Democracy
Promotion: Hegemony, Resistance and the Shifting Discourses of Democracy in
International Relations
February 1, 2013
Senate House, University of London
Institute for the Study of the
Americas (University of London) and Department of Politics and International
Relations (University of Westminster)
Conference
Programme
09:30 – 10:00 Welcome, registration and introduction (Jessel Room)
10:00 – 11:30 Panel 1 (Senate Room)
Hegemony, Resistance, Seduction: Opportunity
Through Challenge?
(Chair: Jessica
Schmidt)
After Hegemony: Normative
Contestation of Democracy Promotion in a Pluralist World
Annika Poppe (Peace Research
Institute Frankfurt) and Jonas Wolff (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt)
Contesting
the Hegemony of Democracy Promotion
Joel Lazarus
(University of Oxford)
Political
Liberalism and the “Internal Resistance” to Democracy Promotion
Elisa Piras (London School of
Economics and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa)
Historicising the Depth of
Democracy in the Peripheries: Turkey and the Philippines in Comparison
Cemal Burak Tansel (University of
Nottingham) and Salvador Santino Regilme (Berlin Free University)
11:30 –
12:00 Tea break (Jessel Room)
12:00 – 13:30 Panel 2
Democratisation, State-Building and the Arab
Spring
(Chair: Matthew
Hill)
The End of State-Building and a
Return to “Democracy”: The Legacy of the Arab Spring for Studying the Successor
States of the Former Yugoslavia
Adam Fagan (Queen
Mary)
Dance of the Seven Veils:
Seduction and Resistance in European Democracy Promotion Initiatives in the
Arab World
Helle Malmvig
(Danish Institute for International Studies)
US Democracy Promotion and the
Arab Uprising: A Problem of Language of Democracy?
Jeff Bridoux
(Aberystwyth University)
The Obama administration and
the Transition towards Democracy in the Middle East and North Africa – An Early
Assessment
Mattia Toaldo
(Institute for the Study of the Americas)
13:30 – 14:30
Lunch
14:30 – 15:50
Panel 3
Global Civil
Society, Cosmopolitanism and Empowerment: Impact on Democracy Promotion?
(Chair Nic Bouchet)
Democracy,
Abridged: Democracy Promotion and the Civil Societalisation of Policy
Alistair
Brisbourne (Royal Holloway)
The Concept of
Cosmopolitan Democracy
Michael Murphy
(Royal Holloway)
Democracy in
Private: Empowerment and the Rise of the Social
Jessica Schmidt
(University of Westminster)
15:50 – 16:20 Break
16:20 – 17:50
Panel 4
Lessons Learnt and the Future of Democracy
Promotion
(Chair: tbc)
International
Democracy Promotion: Patterns of Learning Within a Policy Area
Kateryna Pishchikova (Transatlantic
Academy, Washington DC and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa)
Matters of History or History
Matters? Shifts, Inceptive Moments and “Generations” of Democratisation Through
State-Building
Elisa Randazzo
(University of Westminster)
The Limits of Democracy
Conceptualisation in State Democracy Promotion: Why It Matters that States Promote
Their Own Conceptualisation of Democracy
Malcolm Russell
(independent consultant)
US Democracy Promotion in
friendly tyrannies: the internal-external strategy during the Cold War and the
War on Terror
Robert Pee
(University of Birmingham)
18:00 – 19:20 Keynote
Professor
Laurence Whitehead (University of Oxford)
19:20 Wine
Reception