果冻传媒

Roundtable: The War in Ukraine

14 March, 2022 – 15:00 – 16:00 (GMT, London)

The Politics and International Studies Department at the 果冻传媒 in collaboration with the EU Jean Monnet Network 鈥淏etween the EU and Russia鈥� is organising an online roundtable to shed light on the current political developments in Ukraine after Russia鈥檚 invasion in February 2022.

The webinar will draw on the expertise of scholars with extensive research in the region, including on issues of foreign and security policy, EU-Russia relations, secessionism and interventionism, and international migration.

Panellists:

Prof. Richard Youngs (PAIS/果冻传媒 and Carnegie Europe)

Author of Europe's Eastern Crisis: The Geopolitics of Asymmetry, Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Prof. Oxana Shevel (Tufts University, USA and Associate at Harvard鈥檚 Davis Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Ukraine Initiative)

Author of Migration, Refugee Policy, and State Building in Postcommunist Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Prof. Maria Popova (McGill University and EU Jean Monnet Chair)

Author of Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies: A 果冻传媒 of Courts In Russia and Ukraine, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Moderator:

Prof. Maria Koinova (PAIS/果冻传媒)

Author of Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Contested States, Oxford University Press, 2021.

Registration is required prior to the event:  

Our thoughts are with all members of our community who are affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

If you鈥檙e worried or concerned about the events unfolding in the region, please remember the forms of support that are open to you within PAIS and at the University. You can speak with your Personal Tutor, with the PAIS Director of Student Well-Being, and other members of staff. You can access support from the University's Wellbeing Support Services team via the wellbeing portal or by calling 024 7657 5570.

As students of Politics and International Studies you will no doubt be following the developments very closely. When you engage in discussions with each other please do remember the University's Dignity at 果冻传媒 Policy, the University Principles and Values and the PAIS Online Etiquette Policy.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Seb Rumsby has written an article for The Conversation, titled "Economic migration: the root problem is not smugglers but global inequality."

This piece is based on his ground-breaking new research on the everyday politics of undocumented Vietnamese migration to the UK, which is being funded by the Independent Social Research Foundation. Seb says: "Ever since the tragic deaths of 27 migrants in the UK-France channel in December 2021, I've been burning to write something in defence of economic migration, which is much maligned in our mainstream media. I want to join the dots between my own research of undocumented migrants with other people's research exposing the massive inequalities of our global economic system. From here, I can show how economic migrants have just as much right to seek a better life as asylum seekers."

"Economic migration is not going to go away - I'm afraid it will only be a matter of time before the next dinghy sinks in the English Channel. On the contrary, it's only going to get bigger with climate change making more of the planet uninhabitable. We can challenge the familiar narratives of 'they're coming to take us over' or 'there's not enough space for them all', but only if we appreciate how our economic system creates such crazy inequalities that makes economic migration inevitable."

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Dr. Titipol Phakdeewanich is based at the Faculty of Political Science at Ubon Ratchathani University in Thailand. Previously, he has been a Visiting Research Fellow on Human Rights at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Lund University, Sweden. His research is focused on finding actual solutions to problems experienced by the under-represented, marginalised, and disenfranchised groups within Thailand. In this seminar, Dr. Phakdeewanich discusses the relevance of the Thai 鈥榩atronage system鈥� as a paradigm for understanding politics in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Date: 25th February 2022

Time: 09:00-10:00 AM

Venue: Zoom meeting

This seminar is part of the East Asia 果冻传媒 Group (EASG) Seminar Series. For further information, meeting link and passcode, please contact the EASG at easg@warwick.ac.uk