Suchergebnisse

Operations of the Global – Explorations of Dis/Connectivity
6th-8th October 2011

organized by:
Prof. Dr. Urs Stäheli
Dr. Sven Opitz
Ute Tellmann, PhD

How to Think the Global?

Recent debates on globalization have challenged the idea of the globe as a pre-existing and all-encompassing entity. The focus has turned towards different and situated modes of doing globalization. This conference suggests understanding the global as the effect of particular, fragmented and material operations. We seek to explore and compare different forms of dis/connectivity. Finance, diplomacy, law, consumption, transport and migration depend for their global reach on specific forms of connectivity. While finance is tied by networks of information; global commodity chains depend on logistical organization of space. Where political and legal norms travel by citation and standardization, security measures enlist contagious logics of affect. Each form of connectivity is constitutively linked to different materialities and media and is characterized by different temporalities and intensities. At this conference we will ask how different materialities and logics of connectivity intertwine. How do these modes differ in terms of density, speed and diffusion? How can we theorize the materiality of these connective links? Are there tipping points that turn connectivity into disconnectivity?

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On WED, Nov 9, 2011 Richard Bellamy (University College London) will give a talk on "Are International Human Rights Conventions democratically legitimate? Political Constitutionalism and the Hirst Case".

For more information, see the website of the Center for Globalization and Governance

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Cover -- Foreword by the Chairperson-in-Office -- Preface -- I. States of Affairs - Affairs of State -- The OSCE and European Security -- The OSCE's Engagement in Response to the Crisis in Ukraine: Meeting New Challenges with New Solutions -- Old and New Challenges for the OSCE -- From Lisbon to Hamburg - Supporting a New Start in Conventional Arms Control in Europe. Arms Control and Confidence- and Security-Building Measures under Germany's OSCE Chairmanship in 2016 -- Reviving Conventional Arms Control in Europe. A Contribution to Military Stability in Times of Crisis -- The OSCE Participating States: Domestic Developments and Multilateral Commitment -- Co-operative Security in 21st Century Europe: A Diplomatic Caucus Race? -- Brexit: The Mainstreaming of Right-Wing Populist Discourse -- II. Responsibilities, Instruments, Mechanisms, and Procedures -- Conflict Prevention and Dispute Settlement -- The Four-Day War Has Diminished the Chances of Peace in Nagorno-Karabakh -- Supporting Reform, Dialogue, and Crisis Response in Ukraine -- Between Strategic Re-orientation and Operational Fixes: Current Challenges and Opportunities in Strengthening Early Warning and Early Action as Part of OSCE Crisis and Conflict Prevention -- OSCE Peacekeeping - Conceptual Framework and Practical Experience -- Creating Political Oxygen to Break the Cycle of Violence 1981-1994: Lessons from the Northern Ireland Peace Process -- Comprehensive Security: The Three Dimensions and Cross-Dimensional Challenges -- Focus: Migration and Refugees in the OSCE Area -- From Exclusion to Participation: Refugee Protection and Migration Policy in Crisis -- Managing Migration - The OSCE's Response -- How Can the OSCE Contribute to Managing the Current Migrant and Refugee Challenge? -- The OSCE and the Refugee Crisis

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