5th and 6th of June 2009. 

Registration: 5^th June 2009, 10.30 am

Conclusion of event:  6^th June 2009, 6.00 pm followed by wine reception.  

Location: Social Studies building, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Welcome to the ‘Globalisation and European integration: The Nature of the Beast’ conference! When planning this conference we wished to organise a cutting-edge event, in which contemporary Critical scholarship on European integration, and more broadly regionalisation processes, would be debated in an informal and engaging setting.

The conference aims to encourage interdisciplinary exchange on the historical materialist frameworks used to investigate the relationship between global governance, regional integration and the national state, with special reference to the European Union. We have therefore invited specialists from the fields of politics, international relations, international political economy and sociology to share their research findings and experience by introducing workshops with working papers designed to stimulate dialogue with other participants.

We have also sought to stimulate a constructive engagement between historical materialist, constructivist and post-structuralist approaches to European integration. We therefore aim to break down institutional barriers by searching for commonality between fields and approaches which are traditionally considered incompatible.

We are delighted to bring together researchers thinking about the creation and reproduction of social and political authority in a variety of settings.

The conference will address the following key themes:

Global governance, the EU and the national state:

• Sustaining or transcending international competition?
• The EU as a building-block or obstacle for global governance?

The EU and the global economy:

• The global monetary system and the single currency.
• Aid, trade and the relationship with the global South.

Social agency and European integration:

• Labour, migration and the EU: ideas, interests, and institutions in the regulation of the social question in Europe.
• Global capital and the EU: transnational elite agency and the European project.

Regionalisation beyond the EU:

• The EU in global perspective: comparative analyses of the EU and other forms of regionalisation.
• Explaining regionalism and regionalisation in America, Africa and Asia.

Engaging Critical approaches to European integration: constructivism, post-structuralism and other alternatives.

Deadlines:

• Registration: 15 May 2009.
• Submission of paper: 25 May 2009.

Co-organisers: Andreas Tsolakis (A.A.Tsolakis@warwick.ac.uk) and Petros Nousios (P.Nousios@warwick.ac.uk).

This project is kindly funded by the American Study and Student Exchange Committee and the PAIS department at Warwick.

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