IOS Annual Conference: From Contested Pasts to (In)Secure Futures – Politics in East and Southeast Europe

- Udo Hebel (President, University of Regensburg)
- Christoph Althammer (Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Regensburg)
- Ulf Brunnbauer (Director IOS)

Regionalization of International Law, Great Powers and the Global Order, Iryna Marchuk (University of Copenhagen)

- Bernhard Stahl (University of Passau)
- Timothy Nunan (University of Regensburg)
- Heiko Pleines (University of Bremen)
- Christina Isabel Zuber (University of Konstanz)

Moderator: Cindy Wittke-Hohlfeld (IOS)

Chair: Heiko Pleines (University of Bremen)

Same Logic, Different Result? Comparing Think Tank Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis in Russia and Kazakhstan, Vera Axyonova (University of Birmingham)

Who Speaks for Russia? Ruling and Far-Right Party Framing in Post-2022 Georgia and Serbia, Sandro Tabatadze (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University)

Natural Allies? Illiberalism, Majoritarianism and Nationalism among European Parties and Voters, Christina Isabel Zuber (University of Konstanz)

Ukraine between European Integration and the Russian War of Aggression: Regime Change from Within or Externally Imposed Democratic Backsliding?, Stefan Wolff & Tetyana Malyarenko (University of Birmingham & National University 'Odesa Law Academy')

The New Deterrence Agents from Europe's East, Maria Mälksoo (University of Copenhagen)

Moderation: Cindy Wittke-Hohlfeld (University of Regensburg/IOS) or Elia Bescotti (University of Regensburg/IOS)

Chair: Stefan Wolff (University of Birmingham)

Estonian Russophones and New Liminal Insecurities at Europe’s Eastern Flank, Andrey Makarychev (University of Tartu)

“Pockets of Non-Resolution” and the Limits of Peace Processes in Ukraine (2013–2014), Oksana Myshlovska (University of Bern)

Practicing Authoritarianism in Post-2020 War Azerbaijan: Green Politics, Anti-(Neo)Colonialism, and Global Entanglements, Laura Luciani (Ghent University)

Chair: Christina Isabel Zuber (University of Konstanz)

Layers of Transformation: The Student Movement and the Unmaking of Serbian Autocracy, Filip Balunović (University of Belgrade)

“Impressing de Tocqueville?” Interest Group Mobilization in Wartime and Democratizing Ukraine, Michael Dobbins (Leibniz University Hannover)

“I Know I Must, but I …” Attitudes and Coping Strategies toward Mobilization and Travel Restrictions in Ukraine, Yana Lysenko (University of Bremen)

Chair: Sara Žerić Đulović (IOS)

The Impact of Illiberal Ideas in Croatia: From the History Wars to Anti-Liberal Politics, Stevo Đurašković (University of Zagreb)

Weaponising the Past: Coats of Arms, Flags, and the Politics of Belonging in Contemporary Montenegro, Nikola Zečević (University of Montenegro / LMU)

Inherited Memories and Contested Pasts: Generational Attitudes toward Communism and the Missing in Albania, Ines Stasa (European University of Tirana)

Chair: Sinara Gharibyan (IOS)

Speaking Carefully: Comment Editing as a Behavioral Indicator of Political Self-Censorship, Burak Giray (Technical University of Munich)

From “Population Disposal” to “Soft Genocide”: How Demographic Conspiracies Mobilise Fear in Russia, Andrei Prudnikov (University of Lisbon)

A Comprehensive Peace or War without End? Public Opinion as a Constraint on Russia’s Endgame in Ukraine, Matthew Blackburn (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (currently visiting fellow at ZOiS))

An Interdisciplinary Conversation on Transnational Repression with Eva Pils (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) & Fabian Burkhardt (IOS)

Chair: Artur Simonyan (IOS)

The Three Functions of Statism in Russia: A Framework for Authoritarian Legal Governance, Anna Weininger (University of Cologne)

The De-Oligarchisation Laws of Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine: The Role of Competition Law in Young Democracies, Cristina Teleki (Maastricht University)

Academia after Authoritarianism: Research Approaches, Alexander Kalgin (University of Bonn)

Ekaterina Paustyan (IOS), Katarina Damčević (IOS)