Workshop on Security & Stability in the Mediterranean and the Middle East 25-27 May
Thursday 25 May
12.00-14.00 Inaugural PUBLIC EVENT
Venue: Kranidiotis Auditorium – Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Akadimias Str. 1.
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: “The Mediterranean in 2017”
(Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Akadimias Str. 1)
Speakers:
- Prof. Gregory Hall (Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, University of Kentucky, USA)
- H.E. Dr. Alia Bouran, Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean/PAM Vice-President and President of the 1st Standing PAM Committee on Security-related Cooperation (Jordanian Parliament)
- Prof. Fulvio Attinà (Università di Catania, Italy)
- Stelios Stavridis (ARAID/Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
Chair: Prof. Charalambos Tsardanidis (IDOS Athens & University of the Aegean in Rhodes, Greece)
16.30 -17.00 Registration for the Workshop
Venue: Institute of International Economic Relations,
16 Panepistimiou Str., Second Floor
17.00-19.00, Panel 1: Internal and External Challenges
Victor Valentini (Université Clermont Auvergne/UCA & Institut des Hautes Études de Défense Nationale/HEDN, France), Microstates and Mediterranean Security
George Kyris (University of Birmingham, UK), Conflict, Statehood and Sovereignty in World Politics: The International Community and Unrecognised States
Inmaculada Marrero Rocha (Universidad de Granada, Spain), Foreign Fighters and European Security
19.00 Welcome Reception
Friday 26 May
10.00 – 12.00, Panel 2: New Perspectives and Practices from the Middle East Region and Beyond
Aharon Klieman (Tel-Aviv University, Israel), Middle Eastern Declinism
Hamid Alkifaey (writer, journalist and academic, UK), Islam and democracy in Arab States
12.00 – 12.30 Coffee Break
12.30- 14.00, Panel 3: Parliamentary Diplomacy
Vivi Kefala (University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece), The Greek Parliament and the Palestinian Question: The contribution of Parliamentary Diplomacy to the solution of a “frozen” conflict
Andrea Cofelice (Center for Studies οn Federalism, Turin, Italy), The Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean and the European Parliament during the “Arab Springs”
Susannah Go (Université Paris 8, France), Cultural diplomacy at the service of proto-diplomacy? The case of the Generalitat and the Parlament de Catalunya.
14.00 – 16.00 Lunch
16.00 – 18.00, Panel 4: The European Union and the Middle East
Anas Audeh (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary), EU – Israeli Settlements Labeling: A Technicalization of Human Rights Abuses
Maria Gianniou (Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece), EU performance at the UN General Assembly: the case of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Asteris Huliaras (University of the Peloponnese, Greece) & Konstantinos Magliveras (University of the Aegean in Rhodes, Greece), Security challenges from the continuing civil war in Libya
Saturday 27 May
10.00 – 12. 00, Panel 5: Migration
Fulvio Attinà (Università di Catania, Italy), The migration crisis and the ’new normal’ in the Mediterranean region
Panagiotis Tsakonas (University of the Aegean in Rhodes & KEMEA Athens, Greece), From Actorness to Performance? Assessing EU Policies on Migration
12.00- 12.30 Coffee Break
12.30 – 14.30, Panel 6: Turkey
Charalambos Tsardanidis (Institute of International Economic Relations, Athens & University of the Aegean in Rhodes, Greece), Middle powers in the Middle East: Turkey and Iran. Towards cooperation or competition?
Daniela Irrera (Università di Catania, Italy), The EU and the Refugee Facility: an analysis of funding of NGOs as implementing actors in Turkey
End of workshop
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Cost for the workshop: 150 euro
For university students: 30 euro
For the the Inaugural Public Event entrance is for free
The cost must be paid in the account of Syndesmos AE and EPE in the National Bank
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