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2015 Bernheim Joint Summer School on Security, Peace and Conflicts:
The Post-Soviet Area: Challenges and Complexities
Course title: The Complex Challenges of the Post-Soviet Area
Lecturer
Name: MERLIN Aude
Department/Unit: Institution: Political Science / ULB
Email: [email protected]
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Bio
Aude Merlin is a lecturer in Political Science. She specializes in post-Soviet Studies and has dedicated
a large part of her research to North Caucasus and especially the Chechen conflict. She is a member of
CEVIPOL (Centre d’Etude de la Vie Politique), http://cevipol.ulb.be
At ULB she is in charge of lectures on the former Soviet area, Russian Politics, Conflicts in the Caucasus
and Russian foreign policy.
Outline
This course aims to deliver some thoughts and reflections on the main challenges that the post-Soviet
area has been confronted with since the collapse of the Soviet Union. We will analyze the question of
the so called ‘democratic transition’ and the way it has, to a large extent, been derailed. We will
scrutinize the manifold challenges in the new independent states including State- building, nationbuilding, economic transition, conflicts, while keeping an eye on the geopolitical reconfiguration of this
geographic space. Since this course is the first one of the whole cycle (after Maria Lipman’s Welcome
conference), we will explore how the Ukrainian crisis has become emblematic of a combination of all
these challenges and how it reflects many of the typical difficulties of the “post-Soviet transition”.
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