CANCELLED! Online Workshop in Black Sea Studies: War and Public Discourse. Public Diplomacy in Romania

EVENT CANCELLED!

The Workshop in Black Sea Studies aims to expand knowledge regarding the war in Ukraine, researchers will discuss the regional impact the war around the Black Sea with an emphasis on the global repercussions. Focusing on the Black Sea region is timely and essential as the region become one of the confrontation scenes with the Russian blockade placed on the Ukrainian access to international waters, blocking trade causing food crisis, and also Russian use of the region to conduct military attacks on military and civilian targets from the Black Sea.

Dragos Mateescu is a Romanian-born academic and currently the Director for Analysis at the Romanian Diplomacy Institute (Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs). He received his BA in Political Science at the University of Bucharest (2001) and two MAs in American (2003) and European Studies (2004) at 9 September University and Izmir University of Economics respectively. He holds a PhD in International Relations from Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham UK. Dr. Mateescu’s research also focuses on the external relations of the European Union and, within this context, on East European, Balkan, Black Sea and Mediterranean politics.