On 1-2 November 2016 an international conference titled „The Future of Eastern Europe and South Caucasus: at the intersection of foreign policy, security and business“ was held at the Faculty of International Relations of the Belarusian State University. The aims of the conference were to map national, regional and external perspectives on the current challenges in Eastern Europe and South Caucasus and to conduct in-depth SWOT analysis of Eastern Europe and South Caucasus in the system of international relations on the European continent. The event was co-organised by the Minsk Dialogue Track-II Initiative (Belarus), Justus Liebig University (JLU) Giessen (Germany), and the Faculty of International Relations of the Belarusian State University (Belarus).