Session Two: 10.45-11.45
Chair: Professor Andrew Hurrell (DPIR and Balliol College)
Paper: Professor Iver B. Neumann (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs), Status is Cultural: Durkheimian Poles and Weberian Russians Seek Great Power Status
The Centre for International Studies and the Oxford Fulbright Initiative held a workshop on 10th June 2011 to discuss the Role of Status in International Relations.
Speakers:
Professor Deborah Welch Larsons research draws on historical, psychological and political evidence to explain foreign policy decision making. She is the author of Origins of Containment: A Psychological Explanation (Princeton, 1985) and Anatomy of Mistrust: U.S.-Soviet Relations during the Cold War (Cornell, 1997).
Drawing on social anthropology, Professor Iver B. Neumanns research examines the role of identity in Europes and Russias foreign relations. His publications include Russia and the Idea of Europe: A Study in Identity and International Relations (Routledge, 1996) and (with Ole Jacob Sending) Governing the Global Polity: Practice, Rationality, Mentality (Michigan, 2010) among others.
Dr Edward Keenes research focuses on the history of international law and diplomacy. He is the author of Beyond the Anarchical Society: Grotius, Colonialism and Order in World Politics (Cambridge, 2002) and International Political Thought: A Historical Introduction (Polity Press, 2005).