The Institute of Philosophy of the NAS of Belarus is a co-organizer of the 8th International Scientific and Practical Conference "Belarusian Political Science: Diversity in Unity" which is held in the Yanka Kupala Grodno State University (Grodno, Belarus) on May 17-18, 2018. The conference discusses issues of regional integration processes, their philosophical foundations, development trends, and experience of socio-political modeling. Leading researchers from nineteen countries, namely Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Canada, China, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, France, Ecuador and Japan, participate in the conference.
At the plenary meeting and breakout sessions, scientists discuss methodological, philosophical, economic, geopolitical, social, and ecological aspects of studying the problem of globalization and regional integration. Particular attention is paid to exchange of experience in socio-political modeling of integration processes, analysis of challenges and threats to regional interaction, consideration of the prospects for "integration of integrations" in the Eurasian and European space.