Transformation of Europe after Russian aggression into Ukraine
Fri, Oct 06
|Online Event
Talk by Mitchell A. Orenstein on the topic Transformation of Europe after Russian aggression into Ukraine within the MIRI Seminar on Current Affairs. Mitchell A. Orenstein is a Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Time & Location
Oct 06, 2023, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM GMT+2
Online Event
About the event
Transformation of Europe after Russian aggression into Ukraine
Speaker: Mitchell A. Orenstein, Professor of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Opening words: Dr SvetluÅ¡a Surová, Founder and Senior Researcher, MIRI and Dr Daniela Å kútová, Senior Researcher, MIRIÂ
Moderator: Dr Mirsad Kriještorac, Senior Researcher, MIRI
Mitchell A. Orenstein is a Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. His sole-authored and co-authored works on the political economy and international affairs of Central and Eastern Europe have won numerous prizes.
This seminar is organized by the Minority Issues Research Institute (MIRI) and co-hosted by the Department of Political Science of The Faculty of Political Sciences and International Relations, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica.Â
Abstract
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24
February 2022 shattered any remaining
illusions that closer economic integration with
Europe would lead Russia, over time, towards
democracy at home and peaceful coexistence
with its neighbours abroad. It reinvigorated
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO) and jolted the European Union (EU)
into cutting off trade and energy ties with
Russia while welcoming a massive flow of
refugees from war-torn Ukraine. It
empowered Central and East European states
in the EU, reignited enlargement debates, and
shifted NATO and Europe’s borders to the
north and east. The EU’s peace through
integration strategy has always existed side
by side with NATO’s peace through-strength
approach, in a broader European project with
blurred boundaries. This war may force the
EU to solidify its borders between an internal
zone of integration and an external zone of
strength projection and geopolitics.