The Bidens are serving the Macrons US-made wine and cheese. A cute gesture or a clumsy diplomatic move?
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Autonomous Weapons Systems: Uncertainty and Anticipatory Norm-building
Since 2014 the international community has considered the issue of autonomy in weapons systems under the framework of the United Nations (UN) Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). Despite hopes that 2022 would see some kind of breakthrough, the 2019 eleven guiding principles remains the only international agreement regarding lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS or AWS). Many believe that action is long overdue. The Campaign to...
Indoctrinate Me Softly
“Some came to kill and the others came to protect” says the main male character with a charisma of a doorknob to his love interest in the “based on real events” movie “Crimea” (2017), financed by the Russian Ministry of Defense. The hour and a half epic features many equally deep and meaningful conversations between a female Ukrainian journalist from Kyiv and a male Russian soldier from Sebastopol whose romance is set against the...
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Making norms for uncertain times to come
At the 1939 World Fair in New York City, the big attraction was "Futurama," an exhibition put on by the U.S. car manufacturer General Motors. Every visitor to Futurama received a souvenir — a small blue-white badge that read “I have seen the future.” That is, the future presented by (at the time) one of most influential companies in the world, one built around its main product: the automobile. Yet the exhibition wasn't exactly wrong. It was...
Whither norms research in times of uncertainty? A Symposium
In a world of multiple and overlapping crises, can norms and rules-based institution still create order amidst uncertainty? Do existing norms and frameworks for international cooperation enjoy sufficient legitimacy to help us navigate the interacting and concatenating effects of crises? A new symposium explores the question: “Whither norms (research) in times of uncertainty?”
Does IR ask big questions?
Jarrod is joined by Daniela Lai and Adam Lerner to talk about the role of big questions in IR scholarship and teaching.
Does IR Do Big Questions? Should It?
Jarrod is joined by Daniela Lai (Royal Holloway) and Adam to talk about the role of big questions in IR scholarship and teaching. The trio engage recent tweets by Bear Braumoeller and Tom Nichols (the latter of which Peter also addresses in a post) as they discuss the place of big questions in teaching and research. https://duckofminerva.podbean.com/e/does-ir-ask-big-questions/
Johanna Speyer
Johanna Speyer is a PhD candidate and junior lecturer at the Chair of International Politics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. Her work focusses on norm theory, identity theories as well as the contestation of and resistance against authority beyond the state, particularly in the EU.
Carmen Wunderlich
Carmen Wunderlich is Akademische Rätin auf Zeit (eq. to non-tenured Assistant Professor) at the Chair of International Relations and Development Policy at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, and Associated Researcher at the Peace Research Center Prague. Her research focuses on global norm dynamics, norm clusters and practices of norm contestation with a specific focus on issues related to the control of weapons of mass destruction,...
Jan Wilkens
Jan Wilkens is a PostDoc in the Synthesis Team at the Center for Earth Research and Sustainability (CEN) in the Cluster of Excellence ‘Climate, Climatic Change and Society’ (CLICCS) at the University of Hamburg. His work focuses on the intersection of norms, contentious politics, and climate justice in international relations. This interest is specifically informed by bringing together constructivist and postcolonial scholarship.
Berenike Prem
Berenike Prem is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Bremen, Germany. She holds a PhD from the University of Bremen where she worked in research project on the privatization and internationalization of security. Her research concentrates on the evolving practices of warfare, with a focus on Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) and the role of new military and security technologies. She is author of Private Military and...