Session A – Political and Security Chalanges

Starts at 11:00 AM (Vilnius Time, Lithuania)

MS Teams meeting for Sesion A link

Chairs: Tomasz STĘPNIEWSKI, Gediminas KAZĖNAS

Topics and Participants

How Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine is Changing the European Union’s Eastern Neighbourhood
Tomasz STĘPNIEWSKI, Institute of Central Europe in Lublin, Poland, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

Party Nomination and Legislative Gender Quotas in the 2020 Local Elections in Ukraine
Vitalii LEBEDIUK, Department of National Security and Political Science, National University of Ostroh Academy, Ukraine, Political Science at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine

Security Chalenges for Lithuania: how to respond?
Gediminas KAZĖNAS, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Andrés DE CASTRO, Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, UNED University, Spain

The End of the Old New Order:  A Brief History of the Next Part of the Twenty-First Century
David SCHULTZ, Department of Political Science, Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota USA

The Asia-Pacific Security Challenges and the Roles of Europe
Jyh-Shyang Sheu, 許智翔, Institute for National Defence and Security Research, Division of Chinese Politics, Military and Warfighting Concepts, Taiwan.

The Biopolitics of Russisn Federation towards Ukraine after 2014
Andrzej SZABACIUK, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, Institute of Central Europe in Lublin, Poland

Religious Extremism and the Persecution of Christians in northern Nigeria: A threat to Nigeria’s Quest for Nationhood
Fr. Philip Fwaldin KASUWA, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, Catholic Diocese of Bauchi, Nigeria