15The International winter school “Debating Points of the International and Regional Security” was held as part of the development of the Jean Monnet Expert Network project “War, Peace and the World in European Security Challenges”, POWERS, at the Kuban State University on February 7-12, 2022. Young scientists, representing a consortium of five foreign and three Russian universities, as well as invited young specialists from a number of Russian academic and educational organizations participated in the event. The program also included lectures by leading scientists, master classes and presentations of monographs by Russian and foreign researchers. The working language of the school was English, the meetings were held in the hybrid format.
Corresponding Member of the RAS Irina Semenenko presented to the participants the monograph “The State in Political Science: Transformations in a Twenty-First Century Social Context”, prepared by the expert team of the IMEMO. The issues of the nature of the modern state and the instruments for its research, of the interaction between the state and non-state political actors in the new political spaces, of the development trajectories of the nation state, and of the role of identity politics in shaping the agenda of social development, were both in the focus of the authors of the research and were raised in the presentation.
In the report “Environmental Ñleavages in European Society”, Junior Research Fellow Tatiana Khainatskaya analyzed the current environmental and climate policy of the EU against the discussions of the European countries around the "green" agenda and around the formation of socio-political divisions (clivazhs). There were outlined the main axes of separation, their conflict potential and the opportunities for social consolidation around the Green Deal were accessed. The report raised the issue of climate (un)justice as a discourse, which actively shapes Europe's contemporary environmental and political agenda. The European Green Deal was considered an opportunity to form the basis of a new Green Social Contract.
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