June 2002, Workshop, Oxford, UK

This workshop, funded by a grant from the United States Institute of Peace, brought together a number of leading cosmopolitan scholars and their critics to examine in detail the theoretical assumptions about cosmopolitan militaries and their deployment. The briefing paper prepared for this workshop has been published as Cosmopolitan theory, militaries and the deployment of force.

November 2002, Conference

This conference, which was held under the auspices of the Department of International Relations, brought together leading academics, policy bureaucrats and military practitioners from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, NATO and the United Nations to focus on key organisational, operational and deployment challenges confronting cosmopolitan militaries. The conference was funded by the United States Institute of Peace with support from the Department of International Relations at the ANU and the School of Politics at the Australian Defence Force Academy. Papers delivered at the conference will form the basis of an edited book under contract with Manchester University Press.

November 2004, Workshop

The final workshop of the Cosmopolitan Militaries Project was held at the University of Warwick, with the support of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, in June 2004. The workshop brought together a number of participants from earlier events, as well as new contributors, to explore the issue of cosmopolitan strategic culture. The Workshop also included a half-day forum on the role of the United Nations is cosmopolitan-minded military deployments. For a report on the workshop, see page 7 of the CSGR newsletter for October 2004 at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/csgr/newsletters/nl12.pdf.