Participants

Discussion

Russia's full-scale invasion and war of aggression against Ukraine has, in addition to all the destruction, grief and terror for the people concerned, unraveled the profound instability in what conventionally been understood as the world order. 

The annual publication CBEES State of the Region report focuses on Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Balkan and the Baltic Sea region, where we find countries who are closest to the war. We have this year engaged 30 scholars to analyze how the countries in this region in different ways have been affected by the war, to form a tentative understanding of the unfolding consequences of the war for the region. Understandably, the consequences of the war tie in to historical and contemporary conditions that also preceded the war.  

The report presents a contemporary overview of the diversity of challenges the region and its countries are facing today, both on a macro level, and on grassroots level, and gives a preliminary analysis of the implications for the future of the region.

The roundtable will discuss the reports outcome and its insights and collected data, however, focusing on the challenges for the protection of human rights, the changing prospects for knowledge production and the academic landscape as well as destroyed cultural values and environmental disaster.