After the success of last year’s roundtable on the methodologies of IPS, this year’s event will focus on IPS as a theoretical framework. How can IPS help to disentangle power dynamics? What does IPS’ transdisciplinary agenda have to offer to grasp current social and political challenges? Which theoretical tensions can be identified within IPS? Where do we need to situate the contribution of IPS to the literature? 

The one-day event will first centre around three parallel workshops dedicated to separate empirical topics. The first workshop “Scandal and international disorder” addresses the (un/re)making of international order through moments of disorder. Discussions will focus on the functions and meanings of scandals and their consequences in terms of accountability.

Secondly, the workshop “(Re)scaling violence” aims at unravelling the productive and contested nature of violence in the social, political and international realms. It will stimulate discussions on how power operates in relation to violence across multiple scales, and how IPS perspectives make sense of interconnected violence regimes.

Finally, the third workshop “Questioning the Anthropocene” fosters encounters between the different contributions of IPS in regard to the Anthropocene. From the micro-level to the large-scale violence of wars, deforestation and industrialisation, the panel will discuss the multiple ways to study the politics of nature through IPS.