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08.04.2025
Institutskolloquium IfP (23.04.25) - “EU – India Rapprochement: Political Logic and Academic Repercussions”
Speaker: Andrey Makarychev (University of Tartu)
Wednesday, April 23rd 2025, 16:00 c.t. / Room 124, Institut für Politikwissenschaft or online via Zoom
About the lecture: The presentation will discuss the new dynamic in EU – India relations which both parties prefer to term pragmatic, rational and depoliticized; however, the current gravitation between Brussels and New Delhi is influenced by competing political logics shaped by Russia’s war on Ukraine, the new ruptures in trans-Atlantic relations, and the China factor. The case of EU – India rapprochement opens new avenues for critical analysis of such important concepts as post-colonialism and decoloniality, international democracy, multipolarity, interregionalism, and multivectoring.
Andrey Makarychev is Professor of Regional Political Studies at the University of Tartu Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies. He teaches courses on Foreign Policy Analysis, Political Systems in post-Soviet Space, Visual Politics, and Biopolitics. He is the author of Popular Biopolitics and Populism at Europe’s Eastern Margins (Brill, 2022), and co-authored four monographs: Celebrating Borderlands in a Wider Europe: Nations and Identities in Ukraine, Georgia and Estonia (Nomos, 2016), Lotman's Cultural Semiotics and the Political (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017), Critical Biopolitics of the Post-Soviet: from Populations to Nations (Lexington Books, 2020) and Practical Biopolitics of COVID-19: Comparing Russian and Indonesian Experiences (Lexington Books, 2023).
The lecture will be held in English