inRESPONSE PI Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués presents paper at EISA – August 2024
inRESPONSE PI Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués presented hers and Anna-Sophie Maass’s paper “The unravelling of the European security architecture? Miscommunication, distrust and desocialization among partners” in the 17th Pan-European Conference on International Relations (EISA), at the Lille Catholic University, France, on the 27-31 August 2024.
The abstract of the paper is the following:
The Russian military invasion into Ukraine in 2022, marked a clear before and after in European security order. The invasion not only entails that large-scale, inter-state armed conflict has once again returned to the European continent, it also constitutes an unraveling of the carefully crafted European security architecture, composed of a set of overlapping intergovernmental and transnational liberal regional institutions: the EU, NATO and OSCE. The theory conundrum which this paper wishes to address is what malfunctioned in the liberal European security order to make inter-state war in 2022 possible? We will focus, in particular, on reverse engineering the Liberal Institutionalist literature’s concepts of communication, trust and socialization in the context of the 1999 Kosovo crisis, the 2008 Georgian conflict and the drawn-out discussions over the CFE Treaty and Arms Control.
