Roundtable Discussion on the Ukraine Crisis
Wednesday 12th March, 5-6:30pm Room: Milldam LE0.06
The recent events in Ukraine are of significant importance to the future of European Security. Russian actions in Crimea have received wide-spread condemnation and raised fears and media speculation in the West of a ‘new Cold War’. At the same time, Russia has questioned the legitimacy of the current government in Ukraine and the crisis has, so far, left European and US security responses wanting. As the most serious tensions between Russia and the West since the Russia-Georgia War, this crisis exposes one of the major geo-political and ideological fault lines in European security and highlights important questions surrounding democracy in Eastern Europe, revolution and security, the limits of European unity and forms of Western and Russian influence and power.
This roundtable session will include:
•Ed Stoddard – Introduction: Conceptualising the Ukraine Crisis
•Paul Flenley – Reflections on the current Ukraine crisis
•Followed by open discussion.
In particular, we will examine a series of questions:
•What are the causes of the current crisis?
•How legitimate are the actions of respective parties?
•What forms of leverage does each side in the conflict have?
•What does the conflict mean for Western (NATO/EU) – Russian relations?
•How can these developments be conceptualised?
Open to all but spaces are limited – please confirm attendance by emailing ed.stoddard@port.ac.uk
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