: Beyond the Security-Development Nexus'

David Chandler (Westminster University) ‘The Resilient Subject and Statebuilding’

Speakers:
David Chandler (Westminster University) ‘Forget Foucault, Forget Foucault, Forget Foucault... ’ paper available here.

Julian Reid (King’s College, London) ‘The Biopolitics of the War on Terror’

Discussants:
Giorgiandrea Shani (Ritsumeikan University)
Kosuke Shimizu (Ryukoku University)

Venue: Room 1002, 10th floor, Kwansei Gakuin University, Umeda Campus, Osaka. For map click here.

Up to end of May 2009

David Chandler will be presenting a paper on 'Global Governance and the Practice of Statebuilding' at the workshop 'State-building, International Intervention and Legitimation' at the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, University of Exeter.

Abstract: The inability to articulate policy frameworks for the projection of power internationally has meant that the responsibility for policy-making is continually being deferred to other institutions in frameworks of global governance. This paper considers why this process increasingly tends to take the form of international statebuilding. It will be suggested that the non-Western state is being brought back into discussions of the international sphere in the attempt to evade the problems of cohering international policy processes. The failed or failing state is being constructed as the focal point for policy-making rather than Western states or international institutions. First, it will consider how the demand for joined-up policy-making and coherence has been displaced to the level of the object of intervention: the institutions of the target state. Secondly, it will briefly consider how this works in the specific examples of international statebuilding in the Balkans and in Afghanistan, where, in both cases, the problems of policy-coherence have led to increasingly ad hoc and unaccountable mechanisms of ‘global’ governance which operate on a local level.

David Chandler will be presenting a paper on EU Statebuilding in Bosnia at the international conference 'The European Union and State-building: Lessons for and from the Balkans', at the Institute of European Studies, University of Toronto.

David Chandler will be giving a presentation at the October 7 University near Tripoli and visiting other insitutions in the Libyan capital as part of a University of Westminster delegation.

David Chandler will be giving a lunchtime presentation on Critical Approaches to International Statebuilding, Centre for Security Studies, Metropolitan University, Prague. Click here for further information.

David Chandler will be an external examiner for a PhD viva at the School of International Studies, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.

David Chandler will be giving a seminar, 'The European Imperative: Rescuing the Balkans' as part of the Institute for the Studies of European Transformations, Spring 2009 Seminar series, 'New Europe: Security, Politics and Cultural Change', London Metropolitan University.

Abstract: This paper will consider the framework of European identity and post-interest politics projected by the EU in the Balkans. The EU frames its projection of policy as a post-sovereign, post-national, post-political actor. This identity and framework of policy presentation has been shaped and sharpened through engagement with the Balkans and the rescue of the Balkans through the empowering/ capacity-building process of statebuilding. In this informal discussion of the core themes of the projection of the European project we will try and draw out why issues such as human rights, the rule of law, anti-corruption, civil society and social inclusion are at the centre of the EU's approach. In this way a distinction will be made with traditional liberal or neoliberal discourses of power projection - which have much less focus on regulatory institutions: prioritising the market as sufficient to guide and shape development or emphasising democracy in terms of autonomy from external constraint.

David Chandler will be presenting a paper on R2P at the international symposium 'Imperfect Duties? Humanitarian Intervention in Africa and the Responsibility to Protect in a Post-Iraq Era', Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics, DePauw Universty, Indiana. Invited experts include: Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law, Princeton; Bertrand Badie, Science Po-CERI; Anne Orford, Australian Professorial Fellow and Director of the Institute for International Law and Humanities at the Melbourne School of Law. Final programme available here.

David Chandler will be giving a presentation, 'What do we mean when we say that we live in a Global World or participate in Global Politics?', at the Department of Political, International and Policy Studies, University of Surrey.

Abstract: Even before the credit crunch it was a commonplace to describe the world we live in as 'global' or to preface discussions with an acceptance that the world was rapidly 'globalising'. This presentation seeks to question what it means politically to understand the world in global terms. Why is it that the world has become global? When did global consciousness develop and what does it express about ourselves and our social and political relationships? Why do we think of ourselves as global citizens, with global responsibilities? Can politics exist in a global world? Is global politics just nation-based politics writ large or does it express a very different normative content? Professor David Chandler discusses some themes from his forthcoming book Hollow Hegemony: Rethinking Global Politics, Power and Resistance.

International Studies Association, 50th annual convention, New York Marriott Marquis, Broadway, New York. Further information.

Roundtable Participant, R.B.J. Walker, University of Victoria
Roundtable Participant, Mustapha Kamal Pasha, University of Aberdeen
Roundtable Participant, Siba Grovogui, Johns Hopkins University
Roundtable Participant, Didier Bigo, Sciences-Po Paris
Roundtable Participant, Giorgio Shani, Ritsumeikan University
Roundtable Participant, Andrew Neal, University of Edinburgh
Roundtable Participant, Asli Calkivik, University of Minnesota

Abstract: The 25th anniversary of Foucault's death affords us an opportunity to focus on his legacy for International Relations (IR). Foucault's influence can be discerned in the development of poststructuralist approaches to IR from the 1980s onwards, particularly in the work of theorists such as Richard Ashley, David Campbell, James Der Derian, and Rob Walker. Furthermore, Foucault has - through the appropriation of his work by Edward Said - indirectly influenced the development of postcolonial IR theory. Specifically, Foucault has been deployed in three main ways in IR: to provide genealogies of the origins and practices of the modern, Westphalian state-system or “international society”; to critique conventional or “foundational” theories of international relations; and finally, to problematize the relationship between knowledge, ethics and power within the “discipline” of IR. Moreover, Foucault’s central claim that theory cannot be divorced from power relations has been used to reinforce the hegemony of realism within IR theory. Focusing on the central question of “what has Foucault done for IR?”, this roundtable will take stock of the achievements, transformations and limitations of the introduction of Foucault’s sociological insights and powerful epistemological critique to the discipline of IR.

What Have Foucaultians Done for International Relations? Roundtable

Sponsors: International Political Sociology

Roundtable Participant, David Chandler, University of Westminster Roundtable Participant, Jan Selby, University of Sussex
Roundtable Participant, Vivienne Jabri, King's College London
Roundtable Participant, Francois Debrix, Florida International University
Roundtable Participant, Jonathan Joseph, University of Kent
Roundtable Participant, Oliver Richmond, University of St. Andrews

Abstract: The second of our two roundtables will focus on the impact of the second generation of Foucaultian theorists in IR. Although Foucault was primarily a theorist of the disciplinary practices of western, liberal, capitalist societies, his ideas of biopolitics and governmentality have been reworked and expanded upon over the last decade by Giorgio Agamben, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, and applied to IR by, for example, Mick Dillon, Costas Douzinas, Mark Duffield and Vivienne Jabri. In particular, we will be discussing Jan Selby’s claim (‘Engaging Foucault’, International Relations, 2007) that many of Foucault’s central insights have been conflated with those of other poststructuralists, most notably Jacques Derrida, and consequently misrepresented by Foucaultians. Furthermore, we will be critically examining Selby’s assertions that Foucault is of limited use for analyzing the core features of international politics and that unless situated within a Marxist, or realist, framework, there is a danger of reproducing the liberal ontology which is the ostensible subject of critique.

Chair, David Chandler, University of Westminster
Discussant, David Chandler, University of Westminster

Abstract: Over half of countries that emerge from war lapse back into violence after five years. Significant third party involvement is critical for peace implementation to be successful, but 70% of peace processes benefiting from significant international mediation still fail to build a durable peace. Understanding the reasons for the successes and failures of such interventions is the only way to better predict, and hopefully avoid, renewed humanitarian disasters. International intervention in post-conflict environments is the subject of an emerging body of research, but an aspect remains under-studied: how inter-subjective understandings shape peacebuilding strategies. The panel presenters consider this question from complementary angles. Autesserre details how, in the Congo, global cultural understandings shaped an international strategy doomed to failure. Boas and Jennings argue that the inability to understand underlying causes locks the foundation for a new conflict into the "solution" to the current one. Klimis examines how a consensual concept such as state building carries its own contradictions, thus undermining its chances of success. By contrast, Campbell analyzes how, in Burundi, specific organizational characteristics enabled peacebuilding organizations to engage with the local environment, thus boosting their chances of success. Finally, Ponzio examines the relationship between the UN's understanding of peacebuilding and its implications for peace consolidation.

Papers:

Severeine Autesserre, Barnard College, Columbia University - From Hobbes to Locke: International Intervention in the Congo
Susanna Campbell, Tufts University - Finding Their Way: How Peacebuilding Organizations Navigate Complexity
Emmanuel Klimis, Facultés universitaires St Louis, Brussels - State Building in Fragile States : A Fragile Concept
Morten Boas, FAFO and Kathleen Jennings, FAFO - A State Named Failed?
Richard Ponzio, United Nations - Life After Exit: UN Reform and the New Peacebuilding Architecture

David Chandler will be taking part in a panel debate on 'The Foreign Policy of Barack Obama'. Millions around the world are hoping for a radical shift in Foreign Policy and an end to America’s image as a war monger. After 8 years of American unilateral action around the world, will Obama bring any real change? He has spoken about renewing American diplomacy globally; indeed he said he would reach out to the Muslim World in his inauguration speech. The question that millions must equally ask is, will Obama be more of a 'makeover' than a 'remaking' of the US?

This event promises to be lively, educating and useful to students and alike who want to be clear on what the next four years of an Obama Presidency has in store for the world.

Event Details: Time: 5pm – 7pm; Location: SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (Nearest Tube: Russell Square).

David Chandler will be giving a presentation on 'Models of State-building' at the workshop 'Intervention and peace-building: Models of state building and society building in different post-conflict contexts' at the Clingendael Institute (Netherlands Institute of International Relations), The Hague, The Netherlands.

David Chandler will be presenting a paper ‘Extending Control? Re-framing the Drive for Global Security through Aid Regimes’ at the Research Workshop ‘Aid, Intervention and Changing Conceptions of the State’, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm.

Abstract: Human security frameworks of aid governance and intervention are often understood critically as an extension of regulative control over the post-colonial world. While theorists might differ over how to explain the driving force for this extension of regulative control, it seems clear that the aspiration to control and shape the post-colonial world has liberal parallels of ‘civilising mission’ - of developing, democratising and securing. Clearly power relations – huge international inequalities, the post-colonial state’s external dependencies, the defeat of market alternatives etc – have facilitated frameworks which take a shared, therapeutic, biopolitical form, transforming the relations between international institutions and the post-colonial state. However, while critical approaches have been strong on description - governance states, post-conditionality, country ownership of poverty reduction strategies etc. – they have been less convincing at the analytical level. What drives the extension of control? The need to interpolate subservient market-ready citizens? The need to secure the uninsured? ‘Liddism’ on the inequalities of global capital etc? This paper suggests that the extension of global regimes of regulation can be seen in other terms than those of liberal aspirations for control, with their teleological, instrumentalist and strategic logics. It will suggest that it is precisely the lack of these logics of control which shapes the evasive dynamics of human security and global aid/security governance.

David Chandler will present a lecture at the Uppsala Forum for Peace, Democracy and Justice, Uppsala University, 'What is a Critical Approach to International Peacebuilding?'

Abstract: Today there seems to be a consensus that external peacebuilding approaches have had only a limited success and that they face many dilemmas and contradictions. Sometimes the most critical commentators advocate even more intense and prolonged intervention, other commentators who are critical of external intervention argue that liberal frameworks of democratising, developing and securing the 'Other' are inevitably oppressive. The critical perspective appears to range from arguing for more and better intervention to dismissing the possibility of any external engagement in peacebuilding. Is it possible to take a critical approach to this subject today? And, if so, what would this approach look like and what would it be trying to achieve?

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 is one of the judges of the British International Studies Association Michael Nicholson Thesis Prize. The prize will be awarded at the BISA annual conference in Exeter. Further information.

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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