Conference materials:

Wednesday, October, 16

Welcome address

• Prof. Dmitry Endovitsky, Rector of Voronezh State University, Vice-president of the Russian Union of Rectors
  
• Mr. Alexey Nekrasov, Acting Head of the Voronezh Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
  

Plenary session

• Europe in the context of geopolitical rivalry
  Prof. Alexey Gromyko, Professor, RAS Corresponding Member, Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association of European Studies
  
  
• The European Union and the Southern Neighbourhood: an epic quest for partnership (PDF)
  Mr. Wolfgang Mühlberger, Senior Research Fellow EU-MENA, The Finnish Institute of International Affairs
  
  
• New challenges to European security and civilisation
  Prof. Mark Entin, Professor, Head of the Department of European Law, Moscow State Institute of International Relations – MGIMO
  
  

Research Session 1. Threats to European security: searching for the common denominator
Chair: Dr. Alla Akulshina, Coordinator of the POWERS Network, Head of the Unit for International Projects and Programmes, Voronezh State University

• Contemporary global conflict: «a cold war» or «peace that is no peace»?
  Prof. Alexandra Glukhova, Professor, Head of the Department of Sociology and Political Sciences, Faculty of History, Voronezh State University
  
  
• European security: the EU – Russia relations, a dilemma of “European defence”
  Prof. Dmitry Danilov, Head of the Department of European Security Studies, Institute of Europe, RAS, Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Moscow State Institute of International Relations – MGIMO
  
  
• Crisis of international security system: situational analysis (PDF)
  Dr. Alexander Vaschenko, Dean of the Faculty of History, Sociology and International Relations, Kuban State University
  
  
• International security threats: Russian vision (PDF)
  Dr. Alla Akulshina, Coordinator of the POWERS Network, Head of the Unit for International Projects and Programmes, Voronezh State University
  
  
• Threats to the EU security and concept of resilience of the EU (PDF)
  Dr. Tatiana Romanova, Associate professor, Department of European Studies, Faculty of International Relations, Saint-Petersburg State University
  
  

Research Session 2: Regional approaches to ensuring international security: Russia, the EU and the Middle East
Chair: Prof. Mikhail Rykhtik, Professor, Director of the Institute of International Relations and World History, N.I. Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State University

• Problem of “lashing out” of the regional armed conflicts in the early XXI century
  Prof. Larisa Deriglazova, Professor of the World Policy Department, Faculty of Historical and Political Sciences, Tomsk State University
  
  
• The rise of far-right parties in Europe: a security threat perception by Turkish think tanks (PDF)
  Prof. Muge Aknur, Associate professor of Political Science, Department of International Relations, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir
  
  
• American factor of the international security regional strategies
  Prof. Mikhail Rykhtik, Professor, Director of the Institute of International Relations and World History, N.I. Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State University
  
  
• Perceptions of Turkish think-tanks on the Syrian refugees and Syrian war in Turkey: an overview (PDF)
  Prof. Gul Kurtoglu Eskisar, Professor of the Department of International Relations Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir
  
  
• PESCO in a context of European security system transformation
  Mr. Nikita Piskunov, Expert of the Centre for Public Diplomacy, Teacher assistant of the Department of International Relations, Political Sciences and Regional Studies, Institute of History, International Relations and Social technologies, Volgograd State University
  
  
• Issues of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in the context of European security (PDF)
  Dr. Ekaterina Mikhailenko, Head of Laboratory “Tempus Resource Centre”, Associate professor, Department of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Ural Federal University
  
  

Student session 1: Strategic relationships of the European Union, Russia and the Middle East
Moderators: Dr. Alexander Boldyrikhin, Senior lecturer, Department of International Economics and External Economic Activities, Faculty of international relations, Voronezh State University
Dr. Irina Foret, Associate professor, Department of Department of Regional Studies and Economics of Foreign Countries, Faculty of International Relations, Voronezh State University
Experts: Prof. Gul Kurtoglu Eskisar, Professor of the Department of International Relations Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir
Prof. Muge Aknur, Associate professor of Political Science, Department of International Relations, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir
Prof. Doris Kiendl, Chair of the Institute of International Management, FH JOANNEUM, Graz

• Destabilizing processes in the Middle East as obstacle to achieving a settlement of Syrian crisis
  Ekaterina Menshikova, Student of the Faculty of the Eurasia and the East, Chelyabinsk State University
  
  
• Stability of the Middle East in the post-ISIS period (PDF)
  Anton Dedyaev, Alexandra Agbalyan, Ksenia Fedotova, Students of the Department of Regional Studies and Economics of Foreign Countries, Faculty of international relations, Voronezh State University
  
  
• Legal analysis of the project of distribution of refugees in the EU (PDF)
  Mr. Vasilii Davydov, Student of the Department of International Relations and World Policy, Faculty of international relations, Voronezh State University
  
  
• Protection of refugee rights in the EU: development and challenges (PDF)
  Christina Kazakova, Sergey Filimonov, Iuliia Rudikova, Students of the Department of International Relations and World Policy, Faculty of International relations, Voronezh State University
  
  

Meeting of the Board of the Association of European Studies

Meeting of the European Information Centres

Thursday, October, 17

Welcome address and speech by His Excellency Mr. Markus Ederer, Ambassador of the European Union to the Russian Federation, Head of Delegation

Signature of the Agreement on opening of the European Information Centre at Voronezh State University

Research session 3: European security and migration issues
Chair: Prof. Paolo Bargiacchi, Full professor of Public International Law, Faculty of Economics and Law, Kore University of Enna

• Migration and Security in the EU Global Strategy (PDF)
  Prof. Carmen Marquez Carrasco, Chair of the Department of Public International Law and International Relations, University of Seville
  
  
• Externalizing migration management: the EU proposal for the establishment of regional disembarkation platforms
  Prof. Paolo Bargiacchi, Full professor of Public International Law, Faculty of Economics and Law, Kore University of Enna
  
  
• Migration policy between human rights and security
  Prof. Olga Potemkina, Professor, Head of the Unit for European Integration Studies, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences
  
  

Research session 4: European security and migration issues
Chair: Prof. Igor Uznarodov, Professor, Head of the Department of Politics and Globalisation, Rostov State University of Economics

• Migration policy in judicial practice of the European Union
  Dr. Vadim Voynikov, Associate professor of the Department of International and European Law, Law Institute, Immanuil Kant Baltic Federal University
  
  
• Security issues in the European Union in the light of current migration developments (PDF)
  Prof. Doris Kiendl, Chair of the Institute of International Management, FH JOANNEUM, Graz
  
  
• Identity and migration processes in the context of security policy
  Prof. Igor Uznarodov, Professor, Head of the Department of Politics and Globalisation, Rostov State University of Economics
  
  
• Challenges of implementation of refugees’ right to family reunification in the EU
  Dr. Irina Foret, Associate professor, Department of Regional Studies and Economy of Foreign Countries, Faculty of International Relations, Voronezh State University
  
  
• Peculiarities of policy of integration and adaptation of immigrant children in Russia (PDF)
  Dr. Natalia Zhurbina, Associate professor, Department of Regional Studies and Economy of Foreign Countries, Faculty of International Relations, Voronezh State University
  
  

Research session 5: Identity policy as a tool of security policy
Chair: Prof. Roman Lunkin, Senior researcher of the Unit for Social and Political Studies, the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

• Between fact and fiction. Novels on experiences with terrorism by exiled authors from Iraq
  Prof. Martin Tamcke, Professor, Chair of Department of Theology, Institute for Ecumenics & Oriental Christianity, Georg-August University of Goettingen, Germany
  
  
• Religious organisations and migrants: from Islamic radicalization to Christian national mission
  Prof. Roman Lunkin, Senior researcher of the Unit for Social and Political Studies, the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
  
• The remembrance on the two World Wars in identity politics and promotion of international security strategy (PDF)
  Prof. Liubov Fadeeva, Professor of Political Science Department, Perm State National Research University
  Dr. Dmitry Plotnikov, Associate professor of Political Science Department, Faculty of History and Politics, Perm State National Research University
  
  
• International legal regulation of research mobility in the EU in the context of European security
  Prof. Rustem Davletgildeev, Professor, Head of Department of Theory and History of State and Law, Director of Research and Educational Centre for Human Rights, International Law and Problems of Integration, Kazan Federal University
  
  
• International security and intercultural communication
  Prof. Elena Alexeeva, Professor, Head of the Department of French Philology, Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology, Voronezh State University
  
  
• The impact of international events on national and political identity formation. A case study of World Youth Festivals (PDF)
  Prof. Elena Morozova, Professor of the Department of Public Policy and Public Administration, Kuban State University
  
  

Student session 2: Programmes of adaptation and integration of migrants: EU countries’ expertise (parallel session)
Moderator: Dr. Natalia Zhurbina, Associate professor of the Department of Regional Studies and Economy of Foreign Countries, Faculty of International Relations, Voronezh State University
Experts:
Prof. Olga Potemkina, Professor, Head of the department of European Integration Studies, Institute of Europe, RAS
Dr. Vadim Voynikov, Associate professor of the Department of International and European Law, Law Institute, Immanuil Kant Baltic Federal University

• Presentations of students’ projects: case studies
  
  
• Issues of adaptation and integration of migrants in Germany (PDF)
  Ekaterina Vorobieva, Ekaterina Riabinina, Students of the Department of Regional Studies and Economy of Foreign Countries, Faculty of International Relations, Voronezh State University
  
  
• Peculiarities of adaptation and integration of migrants in France (PDF)
  Tatiana Telkova, Student of the Department of Regional Studies and Economy of Foreign Countries, Faculty of International Relations, Voronezh State University
  
  
• Specific features of integration of migrants into the British society in the light of contemporary situation in migration (PDF)
  Irina Kliuchnikova, Iuliia Bobkova, Students of the Department of Regional Studies and Economy of Foreign Countries, Faculty of International Relations, Voronezh State University
  
  
• Programmes of adaptation and integration of migrants in Spain (PDF)
  Juan Felipe Florez Aguirre, Arina Andrievskaia, Students of the Department of Regional Studies and Economy of Foreign Countries, Faculty of International Relations, Voronezh State University
  
  
• Issues of contemporary migration policy in Hungary (PDF)
  Irina Starodubtseva, Nikita Shikhatov, Students of the Department of Regional Studies and Economy of Foreign Countries, Faculty of International Relations, Voronezh State University
  
  

Coordinating meeting of the Erasmus+ JM Network “Peace, War and the World in European Security Challenges – POWERS”
Chair: Dr. Alla Akulshina, Coordinator of the POWERS Network, Head of the Unit for International Projects and Programmes, Voronezh State University

• Completion of the first year of the project life
  Ms Anna Nedzelskaia, Project manager, the Unit for International Projects and Programmes, Voronezh State University
  
  
• Work plan for the second year. Updating and adoption
  Dr. Alla Akulshina, Coordinator of the POWERS Network, Head of the Unit for International Projects and Programmes, Voronezh State University
  
  
• Research workshop “(In)security and the dynamics of regionalism in the Euro- Mediterranean and Black Sea regions”. November 2019
  Dr. Caroline Dufy, Senior research fellow, Centre Emile Durkheim, Department of Political Science and Sociology, Institute of Political Studies of Bordeaux (Sciences Po Bordeaux)
  
  
• Research workshop “Regional and national security: stability and conflict potential”. April 2020
  Dr. Irina Foret, Associate professor, Department of Regional Studies and Economy of Foreign Countries, Faculty of International Relations, Voronezh State University
  
  
• Research workshop “Birds of a Feather Flock Together: Decoding the Socio-Cultural Issues between EU and its Neighbors”. June 2020
  Prof. Gul Kurtoglu Eskisar, Professor of the Department of International Relations Dokuz Eylul University
  
  
• Advanced summer school “Debating points of international and regional security”. September 2020
  Prof. Elena Morozova, Professor of Department of Public Policy and Public Administration, Kuban State University
  
  
• Conference “Europe and the migration of the Christian communities from the Middle East”. November 2020
  Prof. Martin Tamcke, Chair of Department of Theology, Institute for Ecumenics & Oriental Christianity, Georg-August University of Goettingen
  
  
• Launch of the teaching modules
  Prof. Gul Kurtoglu Eskisar, Professor of the Department of International Relations Dokuz Eylul University
  Prof. Elena Morozova, Professor of Department of Public Policy and Public Administration, Kuban State University
  Dr. Irina Foret, Associate professor, Department of Regional Studies and Economy of Foreign Countries, Faculty of International Relations, Voronezh State University
  
  
• Financial reporting for the 1st project year. Preparation of papers for the interim audit
  Ms Anastasiia Chepelevskaia, Financial manager, the Unit for International Projects and Programmes, Voronezh State University, Russia
  Mrs. Irina Bakalova, Project manager, the Unit for International Projects and Programmes, Voronezh State University
  
  

Official page of the event — http://euspace.vsu.ru/ru/conference2019

Conference Materials (ZIP archive)

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Contacts:

Dr. Alla Akulshina
Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Network POWERS
Head of the Department of International Projects and Programmes at VSU
Member of Board of the Association of European Studies
akulshina @ vsu.ru
Tel.: +7-473-220-75-26; +7-473-220-70-37