Call for Abstracts:

Order, Counter-Order, Disorder?

Regional and Global Security Orders in the Shadow of Sino-American Competition

February 9-10, 2023

On 9-10 February 2023, the Department of Social Sciences at West Point, the Centre for Security, Diplomacy, and Strategy at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and the MESO Lab of the Ohio State University will hold a seminar entitled “Order, Counterorder, Disorder?” in support of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s Chairman’s Action Group. The seminar will take place at West Point, with a virtual option for participants who are unable to travel. The seminar will result in peer-reviewed articles and a special report for the Chairman’s Action Group taking stock of the state of the current international order, prospects for its future, and implications for strategic planning at the national and multilateral levels.

You are invited to submit an abstract or abstracts related to any of the 16 themes below – please send to [email protected] by 1 November, 2022. Abstracts should be 250 words or less. Each panel will have a chair, a discussant, and at least one rapporteur to ensure participants are able to efficiently present their work and get feedback, and that the panels’ overall discussions are effectively captured. If you’d like to serve in one of those roles rather than as a panelist, please send a note of 250 words or less indicating your interest and qualifications.

Panel/Working Group 1: Order and Ordering – Intellectual and Policy Frameworks

Panel/Working Group 2: Geostrategic Context – Bridging Alliances in the Shadow of Sino-American Competition

Panel/Working Group 3: China and International Order – Societal and Strategic Perspectives

Panel/Working Group 4: Russia and International Order – Societal and Strategic Perspectives

Panel/Working Group 5: Order and Security in Eurasia – Societal and Strategic Perspectives

Panel/Working Group 6: Order and Security in the Indo Pacific – Societal and Strategic Perspectives

Panel/Working Group 7: Order and Security in North America – Societal and Strategic Perspectives

Panel/Working Group 8: Emerging Technologies and Security Orders

Panel/Working Group 9: Conflict, Capabilities, and Order – regular and irregular warfare

Panel/Working Group 10: Societal Ordering and Security Ordering

Panel/Working Group 11: Money, Finance, and International Order – Domestic and International Perspectives

Panel/Working Group 12: Ideologies and Ordering

Panel/Working Group 13: Climate, Energy and Ordering

Panel/Working Group 14: Industry and Armament in a Changing International Order