(PONARS Eurasia and IERES) On January 6, 2021, protestors carried out a violent attack at the US Capitol in an attempt to overturn Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 United States presidential elections. In this upcoming PONARS Eurasia event, scholars from across the United States and Eurasia will explore how the recent storming of the US Capitol was viewed from Eurasia, and what comparisons with Eurasia can teach us about American democracy.
Featuring:
Volodymyr Dubovyk (Professor of International Relations at the Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, Ukraine)
Mariya Omelicheva (Professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College, National Defense University)
Jessica Pisano (Associate Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research)
Edward Schatz (Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Mississauga)
Mikhail Troitskiy (Dean and Associate Professor at the MGIMO School of Government and International Affairs)
Thursday, February 4, 2021
10:00 – 11:30 am (EST) (Virtual Event)
The Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia) is a network of over 125 academics, mainly from North America and post-Soviet Eurasia, advancing new approaches to research on security, politics, economics, and society in Russia and Eurasia. Its core missions are to connect scholarship to policy on and in Russia and Eurasia and to foster a community, especially of mid-career and rising scholars, committed to developing policy-relevant and collaborative research
