Interim Conference 2017
Look for news on the next conference on power to be posted later in August. Plans and a theme are being vetted.
New Website
Dear Power Group Welcome to our new and exciting webpage, which is fully interactive and independent of the IPSA platform. Please register and use it often: for information, to advise our colleagues of opportunities and important news, or just to share your ideas on issues of power. We are most grateful to the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University for funding the building of the website and to Bill Rose the webmaster who built it. Special thanks goes to the following board members who were instrumental in conceptualizing the plan for the webpage: Alina Vladimirova, Kevin Ryan (who maintained…
RC36 in Montreal: IPSA World Congress 2014
RC36 ran seven panels at the World Congress, focusing on the following themes: Approaches to Political Power; Power and Governance; Soft Power of the BRICS; Rising Powers: Balancing and Rebalancing Strategies; Power and Deliberative Democracy; Power, Conflict and Legitimacy; and The Centrality of the Marginal: Governance and Client Agency in African Neopatrimonial Contexts. All of the sessions were very well attended, with the papers stimulating lively discussion that continued between panels. A special thanks to everyone who contributed to what was, without doubt, a rewarding and worthwhile Congress. Business Meeting At the RC’s Business Meeting, Phil Cerny was elected as…
RC36 in Madrid: IPSA World Congress 2012
RC36 discussing ‘Hard, Soft, Smart, Three and Four-Dimensional power’ RC36 had ten excellent sessions during the World Congress in Madrid, and there was great synergy between the panels. A special thanks to the Chairs, Discussants, Presenters, and of course, those who attended the panels and contributed to the sustained and stimulating discussion throughout the Congress. Business Meeting At the business meeting the Chair and Secretary were re-elected – Mark Haugaard and Kevin Ryan respectively. Phil Cerny was elected as the new Vice-Chair, and thanks was given to Henri Goverde as the outgoing Vice-Chair. A new Board of eight members was…
RC36 Interim Meeting, Galway 2013
RC36 Interim conference, National University of Ireland Galway Friday 27th – Saturday 28th September 2013 With a very full programme of papers, the 2013 interim meeting proved to be two full days of rich and sustained discussion on the theme of ‘Power with’, ‘power to’, and ‘power over’. Papers were presented by: Amy Allen, Philip Cerny, Colette Harris, Mark Haugaard, Jonathan Hearn, Barbara Kunz, Valeri Ledyaev, Peter Morriss, Niall Ó Dochartaigh, Noel Parker, Lena Partzsch, Jenny Pearce, Pamela Pensardi, David Strecker, and Kevin Ryan We are grateful for the support of the School of Political Science & Sociology at NUIG…
2010 Interim meeting, Soeterbeeck
Participants at the 2010 Interim Meeting, Soeterbeeck RC36 held its 2010 interim meeting from April 15th – 18th at Soeterbeeck in the Netherlands. Despite complications arising as a result of the volcanic event in Iceland at that time, most participants made it to Soeterbeeck and the group enjoyed intense and stimulating discussion during the meeting. Fourteen papers were presented and discussed during seven sessions, which were organised around the following themes: Theme 1: Power and Crisis: Structure and ConjunctureEmpirical researchers and theorists are invited to engage in critical reflection on the relationship between power and crisis – theories of crisis;…
XIV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, Moscow, 2013
Mark Haugaard (National University of Ireland, Galway) re-interprets the three-dimensional power debate through the lens of Arendt’s concept of concerted power (“Power over and democracy”). He argues that power (power over) constitutes a duality whereby the very same process which leads to domination, also constitutes conditions of possibility for democracy, thus normatively desirable. If power over is not purely coercive but based on structural constraints that support democratic practices (concerted power) it should not be explained in terms of violence, domination and zero-sum game. Structural content of concerted power entails that the subject of power is not a means to…