Dear EPSA, Could this be shared on twitter or via email to members please. Twitter - https://twitter.com/CGPC_Surrey Twitter Intro Interested in great power competition ? Submit your papers to the upcoming multidisciplinary @CGPC_Surrey workshop ‘The Dimensions of Great Power Competition’ Deadline 31 March. Learn more at https://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/event/the-dimensions-of-great-power-competition/ @NickKitchen1 Centre for the study of Global Power Competition – Workshop June 2023 Where: University of Surrey Call for Abstracts The recently formed Centre for the Study of Global Power competition embraces the study of social sciences through an interdisciplinary lens. Calling experts in Political Science, Sociology, Law, Economics and Business Studies to join us at our 2023 Workshop on Global Power Competition This workshop seeks to bring together perspectives on great power competition from multiple disciplines to evaluate how it is manifest across various dimensions of interaction, both in theory and practice. In doing so it seeks to understand how increasingly transactional postures in the military, diplomatic, technology, legal, and economic spheres affects actors and sectors beyond the national security state, in supply chains, energy, raw materials, and intellectual property. We invite abstracts for papers from scholars working in International Relations, Political Theory, Law, Business Studies and Management, Political Science, Economics and Finance, Sociology, Psychology, and History, on all aspects of great power competition. ORGANISER Dr Nicholas Kitchen, Centre for the Study of Global Power Competition (CGPC) Dr Joshua Andresen, Centre for the Study of Global Power Competition (CGPC) SUBMIT ABSTRACTS HERE: https://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/event/the-dimensions-of-great-power-competition/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/CGPC_Surrey Final submission deadline: 31st March 2023 Notification of outcome: 14th April 2023 About CGPC The return of great power competition poses some important questions about exactly what kind of competition is taking place. What are states competing over, or for? The answer, increasingly, seems to be that there are fewer and fewer areas of international political, economic and social life untouched by competitive dynamics. This workshop therefore seeks to integrate perspectives on great power competition from a wide range of disciplinary specialisations – including International Relations, Political Theory, Law, Business Studies and Management, Political Science, Economics and Finance, Sociology, Psychology, and History – to evaluate how competition is manifest across multiple dimensions of interaction, both in theory and practice. In doing so it seeks to understand how increasingly transactional national postures in the military, diplomatic, technology, legal, and economic spheres, affect actors and sectors beyond the national security state, in supply chains, energy, raw materials, and intellectual property. In the last decade, the concept of ‘great power competition’ has been resurrected by pundits and decisionmakers alike, to describe both the nature of contemporary international politics and the tasks of statecraft. Today, the acronym GPC dominates – substitutes for? – strategy debate in Washington and London, and is invoked in the capitals of self-identified great powers and middle powers alike. But the return of great power competition – whether in fact or in discourse – poses some important theoretical questions about exactly what kind of competition is being referenced. It is rarely clear if GPC is to be understood as a consequence of ongoing power shifts, or the outcome of state strategies. At one level, great power competition is a mundane statement of the reality of international anarchy. At another, it is an edict to compete – but over, or for, what?