Conferences and Invited Papers

• “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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  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.