International Conference "EU’s Strategic Approach to the Black Sea region – Goals, Instruments, Challenges to Democracy"

International Conference "EU’s Strategic Approach to the Black Sea region – Goals, Instruments, Challenges to Democracy"

November 20^th, Constanta, Romania

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

 

Date and place: Thursday, November 20^th, 10.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m. (Bucharest time), Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania, the Senate Hall, 1 Aleea Universității, Building A, First Floor, Newer North Campus, Constanta, Romania

Organizer: Black Sea House Association, Constanta, Romania

Co-organizers: Ovidius University Constanta, Association Initiative for Democratic European Culture / ICDE

Participants: Experts in international relations from Bulgaria, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Türkiye, Ukraine

Working languages: English and Romanian

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Thursday, November 20^th, 10.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m. (Bucharest time)

10.00-10.20: Opening of the Conference

Welcome address, introductory remarks

10.20-10.45: Keynote speaker: Mr Valentin NAUMESCU, presidential advisor for European Affairs, Presidential Administration, Romania

10.45-11.10: Keynote speaker: Mr Dorin RECEAN, former Prime Minister, Republic of Moldova, ICDE think-tank, Romania

11.10-13.10: Section I, "The EU’s Strategic Approach to the extended Black Sea region"

Moderator: Dr Dorin POPESCU, president, Black Sea House Association, Constanta, Romania

Speakers:

Rear Admiral Cornel-Eugen COJOCARU, Fleet Commander, Romania, "Strategic assessments of the Black Sea region"

Assoc. prof. Raluca MOLDOVAN, PhD, Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, president ad interim of the ICDE think-tank, Romania, "Hybrid Frontiers: The EU’s Engagement with the Black Sea Region, Turkey, and the Middle East"

Mr Iulian FOTA, former presidential advisor, currently member of the ICDE think-tank, Romania, "Black Sea – the fulcrum of  European security"

Mr Dimitar KERANOV, PhD, Member of the Managing Board, Bulgarian Institute for International Politics (BIIP), Bulgaria, "Bulgaria–Romania as the Practical Core of Black Sea Security"

Mr Marin GHERMAN, Director, Institute of Political Studies and Social Capital, Chernivtsi, Ukraine, lecturer PhD, Stefan cel Mare University, Suceava, Romania, "Regional perceptions of the EU in Chernivtsi, Transcarpathia and Odessa: between the European ideal, the mirage of integration and the traumas of war"

Mrs Natalia NECHAEVA-YURIYCHUK, Associate Professor, PhD, Department of Political Science and State Governing, Chernivtsi National University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine, "European security: from a response strategy to a system of collective resilience in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war"

Assist. Prof. Luiza-Maria FILIMON, PhD, Faculty of History and Political Science, Ovidius University Constanța, Romania, "In Search of Lost Time… The European Governance of Security and the Strategic Perspectives of the Black Sea Region"

13.10-13.40 Coffee Break

13.40-15.40: Section II, "The pontic hybrid. Initiatives and strategic approaches regarding the new regional security architecture"

Moderator: Mr Marin GHERMAN, Director, Institute of Political Studies and Social Capital, Chernivtsi, Ukraine, lecturer PhD, Stefan cel Mare University, Suceava, Romania

Speakers:

Mr Muzaffer ȘENEL, Asst. Prof. Dr., SUNY Binghamton University, Department of Politics, "Turkey’s Perspectives on the Evolving Regional Security Complexes across the Wider Black Sea Region"

Mr Ion TĂBÂRȚĂ, Executive Director, Information and Documentation Center on NATO / CID NATO, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, "The impact of the regional context and the Europeanization of the Republic of Moldova on the evolution of the Transnistrian issue"

Mr Gela VASADZE, Director of Regional Programs, Georgian Strategic Analysis Center, Tbilisi, Georgia, "The transformation of the power system in the South Caucasus countries and its impact on foreign policy"

Mr Liviu COMAN, Rear Admiral (ret), Senior Associate Expert, New Strategy Center, Romania, "The Hybrid Pontus: Maritime Security, the Backbone of the New Pontic Architecture"

Mr Mihai MOGÎLDEA, Deputy Director, Institute for European Policies and Reforms (IPRE), Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, "Romania - Moldova - Ukraine trilateral format: opportunities for enhanced regional cooperation"

Mr Serhii HAKMAN, Associate Professor, Deputy director of Chernivtsi Regional Center for Retraining and Advanced Training of Employees in Public Authorities, Vice-president of Charity Fund ”Public Resource and Initiative”, Chernivtsi, Ukraine, "Ukraine's role and place in the security architecture of the Black Sea region in the background of the Russian-Ukrainian war"

Mr Metin OMER, PhD, Researcher, Black Sea Institute, Associate Lecturer, Faculty of History and Political Science, Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania, "Ethnic Minorities and the Influence of Kin-States in the Black Sea Region: Challenges to Democracy and Regional Cohesion"

15.40-15.50: Signing of the partnership agreements

15.50-16.00: Closing of the Conference. Conclusions