Workshop on Security Networks and Contested Orders

This is an invitation-only event

Hosted by the Security Programs in Disorder States Initiative and organized by the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, this workshop will bring together academics, practitioners, and policy experts to examine the evolving security landscape in the Indo-Pacific, Southeast Asia, and West Africa within the context of the current global order. It will seek to explore how states and communities negotiate their security arrangements with both traditional and emerging powers such as China and India, and to assess a diverse set of outside actors engaged in these regions. The workshop will also investigate how multi-actor security arrangements, spanning formal, informal, and hybrid forms, are being constituted and what effects they are having on security outcomes, as well as how shifting global norms manifest at the local and regional level. Organized around four thematic panels on borders and contestations, multi-actor security governance, shifting norms and concepts, and structures of order, participants will present ongoing research drawing on case studies from across the Indo-Pacific, Southeast Asia and West Africa.

Interested in attending this event? Contact Marie Thiveos Stewart at: mthiveos@ucsd.edu.

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