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The history and politics of order-making (SPS-HEC-ORDER-23)

SPS-HEC-ORDER-23

Purpose

This seminar is run by an historian and a political scientist (in alphabetical order), and intended for all EUI researchers, especially HEC and SPS.  We are among those international historians and IR scholars who, in the last few years, have begun to exchange ideas about the history and politics of order-making. Our aims in this seminar are (1) to explore the methods and themes that historians and political scientists have each used to study the ‘international order’ (a concept that itself deserves interrogation), and (2) are now emerging out of the new fruitful interdisciplnary exchange between them. We will take the opportunity to locate ordering attempts, successes and failure across time (20^th and 21^st centuries) and diverse political spaces, to probe the utility of the idea of an ‘order’ and of ‘order-making’ in thinking about the past and our own world. Also, interested researchers will be invited to discuss their own cutting-edge research in this same context, where they see fit. Register for this course