The Political Economy of Insurgency-Smugglers,
Black Markets, and Proxy Forces
University of Glasgow, 22-23 November 2018
Thursday 22nd November, Hilton Hotel
09:30 Welcome, Tea/coffee
10:00 Keynote speaker
Beatrice Heuser, University of Glasgow, ‘National Styles in Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies?”
11:30 Break for lunch
13:00 Panel One: Ireland
Dr Aaron Edwards, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, ‘Dark Networking in Ulster: Loyalist Paramilitaries and the Crime-Terror Nexus.’
Rachel Kowalski, University of Oxford, ‘The Functions and Dysfunctions of Political Violence; Disaggregating the campaign of the Provisional IRA’
14:30 Coffee
15:00 Panel Two: The International dimension
Boyd van Dijk, University of Amsterdam, ‘Internationalizing Empire: The ICRC in South East Asia, 1945-1949.”
Allan Gillies, University of Glasgow, ‘The Political Economy of Illegal Gold in Chocó, Colombia’.
16:30 Panel Three
Bruno Cardoso Reiss, Big Armies in the Small Wars of Decolonization
Limitations and implications of developing British, French, Portuguese late colonial Counterinsurgency Doctrines
19:30 Dinner at Café Andaluz, 2 Cresswell Lane
Friday 23rd November, Hilton Hotel
09:30 Tea/Coffee
10:00 Final Panel/Roundtable
Alex Marshall, University of Glasgow, ‘The History of Russian Counterinsurgency-An Attempt at an Environmental Approach.’
Gareth Curless, University of Exeter, ‘Insurgent Citizenship in Jamaica, 1938-1962.’
12:00 news from Martin Thomas
12:30 lunch
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