Collegium Civitas, together with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), has recently completed a research project funded by the EEA-Norway Grants Scheme. Civitas’ Jean Monnet Professor, Dr Kerry Longhurst led the international project as part of her research interests in Eastern Europe and the European Neighbourhood Policy.
The project ‘POLNOEAST’ (Mapping Polish and Norwegian Perspectives on Regional Integration in Eastern Europe) analysed political and economic developments in the post-Soviet space, with a focus on energy, regional trade integration, the Eastern Partnership, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine. Tracking such developments in this region is of particular importance for Poland and Norway given that both countries are frontline states and are thus vulnerable to any threats emanating from Russia. As well as a number of publications POLNOEAST created two MA-level teaching modules and a week-long Summer School, all of which were team-taught by staff from NUPI, PISM and Collegium Civitas.
The project delivered timely results at point when relations between the West and Russia were descending into a state of outright hostility. Ukraine’s about-turn at the EU’s Eastern Partnership Summit at the end of 2013, the subsequent Maidan protests, annexation of Crimea and war in Eastern Ukraine have brought into focus the diametrically opposed visions and interests held by the West and Russia towards those countries sandwiched in between.
A number of topical research papers from POLNOEAST can be found at www.pism.pl and the final publication ‘What Next? Developments in the Post-Soviet Space’ appears as a special issue of The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs. This collection of articles can be found at
www.pism.pl/publications/journals/The_Polish_Quarterly_of_International_Affairs/2014/4
Students and lecturers are welcome to collect a copy of the publication from room 1250 International Office
Research papers:
Belarus—Political and Economic Perspectives in the Context of Changes in Eastern Europe / Anna Maria Dyner (PISM) http://www.pism.pl/publications/bulletin/no-95-690
Building Awareness about the EU in Ukraine / Adriana Skorupska (PISM) http://www.pism.pl/publications/bulletin/no-73-668
Georgia in the Context of the Crisis in Ukraine: A Dangerous Curve on the Road to the European Union and NATO / Konrad Zasztowt (PISM) http://www.pism.pl/publications/bulletin/no-88-683
European Energy Security in the Wake of the Russia –Ukraine Crisis / Jakub Godzimirski (NUPI) http://www.pism.pl/files/?id_plik=18874
More information on: http://civitas.edu.pl/uczelnia/projekty-rozwojowe/aktualne-granty/mapping