A World Order Under Threat
Sponsored by University of Donja Gorica and
The Boris Mints Institute, Tel Aviv University
November 25 -26, 2024
After recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, the world plunged into one of its darkest moments in modern history, unveiling fundamental challenges within the political, economic, and social tissues of societies. The Russia Ukraine war and other eminent threats to world peace and social order have demonstrated multiple faults in existing systems of governance, on national and international levels.
The University of Donja Gorica and Tel Aviv University conference would aim to explore facets of this frightening reality to see if we can come up with strategic responses to these global challenges. Ignoring such challenges would lead to catastrophic consequences for humanity as such. Developing new institutional solutions and reorganization of existing ones is vital to creating a common global ecosystem for a livable world for humanity for the future.
We focus on three topics as cornerstones for the conference.
The first panel will focus on the political-economic implications of globalization: where it worked, where it has failed and where do we go from
here, looking at economic interdependence, supply chains, poverty and migration.
The second panel focuses on strategies of war and peace in a world that thought it almost did away with major wars and needs to quickly reset its
mindset to deal with the rise in number and scope of major regional conflicts.
The last panel focuses on national institutions and the new realities that challenge them in the current crises that many liberal democratic countries in the west and the east experience.
We summon a few top global experts on economic and political governance to enlighten us as to what their experience and studies of the institutional structures we live under tell us about existing and optional global mechanisms of political economic governance. The challenges they face and the extent to which they can solve any of the generic problems that seem to gravely challenge our traditional forms of governance.
Monday, 25.11.2024
17:00 – 18:00 – Opening Statements and BMI Prize Award:
Prof. Dr. Veselin Vukotic, Rector, University of Donja Gorica
Prof. Milette Shamir, Vice President of Tel Aviv University for International Affairs
Dr. Boris Mints, President of BMI
18:00 -19:00
Prof. Beatriz Magaloni, Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations, Senior Fellow at FSI, Stanford University, BMI 2024 Prize Recipient
“Rise of Authoritarianism”
Tuesday, 26.11.2024
09:30-10:30 Opening Conference Keynote Lecture
Hon. Václav Klaus, Second president of the Czech Republic from 2003 – 2013
“A World Order Under Threat”
10:30 -10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15 Globalization: Where do we go from here?
Moderator: Prof. Itamar Rabinovich, Former Ambassador of Israel to USA and President Emeritus of Tel-Aviv University
Prof. Nikoleta Djukanovic, University of Donja Gorica
Prof. Milette Shamir, Vice President for International Affairs, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Beatriz Magaloni, Stanford University
Professor Vladimir Mau, Former Rector of RANEPA, department of Public Policy, Tel-Aviv University
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Strategies of War and Peace
Moderator: Prof. Itai Sened, Outgoing Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Head of BMI, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Itamar Rabinovich, Former Ambassador of Israel to USA and President Emeritus of Tel-Aviv University
Prof. Igor Luksic, University of Donja Gorica, Former Prime Minister of Montenegro
Prof. Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Stanford University
Dr. Boaz Hameiri, Tel Aviv University
Mr. Petr Pesov, Tel Aviv University
15:00-15:15 Coffee Break
15:15-16:45 Crises in Internal Institutional Orders: Cyber, Economics and Governance
Moderator: Ivan Jovetic, University of Donja Gorica
Prof. Itai Sened, Outgoing Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Head of BMI, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Nadejda Komendantova, Research Group Leader, Cooperation and Transformative Governance Research Group, IIASA
Prof. Milorad Katnic, University of Donja Gorica
16:45-17:30 Closing Remarks:
Prof. Itamar Rabinovich, Former Ambassador of Israel to USA and President Emeritus of Tel-Aviv University
Prof. Dr. Milica Vukotic, Provost, University of Donja Gorica