State Capacity, Power and Influence in World Politics: Concepts and Measurements (International Workshop)

«State Capacity, Power and Influence in World Politics:

Concepts and Measurements»

International Workshop

School of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Higher School of Economics

June 18-19, 2018

Moscow, Myasnitskaya street, 11, room 508

Programme
 

June 18

10:00 – 12:30

Session 1:  Contributions

Andrei Melville. Introduction

Thomas Volgy (University of Arizona, Tucson, USA). Translating Resources into Measures of State Strength.

William Thompson (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA). War, Economic Growth and Leadership in Expanding and Destroying Gulf State Capacity

Discussion

12:30 – 13:30  —  Coffee-break

13:30 – 16:00 

Session 2:  Concepts

Andrei Melville. On some Conceptual and Methodological Problems in the Study of Power and State Capacity

Mikhail Ilyin. How to Evaluate, Estimate and Measure Conceptual Variables of State Power, Influence and Capacity?

Fuad Aleskerov. Power in Elected Bodies and Networks

Ilya Lokshin. The Metaphor of "Power" in IR: its Virtues and Pitfalls

Discussion

16:30 – 18:30

Session 3:  Measurements

Andrey Akhremenko, Mikhail Mironyuk and Sergei Zheglov. Operationalizing the New Index of Power and Influence

Andrey Akhremenko and Ilya Gorelsky. Operationalizing the New Index of State Capacity

Discussion

June 19

10:00 – 12:30

Session 4:  Cases

Mikhail Mironyuk, Kirill Toloknev and Artem Maltsev. The Dynamics of Military Power, 2005-2015: Problems of Sustainability and Credibility.

Ilya Gorelsky. State Capacity and Status-Seeking

Sergey Shvydun. Network Analysis of Conflicts

Natalya Mescheryakova. Power of Countries in the Context of Food Security

Vyacheslav Yakuba. Aggregation Models in the Analysis of State Capacity

Alexey Myachin. Pattern Analysis of the Power of States

12:30 – 13:30  —  Coffee-break  

13:30 – 15:30

Session 5. Prospects

Discussion