L'Institut d'Etudes Européennes et Internationales du Luxembourg (IEIS) organise le vendredi 15 avril 2011 de 9 heures à 17 heures, en association avec l'Agence pour la coopération culturelle et humanitaire internationale auprès du Ministère des Affaires étrangères de la Russie et l'Association pour la coopération euro-atlantique de Moscou, un colloque sur la Russie et le futur équilibre géopolitique et économique en Europe et dans le monde à la Maison de l'Europe à Luxembourg.

Programme

09.00 Welcome by Alexander Shulgin, Ambassador, Russian Embassy in Luxembourg and Armand Clesse, Director of the Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies

09.15-10.45 Session 1: Russia, Europe and the global setting: Is there a major redistribution of the key power assets? Relative, as well as absolute, decline of the US; stagnation of Europe; rise of Asia?

11.00-12.30 Session 2: Assessing the role of Russia in European and global affairs in 2011: political, economic and strategic aspects; the societal underpinning of the role; hard and soft power, tangibles and intangibles; external and internal security; energy; Balkan and Black Sea policies; Neigbourhood Policy; relations with Ukraine, Belarus, etc.; Caucasus and Central Asia. Does Russia live up to its potential, the expectations?

14.00-15.15 Session 3: What is at stake? What should Russia's role in the international system be: a rather regional or a genuinely global one? What should be the major focus? Primary resources vs. market access. From Lisbon to Vladivostok: What prospects for a pan-European community? Interests of Russia: Where do they differ from, where do they overlap with European and American interests?

15.30-17.00 Session 4: Looking ahead: Russia in the European and global system in 2050.