The Geopolitical Implications of the War in Ukraine

The Geopolitical Implications of the War in Ukraine

Tuesday 22 March 2022 | 7:15pm - 8:45pm

Amphitheater Boutmy, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume

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The war in Ukraine has profound implications for international relations. The global international rule-based system has been challenged. The war has impacted the EU but also the role of actors like China and the United States, and its relations with Russia. The geopolitical implications need to be unpacked. 

>Therefore, PSIA is delighted to welcome Mircea Geoana, Pascal Lamy, Marie Mendras and Viktoriia Molnar for an exclusive dialogue with PSIA and Sciences Po students.

Guests speakers : 

• Mircea Geoana, Deputy Secretary General of NATO 
• Pascal Lamy, former Director General of the WTO, President of the Paris Peace Forum
• Marie Mendras, Research Fellow at CNRS-CERI and Professor at PSIA-Sciences Po
• Viktoriia Molnar, PSIA student, Master in International Development

Chaired by: Arancha Gonzalez, Dean of PSIA 

Biographies of guest speakers

Mircea Geoana
Deputy Secretary General, NATO

Mircea Geoana became NATO Deputy Secretary General in October 2019, after a distinguished domestic and international career. Mr Geoana is the first Deputy Secretary General from Romania, and the first from any of the countries that joined the Alliance after the end of the Cold War.

Mr Geoana was born in Romania on 14 July 1958. He studied at the Polytechnic University in Bucharest, the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest, the Ecole Nationale d’Administration in Paris, and he holds a PhD from the Economic Studies Academy of Bucharest.

Mr Geoana has served as a diplomat and a politician, and in 2009 was his party’s candidate to be President of Romania.

He is a strong advocate of transatlantic integration and has held a number of international positions, including OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in 2001 and personal representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for Georgia in 2005. He is President and founder of the Aspen Institute Romania.

Marie Mendras
Research fellow, CNRS-CERI, and Professor, PSIA Sciences Po

Marie Mendras is a political scientist in the field of Russian studies and international relations. She is a research fellow with the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Sciences Po’s Centre for International Research (CERI), and a professor at Sciences Po’s Paris School of International Affairs.

She has published extensively on Russia-West relations, as well as on the Russian political system, elite behavior, elections and society. 

She provides expertise to the European institutions and think tanks, and has served as consultant for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ministry of Defense.

Pascal Lamy
Former Director-General, WTO 
President, Paris Peace Forum, and Coordinator, Jacques Delors Think Tanks

Pascal Lamy is the President of the Paris Peace Forum and of the European branch of the Brunswick Group. He coordinates the Jacques Delors Institutes (Paris, Berlin, Brussels).

He is also President or member of various boards with a global, european or french vocation.

He is an affiliated professor at the China Europe International Business School CEIBS (Shanghai) and at HEC (Paris).

From 2005 to 2013, he served two consecutive terms as Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO). He was previously Trade Commissioner (1999-2004), Director General of Crédit Lyonnais (1994-1999), Chief of Staff of the President of the European Commission, Jacques Delors and his G7 Sherpa (1985-1994), Deputy Chief of Staff of the French Prime Minister (1983-1985) and to the French Minister of the Economy and Finance (1981-1983).

Viktoriia Molnar
PSIA student, Master in International Development

Viktoriia Molnar is a Ukrainian student in International Development Master’s Program at Sciences Po and is currently coordinating several student volunteering initiatives in Paris.

She has been working on international affairs within the Parliament of Ukraine and engaged in a number of NGOs and civil society organizations dealing with Ukraine’s European and Euro-Atlantic integration.

For five years, she has been a part of the Young European Ambassadors initiative and represented Ukraine at high-level conferences in Brussels and Vienna.

Viktoriia has obtained a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.