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Conferences and Workshops

Rondeli Security Conference 2023

2023 / 05 / 23

On May 18-19, Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (Rondeli Foundation) hosted the Rondeli Security Conference at Radisson Blu Iveria Hotel, Tbilisi. This year, the conference was centered around the ongoing Russia-Ukraine War and its geopolitical consequences. The conference brought together participants from the United States, the EU, the South Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Representatives of think tanks, academia, government, and media discussed a broad range of topics which the world has to face today as a result of the most devastating war in Europe since World War II.

The Rondeli Security Conference examined the implications of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the regional security dynamics across the Eurasian continent, the relations between Russia and the West, the foreign policies of regional powers and the latest geopolitical trends in the South Caucasus and Central Asia.

Ekaterine Metreveli, President of the Rondeli Foundation, noted in her opening remarks: “Our choice cannot be protected without the membership in NATO and EU. This is the only realistic way for Georgia to complete our civilizational path of many centuries and to defend our modern political choice in favor of independence and democracy from the forces of autocracy”

In her keynote address. US Ambassador to Georgia, H.E. Kelly Degnan stressed that common goal of European integration is as close as never before for Georgia: “In order to achieve this goal, international community must and will support the country, especially in light of Russia’s ongoing attempts to divide and weaken Georgia.”

The areas of the discussions included topics such as possible terms of a Russia-Ukraine peace deal; strategies of US, NATO and the EU in that regard; future of Putin’s regime and its imperial project to restore dominance over the post-Soviet space and Eastern Europe; new modus of relations between Russia and the West; change of the regional balance of power in the South Caucasus after the Russia-Ukraine War; the roles of the US, the EU, Russia, Turkey and Iran in the region today; possibility of NATO further enlargement as a result of Russian aggression; current state of Georgia’s European course following the failure to obtain the EU candidate status; status of Russian influence in Central Asia after the Russia-Ukraine War; and many more.

Strategic supporters of the Rondeli Security Conference are the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation (BST), a project of the German Marshall Fund and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in the South Caucasus.

On May 18-19, Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (Rondeli Foundation) hosted the Rondeli Security Conference at Radisson Blu Iveria Hotel, Tbilisi. This year, the conference was centered around the ongoing Russia-Ukraine War and its geopolitical consequences. The conference brought together participants from the United States, the EU, the South Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Representatives of think tanks, academia, government, and media discussed a broad range of topics which the world has to face today as a result of the most devastating war in Europe since World War II.

 

The Rondeli Security Conference examined the implications of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the regional security dynamics across the Eurasian continent, the relations between Russia and the West, the foreign policies of regional powers and the latest geopolitical trends in the South Caucasus and Central Asia.

Ekaterine Metreveli, President of the Rondeli Foundation, noted in her opening remarks: “Our choice cannot be protected without the membership in NATO and EU. This is the only realistic way for Georgia to complete our civilizational path of many centuries and to defend our modern political choice in favor of independence and democracy from the forces of autocracy”

In her keynote address. US Ambassador to Georgia, H.E. Kelly Degnan stressed that common goal of European integration is as close as never before for Georgia: “In order to achieve this goal, international community must and will support the country, especially in light of Russia’s ongoing attempts to divide and weaken Georgia.”

The areas of the discussions included topics such as possible terms of a Russia-Ukraine peace deal; strategies of US, NATO and the EU in that regard; future of Putin’s regime and its imperial project to restore dominance over the post-Soviet space and Eastern Europe; new modus of relations between Russia and the West; change of the regional balance of power in the South Caucasus after the Russia-Ukraine War; the roles of the US, the EU, Russia, Turkey and Iran in the region today; possibility of NATO further enlargement as a result of Russian aggression; current state of Georgia’s European course following the failure to obtain the EU candidate status; status of Russian influence in Central Asia after the Russia-Ukraine War; and many more.

Strategic supporters of the Rondeli Security Conference are the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation (BST), a project of the German Marshall Fund and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in the South Caucasus.

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