Wtorek geopolityczny 10/11/2020
Ośrodek Kultury Francuskiej i Studiów Frankofońskich UW i Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych UW we współpracy z Groupe d’études géopolitiques zapraszają na spotkanie z cyklu WTORKI GEOPOLITYCZNE.
Spotkanie jest organizowane w ramach mini-grantu 4EU+ „Europa Środkowa wobec pandemii” kierowanego przez dr Kingę Torbicką (OKFiSF UW).
How the management of internal policy influences the geopolitics of Central Europe in the face of Covid-19
Zuzana Kotherová (Uniwersytet Karola)
Michel Perottino (Uniwersytet Karola)
Nicolas Maslowski (OKFiSF UW)
Kinga Torbicka (OKFiSF UW)
10.11.2020 wtorek
godz. 15.00 – 16.30
Spotkanie odbędzie się on-line: meet.google.com/sdz-nrva-rfd
Spotkanie w języku angielskim.
Introduction
We would like to introduce you the how Central Europeans countries manage their internal policy in the era of Covid-19 pandemic.
Zuzana Kotherova and Michel Perottino will present first the “pandemic memory” of the Czech Republic and its preparedness to fight against the potential pandemic and second, they will present how the COVID-19 pandemic has been managed in the Czech Republic, during the spring and the actual wave. We focus on the role of new-born experts in the Czech health policy as well as to the Czech position and behaviour within the international space.
Kinga Torbicka will present the changes taking place today in relation to Poland and its position in the new geopolitical order in face of three factors: globalization in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, political structure of the state with authoritarian tendencies, consequences of the above-mentioned processes on the region of Central Europe.
Nicolas Maslowski will present polish perspective of internal and external policies on the Covid-19 pandemic in Central Europe. How the perspective of the theory of international relations has been verified against the reality of the pandemic era in liaison with the Central European region.
Biographical note
Zuzana Kotherová is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University. She received her PhD in the field of public economics at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Brno. She studied the health policy and health systems mainly from the actors’ point of view and focused on economic and non-economic interests of those actors. Previously her teaching has included post as Invited Professor at Rennes I University (2010 and 2018). She has lectured and published on a broad range of issues of health system reforms, health politics and policy.
Michel Perottino is associate professor and researcher in the Department of political Science at Charles University. He is the head of this department since 2015. His research interests lie in political parties (theory, sociology, membership), French and Czech politics and the Czech political system.
Kinga Torbicka is Research Fellow at Center for French Culture and Francophone Studies at the University of Warsaw. She is historian. PhD in history Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. Researcher at Groupe d’études géopolitiques (French think-tank). Main research interests include: the security of Central and Eastern Europe in the Euro-Atlantic zone, with particular reference to the Visegrad Group, Weimar Triangle, Ukraine and Russia, Polish-French political relations since 1989.
Nicolas Maslowski is Director of Center for French Culture and Francophone Studies at the University of Warsaw. He is sociologist. He is a seconded lecturer at Charles University in Prague (Department of Historical Sociology). He also previously taught at the University of Economics (Prague) international relations and diplomacy. A former student of the IEP in Paris, he defended his doctorate (2009) at the University of Paris X-La Défense Nanterre. He works on Central Europe, communism and post-communism, international relations as well as the historical sociology of recognition, recently on migration, security in Europe and collective memory.
