The International Conference on Foreign Policy & Security Studies is a unique international conference in which diplomats, scholars and professionals from around the world will present the most pressing foreign and security policy challenges facing the modern Western world and outline their potential consequences.

🗄 The conference will be divided into two panels:

📕 an expert panel during which Keynote Speakers – professors, former ambassadors and professionals from the world of international relations – will present the results of their research while addressing the challenges in security science that the 21st century brings.

📗 a general panel during which the results of the work of students, doctoral students and more experienced researchers from Poland and abroad will be presented.

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 (𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞) 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:

→ Global governance and the challenges of multilateralism in the 21st century

→ Nuclear proliferation and the risk of conflict escalation

→ Cybersecurity and the future of warfare

→ The role of non-state actors in shaping foreign policy and security

→ Counterterrorism strategies and the balance between security and civil liberties

→ The ongoing conflict in Ukraine and its geopolitical implications

→ Climate change and its impact on global security

→ The intersection of technology and foreign policy, including the role of artificial intelligence and the ethics of autonomous weapons systems

→ The changing nature of international relations and the decline of the liberal international order

→ Emerging threats to national security, including pandemics and biological warfare

Please feel free to choose the topic of your presentation in line with your passion and expertise. Topics may be of both contemporary and historical relevance, and touch upon all problems regardless of their geographical boundaries. Panels of the conference will be arranged accordingly.

The thematic areas indicated above are to be treated only as examples.

We strongly encourage you to go beyond them. In addition, the speeches may be interdisciplinary in nature, combining a variety of research fields.

Note: speeches do not have to be comparative in nature – speakers may address issues related to only *one* of the selected areas.

We believe in academic freedom and do not censor speakers. Original presentations will always gain interest from the Conference Committee.

Conference Keynote Speakers will present on Friday, August 14, 2026, from 5 pm to 7 pm CET (Warsaw time).

The list of Keynote Speakers will be announced later.

• Students, Ph.D. students, experienced researchers, practitioners from the field, and all others interested in the above-indicated fields of research can actively participate in the conference as speakers.
• Passive participants (audience) do not need to possess any prior academic knowledge or background.

Presentations should be delivered in English.

• Prof. Christopher Kelley, LL.M. (University of Arkansas School of Law) – Chairman of the Committee.
• Prof. David Jones (professor emeritus, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw) – Vice-Chairman of the Committee.
• Prof. Bogusław Jagusiak (Military University of Technology) – 2nd Vice-Chairman of the Commitee.
• Prof. Marian Lutostański (The Jacob of Paradies University in Gorzów Wielkopolski) – Member of the Committee.
• Attorney Dr. Valery Loumber (Gavrilov & Brooks Law Firm, Sacramento/Los Angeles; Center for American Studies Director of Academic Affairs) – Committee Member.
• Dr. Lilya Kurii (Center for American Studies Ukraine, earlier: Khmelnytskyi National University) – Committee Member.
• Luke Darby Bartosik, LL.M. (President of the Center for American Studies) – Secretary of the Committee.

➤ ACTIVE PARTICIPATION (INFORMATION FOR CONFERENCE SPEAKERS)

Steps necessary to register for the conference as an active participant (conference speaker):

1️⃣ Submit an abstract (200-300 words) and register via the Speaker Application Form at: https://forms.gle/NSzknMnKkWErySQt6

2️⃣ Register using the above-mentioned Speaker Application Form by 23.59 on August 4, 2026 (we will not extend this deadline).

🔒We reserve the right to select abstracts.

📣The results of the abstract selection process will be announced by August 5, 2026.

3️⃣ Pay the conference fee to the bank account number that will be provided to the qualified speakers via email. The fee must be paid by August 7, 2026 at the latest.

➤ PASSIVE PARTICIPATION (CONFERENCE AUDIENCE)

Steps necessary to register for the conference by a passive participant (audience):

1️⃣ Register via the Audience Registration Form at: https://forms.gle/U5YKtTBQYSzGj5Un7

2️⃣ Register using the above-mentioned Audience Registration Form by 23.59 on August 7, 2026 (we will not extend this deadline). Failure to register using the form will result in the inability to passively participate in the conference (and thus the inability to receive a conference audience certificate).

3️⃣ Pay the audience fee to the bank account number that will be provided to the audience via email. The fee must be paid by August 9, 2025, at the latest.

Audience will have a chance to see the conference schedule before paying the fee. The schedule with a full list of speakers and their presentation titles will be delivered via email.

➤ SPEAKERS – 2 options:

• 269 PLN / 75 EUR – participation as a speaker + PDF electronic certificate sent via email (the electronic certificate bears the digital signatures of the members of the Conference Committee and the qualified Szafir electronic signature – the legal equivalent of a handwritten signature – of the President of the Board).

– OR –

• 299 PLN / 85 EUR – participation as a speaker + digital certificate + traditional certificate with a handwritten signature sent via post.

➤ AUDIENCE – 2 options:

• 149 PLN / 45 EUR – audience participation + PDF electronic certificate sent via email (the electronic certificate bears the digital signatures of the members of the Conference Committee and the qualified Szafir electronic signature – the legal equivalent of a handwritten signature – of the President of the Board).

– OR –

• 169 PLN / 55 EUR – audience participation + digital PDF certificate + traditional certificate with a handwritten signature sent via post.

Important!

Please use the following pattern when filling in the transfer title field when making the payment of your conference fee*:

"first name and last name – fee for active / passive participation (select the appropriate one) – Academic Conference on Foreign Policy"

* Failure to do so may result in delays in posting the fee on the appropriate account and, consequently, even exclude your participation in the conference.

In the case of a co-authorship of a presentation by two or more speakers, please pay the fee for each of the co-speakers separately.

The organizers anticipate the possibility of publication in the form of a monograph. However, such possibility will depend on the number of authors willing to publish their text (chapter) in a monograph. The price for participation in the conference does not include the publication fee.

• It is possible to receive a VAT invoice (please request it in the registration form – requests made later may not be satisfied).
• If your participation in the conference is to be financed by the university (institution/company), we suggest that you pay for your participation from your personal funds and then obtain reimbursement from the university (institution/company) on the basis of an invoice issued by the Center to your university (institution/company).
• The fee is non-refundable (since it grants you the right of entry to the conference).
• The link to the online conference room will be made available to registered participants within 24 hours before the start of the conference.
• It is possible to deliver a conference presentation by two or more speakers (the fee should be multiplied by the number of speakers).
• The presentation time is 15-25 minutes (depending on the fact of giving a solo or duet presentation and the total number of presentations during the conference).
• Certificates are usually sent via traditional post within 2 months after the conference – we will do our best to deliver them earlier because of approaching scholarship deadlines.
• Digital certificates are sent to *all* participants within one week from the conference – we will do our best to deliver them earlier because of approaching scholarship deadlines.
• Every participant will receive an affidavit confirming the composition of the Academic Committee.
• All participants will receive a certificate of the status of the Center for American Studies scientific society as an entity conducting primarily scientific activities in an independent and continuous manner, along with a full list of members of the Scientific Council.
• The Center For American Studies arranges the order of presentations. The exact time of speaking at the conference is pre-determined by CFAS (it will be not possible to change the time of your conference presentation set in the conference schedule).
• Terms of Service: https://www.cfasofficial.com/en/terms-of-use