This proceedings book addresses the main issues of contemporary political geography and international relations, providing a platform for discussion and collaboration of experts in the fields of Political Geography, Geopolitics, International Relations, etc. Participants from all over the world consider the controversies and challenges posed by globalization, focusing, in particular, on the ideologies of globalization and regionalism, migration crises, prevention of ethnic conflicts, and measures to promote sustainable development. The content of the book may be interesting to expert community, academics and popular audience.
Eurasia in the Post-Pandemic Political and Socioeconomic Prospects.- EU
concerns about Security, 5G and Huawei.- Key aspects of climate strategies in
Europe.- Russia's chairmanship of the Arctic Council: problems and
prospects.- Political-Geographical Determinants of International Cooperation
in the development of international transport corridors (NSR).- Making
of a new petro-state in the Middle East? Fossil fuelled Kurdistan.- UN
Charter interpretation in settlement of regional conflicts: Guatemala crisis
of 1954.- Development of cooperation between Russia and China in the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization.- A New Centennial Dream: Chinas Second Centennial
Plan and Sino-US Relations.- BRICS and the Contemporary Body Politic:
Examining a Decade of Normativities in the BRICS Summit Declarations.- On
Border Energy and Cross-Border Communication in Geoeconomics and
Geopolitics.- Biopolitics in the Era of Coronavirus and Artificial
Intelligence.- Digital geography and digital borders in the era of
information globalization.- Globalization and the principles of
tolerance.- Professional Ethics in Higher Education.- Thomas Hobbes and the
Linguistic Construction of the International Political
Space.- Russian-Swedish Economic (Trade) Relationships in the 18th
century.- Geographic and historical factors in the development of political
relations between St. Petersburg and Africa.- Social and Political
Influence of the media on Corruption.- Open budget as a tool to fight
corruption: cases of EAEU countries.- International practice in the
organization of management accounting.- In Search of the Ideology of Public
Serving: Analysis of Regulatory Legal Acts of the Russian Federation and
the People's Republic of China.- Transformation and Development of Digital
Literary Criticism in China.- Verb Representation of Information Sources
in Chinese-Language Political Media Discourse.- Electoral processes in modern
Europe: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the electoral
institution.- Sustainability and digitalization as the basic principles of
the German environmental agenda.- Main trends in the policy of
regionalism formation in the Republic of Altal.- Universities, Cultural
Diversity and Global Ethics: Opportunities for Moral Leadership.- The
role of Russian Soft Power Institutions in Ukraine 2007-2014.- Sports
Relations between Russia and Europe through the Lens of Sport
Diplomacy.- Sport as a focus of bilateral contacts between Russia and
post-Soviet Central Asia.- The global tourism industry after the COVID-19
pandemic: prospects and ways of recovery.- How Do Geographical
Imaginaries Shape Academic Migration to global centres and
peripheries?.- Migrant Women as a Risk Group in Contemporary Human
Trafficking.- Sociological and Legal Peculiarities of Migration to Turkey:
the Case of Russian-Turkish Marriages.- Finnish labor migration policy and
integration instruments: Talent Boost program objectives and
methods.- Migration processes of the Vepsian population of the Vologda
region: historical aspects and modern trends.
Radomir Bolgov. PhD in Political Science (2011). Associate professor at the School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. He teaches the courses Ethnic psychology, Internet and World Politics, and Security Issues in Asia. His current studies focus on the Internet public discourse and digital policies in post-Soviet countries. Program Committee member of the European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security (ECCWS), International Conference Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia (EGOSE), International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV). Editor of the journal Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. International Relations.
Vadim Atnashev. PhD, Associate Professor, School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University. Research interests: Ethnic and Political Conflicts, International law, Human rights, Eastern countries, Countering Extremism and Terrorism. Editor of theProceedings of International Conference Topical Issues of International Political Geography (Springer Geography).
Yury Gladkiy. PhD in Geography. Professor, Chair of the Department of Economic Geography, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia. Corresponding Member for the Department of Professional Education at Russian Academy of Education. His research interests include humanitarian geography, regional economics, social ecology, and political geography. The author of school and university textbooks on humanitarian geography, regional studies, regional politics.
Art Leete. PhD, Professor of Ethnology, Institute of Cultural Research, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University of Tartu, Estonia. His research interests are hunting stories, belief narratives of the Russian Orthodox and Protestants, oral history narratives. He is an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics. Member of expert commission of historical sacred places, National Heritage Board, Estonian Ministry of Culture. Vice Chairman of the Society of Friends of the Estonian National Museum. Member of the advisory committee for the journal "Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia". Member of IASSA (International Arctic Social Sciences Association).
Alexey Tsyb. PhD, Associate Professor of the High School of International Relations, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia. Editor-in-chief of the almanac AKAHMEIA: materials and research on the history of Platonism. Editor of the Proceedings of Topical Issues in International Political Geography (Springer Geography, 2020).
Sergey Pogodin, Prof., Dr., Chair of High School of International Relations at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia. He is a PC member of many international conferences and member of editorial board of academic journals on historical science, international relations and regional studies. Editor of the Proceedings of Topical Issues in International Political Geography (Springer Geography, 2020).
Andrei A. Znamenski. Professor of the University of Memphis, USA. Ph.D., History, University of Toledo, 1997. Fields of interest: Russia/Europe, Eurasia, Siberia, Religion, Modernity, Socialism, Nationalism, Western Esotericism. He also serves on the editorial advisory board of such journals as Ante Portas: Security Studies (Poland), Siberica, and Alaska History.
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