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OXPO Doctoral Seminar in International Relations, 2012

Venue: Seminar Room G up to 14.00, thereafter the Lecture Theatre (both at the Manor Road Building)

Convenors: Professors Andrew Hurrell, Zaki Laidi and Karoline Postel-Vinay

The 2012 OXPO Doctoral Seminar in International Relations will be held on 17th May in Oxford. It will invite ten PhD students from the University of Oxford, from Sciences Po and from GIGA to present papers on BRIC-related topics, under the broad heading of "Around and Beyond the BRICS".

Each paper will address one or several of the following issues: interpretations of sovereignty, representativeness within international organizations, financial and monetary regulation, trade liberalization, internationalization of social welfare, international security, or global environmental governance. The aim is to select and discuss in detail ten doctoral student papers that present both original empirical work and address theoretical or conceptual issues involved in the analysis of the BRICS, of emerging powers, or the idea of a challenge to a western-dominated international order.

10.00 – 10.45: Marieke Louis (Sciences-Po), ‘Contentious Representation within International Organizations: The Brics and the debates over the composition of the ILO’s Governing Body’.
10.45 – 11.30: Vinicius Rodrigues Vieira (Oxford), ‘Controlled Embeddedness and International Empowerment. A Study of Brazil and India’s Trade Policymaking’.
11.30 – 11.45: Coffee
11.45 – 12.30: Folashade Soulé-Kohndou (Sciences-Po), ‘Reforming the United Nations from Inside: The Strategies of India, Brazil and South Africa through the IBSA forum’.
12.30 – 13.15: Lunch
13.15 – 14.00: Markus Fraundorfer (GIGA, Hamburg), ‘Brazil’s Exercise of Power in the 2001 WTO Trade Dispute. The Power of Narrative’.
14.00 – 14.45: Nicole de Paula Domingos (Sciences-Po), ‘The Transatlantic Partnership Facing the Brics: The Case of Climate and Trade Regimes’.
14.45 – 15.30: Tomaso Ferrando (Sciences-Po), ‘Sovereignty and Access to Land. Is the Brics Strategy any Different?’.
15.45 – 17.00 Roundtable Discussion: ‘Studying the Brics: Do we need to ‘de-centre’ the study of International Relations’, Professors Andrew Hurrell, Zaki Laidi, and Karoline Postel-Vinay.

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