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Increased status and possibilities of countries that since recently have been referred to as “the world majority” is the most impactful trend of contemporary global development. Examples are numerous, which indicates anti-colonialism in its present form. Meanwhile, the world majority is far from consolidated and evolves in the macro-environment created by the Global North from a substantial, institutional and to a considerable extent ideological-normative perspective. Based on regional experience, to trace the extent to which countries of the world majority are able to develop a consolidating agenda of cooperation, synergizing it with global processes and simultaneously amending them according to their interests, as well as explore in detail parallel processes in the regions of the Global North, is a timely academic and applied task.

The Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University, organizes the Fifth Anniversary Conference on regional developments amid global trends. In an effort to discuss the most impactful processes in different regions of the world, as well as the methodology of regional studies as an individual research area, the Conference brings together top Russian and foreign scholars and their young colleagues.

Programme of the Conference

11 Pokrovsky boulevard

  • 30 November (Thursday)
  • 1 December (Friday)
  • 10:00 – 11:00 (rus-eng) A201

    Conference Opening Ceremony

  • 11:00 – 12:00 (rus-eng) A201

    Plenary report 'Russia's Policy on the World Majority'

    Sergey A. Karaganov, Professor, Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Academic Supervisor of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

    Dmitry Trenin, Research Professor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University, Leading Researcher at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

  • 12:00 – 12:30 A210

    Coffee Break

  • 12:30 – 14:30 (rus-eng) A201

    Section 1. 'Middle East Countries and the New Financial and Economic World Order: the Region's Potential, Prospects of Interaction With the Russian Federation'

    Moderator: Andrey Baklanov

    Central topics:

    • New world order: how the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries see it, perception of Russian approaches
    • Multilateral formats: prospects for interaction of regional states with BRICS, SCO, EAEU
    • Trans-regional ties, formation of a new geopolitical space - Asia - Middle East, on the activities of the international expert group on this subject.
    • Prospects of interaction of the MENA region countries with the Russian Federation, tasks of the scientific community
  • 12:30 – 14:30 (rus-eng) A209

    Section 2. 'Western Politics and Institutions in New Reality'

    Moderator: Alexey Gromyko, Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa

    Central topics:

    • Economic policies of Western countries and energy co-operation with the World Majority Countries
    • National and memory politics in search of identity
    • National and regional security strategies in response to the challenges of the reshaping of the world order
    • The European Parliament as an institution of Western integration and its future
    • The EU's latest foreign policy initiatives in relations with non-Western countries
  • 12:30 – 14:30 (rus) A208

    Section 3. 'Modern Regional Studies: Methodological Issues'

    Moderator: Evgeny Kanaev

    Central topics:

    • Regional studies on the professional chart;
    • Regional studies vs other professional training areas (International Relations, World Economy, Asian Studies etc.): a comparison of competences;
    • Specific scientific and disciplinary methods of regional studies: Is the synergy of trans-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary methods sufficient?
    • Regional studies: prospects for inclusion in the nomenclature of scientific specialties for awarding academic degrees;
    • Approaches to regional studies methodology in different countries: what can russian specialists learn?
  • 14:30 – 15:30 A210

    Coffee Break

  • 15:30 –18:00 (rus-eng) A201

    Section 4. 'South Asia: Foreign Policy and Economic Priorities'

    Moderator: Olga Solodkova

    Central topics:

    • India's economic growth
    • India's foreign policy in South Asia
    • Pakistan's growing role in international relations
  • 15:30– 18:00 (rus-eng) A208

    Section 5. 'Consolidation or Fragmentation of the "World Majority"? Experience of South-East Asia'

    Moderator: Evgeny Kanaev

    Central topics:

    • The ASEAN Community Project 2025: should we expect an extension? 
    • ASEAN-centric multilateral dialogue: maintaining or losing relevance to the region and the world?
    • ASEAN and its dialogue partners in the face of escalating international tensions
  • 15:30 – 18:00 (rus) A209

    Section 6. 'North-East Asia (China, North and South Korea, Japan, Mongolia): Regional Asymmetries, Challenges and Security Resources'

    Moderator: Sergey Luzyanin

    Central topics:

    • Russia's Pivot to the East: East Asian dimension
    • Specifics of regional and global rise of the People's Republic of China
    • Security issues in the region: challenges and threats
    • Korean Peninsula: opportunities and deadlocks of denuclearisation
    • Russia-Mongolia-China Triangle: Geopolitical and economic aspects.
  • 11:00 – 13:00 (rus-eng) A208

    Section 6. 'Latin America in the Context of Formation of the World Multipolarity'

    Moderator: Olga Volosyuk

    Central topics:

    • Political processes in Latin America within the scope of of regional and global development
    • Latin America as part of the new world economic order
    • Countries of the World Majority: building the South-South Dialogue
    • Russia and Latin America: Quo vadis?
  • 13:00 – 14:00 A210

    Coffee Break

  • 14:00 – 16:00 (rus-eng) A201

    Closing ceremony 'The Global South in a New Geopolitical Reality'

    Moderator: Olga Volosyuk

  • 11:00 – 17:00 (eng) Online

    Online conference of young researchers

Registration


Registration of participants for the main sections of the conference

Register

To register an application for the conference paper presentation, please fill in the registration form carefully and correctly and save it in Word-document format. Then you should send this document to the email address of the Conference Organising Committee (weic@hse.ru) until 23:59 (MSC) on 20 November 2023.

Registration form (DOCX, 1,42 Мб)
 
Location: HSE University - Russian Federation, Moscow, 11 Pokrovsky Boulevard
Working language: Russian, English (simultaneous interpretation).
Possible forms of participation: offline and online


The organisers do not cover travel and accommodation expenses of the participants.

The honorary Chairmen of the Organising Committee

Sergey A. Karaganov
Doctor of Science, Professor, Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign Defence Policy, Academic Supervisor of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Anastasia Likhacheva
PhD, Associate Professor, Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Organising Committee

Olga V. Volosyuk

Doctor of Science, Professor, Head of the School of International Regional Studies, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University, Chairmen of the Organising Committee

Evgeny Kanaev

Doctor of Science, Professor, Head of the CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department, School of International Regional Studies, HSE University

Sergey Luzyanin

Doctor of Science, Professor of the School of International Regional Studies, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Andrey Baklanov

PhD, Professor, Head of the Centre for African Studies, School of International Regional Studies, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Olga Solodkova

PhD, Associate Professor, Head of South Asia Studies Section, School of International Regional Studies, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa

Doctor of Science, Professor of the School of International Regional Studies, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Olga Kharina

PhD, Assosiate Professor of the School of International Regional Studies, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Working group

Murad Sadygzade

Visiting Lecturer, School of International Regional Studies, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Yuliya Alekseeva

Lecturer, School of International Regional Studies, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Ilya Kozylov

Lecturer, School of International Regional Studies, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Aisylu Garayeva

Programme Manager of the Socioeconomic and Political Development of Modern Asia, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Alexandra Khiteva

Manager, Administrative Support Centre, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

Ana Livia Esteves

PhD candidate at the School of International Regional Studies at HSE University

Feedback form

Contacts

For all organisational questions, please contact Murad Sadygzade, msadygzade@hse.ru, tel. +7 495 772 95 90 ext. 23310