BUDAPEST GLOBAL DIALOGUE 2025 II Live - Day 2 II Global Crossroads

Описание: Global Crossroads: CEE, the Balkans & the Caucasus in the New World Order
As the focus of global power shifts, Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Caucasus are emerging as pivotal arenas in a rapidly evolving world order. These regions are not only crossroads of commerce and culture, but also battlegrounds for influence among global and regional power, areas where renewed great power rivalries, shifting transatlantic relations, and an intensifying competition for energy security are altering the political and economic landscape. This panel will examine how regional actors are managing these complex dynamics and redefining their roles as the United States, the EU, Russia and China all intersect in the complex world of Central and Eastern Europe.
Are the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Caucasus genuinely exercising agency, or are they simply being forced to choose between competing imperial projects, old and new?
Can regional cooperation frameworks offer a credible alternative to formal EU or NATO integration, or do they risk deepening fragmentation and external dependency?
As the world fragments into competing blocs, can these regions force a genuine redistribution of power in continental politics?
Rusif Huseynov, Cofounder and Director, Topchubashov Center, Azerbaijan

Ivica Bocevski, Ambassador, Former Deputy Prime Minister, North Macedonia

Matthew Boyse, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, United States

Nina Sajić, Chair, Institute of Political Science, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dalibor Jurášek, Adviser to the Prime Minister; Vice-Chairman, Institute for Paradigmatic Reforms, Slovakia

Moderator: Ágnes Vass, Research Director, Hungarian Institute of International Affairs, Hungary