Dear colleagues!
The Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Center for Strategic Studies, with the assistance of the Directorate-General for Rendering Services to Diplomatic Missions, invite you to the roundtable discussion for foreign diplomatic missions, leading Ukrainian mass media outlets, and experts on a topic entitled Eastern Shield of Europe Without NATO, US, and Ukraine: Probable Models of European Security, which will take place on 28 March 2025 from 11:00 am to 1:10 pm at the Media Center Directorate of the GDIP located at 6-А Pyrohova St. The event will combine offline and online participation modes.
Moderator: Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Doctor of Political Science, full professor at the Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of the Educational and Scientific Institute of International Relations of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv — Hryhorii PEREPELYTSIA.
The roundtable discussion’s speakers:
- Pavlo ZHOVNIRENKO, Chairman of the Board of the Center for Strategic Studies;
- Volodymyr HAVRYLOV, Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine (2022–23), Ukraine’s defence attaché to the US (2015–18), reserve Major General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
- Mykola SUNHUROVSKYI, Military Programmes Director at the Razumkov Centre;
- Yehor BRAILIAN, associate professor at the Department of International Relations and Strategic Studies of the Kyiv Aviation Institute;
- Denys BOHUSH, professional training instructor at the Faculty of Postgraduate Education of the Military Institute of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv;
- Glen GRANT, military expert, British Army Lieutenant Colonel (retired).
The speakers will discuss the following framework issues:
- Lessons from the two World Wars and averting World War III.
- The modern geopolitical context of the changes in Central and Eastern Europe: ‘Farewell, NATO’. But what to replace it with?
- What future awaits the EU now that it faces the russian and Chinese threats alone?
- Europe and the challenge of the russian-American partnership: back to ‘Yalta-2’?
- Future models of European security in the event of a dramatic transformation of the global order:
*Creation of a European army as a substitute for NATO;
*European defence alliance without Ukraine, with the latter remaining in a buffer or grey area and a neutral and nuclear status;
*Creation of an Eastern Shield of Europe instead of NATO without Ukraine;
*Formation of a Baltic-Black Sea British-Ukrainian alliance.
Working language: Ukrainian with simultaneous interpretation into English.
To register or receive additional information, please contact us by phone at +38 (097) 487-20-00, +38 (044) 287-52-58, or via email at pgrigoriy@ukr.net.
Registration will remain open until 27 March 2025.
If you are arriving by your vehicle, please call +38 (067) 215-16-09 to have the barrier raised.
Please join us!
