Call for Papers for the Fifth Belgrade Security Forum
The organizers of the Belgrade Security Forum (BSF) are pleased to invite security scholars and researchers to submit proposal papers for the academic event of the fifth Belgrade Security Forum to be held on September 30 - October 2, 2015. The general topic of this year's BSF is "Can Europe Redefine Itself?" while the theme of the academic event is "Does the EU Need a Foreign Policy?"
When the Berlin Wall came down quarter of a century ago many hoped that Europe was stepping out of history and its eternal recurrence of wars only to enter a post-modern era of liberal peace.
EU enlargement was seen as a vehicle that will spread this utopian vision to the East and fill out the geopolitical void left behind the implosion of the Soviet Union.
However, EU is today facing crisis on several fronts and its Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy is being challenged – in Ukraine, Western Balkans and also Middle East.
In this radically changed context of the return of geopolitics to the old continent, this year’s BSF academic event wishes to raise the following questions:
- Does the EU need to rethink its foreign policy?
- Should the EU start prioritizing geopolitical interests over the promotion of values?
- What is the role of European Neighbourhood Policy in a post-enlargement era?
- Whither the Common Security and Defence Policy and the idea of an EU army?
- Should the EU seek energy independence from Russia or should it utilize interdependence to seek solutions?
The organizers of the Belgrade Security Forum are particularly interested in contributions that work at the intersection of Critical Geopolitics, International Security, Foreign Policy Analysis and European Studies focusing on EU’s policies towards the Western Balkans, Post-Soviet Space and the wider Middle East.
The organizers will financially support travel and accommodation expenses of selected participants on a needs basis. The applicants should clearly state whether they would like to be considered for the accommodation and travel grant. All accepted papers will be presented during the BSF academic event (September 30), and after the conference, all the papers will be peer-reviewed for publication in the Journal of Regional Security.
More information can be found in the attached document.
The Belgrade Security Forum is the biggest international security conference in Southeast Europe, each year bringing together several hundred top level policy and decision makers, NGO leaders, experts, academics and journalists.
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