Transformation of Europe after Russian aggression into Ukraine | Mitchell A. Orenstein | MIRI |
Channel: Minority Issues Research Institute (MIRI)
Date: 26/02/2024

MIRI Seminar on Current Affairs Talk on the topic "Transformation of Europe after Russian aggression into Ukraine" with Professor Mitchell A. Orenstein.

Speaker: Mitchell A. Orenstein, Professor of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Opening words: Dr Svetluša Surová, Founder and Senior Researcher, MIRI and Dr Daniela Škútová, Senior Researcher, MIRI 

Moderator: Dr Mirsad Kriještorac, Senior Researcher, MIRI

Mitchell A. Orenstein is a Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. His sole-authored and co-authored works on the political economy and international affairs of Central and Eastern Europe have won numerous prizes.


Abstract
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 shattered any remaining
illusions that closer economic integration with Europe would lead Russia, over time, towards democracy at home and peaceful coexistence with its neighbours abroad. It reinvigorated the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and jolted the European Union (EU) into cutting off trade and energy ties with Russia while welcoming a massive flow of refugees from war-torn Ukraine. It empowered Central and East European states in the EU, reignited enlargement debates, and shifted NATO and Europe’s borders to the north and east. The EU’s peace through integration strategy has always existed side by side with NATO’s peace through-strength approach, in a broader European project with blurred boundaries. This war may force the EU to solidify its borders between an internal zone of integration and an external zone of strength projection and geopolitics.

This seminar is organized by the Minority Issues Research Institute (MIRI) and co-hosted by the Department of Political Science of The Faculty of Political Sciences and International Relations, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica. 

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