Prof. Hans-Georg Heinrich, ICEUR-Vienna Orientation, Introduction: forecasting political events (2 units)
Dr. Heidemaria Gürer, Former Ambassador of Austria to the Netherlands and Permanent Representative to the OPCW, (1 unit)
Diplomacy during the runup to the war
Dr. Robert Müller, Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs Deputy Head of Department II.3 – Russian Federation, Eastern Europe and South Caucasus, Eastern Partnership, Turkey and Central Asia, Head of Department II.3b - Eastern Europe and South Caucasus (1 units)
Impact on and response of the EU (and Austria) to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine
Dr. Taras Kuzio, Professor, Faculty of Political Science; National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy; Associate Fellow, Forum for Foreign Relations, (4 units)
1-4 The Roots of the Russian-Ukrainian War
Prof. Jerzy Józef Wiatr is a Polish sociologist, political scientist and politician. Professor of the University of Warsaw, Chairman of the European School of Law and Administration rector of a private tertiary education institution in Warsaw. (2 units)
1-2 The Russian war in Ukraine
Prof. Reinhard Heinisch, Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Salzburg, (2 units)
1-2 European Right-Wing Parties and the War in Ukraine
Dr. Vladislav Inozemtsev, Director, Center for Post-Industrial Studies, Special Advisor to MEMRI's Russia Media Studies Project, Washington, DC (3 units)
- Russia’s unreadiness to the conflict and the “first adjustment”
- “Military Keynesianism” and the success-driven dizziness
- The Second adjustment and some possible perspectives
Dr. Andreas Umland (Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, Kiev) Ukraine in the European Security System; Ukrainian Right-Wing Organizations (2 units)
- The Fate of Ukraine and Future of the International Order
- The Ukrainian Far Right in the Post-Soviet Period
Dr Anatol Lieven, Director, Eurasia Program, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (3 units)
- The Ukraine War as a Late Colonial and Post-colonial Conflict
- Military Lessons of the Ukraine War
- Ideology and the Ukraine War
Dr. Habil. Mikhail (Mykhailo) Minakov,
Senior Advisor, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
(2 units)
- Demography of Ukraine during the war and its post-war prospects
- Party system and power networks in Ukraine during the war and their post-war perspectives
Dr. Nikolay Petrov, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the Laboratory for the Analysis of Transformational Processes, New Eurasian Strategies Center /NEST (2 units)
- The war in Ukraine and Russian regions
- Russia’s integration of occupied Ukrainian regions
Mag. Christoph BilbanConflict Researcher, Vienna (1 block)
1. The EU and the War in Ukraine
Dr. Elisabeth Schimpfössl, is associate professor in Sociology at Aston University and visiting senior fellow at the LSE’s International Inequalities Institute, (2 units)
- Targeted sanctions policies against Russian Oligarchs: inconsistencies, exemptions and inscrutability
- Sanction-exit strategies and reintegration of Russian oligarchs into Western economies
Dr. John Lough, Associate Fellow of the Russia & Eurasia Programme at Chatham House (since 2009), (2 units)
1-2 The outcome of the war in Ukraine – the security dimension
Prof. H.G. Heinrich, ICEUR-Vienna
Final summary (2 units)