Name: EISS 2023 - Annual Conference
Start: 2023-06-29T05:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-06-30T21:35:00+02:00
Location: Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Barcelona

Monday, 26 June 2023
Tuesday, 27 June 2023
Wednesday, 28 June 2023
Thursday, 29 June 2023

09:00 Registration and Coffee
Registration and Coffee
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Main Hall (Roger de Llúria 40)

09:30 Introductory Remarks
Introductory Remarks
09:30 - 09:45
Room: Room 40.063 (Roger de Llúria 40)

09:45 Rountable 1: War, Coercion and Statecraft
Rountable 1: War, Coercion and Statecraft
09:45 - 10:55
Room: Room 40.063 (Roger de Llúria 40)
11:00 Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance
Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Room 40.063 (Roger de Llúria 40)
Contributions

11:00 Changing Threat Perceptions and American Grand Strategy Evidence from Maritime Military Exercises - Peter Dombrowski

11:20 Alliance Cohesion and Military Manoeuvres: A Signal of Deterrence or Assurance? - Margit Bussmann (University of Greifswald)

11:40 Mightier Yet?: Explaining British Military Underconfidence in Reference to Anglo-American Alliance Formation - Sylvain Thöni

12:00 Military Assistance Within the Framework of the Defence of the Liberal International Order: How Does Military Assistance to Ukraine Fit into US Grand Strategy? - Rocío Vales Calderón (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
(In)security and Organized Crime in Latin America
(In)security and Organized Crime in Latin America
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Room 40.152 (Roger de Llúria 40, 1st floor)
Contributions

11:00 (In)security and organized crime in Latin America - Margarita Petrova (IBEI) Juan Masullo (Leiden University) Miriam Bradley (Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester) Pablo Kalmanovitz (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM))
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Exhibition Hall (Basement)
13:30 Military Interventions
Military Interventions
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Room 40.063 (Roger de Llúria 40)
Contributions

13:35 Who Supports Policy Interventions to Terminate Civil Wars? Survey Evidence from The United States and Germany - Martijn Vlaskamp (Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI))

13:55 Bringing the Troops Back Home: A Strategy Adaptation Under Adverse Conditions - Matus Halas (Institute of International Relations)

14:15 The Russian Invasion and the Changing Character of Proxy War: Toward a Comprehensive Framework - Michel Wyss (Strategic Studies, Military Academy at ETH Zurich)
Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
Private Actors, Armed Conflict and the State
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Room 40.152 (Roger de Llúria 40, 1st floor)
Contributions

13:30 Alliance Formation and Rebel Co-Governance in North-East Syria: The Case of the PYD and the Syriac Union Party - andrea novellis (university of milan)

13:50 Resident Resistance: The Territorial Logic of Denouncing Organized Crime Groups in Rio de Janeiro - Nicholas Barnes (University of St Andrews)

14:10 In the Crevices of the State: Criminal Governance in Uruguay - Lucia Tiscornia (University College Dublin)

14:30 Rebel Governance as Self-Legitimation: The FARC's Justifications of Governance - Wolfgang Minatti (European University Institute)
15:00 Military Technology
Military Technology
15:00 - 16:30
Room: Room 40.063 (Roger de Llúria 40)
Contributions

15:00 Winning by Adapting: Battlefield Adaptation in the Long Russo-Ukrainian War - Kristen Harkness (University of St. Andrews) Marc DeVore (University of St. Andrews) Taras Fedirko (University of Glasgow)

15:20 Must the Drone Always Get Through? Coercion and One Way Attack UAVs in Ukraine and Yemen - Marcel Plichta (University of St Andrews) Ash Rossiter (Khalifa University)

15:40 The Shock of the Old in the Russo-Ukraine War? Misunderstanding Continuity, Change and Adaptation of Military Technology Under Fire - Brendan Flynn (University of Galway/Ollscoil na Gaillimhe)
Civil-Military Relations in Challenging Times
Civil-Military Relations in Challenging Times
15:00 - 16:30
Room: Room 40.152 (Roger de Llúria 40, 1st floor)
Contributions

15:00 Civil-Military Relations in Challenging Times - Daphné Charlotte (Maastricht University) Sofia Ledberg (Swedish Defense University) Stephen Saideman (Carleton University) Vicky Karyoti (Swedish Institute of International Affairs)
16:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00
Room: Exhibition Hall (Basement)
17:00 European Security
European Security
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Room 40.063 (Roger de Llúria 40)
Contributions

17:00 Parliamentary Acceptance of EU Military Operations in Member States: Beyond Rubber-stamping? - Eva Michaels (IBEI) Robert Kissack (IBEI) Óscar Fernández (IBEI)

17:20 European Approaches to Chinese Foreign Policy – a Text-as-Data Approach - Jordan Becker (United States Military Academy, West Point, Brussels School of Governance, Ecole de Guerre (IHEDN, IRSEM)) Andreea Budeanu (The French Research Institute on East Asia (IFRAE, CNRS & INALCO), BSoG) Haemin Jee (United States Military Academy, West Point - Department of Social Sciences) Maxwell Love (United States Military Academy)

17:40 The Role of National Secondments for Intelligence Support to EU Foreign Policymaking - Daniel Neumann (King's College London)

18:00 The Politics of Sympathy Among NATO Member States - Simon Koschut (Zeppelin University)
Intelligence
Intelligence
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Room 40.152 (Roger de Llúria 40, 1st floor)
Contributions

17:00 The Intelligence Community as a Normative Actor under International Law - Sophie Duroy (KFG Berlin-Potsdam Research Group 'The International Rule of Law: Rise or Decline?')

17:20 Effects of Open Source Satellite Imagery on Nuclear Verification - Alexander Bollfrass (ETH Zurich, Center for Security Studies) Stephen Herzog (ETH Zurich, Center for Security Studies/Harvard Kennedy School, Project on Managing the Atom)

17:40 On the Institutional Battlefield of Intelligence Oversight: The Case of Questioned Democratic Accountability in The Danish Intelligence Services - Melanie Hartvigsen (University of Southern Denmark)

18:00 The Complexity of the Grey-Zone: the Experience of Military Intelligence on NATO’s North-Eastern Flank - Sebastiaan Rietjens (Netherlands Defence Academy and Leiden University)
18:30 Roundtable 2: Publishing and Preparing for the Academic Job Market
Roundtable 2: Publishing and Preparing for the Academic Job Market
18:30 - 19:45
Room: Room 40.063 (Roger de Llúria 40)
Friday, 30 June 2023
09:30 Arms Procurement and Transfers
Arms Procurement and Transfers
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Room 40.012 (Roger de Llúria 40)
Contributions

09:30 Entrepreneurs in EU security policy: A comparative study of European Peace Facility and European Defence Industry Reinforcement Through Common Procurement Act. - Monika Sus (Hertie School / Polish Academy of Sciences)

09:50 Engine or Brake? The Franco-German Couple and the Future of the European Defense Industry - Antonio Calcara (University of Antwerp)

10:10 EU Arms Collaboration and Procurement: The Impact of the War in Ukraine - Jonata Anicetti (Metropolitan University Prague)

10:30 Arms Purchases in the Baltic States and Transfers to Ukraine: Balancing National Security Interests. - Donatas Palavenis
Challenges and Opportunities for Post-Cold War NATO
Challenges and Opportunities for Post-Cold War NATO
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Room 40.010 (Roger de Llúria 40)
Contributions

09:30 From Guarding the Fulda Gap to Addressing a Knowledge Gap: Updating our Understanding of NATO Security Politics for a New Strategic Era - Ana Verdnik (University of Oxford) Julia Carver (University of Oxford) Marcel Plichta (University of St Andrews) Maria-Sofia Macedo (European Labour Authority (EU)) Nicholas Blanchette (Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT))
11:00 Addressing Wicked Problems in Cyber Conflict
Addressing Wicked Problems in Cyber Conflict
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Room 40.012 (Roger de Llúria 40)
Contributions

11:00 Addressing Wicked Problems in Cyber Conflict - Arthur Laudrain (University of Oxford) Ayhan Gucuyener (Kadir Has University) Christina Rupp (Stiftung Neue Verantwortung) Julia Carver (University of Oxford) Peadar Callaghan (Games Lab - Tallinn University) Samuel Seitz (University of Oxford - RAND Corporation)
Intelligence Success and Failure in Historical Perspective: Lessons from Beyond the Anglo-Sphere
Intelligence Success and Failure in Historical Perspective: Lessons from Beyond the Anglo-Sphere
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Room 40.010 (Roger de Llúria 40)
Contributions

11:00 Intelligence Success and Failure in Historical Perspective: Lessons from “Elsewhere”. - Gil-li Vardi (Stanford University) Kyle Harmse (Stanford University) Niccolò Petrelli (Roma tre University) Zakia Shiraz (Leiden University)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Exhibition Hall (Basement)
13:30 Weapons of Mass Destruction: Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
Weapons of Mass Destruction: Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Room 40.010 (Roger de Llúria 40)
Contributions

13:30 Populist Publics and Nuclear Weapons: Does Populism Predict Higher Nuclear Use Willingness, but also Opposition to Nuclear Sharing? - Tom Etienne (University of Pennsylvania)

13:50 Proliferation-Related Legislation in the EU: Is There a Need for Further Convergence? - Barry de Vries (Justus-Liebig University Giessen)

14:10 How Russia's War on Ukraine has an Impact on the EU’s Nuclear Disarmament Policy - Aderito Vicente (Odesa Center for Nonproliferation)
Re-Visiting the Political Economy of Security
Re-Visiting the Political Economy of Security
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Room 40.012 (Roger de Llúria 40)
Contributions

13:30 Industries of Sovereignty: Strategic autonomy, defence industrial interests and the French government’s use of the “European sovereignty” discourse in EU politics (2017-22) - Ediz Topcuoglu (College of Europe) Salih Isik Bora (Sciences Po Paris)

13:50 Re-visiting the political economy of security - Kaija Schilde (Boston University) Lucas Hellemeier (Freie Universität Berlin) Moritz Weiss (LMU Munich) Sanne Verschuren (Sciences Po Paris)
15:00 Poster Session
Poster Session
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Room 40.010 (Roger de Llúria 40)

15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Exhibition Hall (Basement)

16:00 Roundtable 3: Gendered Exclusion and Discrimination in Academia
Roundtable 3: Gendered Exclusion and Discrimination in Academia
16:00 - 17:15
Room: Room 40.010 (Roger de Llúria 40)
17:15 Alliance Management
Alliance Management
17:15 - 18:45
Room: Room 40.010 (Roger de Llúria 40)
Contributions

17:15 Credibility in Crises: How Patrons Reassure in Crises - Lauren Sukin (London School of Economics and Political Science)

17:35 The Allied Defence Dilemma: Balancing between Autonomy and Alliance Cohesion - Lotje Boswinkel (Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy)

17:55 NATO and Multi-Domain Operations: Between Deterrence and Conflict - Andrea Gilli (NATO Defense College)

18:15 US Preponderance in NATO: The Role of Logistics, Intelligence, Training, Cyber, and Coordination - Hugo Meijer (Sciences Po)
Psychology and Emotions in War and Strategy
Psychology and Emotions in War and Strategy
17:15 - 18:45
Room: Room 40.012 (Roger de Llúria 40)
Contributions

17:15 Psychology and Emotions in War and Strategy - Katerina Krulisova (Nottingham Trent University) Claire Yorke (University of Southern Denmark) Samuel Zilincik (Masaryk/Leiden University) Robin Burda (Masaryk University) Marie Robin (Université Paris Panthéon-Assas)
18:45 Award of the European Security Studies Best Paper Prize
Award of the European Security Studies Best Paper Prize
18:45 - 19:00
Room: Room 40.010 (Roger de Llúria 40)

19:00 Concluding Remarks
Concluding Remarks
19:00 - 19:15
Room: Room 40.010 (Roger de Llúria 40)

19:15 Cocktail
Cocktail
19:15 - 20:15
Room: Jardí de les Aigües, Ramon Turro 13 building