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"The EU's Eastern Neighborhood in Transition: Risks and Opportunities in Europe's Two Largest Countries"
May 8th, 2012, at 13:30-18:30
Wilson Room, Brussels School of International Studies
Boulevard de la Plaine 5, Third Floor
BE-1050 Ixelles, Bruxelles
Organizers:
University of Kent -- Brussels, Belgium;
National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Ukraine
Preliminary Programme
8 May 2012
13:45
Welcome Greetings
Rebecca Harms, President, Green Group in the European Parliament
Introduction
Tom Casier, Senior Lecturer, Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent
Andreas Umland, DAAD Senior Lecturer, National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"
Ivanna Volochiy, ENPI Info Centre at Brussels
14:00-15:20, PANEL 1:
"Promises and Vagaries of Future Anti-Regime Protests in Russia and Ukraine: Political Evolution or Social Revolution?"
Chair:
Andreas Umland, DAAD Senior Lecturer, National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"
“Russian Spring or Russian Autumn? The Background and Prospects of Russia's Re-Democratization”
Mark Franco, Senior Advisor, EU-Russia Centre at Brussels
"Prospects of Political Change in Ukraine"
Oleksandr Holubov, Reporter for the weekly journal "Korrespondent", Kyiv
"Comparing Post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine"
TBA
Discussant:
TBA
15:30-16:50, PANEL 2:
"Ukraine between Russia and the EU: Perennial Apple of Discord or Key to Creating a Wider Europe?"
Chair:
Tom Casier, Senior Lecturer, Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent
"The EU’s Policy towards Ukraine: Towards an Eastern Enlargement or Acceptance of a 'Wider Russia'?"
Bogdana Depo, Marie Curie Fellow, Universities of Prague and Cologne
"'United in Diversity'? Field Notes on the Perceived Roles of Ukraine for the EU"
Olga Burlyuk, Doctoral Researcher, Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent
"Ukraine: From Apple of Discord to Everyone's Land"
Vsevolod Samokhvalov, Doctoral Researcher, University of Cambridge
Discussant:
Thomas Vogel, Parliamentary Assistant to MEP Werner Schulz, European Parliament, Brussels
17:00-18:20, PANEL 3:
"Putin's Project of a Eurasian Union: Neo-Soviet Pipe Dream or Sustainable Integration Model?"
Chair:
Denis Daniilidis, Eastern Partnership-Desk Officer, European External Action Service, Brussels
"The Discourse of the 'Russian World' and Changes in Russian Neighbourhood Policy"
Oleksii Polegkyi, Research Fellow, Universities of Antwerp and Wroclaw
"The Russian Vision of Ukraine's Role in the Eurasian Union Project"
Volodymyr Gushuley, Graduate Student, Estonian School of Diplomacy at Tallinn
"Russian Preponderance, the Imperial Legacy, and the Modernization Imperative: Why a Moscow-led Post-Soviet Community Has Few Prospects"
Andreas Umland, DAAD Senior Lecturer, National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"
Discussant:
Mark Opgenorth, Staff Officer on Political Affairs and Security Policy, NATO HQ Brussels
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Please, preregister here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/387175921303419/
Unfortunately, we have no funding whatsoever for covering travel expenses, housing, etc.
Tom Casier, Ph.D.
Ivanna Volochiy, M.A.
Andreas Umland, Ph.D.
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