Ladies and Gentlemen,
The Center for American & European Studies (scientific society conducting research activity in an independent and continuous manner) are honored to invite you to take part in the 4th International Conference on Foreign Policy & Security Studies.
When?
In case of a high number of registrations, we reserve the right to extend the conference, including the date: Saturday 15 August.
Online
Microsoft Teams
Platform
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.
🗄 The conference will be divided into two panels:
📕 an expert panel during which Keynote Speakers – professors, former ambassadors and professionals from the world of international relations – will present the results of their research while addressing the challenges in security science that the 21st century brings.
📗 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.
𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 (𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞) 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:
→ Global governance and the challenges of multilateralism in the 21st century
→ Nuclear proliferation and the risk of conflict escalation
→ Cybersecurity and the future of warfare
→ The role of non-state actors in shaping foreign policy and security
→ Counterterrorism strategies and the balance between security and civil liberties
→ The ongoing conflict in Ukraine and its geopolitical implications
→ Climate change and its impact on global security
→ The intersection of technology and foreign policy, including the role of artificial intelligence and the ethics of autonomous weapons systems
→ The changing nature of international relations and the decline of the liberal international order
→ 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 – 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 14, 2026, from 5 pm to 7 pm CET (Warsaw time).
The list of Keynote Speakers will be announced later.
Presentations should be delivered in English.
➤ ACTIVE PARTICIPATION (INFORMATION FOR CONFERENCE SPEAKERS)
Steps necessary to register for the conference as an active participant (conference speaker):
1️⃣ Submit an abstract (200-300 words) and register via the Speaker Application Form at: https://forms.gle/NSzknMnKkWErySQt6
2️⃣ Register using the above-mentioned Speaker Application Form by 23.59 on August 4, 2026 (we will not extend this deadline).
🔒We reserve the right to select abstracts.
📣The results of the abstract selection process will be announced by August 5, 2026.
3️⃣ 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 7, 2026 at the latest.
➤ PASSIVE PARTICIPATION (CONFERENCE AUDIENCE)
Steps necessary to register for the conference by a passive participant (audience):
1️⃣ Register via the Audience Registration Form at: https://forms.gle/U5YKtTBQYSzGj5Un7
2️⃣ Register using the above-mentioned Audience Registration Form by 23.59 on August 7, 2026 (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).
3️⃣ 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 9, 2025, at the latest.
Audience will have a chance to see the conference schedule before paying the fee. The schedule with a full list of speakers and their presentation titles will be delivered via email.
➤ SPEAKERS – 2 options:
– OR –
➤ AUDIENCE – 2 options:
– OR –
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 – fee for active / passive participation (select the appropriate one) – Academic 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.
If you have any questions, please send an email to the Conference Coordinator, Ms. Agnieszka Haduch, at [email protected]
We will gladly help.
See you at the conference!
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