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The 2023 Symposium: Coercive Statecraft

Exploring the threat and use of force in international politics

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When

Thu 19 Oct 2023 14.00 - 18.30

Fri 20 Oct 2023 09.00 - 17.30

Where

Sala Triaria

Villa Schifanoia

This Symposium will bring together a group of key coercive statecraft academics to systematically investigate the ways in which states leverage the use of force as a tool of statecraft

The European Initiative for Security Studies has established a multiannual and multidisciplinary programme titled 'War, Coercion and Statecraft: The Threat and Use of Force in International Politics'. The programme provides a unique venue to establish a vibrant network of scholars and experts at a time when cross-disciplinary and cross-domain research into the conditions for effective coercion is increasingly called for. The goal is to further develop scholarly understanding of coercive statecraft through rigorous conceptual and empirical investigation and reinvigorate academic scholarship through publications in academic journals. 

Each year a Symposium will be held in a different European city. The Symposium will bring together a select group of approximately 20 key coercive statecraft academics including political scientists, strategic studies scholars, political economists, and historians to systematically investigate the ways in which states leverage the use of force – and the threat thereof – as a tool of statecraft, across both military and non-military domains. 

This event is by invitation only

Scientific Organiser(s):

Hugo Meijer (Sciences Po)

Tim Sweijs (The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies / War Studies Research Centre)

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