25.11.2016: Workshop “Impacts of Democratization on the MENA Region”

We cordially invite you to the workshop organized jointly by the Jan Masaryk Centre for International Studies of the Faculty of International Relations and the Center for Asian Studies on Friday, November 25, 2016, from 11:00 to 12:30, in room SB 225 (University of Economics, Prague).

The workshop is part of the IGA project „Crises in MENA and southwest Asia: democratisation, militancy and security“.

The workshop presents findings of the project, analysis of the crises in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and southwest Asia with respect to the possibilities and limits of democratization of the MENA countries, militancy and security issues of the MENA region. The session will be followed by discussion.

Program:

  • Pamir H. Sahill: MENA and Southwest Asia: Identities, (Dis)Orders and Borders
  • Radka Havlová: Impacts of Democratization on the Palestinian State: Political and Economic Consequences
  • Aneta Hlavsová: Approaches of George W. Bush and Barack Obama Towards the Middle East
  • Kristýna Tamchynová: The (Non)Democratization of Turkey and Its Implications