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| 30 March 2022 | WHY HAS UTOPIA BECOME A DIRTY WORD? MARK JENDRYSIK, PH.D. Professor University of North Dakota USA |
| 22 November 2021 | GENERATION Z “Lost” or Emerging Generation? LAURIE L. RICE & KENNETH W. MOFFETT Professors of Political Science Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, IL., USA |
| 10 November 2021 | TACTICAL RETREAT? The Challenge of Reducing and Eliminating Tactical Nuclear Weapons Dr. TIM STREET Director Nuclear Information Service, UK |
| 12 July 2021 | RUSSIA AND NATO Does the Kremlin Suffer from a Encirclement Syndrome? Dr. OXANA SCHMIES Security Expert, Berlin |
| 30 March 2021 | THE END OF POPULISM Twenty Proposals to Defend Liberal Democracy NEW BOOK BY MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN Director, Cicero Foundation |
| 17 March 2021 | WHY DO WE BELIEVE IN CONSPIRACY THEORIES? Dr. MICHAEL BUTTER Professor of American Literary and Cultural History University of Tübingen, Germany |
| 10 March 2021 | THE GREAT WAR AND THE SHAPING OF CONTEMPORARY U.S. ISOLATIONISM Dr. KENNETH D. ROSE California State University History Department |
| 9 March 2021 | DEMOCRATIC DECAY: WHY DOES IT HAPPEN AND WHAT CAN WE DO TO PREVENT IT FROM HAPPENING? NATASHA LINDSTAEDT Deputy Dean of Education, Social Sciences Department of Government University of Essex |
| 27 Nov 2020 | TRUMP AND THE PROTESTANTS – How Do the Religious Right and Left Use History in a Populist Era? Dr. MATTHEW ROWLEY Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Leicester Research Associate at the Cambridge Institute on Religion & International Relations |
| 17 Nov 2020 | “NO BETTER FRIEND” -Assessing the ‘Special’ Nature of the Canada-Ukraine Relationship Dr. BOHDAN S. KORDAN Professor of International Relations Director, Prairie Centre for the Study of Ukrainian Heritage University of Saskatchewan, Canada |
| 24 Aug 2020 | PUTIN 2036 – THE NEXT SIXTEEN YEARS: WHAT CAN WE EXPECT? VLADIMIR TISMANEANU Professor in the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland KATE C. LANGDON Erasmus Mundus Scholar |
| 04 Apr 2020 | “THE PEOPLE” VERSUS DEMOCRACY: A NEW DILEMMA LARRY ALAN BUSK Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Modern Languages California State University, Stanislaus |
| 04 Apr 2020 | TWO FACES OF “TWITTER POPULISM” IN THE NETHERLANDS THE DIFFERENT STRATEGIES OF WILDERS’S PVV AND BAUDET’S FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY PETER VERWEIJ Director D3-M The Netherlands |
| 16 Dec 2019 | POPULISM IN ITALY Exploring the Ideological Roots of Lega and the Five Star Movement LUCA MANUCCI University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences |
| 13 Sep 2019 | THE END OF WHITEHALL? PATRICK DIAMOND Assistant Professor in Public Policy Queen Mary, University of London |
| 10 Jul 2019 | DEBUNKING THE MYTH OF ‘THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE’ ALBERT WEALE Emeritus Professor of Political Theory and Public Policy University College London |
| 09 Jul 2019 | THE UK AFTER BREXIT: WILL AND CAN THE ANGLOSPHERE REPLACE THE EU? ANDREW MYCOCK AND BEN WELLINGS University of Huddersfield (UK) and Monash University (Australia) |
| 07 Jun 2019 | EARLY LIBERALS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE Their Fear of Populists and ‘Dangerous’ People MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN Director The Cicero Foundation |
| 03 Sep 2018 | HOW THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS BURIED THE HUMAN RIGHTS AGENDA MICHAEL BLAKE Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy, and Governance University of Washington Seattle, Washington |
| 18 Jun 2018 | THE RISE OF KREMLIN-FRIENDLY POPULISM IN THE NETHERLANDS MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN Director The Cicero Foundation |
| 31 May 2018 | CONFRONTING THE WICKED PROBLEM OF FAKE NEWS: A ROLE FOR EDUCATION? DONALD A. BARCLAY University of California |
| 01 Nov 2017 | HOW TO SAVE POLITICS IN A POST-TRUTH ERA? ILAN ZVI BARON Associate Professor School of Government and International Affairs Durham University, UK |
| 14 Jul 2017 | THE DANGER OF “RUSSIAN HYBRID WARFARE” DR. OFER FRIDMAN Department of War Studies King s College, London |
| 09 Jun 2017 | POPULISM AND THE WEALTH PARADOX FRANK MOLS AND JOLANDA JETTEN University of Queensland Australia |
| 04 Jul 2016 | RUSSIA s NUCLEAR THREATS AND THE SECURITY OF THE BALTIC STATES MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN Director The Cicero Foundation |
| 02 Dec 2015 | PUTINs WARS: The Rise of Russia s New Imperialism MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN Director The Cicero Foundation |
| 01 Dec 2015 | PUTIN s PROPAGANDA MACHINE: Soft Power and Russian Foreign Policy MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN Director The Cicero Foundation |
| 11 Aug 2015 | UKRAINE AND RUSSIA: IN SEARCH OF A DIVERGENT FUTURE VOLODYMYR KRAVCHENKO Director, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada |
| 24 Jun 2015 | THE GREEK GOLDEN DAWN: REASONS BEHIND THE EXTREME RIGHTs REVIVAL IN TE CRADLE OF DEMOCRACY DAPHNE HALIKIOPOULOU SOFIA VASILOPOULOU Resp. University of Reading and University of York |
| 09 Dec 2014 | THE INFORMATION WAR ON UKRAINE NEW CHALLENGES Dr. JOLANTA DARCZEWSKA Deputy Director Centre for Eastern Studies Warsaw |
| 24 Jun 2014 | RUSSIA-BALTIC RELATIONS AFTER CRIMEAs ANNEXATION: REASONS FOR CONCERN? AGNIA GRIGAS PhD Fellow at the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs at Occidental College Los Angeles, CA Former Advisor of the Lithuanian Government |
| 20 Dec 2013 | ‘TRADITIONAL VALUES’ AND HUMAN RIGHTS Whose Traditions? Which Rights? MICHAEL BLAKE Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy University of Washington Seattle, Washington, USA |
| 10 Apr 2013 | CORRUPTION IN EUROPE: WHAT CAN BE DONE? LAURENCE COCKCROFT Co-Founder Transparency International (TI) Chairman TI(UK) 2000-2008 |
| 01 Sep 2011 | THE NORTHERN FOREIGN POLICY OF RUSSIA What is the Long-Term Strategy of Russia in the Baltic Sea and Arctic Regions? INGMAR OLDBERG Research Associate Swedish Institute of International Affairs Stockholm |
| POPULISM, JOHNSON, AND BREXIT ANDREW RICHARD RYDER Associate Professor Eötvös Lorand University Budapest |
| IS HUNGARY’S ILLIBERAL DEMOCRACY A MODEL FOR OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES? ROBERT CSEHI Bavarian School of Public Administration, Munich, Germany |
| HAS SOCIAL DEMOCRACY STILL A FUTURE? Dr. ROB MANWARING Flinders University Australia |
| THE VIRUS DOES NOT CARE WHAT YOU THINK DR. TIM AISTROPE Lecturer in International Relations School of Politics and International Relations University of Kent, UK |
| AFTER BREXIT: THINKING BEYOND THE EUROPEAN CRISIS GERARD DELANTY Department of Sociology University of Sussex Brighton, UK |
| THE PRESSING MESSAGE OF RUSSIAN DISSIDENTS: A LESSON FOR WESTERN LIBERALS NICOLAS TENZER Chairman CERAP, Paris |
| THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH: TOWARD A NEW, GLOBAL ROLE? GREG SIMONS Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies Uppsala, Sweden |
| Interview: How to Debunk Russian Propaganda? The Work of StopFake.org YEVHEN FEDCHENKO Co-Founder StopFake.org Director Mohyla School of Journalism, Kyiv |
| THE POSITION OF NATIONAL MINORITIES IN PUTINs RUSSIA Uniformity or Diversity? FEDERICA PRINA University of Glasgow UK |
| OSCE ‘BIS’: A NEW EUROPEAN SECURITY INITIATIVE JAN PIEKLO Director PAUCI Foundation Warsaw, Poland Kyiv, Ukraine |
| HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION: OUGHT THE UNITED NATIONS TO HAVE AN INCREASING OR DIMINISHING ROLE? ROSA FREEDMAN Lecturer at Birmingham Law School University of Birmingham, U.K. |
| UKRAINE: WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF THE PASSENGERS OF THE MH17? A TEN POINT COMMENTARY MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN Director The Cicero Foundation |
| KALININGRAD: WHAT IS ITS FUNCTION IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA? GREG SIMONS Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies |
| ETHNIC CLEANSING IN THE BALKANS Why Did It Happen and Could It Happen Again? PAUL MOJZES Rosemont College Rosemont, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. |
| CRISIS AND THE FUTURE OF EUROPE JOHN McCORMICK Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Politics Indiana University Indianapolis, USA |
| MARX AND HUMAN RIGHTS Analysis of an Ambivalent Relationship MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN Director The Cicero Foundation |
| RUSSIA AND SYRIA Why Putin Supports the Bashar Al-Assad Regime TALAL NIZAMEDDIN American University of Beirut |
| UKRAINE, EUROPE, AND BANDERA ALEXANDER J. MOTYL Professor of Political Science Rutgers University, Newark |
| RISING ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE How to Respond? Prof. GERT WEISSKIRCHEN, MP Foreign Policy Spokesman SPD Fraction German Bundestag |
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