WORKSHOP: Patron-Client Relationships in World Politics

Organisation: Rafael Biermann and Géza Tasner (FSU Jena)

Programme

Tuesday, April 25

09:00 – 09:30 Introduction and Welcome (Rafael Biermann and Kamaran Palani)

09:30 – 10:30 Patron-Client Relations in World Politics – the Basic Concept and Research Directions (Rafael Biermann)

11:00 – 12:00 Patron-Client Relations in World Politics – Literature Review (Rafael Biermann)

PART I: PCRs in Secessionist Conflict
13:30 – 15:00 Panel I: Interpatronal Competition in post-Cold War Secessionist Conflicts in Europe (Géza Tasner; Discussant: Nicolò Fasola (online)

15:30 – 17:00 Panel II: Geopolitical role construction of de facto states: The actor-centred approach (Kristel Vits, with Eiki Berg; Discussant: Lorenzo Ghione (online)?

Wednesday, April 26

09:00 – 10:30 Panel III: Welcomed Guest or Stranger Breaking-In? Patron-Client Relations in Abkhazia (İzzet Yalın Yüksel, with Eiki Berg; Discussant: Natalia Piskunova

11:00 – 12:30 Panel IV:
Non-State Support for Secessionist Rebel Groups: The Case of Bougainville (Christopher Brucker; Discussant: İzzet Yalın Yüksel)

13:30 – 15:00 Panel V: Fluid and conditional patron-client relations. The case of Turkey-Iraqi Kurdistan relations (Kamaran Palani; Discussant: Leontine von Felbert)

15:30 – 17:00 Brainstorming Session I: PCRs in Secessionist Conflict, Moderators: Géza Tasner and Christopher Brucker

17:30 – 18:45 House Series: The Stein Rokkan Edition (Optional)
Fariba Adelkhah, the embodiment of scientific freedom (Béatrice Hibou)

Thursday, April 27

PART II: PCRs and Surrogate Warfare
09:00 – 10:30 Panel VI: Surrogate Warfare in Great Power Competition (Leontine von Felbert; Discussant: Géza Tasner)

PART III: PCRs in Humanitarian and Development Aid
11:00 – 12:30 Panel VII: UK’s post-Brexit aid cuts and their effect on the UK’s relationship with its former colonies, through a patron-client framework lens (Ivica Petrikova; Discussant: Rafael Biermann)

PART IV: State-to-State PCRs
13:30 – 15:00 Brainstorming Session; Moderator: Rafael Biermann

Friday, April 28

09:00 – 10:30 Panel VIII: No Mere Autocratic Axis: Unpacking Russian Support for Assad’s Regime – Through the Frame of Patron-Client Relations (Nicolò Fasola, online; Discussant: Kamaran Palani)

11:00 – 12:30 Panel IX: Migration as a critical resource in Tunisia-EU relations (Lorenzo Ghione, online; Discussant: Ivica Petrikova)

13:30 – 15:00 Panel X: Clientelism and Patronage in the GCC: Unpacking the sub-regional hegemonic struggle (Betul Dogan Akkas; Discussant: Christopher Brucker)

15:30-16:30 Brainstorming Session III: State-to-State PCRs; Moderator: Kamaran Palani

16:30-17:00 Wrap Up & Farewell (Rafael Biermann & Kamaran Palani)