PROGRAM

Opening Keynotes

SESSION 1: Interconnected Global Risks: How we can prevent “Polycrisis”?

Chair/Discussant: Fumihiko Yoshida (Nagasaki University, Japan)

Discussant: Radomir Compel (Nagasaki University,Japan) ;Kazuko Hikawa (Osaka Jogakuin University, Japan)

Panelists:

1. Dan Smith, Director, SIPRI, Sweden - Global Risks and Interconnected Security

2. Makoto Taniguchi, Deputy Director, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan - Co-creation of the Sustainable Future based on the Linkage of the Earth-human System

SESSION 2: Facing Multiple Risks: Climate, AI, Finance, Energy Resources and New Roles for the Global South

Chair/Discussant: Rosalie Hall, University of the Philippines - Visayas, Philippines

Discussant: Liliana Filip, Political Research Group, Romania

Panelists:

1. Fatima Nasser, American University of Beirut, Lebanon - Women Leadership in Disaster Management: The Case of the Beirut Blast

2. Bipul Biplav Mukherjee , University of Delhi, India - Emerging Challenges to Multilateral Institutionalism: A Case of the New Development Bank (NDB)

3. Chandu Doddi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India - Digital Lending and Cybercrimes of China in India

4. Olatunde Isaac Olaniyi, University of Ibadan/ Nigerian Army College, Ilorin, Nigeria - (In)security and Political Economy of Inter-State Relations in Chad Basin

5. Shaimaa Moheyeldin, Cairo University, Egypt - Resource Based Conflict in Mozambique

6. Alexander Rusetsky, Caucasus International University, Georgia - "Peace Reactor": Georgian Model of Nuclear Diplomacy, for a Secure World Order

SESSION 3: New Security Challenges and Responses in the Changing World Order 

Chair/Discussant: Hamdy Hassan, Zayed University, UAE

Discussant: Yasmin Calmet, Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo, Perú

Panelists:

1. Peter Rada, Budapest Metropolitan University, Hungary; Laura Nyilas, University of Public Service, Hungary - SurRealism of the Liberal World Order and the Place of the EU in its Future

2. Mehrdad Khakparaghi, ELTE, Hungary - Entropic Proliferation: Systemic Disorder within the Nuclear Polity and its Implications for Peripheral Armament

3. Alexandre Coelho, Observa China, Brasil - Brazil's Foreign Policy Responses to Geopolitical Conflicts: A Study of the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas Disputes from the Global South Perspective

4. Martin Medina, Universidad de la Cuenca del Plata, Argentina - Private Security Agencies

5. Sumit Mukerji, University of Kalyani, India - The Human Dimension of Conflict: Palestine Bloodbath in Retrospect

6. Aashriti Gautam, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science; Shyama Prasad Mukherjee College for Women - Delhi University, India - The Transition from Kantian to Machiavellian Morality in International Relations: Evidence from the Russo-Ukrainian and Israeli-Palestinian Conflicts

SESSION 4: Issues in the Upcoming World Order: Risks and Conflicts

Chair/Discussant: Gladys Lechini, UNR (Universidad Nacional de Rosario), Argentina

Panelists:

1. Javier Vadell, PUC Minas, Brazil - Hegemonic Disputes between US and China

2. Gisela Pereyra Doval, UNR, Argentina - 'South America's International Insertion in a Context of Policrisis'

3. Maria Noel Dussort, UNR, Argentina - '2024 Elections in South Asia: Geopolitical Continuity or Change?'

4. Igor Castellano, UFSM, Brazil - Is Africa the Continent of the Future?

Closing Keynotes