Arab Peninsula in International Relations

International Scientific Conference

Katedra Bliskiego Wschodu i Północnej Afryki Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Łódź, 23.11.2009
Sala Rady Wydziału Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politologicznych Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, ul. Narutowicza 59a
Department of Middle East and North Africa UŁ
Conference Program
9:00-10:30 Opening Session

Marek M. Dziekan
Opening Speech

Ilias Hussain Mulamparambil
‘Sacred Spaces’ of Market and Challenges to the State Sovereignty in the Arab Gulf Region

Rafał Ożarowski
Security Perspectives in the Persian Gulf: the Case of Iran

Barbara Michalak-Pikulska
The Beginning of the Prose Writing in the Gulf Countries

10:30-10:45 Coffee break

10:45-12:15 Panel 1
Rafał Ożarowski

Radosław Bania
The British Defense Commitments toward Kuwait (1961-1968)

Arkadiusz Płaczek
The Political System of Kuwait

Bartosz Wróblewski
Jordan, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia – Creation of the State in the Tribal Society (1900-1946)

Wojciech Grabowski
The Role of Wahhabism in Saudi-American Relations in the 21st Century

12:15-13:00 Lunch break

13:00-14:30 Panel 2
Radosław Bania

Krzysztof Zdulski
The Third Reich and the 1941 Uprising in Iraq

Marcin Grodzki
Shall Christians Disappear from Iraq? – an Attempt to Review the Situation of Iraqi Christians Six Years after the Removal of Saddam Hussein’s Regime

Michał Moroz
The Iraqi Space Program till the Outbreak of the First Gulf War

Magdalena Pogońska-Pol
The Bahrain-Qatar Border Dispute: Case of the Hawar Island

14:30-14:45 Coffee Break

14:45-16:00 Panel 3
Magdalena Pogońska-Pol

Justyna Zając
Arab Peninsula in the EU Foreign Policy

Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska
Getting Beyond Oil: Diversification Strategies of GCC Countries

Joanna Maj
China’s Policy toward Arabian Peninsula Region