Delphi 2005

    ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS  

     DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN ECONOMIC STUDIES

     

    International Conference on  

    Assessing Multilateralism in the Security Domain  

    European Cultural Centre of Delphi

    3-5 June 2005

    About the Conference

     

    The Department of International and European Economic Studies (DIEES) of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) organizes a conference on "Assessing Multilateralism in the Security Domain". 

    The conference's participants are distinguished scholars  from the United States and Europe who will gather in Delphi to present their research findings on a rather timely question in international relations theory, namely how security institutions matter and under what conditions.

    The range of topics is rather broad and they will be approached from a rational/neoliberal institutionalist perspective as well as from a sociological or constructivist perspective. There will be presentations on US policy in the post 9/11 era (unilateralism vs multilateralism, American liberal hegemonic order, empirical (both qualitative and quantitative) assessments on whether international security institutions are both the objects of state choice and/or consequential (case-studies regard certain functions of the United Nations, NATO and the European Union) and multilateralism in the periphery (with regard to certain sub-systems and/or bilateral conflicts).

    Organizing Committee

    Dimitris Bourantonis (Chairman), Athens University of Economics and Business

    Costas Ifantis, University of Athens

    George Pagoulatos, Athens University of Economics and Business

    Panos Tsakaloyiannis, Athens University of Economics and Business

    Panayiotis Tsakonas, University of Aegean

     

    Conference Program

    European Cultural Center of Delphi, 3-5 June 2005

    Thursday, 2 June 2005

    20.30- 22.00   

    Dinner

    Friday, 3 June 2005

    09.20-09.30

    Welcome address – Thomas Moutos (AUEB)

    Session I

     

    09.30-11.00

    The Effects of International Security Institutions: A Critical Analysis

    John Duffield (Georgia State University)

    Unipolar Empire and Principled Multilateralism as Strategies for International Change: Democracy Promotion and International Justice

    Jack Snyder (Columbia University)

    Chair: Kostas Ifantis (University of Athens)

    11.00-11.30

    Coffee Break

    Session II

     

    11.30-13.00

    U.S. Military Commitments: Multilateralism and Treaties 

    Lisa Martin (Harvard University)

    Effective Multilateralism vs. Coalitions of the Willing - The  Crisis of theTransatlantic Security Community

    Thomas Risse  (Free University of Berlin)

    Chair: Michael Ruehle (NATO)

    13.00-14.30          

    Lunch Break

    Session III

     

    14.30-16.00

    Is Multilateralism bad for Humanitarianism?

    Michael Barnett (University of Minnesota)

     

    Why no UN Security Council Reform? Lessons for and from Institutionalist Theory                        

    Erik Voeten (George Washington University)

     

    Chair: Panos Tsakaloyannis (AUEB)

    16.30-18.45

    Guided tour of the Archaeological Site and Museum

    21.00-23.00

    Conference Dinner, Hotel Xenia, Delphi

    Saturday, 4 June 2005

    Session IV

     

    9.30-11.00

     

    Institutions and Social Mechanisms: What – If Anything – Makes Europe and the EU Different?

    Jeffrey Checkel (University of Oslo)

    Multilateralism in Post-Cold War NATO:

    Functional Form, Identity-Driven Cooperation

    Frank Schimmelfennig (University of  Mannheim)

    Chair: Stephanie Babst  (NATO)

    11.00-11.30

    Coffee Break

    Session V

     

    11.30-13.30

     

    State Attributes and System Properties: Security multilateralism in Europe, the Atlantic Pacific, and Eurasia James Sperling (University of Akron)

     

    From ‘Perverse’ to ‘Effective Institutionalism’? NATO, EU and the Greek-Turkish Conflict

    P. Tsakonas and D. Bourantonis (University of Aegean and AUEB)

    Risk Aversion and the Design of Security Institutions

    Barbara Koremenos (University of California)

    Chair: George Pagoulatos (AUEB)

    13.30-15.00

    Lunch

    19.30

    Departure  for the seaside town of Galaxidi

    21.00-23.00

    Dinner, Taverna Tassos, Galaxidi

     

    Table Paper:

    Alternative Measures and Estimates of Peacebuilding Success

    Michael Doyle (Columbia University) and Nicolas Sambanis (Yale University)