The Forum on Geopolitics and the newly launched Cambridge Central and Eastern European Forum kindly invite you for a talk and a follow-up discussion!
More than two decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the conflict in the Balkans, the developments across Europe, and particularly in the East (e.g. War in Ukraine, illegal annexation of Crimea, instability in Western Balkans), demonstrate that minorities and minority issues are still very much politicised and used for geopolitical purposes. Prof Roter’s seminar will discuss such geopolitics of diversity management and its implications on minorities, minority rights, states and inter-state relations and international institutions tasked to monitor the implementation of minority rights.
Professor Petra Roter, Ph.D. (Cantab.), M.Phil. (Cantab.), BA (Ljubljana), is at present a Visiting Scholar at POLIS, University of Cambridge. She has done extensive work in various areas related to minorities, including minority protection at international and national levels, ethnic diversity management, international conflict management and post-conflict reconstruction. Her major publications include, among others, a book on National Minorities in International Relations (in Slovenian, two editions), and on¬¬ Mapping the New World Order (with T. Volgy, Z. Šabič and A. Gerlak; Wiley, 2009). Dr Roter is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Ljubljana and the President of the Advisory Committee on the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (2016-18).