Centre for Security Research

Description

While parliaments’ roles in security have often been neglected in practice and in scholarship, the importance of parliaments in security has received significant attention in recent years. This online workshop will take stock of the current understanding of parliaments and security, showcase cutting-edge work in this area, and set an agenda for future research. The invited papers in the workshop reflect on this broad theme from multiple perspectives and across a diverse range of specific topics.

We welcome attendance by others who are not already presenting and on the program. For further information and links to workshop panels, please contact Juliet Kaarbo and Andrew Neal, Co-Directors, Centre for Security Research at:  ceser@ed.ac.uk

Panel 1:  June 23, 3-5pm (UK time)

Chair: Andrew Neal, University of Edinburgh

• How do political parties translate security securitization of Islam from the populist radical right to the left - Ugo Gaudino, University of Kent
• International law as Shiboleth: Endorsing heroic narrative tropes in UK Parliamentary debates on military intervention - Lynsey Mitchell, Abertay University
• Favoured forgotten and abused: 25 years of Parliamentary scrutiny of the UK intelligence and security agencies - Andrew Defty, University of Lincoln

Panel 2: June 24 11am-1pm (UK time)

Chair:  Benjamin Martill, University of Edinburgh

• Why studying the UK Parliament matters - James Strong. Queen Mary University of London
• Britain's war powers: Taking stock since the April 2018 airstrikes - Tara McCormack, University of Leicester
• The role of the Parliament and Executive in deciding on the exception: Turkey between 1950 and 1987 - Burcu Turkoglu, Bilkent University

Panel 3:  June 24 3-5pm (UK time)

Chair:  Juliet Kaarbo, University of Edinburgh

• Introducing the Parliamentary deployment vote dataset - Falk Ostermann, Justus Liebig University Giessen and Wolfgang Wagner, Free University Amsterdam
• Debating security: The influence of public opinion - Michael Lister, Oxford Brookes University
• Comparing Obama and Trump's use of foreign policy executive orders in a polarized political environment - Chuck Hermann, Texas A&M University