Arms Control, International Security and the Atlantic Alliance in the 21st Century
Time: 5.30-6.30pm
Location: Lecture Room 106, Accolade West Building, York University (Keele Campus)
#93 on the Keele Campus Map
Speaker: Mr Ted Whiteside, Secretary of the North Atlantic Council, and Director of the NATO Ministerial and Summit Task Force in Brussels
The theory and practice of Arms Control was one of the central pillars of the global security apparatus in the second half of the Twentieth Century. Since the end of the Cold War, policymakers at the international and national level involved with Arms Control issues have faced the challenges of adapting to a multi-polar international stage and the emergence of new patterns of proliferation and weapons development both at the strategic level, in terms of nuclear weapons, and the tactical level of small arms. This discussion will examine the response from policy-makers, both civilian and military, to the new realities of Arms Control and examine these issues in the context of the broader international security environment facing the countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
There will be an opportunity for the audience to exchange views and ask questions of the speaker, both in terms of Arms Control issues and NATO’s response to the challenges of weapons proliferation and other NATO issues.
Ted Whiteside, a graduate of York University and the Université de Montréal, is currently Secretary of the North Atlantic Council, and Director of the NATO Ministerial and Summit Task Force in Brussels. Before taking up his current duties as Secretary of the Council, he was Director of the NATO WMD Centre.
Agenda
Friday 22nd January 2010
0900-0930: Coffee
0930-1000: Welcome and Introduction
1000-1200 : Panel I
An Arms Control Paradigm for the 21st Century
Keith Krause, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
A Strategic Concept for Regulation of Arms Possession and Proliferation (SCRAP)
Dan Plesch, SOAS (by video conference 1500 GMT)
The Revolution in Military Affairs
James Der Derian, Watson Institute, Brown University
Chair and Commentator: Mark Salter, University of Ottawa
1200-1300: Lunch
1300-1445: Panel II
Small Arms Control as a Transmission Belt of Imperial Relations
Anna Stavrianakis, Department of International Relations, University of Sussex (by video conference 18.00-19.45 GMT)
Human Security and the Control of Arms
Taylor Owen, Oxford University (by video conference 18.00-19.45 GMT)
Economy, Security and the Regulation of the Arms Trade
Neil Cooper, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
Chair and Commentator: Sue Willett
1445-1500: Coffee
1500-1700: Panel III
Nanotechnology
Jim Whitman, University of Bradford
Re-reading France’s Action directe: The Impact of Suicide Terrorism on Conventional Terrorism
Michael Dartnell, Laurentian University at Georgian College
From Arms Control to Denuclearization
David Mutimer, Centre for International and Security Studies, York University
Space and Missile Defences
Columba Peoples, University of Bristol
Reviewer and Commentator: James Keeley, University of Calgary
1730 - 1830: Keynote Address
Arms Control, International Security and the Atlantic Alliance in the 21st Century
Ted Whiteside, Secretary of the North Atlantic Council, and Director of the NATO Ministerial and Summit Task Force in Brussels
Lecture Theatre 106, Accolade West, York University
1900: Reception and Dinner (Schulich Private Dining Room)
Saturday 23rd January 2010
0830: Coffee
0845 - 1030: Panel IV
Brandishing Tomahawks: Making and Unmaking the Sovereign Subject of Arms Control
J. Marshall Beier, McMaster University
On Stewardship and Sustainability: Intersecting Discourses of Arms Control and the Environment
Samantha Arnold, University of Winnipeg
Critical Geography and the Control of Arms
Simon Dalby, Carleton University
Chair and Commentator: Aaron Karp, Old Dominion University
1030 – 1045: Coffee
1045-1230: Panel V
Postwar Security Promotion: From DDR to SSR
Robert Muggah, Small Arms Survey (via video link from Rio de Janeiro 1345-1530)
Controlling the Shadow Trade
Mike Bourne, Queens University Belfast
Arms Control and Gun Control
Wendy Cukier, Ryerson University
Chair and Commentator: Regina Karp, Old Dominion University
1230 - 1330: Lunch
1330-1445: Panel VI
The Obama Administration and Arms Control
Joanna Spear, George Washington University
Humanitarian Organisations and Arms Control
Ritu Mathur, York University
The NATO Strategic Review and Nuclear Weapons: An Official’s View
Ted Whiteside
Chair and Commentator: Owen Greene, University of Bradford
1445 – 1500: Coffee
1500 - 1700: Roundtable: The Way Forward
The workshop will conclude with a focused discussion of the International Network on Arms Control. In particular, the roundtable will consider the possibility of an International Network on Arms Control (INAC) – a global network of scholars and practitioners – together with a consideration of how to disseminate the results of the workshop best to those we seek to include in the INAC.
