Friday's Program
Friday 8.15 AM – 10.00 PM: Plenary (FP)
The Foreign Policy of Regional Powers
Room: Teatro
Varona
Discussant:
Alejandro Chanona,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
What is a Middle
Power?
Laura Neack, Miami University (Ohio)
Cuba’s Foreign Policy: Relations with
Emerging Powers
Santiago Pérez, Centro de Investigaciones de
Política Internacional, Foreign
Affairs Ministry (Cuba)
Brazil: Emerging Power?
Mariana Kalil , Universidade de Brasilia
Mexico’s
Foreign Policy
Consuelo Dávila Pérez and Alejandro Chanona,Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México
Friday 10.15 AM – 12.00 PM: Contending Theory/Debates/New Perspectives
(F1A)
Theorizing Regions and IOs in World Affairs
Room: Protocolo
Chair: DanielaPerrotta, University of Buenos Aires
Discussant: ÉlodieBrun, Colegio de Mexico
Regional Integration in Latin America:
Clash of Theories
Daniela Perrotta,
Universidad de Buenos Aires
The Local Politics of International
Intervention: Beyond Hybridity to the Politics of Scale – Timor-Leste
Lee Jones, Queen Mary University of London
Pathways for the Exercise of Agency by
the African Union
Thomas Kwasi Tieku, King’s College of the University of
Western Ontario
Rethinking the Role of NGOs in Global
Governance: NGOs as Agents
Erin Hannah, King’s College of the University of
Western Ontario
Friday 10.15 AM – 12.00 PM: Policy
and Practice (F1B)
Development
Cooperation
Room: 300
Aniversario
Chair:
Megumi Nishimura, Ritsumeikan University
Discussant:
Folashadé Soulé-Kohndu, Sciences Po, Paris
China and the Caribbean: Some Consequences of ‘Chinafication’
Betty Sedoc-Dahlberg, Suriname (formerly University of Florida)
Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and Cuba: Analyzing Donors’
Identities, Values and Interests in South-South Cooperation
Lianne Guerra Rondón, Universidad
Complutense of
Madrid
From Ningxia to Oman: Examining the Roles of Chinese Provinces in
Development Cooperation
Xuefei Shi, Radboud University,
The Netherlands
Between Solidarity and Power
Competition: Brazil, India, and China’s South-South Cooperation in Africa
Francesca
Mercurio, University of Sao Paulo
Friday 10.15 AM – 12.00 PM:
Pedagogy and Research (F1C)
Perspectives on
Specialized Academic Programs
Room: 250
Aniversario
Chair:
Cristine Koehler Zanella, University of Uberlãndia
Discussant:
Seifudein Adem, Binghamton University
The Study of World Regions in IR Academic Programs in Mexico
Rafael Velázquez Flores, Universidad
Autónoma de
Baja California
Luis Ochoa Bilbao,
Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Feminism in Latin America: A Panorama from the Global South
Cristine Koehler Zanella,
University of Uberlãndia
Cibele Cheron,
Rio Grande do Sul National University
Peace Education: A Comparison between Turkey and Leading Institutions
Hasan Deniz Peksen, Galatasaray University and
Okan University ,Turkey
Okan University ,Turkey
Brazilian and Latin American Contributions to IPE: Developing IPE
from Below
Leonardo Ramos,
Pontifical Catholic University, Minas
Gerais
Friday 1.30 PM – 3.15 PM: Contending
Theories (F2A)
Afro/Island
Contributions to IR Theory
Room:
250 Aniversario
Chair:
Olivia Umererwa Rutazibwa, University
of
Portsmouth (UK)
Discussant:
Thomas Tieku, King’s College of the University of
Western Ontario
The Howard School of IR Theorizing
Identity, Culture and Power in the
International System
Krista Johnson, Howard University
Contributions of Ali Mazrui to IR:
Thoughts on China
Seifudein Adem, Binghamton University
Authorizing Islands: Two Tales of IR
Russell Kerr, Australian National University
Black Power and Agaciro: Decolonizing
International Solidarity
Olivia Rutazibwa, University of Portsmouth
Contested Meanings: Timbuktu and the Prosecution of Destruction of
Cultural Heritage as War Crimes
Oumar Bar,
University of Florida
Ubuntu” as a Model for Peace and
Stability: Power Sharing as a tool of Conflict Resolution in Africa
Lembe
Tiky, University of Connecticut
Friday 1.30 PM – 3.15 PM: Policy and Practice
(F2B)
Foreign Policies of Key
States
Room: Protocolo
Chair:
Kota Suechik, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Discussant:
Dawn Murphy, Air War College
Egypt’s anti-Islamist Foreign Policy and Re-Establishment of the
Arab Security Alliance
Kota Suechik, Ritsumeikan University
A.Takuro Kikkawa, Ritsumeikan
University
Takayuki Yokota, Meiji University
Rethinking Brazil’s Charm Offensive: The Limitations of Soft Power
Strategy in Brazil and Japan
Tanisha Tingle-Smith,
Global South Analytics (US)
Cashing in on Being in the Middle: Turkish Governmental
Framing Strategies of the Syrian Refugee Crisis.
Ugur
Cevdet Panayirci, Istanbul Sehir University
Sirin Duygulu, Istanbul
Sehir University
Friday 1.30 PM – 3.15 PM: Pedagogy and
Research (F2C)
Challenges to
Research and Publishing in the South: Panel/Roundtable
Room: 300
Aniversario
Chair and Discussant:
Clifford E. Griffin, North Carolina
State
University
Challenges to African Scholarship, Research and Publishing
Oluwatoyin Oluwaniyi,
Redeemer’s University,
Nigeria
Challenges to Doing Research in Cuba and Publishing IR-Caribbean Research
Elsada Diana Cassells,
Lehman College of the City
University of
New York
Doing Research in Brazil
Mariana Kalil,
University of Brasilia
Publishing Opportunities in International Ethics for Scholars in
the Global South
Amy Eckert, Metropolitan
State University of Denver
Joy Gordon,
Loyola University, Chicago
Open
discussion by Publishers and Consumers of Global South IR to talk about their
work
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Friday
3.30 PM – 5.15 PM: Contending Theories (F3A)
Feminist Interpretations
of IR
Room: 300 Aniversario
Chair: Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel, University of Frankfurt
Discussant: Mariana Aparicio Ramirez, Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México
Explaining Macrolevel Normative Change
on Issues of Sexuality and Violence: A Feminist Approach
Lahoma Thomas, University of Toronto
Sara Rich-Zendel, University of Toronto
Explaining Female Terrorism:
The Status of Women in the Quran
Christine Sixta Rinehart, University of South Carolina,
Palmetto College
A Gendered Perspective: South African
Social Movements in African-Chinese Relations
Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel, University of Frankfurt
Female Fighters and the Construction of Rebel
Legitimacy
Reed Wood, Arizona State University
Friday
3.30 PM – 5.15 PM: Policy and Practice (F3B)
Exploring Diplomatic
Linkages in a New Era
Room: 250
Aniversario
Investigaciones
Económicos y Sociales
Discussant:
Antonio Romero, University of Havana
Latin American IGOs as Agents and Structures of Change in Global
Trade and Governance
Erin Hannah, King’s College of the
University of
Western Ontario
Holly Ryan, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Intra-Regional Relations between Cuba,
CARICOM, and the Association of Caribbean States: Focus on Tourism
Clifford E. Griffin, North Carolina State University
The Pacific Alliance as an Instrument
of Integration and Development in Latin America
Carlos Gabriel Argüelles Arredondo, University of Baja
California and Universidad del Mar, Huatulco
Bilateral Relations between Mexico and
Cuba: A Perspective 2012 to the Present
Areli Violante Navarrete, Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México
Friday
3.30 PM – 5.15 PM: Publishing and Research (F3C)
ISA Journal Editors’ roundtable
Room: Protocolo
ISA
Journal Editors Talk about Publishing with Them
Kelly M. Kadera, International
Studies Review
Daniel Nexon, International
Studies Quarterly
Laura Sjoberg, International
Feminist Journal of Politics
Cameron Thies,
Foreign Policy Analysis
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