11 June 2007

GPPi and Cambridge hold conference on “New Protectorates”

On 6-8 June 2007, the Centre for International Studies at the University of Cambridge and GPPi held a joint conference on "The New Protectorates: International Administration and the Dilemmas of Governance" at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) in Cambridge (UK). The goal of the workshop was to discuss contributions to an edited volume on the "theories of governance" underpinning contemporary “protectorates” such as Afghanistan, Liberia, Sierra Leone, East Timor and Iraq. The workshop is part of the New Protectorates project that the Centre for International Studies at Cambridge and GPPi started with a meeting at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio conference center in February 2006.

The conference brought together a distinguished group of scholars and practitioners from Europe, the United States, Africa, India and Japan. Presenters and panel chairs included Christopher Hill, Brendan Simms and Christopher Clapham (Cambridge), Wolfgang Seibel (University of Konstanz), Richard Caplan (Oxford), Mats Berdal (King's College London), David Keen and Spyros Economides (London School of Economics), Maj.Gen. (ret) John Drewienkiewicz, Aswini Kanta Ray (University of Delhi), Masayuki Tadokoro (Keio University) and William Burke-White (University of Pennsylvania).

The New Protectorates project is led by James Mayall and GPPi Fellow Ricardo Soares de Oliveira of the Centre of International Studies at Cambridge in collaboration with GPPi’s Thorsten Benner, Stephan Mergenthaler and Philipp Rotmann. The Cambridge Conference was generously supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. Additional support was provided by CRASSH.

The conference program and list of participants can be found here.

For further information please contact Thorsten Benner.

 

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