If you’re heading to the International Studies Association Annual Convention this March in Atlanta, we’ve got your guide to sessions on the Middle East, featuring many POMEPS steering committee members, TRE grant recipients, and other collaborators. Please confirm all times and locations with the official program.
Be sure to check out the two POMEPS-organized roundtables with Marc Lynch, Linking the Domestic, Regional and Global After the Arab Spring on Thursday at 10:30 am and New Identity Politics in the International Relations of the Middle on Friday at 1:45 pm. These roundtables will build on the excellent POMEPS collaboration on International Relations Theory in a Changing Middle East with Aarhus University from 2015.
Also, if you haven’t yet registered for our reception on Friday night, you can do so here.
WEDNESDAY
10:30 am – 12:15 pm
Violence and Kurdish Politics
WB46
Chair: David Romano
Ceren Belge, Ali Zeren, Eric Schoon, Aysegul Aydin, Cem Emrence, Md. Farijuddin Khan
Styming Stereotypes: Peaceful Politics in a Tumultuous Middle East
WB80
Chair: Ozge Tekin
Lisel Hintz, Amir Moheet, Irmak Yazici, Joshua Freedman
1:45 pm – 3:30 pm
The Middle East in Transition: Issues and Responses
WC21
Chair: Maria Fanis
Mojtaba Mahdavi, Elhum Haghighat, Priyanka Chandra, Metin Koca
Religion and Ethnicity in the MENA: Turks, Kurds, Arabs and the Syrian Civil War
WC29
Chair: Nukhet A. Sandal
Binuur Ozkececi Tner, Zeynep N. Kaya, Robert Lowe, Anna Maria Beylunioglu, Ozge Kemahlioglu, Selen Akan, Victoria Gilbert
Egypt in Transition: Protest Politics in Perspective
WC50
Chair: Doru Tsaganea
Barbara Zollner, Yasar Sari, Arne F. Wackenhut, Zeinab Abul-Magd
Security, Foreign Policy and Ethnic Conflict in Turkey and the Middle East
WC51
Chair: Mehmet Emre Hatipoglu, Sinem Acikmese, Cigdem Hajipouran Benam, Deniz Cakirer, Gonca Biltekin, Bugra Sari
4:00pm – 5:45 pm
Religion, War and Peace in a Comparative Perspective (Roundtable)
WD22
Chair: Peter Katzenstein
Jocelyne Cesari, Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Patrick James, Scott M. Thomas, Gerard Powers, Viveinne Jabri
First Five Years of Syria’s Civil War: The Spillover Effect
WD66
Chair: Tatiana Carayannis
David R. Anderson-Rogres, Irene Autolitano, Thomas A. Juneau, Rahime Suleymanoglu Kurum, Fatma Zeynep Ozkurt, Murat Yesiltas, Mark Toukan
“Peace at Home, Peace in the World”: How Relevant in Turkish Foreign Policy? (Roundtable)
WD76
Chair: Sinem Acikmese
Mustafa Aydin, Alpaslan Ozerdem, Lenore G. Martin, Fuat Keyman, Cagri Erhan
Cooperation, Turkey, Arab Spring
WD86
Chair: Ozgur Ozdamar
Vera van Hüllen, Ioannis N. Grigoriadis, Kevin Edward Grisham, Bugra Susler, Mehmet Akif Kumral
THURSDAY
8:15 am — 10:00 am
Iran, Nuclear Proliferation, and Diplomacy
TA22
Chair: James Lee Ray
Nader Entessar, Ozum Yesiltas, Moritz Pieper, Fuzuo Wu, Manasi Pritam
Empirical Cross-National Approaches to Religion and Secularism in IR
TA71
Chair: Yasemin Akbaba
David T. Buckley, Ida Rudolfsen, Mathias Basedau, Peter S. Henne, Jocelyne Cesari, Johnathan Fox
10:30am — 12:15 pm
Linking the Domestic, Regional and Global After the Arab Spring (Roundtable)
TB46
Chair: Marc Lynch
Matteo Legrenzi, Nora E. Fisher Onar, Ewan Stein, Curtis Ryan, Erin Snider
1:45 pm – 3:30 pm
Eurasia, Energy and the Conservative Shift in Turkish Foreign Policy
TC76
Chair: Nilsu Goren
Ramazan Kilinc, Murat Gul, Zeynep Kaya, Hasan Yonten, Mehmet Celebi
Religion and Dynamics of Peace and Conflict
TD41
Chair: Johnathan Fox
Isak Svensson, Robert T. Brathwaite, John M. Owen, Peter S. Henne, Lihi Ben Shitrit, Joel K. Day, Jason Klocek
A Bottom-up Perspective to the “Democratic Opening” in Turkey: Understanding the Alevi and Kurdish Opening of the Justice and Development Party Government
TD68
Chair: Lisel Hintz
Duygu Ozturk, Aziz Tuncer, Halil Kürşad Aslan, Ali Onur Ozcelik, Esra Dilek, Matthew Weiss
FRIDAY
8:15 AM – 10:00 AM
Challenges to Peacebuilding in the Arab Spring and its Aftermath
FA75
Chair: Rex Brynen
Aysegul Keskin Zeren, Kunihiko Imai, Kimberly Howe, Aysegul Sever, Sophia Dingli, Sherif Fouad
10:30 am – 12:15 pm
Economic and Diplomatic Influences of Turkey in Its Neighborhood
FB65
Chair: Baris Kesgin
Ali Fisunoglu, Matthew Weiss, Atlay Atli, Spencer L. Willardson, Gulsah Unal, Faith Erol
1:45 pm –3:30 pm
The Taming of Democracy Assistance (Roundtable)
FC19
Chair: Sarah Bush
Catherine Elizabeth Weaver, Valerie Bunce, James Ron, Aseem Prakash
New Identity Politics in the International Relations of the Middle East (Roundtable)
FC21
Chair: March Lynch
Helle E. Malmvig, Pinar Bilgin, Lawrence Rubin, Zeynep N. Kaya, Morten Vlabjorn
Surveys and Experiments in Terrorism and Political Violence
FC47
Chair: Martha Crenshaw
Victor Asal, Peter Krause, Anthony Lemieux, Elizabeth Karampelas, Anna Getmansky, Tolga Sinmazdemir, Thomas Zeitzoff, R. Karl Rethmeyer, Nakissa Jahanbani
Women, Islam and Insurgent Violence: Disrupting the Western National Security Narrative
FC59
Chair: Galia Golan
Caitlyn Ryan, Jihad al Nikah, Mia M. Bloom, Aisha S. Ahmad, Elena Aoun, Megan A. Stewart, Coty Martin
Contextualizing the Dynamics of Islamic Politics
FC64
Chair: Anthony Tirado Chase
John F. Clark, Deina A. Abdelkader, Anna K. Viden, Yohannes Woldemariam, Vit Stritecky, Nik Hynek, Petr Spelda, Cengiz Gunay, Ran Ukashi
4:00 pm — 5:45 pm
Women, gender and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
FD38
Chair: Galia Golan
Sarai B. Aharoni, Timea Spitka, Maria Holt, Karin Aggestam, Ayelet Harel-Shalev, Shir Daphna Tekoah
MENA Political Tumult: What Do Capitalism and Class Have to Do With It?
FD55
Chair: Christopher Parker
Marion Dixon, Sami Zemni, Koenraad Bogaert, Ahmed Kanna
SATURDAY
8:15 am – 10:00 am
Gendering Intimacies of War and Peace: Affective Politics in the Middle East
SA52
Chair: Caron Gentry
Simona Sharoni, Akanksha Mehta, Katherine Natanel, Shaira Vadasaria, Ayelet Harel-Shalev, Shir Daphna-Tekoah, Florian Zollman
Syria, Iraq and the Emerging (dis)Order in the Middle East
SA63
Chair: Ramazan Kilinc
Jeffrey Weber, Nuri Yesilyurt, Nur Cetinoglu, Ali Fisunoglu, Resat Bayer, Alper Cakmak
Ideas and Images of Peace, Conflict, and Competition in the Middle East
SA66
Chair: Imad Mansour
Adnan M. Hayajneh, Mazhar al-Zoby, Ilan Danjoux, Imed Labidi, Hassan Barari
Deconstructing Peace & Transitional Justice Across the Middle East and North Africa
SA70
Chair: Patricia A. Maulden
Francesco Giumelli, Tae-Hwan Kwak, Susanne Schmeidl, Christopher K. Lamont, Joanna R. Quinn, Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm, Arnaud Kurze, Anna Khakee
Post-Arab Spring Era in the Middle East
SA68
Chair: Jasmine Ganie
Marc Lynch, Laura K. Landolt, Sami E. Baroudi, Stefan Borg, Merouan Mekouar, Meir Raphael Walters
10:30 am – 12:15 pm
Paying for Peace? The Role and Impact of Democracy Assistance in Positive Peace
SB04
Chair: Ralph Carter
Sarah S. Bush, Michael Findley, Sheila Carapico, James M. Scott, Jonas Wolff, Annika Elena Poppe, Burcu Savun, Daniel C. Tirone
Competing Narratives of Basic Concepts: Affecting Power and Policy in the Middle East and North Africa
SB07
Chair: Noa Schonmann
Mark Laffey, Andrew Delatolla, Yuan (Joanne) Yao, Joseph A. Florence, Daniel Ogbaharya
Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa (Roundtable)
SB25
Chair: Anthony Tirado Chase
Huss Banai, David P. Forsythe, Laura K. Landolt, Nader Hashemi, Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm, Alison Brysk, Shadi Mokhtari, Barbara Ann Rieffer-Flannagan
The vanishing of the state? Repercussions for establishing peace in the Middle East (Roundtable)
SB62
Chair: Heinz Gaertner
Cengiz Gunay, Kerem Oktem, Polly Pallister-Wilkins, Ioannis N. Grigoriadis
Domestic Threats or Disadvantaged Minorities? Treatment of Religious, Sectarian and Ethnic Minorities in the Middle East
SB71
Chair: Yasemin Akbaba
Jocelyne Cesari, Ozum Yesiltas, Octavius Pinkard, Zahra Babar, Yehuda Magid, Scott Weiner
1:45 pm – 3:30 pm
Struggling for Peace in the Middle East
SC09
Chair: Al Wekhian Jamil
Stephen Burgess, Harry Anastasiou, Krystal Conniry, Jasmine Ganie, Shlini Venturelli, Eliza Gheorghe, Vinicius Guilherme Rodrigues Vieira, Caglar Ezikoglu
Promoting stability—promoting peace? International Democracy Promotion in the Middle East and North Africa after the Arab Spring: Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia
SC66
Chair: Vera van Hüllen
Jakob Tolstrup, Nicolas J. Bouchet, Enrico Fassi, Stefano Maria Torelli, Benjamin Schuetze, Annika Elena Poppe
Religion, Ideology, and Regional Rivalries in the Middle East
SC69
Chair: Mehran Kamrava
John M. Friend, Binnur Ozkececi-Taner, Asli Ilgit, Ozgur Ozdamar, Yasemin Akbaba, Amir Lupovici, Gallia Lindenstrauss, Tony Rivera, Mahmoud El Ashmawy
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Assessing the ISIL Threat
SD12
Chair: Audrey Kurth Cronin
Carmel Davis, Sharad Joshi, Alex Wilner, Rod Thornton, Karl Kaltenthaler, Daniel Silverman, Mujtaba Isani
The US-Iran Relations: Tactical Readjustment or Strategic Realignment? (Roundtable)
SD20
Chair: Zahra Babar
Mehran Kamrava, Jonathon Patric Whooley, Manochehr Dorraj, Mahmood Monshipouri
Any Prospect for Peace After the Arab Spring?
SD39
Chair: Kevin Koehler
Matthew J. Chandler, Sandra Pogodda, Joshua Teitelbaum, Mohamed Nimer, Louis Wasser
Diplomacy and the Middle East
SD53
Chair: Amir Lupovici
Noa Schonmann, Pavel Pseja, Dana Yasur-Landau, Jacob Eriksson, Begum Kurtulus, Ifeoluwa Akinola