On January 18, the IE University (Madrid) hosted an event that opened a new stage in the development of the School of Global and Public Affairs at IE University.
Representatives of the EU governing bodies, the Spanish government, the diplomatic corps, and the academic community gathered to present the new program of the School of Global and Public Affairs. The Odesa School of Law was represented by Professor Viacheslav Tuliakov, Professor of the Department of Criminal Law at the National University "Odesa Law Academy", visiting Professor at IE University, ad hoc judge of the European Court of Human Rights in favor of Ukraine.
According to the First Vice-Rector of the IE University, Professor Miguel Muñiz, State Secretary of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the past: "Interdependence, voluntarism and vulnerability of international relations are central issues that affect the development of international relations. However, people and their needs are the most important basis on which we work for a sustainable future for all. We celebrate our global diversity in all its aspects and encourage curiosity and human assistance as a pathway to new thinking and innovation. We advocate a humanistic view to understand our world by understanding ourselves. Hence, the School of Global and Public Affairs is changing its development vector towards the formation of a School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs.
Within the framework of the presentation of the Global Governance Forum and the Center for Geoeconomics, the keynote speech on global issues of world development was presented by Mr. Josep Borrel, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Focusing on the political and economic problems of the war in Ukraine ("we pay in euros, Ukrainians pay with their lives"), instability of the development of world relations, strategic contradictions between the US and China, interdependence of development and the use of development instruments as weapons and coercion in international relations, the crisis of multidependence, Josep Borrel based on the data of modern economic statistics, revealed the main challenges facing the EU in the current environment.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams, former President of the UN General Assembly Maria Espinoza and former Head of the UN Office Susana Malkoza focused on the importance of developing the concept of human security at the expense of the security of the state apparatus and the role and shortcomings of the UN and the UN General Assembly in shaping the global normative order.
Innovative, multidisciplinary approach to the development of the education system in the direction of humanization and intensification of international relations made IE University the first in Spain and among the best universities in the world in certain study programs
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