ABOUT
This event will provide a platform for early career researchers and seniors to share and discuss the evolving issues in Russian, European and Asian Politics. Participants of the 2017 University of Dundee Conference are invited to explore theoretically as well as empirically the nature of contemporary challenges in an era of high uncertainty. The aim of the conference will be to identify the factors that contribute to the uncertainty in the above regions and investigate how the international actors/community is divided over today's biggest policy and security challenges.
The conference will consist of the following four broad themes:
⦁ Post-soviet space: Government and politics of the post-Soviet space.
⦁ Security Issues in the post-Soviet space: NATO and EU enlargement.
⦁ Securitization and Media:
The role of Media in framing Russian role in the Syrian conflict.
The role of Russian media in framing the Ukrainian crisis.
⦁ EU relations with the post-Soviet space and the European neighborhood policy
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
We cordially invite scholars to submit a short abstract of no more than 250 words, including short bio and contact details. The abstracts should be submitted via email to conference organizers:
Ioanna Mavromati - i.mavromati@dundee.ac.uk or
Fikret Şendil - F.Sendil@dundee.ac.uk.
The subject line of the email should state "2017 University of Dundee Conference Submission". The deadline for abstract submission is July 31, 2017, and authors will be notified of paper acceptance or non-acceptance by August 31, 2017.
There is no conference fee; free lunch, morning and afternoon tea/coffee will be provided by the organisers. Presenters and participants should make their own travel and accommodation arrangements.
The 2017 University of Dundee Conference on
The New Cold War:
EU Relations with the Post-Soviet space
23rd September - Time: 9am - 5pm
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
9:00 - 9:30: Registration
9:30 - 9:45 Welcoming note
9:45 -11:30 Panel 1:
European Union and the New Cold War over Energy.
Dr. George Koukoudakis, Assistant Professor at the Military Academy of Greece.
EU Energy Security policy in the context of Great Power Competition. Ms. Ioanna Mavromati, Ph.D. Candidate at The University of Dundee.
Energy Security and Public International Law: Towards Coherent Global Legal Framework? Ms. Gokce Mete, Research Fellow at the Extractives Resource Hub at the CEPMLP, University of Dundee.
EU and Cyprus Hydrocarbons and the collapse of Cyprus Peace talks.
Mr. Fikret Sendil, Ph.D. Candidate at The University of Dundee.
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 - 13:45 Panel 2:
The role of Russian media in framing the Ukrainian crisis: identitarian perspective.
Ms Kristina Khutsishvili, former Russian journalist, PhD candidate, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy.
Can the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) work without political integration?
Ms. Catherine Lefèvre, Ph.D. Candidate at The University of Glasgow.
Between Opportunity and Threat: Images of the EU in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Mr. Zhanibek Arynov, Ph.D. Candidate at The University of St Andrews.
The South Caucasus in between the EU and Russia: A way forward is possible? Mr. Kamran Ismayilov, Ph.D. Candidate at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa.
13:45-14:45 Lunch Break
14:45 - 16:30 Panel 3:
Competing narratives in post-Soviet conflicts as symbolic representations for upholding internal and external threat perceptions.
Ms. Nina Lutterjohann, Ph.D. Candidate at The University of St Andrews.
Enlargement and hybrid warfare – a case for causality.
Mr. Brin Najzer, Ph.D. Candidate at The University of Aberdeen.
European Security and the Ban Opticon of Countering Terrorism.
Mr. Carlos Morgado Braz, Ph.D. Candidate at The University of Coimbra.
Securitisation Theory, the Origin of the Kurdish Question, and the Politicisation of Turkey's Kurdish Policy during the Term of AK Party's Rule.
Mr.Tarik Eken, PhD candidate, University of Dundee.
17:00 End of Conference
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