Pro et Contra book series launch webinar ”Reconfiguring EU Peripheries”: Political Elites, Contestation, and Geopolitical Shifts edited by Miruna Butnaru Troncotă, Ali Onur Özçelik, Radu-Alexandru Cucută

Exploring new and old peripheries in Europe

We invite you for a discussion around co-edited open access book on Reconfiguring EU
Peripheries.

The volume explores the diverse nature of the European Union’s interactions with its
peripheries. Focusing on a period of rising regional tensions marked most recently by the
war in Ukraine, the volume casts new empirical and conceptual light on the diverse
motivations that underpin the political elites’ attitudes towards the EU in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Moldova, Romania, Türkiye and Ukraine.
The event’s two guest speakers explore and discuss the shifting nature of EU peripheries
and the impact of recent crises and conflicts that made some countries express the need
for ‘more EU’. At the same time, some nations highlight their doubts and
disappointments over the challenges they have faced over recent years due to the EU
integration process.

Programme:
Opening words by Taru Haapala, Editor-in-Chief of the book series
Introduction to the volume by Editors Miruna Butnaru Troncotă & Ali Onur
Özçelik
Guest speakers’ remarks:
Veronika Sušová-Salminen (!Argument & Cross-Border Talks)
Francesco Trupia (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń – Poland)
Q&A
Closing remarks

Registration needed!
Register here by 28 October 2024.

Please note that we will gather the necessary registration information only in the purpose of sending a zoom-link before the event. The event will be also recorded. 

For more information, please contact Anna Kronlund, anna.kronlund@utu.fi.

This event has received funding from the Finnish Association for Scholarly Publishing (FI: Suomen tiedekustantajien liitto ry).