This track explores the pluralization of global politics in security, diplomatic and economic affairs considering both systemic pressures (great power competition, resource scarcity, security crises) and regionally embedded dynamics. It understands “pluralization” in terms of a) agency across multiple scales; b) the contestation and transformation of normative orders; as well as c) the analysis of these phenomena across various theoretical strands.
The track welcomes both theoretical and applied contributions that foreground multiple regional perspectives and proceed from the recognition that understanding contemporary global politics requires a plurality of conceptual, empirical and methodological lenses. In doing so, it complements region-specific tracks by offering a cross-regional perspective on how global transformations are evolving across diverse political, economic, security and diplomatic settings.
- Beyond State-Centric Approaches—Network Diplomacy and Multi-Actor Cultural Engagement
Chair: Dr. Aby John - Beyond the DAC: South-South Cooperation and the New Aid Architecture
Chair: Prof. Sharad Kumar Soni - China and the New Global Order: Geopolitics, Economic Security, and Technological Competition
Chair: Mr. Chaofan Chen - Contending Discourses of Regional Order in and on the Middle East
Chair: Dr. Giulia Daga - Contestation in the Second Image Reversed: Regimes, Order, Non-Domination
Chair: Prof. Damiano Palano - Decolonizing the Concept of Security: From the Global Risk Society to Community-Based Biosecurity
Chair: Dr. Samira Fajardo Farfán - Diplomatic Practices in Times of Crises: Relational Diplomacy and a Changing Global Order
Chair: Dr. Simone Tholens Simone Tholens - From Hegemony to Hedging? The Changing Nature of Alliance Politics in the Greater Middle East
Chair: Prof. Ersel Aydinli - Governing Interdependence, reducing vulnerabilities: National Economic Security and Policy Choices in Europe
Chair: Prof. Francesco Niccolò Moro - Natural Resources, Critical Infrastructure, and Energy Systems: Understanding Emerging Challenges in Contemporary Conflict
Chair: Prof. Emanuele Castelli - Parliamentary Diplomacy: Between Democracy, Theory and Practice
Chair: Dr. Stelios Stavridis - Reconfiguring Power and Governance in the Global South: State, Non-State Actors, and Alternative Forms of Political Agency
Chair: Prof. Giacomo Finzi - Regional Futures in the EU and Indo-Pacific
Chair: Dr. Silvia Menegazzi - Reimagining Global Governance: Human Security in an Era of Geopolitical Fragmentation
Chair: Dr. Haval Ahmad - Secondary Powers amidst Great Power Competition: Structure and Agency, Constraints and Opportunities
Chair: Prof. Gabriele Natalizia - Small States in Regionalism and Interregionalism: Strategies, Asymmetries, and Influence
Chair: Dr. Guilherme Augusto Guimarães Ferreira - The Role of Europe in Defence and Security in the Age of Global Insecurity
Chair: Prof. Daniela Irrera - The Role of the Black Sea Region and Central Asia in the Future Geoeconomic Order
- The Trump Era and Its Aftermath: Global, Regional, and National Perspectives
Chair: Dr. Anna Kuteleva
