The Institute of Political Sciences at the University of Gdansk is pleased to invite you to participate at the international conference „Contemporary Arab World in the International Relations” to be held at the University of Gdansk seat, Poland on 24th of September 2015. The invitation is aimed at scholars, researchers, professionals and students who are interested in studies of the Arab World and the Middle East.

The objective of the conference is to offer the platform to share and exchange research experiences between experts from all over the world. The conference also inspires to conduct researches on the Middle East and tries to answer the question: where the Arab World is heading?

The Arab World faces many challenges and threats as well as opportunities, which have escalated in the XXI century. Political and cultural divisions, the weakness of states and their institutions, the poverty, the inequality, the slow economic development, the terrorism, external influences in the internal Arab affairs next to the modernization and the integration and the globalization are only some of the phenomena present in the Arabic states. The conclusion that the Arab World is one of the most unstable regions in the world but also one of the most important for the international security and the economy should be the leading thesis of the conference „Contemporary Arab World in the International Relations”.

The conference’s methodological theme will be the SWOT analysis. During the conference four workshops will be created: Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats. Each of the workshops will be facing the problems of the Arabic region in the XXI century. This should help to make final conclusions and to summarize the current situation in the Arab World which is still under a wide-ranging transition.