Cross-border exchanges - Eurasian perspectives on logistics and diplomacy

June 14, 2018

6^th « Europe-Asia » conference - 14^th 15^th June 2018 - Bishkek - previous conferences held in France, Korea, France, Kazakhstan, Mongolia.

Jointly organised / supported by

American University of Central Asia:  Research Office 

University of Le Havre and Rouen Normandie:  Lexfeim, Curej (Pierre Chabal)

SEFACIL Foundation, Fondation de France (Y. Alix)

Institut Français d'Etudes d'Asie centrale (C. Poujol)

Kazakh National University al-Farabi, EU Centre (K. Baizakova)

University of the Lower Danube, Romania (V. Puscasu)

Centre for International Relations Studies, Belgium (S. Santander)

 

The present international conference ascribes to a series of international publications. Further editions are due in other countries in 2020, 2022, … Previous conferences covered topics of :

         - « Regional regime dynamics », published in English in France in 2011 as a book Institutionalising Regions: East-Asian and European perspectives

         - « The policies of regional cooperation », published in French also in France in 2011 as a book Perspectives euro-asiatiques institutionnelles et fonctionnelles

         - « Interregional Competition Europe-Asia in the 21^st century », published in French in Belgium in 2015 as a book Concurrences Interrégionales Europe-Asie

         - « The limits of regional cooperation », published in English in Mongolia in 2015 as a special issue of the Journal Contemporary Political Society

         - « Can regions understand each other ? », published in 2016 as 5 special issues of, in Mongolia, World Affairs (diplomacy), Contemporary Political Society (1- policies ; 2- Afghanistan) and, in Romania, Public Administration and Regional Studies (1- economics ; 2-logistics)

         These 5 conferences and 9 publications 2011-2017 highlight the dedication of a team of researchers engaged in international comparisons, now opening up to colleagues from Kirgizstan and other Eurasian countries.

         This conference CROSS-BORDER EXCHANGES: Eurasian perspectives on logistics and diplomacy looks, with participants coming from 11 different countries, at the « results » of regions.

         Research since the 1990s has witnessed not only the relaunch and expansion of the European construction (Maastricht 1991, enlargements of 1995, 2004, 2007, 2013) as well as its hesitations (Brexit 2016+) but also a number of Asian and Eurasian successful initiatives: the Shanghai process (1996 as a Group, 2001 as an Organisation of 6 members, recently enlarged to 8), the Eurasian process (Customs union, Economic Community, today Eurasian Economic Union with 5 members), and a number of other initiatives, among which the CICA, the Silk road One-Belt-One-Road, also security organisations such as the CSTO and cooperative associations (ASEAN, SAARC, …). These added to the landscape formed already by the NATO, the EU, the OSCE, the Council of Europe, etc.

         Such a « proliferation » of regional (and almost pan-regional) frameworks for cooperation should create a strong incentive to facilitate « exchanges » across borders.

         Regional construction tends to modify the nature of borders, from absolute sovereign lines of division to logistical transport passage-points, controlled but open, sensitive but necessary.

         The Conference will diversify the approach of CROSS-BORDER EXCHANGES: Eurasian perspectives on logistics and diplomacy into the four sub-sessions detailed in the preliminary programme, focusing on 1) political, 2) economic, 3) cultural and 4) security issues.

<< go to news list