FD06-6: IR and Islam: Arab Spring, Democracy, and Islamist Conceptions of Political Life

Theme: One International Relations or Many? Multiple Worlds, Multiple Crises
Wednesday 18 – Saturday 21 September 2013
Warsaw, Poland
Organised by the ECPR Standing Group on International Relations and EISA in cooperation with the Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw and the Polish Association for International Studies.

Critical Relations between International Relations and Islam
Section Chair: Nassef Manabilang Adiong

FD06-6: IR and Islam: Arab Spring, Democracy, and Islamist Conceptions of Political Life

Time:

Friday, 20/Sep/2013:

4:30pm – 6:15pm

Chair: Rolin G. Mainuddin, North Carolina Central University
Discussant: Jan Wilkens, University of Hamburg

Location: 211 (Old Library of University of Warsaw)
Capacity of 50 people

Presentations

Modernity, Secularism and ‘Islamic’ Conceptions of Democracy: The Case of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
Katerina Dalacoura
London School of Economics, United Kingdom; K.Dalacoura@lse.ac.uk
The Islamist discourse under scrutiny in the aftermath of the Arab Spring: an analysis of key Islamist conceptions of political life
Maria do Céu Pinto
University of Minho, Portugal; mceupinto@gmail.com
“Foreign Policy Dynamics of Regime Change from the Arab Spring: Is There An Islamist Threat?”
Rolin G. Mainuddin
North Carolina Central University, United States of America; rmainuddin@nccu.edu

FB06-5: IR and Islam: Muslim Political Thought, International Society, and GCC

Theme: One International Relations or Many? Multiple Worlds, Multiple Crises
Wednesday 18 – Saturday 21 September 2013
Warsaw, Poland
Organised by the ECPR Standing Group on International Relations and EISA in cooperation with the Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw and the Polish Association for International Studies.

Critical Relations between International Relations and Islam
Section Chair: Nassef Manabilang Adiong

FB06-5: IR and Islam: Muslim Political Thought, International Society, and GCC

Time:

Friday, 20/Sep/2013:

11:15am – 1:00pm

Chair: Maria do Céu de Pinho Ferreira Pinto, University of Minho
Discussant: Katerina Dalacoura, London School of Economics

Location: 211 (Old Library of University of Warsaw)
Capacity of 50 people

Presentations

Islamist Norm Entrepreneurs in International Society: Why, How and When do Religious Norms Diffuse in Liberal International Organizations?
Gregorio Bettiza1Filippo Dionigi2
1European University Institute (EUI); 2London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); f.dionigi1@lse.ac.uk
Regional integration and crises on the Persian Gulf Sub-region. Casus of Gulf Cooperation Council
Wojciech Jerzy Grabowski
Gdansk University, Poland; polwg@ug.gda.pl
CAM Analysis of Nation-State in IR and Islam
Nassef Manabilang Adiong
IR-IS Research Cohort; nassef.adiong@yahoo.com

TD06-4: IR and Islam: Depiction of Prophet Muhammad, Problem of Cultural Incommensurability, and Muslim Countries Relations with France and UK

Theme: One International Relations or Many? Multiple Worlds, Multiple Crises
Wednesday 18 – Saturday 21 September 2013
Warsaw, Poland
Organised by the ECPR Standing Group on International Relations and EISA in cooperation with the Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw and the Polish Association for International Studies.

Critical Relations between International Relations and Islam
Section Chair: Nassef Manabilang Adiong

TD06-4: IR and Islam: Depiction of Prophet Muhammad, Problem of Cultural Incommensurability, and Muslim Countries Relations with France and UK

Time:

Thursday, 19/Sep/2013:

4:30pm – 6:15pm

Chair: Stefan Borg, Swedish Institute for International Affairs
Discussant: Raffaele Mauriello, Sapienza, University of Rome

Location: 211 (Old Library of University of Warsaw)
Capacity of 50 people

Presentations

Depiction of Prophet Muhammad And The right to freedom of expression.
Mahmoud Hegazy Bassal
Faculty of Law , Helwan University,Egypt; mahegazym@yahoo.com
Human Rights, the Arab Revolutions and the Problem of Cultural Incommensurability
Stefan Borg
Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden; stefan.borg@ui.se
Muslims and Foreign Policy in France and Great-Britain
Imène Ajala
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP)Geneva, Switzerland;imene.ajala@graduateinstitute.ch

TC06-3: IR and Islam: Theoretical Notions, Conceptual Approaches, and Paradigms

Theme: One International Relations or Many? Multiple Worlds, Multiple Crises
Wednesday 18 – Saturday 21 September 2013
Warsaw, Poland
Organised by the ECPR Standing Group on International Relations and EISA in cooperation with the Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw and the Polish Association for International Studies.

Critical Relations between International Relations and Islam
Section Chair: Nassef Manabilang Adiong

TC06-3: IR and Islam: Theoretical Notions, Conceptual Approaches, and Paradigms

Time:

Thursday, 19/Sep/2013:

2:15pm – 4:00pm

Chair: Imène Ajala, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Discussant: Seyedhossein Zarhani, Heidelberg Uiversity

Location: 211 (Old Library of University of Warsaw)
Capacity of 50 people

Presentations

“Islam” and the problem of meta-narratives in IR – A critical perspective on research beyond the West
Jan Wilkens
University of Hamburg, Germany; Jan.Wilkens@wiso.uni-hamburg.de
The Minaret vs. the Ivory Tower: Re-Reading Western IR Theory Through an Islamic Episteme
Naveed Sheikh
Editor-in-Chief, Politics, Religion & Ideology (Routledge), Keele University, United Kingdom; n.sheikh@keele.ac.uk
“The parting of the ways”: a Qutbian approach to International Relations
Carimo Mohomed
New University of Lisbon – Portugal, Portugal; mohomed.carimo@gmail.com

TB06-1: IR and Islam: Geopolitics of Iran and Iraq, Israeli-Iranian Nuclear Problem, and Velayate-e Faqih

Theme: One International Relations or Many? Multiple Worlds, Multiple Crises
Wednesday 18 – Saturday 21 September 2013
Warsaw, Poland
Organised by the ECPR Standing Group on International Relations and EISA in cooperation with the Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw and the Polish Association for International Studies.

Critical Relations between International Relations and Islam
Section Chair: Nassef Manabilang Adiong

TB06-1: IR and Islam: Geopolitics of Iran and Iraq, Israeli-Iranian Nuclear Problem, and Velayate-e Faqih

Time:

Thursday, 19/Sep/2013:

11:15am – 1:00pm

Chair: Naveed Sheikh, Keele University
Discussant: Rolin G. Mainuddin, North Carolina Central University

Location: 211 (Old Library of University of Warsaw)
Capacity of 50 people

Presentations

Geography, Shi‘ism, and Islam in the Geopolitics and International Relations of Iran and Iraq: Frameworks and Layers of Understandings
Raffaele Mauriello
Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy; raffaele.mauriello@mac.com
A Constructivist study on the Israeli-Iranian Nuclear Problem
Seyedhossein Zarhani
Heidelberg Uiversity, Germany; zarhani@gmail.com
velayate-e faqih and the nuclear issue
Rania Mohamed Taher Abdul-Wahab
Ain Shams University, Egypt; raniataher2010@hotmail.com