Commemorative activities
31 октября 2018 года
Peace & State – Building the Future of the Middle East
The event was organized in partership with the Center for Security and Development Studies at the School of World Politics of Lomonosov State University.
The political transformation of the Middle East entered a new stage.
The period of deconstruction through conflict and existential crisis gave way to the era of reconstruction and a constructive quest for new identity and foundations.
Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Iraq, and other Arab countries faced a common challenge – choosing a new model of development which would ensure the optimal balance between the requirements for modern statehood and the imperatives of political stability, between universal values and local cultural traditions, between aspirations of a strengthening civil society and interests of the elites.
The Middle Eastern nations gave extremely diverse answers to the unique challenges they had been facing. External actors – both regional and extra-regional – also played a significant role in these developments. All of them contributed to the non-linear processes of political transformation in one way or another – through direct military interventions, diplomatic initiatives or aid programs. External and domestic factors interacted, revealing more and more trade-offs between state formation, state-building, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction. The exploration of this problematique required bringing together scholars of various academic backgrounds, both theorists and practitioners.
List of participants:
- Abdul Rahman Al-Agely (Libya)
- Altunai Aliyeva (Russia)
- Nader Bakkar (Egypt)
- Hrair Balian (USA)
- Vladimir Bartenev (Russia)
- Kayhan Barzegar (Iran)
- John Bell (Canada)
- Andrey Fedorchenko (Russia)
- Tatiana Karasova (Russia)
- Louisa Khlebnikova (Russia)
- Grigory Kosach (Russia)
- Bahgat Korany (Egypt)
- Alexander Krylov (Russia)
- Vasily Kuznetsov (Russia)
- Timur Makhmutov (Russia)
- Elena Melkumyan (Russia)
- Ruslan Mamedov (Russia)
- Hanna Notte (Germany)
- Lida Oganisyan (Russia)
- Marina Sapronova (Russia)
- Sergei Serebrov (Russia)
- Randa Slim (USA)
- Ekaterina Stepanova (Russia)
- Nikolay Surkov (Russia)
- Konstantin Truevtsev (Russia)
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