Dear All!

We would like to invite you to the ceremony of inauguration of the new Academic Year 2023/2024 in the Center for International Studies and Development!

The event will be held on the 6th of October in the Aula of the Faculty of International and Political Studies on Reyomonta 4. 

The inaugural lecture will be given by professor Xin Zhang: Geopolitical Economy of the “New Cold War". 

This talk locates the upcoming “New Cold War” in the long circles of capitalist world system and fundamental ideological shifts. It argues that the capitalistic logic of the post-Cold War globalization creates internal tensions within the supposedly “liberal international order”. Reactions to such tensions lead the global system towards a possible “New Cold War”, in which leading national actors (US, China, Europe, Russia, Global South) have been advocating various spatial and geographic visions for re-arranging the global political economy. The talk outlines the emerging key features of the current global political economy in light of the New Cold War debate and explores the possibility of a global re-embedding of liberalism". 

ZHANG Xin is an Associate Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations, East China Normal University in Shanghai. He is currently a fellow at the Academy of International Affairs NRW in Bonn, Germany. His research interests include political economy, political sociology and critical geography, with a regional focus on Russia and Eurasia. His academic and policy research appear in multiple languages in Asian Perspective, Review of International Political Economy, Geopolitics, Osteuropa, China Journal, Russia in Global Affairs, etc.

For detailed information, please check the plan here. 

Looking forward to meeting you on inauguration!