Winter School of International Relations

Tallinn University School of Governance, Law and Society invites students from the fields of international relations and political sciences and people interested in these fields to participate in the winter school on February 26, 2021, which will focus on current topics in international relations.

Keynote speaker of the winter school is Michael McFaul. Michael McFaul is a leading expert on Russia, American foreign policy, and democratic development around the world. A former U.S. ambassador to Russia, McFaul is currently a professor of political science at Stanford University, the director of Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Other speakers are Professors Matthew Crandall, Mika Aaltola, Raivo Vetik, and associate Professor Mari-Liis Jakobson, lecturers Catlyn Kirna and Terry McDonald, and Instructors Ginger Guzman and Benjamin Klasche - plus selected guests from outside the university.

SCHEDULE

10.30-10.45 Opening words

10.45-11.15 Ginger Guzman "Cyberpower - the equalizer: how cyberpower has helped weak actors change their international standing"

11.15-11.45 Catlyn Kirna "Problems with evaluation: Estonia’s foreign policy during EKRE’s government 2019-2021"

11.45-12.15 Terry McDonald "Outflanked: How Currency Mobility Policy Type Affects State Response To External Economic Shock - Iceland, Greece, and China and the Crisis of 2008"

12.15-12.45 Benjamin Klasche, Birgit Poopuu, Peeter Selg "To Relate is More than to Construct. An Onto-epistemological Argument for Plural Grounds for Relationalism in IR."

12.45-13.15 Lunch break

13.15-13.45 Matthew Crandall, Mari-Liis Sulg "Small states and new status opportunities: Estonia’s foreign policy towards Africa"

13.45-14.15 Raivo Vetik "Construction of otherness in the discourses of europeanization of the CEE countries and integration of immigrants: homology of the fields."

14.15-14.45 Mari-Liis Jakobson "Theorising Transnational Populism: A Transnational Fields Approach"

14.45-15.00 Small break

15.00-15.30 Maria Annala  ”Modeling Trump’s electoral manipulation?”

15.30-16.00 Mika Aaltola ”Covid-19 as a catalyst for more exclusive multilateralism”

16.00-17.00 Michael McFaul “A Post-Trump, Post-Covid Order - in conversation with Terry McDonald”

17.00-...  Ending words

Winter School is hosted fully in Zoom.