Conference Themes:
These are the tentative themes and topics to be addressed in ICIRD 2011. The list is subject to change depending on the submitted abstracts, papers and panel proposals.1) Transnational Governance
- Global Governance
- Regionalization/regional integration and institutions
- Interactions of regional institutions with international actors
- UN reform
- World Peace Order
- International economic regimes (WTO, IMF, Free Trade Agreements etc.)
- Legitimacy of G8/G20 or “green room” politics
- Non-governmental international regimes (e.g. Kimberley Process, World Commission on Dams)
- Transnational security
- Global civil society
- International law and jurisdiction
- Global media
- Transnationalism
- Post-Conflict State-Building
2) Challenges to the Nation State
- Democracy, civil society and elections
- Ethnic and social conflicts
- Rule of law, constitutional reform
- Crises of legitimacy and national identity
- Decentralization and people’s participation
- Natural disasters and environmental challenges
- Dimensions of security (human vs. national)
- Non-state monopolies on violence/alternative forms of security governance
- Social movements and civil society
- Statelessness and areas of limited statehood
- Impacts of technological innovations on governance issues
- National and independent media
- Cross border issues and migration
- Civil-military relations
- Education systems’ reform
- Systemic corruption in national or organizational contexts
- Human trafficking, narcotics trade and organized crime
- Paramilitarism and privatization of security
3) Political Economy and Development
- Wealth disparities
- Rural development
- Land reform and land titling
- Food security
- Economic crises
- Corporate social responsibility
- Contemporary livelihood strategies and economic security
- Regional investment
- Economic interdependencies
- National development strategies
- Remittances
- Empowerment of marginalized groups (microcredit, “social business” etc.)
- Aid industry and foreign development interventions
4) Peoples, Identities and Spaces
- Religious, linguistic and cultural aspects of identity
- Gender issues in Southeast Asia
- Transnational intimacy
- Diffusion of norms (sustainability, human rights, democracy etc.)
- Geographies of violence/spatial dynamics of conflicts
- “Imagined communities”
- Contesting representations of identity
- Post Development
- Urbanization/megacities