A New Region of Europe: Regional Development Paradigms in the Baltic−Black Sea Intermarum

Venue: Vilnius (Lithuania)
Period: Nov. 26-27, 2010

The conference aims to address the question of what represents “the new region of Europe” formed in the process of political and historical evolution on the territory between the Baltic and Black Seas.
“The new region” represents a group of states most frequently, and imprecisely, known as “post-Soviet”. These countries are taking part in diverging processes of integration which determine new boundaries of this region, at the same time confirming its existence vis-à-vis regional approaches to resolving socio-political problems which could be solved only within the boundaries of the whole region but not separate nation-states. In the framework of the concept of “the new region of Europe”, the research of economic, legal and political processes here become extremely important. At the same time this social space has a history of distinctive cultural and civil practices that create the most important foundations of political and social processes.
 
The conference will be held in both Russian and English, with simultaneous interpreting.

The program of the conference presupposes presentations and discussions within a plenary session, the round table discussion "The Intermarum: a space for life and partnership", and four thematic panels:
1. Integration and trans-border relationships in the Baltic-Black Sea region;
2. Energy security in the Baltic-Black Sea region;
3. Regional policy in the states of the Baltic-Black Sea region;
4. Cosmopolitan Europe: memory policy, migratory processes and transformation of citizenship institute in the states of the Baltic-Black Sea region.

Researchers, politicians and experts from all EU countries and Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Moldova will take part in the conference.

Stephan Malerius
Resident Representative of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Belarus
tel.: 00370.5.2629475
fax: 00370.5.2122294
e-mail: Stephan.Malerius@kas-belarus.lt