PhD Activities
Building a PhD Community in the Northwest: 2nd JMCE Manchester conference:
“Exits from the crisis; integration versus disintegration.”
University of Manchester, 20th January 2012.
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Registration: 10:00 – Arthur Lewis Building, Floor two boardroom
10:30 – 12:00: Panel 1 - EU foreign policy / energy security policy
EU-Russia Energy Dialogue: Security and energy threats
Olga Repyeuskaya, PhD Research Student, University of Leeds
Capturing Contestation in Caspian Energy: Regime Complexity and EU Eurasian Energy Governance
Ed Stoddard, University of Portsmouth
Energy cooperation in Europe-Asia interregional relations: making partnerships truly
strategic?
Léa Pilsner, University of Leeds
Poland: A new member state’s response to EU energy security developments.
Tomas Maltby, University of Manchester
12:00 - 12:20: Coffee break (provided)
12.20 - 13:50 - Panel 2 - The EU's relation to accession and neighbour countries
Equitable representation policies in EU accession process- the cases of Croatia and Macedonia
Simonida Kacarska, University of Leeds
Critical Assessment of the European Union’s Role in Kosovo since 2008
Cemaliye Beysoylu, University of Leeds
The European Union as a Comprehensive Police Actor: Order Maintenance in the Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo
Stephen Rozée, PhD candidate, University of Salford
Europeanisation of the Black Sea region
Mukhtar Hajizada, University of Leicester
Narrow Opening of Turkey’s Ethnocratic Paradigm during the EU Accession and Persistence of the “Kurdish Problem”
Bilge Azgin, University of Manchester
13:50 – 14:50: Lunch (provided)
15:00 – 16:10: Roundtable on the future of European integration
Professor Lee Miles, University of Loughborough
Dr. Dimitrios Syrrakos, Manchester Metropolitan University
Arlene McCarthy MEP for the NW
16:10 - 16:30: Coffee break (provided)
16:30 – 18:00: Panel 3 - New trends in the economic and political integration of the EU
Green New Deal: Yes, but which one? Western European Green parties and economic recession
Gareth Price-Thomas, University of Manchester
Does Optimal Currency Area theory suggest the need for greater multi-level governance in the Eurozone?
Holly Snaith, University of Sheffield
The Open Method of Co-ordination: An Open but Invisible Method
Mihalis Ragkousis, University of Hull
The role of the ECJ in the development of European health policy
Ellie Brooks, Lancaster University
Enlarging the European Union in times of crisis? The case of Iceland
Benjamin Leruth, Ph.D. student, University of Edinburgh
18:00 - Post conference social: Venue to be confirmed