Publications

Conferences/ Public Lectures

Publications

2019

Freire, Maria Raquel; Simão, Licínia [forthcoming] ‘Turning points and shifting understandings of European security: The European Neighbourhood Policy’s development’, in Rick Fawn (org.) Wider Europe. Palgrave.
Levenets, O., T. Stepurko, A. Polese, M. Pavlova, W. Groot (2019) “Coping Strategies of Cancer Patients in Ukraine”, International Journal of Health Management and Planning [forthcoming]
Kluczewska, K. (2019) “How to Translate ‘Good Governance’ into Tajik? An American Good Governance Fund and Norm Localisation in Tajikistan“, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2018.1537668
Rudzite L. (2019). ‘Theorizing the managerlialism-neoliberalism-development nexus: Changing donor landscapes and persistence of outcomes of practices in Kyrgyzstan’, IN Isaacs, R. and Frigerio A. (Eds) Theorizing Central Asian politics: the state, ideology and power. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 65-95 [forthcoming]
Du Boulay-Omarova S. 2019. New Alphabet, Old Rules: Language, Legacy and Liberation in the post-Soviet Eurasia, Europe-Asia Studies [forthcoming]
Levenets O., Stepurko T., Pavlova M., and Groot W 2019. ‘Coping Mechanisms of Ukrainian patients: bribes, gifts, donations, and connections’ IN Polese A., Russo A., and Strazzari F. (Eds.) The illegal, the immoral and the criminal: transnational perspectives on informality (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) [Forthcoming]
Polese A., Russo A., and Strazzari F. (Eds.) The illegal, the immoral and the criminal: transnational perspectives on informality (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) [Forthcoming]

2018

Kraetzschmar Hendrik and Rivetti Paola (2018) (eds.) Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention, Edinburgh University Press.
Isabekova, G. (2018) “The contribution of vulnerability of labour migrants to drug resistance in the region: overviews and suggestion”, European Journal of Development Research https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-018-0172-1
Rivetti Paola and Saleh Alam (2018) Governing after Protests. The Case for Political Participation in Post-2009 Iran, with A. Saleh, in Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention, edited by H. Kraetzschmar and P. Rivetti, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 36-53.
Rudzite L. 2018. ‘Looking for freedom in grey areas: approaches to informality as a space for negotiating goals of neoliberalism in development cooperation sector’, IN Horodnic I. A., Rodgers P., Williams C. C. and Momtazian L. (Eds.) The informal economy: exploring drivers and practices. (New York and London: Routledge) pp. 157-173.
Agarin T. and Rudzite, L. 2018. ‘Making modern Mongolians: gender roles and everyday nation-building in contemporary Mongolia’, IN A. Polese, O. Seliverstova, E. Pawlusz and J. Morris (Eds.) Informal nationalism after communism: the everyday construction of post-socialist identities (London and New York: IB Tauris) pp. 164-183.
Rudzite L. 2018. Book Review of Neoliberalism and the moral economy of fraud by Whyte D. and Wiegratz J. (Eds.), Studies of Transition States and Societies, 9(2), pp 65-68.
Rudzite L. 2018. ‘Country page: Latvia’, in CONCORD, Aidwatch report 2018: EU aid – a broken ladder? Brussels: CONCORD, p. 48.
Chikhladze T. 2018. ‘Die Konsolidierung der Macht unter dem zweiten Präsidenten Turkmenistans’ [Power consolidation under the second president of Turkmenistan] Zentralasien-Analysen No.125. Available at http://laender-analysen.de/zentralasien/pdf/ZentralasienAnalysen125.pdf
Korneev O. and Kluczewska, K. 2018. ‘The globalised third sector in the migration policy field’, IN Triandafyllidou, A. (Ed.) Handbook on migration and globalisation (Edward Elgar Publishing) pp. 54-68.
Kluczewska K. 2018. ‘Everyday life in art and the art of everyday life: re-reading Soviet mosaics in Dushanbe’, Voices on Central Asia, 29 May available at http://voicesoncentralasia.org/everyday-life-in-art-and-the-art-of-everyday-life-re-reading-soviet-mosaics-in-dushanbe/ [in English] / ‘Повседневная жизнь в искусстве и искусство повседневной жизни: Пересматривая советские мозаики в Душанбе’, Central Asian Analytical Network, 30 May. Available at http://caa-network.org/archives/13332 [in Russian]
Kluczewska K. 2018. ‘Academic freedom in Tajikistan: western researchers need to look at themselves, too’, Open Democracy, 21 February. Available at https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/karolina-kluczewska/academic-freedom-in-tajikistan
Kluczewska K. 2018. ‘Dushanbe buses and what it means to live in a capital city’, Voices on Central Asia, 25 January. Available at http://voicesoncentralasia.org/dushanbe-buses-and-what-it-means-to-live-in-a-capital-city/ [in English] / ‘О душанбинских автобусах или каково это — жить в столице?’ Central Asian Analytical Network, 14 January. Available at http://caa-network.org/archives/11245 [in Russian]
Totaro M. 2018. ‘Fire and Oil in Western Kazakhstan’s “Spiritual Renovation”’, Open Democracy, 8 May 2018, available at https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/maurizio-totaro/fire-and-oil-in-western-kazakhstan
Du Boulay-Omarova S. and Isaacs, R. 2018. ‘Legitimacy and Legitimation in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan’ IN Isaacs, R. and Frigerio, A. (Eds.) Theorizing Central Asia: Power, Legitimacy & Society (Palgrave: MacMillan) pp. 17-41. Available at https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319973548
Du Boulay-Omarova S. 2018. Novyi Azerbaijan [New Azerbaijan], Esquire Magazine, 28 February 2018. Available at: https://esquire.kz/novy-azerbaydzhan/
Polese A., Stepurko, T., Oksamytna, S., Kerikmae, T., Chochia, A., and Levenets, O. 2018. Informality and Ukrainian higher educational institutions: Happy together? Policy Futures in Education 16(4), pp. 482–500. Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1478210318758812
Freire, Maria Raquel; Simão, Licínia (2018), EU-Russia Relations and the Unravelling of the European Security Regime in the Context of the Ukraine Crisis, in Tom Casier and Joan DeBardeleben (org.), EU-Russia Relations in Crisis. Understanding Divergent Perspectives. London: Routledge.
Freire, Maria Raquel (2018), Political Dynamics within the BRICS in the Context of Multilayered Global Governance, in John Kirton and Marina Larionova (org.), BRICS and Global Governance. London: Routledge.
Freire, Maria Raquel; Heller, Regina (2018), “Russia’s Power Politics in Ukraine and Syria: Status-seeking between Identity, Opportunity and Costs”, Europe-Asia Studies, 1-28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2018.1521914
Freire, Maria Raquel (2018), “Political Dynamics within the BRICS in the Context of Multilayered Global Governance”, in John Kirton and Marina Larionova (org.), BRICS and Global Governance. London: Routledge

2017

Maria Raquel Freire. 2017. ‘War in Ukraine and European security: reset, reverse or revoke’ in Europe Hybrids’ Threat (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
Maria Raquel Freire and Licinia Simão. 2017. ‘EU-Russia relations and the unravelling of the European security regime in the context of the Ukrainian crisis’, in EU-Russia relations in crisis: understanding diverging perceptions. (Routledge: London).
Freire, M. R. 2017. ‘Ukraine and the Restructuring of East-West Relations’, in The Russian Challenge to the European Security Environment (Palgrave: Basingstoke, UK).
Javier Martínez Contreras, Daniela Nascimento & Licínia Simão (2017): Challenges to the nation-state in the context of European integration: an overview of the tension between citizenship rights and neoliberalism, European Politics and Society, DOI: 10.1080/23745118.2017.1402145
Freire, Maria Raquel (2017), “Ukraine and the restructuring of East-West Relations”, R.E.Kenet 8ed.), The Russian Challenge to the European Security Environment, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 189-2019
Freire, Maria Raquel (2017), “EU Relations with the BRICS: Strategic Partnership or Structural Disjunction?”, International Organisations Research Journal, 12, 2, 182-200. https://iorj.hse.ru/data/2017/12/05/1161535829/M.R.%20Freire.pdf
Freire, Maria Raquel (2017), “União Económica Euro-Asiática e política externa russa: que peça no puzzle da integração regional?”, in Luís Moita e Luís Valença Pinto (org.), Espaços Económicos e Espaços de Segurança. Lisboa: Observare e Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa
Freire, Maria Raquel (2017), “War in Ukraine and European Security: Reset, Reverse or Revoke?”, in Giray Sadık (org.), Europe’s Hybrid Threats: What Kinds of Power Does the EU Need in the 21st Century?. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Rivetti Paola (2017) ‘Political Activism in Iran: Strategies for Survival, Possibilities for Resistance and Authoritarianism,’ Democratization, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 1178-1194
Saeidi Shirin and Rivetti Paola (2017) ‘Out of Space: Securitization, Intimacy and New Research Challenges in Post-2009 Iran’, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 515-520 available here
Rivetti Paola and Cavatorta Francesco (2017) Functions of political trust in authoritarian settings, with Francesco Cavatorta, in S. Zmerli and T. van der Meer (eds), Handbook on Political Trust, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 53-68.
Rudzite L. 2017. ‘Country Page: Latvia’, in CONCORD, Aidwatch Report 2017: EU Aid Uncovered. (Brussels: CONCORD) p. 40.
Lottholz P. and Kluczewska, K. 2017. ‘Ever wondered why practitioners treat researchers like a nuisance? The challenges of accessing expert knowledge, from two perspectives’, Field Research Method Lab: LSE Blog, 19 October 2017. Available at: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/fieldresearch/2017/10/30/why-practitioners-treat-researchers-like-a-nuisance/
Kluczewska K. 2017. ‘How much do we know about Tajik migration? On the research and development discourse’, Central Asian Analytical Network, 19 August 2017. Available at: http://caa-network.org/archives/10039 [in English] / ‘Что мы знаем о миграции в Таджикистане?’ Available at: http://caa-network.org/archives/10057 [in Russian]
Kluczewska K. 2017. ‘Benefactor, industry or intruder? Perceptions of international organizations in Central Asia–the case of the OSCE in Tajikistan’, Central Asian Survey 36 (3), pp. 353-372. Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02634937.2017.1281220
Juraevs S. and Kluczewska, K. 2017. ‘Threats to stability in Central Asia: what role for the EU?’ IN Doveri Vesterbye, S. and Fawn, R. (Eds.) Threats to stability in wider Europe. Expert and academic analysis (European Neighbourhood Council) pp. 11-14. Available at: http://www.encouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Threats-to-Stability-in-Wider-Europe-ENC.pdf
Totaro M. 2017. “Das Ölfeld Kaschagan in Kasachstan und die Kapitalisierung der nordkaspischen Erdölindustrie: Lehren aus der Praxis statt Klischees” [The Kashagan Oilfield and the Capitalization of the North-Caspian Oil Industry: Lessons from Practice rather than Clichés], Zentralasien-Analysen, N. 114. Available at: http://www.laender-analysen.de/zentralasien/pdf/ZentralasienAnalysen114.pdf
Uchida S. 2017. ‘What Kind of Role Should the European Union Play for Achieving Sustainable Peace in Georgia?’ Caucasus Analytical Digest N. 99, pp. 10 – 13. Available at: http://www.css.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/cis/center-for-securities-studies/pdfs/CAD99.pdf
Owen C., Juraev S., Lewis D., Megoran N. and Heathershaw J. 2017. ‘Illiberal peace and authoritarian conflict management: Empirical and theoretical contexts’ IN: Owen C., Juraev S., Lewis D., Megoran N. and Heathershaw J. (Eds.) Interrogating Illiberal Peace in Eurasia. (London: Rowman and Littlefield International).
Owen C., Juraev S., Lewis D., Megoran N and Heathershaw J. (Eds.) 2017. Interrogating Illiberal Peace in Eurasia (London: Rowman and Littlefield International).
Juraev S. and Kluczewska K. 2017. ‘Threats to stability in Central Asia: What role for the EU?’ IN: Vesterbye S. D. and Fawn R. (Eds.) Threats to stability in Wider Europe: expert and academic analysis (European Neighbourhood Council). Available at http://www.encouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Threats-to-Stability-in-Wider-Europe-ENC-v1.01.pdf
Dzhuraev S. 2017. ‘Still Post-Soviet: The Challenges of Education in Kyrgyzstan’ IN Laruelle M. and Kourmanova A. (Eds.) Central Asia at 25: Looking back, moving forward (Washington, D.C: Central Asia Program) pp. 58–61.

2016

Miezaine Z., Damberga A., Karlsberga A. and Rudzite L. 2016. Study on fair international taxation policy (Riga: LAPAS). Available at: http://lapas.lv/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/English_version_Latvian_policy_research_LAPAS_Tax_Justice_together.pdf
Iakobidze T. 2016. ‘Undecided Voters in 2016: Leaning Towards a Multi-Party System?’ Caucasus Analytical Digest, No. 89, pp. 2-5. Available here
Zurabashvili, T. 2016. ‘Georgia’s Parliamentary Elections—a Step Forward?’ Caucasus Analytical Digest, No. 89, pp. 6-9. Available here
Turashvili, T. 2016. ‘Implication of Increased Anti-Western Propaganda in the Election Results’ Caucasus Analytical Digest, No. 89, pp. 10-13. Available here
Du Boulay-Omarova S. 2016. ‘Vozrozhdenie tradicii na ostrove demokratii Kyrgyzstana’ [The revival of tradition in the island of Kyrgyz democracy], SIAR Research and Consulting. Available online: http://siar-consult.com/news/vozrozhdenie-tradicij-na-ostrove-demokratii-kyrgyzstana-vsemirnye-igry-kochevnikov/
Chikhladze T. (Ed.) 2016. ‘Parliamentary Elections in Georgia’, Caucasus Analytical Digest No. 89, 15 November2016. Available at: http://www.css.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/cis/center-for-securities-studies/pdfs/CAD89.pdf
Isabekova, Gulnaz. 2016. ‘Wer bekommt wieviel? Entwicklungshilfe im Gesundheitswesen der zentralasiatischen Staaten’ Zentralasien-Analysen No. 108, pp.2-11. Available at: http://www.laender-analysen.de/zentralasien/pdf/ZentralasienAnalysen108.pdf
Simão, Licínia (2016), “The Ukrainian conflict in Russian foreign policy: Rethinking the interconnections between domestic and foreign policy strategies”, Small Wars & Insurgencies, 27, 3, 491-511. 10.1080/09592318.2016.1175141
Freire, Maria Raquel (2016), “Fronteiras reais e simbólicas: a segurança europeia no quadro das relações da Rússia com o ocidente”, in Maria Raquel Freire, Danielle Jacon Ayres Pinto e Daniel Chaves (org.), Fronteiras Contemporâneas Comparadas. Relações internacionais e segurança regional no Brasil e na União Europeia. Macapá: Editora da Universidade Federal do Amapá
Rivetti, P. 2016. ‘Political activism in Iran: strategies for survival, possibilities for resistance and authoritarianism’ Democratisation 24:6, pp. 1178-1194

2015

Juraev S. 2015. ‘The Evolving Role of Political Parties in Kyrgyz Politics’ IN: Laruelle M. and Engvall J. (Eds.) Kyrgyzstan Beyond Democracy Island and Failing State: Social and Political Changes in a Post-soviet Society (Lexington Books).
Juraev S. 2015. Review of Migration and social upheaval as the face of globalization in Central Asia by Marlène Laruelle (ed.) (Leiden: Brill, 2013), Central Asian Survey 34(3), pp. 392–394.
Juraev S. 2015. ‘The OSCE Academy: Working for Long-Term Comprehensive Security in Central Asia’ IN: OSCE Yearbook 2014. Yearbook on the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) pp. 287–298.

2014

Kluczewska K. 2014.’ Migrants’ re-entry bans to the Russian Federation: the Tajik story’ (Geneva Centre for Security Policy, OSCE Academy and Norwegian Institute of International Affairs) Security Brief No. 16. Available at: http://www.osce-academy.net/upload/file/Policy_Brief_16.pdf
Juraev S. 2014. ‘Comparing the EU and Russia engagements in Central Asia’, L’Europe en Formation, 374(4), p. 77.
Juraev S. 2014. Elites, Rents, and the State in Central Asia, [Review of the book State Erosion. Unlootable Resources and Unruly Elites in Central Asia by Lawrence Markowitz, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013]. Central Asian Affairs, 1(2), pp.305–308.

2013

Cummings S.N., Juraev, S., Pugachev, A., Temirkulov, A., Tiulegenov, M. and Tursunkulova, B. 2013. ‘State, regime, and government in the Kyrgyz Republic (1991–2010): disaggregating a relationship’ East European Politics, 29(4), pp.443–460.
Du Boulay-Omarova S., Hansen, J., and Kobayashi, K. 2013. Transnational Communities in between Governance and Development (IOM Migration Dynamics publication: Geneva).
Dzhuraev E. and Dzhuraev, S. 2013. ‘The Kazakh and Kyrgyz Sides of Afghanistan: So Near and Yet So Far’ IN: Snetkov A. and Aris S. (Eds.) The Regional Dimensions to Security: Other Sides of Afghanistan (Palgrave Macmillan).
Juraev S. 2013. ‘Three key challenges for Central Asia’ EUCAM Watch 15, pp. 4–5.

2012

Juraev S. 2012. ‘Pipes, Roads and Rivers: Different Faces of Eurasia’s Central Asia’ Caucasus International 2(3), pp. 126-134.
Juraev S. 2012. ‘Central Asia’s Cold War? Water and Politics in Uzbek-Tajik Relations’ PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo 217. Available at http://www.ponarseurasia.org/memo/central-asia%E2%80%99s-cold-war-water-and-politics-uzbek-tajik-relations
Juraev S. 2012. ‘Is Kyrgyzstan’s New Political System Sustainable?’ PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo 210. Available at: http://www.ponarseurasia.org/memo/kyrgyzstan%E2%80%99s-new-political-system-sustainable

2010

Juraev S. 2010. ‘Back on Track? Kyrgyz Authoritarianism after the Tulip Revolution’ PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo 95. Available at: http://www.ponarseurasia.org/memo/back-track-kyrgyz-authoritarianism-after-tulip-revolution
Juraev S. 2010. ‘The Third Restart: Challenges for Democracy in Post-Bakiyev Kyrgyzstan’ PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo 107. Available at: http://www.ponarseurasia.org/memo/third-restart-challenges-democracy-post-bakiyev-kyrgyzstan
Gahramanova A. 2010. ‘Paradigms of the Political Mythologies and Perspectives of Reconciliation in “Frozen” Ethno-territorial Conflicts: The case of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict’’ International Negotiation Magazine, Vol. 15(1).

Conferences/ Public Lectures

2018

Polese, A. ‘Welfare state & social Policy in Eastern Europe: Where Informality Fits In? Performing Europeanization: the Case of Georgia and Other EaP Countries‘, Tiblisi State University, Jan 22-23.
Polese, A. J. Morris. 2018. ‘Identity and Nation Building in Everyday Post-socialist Life’, Conference: Nationalism and the Market, Rome, University La Sapienza, June 21-22.
Rudzite L. 2018. ‘They have to know that water has a price: Neoliberal moralization and development narratives in Batken, Kyrgyzstan’, European International Studies Association’s European Workshop in International Studies, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, June 6-9.
Rudzite L. 2018. ‘Theorizing managerialism-neoliberalism nexus in development: Changing donor landscapes and persistence of outcomes in Kyrgyzstan’, Post-Graduate Research Seminar, Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia, May 3.
Rudzite L. 2018. ‘Informality-management nexus in development cooperation sector: the case of Batken, Kyrgyzstan’, Workshop: Illegal and Informal Practices in the Eurasian Region, Royal Holloway University of London, London, UK, January 27.
Chikhladze T. 2018. ‘Authoritarian Reactions to Succession Crises’, Graduate Colloquium of the Dept. of Politics and Economics, Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen, June 8.
Kluczewska K. 2018. ‘Development aid in Tajikistan: Between donors and practice on the ground’, Faculté Jean Monnet, Université Paris-Sud, France, November 14.
Kluczewska K. 2018. ‘IOM, Local knowledge and ‘radicalisation potential of returning migrants’ in Tajikistan’, Centre for the International Politics of Knowledge, University of Aberystwyth, UK, November 6.
Kluczewska K. 2018. ‘How to translate ‘good governance’ into Tajik? An American fund for good governance initiatives and norm localisation in Tajikistan’ 23^rd Annual World Convention of the Association of Nationality Studies (ASN), Columbia University, New York, May 4.
Kluczewska K. 2018. ‘Worlds apart? World Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ and small entrepreneurship in Tajikistan’, Workshop, University of St Andrews, March 14.
Kluczewska K. 2018. ‘World Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ vs. small entrepreneurship in Tajikistan, Workshop: Illegal and Informal Practices in the Eurasian Region’, Royal Holloway University of London, University of Roehampton and British Society of Criminology, London, January 27.
Totaro M. 2018. ‘Protecting or “Nightmarizing”: Threat, Affect, and State in Western Kazakhstan’, L’Asie Centrale dans tout ses etas, Ecole des HAutes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris, February 12.
Du Boulay-Omarova S. 2018. ‘Framing legitimacy: Epistemological approach to study authoritarian legitimation in Azerbaijan’, Tbilisi, CRRC’s 5th Methodological Conference, June 23-24.
Du Boulay-Omarova S. 2018 ‘Political Legitimation in Authoritarian regimes in the post-Soviet Eurasia’, Berlin, WZB Workshop ‘Cultures of Crisis’, January 11-12.
Du Boulay-Omarova S. 2018 ‘Informal Justice: Authoritarian Legitimation strategy in the post-Soviet Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan’, Workshop “Il/legal” and Informal Practices in the Eurasian Region”, UCL, London, January 27.
Du Boulay-Omarova S. 2018. ‘Personalistic Legitimation and Ideology in Modern Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan’, New York, ASN World Convention, Columbia University, Harriman Institute, May 3-5.
Du Boulay-Omarova S. 2018. ‘Paradoxes of Legitimation: Authoritarianism (s) in modern Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan” Washington DC, George Washington University, May 24.
Dzhuraev S. 2018 (Conference paper) The European Union and Central Asia: Notes for the New Strategy, A workshop on ‘The EU, Russia and Central Asia’, hosted by the Austrian EU-Presidency, Vienna, 7 November 2018
Dzhuraev S. 2018 (Lecture), Understanding foreign policies of small post-Soviet states: conceptual straightjackets, Masters programme in Central Asian Studies, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, 12 November 2018
Dzhuraev S. 2018. ‘A Central Asian Perspective on US Foreign Policy’, The OSCE Academy in Bishkek, June 7.
Dzhuraev S. 2018. ‘Research methods, data collection and thesis writing: practical aspects’, The OSCE Academy in Bishkek, February 9.
Dzhuraev S. 2018 ‘Kyrgyzstan at 30: prospects for democracy’, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, January 26.
Gahramanova A. 2018. ‘Democracy promotion and the role of epistemic communities in post-communist hybrid regimes’, Development Studies Association of Ireland Conference, October 23-24.
Gahramanova A. 2018 ‘A role of think tanks in authoritarian regimes’, School of Law and Government, DCU, April.
Daniela Nascimento, 2018. “Securing peace through humanitarian action: an analysis of the EU’s capacity to respond to complex emergencies”, I OBSERVARE-UAL International Conference on Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies, 29-39 November 2018, Lisbon, Portugal.
Daniela Nascimento, 2018. “The EU as a humanitarian actor: an analysis of the EU’s capacity to respond to complex emergencies through humanitarian aid “, FLACSO- ISA, 25-27 July 2018, Quito, Ecuador.
Daniela Nascimento, 2018. “Understanding the humanitarian, development and security nexus: an analysis of actors and practices”, IX Congresso Associação Portuguesa de Ciência Política, 18 – 20 April 2018, Braga, Portugal.
Maria Raquel Freire. 2018. “Between Opportunity and threat: Images of the EU in Kazakhstan amd Kyrgyzstan”, FLACSO- ISA, 25-27 July 2018, Quito, Ecuador.
Maria Raquel Freire. 2018., “Nexos Secundários: Desafios Concetuais e Políticos”, IX Congresso Associação Portuguesa de Ciência Política, 18 – 20 April 2018, Braga, Portugal.
Maria Raquel Freire. 2018. “The internal-external nexus and security actorness: effects of the securitization move in EU-Russia relations”, IX Congresso Associação Portuguesa de Ciência Política, 18 – 20 April 2018, Braga, Portugal.
Licínia Simão. 2018. “The Beauty or the Beast: what has become of European Security? EU-Russia relations at a crossroads”, FLACSO- ISA, 25-27 July 2018, Quito, Ecuador.
Licínia Simão. 2018. “Non-state actors and South Caucasus security: influence from below, within and beyond the state”, European Union in International Affairs – EUIA, 16 – 18 May 2018, Brussels, Belgium.
Licínia Simão. 2018. “Understanding the humanitarian, development and security nexus: an analysis of actors and practices”, IX Congresso Associação Portuguesa de Ciência Política, 18 – 20 April 2018, Braga, Portugal

2017

Rudzite L. 2017. ‘Many roads, one direction: Re-emerging donors and neo-liberalisation in Kyrgyzstan’, Joint IIPPE-CPERN-IPE Annual Conference: The Political Economy of Inequalities and Instabilities in the 21st Century, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Berlin, Germany, September 13-15.
Rudzite L. 2017. ‘Multiple aims, one management: Neoliberal moralization within development cooperation practices of donors representing differing aid regimes (case of Kyrgyzstan)’, Joint ESCAS-CESS Conference, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, June 29 – July 2.
Rudzite L. 2017. ‘Theorizing managerialism in development: Changing donor landscapes and persistence of outcomes in Kyrgyzstan’, Workshop: Theorising Central Asia, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, May 18-19.
Rudzite L. 2017. ‘Many donors, one end: Theoretical groundings and proposed methodology for uncovering the impact of managerial approaches in development cooperation on neoliberal moralization process in Kyrgyzstan’, CASPIAN Summer School: Engaging with the outside: from theory to practice and back, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, April 26-28 .
Gharji E. 2017. ‘Afghanistan: a Conflict Analysis’, Institute of Middle-East, Central Asia and Caucasus Studies, University of St. Andrews, UK, October 19.
Samadov R. and Kluczewska, K. 2017. Когда трудовая миграция является вариантом: молодежная миграция и образование в Таджикистане [When Labour Migration is an Option: Youth Migration and Education in Tajikistan], 9th International Forum: Migration Bridges in Eurasia, MGIMO, Moscow, November 28-29.
Kluczewska K. 2017. Европейский Союз и Центральная Азия: состояние дел и перспективы взаимодействия [The European Union and Central Asia: The State of Affairs and Perspectives for Cooperation], Jeanne Monnet lecture EUGLOBE, Lobacheskiy University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhnyy Novgorod, November 21.
Kluczewska K. 2017. ‘Development aid in Central Asia: Perceptions of international organisations in Tajikistan among their employees, civil society organisations and youth’, Monthly Seminar «Aire post-soviétique / ère postcommuniste au prisme des sciences sociales» (EHESS-ENS), University Paris 13, Paris, France, February 27.
Kluczewska K. 2017. ‘Progetti di sviluppo nelle ONG tagike: Tra i donatori e il ‘lavoro utile’ [Development projects in Tajik NGOs: between donors and a ‘meaningful work], Il Convegno Annuale dell’Associazione per lo Studio in Italia dell’Asia Centrale e del Caucaso (ASIAC 2017), Universita’ degli Studi di Torino, Turin, November 6-7.
Kluczewska K. 2017. Идеи социального развития в проекте ЕС, как интеграционного проекта [The idea of social development in the EU as an integration project] Friedrich Ebert Foundation’s Conference ‘Cooperation of the EEU Countries: Social Aspects’, Astana, Kazakhstan, October 11.
Kluczewska K. 2017. ‘Между государством и донорами: Особенности гражданского общества в современном Таджикистане’ [Between the state and donors: particularities of the civil Society in contemporary Tajikistan], RISA Conference: Dialectics of the Empire – Revolution versus Continuity, MGIMO, Moscow, September 28-29.
Kluczewska K. 2017. ‘Promoting diversity or provoking violence? Donors’ support for LGBT People vs. discourse on sexuality in Tajikistan’, Workshop: Contested Global Governance, Transformed Global Governors?; University Paris 13, OSCE Academy in Bishkek, American University of Central Asia and French Institute for Central Asian Studies; Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, July 3-4.
Kluczewska K. 2017. ‘Benefactor, industry or intruder? Perceptions of international organisations in Central Asia: the case of the OSCE in Tajikistan’ Joint ESCAS-CESS Conference, American University of Central Asia; Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, 29 June – 2 July.
Kluczewska K. 2017. ‘Researcher security in peace, conflict and security research: ethics, methodology, positionality’, Joint ESCAS-CESS Conference, American University of Central Asia; Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, 29 June – 2 July.
Kluczewska K. 2017. ‘Blessing or hindrance: How is migration shaping Central Asian societies?’ Joint ESCAS-CESS Conference, American University of Central Asia; Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, 29 June – 2 July.
Kluczewska K. 2017. ‘Ethnography of a Tajik NGO’, Graduate Colloquium of the Department of Politics and Economics, Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen, Germany, April 7.
Kluczewska K. 2017. ‘The EU strategy for Central Asia and practices of engagement’, Roundtable Discussion: Threats to Stability in Wider Europe, University of St Andrews and European Neighbourhood Council, St Andrews, United Kingdom, February 22.
Chikhladze T. 2017. ‘Authoritarian Regimes in Times of Political Crises: Systematic Literature Review Proceedings’, University of Coimbra CASPIAN Summer School, April 26-28.
Chikhladze T. 2017. ‘Authoritarian Regimes in Times of Crises: Strategies of Post-Soviet Authoritarian Leaders to Preserve Power’, The Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) 2017 World Convention at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, USA, May 4-6.
Chikhladze T. 2017. ‘Cult of personality in Turkmenistan under Niyazov and Berdymukhamedov’, University of Ghent, December 4-6.
Gahramanova A. 2017. ‘Azerbaijan between geopolitical pressure and domestic politics: repression against civil society’, The Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) 2017 World Convention at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, USA, May 4-6.
Levenets O. 2017. Informal Practices in Healthcare: Case of Ukraine. 18th Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Conference (CESS 2017) University of Washington, Seattle, USA, October 5-8.
Dzhuraev S. 2017. ‘Elections in Kyrgyzstan: Implications for Democratisation and Regional Stability’, MECACS, University of St Andrews, Nov 2.
Dzhuraev S. 2017. ‘Western conditionality and democratization in Eurasia’ Center for Social Sciences, Tbilisi, July 22-23.
Dzhuraev S. 2017. ‘A Central Asian Perspective on US Foreign Policy’, OSCE Academy, Bishkek, June 14.
Dzhuraev S. 2017. ‘The politics of foreign policy in new states: the case of post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan’, The European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) and the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS), Bishkek, 29 June – 01 July.
Dzhuraev S. 2017. ‘Politics and foreign policy making in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan’, Works-in-Progress Series, by CRRC Georgia, American Councils and American Research Institute for the South Caucasus (ARISC), Tbilisi, April 12.
Dzhuraev S. 2017. ‘Domestic and international politics in Kyrgyzstan since 1991’, International Black Sea University, Tbilisi, April 6.
Dzhuraev S. 2017. ‘Domestic and international politics in Kyrgyzstan since 1991’, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, April 5.
Dzhuraev S. 2017. ‘Foreign policy making in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan: parallels and divergences’ Caucasus International University, Tbilisi, March 28.
Dzhuraev S. 2017. ‘Threats for stability in Central Asia: what role for the EU?’ Threats to stability in Wider Europe, University of St Andrews, February 22.
Dzhuraev S. 2017. ‘The EU – Central Asia relations, Quo vadis?’, hosted by the EU Special Representative for Central Asia, Brussels, February 16-17.
Daniela Nascimento, 2017. “Understanding the humanitarian, development and security nexus: an analysis of actors and practices”, 11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, 13 – 16 September 2017, Barcelona. Spain.
Daniela Nascimento, 2017. “Humanitarianism, security and development: (un)tying the knots”, WISC – Fifth Global International Studies Conference, 1-3 April 2017, Taipei, Taiwan.
Maria Raquel Freire. 2017. “The Role of perceptions in Russian Foreign policy Towards the EU”, WISC – Fifth Global International Studies Conference, 1-3 April 2017, Taipei, Taiwan.
Licínia Simão. 2017. “The OSCE PA and democratic governance in Central Asia”, 11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, European International Studies Association – EISA, 13-16 September 2017, Barcelona, Spain.
Licínia Simão. 2017. “The Role of perceptions in Russian Foreign policy Towards the EU”, WISC – Fifth Global International Studies Conference, 1-3 April 2017, Taipei, Taiwan.

2016

Rudzite L. 2016. ‘The space between: Informal practices as a space for negotiating growth in development cooperation sector in Kyrgyzstan’, Marie Curie IAPP Summer School for Shadow Economies in Europe and Beyond: Debating the causes and impacts of the informal economy, Sofia, Bulgaria, September 2-4.
Rudzite L. 2016. ‘Experience with peacebuilding’, Opinion Festival, Paide, Estonia, August 13.
Rudzite L. 2016. ‘What do people do for peace?’, Conversation Festival LAMPA, Cesis, Latvia, July 2.
Rudzite L. 2016. ‘Consistently new business as usual? Donors, entrepreneurs, state institutions and the informal practices in development cooperation in Kyrgyzstan’, CASPIAN Summer Methods Workshop, University of St Andrews, UK, June 12-16.
Rudzite L. 2016. ‘Business and aid in Kyrgyzstan: Between investors, donors and the challenges of development’, Inter-congress of International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 4-8.
Chikhladze T. and Aliyev H. 2016. ‘Towards “Uncivil” Society? Informality and Civil Society in Georgia’, Graduate Colloquium of the Dept. of Politics and Economics, Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen, March 18.
Chikhladze T. 2016. ‘Authoritarian Regimes in Times of Crises: Strategies of Post-Soviet Authoritarian Leaders to Create Stability and Legitimacy’, Doctoral Colloquium, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, April 19.
Chikhladze T. 2016. ‘Authoritarian Regimes in Times of Crises: Strategies of Post-Soviet Authoritarian Leaders to Create Stability and Legitimacy’, University of St Andrews CASPIAN Summer Methods Workshop, June 12-16.
Kluczewska K. 2016. ‘International organisations and peace in Tajikistan’, Third Central Asia Day: Prospects for Peace Research in Central Asia: Between Discourses of Danger, Normative Divides and Global Challenges, the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH), Germany, 17-18 November.
Kluczewska K. 2016. ‘International organisations and urban youth in Tajikistan: confused about foreign aid or confusing foreign aid?’ Conference: Post-Communism 25+: Reflections on Social, Economic and Political Transitions, OSCE Academy, Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan, 6-8 October.
Kluczewska K. 2016. ‘Политические партии Таджикистана’ [Political parties of Tajikistan] Friedrich Ebert Foundation’s Conference ‘Central Asia: Spaces of Silk Democracies’, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 21 September.
Kluczewska K. 2016. ‘Возражение великого шелкового пути глазами Европейцев’ [The revival of the great silk road through the eyes of Europeans], International Scientific-Practical Conference ‘The Revival of the Great Silk Road and Participation of Central Asian countries, Tajik National University, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 20-21 September.
Kluczewska K. 2016. ‘Peace and mobility in Tajikistan: everyday peace practices of the elites, young graduates, labour migrants and women left behind’, Fifth Annual Conference of the International Association for Peace and Conflict Studies and the ECPR Standing Group on Critical Peace and Conflict Studies, Dublin, Ireland, 15-16 September.
Kluczewska K. 2016. ‘Peace and non-conflict in Tajikistan: everyday peace practices of the elite, young adults, labour migrants and women’, International Studies Association (ISA) 57^th Annual Convention, Atlanta, United States, 16-19 March.
Chikhladze T. 2016. ‘Authoritarian Regimes in Times of Crises: Strategies of Post-Soviet Authoritarian Leaders to Create Stability and Legitimacy’, University of St Andrews CASPIAN Summer Methods Workshop, 12-16 June.
Totaro M. 2016. ‘Oil, territory, and Identity in South –Western Kazakhstan’, The annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, 1 April.
Totaro M. 2016. ‘Thick Matter: Viscosity, Space and Accumulation in Western Kazakhstan’, The Annual Conference of the Central Asian Studies Society, Princeton, 4 November.
Gharji E. and Simao, L., 2016. ‘Structural impediments to Regional Cooperation in the Wider Caspian’, XII Portuguese Political Science Association bi-annual Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, June.
Gharji E. 2016. ‘Smaller but closer: Iran and Afghanistan security relations with Central Asia’, 7^th NUPI-OSCE Academy Annual Central Asian Security Seminar, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, September.
Gharji E. 2016. ‘Afghanistan: immigration and humanitarian issues’Afghanistan-Central Asia Security Roundtable, OSCE Border Management Staff College, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, June.
Gharji E. 2016. ‘Post-nuclear Deal Iran: regional security’ Post-Nuclear Deal Iran: A safer world? University of St, Andrews. UK, June.
Gharji E. 2016. ‘Varieties of Regionalisms in Central Eurasia’ Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University; Cambridge, MA, December.
Gharji E. 2016. ‘Imperial legacies, Complexes and Geopolitics of the Graveyard: international politics of war and peace in Afghanistan’, Faculty of Economics and Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, May 25.
Gharji E. 2016. ‘Varieties of regionalisms: the geopolitics of development initiatives in the wider Caspian region’, ‘Eurasia: going east or west?’ University of Edinburgh, UK, May.
Du Boulay H. and Du Boulay-Omarova, S. 2016. ‘Managing Crisis in Social Media: the governments of Russia and Kazakhstan on Twitter’ Science Po/CERI conference “Dis-integration and dis-connection in the post-Soviet space”, Nov 2016, Paris.
Levenets O. 2016. ‘Authoritarian Regimes in Times of Crises: Strategies of Post-Soviet Authoritarian Leaders to Create Stability and Legitimacy” – University of St Andrews CASPIAN Summer Methods Workshop, 12-16 June.
Dzhuraev S. 2016. ‘Prospects for peace research in Central Asia in view of state-oriented discourses of security strategies, discourses of danger and trends of securitization’, Prospects for Peace Research in Central Asia Between Discourses of Danger, Normative Divides and Global Challenges, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, University of Hamburg, 17-18 Nov.
Dzhuraev S. 2016. ‘Topical issues for social research in Central Asia’, SIAR research company in Bishkek, 26 Oct.
Dzhuraev S. 2016. ‘Multilateral organizations and regional security in Central Asia, at conference’, Global Security Trends and Their Impact on Central Asia: 2016 and On’, OSCE Academy, Bishkek, 1-2 Sep.
Dzhuraev S. 2016. ‘Foreign policy making in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan’, Central Asian Politics workshop, University of Exeter, 6-8 Jan.
Shu Ushida. 2016. ‘A Tug of War Between Georgia and Russia: Why Did the OSCE Mission to Georgia and the UN Observer Mission in Georgia Fail to Prevent the 2008 War?’, graduate workshop “Eurasia: Going East or West?” at the University of Edinburgh in June, 2016
Shu Ushida. 2016. ‘The European Union’s Contribution to the Post Violence Stabilization: the case of EUMM’, at the VIII Portuguese Political Science Association Conference, Lisbon. March 2016.
Shu Ushida. 2016. ‘Theoretical Construction of Peace in English School’, 10th Pan- European Conference on International Relations, Izmir, Turkey, 7-10 September.
Shu Ushida. 2016 “The challenges of Cooperation in the Caspian and around the Caspian region”, 10th Pan- European Conference on International Relations, Izmir, Turkey, 7-10 September.
Shu Ushida. 2016. “The Issues in the South Caucasus: Does international institutions provide Peace?”, Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa, May 2016.
Nascimento, Daniela. 2016. “The securitization of the refugee crisis: what implications for human rights protection?”, Human Rights – ISA Conference on Human Rights “Human Rights in an age of ambiguity”, 13-15 June.
Nascimento, Daniela. 2016. “EU crisis response in Haiti: in between an international actor and a constellation of actors” (with Paula Duarte Lopes), 8th Pan-European Conference on the European Union, Trento, 15-18 June 2016.
Nascimento, Daniela. 2016. “Securitizing the refugee crisis: implications for human rights protection”, Europe as a Global Actor, ISCTE, Lisbon, 23 May, 2016.
Nascimento, Daniela. 2016. “A resposta europeia à crise no Haiti: entre um actor internacional e uma constelação de actores” (with Paula Duarte Lopes), VIII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Ciência Política, 10-12 march, 2016.
Maria Raquel Freire. 2016. “BRICS in the System of Multilayered governance”, International Conference G20 and BRICS- New Global governance institutions, October 25th 2016, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration RANEPA, Moscow, Russia
Maria Raquel Freire. 2016. “Internal EU Drivers on EU-Russian Relations”, at panel Studies of Internal Russian and EU Drivers of EU-Russian Relations, International Conference ‘Studying EU-Russian Relations: Research Agenda in Russia and in the West’, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, St Petersburg State University, 28-29 June.
Maria Raquel Freire. 2016. “Status, power or both? Russia’s foreign policy after Ukraine”, First Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies, Tartu, Estonia, 12-14 June.
Maria Raquel Freire. 2016. Invited participant for the V Conference on International Security (Moscow Security Conference), Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, Moscow, 27-28 April.
Maria Raquel Freire. 2016. “The European Union and Russia”, China, Russia, and the World. Focus on the European Union, April 15 2016, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
Maria Raquel Freire, R.Heller. 2016. “How to promote peace with Russia? Russia’s status (in)consistencies and policy dilemmas for the West”, 57^thAnnual Convention, International Studies Association (ISA), Atlanta, USA, 16-19 March.
Maria Raquel Freire. 2016. “Ukraine and the Restructuring of East-West Relations”, 57^thAnnual Convention, International Studies Association (ISA), Atlanta, USA, 16-19 March.
Maria Raquel Freire, L. Simão. 2016. “Resposta a crises da UE: o caso da Geórgia numa perspectiva de assemblage”, VIII Portuguese Political Science Association Conference, Lisbon, March.
Maria Raquel Freire, Uchida, S. 2016. “The European Union’s contribution to post-violence stabilisation in Georgia: the case of the EUMM”, VIII Portuguese Political Science Association Conference, Lisbon, March.
Raube, Kolja; Simão, Licínia. 2016. “The European Neighbourhood Policy and CSDP: the interplay of stability promotion and conflict resolution”, paper presented at ECPR-SGEU, Trento, Italy, 16-18 June.
Simão, Licínia. 2016. “Coherence between the ENP and CSDP: Exercising Comprehensive Security”, paper presented at Europe as a Global Actor international Conference, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal, 23 -24 May.
Simão, Licínia. 2016. “Bringing the international back in: the performative and constitutive nature of violence in the Caspian region”, paper presented at 57ª Annual Convention, International Studies Association (ISA), Atlanta, USA, 16 to 19 March.
Simão, Licínia; Elham, Gharji. 2016. “Structural impediments to regional cooperation around in the Caspian region”, paper presented at VIII Portuguese Political Science Association Conference, Lisbon, March.

2015

Shu Ushida. 2015.‘The Internationally Unrecognized “Lines” Controls and Human Insecurity’, presented at the 7th workshop on the Future of Security “Boundaries: HUMAN SECURITY AND MIGRATION”, Graz, Austria, December 2015.
Rudzite L. 2015 ‘Business around the Caspian: Between investors, donors and the challenges of development’, CASPIAN Winter School, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 1-5 December.
Rudzite L. 2015. ‘Business around the Caspian: Between investors, donors and the challenges of development’, Doctoral Workshop: Academic Writing and Effective Presentation, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania, 9-10 October.
Levenets O. 2015. ‘Strategies for Power Preservation in Post-Soviet Authoritarian States with Personalist Rule’, University of Bremen CASPIAN winter school, 01 – 05 December.
Gharji E. 2015. ‘POST-NATO Afghanistan: emerging regional security threats, Afghanistan’ Central Asian Perspectives on Regional Security, OSCE Border Management Staff College, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, May.
Chikhladze T. 2015. ‘Strategies for Power Preservation in Post-Soviet Authoritarian States with Personalist Rule’, University of Bremen CASPIAN winter school, 1 – 5 December.
Kluczewska K. 2015. ‘Confused about foreign aid or confusing foreign aid? Perceptions of international organisations among Tajikistan’s young adults’, Conference on Development and Modernisation in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periphery, Leiden University, Netherlands, 25-26 September.
Kluczewska K. and Korneev, O. 2015. “Policies and practices of (non)involvement: Tajikistan, its labour emigrants and “diaspora(s)”, Expert Seminar: Authoritarian Governance of Overseas Citizens, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 21-22 September.
Chikhladze T. 2015. ‘Authoritarian Strategies for Power-preservation in Post-Soviet States: cases of Azerbaijan and Tajikistan’, Graduate Colloquium of the Dept. of Politics and Economics, Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen, 18 December.
Nascimento, Daniela. 2015. “Contestation and Citizenship Rights: Challenges to the Nation State and to European Integration” (with Licínia Simão and Javier Martinez Contreras), UACES 45th Annual Conference, Bilbao, 7-9 September.
Maria Raquel Freire. 2015. “Old matters, matter anew: EU-Russia relations regarding transnational terrorismo”, 9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations: The Worlds of Violence, EISA, Giardini-Naxos, Sicily, Italy, 23-26 September.
Maria Raquel Freire. 2015. “Uncertainty in a changing international system: Russia’s ‘westphalianism’challenged?”, 9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations: The Worlds of Violence, EISA, Giardini-Naxos, Sicily, Italy, 23-26 September.
Maria Raquel Freire. 2015. “Roundtable: Is there a European approach to International Relations? The Future of International Relations in Europe – Discipline, Sub-field, Theoretical Traditions, 9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations: The Worlds of Violence, EISA, Giardini-Naxos, Sicily, Italy, 23-26 September.
Maria Raquel Freire. 2015. “Fine-tuning the European security architecture? Transatlantic relations, Russian foreign policy and the crisis in Ukraine”, ICCEES IX World Congress 2015, Makuhari, Japan, 3-8 August.
Maria Raquel Freire. 2015. “The ‘West and the Rest’ in Timor-Leste: The Local Dimensions of Peacebuilding”, 56^thAnnual Convention, International Studies Association (ISA), New Orleans, USA, 18-21 February.
Simao, Licinia. 2015. “The Ukrainian conflict in Russian foreign policy: rethinking the interconnections between domestic and foreign policy strategies”, paper presented at 9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Giardini Naxos, Sicily, Italy, 23 to 26 September.
Simao, Licinia. 2015. “The Eastern Partnership’s contribution to security in Europe: bringing the political back in?”, paper presented at EUSA Fourteenth Biennial Conference, Boston, USA, 05 to 07 March.