Geopolitics and Changing States

Programma

1 July 2022

14.00-14.15 – Welcome and Introduction

• Viktoria Akchurina, OSCE Academy
• Vincent Della Sala, University of Trento

14.15-16.00 – Understanding Geopolitics and States

• Diana Kudaibergenova, University of Cambridge
  Conceptualising Power (Vlast’) 
• Anja Mihr, OSCE Academy
  Glocal Governance in Times of New Regionalism
• Sarah Perret, King’s College, London
  Geopolitics of Risk

16.00-16.30 – Coffee

16.30-18.15 – Geopolitics and States in the Heartland

• Luca Anceschi, University of Glasgow
  Modernising Authoritarian Foreign Policy: The Case of Uzbekistan
• Dmitry Shlapentokh, Indiana University
  The Use of Local Elites: Putin’s dealings with Chechnya
• Lucia Leontiev, Maastricht University/Pisa
  De Facto States and Fragile States: The Flip Side of the Same Coin. A discourse on Eastern European de facto states rise and the failure of their territorial states 

19.30 – Dinner

2 July 2022

9.15-10.30 – Geopolitics and States in the Balkans

• Jeta Abasi Ghashi, University of Leipzig/Pristina
  “The Kosovo Young Europeans” - the Constructions of Self and European Other
• Islam Jusufi, University of Skopje
  Emergence of hybrid judiciary governance in Albania: Its significance for the strategic interests of external actors 

10.30-11.00 – Coffee

11.30 – 12.45 – Geopolitics and States in the Middle East

• Bilal Salayme, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
  From Monopoly to Oligopoly of Violence Restructuring Political Order in Northern Syria
• Aurèlie Daher, Université Paris-Dauphine
  Is the Lebanese Hezbollah a Challenge to a Sovereign State?

Discussant:

• Samuele  Abrami, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
• Mahmoood Alhosain, Harmon Center for Contemporary Studies, Doha, Qatar
• Trym Eiterjord, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
• Zhibek Kasymova, Osce Academy
• Assala Kettake, King's College London University
• Yelyzaveta Monastyrova, Law School of the Open University
• Loan-David Onel, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration
• Nosirkhon Qodirov, University of Szeged
• Pablo Sanchez Rodriguez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
• Lauren Rogers, University of Edinburgh
• Cornelia Sahling, libera professionista
• Gianluca Sampaolo, Università di Macerata
• Veronica Strina, Università per Stranieri di Perugia
• Elena Tagliani, Università di Lille
• Ozge Tunc, Katip Celebi University
• Aytac Yurukcu, University of Eastern Finland

12.45-13.15 – Conclusion