Friday, 24 September 2021 – Salle Claire
9.00 Covid-Check
9.30 Welcome (Dr. Thomas Kolnberger, University of Luxembourg)
9.45 Publication plans
1. Institutional politics? Trans- and international security networks: Participation, representation and cooperation of small states.
Contributors:
- 10.00: Small States Post-2020: knowledge, security & governance – Prof. Dr. Timothy Shaw (Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance/ University of Massachusetts Boston)
- 10.20: Joining the ‘Western Blob’: Of Small States and Big Conferences – Dr. Alexander Graef (Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy/ University Hamburg)
- 10.40: Open Discussion
12.00 LUNCH (at venue)
14.00 GUIDED CITY TOUR
2. Whose ‘capacities’? Small states’ institutional security capacities and limitations: The domestic side of processes, communication, politics and governance.
Contributors:
- 16.00: Between Formal and Informal Politics. Governance and Democracy in Small States – Ass. Prof. Dr. Wouter Veenendaal (Institute of Political Science/ Leiden University)
- 16.20: What is a small state security policy? Luxembourg, Singapour & al. – Thibault Fouillet & Dr. Antony Dabila (Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, Paris & University of Luxembourg/ Université de Lyon)
- 16.40: Domestic incentives behind small states‘ shelter-seeking behavior – Prof. Dr. Baldur Thorhalsson (Director of the Centre for Small State Studies/ Faculty of Political Science/ School of Social Science/ University of Iceland)
- 17.00: Open Discussion
19.00 DINNER (at venue)
Saturday, 25 September 2021 – Salle Claire
3. Why ‘knowledge’ matters: Understanding securitization and actors within small states.
Contributors:
- 10.00: Against all odds: Why smallness will introduce a new subject of international law. Securitization, Small Island States and History – Karl Hampel (Institute of History/ University of Luxembourg)
- 10.20: The Securitization of “Moro” Raids in the Spanish Colonial Philippines – Dr. Eberhard Crailshaim (Instituto de Historia/ Departamento de Estudios Americanos/ Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid)
- 10.40: Open Discussion
12.00 LUNCH (at venue)
14.00 MIX & MINGLE
4. Doomed to ‘smallness’ or champions of the international? How history shapes and breaks small states’ security traditions.
Contributors:
- 15.00: What is a Small State? Answers from Structural and Prototype Theory – Prof. Dr. Iver Neumannn (Director/ The Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway)
- 15.40: Smallness in Belize: a researcher’s travel through Lilliput – Dr. Edith Kauffer (CIESAS – Unidad Regional Sureste/ Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social/ Chiapas, México)
- 16.00: Open Discussion
- 16.30: Conclusions (Prof. Dr. Harlan Koff, University of Luxembourg)
- 17.30: Conference Closure
Attendance only by registration. Please contact Karl Hampel (karl.hampel@uni.lu).
Venue:
Soeurs Franciscaines
50 avenue Gaston Diderich
L-1420 Luxemburg
(Hotel and Conference Room; Parking garage available, Bus stop: “Franciscaines” lines 5 and 6)
Download the conference programme.