

Central Europe
CHAIR
Lou Raisonnier
(U of Ottawa, Canada)
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PAPERS
Tomasz Stepniewski
(Catholic U Lublin, Poland)
The Russia-Ukraine War and the Transatlantic Response:
A Shift in Security Paradigm for NATO's Eastern Flank and EU-NATO Cooperation
Anastasiia Vlasenko
(Columbia U, US)
Beyond Declarations:
Examining the Mismatch in the EU’s Democracy Promotion Efforts in Eastern Europe
Magdalena Lesinska
(U of Warsaw, Poland)
Bastian Sendhardt
(German Institute of Polish Affairs)
Diaspora Engagement Policies as Global Nation-Building:
The Case of Poland
Nadiia Bureiko
(Ukrainian Prism, Kyiv, Ukraine)
Mobilising Knowledge in Wartime:
Ukrainian Expert Diplomacy and the Soft Power of Resilience
Antonio Amuza
(U of Bucharest, Romania)
Affective Geopolitics and Post-Soviet Imaginaries:
Algorithmic Sentiment in Romanian and Moldovan Media Coverage of Donald Trump
and the United States, 2023–25
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DISCUSSANT
TBA