The Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade has the pleasure
to invite you to its upcoming online book launch
titled
The Neighborhood Effect in Central Europe: Spatial Statistical Analysis as a Method for Studying European Integration Entities and the Visegrad Four
with
Igor Okunev Ph.D.
Director at the Center for Spatial Analysis in International Relations,
Professorial Research Fellow,
Institute for International Studies – MGIMO University
Discussants
Gyorgy Ilyash
Research Fellow,
Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade (IFAT)
Nikolett Garai
Research Fellow,
Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade (IFAT)
Viktor Eszterhai PhD
Senior Research Fellow,
Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade (IFAT)
The event will be held on
December 2, 2021 (Thursday) at 2.00 p.m. (CET, 14:00)/at 4.00 p.m. (MSK, 16:00)
The event will be held in English.
This event is public but registration is required.
Please register until noon on 1th December at the following hyperlink.
We will send an email with a link to access the event to the registered guests the day before the event.
Please note that any audiovisual recording of the event is only permitted by prior written authorization of the organizers. The event will be filmed and the recording will be put on our websites. By participating you consent to such use of your image.
The event will take place on Zoom, with simultaneous streaming on IFAT’s Facebook account.
Igor Okunev Ph.D.
Director at the Center for Spatial Analysis in International Relations, MGIMO University
Igor Okunev has a Master’s Degree in history from the University of Manchester and a Doctoral Degree in Political Science from the MGIMO University (Moscow State Institute of International Relations). He is a Professorial Research Fellow at MGIMO University and Director of its Center for Spatial Analysis in International Relations. He is a Co-Chair of the Research Committee on Geopolitics at the International Political Science Association. His work focuses on political geography, critical geopolitics, federalism, and capital cities. In 2021, he published an English textbook on Political Geography and Coursera launched his online course on the same subject. He is the author of three monographs: Basics of Spatial Analysis, Capital Cities in a Critical Geopolitics Mirror, and Geopolitics of Microstates, all in Russian. He has more than 100 peer-review publications in Russian and English on political geography, critical geopolitics, capital cities and federalism studies. He is member of Russian Geographical Society and Association of Russian Human Geographers. He is the executive editor of an online version of journal Comparative Politics Russia (WoS). Visiting professor at St.Edward’s University (2017) and West Virginia University (2018, 2019).
His new book was published in the beginning of 2021 – Political Geography was published with Peter Lang Group AG.
„The book is intended to be a foundational textbook for international affairs students. In it, I present political geography not as a narrow discipline that is a side-effect of the natural factor of world politics, but rather as a discipline in its own right that provides us with a spatial coordinate grid for the system of international relations. Relations between states develop in time and space, and knowledge of political history and political geography is crucial to the study of international relations and political science.”
„He fashioned a comprehensive approach to political geography as a science and shaped it into a system of fundamental concepts and patterns. In his textbook, he offers a full, truly inclusive overview of the subject. Metaphorically speaking, Igor has created a “periodic table of elements” for political space, arranging them by levels and degrees of complexity.”
During the lecture, Igor Okunev will present the results of his research, talk about his new book and discuss what the political geography tell us about the EU and the countries of our region.
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