This episode focuses on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)and the energy prospects in the Eastern Mediterranean. It engages in a conversation on international law, international arbitration and negotiation, conflict mitigation, and some of the legal disputes presented in pipeline projects in the region.
Maria Athanasiou holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the University of South Wales and a Master’s degree in International Commercial Law from Cardiff University. She is also pursuing her Doctorate in the field on the Law of the Sea at the University of Nicosia. Being a member of the Cyprus Bar Association, Maria is the Founder of Athanasiou & Associates LLC, based in Cyprus. Moreover, Maria is a co-author of the book “The Future of the Maritime Industry” and a Lecturer in Law at the European University and the Cyprus Maritime Academy. She is involved in various exhibitions concerning Energy security in the framework of international law.
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This episode focuses on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)and the energy prospects in the Eastern Mediterranean. It engages in a conversation on international law, international arbitration and negotiation, conflict mitigation, and some of the legal disputes presented in pipeline projects in the region.
Maria Athanasiou holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the University of South Wales and a Master’s degree in International Commercial Law from Cardiff University. She is also pursuing her Doctorate in the field on the Law of the Sea at the University of Nicosia. Being a member of the Cyprus Bar Association, Maria is the Founder of Athanasiou & Associates LLC, based in Cyprus. Moreover, Maria is a co-author of the book “The Future of the Maritime Industry” and a Lecturer in Law at the European University and the Cyprus Maritime Academy. She is involved in various exhibitions concerning Energy security in the framework of international law.
S3E6: Civil Society as a Security Actor in Poland and Ukraine
Diplomatic Academy - The Conversation
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3 years ago
S3E6: Civil Society as a Security Actor in Poland and Ukraine
This episode features a conversation on civil society groups and their capacity of grassroots involvement in the policy-making and security processes, with examples derived from Poland and Ukraine.
Bohdana Kurylo is a PhD candidate at University College London, the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. She is a recipient of the Victor and Rita Swoboda Memorial Scholarship, the Overseas Research Scholarship and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies Excellence Scholarship. Her research interests include security theory, international political sociology, social movements, populism and Eastern Europe.
Contributing to Security Studies, Bohdana’s research investigates how civil society can become empowered as a security actor in the context of perceived emergency. It draws on a vernacular contextual approach in combination with semi-structured interviews and social media research to study the meanings of security, emergency and power that guide the action of local agents. On the one hand, her dissertation examines the discourses and practices of Ukrainian civil society groups against the backdrop of the Russian-Ukrainian war (2014-). On the other, it explores the mobilisation of Polish civil society around the issue of reproductive rights in the lead-up to the 2021 near-total ban on abortion.
Alongside her PhD project, Bohdana has been conducting research on the populist politics of security, focusing on the discursive and aesthetic ways through which populists enact (in)security in various contexts.
UCL Profile: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/bohdana-kurylo
Diplomatic Academy - The Conversation
This episode focuses on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)and the energy prospects in the Eastern Mediterranean. It engages in a conversation on international law, international arbitration and negotiation, conflict mitigation, and some of the legal disputes presented in pipeline projects in the region.
Maria Athanasiou holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the University of South Wales and a Master’s degree in International Commercial Law from Cardiff University. She is also pursuing her Doctorate in the field on the Law of the Sea at the University of Nicosia. Being a member of the Cyprus Bar Association, Maria is the Founder of Athanasiou & Associates LLC, based in Cyprus. Moreover, Maria is a co-author of the book “The Future of the Maritime Industry” and a Lecturer in Law at the European University and the Cyprus Maritime Academy. She is involved in various exhibitions concerning Energy security in the framework of international law.
