Europe’s Futures Colloquium with Hanna Shelest

Europe’s Futures is IWM’s partnership initiative with the ERSTE Foundation. In a rapidly changing global environment it aims to understand and address the challenges confronting Europe and the European Union. Core are the issues of democracy, the rule of law, migration dynamics and further enlargement of the EU as well as other internal and external issues. The sixth cohort of Europe’s Futures Fellows in the academic 2023/24 is comprised of eight prominent experts who will present their research in presentations and public events throughout the month of September.

The first discussion is with Hanna Shelest and will focus on Ukraine. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has prompted the need to wholly rethink and revise European strategies and policies. A broad spectrum of aspects playing into today’s situation will be assessed, with an emphasis on contextualizing reactions of politicians in Europe to the unprompted Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 with respect to their position on the political spectrum.

Hanna Shelest, PhD, is the Director of Security Programmes at the Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism” and Editor-in-chief at UA: Ukraine Analytica. Dr Shelest also is a non-resident senior fellow at CEPA (US).

Ivan Vejvoda, IWM Permanent Fellow and head of Europe’s Futures program, will host and moderate the event.

Please register here: https://civi.iwm.at/content/event-registration-europes-futures-colloquium1