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“Nationalism: Diversity and Security” 25th Annual ASEN conference,
21st-23rd April 2015 at the London School of Economics and Political Science
We are pleased to announce the 25th annual ASEN conference ‘Nationalism: Diversity and Security’.
The conference welcomes panel and paper proposals relating to aspects of nationalism and its relationship to diversity and security broadly defined.
Nationalists are concerned that the nation should be secure from both external and internal threats. When the state is regarded as a nation-state, these threats are turned into issues of national security and integrity. On the one hand, there are perceived external threats from other states and non-state entities such as international criminal groups and international terrorism. On the other hand, minorities and immigrants are perceived as internal threats, which do not recognise the legitimacy of the nation-state or are not regarded as truly belonging to the nation. Further, in an age of global migration and porous borders it becomes increasingly important to define both who belongs to the nation and from whom they should be protected. This conference considers how both internal and external threats are becoming ever more connected and changing the nature of national security and diversity in nation-states.
The three days of the conference will be punctuated by plenary sessions consisting of presentations from two distinguished academics. The first plenary usually has a theoretical and general focus; the second an historical one; and the third is concerned with contemporary and policy issues. Each provide different perspectives on the conference’s central theme of the relationship between nationalism, security and diversity.
What is the relationship between security and nationalism? Does diversity provide a threat to national identity and the nation-state? What role does nationalism play in the Global War on Terror? How does the nation-state respond to the transnational human rights framework that prioritizes the human over the national?
These questions, and others, inform the three themes of the 2015 ASEN Conference: the nation-state, minorities and citizenship; immigration and security; international relations and transnational dimensions.
For more information and the full CFP, please visit: http://asen.ac.uk/conference/call-for-papers/
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