Learn more about the fundamental transformation of the international order, war consequences on the global economy, China’s and the United States’ response to the war, and what this may portend for the future of the Russia-China-U.S. relationships.
The ongoing crackdown in Gorno-Badakhshan against the Pamiri Ismailis is the longest-running intra-state conflict and crackdown in Central Asia since the Tajik Civil War ended in 1997. The panel will discuss the causes behind the crackdown and potential trajectories of Tajikistan’s political development by examining the domestic, regional, and geopolitical contexts.
Professors Daria Khitrova, author of Lyric Complicity: Poetry and Readers in the Golden Age of Russian Literature, and Aleksandra Kremer, author of The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry: Performance and Recording after World War II, will be in conversation with each other about their newly published books
The imperial dimension of Russia's war in Ukraine bears similarities to earlier expansionist warfare by Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union. The panelists will discuss the roots and the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war, especially in the Balkans.
Professor of International Law and International Relations, Institute for Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Professor of International Law at Plovdiv University
