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Ukrainian big business has preserved its influence in post-Maidan politics despite the political turbulence and changes in the institutional setting of Ukraine’s political regime. Recent studies demonstrate that the core of Ukrainian big business has remained stable and that their strategies to exert political influence have stayed on largely unchanged. Still, it does not mean that the model of business-state relations remained static.
In this talk Dr. Melnykovska will re-examine the system of patronal politics in post-Maidan Ukraine. She will seek to answer several questions: How has Ukrainian big business adjusted its ties to the main political actors within the revised polity and dynamic political processes? How has the balance of power in the state-business relations evolved? And finally, what system of patronal politics has been established? In particular, Dr. Melnykovska will demonstrate how Ukrainian companies exploited the mobility of their capital and offshore vehicles to strengthen their profits and protect their assets and in result increased their autonomy through breaking down the monopoly of the state as the only enabler of rent-seeking and protector of property rights. Also, the legitimation strategies of Ukrainian big business as an additional source of business autonomy will be discussed. The talk will end with several innovative policy recommendations for the Western governments regarding the current reform efforts in Ukraine to root out patronal politics and corruption associated with it.

Inna Melnykovska is an Assistant Professor at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary the Smith Richardson Foundation’s Strategy and Policy Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University. She is completing a book titled: Global Money, Local Politics: Big Business, Capital Mobility and the Transformation of Crony Capitalism in Eurasia. Inna Melnykovska will be a Petro Jacyk Visiting Professor at CERES in April-June 2018.

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Scholars of International Relations have called for the creation of a post-Western IR that reflects the global and local contexts of the declining power and legitimacy of the West. Based on interviews with Russian and Central Asian political, economic, and cultural elites, the talk explores the emergence in a particular region of a new global politics of a post-Western type. In this context, a post-Western international politics is emerging with a postcolonial aspect but without the substantive mimicry and hybrid spaces characteristic of established postcolonial relations.

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Opening Remarks:

Mr. Andriy Shevchenko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada

Chair: Professor Victor Ostapchuk (Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto)

Speakers:

Professor Paul Robert Magocsi (the John Yaremko Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto): Crimea and Crimean Tatars: the Historical Context

Mr. Akhtem Chyigoz (Deputy Chairman of the Milli Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People): Struggle of the Crimean Tatar people and other citizens of Ukraine for their Motherland and territorial integrity of Ukraine in the time of military occupation by the Russian Federation

Professor John Packer (Neuberger-Jesin Professor of International Conflict Resolution in the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa): State Responsibility for Human Rights in Crimea

BIOS OF PARTICIPANTS

Paul Robert Magocsi is professor of history and political science at the University of Toronto, where since 1980 he also holds the John Yaremko Chair of Ukrainian Studies. He completed his education at Rutgers University (B.A. 1966; M.A. 1967), Princeton University (M.A. 1969; Ph.D. 1972), and Harvard University (Society of Fellows 1976). He is a member of the Harvard University Society of Fellows (1976). Professor Magocsi has taught at Harvard University, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Prešov University in Slovakia, and on five occasions was historian-in-residence at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. In 1996 he was appointed a permanent fellow of the Royal Society of Canada—Canadian Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences, and has been awarded honorary degrees from Prešov University in Slovakia (doctor honoris causa, 2013) and from Kamianets-Podilskyi National University in Ukraine (pochesnyi profesor, 2015). Interested in the history of nationalism, in particular among ethnic groups living in border areas. Has published in the fields of history, sociolinguistics, bibliography, cartography and immigration studies.

Chiygoz Akhtem Seytullayovych is Deputy Chairman of the Milli Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People. His work experience in the Mejlis started from the position of Chairman of the local Mejlis of the Tenistoye village of Bakhchisarai district. Since his election in 2002, during 16 years he governed the Bakhchisarai regional Mejlis, one of the most active regulatory body of self-government of the Crimean Tatars in Crimea. In 2008, Chiygoz was elected as a Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People. After the deportation of Mustafa Dzhemilev and Refat Chubarov, during the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, A. Chiygoz took an active pro-Ukrainian position among the Crimean Tatars and citizens of Ukraine of other nationalities in Crimea. On January 29, 2015, he was arrested and until 26.10.2017 was kept in Investigation Isolator of the Simferopol city (AR of Crimea) on a charge of violating Part 1. Art. 212 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Organization of Mass Riots”. A.Chiygoz was charged with so-called organization of mass riots at a rally on February 26, 2014 in Simferopol, which in a fact was held to support the territorial integrity of Ukraine and to prevent the adoption of a separatistic decision by the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea. On September 11, 2017, the Kremlin-controlled Supreme Court of Crimea sentenced him to eight years of imprisonment. The international human rights organization “AmnestyInternational” awarded Akhtem Chiygoz the status of a political prisoner, as well as the status of a “Prisoner of conscience.”

John Packer is Neuberger-Jesin Professor of International Conflict Resolution in the Faculty of Law and Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the University of Ottawa. He previously taught at the Fletcher School (Tufts University) and the University of Essex, held Fellowships at Cambridge and Harvard Universities, and has lectured at academic and professional institutions around the world. Over his 30-year career, he was an inter-governmental official for 20 years (UNHCR, ILO, OHCHR, UNDPA, OSCE) and has advised numerous governments, communities and other actors in over fifty countries. Before coming to the University of Ottawa in 2014, he was the Constitutions Expert on the UN’s Standby Team of Mediation Experts. The focus of his research and practice is at the inter-section of human rights (including minority rights) and security, notably conflict prevention and quiet diplomacy, international mediation, transitional arrangements, and institutional developments at domestic and multilateral levels. From 1995-2004 Professor Packer was Senior Legal Adviser then first Director in the Office of the High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe during which he was actively engaged with Ukraine including Crimea. A specific focus of his work was negotiation and adoption of elements of the 1996 Constitution of Ukraine and of the 1998 Constitution of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea including specific accommodations for the Crimean Tatars; he also assisted in negotiating arrangements for the facilitated return of Crimean Tatars to their homeland and conferral of Ukrainian nationality.

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Join us for a special presentation by Professor Robert Falkner, Distinguished Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs
on the

The Greening of Global International Society: Global Environmental Politics meets the English School

Biography

Robert Falkner was educated at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and the University of Oxford. He is an Associate Professor of International Relations and the Research Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE. Previously, he held lectureships at the universities of Oxford, Kent and Essex. In 2006-07, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University. At LSE, he serves as the Academic Director of the TRIUM Global Executive MBA, an alliance between LSE, NYU Stern School of Business and HEC Paris. He is also an Associate Fellow of Chatham House, the London-based foreign affairs think tank.

His research specializes in global environmental politics and international political economy, with a particular focus on climate policy and the role of business in international relations. He has published widely in these areas, including The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy (edited, 2016) and Business Power and Conflict in International Environmental Politics (2008). His recent paper ‘The Emergence of Environmental Stewardship as a Primary Institution of Global International Society’ (co-authored with Barry Buzan, published in European Journal of International Relations) won the 2018 ISA English School Section’s Outstanding Research Paper Award.

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The lecture will focus on then-modern politics of negative eugenics during the first half of the twentieth century. This policy implemented different means of excluding the so-called genetically ‘unfit’ from procreation, e.g. by means of marriage prohibition or sterilization. The lecture will discuss the political cases of the USA, Scandinavia and Germany in a global perspective.

Dr. Michael Schwartz is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin and Professor for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Munster. Among his main subjects of research are the history of eugenics, global ethnic ‘cleansing’ and the history of sexuality between 1965 and 2000.

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FRIDAY, 15 JUNE 2018

9:00 – 9:10
Welcome
Randall Hansen – University of Toronto

9:10 – 10:30
Partnership Meeting

10:30 – 12:00
Panel 1: Research Plans, Innovation, Policy Refinement
Chair: Geoffrey Cameron – University of Toronto

Karen Block and Sara Wills – University of Melbourne
The Refugees and Forced Migration Research Program at the Melbourne Social Equity Institute (MSEI)

Lesleyanne Hawthorne – University of Melbourne
High Skilled Migration Policy – Fine-Tuning the Permanent, Temporary and Study-Migration Pathways in Australia

Thomas Soehl – McGill University
Twitter Data and Research on Global Human Mobility: Trials, Errors, Challenges, Promises

12:00 – 13:00
LUNCH

13:00 – 14:30
Panel 2: Migrants and Refugees: Global Views
Chair: Lama Mourad – University of Toronto

Randall Hansen – University of Toronto
The Global Refugee Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Solutions

Matthew Gibney – University of Oxford
The Duties of Refugees

Brian Galligan – University of Melbourne
Australian Migration and Refugee Policy: Strictly On Our Terms

Franck Düvell – University of Oxford
Crisis? What Crisis? The EU, Refugee Influxes, and the Impact on an Unstable System

14:30 – 15:00
COFFEE BREAK

15:00 – 16:30
Panel 3: Political Causes and Consequences
Chair: Craig Damian Smith – University of Toronto

Jeff Crisp – University of Oxford
Mobilizing Political Will on Behalf of Refugees: A Framework for Analysis and Action

Martin Ruhs – European University Institute
National Institutions vs. Supra-National Policies? Institutional Contexts of Political Conflicts around Migration and Mobility Policies in the EU

Robert Ford – University of Manchester
The Vortex Issue: How Immigration Has Disrupted British Politics since 1997

16:30 – 17:30
RECAP DISCUSSIONS

SATURDAY, 16 JUNE 2018
9:30 – 10:30
BREAKFAST AND CONSULTATIONS

10:30 – 12:00
Panel 4: Border-control Policies and Strategies
Chair: Jennifer Elrick – McGill University

Julia Morris – The New School
From Phosphate to Refugees: The Consequential Damages of the Republic of Nauru’s Offshore Refugee System

Federica Infantino – FNRS/Université Libre de Bruxelles
Outsourcing Border Control: Politics and Practice of Contracted Visa Policy in Morocco

John P. Haisken-DeNew – University of Melbourne
Traumatic Experiences and Humanitarian Migration in Australia

12:00 – 12:45
LUNCH

12:45 – 14:15
Panel 5: Legal Frameworks and Status Determination
Chair: Simon Evans – University of Melbourne

Christoph Sperfeldt – Melbourne Law School
Statelessness and Legal Identity in the Sustainable Development Goals: Promises of Inclusion and Dangers of Exclusion

Georgia Cole – University of Oxford
The Experiences of Forced Migrants in the Gulf: An Agenda for Research

Jay Song – University of Melbourne
From Trafficked Victims to Bogus Refugees: Irregular Migration in East Asia

14:15 – 14:45
COFFEE BREAK

14:45 – 16:15
Panel 6: Human Capital, Development, and Inclusion
Chair: Randall Hansen – University of Toronto

Elyakim Kislev – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Global Spaces: The Hidden Opportunity in Integrating Minorities and Refugees into STEM

Jia Gao – University of Melbourne
Chinese Immigrant Integration in Australia: Entrepreneurship, Political Participation, and Uneasy Australia-China Relations

Kate Pincock – University of Oxford
The “Global Governed?” Refugee-Led Social Protection and Assistance in Uganda and Kenya

16:15 – 17:15
CONCLUDING DISCUSSIONS