On behalf of Regional Commanders Dr. Aristotle Papanikolaou and Drake G. Behrakis, all Archons in America are invited to participate in a New England Archon Conference on Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. ET. The lecture will be held virtually via Zoom and will be offered by Dr. Elizabeth H. Prodromou of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Conference information is listed below.
It has been almost seven months since Russia launched a military invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s war against its neighbor has been characterized by President Vladimir Putin in both geopolitical and ideological terms – as a special military operation to denazify Ukraine and to preserve the inherent cultural unity of Russia and Europe. Ukraine and as a necessary corrective to NATO’s effort to integrate Ukraine into a Western security arrangement incompatible with Moscow’s spheres of influence approach to Eurasian geopolitics.
Debates about the causes and consequences of the Russian military war in Ukraine are central to transatlantic security and international media contexts. Yet Russia waged another war in Ukraine, with the Kremlin and the Moscow Patriarchate using the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Tomos’ grant of autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as a pretext to declare an ecclesiastical war for primacy. . This “Other Ukraine War” changes the contours of global Orthodox Christianity, heightening existential threats to the Siege of Constantinople, targeting the Greek religious ecosystem to bolster its influence, and opening Orthodoxy up to the risks of internal geopolitical calculations. and external.
This presentation will use the hybridity of Russia’s war in Ukraine to analyze the complex intersections of religion and geopolitics as they affect the survival of the Ecumenical Patriarchy and the importance of global Orthodox unity for contemporary world affairs.
Meeting Join Details
Join the Zoom meeting on September 21 at 7:00 p.m. ET
https://archons-org.zoom.us/j/89669413069
Meeting ID: 896 6941 3069
One-click mobile
+13092053325,,89669413069# United States
+13126266799,,89669413069# United States (Chicago)
Dial by your location
+1 309 205 3325 United States
+1 312 626 6799 USA (Chicago)
+1 646 931 3860 USA
+1 929 205 6099 USA (New York)
+1 301 715 8592 United States (Washington DC)
+1 386 347 5053 United States
+1 564 217 2000 United States
+1 669 444 9171 United States
+1 669 900 6833 United States (San Jose)
+1 719 359 4580 United States
+1 253 215 8782 United States (Tacoma)
+1 346 248 7799 United States (Houston)
Meeting ID: 896 6941 3069
Find your local number: https://archons-org.zoom.us/u/kbIJ2Kfipt
Dr. Elizabeth H. Prodromou
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Dr. Elizabeth H. Prodromou is spending this semester as a Senior Fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where she served as faculty director for the Religion, Law, and Diplomacy Initiative and teaches in the program on international relations. Negotiation and conflict resolution. She is also Chair of the Christians and Religious Pluralism in the Middle East Task Force of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Liberty and Co-Chair of Religions for Peace. Prodromou held a diplomatic post as Vice Chair and Commissioner of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (2004-2012), and she was also a member of the Secretary’s Task Force on Religion and Foreign Policy. US State (2011-2015). His research interests focus on the intersections of geopolitics, religion and human rights, with a particular focus on the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. The author of two edited volumes and numerous book chapters, his most recent publication deals with the construction of Russian influence through religious soft power, in The Kremlin Playbook 3: Keeping the Faith. She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of World Christianity, Journal of Democracy, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Orbis, Survival, European Journal of Political Research, among others. Prodromou is a frequent commentator and contributor on US and international media platforms, and she has provided expert testimony and briefings to political bodies such as the US Helsinki Commission, the European Parliament, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. She has held visiting scholar positions at the Center for American Progress, the Hedayah International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism, Harvard University, and Princeton University, among others. She was a consulting member of the delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church (2016). She holds a doctorate. and an SM in Political Science from MIT, a MALD in International Relations from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University) and a BA in History and International Relations from Tufts University. She is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society. She holds a doctorate. and an SM in Political Science from MIT, a MALD in International Relations from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University) and a BA in History and International Relations from Tufts University. She is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society. She is married to Dr. Alexandros Kyrou, and they are the proud parents of their daughter, Sophia.
Comments are closed.