The Center for European and International Affairs of the University of Nicosia

in cooperation with University of Nicosia Global Semesters

is organizing the Conference entitled

GEOPOLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND CHANGE IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND THE MIDDLE EAST

 

 

Thursday, June 16, 2016

09:00 – 19:00

 

Main Conference room, Mail Building (2^nd floor)

University of Nicosia

 

 

 

09:00 – 09:15           Registration

 

Welcoming/Opening Addresses:

09:15 – 09:25           Andreas Theophanous

Professor of Political Economy, Head of the Department of

European Studies and International Relations, President of the Center for European and International Affairs, University of Nicosia

 

09:25 – 09:45           Ambassador Alexandros N. Zenon

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Republic of Cyprus

 

SESSION I:               GREAT POWER INVOLVEMENT IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN

AND THE MIDDLE EAST: A HISTORICAL APPRAISAL

Chair:                     Andreas Theophanous

 

09:45 – 10:05           Nadia Arbatova

Head, Department of European Studies, Institute of World Economy and

International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences

Russo-Turkish Relations and Implications for Security and Cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean

 

10:05 – 10:25           Michalis Kontos

Associated with the Department of Law and the Department of European Studies and International Relations, University of Nicosia, Cyprus)

The Gradual Withdrawal of the US and the Unravelling Repercussions

 

10:25 – 10:45           Petros Savvides

Defense Analyst, PhD cand. Modern History, MPhil History, Associated with the Center for European and International Affairs and the Department of European Studies and International Relations, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

Security Relations in the Eastern Mediterranean After the ‘Solution’ of the Cyprus Problem: Stability and Cooperation or Antagonism and Disorder?

 

10:45 – 11:15           Discussion

 

11:15 – 11:45           Coffee Break

 

 

SESSION II:              THE RISE OF NEW IDEOLOGICAL FORCES AND DISINTEGRATION

OF REGIONAL STATES

Chair:                     Michalis Kontos

 

11:45 – 12:05           Aref N. Hassan, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science,

St. Cloud State University

New Threats and Old Challenges: The Future of the Nation State in the Middle East

 

12:05 – 12:25           Farid Mirbagheri

Professor of International Relations,

Department of European Studies

and International Relations, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

The Rise and Fall of Islamist Fundamentalism

 

12:25 – 12:45           Dalia Gavriely-Nuri

Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem

War as Culture: The Israeli Case

 

12:45 – 13:15           Discussion

 

13:15 – 18:00           Break

 

 

SESSION III:             ENERGY CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

Chair:                     Evie Zambetakis

Vice President, Institutional Relations

University of Nicosia, Global Semesters

 

18:00 – 18:20           Theodoros Tsakiris

Assistant Professor of Geopolitics and Hydrocarbons,

University of Nicosia, Cyprus

Cause or Catalyst?  The Role of Offshore Gas Discoveries in Reshaping Regional Geopolitics Since 2010

 

18:20 – 18:40           Harry Tzimitras

Director, PRIO Cyprus Centre

The Geopolitics of Energy in the Eastern Mediterranean Security Architecture

 

18:40 – 19:00           Discussion

 

19:00 – 19:15           CLOSING REMARKS

Andreas Theophanous

President of the Center for European and International Affairs,

University of Nicosia

 

 

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