On November 26, 2018, the panel discussion on «The Baltic-Black Sea Union: politics, economy, security» will take place within the course «The Comparative Study of Democratization: Transition Politics in V4 countries and Ukraine». 

Invited speakers:

Tomasz Stępniewski is the Associate Professor and the Head of the Department for Eastern Studies at the Institute of Political Science and International Affairs, the Faculty of Social Sciences, the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. He is interested in the European Union’s Eastern policy, international relations on the Commonwealth of Independent States’ area, Russian policy towards Eastern Europe.

Yurii Matsiievskyi is the Associate Professor and the Head of the Center for Political Research and a professor of political science at Ostroh Academy. He is interested in comparative democratization, Ukraine’s regime transformations, informal institutions in politics, conflict resolution and prevention.

Serhii Ievtushok is the postgraduate student at the Department of Political Science and National Security of the National University of Ostroh Academy. Explores issues of the origin and evolution of the idea of Baltic-Black Sea Union.

Moderator:

Dmytro Shevchuk is the Professor of Social Philosophy and Cultural Studies and the Vice-rector for Science and Education at the National University of Ostroh Academy. His scholarly interests include modern political philosophy, research methods in humanities, social and cultural processes in Central and Eastern Europe. He is the author of the monograph Sense and Borderlines of the Political: A Philosophical Interpretation (in Ukrainian, 2014).

12.20-13.40, Classroom 2 (Ostroh Academy)