Dear all, Please find below a CfP for our section "Re-Imagining the International: Norms, Ontological Security and the International Organization", which will take place in the framework of the Pan-European Conference on International Relations, from 05-09 September at the University of Potsdam. More information about EISA PEC is available here: http://pec2023.eisa-net.org/ Proposals for papers, panels and roundtables can be submitted until 15 March 2023 at: http://pec2023.eisa-net.org/abstract-submission/ -- Re-Imagining the International: Norms, Ontological Security and the International Organization Convenors: Cornelia Baciu (University of Copenhagen) & Brent Steele (University of Utah) The enforcement of international law is a prerequisite for normalization of relations, whether in the communal daily life or diplomatic level of states. Norms have been crucial in the stability of the international institutional, legal and organizational architecture that has been established after the Second World War, and in providing a sense of ontological security and normality. However, in the last decade, norms and international organizations have been increasingly contested. Changing state imaginaries, practices of (non-)recognition or new meanings can hinder the implementation of international norms and law, whether treaty law or customary law. The rationale of this section is as follows: Just like the end of the Second World War or the fall of the Berlin Wall, the war in Ukraine and the withdrawal from Afghanistan constitute tipping points in the international institutional architecture, inviting us to re-imagine the international and how ontological security as a stable mode of continuity can be established for all states. This section seeks to shed light on the intricate dynamics of norms change, ontological security and the implications for law enforcement and the international organization as a building block of order. To this end, this Section aims to discuss: 1) processes of making of legal and institutional orders, 2) the evolution of norms and norm change and 3) its reverberations on ontological security, law enforcement and new visions of order. Looking forward to your submission and hope to see you in Potsdam! Best regards from Copenhagen and Salt Lake City, Cornelia Baciu Brent Steele -- Dr. Cornelia Baciu (she/her) Researcher University of Copenhagen Department of Political Science Center for Military Studies Øster Farimagsgade 5 1353 København K www.politicalscience.ku.dk *** Latest publications 2023. Foreign Policy, Memory and Changing Imaginaries and Practices of Neutrality in the Second Republic. Austrian Journal of Political Science 51(4): 26-32. 2022. Mimesis and Status-Seeking in the Global Order. BRICS Summit Diplomacy and Performative Practices. Defence Studies 22(4): 709-735. (with Klaus Kotzé) 2022. Interpolarity. Re-Visiting Security and the Global Order. Defence Studies 22(4): 571-590. (Special Issue, with Delphine Deschaux-Dutard) This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for use by the addressee. Any unauthorized dissemination, distribution or copying of this message and any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete the message.