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Events Conferences
Weak States and South Asia’s Insecurity Predicament Friday,
October 3, 2008 Paper 1: State Capacity and South Asia’s Insecurity Dilemmas: An Introduction
Paper 2: State, Nations and Regional Security Orders
Panel II: 10:15-11:30 General Papers II Paper 3: State
Formation, Consolidation and the Security Challenge: Why Developing
Paper 4: State Failure and States Poised to Fail: South Asia and Developing Nations
Panel III: 11:30-1:00: Country Studies I Paper 5: India: Soft State with Multiple Security Challenges
Paper 6: Identity, Polity and Foreign Policy in Contemporary India
Panel IV: 2:00-3:15 Country Studies III Paper 7: Islamist Violence in India After the 1990s
Paper 8: Weak State, Failed State, Garrison State: The Pakistan Saga
Panel V: 3:15-5:15: Country Studies IV Paper 9: Afghanistan: A Very Weak State in the Path of Power Rivalries
Paper 10: Sri Lanka: Challenges in State Consolidation and Minority Integration
Saturday, October 4, 2008 Panel VI: 9:00-10:15 Country Studies IV Paper 11: Bangladesh: A Weak State With Multiple Security Challenges
Paper 12: Nepal: A Weak State Sandwiched between Two Major Powers?
Panel VII: 10:30-12:00: Regional Perspectives Paper 13: Economic Globalization and the Weak States of South Asia
Paper 14: Civil Society and Weak States in South Asia
Paper 15: Rays of Hope: The Not So Weak States of South Asia
12:00-1:00: Concluding Session and Launching of the South Asian Academic Network (SARCAN) Webpage: Presentation by Manish Thapa (Asian Study Center for Political & Conflict Transformation, Katmandu) 3:30-5:30: Transforming South Asia: A Roundtable (This Roundtable will take place at Omni Hotel, 1050 Sherbrooke St. West, Corner, Peel. The event is Co-sponsored by Canadian International Council and McGill Center for Developing Area Studies) Chair: T.V. Paul, McGill University Participants:
To be Followed by a Reception 5:30-7:00 at the Omni The GNSS project co-sponsored the 2007 Inteernational Security Studies Section conferences of International Studies Associtiona nd American Politcal Sceince Association. See link: http://www.mcgill.ca/files/politicalscience/ISSSISACConferenceFinalProgram.pdf Ongoing and Forthcoming Events:
Workshop on International Security & Political Economy September
18 Kathleen McNamara (Georgetown University) October
9 Erica Chenoweth (Weslayan University) October
16 Sarah Kreps (Cornell University) October
30 Roland Paris (University of Ottawa) ***Special
Time 15h00*** November
20 Wendy Wong (University of Toronto) All seminars will take place in Leacock 429 (15h30-17h30) This workshop is sponsored by the Research Group in International Security (REGIS), a collaborative undertaking between Université de Montréal and McGill University faculty specializing in International Relations, and is funded by the Canadian Department of National Defence’s Security and Defense Forum (SDF)and the Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC) project on ‘Globalization and the National Security State’. Past
Events: Workshop
on International Security & Political Economy September
26 Jeffrey Hart (Indiana University) October
10 Robert Jackson (Boston University) October
17 Beth Simmons (Harvard University) October
31 David Kang (Dartmouth College) November
7 Nina Tannenwald (Brown University) November
21 David Holloway (Stanford University) 2007 Global Security Challenges: When New and Old Issues Intersect The 2007 ISAC/ISSS Conference is co-sponsored by the GNSS project and will be held 19-20 October 2007 in Montreal. For more information, please visit the conference webpage. 2006 Workshop on International Security & Political Economy September 22 David Welch (University of Toronto) Why was the ‘War on Terror’ Both so Late and Such a Huge Overreaction? September 29 Richard Price (UBC) Nuclear Weapons Don't Kill People, Rogues Do
October 6 Peter Lawler (Manchester University)
The Good State: In Praise of ‘Classical Internationalism’ An
FQRSC funded research project
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