PONARS Eurasia
  • About
    • Contact
    • Membership
      • All Members
      • Core Members
      • Collegium Members
      • Associate Members
      • About Membership
    • Ukraine Experts
    • Executive Committee
  • Policy Memos
    • List of Policy Memos
    • Submissions
  • Podcasts
  • Online Academy
  • Events
    • Past Events
  • Recommended
  • Task Forces
    • Ukraine
    • Amplifying Voices of Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia (AVECCA)
  • Ukraine Experts
Contacts

Address
1957 E St NW,
Washington, DC 20052

adminponars@gwu.edu
202.994.5915

NEWSLETTER
Facebook
Twitter
YouTube
Podcast
PONARS Eurasia
PONARS Eurasia
  • About
    • Contact
    • Membership
      • All Members
      • Core Members
      • Collegium Members
      • Associate Members
      • About Membership
    • Ukraine Experts
    • Executive Committee
  • Policy Memos
    • List of Policy Memos
    • Submissions
  • Podcasts
  • Online Academy
  • Events
    • Past Events
  • Recommended
  • Task Forces
    • Ukraine
    • Amplifying Voices of Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia (AVECCA)
  • Ukraine Experts
DIGITAL RESOURCES
digital resources

Bookstore 📚

Knowledge Hub

Course Syllabi

Point & Counterpoint

Policy Perspectives

RECOMMENDED
  • Clearing the Air: Secretary Blinken Visits Ukraine

    View
  • Ukraine Task Force: Getting Ukraine Right: From Negotiations Trap to Victory

    View
  • Ensuring Genuine Results? A New Electoral Design in Uzbekistan

    View
  • Ukraine, Taiwan, and Macron’s “Strategic Autonomy”

    View
  • After Violence: Russia’s Beslan School Massacre and the Peace that Followed

    View
RSS PONARS Eurasia Podcast
  • The Putin-Xi Summit: What's New In Their Joint Communique ? February 23, 2022
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman speaks with Russian China experts Vita Spivak and Alexander Gabuev about the February meeting between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, and what it may tell us about where the Russian-Chinese relationship is headed.
  • Exploring the Russian Courts' Ruling to Liquidate the Memorial Society January 28, 2022
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with scholars Kelly Smith and Benjamin Nathans about the history, achievements, and impending shutdown of the Memorial Society, Russia's oldest and most venerable civic organization, and what its imminent liquidation portends for the Russian civil society.
  • Russia's 2021 census and the Kremlin's nationalities policy [Lipman Series 2021] December 9, 2021
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with social scientist Andrey Shcherbak about the quality of the data collected in the recent population census and the goals of Vladimir Putin's government's nationalities policy
  • Active citizens of any kind are under threat [Lipman Series 2021] November 5, 2021
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Alexander Verkhovsky about the Kremlin's ever expanding toolkit against political and civic activists, journalists, and other dissidents.
  • Russia's Legislative Elections followup [Lipman Series 2021] October 4, 2021
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Tanya Lokot and Nikolay Petrov about the results of Russia’s legislative elections and about what comes next.
  • Why Is the Kremlin Nervous? [Lipman Series 2021] September 14, 2021
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Ben Noble and Nikolay Petrov about Russia’s September 17-19 legislative elections, repressive measures against electoral challengers, and whether to expect anything other than preordained results.
  • Vaccine Hesitancy in Russia, France, and the United States [Lipman Series 2021] August 31, 2021
    In this week's PONARS Eurasia Podcast episode, Maria Lipman chats with Denis Volkov, Naira Davlashyan, and Peter Slevin about why COVID-19 vaccination rates are still so low across the globe, comparing vaccine hesitant constituencies across Russia, France, and the United States.  
  • Is Russia Becoming More Soviet? [Lipman Series 2021] July 26, 2021
      In a new PONARS Eurasia Podcast episode, Maria Lipman chats with Maxim Trudolyubov about the current tightening of the Russian political sphere, asking whether or not it’s helpful to draw comparisons to the late Soviet period.
  • The Evolution of Russia's Political Regime [Lipman Series 2021] June 21, 2021
    In this week's episode of the PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Grigory Golosov and Henry Hale about the evolution of Russia's political regime, and what to expect in the lead-up to September's Duma elections.
  • Volodymyr Zelensky: Year Two [Lipman Series 2021] May 24, 2021
    In this week's episode of the PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Sergiy Kudelia and Georgiy Kasianov about Ukrainian President Zelensky's second year in office, and how he has handled the political turbulence of the past year.
  • Recommended | Рекомендуем

Annual Policy Conference 2017

  • July 10, 2017
  • PONARS Eurasia

Thank you for joining us at the 2017 PONARS Eurasia Annual Policy Conference!

Forthcoming Policy Memos: Abstracts & Bios (PDF)

Tweets from the conference (Twitter)

See: PONARS Eurasia releases 5 policy e-books to mark 20th Anniversary


 

PONARS Eurasia Annual Policy Conference

Thursday, September 14, 2017

Lindner Commons, 6th Floor

GW Elliott School, 1957 E St. NW

Agenda

8:30 am   Breakfast and Registration

8:45-10:30 am   Session 1: Power in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus

Chair: Henry Hale, George Washington University

Russia on the Eve of Presidential Elections and Prospects for the Next Term

Nikolay Petrov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Authoritarian Responsiveness: Managing Popular Demands in the Lead up to March 2018

Regina Smyth, Indiana University

Extrajudicial Violence in Donbas and Its Consequences for Ukraine

Sergiy Kudelia, Baylor University

Could It Happen Here? How to Think About Ethnic Conflict in Ukraine

Elise Giuliano, Columbia University

Does It Make Sense to Expect a “Color Revolution” in Belarus?

Arkady Moshes, Finnish Institute of International Affairs

10:30-11:00 am   Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 pm   Session 2: Political and Economic Entanglement

Chair: Samuel Charap, RAND Corporation

Politics versus Policy: Technocratic Traps of Post-Soviet Reforms

Vladimir Gel’man, European University at St. Petersburg; University of Helsinki

Putin’s Renationalization Campaign: Fighting Corruption or Forcing Officials’ Loyalty?

Hilary Appel and Wendy Chuyi Sheng, Claremont McKenna College

Monopolies Rising: Consolidation in the Russian Economy

David Szakonyi, George Washington University

Beyond Economic Contagion: Regional Consequences of Russia’s Economic Recession

Mariya Omelicheva, University of Kansas

Does Russia Need the Inflow of Foreign Capital? Or Should It Rely on an Export-Oriented Model of Growth Based on Domestic Savings?

Vladimir Popov, Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute (Berlin)

12:30-2:00 pm   Lunch and Keynote Speaker (Celeste Wallander)

2:00-3:30 pm   Session 3: Evolving Societies in Southern Eurasia

Chair: Marlene Laruelle, George Washington University

Uzbekistan’s Revolution from Above: A Post-Soviet Model for Liberalization or a Transition to Softer Authoritarianism?

Sean Roberts, George Washington University

Democratic Attitudes in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

Barbara Junisbai, Pitzer College

Who Cares about Conspiracy Theories? Evidence from a New Survey of Georgia and Kazakhstan 

Scott Radnitz, University of Washington

Qatar in Central Asia: What’s at Stake in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan?

Natalie Koch, Syracuse University

3:30-4:00 pm   Coffee Break

4:00-5:30 pm   Session 4: Military-Foreign Policy Issues

Chair: Adam Stulberg, Georgia Tech

Russia’s Entanglement in Syria as a Protracted Extreme Stress Factor for the Russian Navy

Pavel Baev, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

Russia’s Military Modernization Plans: 2018-2025

Dmitry Gorenburg, CNA; Harvard University

Russia's Information Warfare (IW): Great Power Status and Regime Preservation

Deborah Ball, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Constructive Ambiguity as a Facilitator in US-Russia Security Negotiations

Mikhail Troitskiy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

 

Because this year marks the 20th anniversary of the PONARS Eurasia program, many additional PONARS members/authors will be in attendance, including:

Elizabeth Wishnick, Yoshiko M. Herrera, George Gavrilis, Serghei Golunov, Kornely Kakachia, Ivan Kurilla, Debra Javeline, Theodore Gerber, Yevgeny Finkel, Sufian Zhemukhov, Yuriy Matsiyevsky, Oxana Shevel, Nona Shahnazarian, Polina Sinovets, Stephen Hanson, Robert Orttung, Jordan Gans-Morse, Juliet Johnson, Andrew Barnes, Harris Mylonas, Scott Gehlbach, Volodymyr Kulyk, Mikhail Alexseev, Oleksandr Fisun, Sebastien Peyrouse, Mark Kramer, Eric McGlinchey, Anar Valiyev, James Richter, Viatcheslav Morozov, and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova.

Panelists and non-panelist policy memo abstracts will be included in the conference booklet. 

Contact: adminponars@gwu.edu

Related Topics
  • Annual Conference
Previous Article
  • Uncategorized

Почему дружба Трампа и Путина обречена

  • July 10, 2017
  • PONARS Eurasia
View
Next Article
  • Commentary | Комментарии

Russia Taking Stock on Monday After Hamburg

  • July 11, 2017
  • Pavel Baev
View
You May Also Like
View
  • Commentary | Комментарии
  • Recommended | Рекомендуем

Clearing the Air: Secretary Blinken Visits Ukraine

  • Volodymyr Dubovyk
  • September 19, 2023
View
  • Recommended | Рекомендуем

Ukraine Task Force: Getting Ukraine Right: From Negotiations Trap to Victory

  • PONARS Eurasia
  • May 25, 2023
View
  • Commentary | Комментарии
  • Recommended | Рекомендуем

Ensuring Genuine Results? A New Electoral Design in Uzbekistan

  • Akrom Avezov
  • May 19, 2023
View
  • Commentary | Комментарии
  • Recommended | Рекомендуем

Ukraine, Taiwan, and Macron’s “Strategic Autonomy”

  • Maurizio Delli Santi
  • April 30, 2023
View
  • Recommended | Рекомендуем

After Violence: Russia’s Beslan School Massacre and the Peace that Followed

  • Debra Javeline
  • April 24, 2023
View
  • Recommended | Рекомендуем

Ukraine’s Unnamed War: Before the Russian Invasion of 2022

  • Dominique Arel and Jesse Driscoll
  • April 15, 2023
View
  • Recommended | Рекомендуем

A Rock and a Hard Place: The Russian Opposition in a Time of War | New Voices on Eurasia with Jeremy Ladd (April 11)

  • PONARS Eurasia
  • April 9, 2023
View
  • Commentary | Комментарии
  • Recommended | Рекомендуем

Russia’s Regional Governors: Backing the War, Upholding the Status Quo

  • Irina Busygina and Mikhail Filippov
  • April 7, 2023

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

PONARS Eurasia
  • About
  • Membership
  • Policy Memos
  • Recommended
  • Events
Powered by narva.io

Permissions & Citation Guidelines

Input your search keywords and press Enter.