BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:74b0c3c38e08c78c5688ce8ea023e099 CATEGORIES:Polar Conferences, Meetings and Events CREATED:20170315T110237 SUMMARY:Panel on ‘Projecting Geopolitics on the Arctic' LOCATION:University of Bremen DESCRIPTION:Call for Abstracts\nfor a proposed panel on ‘Projecting Geopolitics on the Arctic’\nat the 5th Open Conference of the ‘International Relations’ Sectio n of the Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW), University of Bremen, 4 to 6 October 2017\nPanel Organizer: Christoph Humrich (Universit y of Groningen), Sebastian Knecht (Freie Universität Berlin)\nProjecting Ge opolitics on the Arctic\nIn the past decade, media, political and academic interest in the Arctic as a political region has steadily been on the rise. Climate-induced geophysical changes in the region, its presumed richness i n resources, its strategic importance in the wake of increasing tensions be tween Russia and ‘the West’ and its possible future relevance as a maritime transport corridor often make the lead story for research and debate about the political state of Arctic affairs. Many contributions to the debate ma ke use of the terms ‘geopolitics’ or ‘geopolitical’ to either characterize or highlight political interests and conflict constellations in the Arctic, or to use them as analytical and theoretical concepts. The often invoked ‘ return of geopolitics in the Arctic’ has a double-meaning in that regard: A renewed interest in geopolitical ideas and strategies for political action in or with respect to the Arctic region on the one hand, and as a case for academic scrutiny and theoretical reflection that would suggest or even ex emplify these terms, on the other. For both, geopolitical action and geopol itical theory, the Arctic has become a scenery for projecting geopolitics.\ nHowever, the prominence of the term in public and academic discourse seems to have diluted its overall distinctiveness, analytical precision and theo retical substance. If the terms ‘geopolitics’ and ‘geopolitical’ cannot eve n be substituted with ‘politics’ and ‘political’ without any loss of meanin g, they often insinuate little more than the security or economic relevance of Arctic change or connote alarmistic scenarios of the Arctic as a scene for climate or resource wars, a regional theater of a new ‘Cold War’, or gl obal power transformation processes. In turn, theoretical assumptions and c ausal mechanisms associated with these scenarios often remain unspecified.\ nThe proposed panel thus wants to use the example of the Arctic to clarify the analytic potential, theoretical substance and empirical value added of the terms ‘geopolitics’ and ‘geopolitical’. This shall be done, first, in a positive manner by distinguishing geopolitics as a theoretical research pr ogram from other international relations (IR) theories so that characterist ic and distinct assumptions and causal mechanisms or conditioning contexts become visible. On the other hand, a more critical review of current politi cal science research on the Arctic will have to show whether and where geop olitical terminology distorts or obfuscates the empirical analysis rather t han enlightening it. To this end, we ask for innovative papers that:\ndevel op theoretical hypotheses for political analysis of Arctic affairs, distill those from the existing IR literature or deduce them from classic or moder n works on geopolitics (and contribute to concept and theory development). The notions of “spill-over” or “proxy conflicts/wars” within a new “Great G ame” could be interesting conceptual venues for probing the value added of geopolitical theory for the Arctic.\ntest or refute such hypotheses in a co mparative analysis with other cases inside the Arctic region (including als o historical comparison with Cold War times or even earlier epochs of Arcti c explorations and politics) or with other maritime regions.\nor critically reflect on the usage of the terms ‘geopolitics’ and ‘geopolitical’ in the discourse about Arctic change (either historically or along a conceptual di fferentiation between popular, formal and practical geopolitics) or combine a positive and critical application of the terms in the sense of a critica l geopolitics of the Arctic.\nAbstracts of no more than 200 words should be sent to Christoph Humrich (This email address is being protected from spam bots. 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Call for Abstracts
for a proposed panel on ‘Projecting Geopolitics on the Arctic’
at the 5th Open Conference of the ‘International Relations’ Section of the Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW), Univers ity of Bremen, 4 to 6 October 2017

Panel Organizer:< /strong> Christoph Humrich (University of Groningen), Sebastian Knecht (Fre ie Universität Berlin)

Projecting Geopolitics on the Arctic
In the past decade, media, political and academic interest in the Arctic as a political region has steadily been on the rise. Climate-ind uced geophysical changes in the region, its presumed richness in resources, its strategic importance in the wake of increasing tensions between Russia and ‘the West’ and its possible future relevance as a maritime transport c orridor often make the lead story for research and debate about the politic al state of Arctic affairs. Many contributions to the debate make use of th e terms ‘geopolitics’ or ‘geopolitical’ to either characterize or highlight political interests and conflict constellations in the Arctic, or to use t hem as analytical and theoretical concepts. The often invoked ‘return of ge opolitics in the Arctic’ has a double-meaning in that regard: A renewed int erest in geopolitical ideas and strategies for political action in or with respect to the Arctic region on the one hand, and as a case for academic sc rutiny and theoretical reflection that would suggest or even exemplify thes e terms, on the other. For both, geopolitical action and geopolitical theor y, the Arctic has become a scenery for projecting geopolitics.

Howeve r, the prominence of the term in public and academic discourse seems to hav e diluted its overall distinctiveness, analytical precision and theoretical substance. If the terms ‘geopolitics’ and ‘geopolitical’ cannot even be su bstituted with ‘politics’ and ‘political’ without any loss of meaning, they often insinuate little more than the security or economic relevance of Arc tic change or connote alarmistic scenarios of the Arctic as a scene for cli mate or resource wars, a regional theater of a new ‘Cold War’, or global po wer transformation processes. In turn, theoretical assumptions and causal m echanisms associated with these scenarios often remain unspecified.

T he proposed panel thus wants to use the example of the Arctic to clarify th e analytic potential, theoretical substance and empirical value added of th e terms ‘geopolitics’ and ‘geopolitical’. This shall be done, first, in a p ositive manner by distinguishing geopolitics as a theoretical research prog ram from other international relations (IR) theories so that characteristic and distinct assumptions and causal mechanisms or conditioning contexts be come visible. On the other hand, a more critical review of current politica l science research on the Arctic will have to show whether and where geopol itical terminology distorts or obfuscates the empirical analysis rather tha n enlightening it. To this end, we ask for innovative papers that:

de velop theoretical hypotheses for political analysis of Arctic affairs, dist ill those from the existing IR literature or deduce them from classic or mo dern works on geopolitics (and contribute to concept and theory development ). The notions of “spill-over” or “proxy conflicts/wars” within a new “Grea t Game” could be interesting conceptual venues for probing the value added of geopolitical theory for the Arctic.
test or refute such hypotheses in a comparative analysis with other cases inside the Arctic region (includ ing also historical comparison with Cold War times or even earlier epochs o f Arctic explorations and politics) or with other maritime regions.
or critically reflect on the usage of the terms ‘geopolitics’ and ‘geopolitic al’ in the discourse about Arctic change (either historically or along a co nceptual differentiation between popular, formal and practical geopolitics) or combine a positive and critical application of the terms in the sense o f a critical geopolitics of the Arctic.

Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be sent to Christoph Humrich (This email address is being protected fr om spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Sebastian Knecht (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) b y 28 March 2017. Full-length paper manuscripts are due in late September 2017. Please note that no funding to cover travel and accomm odation costs is available for this conference.

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