Dr TYUSHKA participated in an international seminar held at the Swedish Defence University in Stockholm

On 25 November 2016, Dr Andriy TYUSHKA, Research Fellow of the European Neighbourhood Policy Chair at the Natolin campus of the College of Europe, took part in the international seminar on applying geopolitics to the Baltic-Pontic region in the context of Russia’s growing international assertiveness, held at the Swedish Defence University (Försvarshögskolan, www.fhs.se) in Stockholm.

Within the Thinking Geopolitics panel mandate, Dr TYUSHKA delivered the paper on Russia’s realist and revisionist geopolitical narratives targeting the Baltic-Pontic region, and elaborated on the contested rationale of such narratives as well as the challenges they present for wider regional security.