REMIT researchers from Luiss Guido Carli University in Italy were very active in September, representing REMIT research interests in two topical conferences.
From September 5th to the 9th, 2023, in the framework of the 16th Pan-European Conference (PEC) annually organised by the European International Studies Association (EISA) and held at Potsdam, Flavia Lucenti acted as co-chair of the Standing Section ”ST-18: Contestation in International Politics”. The section included 11 panels, which also embraced a discussion on the role of new technologies in the stability and security of the liberal international order”, and a roundtable on the book Flavia Lucenti is co-editing, titled “Contestation in Prism: Patterns of norm evolution, consolidation, and decay”. The volume will also include a contribution on the role of automatised weapons in the context of norm contestation. At EISA-PEC Flavia also acted as a panelist in two different panels (discussing both a paper on Russia use of fake news during the Ukrainian war, and a paper on the increasing dissatisfaction on China and Russia on the international stage), as well as a discussant and chair for different panels including in ST18.
Flavia Lucenti and Thomas Christiansen also attended the 36th Annual Conference of the Italian Political Science Association (SISP) in 14-16 September 2023. Here they co-presented the paper “The Governance of Strategic Technologies: Between Geopolitical Competition and Multilateral Cooperation” in the framework of the panel “Differentiation in EU Foreign Policy”. This also served as an opportunity to receive feedback on the early draft of the article Flavia Lucenti and Thomas Christiansen are now co-authoring together with Sophie Vanhoonacker for the Special Issue for Geopolitics .