Ladies and Gentlemen,
The Center for American Studies and the Center for European Studies (scientific society conducting primarily scientific activity in an independent and continuous manner) are honored to invite you to take part in the 3rd International Conference on Foreign Policy & Security Studies.
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3rd International Conference on Foreign Policy & Security Studies
The International Conference on Foreign Policy & Security Studies is a unique international conference in which diplomats, scholars and professionals from around the world will present the most pressing foreign and security policy challenges facing the modern Western world and outline their potential consequences.
๐๏ธThe conference will be divided into two panels:
๐ an expert panel during which Keynote Speakers โ professors, former ambassadors and professionals from the world of international relations โ will present the results of their research while addressing the challenges in security science that the 21st century brings.
๐ a general panel during which the results of the work of students, doctoral students and more experienced researchers from Poland and abroad will be presented.
๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐๐ (๐ฌ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐) ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง:
โ Global governance and the challenges of multilateralism in the 21st century
โ Nuclear proliferation and the risk of conflict escalation
โ Cybersecurity and the future of warfare
โ The role of non-state actors in shaping foreign policy and security
โ Counterterrorism strategies and the balance between security and civil liberties
โ The ongoing conflict in Ukraine and its geopolitical implications
โ Climate change and its impact on global security
โ The intersection of technology and foreign policy, including the role of artificial intelligence and the ethics of autonomous weapons systems
โ The changing nature of international relations and the decline of the liberal international order
โ Emerging threats to national security, including pandemics and biological warfare
Please feel free to choose the topic of your presentation in line with your passion and expertise. Topics may be of both contemporary and historical relevance, and touch upon all problems regardless of their geographical boundaries. Panels of the conference will be arranged accordingly.
The thematic areas indicated above are to be treated only as examples.
We strongly encourage you to go beyond them. In addition, the speeches may be interdisciplinary in nature, combining a variety of research fields.
Note: speeches do not have to be comparative in nature โ speakers may address issues related to only *one* of the selected areas.
We believe in academic freedom and do not censor speakers. Original presentations will always gain interest from the Conference Committee.
Conference Keynote Speakers will present on Friday, August 15, 2024, from 5 pm to 7 pm CET (Warsaw time).
- Students, Ph.D. students, experienced researchers, practitioners from the field, and all others interested in the above-indicated fields of research can actively participate in the conference as speakers.
- Passive participants (audience) do not need to possess any prior academic knowledge or background.
Presentations should be delivered in English or Polish.
- Prof. Christopher Kelley, LL.M. (University of Arkansas School of Law) โ Chairman of the Committee.
- Prof. David Jones (professor emeritus, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw) โ Vice-Chairman of the Committee.
- Prof. Marian Lutostaลski (The Jacob of Paradies University) โ Committee Member.
- Attorney Dr. Valery Loumber (Gavrilov & Brooks Law Firm, Sacramento/Los Angeles; Center for American Studies Director of Academic Affairs) โ Committee Member.
- Dr. Lilya Kurii (Center for American Studies Ukraine, earlier: Khmelnytskyi National University) โ Committee Member.
- Luke Darby Bartosik, LL.M. (President of the Center for American Studies) โ Secretary of the Committee.
โค ACTIVE PARTICIPATION (INFORMATION FOR CONFERENCE SPEAKERS)
Steps necessary to register for the conference as an active participant (conference speaker):
1๏ธโฃ Submit an abstract (200-300 words) and register via the Speaker Application Form at: https://forms.gle/uoCa87NDY1ZW4w9B9
2๏ธโฃ Register using the above-mentioned Speaker Application Form by 23.59 on August 5, 2025 (we will not extend this deadline).
๐We reserve the right to select abstracts.
๐ฃThe results of the abstract selection process will be announced by August 6, 2025.
3๏ธโฃ Pay the conference fee to the bank account number that will be provided to the qualified speakers via email. The fee must be paid by August 8, 2025 at the latest.
โค PASSIVE PARTICIPATION (CONFERENCE AUDIENCE)
Steps necessary to register for the conference by a passive participant (audience):
1๏ธโฃ Register via the Audience Registration Form at:
https://forms.gle/qCmFSRG6G3ejswGE7
2๏ธโฃ Register using the above-mentioned Audience Registration Form by 23.59 on August 8, 2025 (we will not extend this deadline). Failure to register using the form will result in the inability to passively participate in the conference (and thus the inability to receive a conference audience certificate).
3๏ธโฃ Pay the audience fee to the bank account number that will be provided to the audience via email. The fee must be paid by August 10, 2025, at the latest. (Audience will have a chance to see the final conference schedule before paying the fee. Schedule with the full list of speakers and their presentation titles will be delivered via e-mail).
โค SPEAKERS โ 2 options:
- 259 PLN / 65 EUR โ digital certificate (PDF with signatures of Members of the Academic Committee for self-printing) sent via email (widely-recognized equivalent of the traditional certificate).
โ OR โ
- 289 PLN / 75 EUR โ digital certificate + traditional certificate sent via post.
โค AUDIENCE โ 2 options:
- 149 PLN / 40 EUR โ audience participation + digital certificate (PDF with signatures of Members of the Academic Committee for self-printing) sent via email (widely-recognized equivalent of the traditional certificate).
โ OR โ
- 169 PLN / 50 EUR โ audience participation + digital certificate + traditional certificate sent via post.
Important!
Please use the following pattern when filling in the transfer title field when making the payment of your conference fee*:
"first name and last name โ fee for active / passive participation (select the appropriate one) โ Conference on Foreign Policy"
* Failure to do so may result in delays in posting the fee on the appropriate account and, consequently, even exclude your participation in the conference.
In the case of a co-authorship of a presentation by two or more speakers, please pay the fee for each of the co-speakers separately.
The organizers anticipate the possibility of publication in the form of a monograph. However, such possibility will depend on the number of authors willing to publish their text (chapter) in a monograph. The price for participation in the conference does not include the publication fee.
- It is possible to receive a VAT invoice (please request it in the registration form โ requests made later may not be satisfied).
- If your participation in the conference is to be financed by the university (institution/company), we suggest that you pay for your participation from your personal funds and then obtain reimbursement from the university (institution/company) on the basis of an invoice issued by the Center to your university (institution/company).
- The fee is non-refundable (since it grants you the right of entry to the conference).
- The link to the online conference room will be made available to registered participants within 24 hours before the start of the conference.
- It is possible to deliver a conference presentation by two or more speakers (the fee should be multiplied by the number of speakers).
- The presentation time is 15-25 minutes (depending on the fact of giving a solo or duet presentation and the total number of presentations during the conference).
- Certificates are usually sent via traditional post within 2 months after the conference โ we will do our best to deliver them earlier because of approaching scholarship deadlines.
- Digital certificates are sent to *all* participants within one week from the conference โ we will do our best to deliver them earlier because of approaching scholarship deadlines.
- Every participant will receive an affidavit confirming the composition of the Academic Committee.
- All Participants will receive a certificate of the status of the Center for American Studies scientific society as an entity conducting primarily scientific activities in an independent and continuous manner, along with a full list of members of the Scientific Council.
- The Center For American Studies arranges the order of presentations. The exact time of speaking at the conference is pre-determined by CFAS (it will be not possible to change the time of your conference presentation set in the conference schedule).
- Terms of Service: https://www.cfasofficial.com/en/terms-of-use
In a nutshell
Date
15 August 2025Time
17:00 -Online
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