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SUMMARY:‘Facing the Pressures of Internationalisation and Securitisation
 : National Governments as the Weaker Actors?’  - Dr Tomáš Weiss (Charl
 es University Prague) 
DTSTART:20181101T170000Z
DTEND:20181101T180000Z
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CONTACT:Psychology Reception
DESCRIPTION:The security policy of many countries is formulated at two par
 allel levels today – domestically and internationally. This is most visi
 ble in Europe where two organizations ensure their member states’ securi
 ty\, NATO and the European Union. According to classical accounts\, such t
 wo-level games increase the power of national governments that act on both
  levels and can use arguments from one environment to gain concessions in 
 the other. When facing security challenges\, however\, the pressures from 
 domestic constituencies demanding protection from threats singled out in n
 ational securitization processes give very little room for manoeuvre. At t
 he same time\, the international institutions\, which are indispensable fo
 r European countries’ security and decide by unanimity\, do not and cann
 ot prioritize all threats securitized in their member states equally. As a
  result\, some governments face a mismatch between their international com
 mitments and domestic expectations. Their presence at both levels of the t
 wo-level game turns them into a disadvantaged actor.\nThe talk will overvi
 ew the relationship between the national governments’ behaviour in domes
 tic and international negotiations as captured in the existing literature\
 , formulate hypotheses about which governments are likely to become the di
 sadvantaged actors\, and theorize modes of behaviour that allow them to co
 pe with the situation.\nDr Weiss is Head of the Department of European Stu
 dies and Associate Professor at Charles University Prague.  He is spending
  the academic year 2018-19 as a visiting researcher in the POLIS Departmen
 t at Cambridge.\n
LOCATION:S2 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 9DT
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