Beyond Security Politics? Threats, Risks and Fears in International Relations, 19–20 May 2011, ETH Zurich

This international conference dealt with reflexive and critical investigations of security policy, focusing on the following issues: How are threats defined, and by whom? Which policies are evoked by threat images? And how should we deal with existing discourses of fear? Four guest lectures by leading researchers from the UK and Scandinavia focused on core topical areas. Overall, 45 scholars participated in the conference, which was jointly organized by the University of Lausanne and the University of Geneva. It was part of a conference series that aims to promote exchange within the field of security studies.