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DRAFT PROGRAMME

EURINT 2016 International Conference (5th edition) The Eastern Partnership under strain – time for a rethink?

20-21 May, 2016 | Centre for European Studies, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi, Romania

Thursday, 19 May 2016

Arrival of the participants & invited lecturers

Friday, 20 May 2016

08.30 – 09.30 Registration of participants (Venue: “Hall of the lost steps” – A Building) 09.30 – 10.00 Opening ceremony. Welcoming remarks (Venue: Aula Magna – A Building) 10.00 – 11.00 EURINT Keynote lecture: Mr. Radek Sikorski 11.00 – 11.15 Coffee Break & Refreshments / Networking opportunities 11.15 – 12.45 EURINT Talks 12.45 – 14.00 Lunch Break 14.00 – 18.00 Parallel Sessions 14.00 – 18.00 Workshop 16.00 – 16.15 Coffee Break 19.00 – Dinner

Saturday, 21 May 2016

09.00 – 10.45 Scientific panel 10.45 – 11.00 Coffee Break & Refreshments / Networking opportunities 11.00 – 13.00 Parallel Sessions 13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break 14.00 – 16.00 Parallel Sessions 16.00 – 19.00 Sightseeing tour of Iasi 20.00 – Official closing dinner

EURINT TALKS: “The geopolitics of the ‘shared’ neighbourhood: the EaP region between the Euro-Atlantic community and Russia”

Friday, 20 May | 11.15 – 12.45

Matthew RHODES (George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany)

Richard SAWKA (University of Kent, United Kingdom)

Nadia ARBATOVA (Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Moscow, Russia)

Ralf ROLOFF (George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany)

Armand GOȘU (University of Bucharest, Romania) Moderator: Masoud Kalesar IMANI (Euronews, Lyon, France) SCIENTIFIC PANEL: “The effectiveness of the EaP in the light of recent events”

Saturday, 21 May | 9.00 – 10.45

Elena KOROSTELEVA (University of Kent, United Kingdom)

Cristian NIȚOIU (London School of Economics, United Kingdom)

Lucian DÎRDALĂ (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania)

Vsevolod SAMOKHVALOV (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) Moderator: Teodor Lucian MOGA (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) WORKSHOP: Building resilience in the EU’s neighbourhood countries. New approaches for a more effective EaP

Friday, 20 May | 14.00 – 18.00 Moderators: Gabriela Carmen PASCARIU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania), Ramona ȚIGĂNAȘU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania)

Michael-Detlef BOLLE (Free University, Berlin, Germany)

Oliver FLAESCHNER (Free University, Berlin, Germany)

Sergiy GERASYMCHUK (Strategic and Security Studies Group, Kiev, Ukraine)

Adrian John HEALY (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)

Eleni KARAVELI (Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece)

Adelaide DUARTE (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

Angelantonio ROSATO (CeSPI - Centro Studi Politica Internazionale, Roma, Italy)

Gilles ROUET (Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, France)

Gabriela Carmen PASCARIU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania)

Carmen PINTILESCU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania)

Ramona ȚIGĂNAȘU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania)

Yuval WEBER (National Research University, Moscow, Russia)

Dariusz Wojciech WOJAKOWSKI (University of Rzeszów, Poland)

Grigorios ZAROTIADIS (Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki, Greece)

EURINT Parallel Sessions

SESSION 1:

Cooperation or confrontation? Insights into current EU-Russia relations and their impact on the wider neighbourhood

Moderators: Lucian DÎRDALĂ (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania),

Cristian NIȚOIU (London School of Ecomonics, United Kingdom)

Friday, 20 May, 14.00-18:00

Adrian POP (National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania) - From Cooperation to Confrontation: The Impact of the Bilateral Negative Perceptions and Interaction in the Shared Neighbourhood on the EU- Russia Relations

Vasif HUSEYNOV (University of Göttingen, Netherlands) - Why does Russia fail to stop EU-zation in the Former Soviet Union? Prospects of EaP in the South Caucasus

Aram TERZYAN (Yerevan State University, Armenia) - The evolution of the EU’s conception in foreign policy discourse of Armenia: Implications for U-turn and the path beyond the Association Agreement

Ani GRIGORYAN (National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia) - Armenia and EU: security agenda as a fresh start for engagement

Hayk PARONYAN (European Regional Academy, Yerevan, Armenia) - EU-Armenia relations: Challenges and future prospects

Fabio INDEO (University of Camerino, Italy) - Post soviet space between EaP and Eurasian Union: the case of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan

Fabienne BOSSUYT (Ghent University, Belgium) - Central and Eastern European perceptions of the Eurasian Economic Union: fears of renewed Russian hegemony?

Roxana HÎNCU, Giselle BOSSE (Maastricht University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Netherlands) - ‘Hard security’ vs. ‘big business’? Explaining Bulgaria’s and Romania’s responses to the war in Ukraine

Dorin DUSCIAC (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Saclay, France), Nicu POPESCU (EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris, France) - EU-Russia and the energy dimension of the EaP

Alexandru MAXIM (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - The European Energy Security Strategy: reshaping the EU-Russia interdependence

Oana-Ancuța POIANĂ (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) - Natural resources as power increasing capabilities affecting the polarity of the Black Sea regional system

Mihaela-Adriana PĂDUREANU, Angela GRĂMADĂ, Bogdan POPESCU (National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania) - How the EaP countries are prepared to respond to the civilian security aspects

SESSION 2:

The economic ‘gamble’ of the eastern neighbourhood

Moderators: Loredana SIMIONOV (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania),

Joanna STRYJEK (Warsaw School of Economics, Poland)

Friday, 20 May, 14.00-18:00 | Saturday, 21 May, 11.00-13:00

Ganna KHARLAMOVA, Maksym Vasilevich SYTNYTSKYI (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev, Ukraine) - Growing regional interdependencies: the EU and the EaP

Joanna STRYJEK (Warsaw School of Economics, Poland) - ENP and FDI: the Eastern dimension

Cristina REUL (Romanian Centre for European Policies, Chisinau, Moldova) - DCFTAs in focus: How the EaP steps into the Common Market

Inna POLIAKOVA (Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine) - The EaP and free trade: benefits and difficulties

Maryna RABINOVYCH (I.I. Mechnikov National University, Odessa, Ukraine) - The transformative power of the DCFTA between the EU and Ukraine: evidence from the ongoing deregulation reform in Ukraine

Maksym MYKHAYLENKO (Newssky Magazine, Kiev, Ukraine) - Ukraine's DCFTA with the EU: Challenges of modernization through European Association

Ion POHOAȚĂ, Paula Alexandra ROIBU, Aida-Loredana BACIU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - Is the DCFTA between UE and Ukraine negatively impact Russia's economy?

Veronika CHALA, Alexander KLIMCHUK (Pridniprovsk State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) - Analyzis of Ukrainian companies business-models potential in terms of shift to European creative economy

Dragoș Ovidiu TOFAN (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - Business Intelligence Applications - Possible tools for economic integration within the EaP

Mihai VOLINTIRU (Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania) - Multinational Companies and CSR campaigns in Eastern Europe

Irina Teodora MANOLESCU, Carmen ARUȘTEI, Adriana PRODAN (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - Horizontal objectives of EU programs adaptation considering the socio-cultural context for EaP members

David OBOLADZE (Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia) - Getting closer to EU standards - Georgia fiscal governance adjustment and implication

Brankica TODOROVIĆ (School of Economics, Uzice, Serbia) - Possible impact reconceptualization of the EaP on further integration within the EU

Ilkhom SHARIPOV (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - Economic growth in the EU’s EaP countries: determinants and prospects

Sergey LISNYAK (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - The relevance of EaP with regard to regional economic resilience capacity building

SESSION 3:

Testing EU international ‘actorness’

Moderators: Igor MERHEIM-EYRE (University of Kent, United Kingdom), Sophia

PETRASHVILI (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia)

Friday, 20 May, 14.00-18:00

Marta KRALIKOVA (Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia) - Conditionality reversed: domestic conditions and the effectiveness of the EU’s normative power in the EU’s Eastern neighbourhood

Armen GRIGORYAN (Centre for Development Policy Studies, Yerevan, Armenia) - The attitudes towards European integration in EaP states: Elites’ role and further engagement

Igor MERHEIM-EYRE (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - Exploring the EU’s security governmentality: The case of visa diplomacy in the EaP

Sebastian RELITZ (Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Germany) - Separatism and de facto states as a key challenges for European Integration – the case Abkhazia

Eske VAN GILS (University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom) - Differentiation and Othering in negotiations over the Association Agreement between the EU and Azerbaijan

Sabina STRÎMBOVSCHI (National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania) - The influence of energy resources in developing ”pragmatic” relations between Azerbaijan and the West

Vasco BATISTA (College of Europe, Natolin, Poland) - The current shape of EU-Belarus: a new round of engagement in the new geopolitical situation?

Lucian Ștefan DUMITRESCU (Institute of Political Sciences and International Relations, The Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania) - EaP and the Question of EU’s Political Identity. The Case of Belarus

Ewa ZUKOWSKA (College of Europe, Natolin, Poland) - The EU double-standard democracy promotion in the neighborhood. The case of Belarus and Azerbaijan

Sophia PETRIASHVILI (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia) - EaP in the time of refugee crisis

Valeria KORABLYOVA (Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria) - Europe shared and shattered: sliding boundaries, underlying patterns, and vague prospects

SESSION 4:

The implications of the civil society and media in the Eastern neighbourhood

Moderators: Masoud Kalesar IMANI (Euronews, Lyon, France), Denis ALEKSEEV

(Saratov University, Russia)

Saturday, 21 May, 11.00-16:00

Olha ZHORNOVA, Lena ZHORNOVA (Academy for monitoring and expertise, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine) - The psychological well-being as an important aspect of the expectations of the EaP and the EU

Lăcrămioara MAFTEI, Raluca ONUFREICIUC (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - Societal implications between E.U. and EaP states-a comparative approach

Elena-Alexandra GORGOS, Elena-Mădălina VĂTĂMĂNESCU, Andreia-Gabriela ANDREI (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - Europeanization through the students’ lens. Is there a collective identity?

Arshaluys MUSHKAMBARYAN (Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan, Armenia) - Framing conflicts in media and its psychological influence on society

Ioan HORGA, Luminița ȘOPRONI (University of Oradea), The EU communication with the countries from the EaP region

Masoud IMANI KALESAR (Euronews, Lyon, France) - Media Impact on the Conflict in Ukraine

Nikita LOBANOV (University of Bologna, Forli, Italy) - EU Strategic Narrative vis-a-vis Russian Federation in the EaP region: Stop, Slow or Go?

Loredana MAVRICHI (JITARU) (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - The implications of the civil society in the EaP

Artsiom NAZARANKA, Stepan ZAKHARKEVICH (Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus) - Belarus-EU relations: academic & social perception

Natalia LESKINA (Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia) - EU Actorness and Higher Education Regionalism

SESSION 5:

The Ukrainian crisis – domestic and external implications

Moderators: Miruna TRONCOTĂ (National University of Political Science and Public

Administration, Bucharest, Romania), Vsevolod SAMOKHVALOV (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)

Friday, 20 May, 14.00-18:00

Ana Maria COSTEA (National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania) - The Ukrainian Crisis- an unpredictable event?

Miruna TRONCOTĂ (National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania) - The EU and the 'Insecurity Belt' from

its Eastern borders. Reassesing the 'New War' paradigm after the annexation of Crimea

Alina GENTIMIR (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - Current International Criminal Law Implications of Ukrainian Conflict

Vasile ROTARU (National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania) - Russia’s post-Crimea legitimization discourse and its challenges for the EaP countries

David MATSABERIDZE (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia) - The Russian revisionist challenges and changing international security

Halil ERDEMİR (Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey) - The EU’s imbroglio on Russian aggressive policy on Ukraine and Syria

Nadiia BUREIKO (New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania), Teodor Lucian MOGA (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - ‘Bounded’ Europeanisation: Case of Ukraine

Dmytro PANCHUK (Ghent University, Belgium) - Effectiveness of EU transgovernmental cooperation in the Eastern Neighbourhood: The case of twinning in Ukraine

Vadym ZHELTOVSKYY (Pultusk Academy of Humanities, Pultusk, Poland) - The EaP and its Impact on Self-governance Reform in Ukraine

Anastasiya DEGTERENKO (The National Institute for Strategic Studies, Kiev, Ukraine) - The peculiarities of a regional identity in the ethnopolictical territory of Donbas (Ukraine): the third year of the war

SESSION 6:

Moldova – Still an EaP success story?

Moderators: Kerry LONGHURST (Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland), Octavian

MILEWSKI (Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland)

Saturday, 21 May, 11.00-16:00

Ionela Maria CIOLAN (National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania) - EU-Moldova bilateral relations from Vilnius Summit to the political crisis

Cristina MORARI (Moldova State University, Chisinau, Moldova) - EU role in the Republic of Moldova European integration within EaP

Radu CIOBANU, Ilie CIORCHINĂ (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - How successful is the “success story” of EaP? Some lessons from Moldova’s experience within EaP

Bartłomiej ZDANIUK (University of Warsaw, Poland) - Is the Republic of Moldova a consolidated state?

Octavian MILEWSKI (Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland) - Effects and counter-effects of EU external governance in Moldova. Between EU’s power of presence and forces of (dis-)integration

Miruna Ioana Raluca BELDIMAN (University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom) - Economic diplomacy within the EaP: room for meaningful improvements?

Kerry LONGHURST (Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland) - Time for Implementation: The EaP, Trade and Visa Policy

Vladislav ȘARAN (Institute of Legal and Political Research of Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova) - Psychological war and media manipulation in Ukraine and Republic of Moldova

Magdalena DĂNILEȚ, Anca Maria CLIPA, Olesia MIHAI (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - What is the Metaphorical Representation of the EU in the Economic Press of Moldova?

Cătălin CLIPA (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - The convergence of Strategic Human Resource Management Practices: Republic of Moldova and EU

SESSION 7:

Explaining the effectiveness and relevance of the EaP

Moderators: Hanna SHELEST (Ukraine Analytica, Odessa, Ukraine), Teodor Lucian

MOGA (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania),

Saturday, 21 May, 11.00-16:00

Maurice GUYADERE (Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3, France) - Some remarks on the difficulties of the EU at a time of a possible push towards the EaP

Gheorghe CIASCAI (Christian University Dimitrie Cantemir, Bucharest, Romania) - The EaP: the beginning of the ebb for the EU enlargement?

Nona TATIASHVILI (Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia) - The EaP: a failure of the ENP or sharing a power balance in the neighborhood?

Ruxandra Ana GOLOGAN (Bucharest Bar, Romania) - Impact and future feasibility of the EaP’s first platform of multilateral cooperation - Democracy, good governance & stability

Adrian-Gabriel CORPĂDEAN (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) - The EaP seen through the lens of the Visegrad Group: continuity and discontinuity

Ivanna MACHITIDZE (International Black Sea University, Tbilisi, Georgia) - Saving the EaP: moral duty or burden for Poland’s new government?

Galyna FESENKO (A.N.Beketov Kharkiv National University of Urban Economy, Ukraine), Tetiana FESENKO (Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Ukraine) - Evaluation of cultural segment of the EaP

Oleksiy KANDYUK (Yurii Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine) - Foreign Policy of EU: Eurasian Agenda

Marcel TRIFAN (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - Russia in the “Common European Home”: from convergence to confrontation

Hanna SHELEST (Ukraine Analytica, Odessa, Ukraine) - The prospects of the European mediation and peacekeeping in the EaP

Oksana DOBRZHANSKA (Yurii Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine) - The EU Security Issue in Terms of the EaP

Constantin-Marius APOSTOAIE (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - Environmental policy concerns within the EaP

Vladlen MAKOUKH (Odessa National University, Ukraine), Irina APARINA (National University Odessa Academy of Law, Ukraine) - Fundamental values of EaP and their implementation in Ukraine: problems and perspectives

SESSION 8:

The EU: current challenges and future prospects

Moderators: Laura DIACONU (MAXIM) (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi,

Romania), Martin MENDELSKI (University of Trier, Germany)

Saturday, 21 May, 11.00-16:00

Alexandru VOICU, Ruxandra - Laura BOȘILCĂ (National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania) - Beyond the ‘Actorness’ Debates in EU Security Policy: The Promise of Governance

Carolina STARCIUC (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - Life beyond EU sanctions. Russia case

Raisa PREUTESCU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - EU and the responsibility to protect

Gilles ROUET (Matej Bel University, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia & Versailles St Quentin University, France), Europe from chosen and suffered flows

Costică MIHAI (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - Voice of the Students: How can the EU take the global lead on tackling climate change?

Ioana GUTU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - The transatlantic blue diplomacy

Martin MENDELSKI (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - The EU’s rule of law promotion in Central and Eastern Europe: where and why does it fail, and what can be done about it?

Ada-Iuliana POPESCU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - Transnational collaboration against corruption in Eastern Europe

Alin-Marius ANDRIEȘ, Bogdan CĂPRARU, Florentina IEȘAN – MUNTEAN, Iulian IHNATOV (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - The impact of international financial crisis on bank performance in Eastern and Central European countries

Ana-Maria BERCU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - Challenges of Youth Employment in European Eastern Countries

Raluca Emilia CHIRCULESCU (Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania) - Consumers willingness to adopt ecological food consumption behaviours

Laura DIACONU (MAXIM) (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - Is human capital a major determinant of the FDI inflows? Empirical evidences from the EU states

Oana-Ramona SOCOLIUC, Ion POHOAȚĂ, Delia-Elena DIACONAŞU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - Romania’s adaptive capacity to the EU requirements - an economic competitiveness outlook

Aurelian-Petruș PLOPEANU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - Romania - to have or not to have its own development path?

Igor ROTARU (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - Assessment of the clusters and potential clusters in Romania

Carmen MOLDOVAN (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - The notion of Refugee. Definition and distinctions

Nicoleta VASILCOVSCHI (Jiangsu Xishan, Wuxi, China) - Why EU needs a strong economics diplomacy with new business strategies?

List of participants

Ada-Iuliana POPESCU - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: ada.popescu@uaic.ro

Adelaide DUARTE - University of Coimbra, Portugal | e-mail: maduarte@fe.uc.pt

Adrian John HEALY - Cardiff University, United Kingdom | e-mail: healya2@cardiff.ac.uk

Adrian POP - National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania | e-mail: adrian.pop@snspa.ro

Adriana PRODAN - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: pada@uaic.ro

Adrian-Gabriel CORPĂDEAN - Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania | e-mail: adi_corpadean@yahoo.com

Aida-Loredana BACIU - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail:

Alexander KLIMCHUK - Pridniprovsk State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine | e-mail:

Alexandru MAXIM - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: maxim.alexandru@uaic.ro

Alexandru VOICU - National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania | e-mail: voicu.alexander@gmail.com

Alina GENTIMIR - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: agentimir@yahoo.fr

Alin-Marius ANDRIEȘ - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: alin.andries@uaic.ro

Ana Maria COSTEA - National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania | e-mail: anamaria.ghimis@yahoo.com

Ana-Maria BERCU - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: bercu@uaic.ro

Anastasiya DEGTERENKO - The National Institute for Strategic Studies, Kiev, Ukraine | e-mail: degterenko777@ukr.net

Anca Maria CLIPA - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail:

Andreia-Gabriela ANDREI - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: andrei.andreia@gmail.com

Angela GRĂMADĂ - National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania | e-mail: gangela2006@gmail.com

Angelantonio ROSATO - CeSPI - Centro Studi Politica Internazionale, Roma, Italy | e-mail: arosato70@gmail.com

Ani GRIGORYAN - National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia | e-mail: anihgrigoryan@gmail.com

Antje GREBNER - The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands | e-mail: a.grebner@hhs.nl

Aram TERZYAN - Yerevan State University, Armenia | e-mail: a.terzyan@ysu.am

Armen GRIGORYAN - Centre for Development Policy Studies, Yerevan, Armenia | e-mail: grigoryanarmen@yahoo.com

Arshaluys MUSHKAMBARYAN - Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan, Armenia | e-mail: mushkambaryan@hotmail.com

Artsiom NAZARANKA - Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus | e-mail: artsiom001@gmail.com

Aurelian-Petruș PLOPEANU, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | aplopeanu@gmail.com

Bartłomiej ZDANIUK - University of Warsaw, Poland | e-mail: bartlomiej.zdaniuk@uw.edu.pl

Beka KIRIA - Ministry of Defence of Georgia | e-mail: beka@kiria.ge

Bogdan CĂPRARU - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: csb@uaic.ro

Bogdan Constantin IBĂNESCU - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: ibanescu.bogdan@uaic.ro

Bogdan POPESCU - National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania | e-mail: bogdan_popescu23@yahoo.co.uk

Brankica TODOROVIĆ - School of Economics, Uzice, Serbia | e-mail: bdanica@neobee.net

Carmen ARUȘTEI - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: carmen.arustei@gmail.com

Carmen MOLDOVAN - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: carmen.moldovan@uaic.ro

Carolina STARCIUC - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: carolina.starciuc@gmail.com

Cătălin CLIPA - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: c_clipa@uaic.ro

Ciprian ALUPULUI - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: ciprian.alupului@uaic.ro

Constantin-Marius APOSTOAIE - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: marius.apostoaie@uaic.ro

Costică MIHAI - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: ticu@uaic.ro

Cristian ÎNCALȚĂRĂU - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: cristian.incaltarau@uaic.ro

Cristian NITOIU - London School of Economics, United Kingdom | e-mail: c.nitoiu@lse.ac.uk

Cristina MORARI - Moldova State University, Chisinau, Moldova | e-mail: morari.kristina@gmail.com

Cristina REUL - Romanian Centre for European Policies, Chisinau, Moldova | e-mail: reul.cristina@gmail.com

Dariusz Wojciech WOJAKOWSKI - University of Rzeszów, Poland | e-mail: darek.wojak@wp.pl

David MATSABERIDZE - Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia | e-mail: davidmatsaberidze@yahoo.com

David OBOLADZE - Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia | e-mail: davit.oboladze.1@iliauni.edu.ge

Delia-Elena DIACONAŞU - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: delia_diaconasu@yahoo.com

Denis ALEKSEEV - Saratov National Research University, Russia | e-mail: alexeyevds@rambler.ru

Dmytro PANCHUK - Ghent University, Belgium | e-mail: dmytro.panchuk@ugent.be

Dorin DUSCIAC - Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Saclay, France | e-mail: Dorin.Dusciac@cea.fr

Dragoș Ovidiu TOFAN - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: dragos.tofan.2014@gmail.com

Elena KOROSTELEVA-POLGLASE - University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom | e-mail: E.Korosteleva@kent.ac.uk

Elena-Alexandra GORGOS - National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania | e-mail: alexa_elena85@yahoo.com

Elena-Mădălina VĂTĂMĂNESCU - National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania | e-mail: madalina.vatamanescu@facultateademanagement.ro

Eleni KARAVELI - Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece | e-mail: caraveli@aueb.gr

Enitsa GABROVSKA - The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands | e-mail: e.m.gabrovska@hhs.nl

Eske VAN GILS - University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom | e-mail: eeav2@kent.ac.uk

Ewa ZUKOWSKA - College of Europe, Natolin, Poland | e-mail: ewa.zukowska@coleurope.eu

Fabienne BOSSUYT - Ghent University, Belgium | e-mail: fabienne.bossuyt@ugent.be

Fabio INDEO - University of Camerino, Italy | e-mail: fabindeus@hotmail.com

Florentina IEȘAN - MUNTEAN - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: florentina_iesanmuntean@yahoo.com

Gabriela Carmen PASCARIU - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: gcpas@uaic.ro

Galyna FESENKO - A.N.Beketov Kharkiv National University of Urban Economy, Ukraine | e-mail: g.glicinia@gmail.com

Ganna KHARLAMOVA - Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev, Ukraine | e-mail: akharlamova@ukr.net

Gheorghe CIASCAI - Christian University Dimitrie Cantemir, Bucharest, Romania | e-mail: gciascai@gmail.com

Gilles ROUET - Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, France | e-mail: gilles.rouet@gmail.com

Giselle BOSSE - Maastricht University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Netherlands | e-mail: g.bosse@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Grigorios ZAROTIADIS - Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki, Greece | e-mail: gzarotia@econ.auth.gr

Halil ERDEMİR - Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey | e-mail: uygula@yahoo.com

Hanna SHELEST - Ukraine Analytica, Odessa, Ukraine | e-mail: annashelest@hotmail.com

Hayk PARONYAN - European Regional Academy, Yerevan, Armenia | e-mail: hayk.paronyan@mail.ru

Igor MERHEIM-EYRE - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: im507@kent.ac.uk

Igor ROTARU - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: igor_rtr@yahoo.com

Ilie CIORCHINĂ - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: ilieciorchina@gmail.com

Ilkhom SHARIPOV - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: ilhomsharipov@gmail.com

Inna POLIAKOVA - Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine | e-mail: i.poliakova@qmul.ac.uk

Ioan HORGA, University of Oradea, Romania | ihorga@uoradea.ro

Ioana GUȚU - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: gutu.ioana@yahoo.com

Ion POHOAȚĂ - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: ionpohoata@yahoo.com

Ionela Maria CIOLAN - National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania | e-mail: ciolan.ionela@gmail.com

Irina APARINA - National University Odessa Academy of Law, Ukraine | e-mail: austreb1@mail.ru

Irina Teodora MANOLESCU - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: irina.manolescu@gmail.com

Iulian IHNATOV - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: iulian.ihnatov@uaic.ro

Ivanna MACHITIDZE - International Black Sea University, Tbilisi, Georgia | e-mail: imachitidze@ibsu.edu.ge

Joanna STRYJEK - Warsaw School of Economics, Poland | e-mail: joanna.stryjek@sgh.waw.pl

Kerry LONGHURST - Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland | e-mail: kerry.longhurst@gmail.com

Lăcrămioara MAFTEI - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: lacramioara.maftei@gmail.com

Laura DIACONU (MAXIM) - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: lauradiaconu_07@yahoo.com

Lena ZHORNOVA - Academy for monitoring and expertise, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine | e-mail: kvant_chat@mail.ru

Liviu George MAHA - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: mlg@uaic.ro

Loredana Maria SIMIONOV - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: loredana.simionov@uaic.ro

Loredana MAVRICHI (JITARU) - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: lory202005@yahoo.com

Lucian Dumitru DĂRDALĂ - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: ldirdala@yahoo.com

Lucian Ștefan DUMITRESCU - Institute of Political Sciences and International Relations, The Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania | e-mail: dulust@gmail.com

Luminița ȘOPRONI, University of Oradea, Romania | lsoproni@uoradea.ro

Magdalena DĂNILEȚ - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: madalind@uaic.ro

Maksym MYKHAYLENKO - Newssky Magazine, Kiev, Ukraine | e-mail: maksym.mykhaylenko@gmail.com

Maksym Vasilevich SYTNYTSKYI - Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev, Ukraine | e-mail: maks_mc@ua.fm

Marcel TRIFAN - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: metrifan@gmail.com

Marta KRALIKOVA - Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia | e-mail: marta1kralikova@gmail.com

Martin MENDELSKI - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: mmendelski@hotmail.com

Maryna RABINOVYCH - I.I. Mechnikov National University, Odessa, Ukraine | e-mail: marinarabi93@gmail.com

Masoud IMANI KALESAR - Euronews, Lyon, France | e-mail: imani.masoud@gmail.com

Matthew Aaron RHODES - George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany | e-mail: rhodesm@marshallcenter.org

Maurice GUYADERE - Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3, France | e-mail: maurice.guyader@hotmail.com

Michael-Detlef BOLLE - Free University, Berlin, Germany | e-mail: michael.bolle@fu-berlin.de

Mihaela-Adriana PĂDUREANU - National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania | e-mail: mihaelapadureanu@gmail.com

Mihai VOLINTIRU - Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania | e-mail: mihai.volintiru@gmail.com

Miruna Ioana Raluca BELDIMAN - University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom | e-mail: mirb2@kent.ac.uk

Miruna TRONCOTA - National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania | e-mail: miruna.troncota@yahoo.com

Nadezhda ARBATOVA - Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia | e-mail: narbatova@mail.ru

Nadiia BUREIKO - New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania | e-mail: nadia.bureiko@gmail.com

Natalia LESKINA - Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia | e-mail: nathalieleskina@gmail.com

Nicoleta VASILCOVSCHI - Jiangsu Xishan, Wuxi, China | e-mail: nicoleta.vasilcovschi@gmail.com

Nicu POPESCU - EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris, France | e-mail: npopescu@gmail.com

Nikita LOBANOV - University of Bologna, Forli, Italy | e-mail: nikita.lobanov@studio.unibo.it

Nona TATIASHVILI - Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia | e-mail: nonachka.17@hotmail.com

Oana-Ancuța POIANĂ - Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania | e-mail: pnoana@yahoo.com

Oana-Ramona SOCOLIUC - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: oanasocoliuc@gmail.com

Octavian MILEWSKI - Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland | e-mail: omilewski@gmail.com

Oksana DOBRZHANSKA - Yurii Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine | e-mail: dobroks@gmail.com

Oleksiy KANDYUK - Yurii Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine | e-mail: el-duke@mail.ru

Olesia MIHAI - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail:

Olha ZHORNOVA - Academy for monitoring and expertise, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine | e-mail: zhornova@ukr.net

Oliver FLAESCHNER - Free University, Berlin, Germany | e-mail:

Paula Alexandra ROIBU - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: roibu.paula@yahoo.com

Radu CIOBANU - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: raduciobanu7@gmail.com

Raisa PREUTESCU - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: preutescu_raisa@yahoo.com

Ralf ROLOFF - George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany | e-mail: ralf.roloff@marshallcenter.org

Raluca Emilia CHIRCULESCU - Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania | e-mail: raluca.chirculescu@yahoo.com

Raluca ONUFREICIUC - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: raluca.onu@gmail.com

Ramona FRUNZĂ (ȚIGĂNAȘU) - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: ramona.frunza@uaic.ro

Richard SAKWA - University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom | e-mail: R.Sakwa@kent.ac.uk

Roxana HÎNCU - Maastricht University, Netherlands | e-mail: hincu_roxana@yahoo.com

Ruxandra - Laura BOȘILCĂ - National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania | e-mail: ruxandrabosilca@yahoo.com

Ruxandra Ana GOLOGAN - Bucharest Bar, Romania | e-mail: ruxandra.gologan@gmail.com

Sabina STRÎMBOVSCHI - National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania | e-mail: sabina.strimbovschi@gmail.com

Sebastian RELITZ - Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Germany | e-mail: relitz@ios-regensburg.de

Sergey LISNYAK - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: sergeylisnyak@gmail.com

Sergiy GERASYMCHUK - Strategic and Security Studies Group, Kiev, Ukraine | e-mail: s.gerasymchuk@gmail.com

Sophia PETRIASHVILI - Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia | e-mail: sophia_petriashvili@wvi.org

Sorin MAZILU - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: mazilu.sorin@yahoo.com

Stsiapan ZAKHARKEVICH - Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus | e-mail: stepanzakch@gmail.com

Teodor Lucian MOGA - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: teodor.moga@uaic.ro

Tetiana FESENKO - Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Ukraine | e-mail: fesenkotatyana@gmail.com

Vadym ZHELTOVSKYY - Pultusk Academy of Humanities, Pultusk, Poland | e-mail: vadym.zheltovskyy@gmail.com

Valeria KORABLYOVA - Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria | e-mail: valery.korabljova@gmail.com

Vasco BATISTA - College of Europe, Natolin, Poland | e-mail: vasco.batista@coleurope.eu

Vasif HUSEYNOV - University of Göttingen, Netherlands | e-mail: 24vasif@gmail.com

Vasile ROTARU - National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania | e-mail: vasilerotaru@yahoo.com

Veronika CHALA - Pridniprovsk State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine | e-mail: v4alaya@gmail.com

Virgil STOICA - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania | e-mail: virgilstoica@gmail.com

Vladislav ȘARAN - Institute of Legal and Political Research of Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova | e-mail: saranvlad25@gmail.com

Vladlen MAKOUKH - Odessa National University, Ukraine | e-mail: makoukh@ukr.net

Vsevolod SAMOKHVALOV - University of Cambridge, United Kingdom | e-mail: vs314@cam.ac.uk

Yuval WEBER - National Research University, Moscow, Russia | e-mail: yweber@hse.ru