Conflict or Cooperation: Security Challenges in Europe
Location:Copenhagen
Term:Summer
Course Information
Credits
3
Disciplines
International Relations, Political Science, Government, History
About this course
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 marked a new turning point for the EU. This course seeks to grasp the new security developments in Europe, focusing on the Baltic Sea Region states, and especially on the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Sweden) and the Baltics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania). It aims at explaining their concerns and picturing implications that Russia’s aggressive foreign policy has on their domestic and foreign policies, both on strictly regional and wider international level (EU, NATO).
Ph.D. (English and Russian Literature, 2004), M.A. (Russian Language and Literature, 1996), B.A. (Slavic Philology, 1993). Visiting Scholar, Columbia University (2000-04). Lecturer, University of Copenhagen (1995-2006).
Jon Kyst is a Danish diplomat, currently posted to the European Union Advisory Mission Ukraine as Advisor on hybrid threats and countering FIMI (foreign information manipulation and interference). From 2015 until 2025, he worked for the European External Action Service (the EU’s diplomatic service), at its Headquarters in Brussels, serving in the Strategic Communications Division (2015-2020), the Russia Division (2021-2025) and the Division for Information Integrity and Countering FIMI (2024-25). He has worked as a conference interpreter, including as the chief Russian interpreter for the Government of Denmark and the Royal Household. He has published translations of Ukrainian and Russian literature into Danish. With DIS since 2003
Milosz Jeromin Cordes
PhD (Cultural Studies, SWPS University, Warsaw 2017), MA (East-European Cultural Studies, University of Warsaw 2012), MA (International Relations, University of Warsaw & St. Petersburg State University, 2012), BA (History, University of Warsaw 2011), BA (International Relations, University of Warsaw 2010). Research Fellow at the Danish Foreign Policy Society (2021), Post-Doc Researcher at Lund University (2021). Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellow (2006). Vice-Consul at Poland’s Consulate General in Kaliningrad (2018-2021), Second Secretary at Poland’s Permanent Representation to the European Union (2016-2018), Second Secretary & Specialist at Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ (2012-2016). With DIS since 2021.
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