Call for Papers
20 YEARS ON FROM THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION: PROSPECTS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR CONFLICT SETTLEMENT IN THE POST-SOVIET SPACE
4 July 2011
School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL, London
One of the consequences of the collapse and break-up of the Soviet Union was that numerous, predominantly ethno-national and territorial conflicts erupted in (and between) the successor states. Twenty years on, few, if any, of these conflicts have moved any closer to a sustainable solution.
Papers are invited that will take stock of the current state of affairs in relation to these post-Soviet conflicts, analyse current developments, and examine likely future progress (or continuing stalemate), as well as focus on the opportunities and prospects for actual conflict settlement in the framework of EU-Russia cooperation on a new European security architecture.
The organisers especially also welcome papers from advanced PhD students working in these areas, and can support their participation thanks to a grant from the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES).
Further questions and abstracts of papers (no more than 250 words) should be submitted by email to Òscar Pardo, o.pardosierra@bham.ac.uk.
The workshop will also be open to non-paper givers.
The deadline for abstracts is April 25. Authors of accepted papers will be notified not later than May 16.
The workshop has been made possible by the generous support of
University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES)
Specialist Group Ethnopolitics in the Political Studies Association of the UK
European Research Institute, University of Birmingham
Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham
Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham
School of Government and Society, University of Birmingham
School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
