[Bilimsel Haber] CONF./CFP- ASCN Conference: Security, Democracy and Development in the Southern Caucasus and the Black Sea Region, 11-13 October 2012, Kadir Has U

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CONF./CFP- Security, Democracy & Devel. in the S. Caucasus/Black Sea, 
Oct 11-13

Posted by: Denis Dafflon <denis.dafflon at unifr.ch>




International Conference Security, Democracy and Development in the 
Southern Caucasus and the Black Sea Region
11-13 October 2012, Istanbul

The Academic Swiss Caucasus Net (ASCN), in cooperation with Kadir Has 
University, is pleased to organize an international conference on 
Security, Democracy and Development in the Southern Caucasus and the 
Black Sea Region to take place in Istanbul on 11-13 October 2012.

The conference offers a forum for the presentation and discussion of 
ongoing research projects. It will consist of thematic panels, 
roundtables and keynote speeches bringing together researchers and 
policy makers.


Content

The conference overall will address the interaction of security, 
democracy and development in the Southern Caucasus and the wider Black 
Sea region. Specific topics and debates will be explored within and 
between these broad themes. Research papers will include contributions 
from a variety of social science disciplines as well as 
interdisciplinary work. Panels and roundtables will analyse evolving 
state level, regional and broader international processes, present new 
scholarship and allow the exchange of ideas from a wide variety of 
national, theoretical and intellectual perspectives.


Call for Papers

Deadline: 25 April 2012

Eligibility:
The call for papers is open to PhD students and recent PhD graduates 
(2007 or later) dealing with the conference topic in their research 
activities.


Topics

Proposals must be linked to one of the following topics:
  * Democracy, political structure, regime and state composition
  * Governance: achievements, obstacles, incentives and the limits of 
  conditionality
  * Political discourses and identity configurations; transformation of 
    political and social identities
  * The role of elites: in framing debates, agendas, policies on foreign 
affairs
  * Understandings of security: regime security, human security, 
regional security
  * Ethnic communities and networks, transnationalism and security
  * Conflicts: strategies for conflict management; the role of 
international organisations; changing drivers of conflict;
unrecognised states
  * Regionalism and multilateral engagement: subregional processes; 
Black Sea Synergy; other EU programmes
  * Regional powers and the geopolitical context to transformation; 
Turkey's new regional role; impact of events in the Middle East
  * Resources and development strategies: energy policy, energy 
dependence and external relationships

The selected candidates will have the opportunity to present and discuss 
their paper in one of the thematic panels.


Submission Instructions

All interested scholars are requested to submit an abstract (no more 
than 300 words) of their paper together with a short biographical 
statement (including author, affiliation, postal address, phone number 
and e-mail address) and a one-page CV. Applicants are requested to 
mention into which of the 10 proposed topics the abstract would fit. 
Submissions must be sent no later than 25 April 2012 to 
istanbul2012 at ascn.ch and to jan.kreuels at ascn.ch with the following email 
subject: ASCN Istanbul Conference 2012. All documents have to be in 
English and need to be merged into a single PDF file. The result of the 
selection process will be announced by mid-May 2012.

Selected candidates will then be invited to submit full papers (up to 
5000 words) by the end of September 2012. The best papers will be 
published in a volume dedicated to the conference proceedings.


Venue, Accommodation and Transport

The conference will take place on the premises of Kadir Has University. 
The ASCN programme will cover travel and accommodation expenses for all 
selected participants. Opportunities for co-financing will arise should 
the travel costs in individual cases exceed the average expenses per 
participant attending the conference. Participants will be located in 
hotels close to the conference venue. The selected participants will be 
informed about the programme, the specific conference panels and the 
format of the paper to submit, as well as organisational details, in due 
time.


Timeline
  * Application deadline: 25 April 2012
  * Selection of abstracts: mid-May 2012
  * Submission of papers: end of September 2012
  * Papers online on conference website: 1 October 2012
  * Conference: 11-13 October 2012


Website
www.ascn.ch vents section


Further Questions
info at ascn.ch


Scientific Committee

Roy Allison (Oxford University), Pavel Baev (Peace Research Institute 
Oslo), Nicolas Hayoz (University of Fribourg), Ghia Nodia (Ilia State 
University), Dimitrios Triantaphyllou (Kadir Has University)


About ASCN

ASCN is a programme aimed at promoting the social sciences and 
humanities in the South Caucasus (primarily Georgia and Armenia). Its 
different activities foster the emergence of a new generation of 
talented scholars. Promising junior researchers receive support through 
research projects, capacity-building trainings and scholarships. The 
programme emphasizes the advancement of individuals who, thanks to their 
ASCN experience, become better integrated in international academic 
networks. The ASCN programme is coordinated and operated by the 
Interfaculty Institute for Central and Eastern Europe (IICEE) at the 
University of Fribourg (Switzerland). It is initiated and supported by 
Gebert Rf Stiftung.


Denis Dafflon
Programme Manager
Academic Swiss Caucasus Net (ASCN)
University of Fribourg / Interfaculty Institute for Central
and Eastern Europe (IICEE)
Bd de P lles 90
1700 Fribourg/Switzerland

Phone: +41 26 300 79 82
Mobile: +41 79 303 43 44
denis.dafflon at unifr.ch
www.ascn.ch





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