Focuses on some neglected, interrelated areas of international relations/international political economy such as globalisations, regionalisms and internationalisation; encourages alternative, critical and radical approaches which are interdisciplinary and historical by a new generation of scholars especially from the South. Factors analysed include civil societies, technologies, feminisation, new coalitions, new security issues and peace building, etc.
- Comparing the Emergence and Impact of Developmental States of Southern Africa and Latin America
Chair: Dr. Wayne Edge - A New World Order from the Perspective of Developing Countries
- Africa-EU relations: Cooperation, coloniality, geopolitical contestation
Chair: Prof. Toni Haastrup - After Hegemony 2.0: What is Democracy in International Relations?
Chair: Dr. Ivan Safranchuk - After the Convergence: Minilateral Cooperation and the Multilateral Order
Chair: Prof. Sujata Ashwarya - After you have gone, bi-polarity: Are there successor models to political word order being corroborated?
Chair: Prof. Ekkart Zimmermann - BRICS, the Global South, and the Search for Alternative World Orders
Chair: Dr. Priyadarsini Sahu - Crisis of Multilateralism and the Emergence of New Forms of Global Governance
Chair: Dr. Gabriel Rached - Democratic Governance in a Multipolar World: Geopolitical Shifts, Institutional Resilience and the Future of Global Order
- Functional Layers of Power: Rethinking Polarity and Competition in the Contemporary International System
Chair: Dr. Peter Rada - Futures of Global Order: Anticipation, Scenarios, and the Conditions of Transformation
Chair: Dr. Francine Rossone de Paula - Institutional Paralysis: Security Council Reform, Veto Politics, and the Crisis of Multilateralism
Chair: Dr. Arvind Shukla - Layered Polarity and the Changing International Order: New Theoretical Perspectives on Power, Regions, and Global Governance
Chair: Dr. Peter Rada - Middle Powers and Strategic Autonomy in a Fragmenting Global Order
Chair: Dr. Sumant Kumar - New Imperialism(s) and the Erosion of International Order: Critical Approaches from the Global South
Chair: Prof. Martonio Mont'Alverne Barreto Lima - Ordering the International: Spatiality, Temporality, and the Plurality of Global Orders
Chair: Dr. Francine Rossone de Paula - Panel REGIMEN. The Reconfiguration of Authoritarianism: Trajectories, Spaces, and Knowledge Across Governance Levels
Chair: Prof. Daniela Irrera - Regions in the Changing International Order: Regional Dynamics, Security, and Governance in an Era of Global Transformation
Chair: Dr. Peter Rada - Rethinking the Anglosphere: Democracy, Governance and Global Order
Chair: Dr. Przemyslaw Biskup - Strengthening Transatlantic Security: Canada–Europe Cooperation in a Fractured Alliance
Chair: Dr. Robert Hanlon - Structural Power, International Governance, and the Method in International Political Economy
Chair: Dr. Andrea Califano - The Emerging Multilateral World: Power Shifts and Strategic Positioning
Chair: Prof. Abdelali Hamidine - The End of the Liberal International Order? Multipolarity and Contested Global Governance
Chair: Dr. Keerthiraj S - The EU and Global Governance Complexity
Chair: Dr. Raffaele Mastrorocco - The Global Contest of Political Systems and Geoeconomic Strategies: Democracy, Autocracy, and Power Competition Among the US, China, EU, and Russia
- The Weaponization of Discourse: Narratives of Rising Powers Amidst Authoritarian Shifts
Chair: Dr. Silvia Menegazzi - Who Is Digitally Sovereign? Authority, Oppositional Power Dynamism, and World (Dis)Ordering
Chair: Prof. Jelica Stefanovic-Stambuk






