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Video | #30PostSovietYears
Visions of a new European Peace Order
Digital lunch talk with Márta Pardavi, (Hungarian Helsinki Committee), Rafael Biermann (University of Jena), Nadja Douglas (ZOiS) and Dmitri Makarov (Moscow Helsinki Group)
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The event shed light on diverging perspectives on the European security order at the time. How compatible were the ideas on the level of state politics with those at the level of civil movements? What were the limitations of the new vision? What are the prospects for cooperative security in Europe today?
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Call for Papers
Migrant and Minority Activism: Between Protest Movements and Everyday Engagement
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At a time of the proliferation of migrant, refugee and minority protests across the world, we bring together scholars who combine a focus on migrants or minorities with that on protest, resistance, activism and social engagement. This two-day workshop will take place, situation permitting, at ZOiS in Berlin.
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New Research Project at ZOiS on the Belt and Road
China, the EU and economic development in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
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Together with its partners Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, and Bonn International Center for Conversion, ZOiS has successfully applied for funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research for the research consortium “Local Perspectives on Transregional Processes of Entanglements and Disentanglements”.
As part of the consortium, Dr Julia Langbein leads the ZOiS project “China, the EU and Economic Development in Eastern Europe and Eurasia” in the research cluster Political Economy and Integration. The research project seeks to investigate when and under what conditions China challenges the EU as a global market and regulatory power in countries covered by the Belt and Road Initiative. To this end, the project examines how China shapes local capacities and opportunities for development through case studies of Chinese investments in local infrastructure and economic sectors in East European and Eurasian economies. The research findings will have implications for a pragmatic and realistic approach to the BRI on the part of the EU and Germany.
ZOiS has secured funding of nearly 180,000 euros for this project.
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ZOiS Spotlight 20/2021
Russia's Arctic Balancing Act
by Nadja Douglas
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For its Arctic Council chairmanship that started this month, Russia has presented an agenda focused on cooperation. But Moscow has also been trying to assert its presence, interests, and authority in the Arctic region in recent years. It will be a balancing act to reconcile these partly diverging goals.
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Meet the Author
"Our Migration Discourse is often focused on Problems"
with Jannis Panagiotidis
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“Late resettlers” and quota refugees started to arrive in Germany from the late 1980s onwards. With his book on Post-Soviet Migration in Germany, Jannis Panagiotidis has published the first comprehensive study of the defining features of this migration and the lifeworlds which subsequently emerged.
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Spotlight 19/2021
Andrei Sakharov's Fight for Freedom
by Irina Scherbakova
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21 May 2021 marks the centenary of the birth of dissident and physicist Andrei Sakharov. Known as the ‘father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb’, Sakharov would become the sharpest critic of the Soviet regime and a driving force in the Soviet Union’s human rights movement. What is left of his legacy today?
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Spotlight 18/2021
Why Manizha's 2021 Eurovision Entry Touched A Raw Nerve in Russia
by Mark Simon
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Manizha, a feminist singer with a Tajik migration background, is representing Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest. Fiercely criticised by conservative and nationalist forces, her nomination has sparked a debate on how diversity should be culturally represented in Russia.
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Spotlight 17/2021
Victory Day at 75+1
by Félix Krawatzek
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Celebrating victory in World War II on 9 May is central to Russia’s official historical narrative. As commemorations take place online and offline, ZOiS survey data show that the victory continues to generate interest among Russians. Meanwhile, the space for dissenting views is increasingly restricted.
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Workshop | 16 - 18 June 2021| online
Unions and Divisions: The Politics of Religion and Reconciliation
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This workshop investigates how populism, nationalism, and inequalities intersect with religion to forge unions and divisions in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Can religious actors be bridges in conflict resolution? When and how might they escalate tensions by activating the links connecting religion and violence?
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#30PostSovietYears | 24 June 2021 | 6:30pm| online
Forgotten Diversity?
Reading and discussion with Andrey Kurkov (author), Lana Bastašić (author), Nenad Stefanov (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Sabine von Löwis (ZOiS) and Nina Frieß (ZOiS)
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After the collapse of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in the 1990s, new states with new social and political orders emerged.The disintegration of these two multiethnic states and the emergence of new independent countries sparked wars, protracted conflicts and disputes over borderlines and allegiances.The authors Lara Bastašić and Andrey Kurkov will read from their works and then take part in a discussion with the audience.
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Due to the current pandemic we have decided to cancel all public events at ZOiS until July 2021. The ZOiS Forum and the ZOiS Research Colloquium will take place online.
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25 May 2021
Carnegie Europe reports on the EU's sanctions against Belarus following the arrest of a journalist in Minsk. The article also mentions a recent ZOiS study on Belarus (English).
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21 May 2021
SWR2 interview with Gwendolyn Sasse on the 100th birthday of Andrei Sakharov (German).
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20 May 2021
Deutschlandfunk reports on the soirée Fear and Hope: The relevance of Andrei Sakharov by ZOiS and Zentrum Liberale Moderne on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov.
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9 May 2021
In his guest contribution for the Hauptstadtbrief, Félix Krawatzek looks at the commemoration of World War II in Russia and Germany on the anniversary of the war's end (in German).
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