BISA 2025 Conference

Power, State, and International Relations with South East Europe

TH 19

19 Jun 2025, 09:00

1h 30m

Panel South East Europe Working Group

Description

This panel explores the intersection of state power, International Relations, world politics, and ideological frameworks in South East Europe and beyond. It focuses on the question of how regimes shape global and national discourses, positioning themselves domestically and internationally, through history and at present.

Subcontributions

• Theorizing Hyperreality and Visual Securitization: The Case of Resurrection Ertugrul and Payitaht Abdülhamid
• The Intersection of Global International Relations and the Middle Powers concept: Agency as a form of Resistance
• The Balkans between caution, threat and promise: how the prospect of EU accession shapes [trans] national identities – and the other way round
• War and the totalitarian party-state: National Role Conceptions as guiding distinctions in Hoxha's Albania
• From Radical Right to Reactionary Internationalism: Serbia, Russia, and the War in Ukraine