Lectures and Public Speaking

• “Introductory Speech” to the 2025 attendees to the South Asia Journalism Fellowship (SAJP) hosted by the University of Westminster and funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office.
  Speech. Download. 
  Supplementary Essay. Download.
  Peter’s speech was delivered alongside two other panel speakers, BBC Persian Special Correspondent Kasra Naji and University of Westminster Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Dibyesh Anand. The speeches and panel discussion were chaired by Orwell Foundation Director and University of Westminster Media History Professor Jean Seaton. The event took place 23 April 2025.

 

• “Lithuanian Embassy Talk” speech delivered to the Lithuanian City of London Club members at the Lithuanian Embassy in London, UK.
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  Peter’s speech was delivered alongside his colleagues, Prof Andrew Wilson and Dr Rasmus Nilsson, and a representative for the Belarusian Opposition Ales Patrusau as part of a panel titled “Security of Lithuania and the EU: Risks, Opinions, Solutions”. The panel was hosted by Lithuanian City of London Club President Vilma Green and the most excellent Kristijonas Sokas. The event took place 20 March 2024.

 

Conferences and Invited Papers

• “Reformulating Omnibalancing: Democracies, Methodological Revisions, and Rare Case Applications Using Belarus, BrexitBritain, and the Trump-Era United States.”
  Paper abstract. Download.
  Powerpoint Presentation. Download.
  11th World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies hosted at University College London in London, England, United Kingdom, from July 21–25, 2025. Panel Title: “Peace, Democracy and International Relations After the Cold War: Disruption or Transition?” This panel took place on Tuesday, 22 July 2025.

 

• “Omnibalancing as Explaining-Outcome Process-Tracing: Refinements to Methodology and Method when Using Omnibalancing.”
  Paper summary. Download.
  Powerpoint Presentation. Download.
  11th World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies hosted at University College London in London, England, United Kingdom, from July 21–25, 2025. Panel Title: “Contested Autocracies: Stability, Authoritarian Adaptation, and Political Technology in Post-Soviet Spaces.” This panel took place on Friday, 25 July 2025.

 

• “Omnibalancing and Autocratic Regimes: Explaining Alignment Decisions in Relation to Domestic Regime Survival and Elite Coalitions by Comparing Belarus’s and Kazakhstan’s Participation in China’s Belt and Road Initiative.”
  Paper abstract. Download.
  53rd Annual Convention of the ASEEES, Virtual Convention, December 2–3, 2021. Panel Title: “Speaking an Autocratic Language: Understanding how Authoritarian Regimes Adapt and Entice.”

 

• “Omnibalancing and Autocratic Regimes: Explaining Alignment Decisions in Relation to Domestic Regime Survival and Elite Coalitions by Comparing Belarus’s and Kazakhstan’s Participation in China’s Belt and Road Initiative.”
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  10th World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies hosted at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada, from August 3–8, 2021. Panel Title: “Speaking an Autocratic Language: Understanding how Authoritarian Regimes Adapt and Entice.”
  

 

• Round-Table Chair
  Chaired a current events round-table for the LSESU European Society, 25 November 2020.
  

  Peter Braga chaired the 2020-11-25 Round-table on current events in Belarus. Panel participants included Alex Kokcharov, Rikard Jozwiak, Miklós Haraszti, and Professor Alena Marková.

 

• “China’s Relationships with Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus and How They Affect the EAEU”
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  The interaction of Eurasian integration with the EU and the Silk Road, 22 June 2018, UCL SSEES, London, UK.This is me presenting an overview of China’s approach to the EAEU from examining its ties with Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.

 

• Conference Coordinator
  3rd Annual Conference ‘Belarusian Studies in the 21st Century’, 23 March 2018, London, UK.

 

• Lead Conference Coordinator
  Call for Papers: 15th Biennial International Postgraduate Conference, 12–14 February 2018, London, UK.
  

 

• “Authoritarian Persistence and Omni-alignment: Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Relations with China, 2006–2016.” Download.
  Council for Slavonic and East European Library and Information Services Conference, 20 June 2017, London, UK.
  

 

• “Belarus-China Relations: A Synthesis of Narratives.” Download.
  2nd Annual Conference ‘Belarusian Studies in the 21st Century’, 25 February 2017, London, UK.

 

• Conference Coordinator
  14th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe, 20–21 February 2016, London, UK.

 

• “10 Years of China’s Relations with Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: Regional Balancing and Authoritarian Persistence.” Download.
  Research Seminar, 15 December 2016. London, UK.

 

• “In Search of a Third Wing? Belarus–China Relations and Balancing Amid the Russia–Ukraine Conflict.” Download.
  Annual Conference ‘Belarusian Studies in the 21st Century’, 24 March 2016, London, UK.

 

Last Updated: 1 August 2025.