LIST OF PANELS

Although constructivism has found its echo in the studies of international relations, critical approaches to policies have remained rather untouched by this kind of literature. Both approaches tend to use similar analytical schemes, ask similar question but have kept their research agenda rather separate so far. This panel offers therefore a forum to discuss both the way International Relation might profit from the perspective of critical policy studies and the tentative of some critical policy studies to enter in a dialogue with the domain of peacebuilding processes, development aid and the like. What is more, this sort of a methodological dialogue has been already partly started in the analyses of EU policies. In particular, recent works in international relations have shown to what extent politics has to be thought of within novel power boundaries. Scholarly analyses of conflicts or of development aids agendas invite us to rethink the common notion of borders and state hierarchies. Critical approaches to policies have launched approaches to study these boundaries more carefully. For that reason we are interested in a more systematic dialogue between international relations and critical approaches. In this panel we want to see how combining both approaches or reflecting their respective views could provide an epistemological link that would open analyses toward novel areas of interest as well as it could refine the analysis of power dynamics. We invite scholars from both fields to submit their papers. We welcome theoretical investigations of reciprocal influences of both areas as well as we encourage researcher working on diverse case studies from international relation and development aid to submit their papers.  

Although constructivism has found its echo in the studies of international relations, critical approaches to policies have remained rather untouched by this kind of literature. However, recent works in international relations state, as do critical approaches, that politics has to be thought of within novel power boundaries. Scholarly analyses of conflicts, of development aids invite us to rethink the common notion of borders and state hierarchies. In these novel boundaries, a more systematic dialogue between international relations and critical approaches to policies could provide an epistemological link that would open analyses toward novel areas of interest as well as it could refine the analysis of power dynamics. In this panel, we want to explore the heuristic value of such a dialogue along analyses of development policies, cross-border implementation of policies or studies on the development of approaches via discourse in the current theory of international relations.