Voronezh State University welcometo take part in the Student forum “International security: perspective of young international relations scholars”.

Student forum “International security: perspective of young international relations scholars” is a part of international scientific conference «International security threat perceptions by EU Member States, Middle East and Russia» aims to discuss the global security problems, its geopolitical, sociocultural and religious factors, to investigate categories of threats and risks, including potential ones, and peculiarities of their diverse visions in the three mentioned regions. The conference will also allow to develop conceptual framework of the agenda, including the concept of «threat to peace and security», to identify points of stability and criteria of international security, to develop approaches to setting regional security strategies.

The conference will assemble the foremost scholars in the field of international relations, security, EU studies, diplomacy, international law, politics, history, theology and social and cultural studies, human rights, nationalism, migration and extremism prevention from top level institutions of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Jordan, Turkey as well as the leading universities and research centres of Russia such as Institute of Europe of RAS, Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations of RAS and others.

The conference is of relevance to diplomats and civil society representatives. In the frame of four specialized panels, they will address speeches and will contribute to the debate aiming to give expert assessment of the current events and generate modern understandings of international security beyond the state-of-the-art.

Panel sessions:

• ■ Panel 1. The EU and Russia: approaches to stability and security.
• ■ Panel 2. Strategic relationships of the European Union, Russia and the Middle East.
• ■ Panel 3. Stability of the MENA region in post-ISIS period.
• ■ Panel 4. Humanitarian dimension of crisis in the Middle East.
• ■ Panel 5. Brexit strategic implications for the EU security policy.

The working languages are English and Russian with simultaneous translation.

Key dates:

• ■ A registration form and the paper titles with short abstracts in the language of the speech due 16 June 2019.

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

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