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Center for Security Experts' Conference

Center for Security Studies

cordially invites you to attend its

Third Annual Academics and Practitioners Conference:

National Security Policies of the Visegrad Group Countries

The Center for Security Studies at Metropolitan University Prague (MUP) cordially invites you to attend its third annual conference for academics and practitioners’ that will take place at MUP in Prague on December 2, 2011. The conference will examine the challenges and opportunities in the realm of national security policies faced by the Visegrad Group (V4) countries as a consequence of the recent budgetary cuts in their national security expenditures. In particular, the presenters were asked to examine the following topics:

  • The recent strategic security and/or defense reviews conducted in V4 countries
  • The potential for sharing and/or pooling of certain military capacities among V4 countries
  • The participation of V4 countries in major security arrangements and/or organizations (especially NATO, EU, OSCE, UN)
  • The bilateral security relations of V4 countries with major players in the EU and beyond, in particular with the United States and/or Russia
The conference will consist of three panels with academics and practitioners. Each V4 country will have a national representative in the first academics and the second practitioners’ panels. The third panel will offer perspectives on V4 countries and V4 group from external experts. The opening keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Jiří Šedivý, the First Deputy Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic.The conference will take place on December 2, 2011 in Prague at our Žižkov premises (Prokova 16, Prague 3). Its working language is English.All papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in a special section of the Central European Journal of International and Security Studies. Paper givers are kindly asked to follow the guidelines for authors, which are available at the journal’s webpage: http://www.cejiss.org/guidelines. The deadline for final papers’ submission is January 5, 2012.