Professor David Chandler

'The Rise of Post-Intervention: Shifting Discourses of Global Political Community and the Construction of the Human', 'Politics in the Global Age: Critical Reflections on Sovereignty, Citizenship, Territory and Nationalism', Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, 12-14 December 2011.

'Our Morals and Theirs: Politics beyond the Biopolitical Subject', symposium presentation, 'Politics beyond the Biopolitical Subject', Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, 8-9 December 2011.

'Governance Interventions, Security and Statebuilding', presentation for workshop/conference 'Transnational Security Governance: Organised Crime and Governance Interventions in Mexico and Central America', sponsored by Free Univeristy Berlin, Cátedra Humboldt-COLMEX and German Institute for International and Security Affairs, El Colegio de México, Mexico City, 20 November 2011.

'The Citizen and Social Equality: New Trends in Democratic Theory', roundtable presentation, University of Westminster, Department of Politics and International Relations Away Weekend, Caer Llan, Monmouthshire, 5 November 2011.

'Securitizing Development' Guest Lecture, supported by for the Masters Programme in Development and International Cooperation, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 27 October 2011.

'International Statebuilding and the Post-liberal Discourse of Resilience', panel presentation, 'Questioning Resilience: What is at Stake in Policy and Academic Framings of the Governance of the Self?', Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 2011 Annual Conference, 'Out Of The Ivory Tower: Weaving the Theories and Practice of International Relations', London School of Economics & Political Science, 22 October 2011.

'The Contested Idea of Development' roundtable presentation, Inaugural Development Forum seminar, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster, 13 October 2011.

'Assessing the Impact of 9/11 Ten Years On', roundtable presentation, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster, 6 October 2011.

'Rethinking the Human Subject', inauguration lecture for the PhD programme, International Relations Unit (DRI), University of Coimbra, Portugal, 23 September 2011. Further information here.

'The Responsibility to Protect after Libya', PhD student research seminar, International Relations Unit (DRI), University of Coimbra, Portugal, 23 September 2011.

'International Statebuilding: The Rise of Post-Liberal Governance', keynote lecture presentation for Development Research Day 'Development, Peace and Statebuilding', Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden, 21 September 2011. Programme details here.

'Responses to the England Riots', interview for 'People in the Know', China Radio International, 16 August 2011. The webliink is available here.

'Beyond the Politics of Victimhood? The Vulnerable Subjects of Post-Interventionism', Keynote presentation for ESRC seminar series 'The Politics of Victimhood', seminar 1. 'War and conflict after the Cold War – from politics by other means to crime?', Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester, 28 June 2011.

'International Statebuilding and the Inculcation of Resilience', presentation at the 'Resilient Futures: The Politics of Preventive Security' workshop, funded by the ESRC, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, 27 June 2011.

'Beyond Intervention?: Post-Interventionist Framings of International Relations' opening presentation at the international conference, 'Interventionism in International Relations Today: Between Banalisation and Transgression' at l'Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, 9 June 2011. Draft programme available here.

'A Shift to Human Security?', panel presentation at ‘The Future of Intelligence; Threats, Challenges, Opportunities’, Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association conference, Netherlands Defence Academy, Rijswijk, 27-28 May 2011. Full programme available here.

'Rethinking the Human Subject', workshop presentation for 'Contemporary Debates in Political Studies', part of the 'Workshops on Contemporary Debates' series, Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makere University, Uganda, 16-21 May 2011. Full information here.

'International Statebuilding and the Post-Liberal Discourse of Resilience', seminar presentation, Department of International Relations and European Studies, Central European University, Budapest, 11 May 2011. Further details here.

'The Autotelic Subject: A Biopolitical Analysis of The 'Real Third Way' and the Politics of the Brain', presentation on the 'Vulnerability' panel, 'The Politics of the Brain Workshop', University of Westminster, 3 May 2011.

'The Rise of Resilience: Rethinking Agency and Governance Interventions', seminar presentation, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, 27 April 2011.

'European Union Statebuilding: The Rise of Post-Liberal Governance', public lecture, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) in collaboration with the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of Geneva, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, 12 April 2011.

'From the External World to the Inner World: Rethinking 'Human-Centred' or 'Agent-Centred' Understandings of Development and Conflict'. Workshop with faculty members of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Geneva, 11 April 2011. Full details.

Presentation for the 'Afghanistan Transition' workshop, hosted by the Land Intelligence Fusion Centre (Afghanistan) LIFC(A), Bulford Camp, Salisbury, 6 April 2011.

'Understanding the Gap between the Promise and the Reality of 'The Responsibility to Protect', paper for panel, 'Populations at Risk and the Political and Conceptual Challenges in Applying the Responsibility to Protect', ISA Annual Convention 'Global Governance: Political Authority in Transition', Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 19 March 2011.

Chair and Discussant for panel, 'Critical Reflections on the Liberal Peace: Agency, Coercion, and Resistance', ISA Annual Convention 'Global Governance: Political Authority in Transition', Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 18 March 2011.

'The International Statebuilding Paradigm' paper for panel 'The Future of Statebuilding', ISA Annual Convention 'Global Governance: Political Authority in Transition', Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 17 March 2011.

Discussant for panel 'The Security-Development Nexus: Open To Criticism?', ISA Annual Convention 'Global Governance: Political Authority in Transition', Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 16 March 2011.

'The Rise and Rise of Norms demonstrates the Internalisation or the Shrinking of the Late-Liberal World', presentation for pre-convention workshop 'Interrogating the Use of Norms in International Relations' organised by the International Political Sociology Working Group, ISA Annual Convention 'Global Governance: Political Authority in Transition', Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 15 March 2011.

'The Problematic of Control in a 'Global' World', panel paper for 'Taking Control' conference, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 12 March 2011. Programme and further information available here.

'International State-Building: The Rise of Post-Liberal Governance' seminar presentation, Centre for Global Security and Development, Queen Mary, University of London, 9 March 2011. Further details here.

'International Statebuilding: The Rise of Post-Liberal Governance', Research in Progress, seminar presentation, Department of International Relations, University of Sussex, 7 March 2011. Further details here.

'Where is the Human in Human-Centered approaches to Development?: A Foucauldian Critique of Amartya Sen’s ‘Development as Freedom’, paper for 'Reading Michel Foucault in the Postcolonial Present: A Symposium '. University of Bologna, Italy, 3-4 March 2011.

Round table panellist: 'Resilience: Friend or Foe?': A Round Table featuring leading scholars in the field debating the pitfalls and opportunities of resilience as a governance strategy today. With: Prof Frank Furedi, Canterbury; Prof David Chandler, Westminster; Prof Katrina Brown, UEA; Dr Mike Raco, King’s College London; Prof Phil O’Keefe, Northumberland, University of Westminster, 24 February 2011.

'The Ontology of Danger: Recasting the Human Subject in Discourses of Vulnerability and Resilience', conference paper for the panel 'Ontologisations of Danger' at the 'Problematising Danger' workshop, organised by the Emerging Securities Unit at Keele University and the Centre for International Relations at King's College London, King's College London, 21-22 February 2011. Programme available here.

Kick-off meeting for the advisory group of the EU 7th Framework Cultures of Governance and Conflict Resolution in Europe and India (CORE) project, European Office of the Norwegian Research Council, Brussels, 11 February 2011. Further information here.

'International Statebuilding and the Post-Liberal Subject' seminar presentation at the Centre for International Relations, Department of War Studies, King's College London. 9 February 2011. Further information here.

'The Liberal West and Non-Liberal Other? Rethinking the Core Problematic of International Relations', research lecture presentation, Helmut-Schmidt-Universitaet, Universitaet der Bundeswehr, Hamburg, 31 January 2011. Further information here.

'International Statebuilding', Politics and International Studies departmental seminar presentation at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 19 January 2011. Further information here.

2010

'The Post-Liberal Governance of Transnational Insecurity' opening keynote presentation at the Postgraduate Conference 'Questioning Transnationalism: Culture, Politics and Media', hosted by the Departments of Media, Arts and Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway College, University of London, 17 December 2010.

'Intervention in the Post-Cold War World', panel discussant on the closing roundtable the 4th of the ESRC Seminar Series: Intervention in the Modern World, London School of Economics, 13 December 2010.

'Born Posthumously: Rethinking the Shared Characteristics of the R2P and the ICC' invited 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', Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki, 3-4 December 2010.

'Insecure Subjects: Vulnerability, Empowerment and Resilience', conference paper, 'Vulnerability: A Symposium', hosted by the Postcolonial Studies Research Network', University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 26-28 November 2010.

‘Smoking Bans and Therapeutic Governance’, presentation at the Rochester Film Salon event 'Smoke gets in Your Eyes: An Exploration of Celluloid and Cigarettes'. A screening of vintage anti-smoking public information films, University of Kent, Chatham, 8 November 2010.

'The Limits of Liberal Peacebuilding', opening keynote address at the international conference 'NATO's Provincial Reconstruction in Afghanistan in a Comparative Perspective', hosted by the Centre for Security Studies, Metropolitan University, Prague, Czech Republic, 5 November 2010.

'Law and Governance: Intervention, Regulation and the "Rule of Law"', paper for the Law School Research Seminar, University of Westminster, London, 3 November 2010.

'Empowering the Individual? The Limits of Solidarity and Citizenship beyond the State', keynote presentation at the international conference 'Strangeness and Familiarity: Global Unity and Diversity in Human Rights and Democracy', Department of Philosophy, Groningen University, Netherlands, 21-22 October 2010.

Chair and discussant for the panel 'IR's Disciplinary Dialogue' at the Millennium Journal of International Studies annual conference 'International Relations in Dialogue, London School of Economics, 16-17 October 2010.

'The Dangers of Too Much Autonomy: The New Discourse of Democracy Promotion' paper for the panel 'Exporting Democracy: Dangers and Pitfalls', at the conference ‘Can and Should All Countries become Democracies', organised by the Globalization Programme and the Programme for Applied Ethics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 30 September - 1 October 2010.

‘The Forthcoming Elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina in October 2010’, discussant on panel organized by the Dutch Institute for Political Participation (IPP) and IKV/Pax-Christi, Utrecht, Netherlands, 28 September 2010.

'Statebuilding in Bosnia', paper for 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, Institute of Political Sciences, University Saint Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon, 24-25 September 2010.

'Questioning the Liberal Peace', opening presentation at the 'Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peace Building Seminar', organised by the African Institute for Security Studies, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 20-21 September 2010.

‘Its the Same but Different: R2P, Human Rights and Sovereignty in a Post-Liberal World’ paper for the ‘World Community and World Order’ section, 7th European Consortium for Political Research, Standing Group on International Relations conference, Stockholm University, Sweden, 9-11 September 2010.

‘What does it mean to be “critical”?’ round table panelist for ‘Critical Political Economy’ section, 7th European Consortium for Political Research, Standing Group on International Relations conference, Stockholm University, Sweden, 9-11 September 2010.

'Neither International nor Global: Rethinking the Problematic Subject of Security', closing keynote presentation, 10th Annual Conference of the Global Studies Association, 'Globalization and International Relations', Merton College, University of Oxford, 3 September 2010.

'Local Ownership, Sustainability of Development and Comprehensive Peace-building Efforts', roundtable panelist with Deputy Prime Minister Hajredin Kuçi, Minister of Internal Affairs of Kosovo, Mr. Bajram Rexhepi and the Deputy Head of the EULEX Mission, Mr. Roy Reeve, organised by the Tampere Peace Research Institute and sponsored by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, University of Pristina, Kosovo, 2 September 2010.

‘International Statebuilding: The Rise of Post-Liberal Governance’, book launch presentation, hosted by the Kosova Institute for Regional Development and Euro-Atlantic Studies (IDEAS) at the Auditorium, National Library, Pristina, Kosovo, 1 September 2010.

'Intervention and Statebuilding' and 'Securities and their Subjects' panel presentations, inauguration of the Security and International Relations programme, University of Westminster, 9 - 10 June 2010.

'Empowering the Individual? The Limits of Solidarity and Citizenship beyond the State', paper at the panel 'Human Rights and European and Global Citizenship' at the conference 'The Dynamics of Citizenship in the Post-Political World', Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden, 26 - 28 May 2010.

'No Return to Realpolitik', panel presentation, Oxfam 'Words on Monday' event, with Barbara Stocking, Chief Executive, Oxfam, Jeremy Bowen, BBC Middle East Editor and Peter Oborne, Daily Mail Political columnist, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, 17 May 2010.

Chair for the second session of the conference 'Killer Narratives: The Destructive Impact of Collective Nightmares', University of Westminster, London, 12 May 2010.

'Normative Power, Member-Statebuilding and the Rise of Post-Liberal Governance', panel paper at the GARNET conference, 'The European Union in International Affairs II', Vrije University, Brussels, 23 April 2010.

'The Re-Centering of the Subject? Rethinking Autonomy, Agency and Resilience', 'Research in Progress' seminar, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster, 13 April 2010.

‘The EU and Post-Liberal Governance’, paper at the conference, ‘Europe in the Emerging World Order: Searching for a New Paradigm’, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, 25 March 2010.

'Fragile States: The Way Forward', panel discussion with Claire Lockhart, Director of the Institute for State Effectiveness. Francesc Vendrell, former UN and EU Special Representative in Afghanistan and Farzana Shaikh, Asia Programme, Chatham House, chaired by Robin Lustig, BBC Radio 4 The World Tonight, Chatham House conference 'Fragile States and the International Community, 22 February 2010.

Fragile States panel discussion recorded for BBC Radio 4's World Tonight programme with Francesc Vendrell, former UN and EU Special Representative in Afghanistan and Ginny Hill, Yemen Forum, Chatham House, chaired by Robin Lustig, Chatham House conference, 'Fragile States and the International Community', 22 February 2010. Programme available from BBC here and the interview as an audio file here.

Discussant for panel, ‘Global Justice on Trial: Dissenting Opinions on International Criminal Tribunals’, with Dov Jacobs, European University Institute; Latha Varadarajan, San Diego State University; Adam R. Branch, San Diego State University; Jonathan Graubart, San Diego State University; and Jonneke Koomen, Willamette University. International Studies Association, 51st Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA, USA. 20 February 2010.

Discussant for panel, ‘Beyond the Critique of the Liberal Peace I’, with Susanna P. Campbell, Tufts University; Keith Raymond Krause, Graduate Institute, Geneva; Roger MacGinty, St. Andrew's University; David Roberts, University of Ulster; Meera Sabaratnam, London School of Economics and Political Science; and Ole Jacob Sending, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, International Studies Association, 51st Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA, USA. 19 February 2010.

Roundtable panellist on ‘Beyond the Critique of the Liberal Peace II’, with Meera Sabaratnam, London School of Economics and Political Science; Severine Autesserre, Barnard College, Columbia University; Oliver Richmond, St. Andrew's University; Robert Rotberg, Harvard University; and Susanna P. Campbell, Tufts University, International Studies Association, 51st Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA, USA. 19 February 2010.

Discussant for panel, ‘Ethics I’ with Mervyn Frost (Kings), Tim Dunne (Exeter), Jamie Gaskarth (Plymouth), and Jason Ralph (Leeds), BISA British Foreign Policy Working Group / Foreign and Commonwealth Office Workshop: ‘British Foreign Policy for the 21st Century’, India Office Council Chamber, FCO, Whitehall, 4 February 2010.

The Uncritical Critique of Liberal Peace, paper for the panel, 'Reassessing Critiques of Liberal Peace', British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference, Leicester University, 15 December 2009.

Discussant for panel, 'EU, Democracy Promotion and Normative Power: Neo-Colonialism in EU's External Relations', British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference, Leicester University, 15 December 2009.

What is Radical Politics Today? Panel discussion and book launch with Doreen Massey and Saskia Sassen, British Council, London 25 November 2009. All audio and video material available from Counterpoint here.

‘Rethinking Global Politics’, seminar at the Together for Peace 'Leeds Summat', Leeds University Union, 21 November 2009.

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’), 19 November 2009.

'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), Sapienza University, Rome, 13 November 2009. More information here.

'Culture and the Ethics of Peacebuilding', presentation at the workshop on 'Liberal Peace and the Ethics of Peacebuilding', International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Oslo, 9 November 2009.

Participation in the Inter-Disciplinary Net, 5th Global Conference on Pluralism, Inclusion and Citizenship, Salzburg, Austria, 6-8 November 2009.

‘War Crimes and International Criminal Court’ panel discussion, Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 28 October 2009. Listen to the programme here.

'What do we do when we Critique Liberalism?', paper at the Millennium Annual Conference, 'After Liberalism', London School of Economics, 17 October 2009. More information here. Draft paper available here.

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, 9 October 2009. More information here.

'The Uncritical Critique of Liberal Peace', seminar paper at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, School of International Relations, St. Andrews University, 1 October 2009.

Participation 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), 21 September 2009.

'The EU and Bosnia: Normative Power and the Liberal Peace', presentation at the European Union Peacebuilding Framework (7) conference, 'Delivering Just and Durable Peace? Evaluating EU Peacebuilding strategies in the Western Balkans', Sarajevo, 3-4 September 2009.

Chair of the 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, 3-4 September 2009.

‘The Resilient Subject and Statebuilding’, presentation at ‘Liberal War, Resilience and Subjectivity’ seminar, College of International Relatons Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, 3 July 2009.

'Why Japan Can't Think the Global', presentation at ‘Global Politics: A Critical Engagement’ seminar, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, 30 June 2009.

‘Forget Foucault, Forget Foucault, Forget Foucault... ’, presentation at ‘The Uses and Limits of Critical Foucaultian Perspectives in IR’ seminar, Kwansei Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan, 27 June 2009

'The Discourse of Legitimation and the Production of Limits’, opening presentation at the workshop 'State-building, International Intervention and Legitimation', Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, University of Exeter, 14 May 2009.

‘The Contradictions of EU Statebuilding in the Balkans’, opening seminar presentation at the conference, 'The European Union and State-building: Lessons for and from the Balkans', Institute of European Studies, University of Toronto, 8 May 2009.

'Brazil: Nineteen-Eighty-Four for 1984' introduction to screening of Terry Gilliam's Brazil, at the Rochester Film Salon, Rochester, Kent, 29 April 2009.

'What is a Critical Approach to International Security Studies?', guest lecture, Department of Political Science, Charles University, Prague, 28 April 2009.

'Critical Approaches to International Statebuilding', inaugural guest seminar, Centre for Security Studies, Metropolitan University, Prague, 28 April 2009. Click here for further information.

'The European Imperative: Rescuing the Balkans', Institute for the Studies of European Transformations, Spring 2009 Seminar series, 'New Europe: Security, Politics and Cultural Change', London Metropolitan University, 16 March 2009.

‘The Gap between Policy and Practice: Unravelling the Paradox of R2P’, paper for 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, 5-7 March 2009.

'What do we mean when we say that we live in a Global World or participate in Global Politics?', guest seminar presentation, Department of Political, International and Policy Studies, University of Surrey, 25 February 2009.

Chair, roundtable, co-convened with Giorgio Shani (Ritsumeikan University), ‘What Has Foucault Done for International Relations?’, International Studies Association, 50th annual convention, New York Marriott Marquis, Broadway, New York, 15 February 2009.

‘What Have Foucaultians Done for International Relations?’, roundtable participant, with Vivienne Jabri (King's College London), Francois Debrix (Florida International University) and Jonathan Joseph (University of Kent), International Studies Association, 50th annual convention, New York Marriott Marquis, Broadway, New York, 15 February 2009.

Chair and discussant for panel, ‘Understanding Post-Conflict Peacebulding’ with papers by Severeine Autesserre (Columbia University), Susanna Campbell (Tufts University), Emmanuel Klimis (Facultés universitaires St Louis, Brussels), Morten Boas and Kathleen Jennings (FAFO) and Richard Ponzio (United Nations), International Studies Association, 50th annual convention, New York Marriott Marquis, Broadway, New York, 18 February 2009.

Keynote presentation, 'Models of State-building', workshop 'Intervention and peace-building: Models of state building and society building in different post-conflict contexts', Clingendael Institute (Netherlands Institute of International Relations), The Hague, The Netherlands, 29 January 2009.

'State- and society-building in a context of stabilization', panel discussant, workshop 'Intervention and peace-building: Models of state building and society building in different post-conflict contexts', Clingendael Institute (Netherlands Institute of International Relations), The Hague, The Netherlands, 29 January 2009.

‘Failed States: Where do we Stand? – A Dialogue between Scholars and Practitioners’, panel presentation with Prof Susan Woodwood (Graduate Centre, City University New York), Lena Sundh (Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs) and Henrik Hammargren (Director, Department for Human Security, Swedish International Development Agency), Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm, 23 January 2009.

‘Extending Control? Re-framing the Drive for Global Security through Aid Regimes’ research paper at the Research Workshop ‘Aid, Intervention and Changing Conceptions of the State’, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm, 22 January 2009.

Discussant for workshop papers: Jens Stilhoff Sörensen, ‘State-Building and Civil Society under International Rule: The problem of ethno-plural societies’ and Roland Kostic, ‘Local Perceptions on Economic Aspects of External Peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina’, at the Research Workshop ‘Aid, Intervention and Changing Conceptions of the State’, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm, 22-23 January 2009.

'What is a Critical Approach to International Peacebuilding?', guest lecture at the Uppsala Forum for Peace, Democracy and Justice, Uppsala University, 21 January 2009. Information with photo.

'The Global Ideology: Rethinking the Politics of the "Global Turn" in IR', seminar presentation at the University of Westminster, Department of Politics and International Relations, Residential Weekend, ‘Democracy and the International’, Austwick, Yorkshire Dales, 16 January 2009.

‘The Strange Death of Liberal IR and the Biopolitical Critique’, paper presented at one of the two sessions on Global Governmentality, co-covened with Professor Hiroyuki Tosa, Kobe University, at the British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference 2008, University of Exeter, 15-17 December 2008. Full programme details.

‘The Possibilities for Publication’, presentation at the States and Security programme conference ‘Field Research and Ethics in Post-Conflict Environments’, the Graduate Center, City University of New York, 4-5 December 2008. Further information.

‘The Gap between Policy and Practice: Unravelling the Paradox of R2P’, presentation at panel session with Gareth Evans, President and CEO of the International Crisis Group, and Jennifer Welsh, Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford, at the Royal Irish Academy Committee for International Affairs annual high-level conference entitled ‘A Responsibility to Protect?’: Sovereignty vs. Intervention, Academy House, Dublin, 21 November 2008. Further information.

Judge for the South London Qualifying Round of the Debating Matters Competition, Graveney High School, South London. 19 November 2008. Further information.

Chair and discussant for the session ‘Democratic Dangers: The Risks of Democracy Promotion in International Relations’, Millennium Annual Conference 2008, ‘Interrogating Democracy in International Relations’, London School of Economics, 25-26 October 2008. Further information.

'National security, proscription and foreign policy: 'war on terror', new world order?', 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, 21 October 2008. Further information.

'The Work of History: What work does history (should history) do in international scholarship', discussion with Martti Koskenniemi (Helsinki) and Matthew Craven (SOAS) with Gerry Simpson (LSE) (Chair), opening panel of 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), London School of Economics, 10 October 2008. More information here.

'Institution-building: Rethinking the Governance State', presentation at the session 'From Peace-building to Institution-building', Second Global International Studies Conference, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 25 July 2008.

'Global Governance: Rethinking the Relationship between Agency, Power and Morality', presentation at the session 'Morality and International Politics I: Towards a New Normativity', Second Global International Studies Conference, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 24 July 2008.

'Regional Leaders and the Quest for Stability: Approaches to Peace- and State-building', lecture at the 12th Deutsche Gesellschaft für Aüswartige Politik e.V. (DGAP) International Summer School, ‘Regional Leaders, Global Challenges: Issues, Interests and Strategies’, Berlin, 10 July 2008. (draft programme)

‘Rethinking the Demand for Global Governance: The Demise of Representational Politics and the Outsourcing of Policy-making’, paper at the International Law and Ethics Conference on ‘World Governance’, University of Belgrade, 28 June 2008. (full information here)

'The European Union and the Meaning of Statehood in the Western Balkans', presentation at the British Council, Belgrade, 27 June 2008. (invitation / flyer)

Moderator for panel ‘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, Madrid, 26 June 2008. (full information here)

‘Too Much and Not Enough: The Limits of Critical Approaches to Post-Conflict Reconstruction’, paper at the workshop 'Critical Approaches to Post-Conflict Policy: Post-Conflict Development or Development for Conflict', Department of International Development, University of Oxford, 25 June 2008. (for programme click here)

‘The Discourse and Practice of Statebuilding as “Crisis Management”: Questioning Traditional Frameworks of Power’, paper presented at the workshop ‘Inside Practices of Peace- and State-building’, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Oslo, 12 June 2008.

'Why is Crisis Management the Central Mechanism of EU Regulation in the Balkans?', paper presented 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, 16 May 2008.

Discussant for panel, 'Diplomacy of Deeds: Public and Private Development Assistance', International Symposium 'Transformational Public Diplomacy: Shaping the Future of International Relations', University of Westminster, 30 April 2008.

'The Foundation of Peace, Democracy and Stability in the Balkans', presentation, International Balkan Congress, 'Interaction among the Balkan Nations', Namık Kemal University Congress Center, Tekirdağ, 24 April 2008.

'The Rise and Limits of Biopolitical Critiques of Human Rights Regimes', paper for international conference, 'The International Human Rights Regime Since 9/11: Transatlantic Perspectives', University of Pittsburgh, 18 April 2008.

Roundtable panelist for 'Globalization, Statebuilding and the Occupation of Iraq II', 49th International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, 28 March 2008.

Roundtable panelist for 'Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about IR (But Were Too Afraid to Ask)', 49th International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, 29 March 2008.

'The Human Security Paradox: How Nation States Grew to Love Cosmopolitan Ethics', keynote at the international conference, 'Globalization, Difference, and Human Securities', Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan, 12 March 2008. Conference programme.

Respondent for 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 February 2008.

'Security, Insecurity and the Limits of Biopolitical Analysis', International Relations Distinguished Speaker series, Department of Social Studies, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland, 19 February 2008. Seminar details here.

‘The Future for Kosovo’, Westminster International Relations Roundtable, with Aidan Hehir, Ferit Jashari and Gezim Selaci, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, 31 January 2008. For details of the seminar series click here.

'Humanitarian Intervention: Who Does it Help?', debate with: 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; chaired by Anthony Dworkin, executive director, the Crimes of War project and editor of Crimes of War. Institute of Contemporary Arts, ICA, The Mall, London, 24 January 2008. For more details click here.

'Baudrillard and IR: The EU’s Promotion of Democracy in the Balkans', British International Studies Association 32nd Annual Conference, Cambridge, 17-19 December 2007.

‘Globalization, Fragmentation and Iraq’, roundtable debate, British International Studies Association 32nd Annual Conference, Cambridge, 17-19 December 2007.

'Transitions from Peacebuilding to Statebuilding: The Impact of Conditionality on Post-conflict Reconstruction', paper for 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, 30 November 2007.

Westminster Round Table: ‘What does it mean to Engage Critically with IR?', presentation with Dibyesh Anand, Aidan Hehir and Tom Moore. Venue, Westminster Forum, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, 14 November 2007. Details, and details of further Westminister International Relations Forums, available here.

'Post-Territorial Politics: Ethics and Activism in the International Sphere', research seminar presentation, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen, 10 October 2007. For more details click here.

'Statebuilding in Bosnia: Ways Forward', Guest Seminar, Centar za Interdisciplinarne Postdiplomske Studije, University of Sarajevo, Kampus, Plava Zgrada, 28 September 2007.

'Statebuilding: Governance and Development under International Administrations', roundtable with Dr Florian Bieber, University of Kent; Dr Michael Schmunk, German Ambassador to Bosnia; Prof Nerzuk Curak, University of Sarajevo; Boris Divjak, Transparency International; chaired by Michael Wiechert, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Bosnian Director, House of the Peoples, Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo, 27 September 2007.

'Bosnian Statebuilding: The Paradox of Anti-Corruption Measures', keynote presentation, 'Open Parliament: Crossroads: functional or failed state', (introduced by Matthew Rycroft, UK Ambassador to Bosnia), House of the Peoples, Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo, 27 September 2007. Transparency International press release available here.

'Friend or Enemy? Rethinking Schmitt's Understanding of the Relationship between Ethics, Law and the Use of Force in International Relations', Sixth SGIR Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Turin, Italy, 12-15 September 2007.

'The Problem of the African State: The Missing Geneaology of International Statebuilding', Sixth SGIR Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Turin, Italy, 12-15 September 2007.

"Critical Territorial Politics", debate with Sir Bernard Crick, Hilary Wainwright and Tony Benn. Institute of British Geographers/ Royal Geographical Society, London, 30 August 2007. For programme click here.

‘The Limits of Ethical Humanism and the Attraction of Post-Territorial Politics’, South Place Ethical Society, Conway Hall, London, 3 June 2007.

'Empire in Denial, departmental seminar, Sociology Department, Brunel University, 15 May 2007.

'Justice or Just is?’, The Hive, St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford, 3 May 2007.

‘The Responsibility to Protect and Humanitarian Intervention’, keynote with Rt. Hon. Lord Archer of Sandwell Q.C., World Disarmament Campaign AGM & Spring Conference, Wesley’s Chapel, City Road, London, 31 March 2007.

‘Rethinking Security: From State Security to Human Security’, ‘Security in a Changing World’ international conference, sponsored by NATO and the Department of International Relations, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, 9 March 2007.

‘Politics without Sovereignty: Power and Responsibility in the New World Order’. Paper for panel discussion at the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Chicago, 28 February - 2 March 2007.

Panel debate, ‘Do Global and Regional Connections Help or Hinder Democracy? Global Civil Society, Communication and the Media’, chaired by Professor Mary Kaldor, Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE, with Shami Chakrabati, Director, Liberty, Hosam El Sokkari, Head of the BBC Arabic service, Monroe Price, Director, Project for Global Communications Studies, University of Pennsylvania, and Miguel Darcy de Oliveira, Director, Institute for Cultural Action, Old Theatre, London School of Economics, 1 February 2007.

‘Development and Intervention: Amartya Sen's views of empowerment, security and materialism’, roundtable, Westminster IR Forum, CSD, University of Westminster, 24 January 2007.

Discussant and roundtable panellist for ‘Southern Responses to the New Interventionism’, SAID workshop, Nuffield College, Oxford University, 30 November 2006. Call for papers.

'Peace Without Politics?: State-building and Democracy', Port Talk, Churchill Room, Goodenough College, London, 10 February 2005.

'The Limits of State-building', International Conference 'New Security and the "New" Europe: Regional Governance in the 21st Century, Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki, 26-27 November 2004.

'The State-Building Dilemma: Good Governance or democratic Governnace', Roundtable on Development, Under-Development and Armed Conflict, Military Centre for Strategic Studies, Rome, 25 October 2004.

'Human Rights: The Lessons from the 1990s', Annual Goldstein Human Rights Lecture, University of Nebraska, Omaha, 21 October 2004. More information.

'Written and Oral Evidence Regarding Peacekeeping in the Western Balkans', House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, Enquiry into the Western Balkans, Palace of Westminster, 12 October 2004. (see reports section)

'Human Rights from Above? Bringing the Rule of Law to Bosnia', Keynote Speech, International Conference, Human Rights in Europe a Fragmented Regime? Department of Political Science, Hanover University, 17-18 September 2004.

'Human Rights and Human Wrongs: National Identity and "Ethical Foreign Policy", Plenary session, Conference of the International Sociological Association, 'Racisms, Sexisms and Contemporary Politics of Belonging', Friends House, London, 25-27 August 2004.

'From the Local to the Global: A Journey Away from Political Engagement?', paper presented to the BISA Post-Structuralist workshop, SOAS, London, 14 May 2004.

'"The Interregnum": the Crisis of International Relations and State Sovereignty', guest seminar, Centre for Defence Studies, King's College, London, 22 April 2004.

'Culture Wars and International Intervention', Humanitarian Forum Seminar Series, University of Aberystwyth, 20 February 2004.

'Human Rights and Human Wrongs', 'Minority Rights and Representation in the Commonwealth', Cumberland Lodge Commonwealth Conference, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park, 11-13 February 2004.

2003

'War and Conflict: The Internationalisation of Therapy Culture', 'Institute of Ideas conference, 'Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age', King's College, London, 22 November 2003.

'Imperialist Humanitarianism', Keynote speech, 'The New Politics of International Relations, Human Rights and Global Democracy', Capital and Class conference, Conway Hall, London, 15 November 2003.

'From the Politics of the Marginal to the Marginalizing of Politics', 'The Languages of Civil Society Europe and Beyond', conference of the CiSoNet research programme, co-ordinated by the Wissenschaftszenturm Berlin for Socialforschung, European University Institute, Florence, 6-8 November 2003.

'EU Polity and Foreign Policy': paper presented to the CiSoNet working group on Civil Society and Governance, European University Institute, Florence, 5 November 2003.

'Ownership and Related Dilemmas of International Intervention and Foreign Aid', Keynote presentation, Balkan Forum 'Europe's Regional Power and Soft Power: Lessons Learnt in and for the Balkans', German Foreign Office, Berlin, 29 September 2003.

'The Politics of Corruption and the Corruption of Politics: A Case Study of Bosnia-Herzegovina', paper presented to the 2nd ECPR Conference, Marburg, 18-21 September 2003.

'Nation-building, the Rule of Law and Human Rights in Bosnia', Keynote Panel The Balkans: International and Domestic Dimensions and presentation at the Round Table Discussion on Regional Studies and Theories of International Relations, Second METU Conference on International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 23-25 June 2003.

'The Anti-Politics of Human Rights', Birkbeck (University of London) in association with the Centre for the Study of Democracy (University of Westminster) one day workshop 'The (In)Humanity of Human Rights', Council Room, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1, 6 June 2003.

'The Paradox of Global Civil Society', Social and Political Thought Graduate/Faculty Seminar, University of Sussex, 1 May 2003.

'The Bureaucratic Gaze of International Human Rights Law', The Legalisation of Human Rights: A Multidisciplinary Conference, Clore Management Centre, University College London, 25-26 April 2003.

'Peace Support and the Responsibility to Protect', British Military Doctrine Group: British PSO Doctrine, Defence Studies Department, King's College, Joint Services Command and Staff College, Swindon, 11 April 2003.

'Gender, Rights and Culture', studio discussion, Open University course video for DU 301 Rights and Culture, Waterfall Studios, London, BBC/Open University, 10 March 2003.

'New Labour and Post-Modern Imperialism', Guest Seminar, Department of Politics and International Relations, Lancaster University, 17 January 2003.

2002

'How to Tackle Obstacles to the Rule of Law in Bosnia?' (presentation with Jacques Paul Klein, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, and Chief of the UN Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina), Foreign and Commonwealth Office Wilton Park Conference: 'The Justice and Home Affairs Agenda for South East Europe', 22-26 July 2002.

'Bosnia: Enforcing Stability and Democracy' Keynote Speech, International Conference: 'A Clash of Realities: Lessons from International Involvement in Bosnia', Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung (Germany) and Alfred Mozer Stichting (Netherlands), Sarajevo, Bosnia, 5-7 July 2002.

'International Civil Society and Development', Guest Seminar, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Cambridge University, 27 June 2002.

"New Improved' Imperialism: Re-branding Power and Influence in the New World Order', Institute of Contemporary Arts in association with the New Economic Foundation, ICA, The Mall, London, 13 June 2002.

'Human Rights and Cosmopolitan Citizenship' guest seminar, Department of Politics, University of York, 10 June 2002.

'From Kosovo to Kabul', Balkan Society, St. Anthony's College, Oxford University, 23 May 2002.

'Third World Debate', Oxford Union, Oxford University, 7 May 2002. Flyer here.

'Strategy Report: Governance and Civil Society in South-East Europe', Bertelsmann Foundation Research Forum, Centre for Applied Policy, Munich, 17 December 2001 and Boyana Residence, Sofia, 21 April 2002.

2001

'Rogue States and Global Citizens', Guest seminar, School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, 2 November 2001.

'Case I - Bosnia/Kosovo', Informal Seminar, 'The United Nations and Democracy', International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, Kings College, Cambridge University, 22-23 October 2001.