Past Event

The Jean Monnet Chair in “EU Relations with Russia and the Eastern Neighbourhood” (EUREAST) is pleased to host a public lecture, The EU’s Black Sea Neighborhood: Security Imperatives and Cooperation Opportunities, with Dr. Mukhtar Hajizada.

About the lecture: The Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) is an intergovernmental organization of twelve member states and brings together a number of EU and non-EU countries across Southeastern Europe. The wider Black Sea area is a region where cooperation and confrontation exist concurrently. The achievements and potential of several cooperation opportunities are challenged by existential security threats from the states within the region, which constitute a major problem for establishing a security community. The speaker will offer insight into what type of security community describes the region —  nascent, ascendant or mature security community?

Background reading for the lecture is available here.

About the speaker: Dr. Mukhtar Hajizada is a visiting professor with the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (EURUS) at Carleton University in Ottawa since August 2018. Prior to this, Dr. Hajizadawas at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies as a Fulbright Scholar. He received a Jean Monnet Chair from the European Commission in 2014. His research and teachings focus on European integration, comparative regionalisms, Black Sea security and regional cooperation, the European Union’s foreign and neighbourhood policy, research methods, and international relations theory.

This event is free and open to the public.

This event is supported by the Centre for European Studies Jean Monnet Chair in “EU Relations with Russia and the Eastern Neighbourhood” (EUREAST) which receives funding from the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union and by Carleton University.