THE JOURNAL OF CRITICAL GLOBALISATION STUDIES PRESENTS THE GLOBAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION 2010:

Globalization and International Relations

Merton College, University of Oxford,

1st - 3rd September 2010

Confirmed Keynotes

Prof. David Chandler, University of Westminster
Prof. Sandra Halperin, Royal Holloway, University of London
Prof. Martin Shaw, University of Sussex
Prof. John Urry, University of Lancaster
Prof. Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics

The 2010 GSA conference seeks to probe the relationship between these two different approaches to understanding world social relationships.  Indeed, the conference’s central problematic asks whether the advent of Global Studies is an extension of International Relations, on a continuum with it, or does Global Studies represent what Foucault termed a new episteme, with the implication that International Relations and Global Studies cannot speak to each other for lack of a common language?  Moreover, can Global Studies challenge the dominance of International Relations in both social science departments and policymaking fields? Or will global ‘outlooks’ still depend upon visible territorial borders, the outcome of historical and territorial conflicts between states?

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