Panels and Themes
Session 1
June 25: 14.00 - 15.45
Room No. 404
Rules of International Order
Chair: Thomas J. Volgy (University of Arizona)
Participants:
Richard Mansbach (Iowa State University; Ross Hall), Edward Rhodes (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) 
Identity, Civil Violence, and Interstate Violence: A Theoretical Framework and Implications for European Order
Jan Karlas (Institute of International Relations, Prague, Charles University, Prague) Neoliberalism and Institutional Form in International Relations: Theoretical Precision and Empirical Challenges
Silviya Lechner (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) What does it mean to talk of rules, rights and obligations in international relations?
Holger Mölder (University of Tartu) 
Can Democratic Peace Work as Regime? Resolving the Emerging Cooperative Security Dilemma in Europe
Room No. 405
Cultural Dimension of European Integration I
Chair: Zuzana Lehmannová (University of Economics, Prague)
Participants:
Vassil Anastassov (Fatih University, Istanbul) The Language Communication of United Europe
Zuzana Lehmannová (University of Economics, Prague) European Culture and Integration
Discussant: Eliška Tomalová (Institute of International Relations, Prague)
Room No. 406
Explaining Foreign Policies
Chair: Felix Berenskoetter (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Participants:
Wolfgang Wagner (Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt) 
Explaining Variation in Parliamentary Control of Government Use of Force
Arto Nokkala (University of Tampere) Russia in the Institutional Military Discourse of the EU-Finland
Room No. 427
Internal Security and Civil Liberties in Europe
Chair: Marek Migalski (Faculty of Political Science, Katowice)
Participants:
Radka Druláková (University of Economics, Prague) Post-democracy within the EU: Internal Security vs. human rights - unavoidable conflict?
Simon Dalferth (International University, Bremen) Civil Liberties and Security in Europeanised National Police Policy
Artur Gruszczak (Jagiellonian University, Krakow) Managing Internal Security in a Wider Europe: Norms, Interests and Instruments
Room No. 215
Russia and its EU neighbours
Chair: Anna Herranz (Institute Universitari d'Estudis Europeus, Barcelona)
Participants:
Eiki Berg (University of Tartu) The Baltic Gateway: Corridor Leading Towards Three Different Directions?
Paulina Pospieszna Neighbor Effect on Russia's Economic Development after the EU Eastern Enlargement
Jevgenia Viktorova (University of St Andrews) European integration and transformation of border conflicts: Discursive spaces in Estonian-Russian relations
Room No. 222
The Future of the EU
Chair: Adrianna Kosowska (University of Wrocław)
Participants:
Anna Rulska (Old Dominion University, Norfolk) America Redux, Europe Recast: Selected Issues in the American and European integration processes
Evgeny V. Golovinov (St. Petersburg State University, St Petersburg) The Prospects for the European Constitution
Sharon Pardo (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Lior Zemer (University of Leicester) Taking the Enlarged Neighbourhood to the European Court of Justice
Room No. 307
Central Europe: co-operation and political dynamics
Chair: Michal Kořan (Institute of International Relations, Prague)
Participants:
Pavel Hnát (University of Economics, Prague) European subregionalism in the process of Eastern Enlargement
Malgorzata Dziembała (The Karol Adamiecki University of Economics, Katowice) Contribution of the EU regional policy to development of the cross-border cooperation and the challenges for Poland
Vladimír Handl (Institute of International Relations, Prague) Germany and the Visegrad Countries at the End of the Red-Green Government
Erhan Buyukakinci (Galatasaray University, Istanbul) Considering the decline of the left in power in Central and Eastern Europe: Why did the Neo-communist parties fail in elections in the 2000s?
Discussant: Michal Kořan (Institute of International Relations, Prague)Session 2
June 26: 9.00 – 10.45
Room No. 404Ontology of International Order
Chair: Stefano Guzzini (Danish Institute of International Studies, Copenhagen and Uppsala University)
Participants:
Alexander Astrov (University of Tartu) On The Ontological Status of World Society: How Do We Know and why Should We Care?
Hidemi Suganami (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) Concepts and consequences of sovereignty
Silviya Lechner (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) Missing epistemology: the 'social' and the 'theoretical' in Wendt’s Social Theory
Room No. 405
Cultural Dimension of European Integration II
Chair: Vladimír Kváča (University of Economics, Prague)
Participants:
Radka Neumannová (University of Economics, Prague) Construction of Europe and the Cultural Diversity
Eliška Tomalová (Institute of International Relations, Prague) Cultural Integration of the New Member States – The Case of the Czech Republic
Tomáš Doležal (University of Economics, Prague) The cultural and political identities of a Centro European within the EU
Discussant: Vassil Anastassov (Fatih University, Istanbul)Room No. 406
Media construction of IR
Chair: Arto Nokkala (University of Tampere, Tampere)
Participants:
Ekaterina Balabanova (University of Leicester) Media mis/representation of war?: War on terror in the British and Bulgarian press
Katri Vallaste (University of Helsinki) Manifestations of intra- and transnational EU-criticism in Estonian and Finnish newspapers 2001-2005
Room No. 427
European Integration and European Public
Chair: Mats Braun (Institute of International Relations, Prague)
Participants:
Piret Ehin (University of Tartu) Public attitudes towards the EU’s current transformation
Aune Past (University of Helsinki) The concept of imagenated EU from a grass-root image formation perspective
Room No. 215
Russia and Estonia: An Institutionalist Approach
Chair: Vahur Made (Estonian School of Diplomacy, Tallinn)
Participants:
Dmitry Bolotov (St. Petersburg State University) The Potential of Cross-border cooperation between Russia and Estonia
Elena Fofanova (St. Petersburg State University) Russia and Estonia: The Emergence of Conflicting Belief Systems?
Konstantin Khudoley (St. Petersburg State University) The Russia and Estonia: What will be in the future?
Discussant: Vahur Made (Estonian School of Diplomacy, Tallinn)
Room No. 217
Preparing for the Turkish EU accession
Chair: Viktoriya Khasson (University of Ghent)
Participants:
Marcos Farias-Ferreira (Lisbon Technical University, Lisbon) The Politics of Speaking 'Europe' Making constructivist sense of Turkey's Europeanness and accession to the EU
Mathias Albert (Universität Bielefeld), Jochen Walter (Universität Bielefeld) Strategies of inclusion and exlusion: the debate on Turkish accession to the EU
Bulent Acma (Anadolu University, Eskisehir) Political and Economic Outcoumes of the Process of Turkey's Integreation to the European Union
Room No. 222
Political Economy of the EU I
Chair: Kateřina Joklová (University of Economics, Prague)
Participants:
Konstantin Golubev (St. Petersburg State University) The Issue of Counteracting the Threats of Globalization in Europe: the Antiglobalist Perspective
Ivana Faltova Leitmanova (University of Economics, Prague), Klara Kaderabkova (University of Economics, Prague) Social aspects of convergency between economies and labour market specifics
Room No. 306
European Foreign Policy
Chair: Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar (Tallinn University)
Participants:
Anna Herranz (Institute Universitari d'Estudis Europeus, Barcelona), Michal Natorski (Institute Universitari d'Estudis Europeus, Barcelona) Interactions between bilateral relations of the EU member states and the European Foreign Policy. Case of Polish-Ukrainian and German-Russian relations and the making of the new European Ostpolitk
Raphael Bossong (London School of Economics and Political Science) EU foreign policy in response to international terrorism
Csaba Törö (Kodolanyi Janos College/McDaniel College, Budapest) The extension of the normative influence of the European Union through pacification and state-building in the Balkans and possibly beyond
Room No. 307
Cleaning the CEE institutions
Chair: Vladimír Handl (Institute of International Relations, Prague)
Participants:
Javier Ortiz de Artińano (Universidad Autonoma, Madrid) Corruption in East Europe: The development of clean institutions
Miroslav Nožina (Institute of International Relations, Prague) European Crossroads of Crime. The Czech Republic Case
Session 3
June 26: 11.00 – 12.45
Room No. 405
Metaphors in political theory
Chair: Susanna Hast (University of Lapland, Rovaniemi)
Participants:
Susanna Hast (University of Lapland, Rovaniemi) The Concept of Sphere of Influence
Mika Luoma-aho (University of Lapland, Rovaniemi) Personhood of State and Political Theocracy of IR
José Mauricio Angel-Morales (Université catholique de Louvain), Juan Pedro Plaza i Font (Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona) The idea of chaotic system as a metaphor for the international arena
Petr Drulák (Institute of International Relations, Prague), Königová Lucie (Institute of International Relations, Prague) Figuring Out Europe: EU Metaphors in the Heads of Czech Civil Servants
Room No. 406
National Elites in Foreign Policy Making
Chair: Piret Ehin (University of Tartu)
Participants:
Felix Berenskoetter (London School of Economics and Political Science), Bastian Giegerich (International Institute of Strategic Studies) From NATO to ESDP? Tracing shifts in German institutional preferences after the end of the Cold War
Karolina Pomorska (Loughborough University), Melchior Szczepanik (Loughborough University) Elites adapting to Europe : Polish politicians and diplomats in the European Parliament and the Council
Petr Kratochvíl (Institute of International Relations, Prague) Resisting the EUnticement: The Russian Elite and Europeanisation
Room No. 215
Use and Misuse of the Concept of Empire in Russian Political and Scholarly Discourses
Chair: Viatcheslav Morozov (St. Petersburg State University)
Participants:
Artemy Magun (European University, St Petersburg) The concept of empire in political theory and its contemporary resurgence
Viatcheslav Morozov (St. Petersburg State University) Imperial Discourse in Russian International Studies
Alexander M. Semyonov (St. Petersburg State University) Imperial Complications and Implications: Historiographic Development of the Field of Studies of Empire in Russian History
Discussant: Sergei Medvedev (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
Room No. 222
Political Economy of the EU II
Chair: Jan Drahokoupil (Central European University, Budapest)
Participants:
Kateřina Joklová (University of Economics, Prague) Changes in Single Market since 2004: What Is Behind? (Case of the Service Sector)
Jan Čadil (University of Economics, Prague), Bozena Kadeřábková (University of Economics, Prague) Evoluation of neoclasical model of regional migration: the case of the Czech Republic
Andrei Yakovlev (Institute for Industrial and Market Studies at State University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow) Russian Shuttle Traders and Dynamics of Integration Into the Global Markets
Room No. 306
European democracy promotion
Chair: Pertti Joenniemi (Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen)
Participants:
Sascha Werthes (University of Duisburg-Essen) uman Security as a Political Leitmotif for Europe
Skyne Uku Wertimer (California State University) The European Union Initiatives for Democracy and Peacekeeping Operations in Africa
Room No. 307
Extending the EU’s norms and values to the east - The cases of Ukraine and Moldova
Chair: Kristi Raik (The Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki)
Participants:
Kristi Raik (The Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki) Promoting democracy bottom-up: How can the EU promote democracy in the Eastern neighbourhood through supporting civil society?
Hiski Haukkala (The Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki) The EU as a Regional Normative Hegemon: The Case of European Neighbourhood Policy
Olga Shumylo Matching the needs of Ukraine's transition with the EU assistance
Discussant: Eiki Berg (University of Tartu)
Room No. 327
The UN and conflict resolution
Chair: Mario Alessi (Italian United Nations Association)
Participants:
Yvona Šabacká (University of Economics, Prague) The role of the international organizations in the Middle East with the focus on the United Nations
Vladimíra Knotková (University of Economics, Prague) East Timor: The United Nations and the process of self-determination
Vladimír Kváča (University of Economics, Prague) The United Nations and the conflict resolution in Africa
Slavomir Goga (University of Economics, Prague) The role of UN during and after the war in Bosnia – Herzegovina
Session 4
June 26: 14.30 – 16.15
Room No. 404
The revival of geopolitical thought in Europe?
Chair: Stefano Guzzini (Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen and Uppsala University)
Participants:
Alexander Astrov (University of Tratu), Natalia Morozova Geopolitics from the Heartland: What is 'Heartland' in Russian Contemporary Eurasian Thinking?
Pinar Bilgin (Bilkent University, Ankara) 'Jeopolitik' as dogma in Turkey
Petr Drulák (Institute of International Relations, Prague) Czech geopolitics: Struggling for survival
Room No. 427
EU and minorities II
Chair: Katri Vallaste (University of Helsinki)
Participants:
Erika Harris (University of Liverpool) Moving politics beyond the state? Hungarian minority in Slovakia
Emre I. Isik (Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Istanbul) Marble or Mosaic: Turkey, EU and Minority Rights
Gaëlle Pellon (Université Catholique de Louvain) The pan-Europeanization of the minority issue: the case of the Russian minority in the Baltic Area. Paper will be presented by Juan Pedro Plaza i Font (Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona).
Fabio Zuccheri (University of Siena) The Use of Norms and Conditionality by EU during the Accession Process: the Case of Politics towards Minorities
Room No. 215
Russia’s quest for identity
Chair: Alexander Izotov (St. Petersburg State University)
Participants:
Sergei Medvedev (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) Conspiracy theory in the shaping of Russian identity
Oksana V. Goncharova (Russian Academy of Public Administration under President of Russian Federation) Russia among European Countries: yesterday, today, tomorrow
Kari Kaunismaa Education of citizenship in Soviet and Russian school history books
Igor V. Gretskiey (St. Petersburg State University) The 2004 Presidential Elections in Ukraine and the Russian Foreign Policy
Room No. 217
EU’s Neighbourhood Policy
Chair: Bulent Acma (Anadolu University, Eskisehir)
Participants:
Jean F. Crombois (American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad) The European Neighbourhood Policy and Conflict Resolution in the Mediterranean and in Black Sea
Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar (Tallinn University) European Neighbourhood Policy: EU politics between inclusion and exclusion
Viktoriya Khasson (University of Ghent) Towards the 'Europe of Regions': perspectives for regional approaches in the EU relations with the new neighborhood in Eastern Europe
Room No. 222
European governance I
Chair: Csaba Törö (Kodolanyi Janos College/McDaniel College, Budapest)
Participants:
Marek Migalski (Faculty of Political Science, Katowice) Tomasz Pietrzykowski (Faculty of Law and Administration, Katowice) Europe of Interests vs Europe of Rights. Two approaches to integration.
Michael E. Smith (University of St. Andrews), Katja Weber (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta) Governance Theories, Regional Integration, and EU Foreign Policy
Elsa Tulmets (European University Institute, Florence) New Modes of Governance in EU’s External Relations: Transferring the Experience of Enlargement to the Neighbourhood Policy
Room No. 307
EU’s Eastern Dimension
Chair: Elzbieta Stadtmuller (University of Wrocław)
Participants:
Adrianna Kosowska (University of Wrocław) Dimensionalism as a national policy in the EU
Thomas Lane (University of Bradford) The EU's Russia Policy after the recent Enlargement: Continuity or Change?
Elzbieta Stadtmuller (University of Wrocław) Towards regional governance of the EU through 'Eastern dimension'. Polish input
Room No. 327
The Limits of Transnational Neo-Liberalism 1: Contradictions of the Neo-Liberal European Integration Project
Chair: Bastiaan van Apeldoorn (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
Participants:
Otto Holman (University of Amsterdam) Socialising Structural Policy. Disembedding neoliberalism and the transnational dimension of core-periphery relation in the European Union
Laura Horn (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) Bringing in the Experts – The Role of Transnational Expert Groups in the Transformation of Corporate Governance Regulation in the European Union
Henk Overbeek (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) EU Business Taxation and the Limits to Transnational Neo-Liberalism
Leila Simona Talani (University of Bath) Dead Stability and Growth Pact and a Strong Euro: There Must be a Mistake
Session 5
June 26: 16.30 – 18.15
Room No. 404
Theorising IR today
Chair: Stefano Guzzini (Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen and Uppsala University)
Participants:
Richard Ned Lebow (Dartmouth College) Fear, Interest and Honor: Hesitant Steps Toward a Theory of International Relations
Hidemi Suganami (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) Narrative explanation in IR
Room No.405
Explaining Enlargement
Chair: Juan Pedro Plaza i Font (Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona)
Participants:
Vít Beneš (Institute of International Relations, Prague) What stance towards the EU? The demand side of the EU enlargement reconsidered
Frank Schimmelfennig (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich), Guido Schwellnus (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) Political Conditionality and Convergence. The EU’s Impact on Democracy, Human Rights, and Minority Protection in Central and Eastern Europe
Elizabeth Fausett (University of Arizona), Thomas J Volgy (University of Arizona) Global and Regional Webs of Intergovernmental Organizations and the Strategic Choice to Join: An Analysis of Choices Made by former Communist European States and the Newly Emerging Republics of the former Soviet Union
Room No. 215
EU and Russia I
Chair: Paulina Pospieszna
Participants:
Anke Schmidt-Felzmann (University of Glasgow) Is Bigger Better? Strengths and Weaknesses of the Enlarged European Union in its Relations With the Russian Federation
Alexander Izotov (St. Petersburg State University) Transformation of the EU-Russian relations after four common spaces roadmaps signature: towards a new model of cooperation or stagnating interactions
Anna Rulska (Old Dominion University, Norfolk) The European Union Energy Policy: An Initiative in ProgressDiscussant: Tatiana Romanova (St. Petersburg State University)
Room No. 217
EU’s Northern dimension
Chair: Marcos Farrias-Fereira (Lisbon Technical University)
Participants:
Natalia Malashkina (Baltic Research Center, St.-Petersburg) The Barents Region: From Confrontation to Cooperation
Tobias Etzold (Manchester Metropolitan University) Regional organisations and EU's Northern Dimension: objectives, differences, possibilities of co-operation and regional organisations' future
Matthieu Chillaud (University of Bordeaux) France as a European ‘Northern Power’?
Discussant: Henriette Riegler (Austrian Institute for International Affairs. Vienna)
Room No. 222
European governance II
Chair: Jan Karlas (Institute of International Relations, Prague, Charles University, Prague)
Participants:
Julia Boman (University of Tartu) Europeanization Through Cross-Border Cooperation on the EU’s external borders: Towards A Multi-Level Governance?
Patricia M. Keilbach (University of Colorado) Governance or Government? Explaining Diverging Paths of Environmental Protection Reforms in an Enlarged European Union
Stine Andersen (European University Institute, F) The European Commission's quest for strengthened powers of enforcement Procedural and substantive appraisal of selected legislative proposals
Room No. 307
Middle East
Chair: Lerna K. Yanik (Bilkent University, Ankara)
Participants:
Elena Melkumyan (Moscow State University) EU-GCC Relationship: future prospects
Bezen Balamir Coskun (Loughborough University) Old Europe, New Europe and the European Union’s Middle East Policy between Old and New Europe
Room No. 327
The Limits of Transnational Neo-Liberalism 2: Transnationalization and Neoliberalism in East Central Europe
Chair: Alan Cafruny (Hamilton College, New York)
Participants:
Jan Drahokoupil (Central European University, Budapest) Transnationalization of the state as a local project: The state and transnational capital in the Central and Eastern Europe
Annette Freyberg-Inan (University of Amsterdam) Graduating from the IMF to the EU: How Romanian Policymakers Learn to "Master" European Economic Governance
Arjan Vliegenthart (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) The Limits of Enlargement as a Project of Transnational Neo-Liberal Restructuring: the Case of Corporate Governance Reform in ECE
Session 6
June 27: 9.00 – 10.45
Room No. 404National Security Reconsidered
Chair: Anton L. Shynkaruk (Rivne Institute of Slavonic studies)
Participants:
Rita Taureck (University of Birmingham) Critical Approaches to Security – Telling the Story of Securitisation Theory
Anna Leander (University of Southern Denmark, Odense) Security as Business: Towards a Technical, De-politicized Use of Force
Boštjan Udovič (University of Ljubljana) Economic security: Large and small states in enlarged Europe
Pertti Joenniemi (Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen), Christopher S. Browning (University of Birmingham) Gibraltar, Jerusalem, Kaliningrad; Laying the Ground for Post-Constructivist Analysis
Room No. 406
Transatlantic relations
Chair: Karolina Pomorska (Loughborough University)
Participants:
Stefan Robel (Technische Universität Dresden), Daniel Ristau (Technische Universität Dresden) U.S. Hegemony and the "New Europe": The Iraq War, Transatlantic Relations and the Case of Poland
David Bosold (Philipps-University Marburg), Kai Oppermann (University of Cologne) Governments as Gatekeepers: Mediating domestic and international Discoursesin two-level games
Room No. 427
National Identities in Europe I
Chair: Aune Past (University of Tartu, University of Helsinki)
Participants:
Mats Braun (Institute of International Relations, Prague) A Comparative Approach to National Discourses on European Unity: the Czech Republic, Sweden and the Constitutional Treaty
Grazina Miniotaite (Military Academy of Lithuania) Lithuania in Search for European Identity: From Modernity towards Post-Modernity?
Ondřej Horký (Institute of International Relations, Prague) Development policy in new EU member states: re-emerging donors on the way from compulsory altruism to global responsibility
Room No. 215
EU and Russia II
Chair: Alexander M. Semyonov (St. Petersburg State University)
Participants:
Tatiana Romanova (St. Petersburg State University) EU-Russian Relations through the Prism of IR and Integration Theories
Natalia Zaslavskaya (St. Petersburg State University) European Union's Policy towards Russia: Projecting Democracy?
Saari Sinikukka (The Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki) In search of better European human rights strategy towards Russia
Discussant: Petr Kratochvíl (Institute of International Relations, Prague)Room No. 217
EU’s Mediterranean Policy
Chair: Ron Linden (University of Pittsburgh)
Participants:
Sarah Wolff (London School of Economics) Police and Judicial cooperation in the Mediterranean: EU's international actorness by the backdoor?
Zlatko Šabič (University of Ljubljana) Ana Bojinovič (University of Ljubljana) State and Non-state Actors in regional institutional webs: the case of the Mediterranean
Room No. 222
Chair: Alberto Nones (University of Cambridge)
Participants:
Akos Kopper (International University Bremen) The Transformation of State-Citizen Relationship in Europe
Olcay Canbulat (Ege University) Citizen, Refugee and Free Circulation Restriction in European Union
Room No. 306
NATO Enlargement and its future
Chair: Andres Kasekamp (University of Tartu)
Participants:
Jim Seroka (Auburn University) NATO expansion and Security Considerations in the Balkans
Glen M. Segell (Institute of Security Policy, Tottenham) Reflecting NATO and EU Enlargement (2004) and the Emerging CFSP/ESDP
Room No. 327
The Limits of Transnational Neo-Liberalism 3: Contradictions of Neoliberalism in Eastern and Southeastern Europe
Chair: Henk Overbeek (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)Participants:
Bastiaan van Apeldoorn (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) The Lisbon Agenda and the Legitimacy Crisis of European Socio-Economic Governance: the Future of 'Embedded Neo-Liberalism'
Alan Cafruny (Hamilton College, New York), Magnus Ryner (University of Birmingham) The EMU and the Transatlantic and Social Dimensions of the Crisis of the European Union
Angela Wigger (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Towards a Market-Based Approach: The Privatization and Micro-Economization of EU Antitrust Law Enforcement
Session 7
June 27: 11.00 – 12.45
Room No. 405
Public Diplomacy
Chair: Eliška Tomalová (Institute of International Relations, Prague)
Participants:
Milan Brglez (University of Ljubljana) The politics of cultural diplomacy?
Anton L. Shynkaruk (Rivne Institute of Slavonic studies) Network Principles in Foreign Policy of Central and Eastern European Countries
Jana Peterková (University of Economics, Prague) Public diplomacy strategy for the Czech Republic
Room No. 406
Gender in IR
Chair: Ekaterina Balabanova (University of Leicester)
Participants:
Nejat Dogan (Erciyes University, Kayseri), Behiye Kose (Kayseri Bar Association, Kayseri), Serap Altuntas (Kayseri Bar Association, Kayseri) Turkey and Women Rights: A Case for Cultural Convergence in Europe
Lynette Jordan (University of Glasgow) Croatia's accession to the EU: the benefits for women joining the club
Room No. 427
National Identities in Europe II
Chair: Elsa Tulmets (European University Institute, Florence)
Participants:
Alberto Nones (University of Cambridge) The relationship between a force of accommodation and a force of assimilation in Europe -- a relationship that could forge a concept of European identity suitable for a wider Europe
Jim Headley (University of Otago, Dunedin) Ethnic Relations and Ideas of the Nation in the Enlarged European Union
Michal Kořan (Institute of International Relations, Prague) Austrian Neutrality: „Burden of History“ in Making or a "Moral Good" (Re)discovered?
Radim Sršeň (University of Economics, Prague) Analysis of the specific approach of Denmark to the processes of the European integration and possible parallels to the approaches of new EU members from Eastern Europe
Room No. 217
EU’s South Eastern and Eastern Enlargement
Chair: Olivia Toderean (Babes Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
Participants:
Ron Linden (University of Pittsburgh) Turkish Accession: Possible Impact on Romania and Bulgaria
Henriette Riegler (Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Vienna) The South Eastern European Enlargement of the European Union - Complexities, Contradictions, Paradoxes
Klara Bratova (University of Economics, Prague) The EU policy towards West Balkan - the case of Serbia and Montenegro
Room No. 306
European Security Strategy
Chair: Raphael Bossong
Participants:
Paraschos Lianos (University of Leicester) European Security Strategy as time goes by…
Tiago Marques (Tallinn University) The European Security Strategy – Practicing Supranational Interests While Securing the Wider Neighbourhood?
Tarýk H. Oguzlu (Bilkent University, Ankara) Transformative Impact of EU's Enlargement on EU's Security Identity: The Case of Turkish Acession
Room No. 307
Identity Constructions in the Black Sea Region
Chair: Hiski Haukkala (The Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki)
Participants:
Lerna K. Yanik (Bilkent University, Ankara) Normalization through Change? Russia, Turkey and the EU in the Black Sea Region and Beyond
Vít Střítecký (Institute of International Relations, Prague) The Perspectives of the ENP towards the South Caucasus
Ebru Thwaites (Lancaster University) A Critical De-construction of Attempts to Present the Turkish State as Exceptional Phenomena
Discussant: Jevgenia Viktorova (University of St Andrews)