CfP - Millennium Annual Conference: After Liberalism?‏

Millennium Annual Conference: After Liberalism? Call for papers The annual conference of Millennium Journal of International Studieswill take place on the 17-18 October 2009 at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The conferencewill focus on the role of liberalism today and in the future. The discipline of IR has long had a strange courtship with liberalism.Indeed, it could be argued that liberalism has come in and out ofintellectual fashion, largely as a response to world events. After twoworld wars and the Great Depression, the self-proclaimed foundingfathers of IR sought to distance themselves from the unfulfilledpromises of Wilsonian liberalism by taking a hard and 'scientific' lookat power politics. A few decades later, policymakers, practitioners andacademics heralded the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of bipolarityas beckoning in a new cooperative world order. Now, 20 years since the'End of History', the liberal moment seems increasingly under threat.International and domestic norms and institutions are confronted withthe War on Terror. Those who presented the International Economic Orderas the road to global prosperity face one of the worst financialmeltdowns in living memory. Cosmopolitan-inspired interventionism isjuxtaposed with the failure to prevent and react to humanitarian crises,and democratic projects around the world have either stagnated orreversed. Finally, the (re-) emergence of distinctly illiberal greatpowers further questions the universality of liberalism in the post-ColdWar world. The Millennium 2009 Conference, marking the 20th anniversary since theend of the Cold War, presents a unique opportunity to put recentdevelopments in international relations into theoretical perspective. Ifthe first twenty years crisis sounded the 'death toll' of liberalism, doevents today once again mean a victory for realism? Is the liberalmoment announced in 1989 now over? To what extent can IR 'learn fromhistory', or like Wilsonian liberalism after WWI, will the end of thisliberal order bring very different outcomes and results? Finally, in light of recent scholarship integrating political philosophyand IR, what value does liberalism as an ideology, celebrating the normative primacy of the individual, have inguiding us through current international problems? This conference seeks to address the role and critiques of liberalism inIR theory and practice today. It active ly encourages debate between IR's different intellectual traditions, andlooks forward to discussion on all aspects of the merits or problems of liberalism in IR. Keynote Speaker: Professor G John Ikenberry (Princeton) Opening Address: Professor Mick Cox (LSE) Suggested Panel Topics: * Capital or Kapital? The 2008 Financial Crisis and the NeoliberalConsensus * The First Debate Revisited: The 'End of History' or 'Back to theFuture'? * The Rise and Fall (and Rise?) of Offensive Liberalism * Time to Learn Russian and Mandarin? The Rise of Illiberal Powers * When the Emperor had No Clothes: Re-evaluating Explanation,Forecasting and Prediction in IR Theory since 1989 * Kant's Long (but Fading?) Shadow: Re-evaluating Liberal Theories ofInternational Relations * Conflict Resolution as State-Building: InstitutionalisingNeoliberalism in Post-Conflict Societies * Emancipation and Ideology in the 21st Century: Will the 'Last Man'Please Stand Up? * Political Philosophy meets IR Theory: Liberalism versus Republicanism A selection of the conference papers will be published in Millennium:Journal of International Studies, vol. 38, no. 3. Please submit your abstracts by 30 April 2009 to millennium@lse.ac.uk Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electroniccommunications disclaimer:http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/secretariat/legal/disclaimer.htm