In the Scientific Councils Hall was held a Round Table Conference on The New Road of Silk and The Black Sea Region – Risks and Opportunities. The event was organized on the occasion of 40th Anniversary of the International Relations Department.
Organizers of the Forum were Assoc. Prof. Dr. Georgy Chankov, Scientific Secretary of the International Relations Department, Chief Assist. Dr. Elizabet Yoneva, Chief Assist. Dr. Antonina Habova and Dr. Monika Panayotova. Among the attendees were Prof. Dr. Georgy Genov, Prof. Dr. Dinko Dinkov, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Maria Bakalova and other lecturers from the Department, students and guests.
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| In the Scientific Councils Hall |
It is one of the event devoted to the 40th Anniversary of the International Relations Department, said at the opening of the Round Table Conference Assoc. Prof. Chankov. He delivered the first report and presented the results of three years research implemented jointly with Dr. Yoneva. As a motive for the research the lecturer pointed out a message in the media about a train carrying Chinese goods which had passed the destination Shanghai-Hamburg for a record short time. “It was curious to me what had been the economic sense of transporting goods by train from China to Germany”, commented Assoc. Prof. Chankov and defined his experiment as part of a huge initiative exceeding the frameworks of an ordinary economic project.
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| Assoc. Prof. Georgy Chankov |
The lecturer specified that in fact it had been a model of a project having geo-strategical importance oriented to a change in the system of international relations and its reformation, to the new place of China and its vision for political and economic cooperation with the other countries in the region and in the world. The reformation starts from the fact that the current system of international relations which can be conditionally called Pax Americana has searched for a new balanced status, pointed out Assoc. Prof. Chankov and commented on the American positions and strategies for transition as well as on the new era in the international relations. He examined the traditional views of George Cannon, the concept for “The End of History” by Francis Fukuyama and its opponents. Assoc. Prof. Chankov determined the supporting points in the assessment of international system and its direction positioning the role of the world institutions, economic factors and the military budget of the USA. He gave lots of examples in order to examine the regulations in the world relation, ratio of powers as well as the “alternative for China”, tactical cooperation, formation of the Eurasian Economic Union, Chinese strategy at internal and international level.
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| Participants in the Forum |
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| Students during the Round Table Conference |
On the topic spoke also Prof. D.Sc.(Soc.) Georgy Naydenov who presented his report on the Current Period of Movement of the Center of World Trade to the West and the Tragic Destiny of Russia – Being for the Third Time an Arbitrator of the Battle between the Old Center and the New Pretender (in the picture below).
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The Scientific Forum continued with presentation of reports and profound discussion.