Rosa Maryon, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, recently co-convened a workshop with Dr Cemal Burak Tansel, Newcastle University and president of the European International Studies Association, as part of the 10th European Workshops in International Studies, organised by the European International Studies Association.
The European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), launched by the EISA in 2013, have fast established themselves as a spirited place for the European International Relations community to engage in sustained, in-depth discussion with a diverse range of peers from various institutions, countries, disciplines and career stages. EWIS has proven to be a popular and productive format, perfect for preparing special issues, edited volumes or exploring new ideas, themes and directions in a vibrant and friendly atmosphere.
The rationale for Rosa’s workshop, “Global entanglements of the neoliberal security state”, workshop was to bring together scholars working on neoliberal security states from a variety of theoretical, disciplinary and geographical perspectives. Rosa and Cemal wanted to build upon and contribute to the rich research agenda of authoritarian neoliberalism which tracks the increasing disciplinarian trends of neoliberalism in the post 2007/8 crisis context.
They sought to come together to build upon this body of work emphasising the need to focus on the contemporary fault lines in contemporary post covid capitalism including austerity, policification, outsourcing, debt, security assistance, migration regimes, carcerality and the climate crisis. Furthermore, they sought to interrogate and explore the global entanglements of contemporary neoliberal security states overcoming the methodological nationalism that has, at times, characterised work in this area while recognising the local particularities and histories of different contexts.
“This was a great workshop bringing together critical scholars from around the world to interrogate the emerging fault lines in contemporary capitalism. We are really grateful to all the participants and to the conference organisers for making this workshop possible.”
Rosa Maryon
As part of this workshop, Rosa presented her own work on foreign security assistance to Tunisia. This research builds upon her own work a recently published in Mediterranean Politics as well as her doctoral research to provide a radical critique of Security Assistance as an international practice based on interconnected global mechanisms of coercion and control. She also aims as part of this research, to bring the authoritarian neoliberalism and racial capitalism literatures into conversation with one another.
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