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Panel 3a The Media and the Arab Uprisings
Chair: Roger Hardy, LSE
Panellist 1: Lindesy Hilsum, Channel 4
Panellist 2: Jonathan Steele, The Guardian
Panellist 3: Zaki Chehab, Editor-in-Chief, ArabsToday.net
Panel 3b Narratives of the Uprisings and the (Re)production of Structural Flaws in International Involvement
Chair: Dr Francesco Cavatorta, Senior Lecturer in the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University
Paper 1: The EU Response to the Egyptian Uprising: Social, Economic and Political Rights in Post-Uprising EU Narratives of Democracy
Dr Andrea Teti, Lecturer in International Relations and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Violence Research Cluster, University of Aberdeen
Paper 2: A Comparative Discourse Analysis of US and Scandinavian Perspectives on the Egyptian Uprising and Impact on Democracy-Assistance Policies
Darcy Thompson, Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Middle East Studies, University of Lund (co-authored with Christopher Noble)
Paper 3: Egyptian Perspectives of Western Democracy-Promotion: The Role of the Left
Dr Gervasio Gennaro, Lecturer in Middle East Politics, Macquarie University (Sydney) & The British University in Egypt (Cairo)
Paper 4: The International’s Impact on Revolutionary Situations: The Cases of the 1908 Constitutional Revolution in the Ottoman Empire, the 1979 Revolution in Iran and Egypt in 2011
Dr Derya Göçer Akder, Instructor, Middle East Technical University
Paper 5: Re-Thinking U.S. Relations with the WANA Region: An Analysis of Policies, Discourses and Practices in Light of the ‘Arab Spring’
Dr Corinna Mullin, Lecturer in Comparative and International Politics, SOAS
Panel 3c Gulf Economies in Transition
Chair: Dr Christian Steiner, Research Associate, University of Frankfurt
Paper 1: Dubai’s Crisis Revisited – Dubai after the Crisis?
Dr Christian Steiner, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Geography, University of Frankfurt
Paper 2: Economic Integration from a Country Perspective: Oman in the Gulf Cooperation Council
Dr Steffen Wippel, Senior Researcher, Zentrum Moderner Orient
Paper 3: From Oil to Tourism. An Overview of Economic Diversification in the GCC
Professor Byan Loughrey, University of Hertfordshire (co-authored with Heba Aziz, Edith M Szivas and Lubna Al Mazroei)
Paper 4: The GCC’s ‘Demographic Imbalance’: Perceptions, Realities and Policy Options
Dr Ingo Forstenlechner, Adviser, Federal Demographic Council, Abu Dhabi and Associate Professor, United Arab Emirates University
Chair: Dr Sedef Arat-Koç, Ryerson University
Paper 1: Neo-Empire, Middle Power or Subcontractor for Imperialism? ‘Neo-Ottomanism’, Shifts in Geopolitics and Turkey’s Foreign Policy
Dr Sedef Arat-Koç, Ryerson University
Paper 2: Neo-Ottomanism as an Aspect of the ‘Regression of Democratic Politics’
Dr Nuray Mert, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Istanbul University
Paper 3: A Pax Turca in the Middle East? Turkey’s Entry into 21st Century Geopolitics
Dr Clemens Hoffmann, Department of International Relations, University of Sussex (co-authored with Can Cemgil)
