{"id":156,"date":"2013-11-07T12:49:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T12:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=156"},"modified":"2014-12-13T12:54:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T12:54:07","slug":"gec-success-at-the-international-conference-belarus-in-the-contemporary-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2013\/11\/07\/gec-success-at-the-international-conference-belarus-in-the-contemporary-world\/","title":{"rendered":"GEC success at the International conference &#8216;Belarus in the contemporary world&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the support of the FCO (grant 20130821111046165) and the British Embassy (Minsk) in particular, Professor E. Korosteleva, Director (Professional Studies) of the Global Europe Centre, organised a roundtable \u2018Belarus and the Eastern Partnership Initiative: achievements and prospects\u2019 as part of the wider international conference <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fir.bsu.by\/images\/news_images\/news_images_2013\/pdf2013\/news_2013_10_29_BMW_programma.pdf\">\u2018Belarus in the Contemporary World\u2019<\/a>. The roundtable involved diplomats from the EU Delegation, British, Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian Embassies, as well as local and international experts to discuss Belarus\u2019 relations with the EU and the Eurasian Customs Union (programme is attached), on the eve of the Eastern Partnership Summit in November 2013. The event was the first of its kind in Belarus, and forms part of a series of public debate involving academia, think-tanks and policy-makers.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Korosteleva also participated in a TV broadcasting \u2018Amplituda\u2019 to present and discuss the findings of her recent research project <a href=\"http:\/\/news.tut.by\/politics\/372684.html\">\u2018Belarus and Eastern Partnership: a national values survey\u2019<\/a>.\u00a0The survey was undertaken with the assistance of the Centre for Political Research, Belarusian State University, and financially supported by the Office for a Democratic Belarus (ODB). The survey focused on the public attitudes, perceptions, levels of awareness and behavioural patterns in relation to the regional centres of power \u2013 the EU and the Eurasian Customs Union; and traced some dynamics vis-a-vis a similar survey conducted by Prof. Korosteleva in 2008\/9 as part of an ESRC-funded project (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aber.ac.uk\/en\/interpol\/research\/research-projects\/europeanising-securitising-outsiders\/\">RES-061-25-0001<\/a>). Full findings report is available for download on the GEC website (enclosed), as well as on the <a href=\"http:\/\/democraticbelarus.eu\/news\/survey-results-belarus-and-eastern-partnership-national-and-european-values-0\">ODB website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs from the roundtable &#8216;Belarus and the Eastern Partnership Initiative: achievements and prospects&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_8792.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-157 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_8792-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8792\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_8792-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_8792.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_8808.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-158 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_8808-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8808\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_8808-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_8808.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_8823.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-159 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_8823-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8823\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_8823-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_8823.jpg 439w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_8825.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-160 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_8825-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8825\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_8825-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_8825.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_8827.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-161 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_8827-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8827\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_8827-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_8827.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_plenary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-162 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_plenary-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_plenary\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_plenary-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_plenary.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the support of the FCO (grant 20130821111046165) and the British Embassy (Minsk) in particular, Professor E. Korosteleva, Director (Professional Studies) of the Global Europe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2013\/11\/07\/gec-success-at-the-international-conference-belarus-in-the-contemporary-world\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131001],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}