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PONARS Eurasia Event Archive (2010-2020)
What’s New Under the Sun? Nuclear and Military Affairs in US-Russian Relations
PONARS Eurasia Fridays
October 16, 2020 | Online
Polina Sinovets, Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, Ukraine
Adam Stulberg, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mikhail Troitskiy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations
Dmitry Gorenburg, CNA; Harvard University
Authoritarian Governance and Reform in Russia
PONARS Eurasia Fridays
October 9, 2020 | Online
Dinissa Duvanova, Lehigh University
Vladimir Gel’man, European University at Saint Petersburg; University of Helsinki
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, King’s College London
Judyth Twigg, Virginia Commonwealth University
Challenges Facing Ukraine in Domestic and International Politics
PONARS Eurasia Fridays
October 2, 2020 | Online
Elise Giuliano, Columbia University
Sergiy Kudelia, Baylor University
Oxana Shevel, Tufts University
Oleksandr Sushko, International Renaissance Foundation, Ukraine
Mikhail Alexseev, San Diego State University
Russia’s Foreign Policy: Soft, Hard, Smart Power
PONARS Eurasia Fridays
September 25, 2020 | Online
Maria Snegovaya, Virginia Tech
Alexandra Yatsyk, University of Tartu, Estonia
Pavel Baev, Peace Research Institute Oslo
Kimberly Marten, Barnard College, Columbia University
How Has COVID-19 Impacted Regime Legitimacy in Eurasia?
PONARS Eurasia Fridays
September 18, 2020 | Online
Pauline Jones, University of Michigan
Sarah Wilson Sokhey, University of Colorado, Boulder
Henry Hale, George Washington University
Volodymyr Kulyk, National Academy of Science, Ukraine
Olga Onuch, University of Manchester
Gwendolyn Sasse, Center for East European and International Studies, Berlin
Black Lives Matter: Reverberations in Eurasia
PONARS Eurasia Fridays
September 4, 2020 | Online
Volodymyr Dubovyk, Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, Ukraine
Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon, University of Pennsylvania
Viatcheslav Morozov, University of Tartu, Estonia
State Responses to COVID-19 in Eurasia: What Have We Learned?
PONARS Eurasia Fridays
August 28, 2020 | Online
Mariya Omelicheva, National War College, National Defense University
Lawrence Markowitz, Rowan University
Yulia Nikitina, Moscow State Institute of International Relations
Robert Orttung, George Washington University
Ekaterina Schulmann, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences
PONARS Eurasia Members’ Pandemic Workshop #3
June 19, 2020 | Online
The Russian Power Vertical and the COVID-19 Challenge: The Trajectories of Regional Responses
May 29, 2020 | Online
Regina Smyth, Indiana University
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, King’s College London
Timothy Model, Miami University
Tracing Russia’s (Post-pandemic) Future: Public Opinion and the Crisis of Late Putinism
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
May 27, 2020 | Online
Aleksandar Matovski, Williams College
PONARS Eurasia Members’ Pandemic Workshop #2
May 22, 2020 | Online
PONARS Eurasia Members’ Pandemic Workshop #1
May 1, 2020 | Online
Order After Conflict: The State, Custom, and Sharia in Post-War Chechnya
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
April 23, 2020 | Online
Egor Lazarev, Yale University
PONARS Eurasia Spring Policy Conference
POLICY CONFERENCE
March 27, 2020 | Washington, D.C.
Postponed: Draft Agenda
Thieves, Opportunists, and Bureaucrats: Authoritarian Foundations of the Russian Regulatory State
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
February 27, 2020 | Washington, D.C.
Dinissa Duvanova, Lehigh University
Public-Private Partnership and Russia’s Vocational Education Revolution
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
January 30, 2020 | Washington, D.C.
Israel Marques, Higher School of Economics in Moscow
Levers of Power: Russia’s Domination of the Global Nuclear Reactor Market
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
December 5, 2019 | Washington, D.C.
Emily Holland, United States Naval Academy
Social Media and Russian Disinformation Operations
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
November 14, 2019 | Washington, D.C.
Steven Wilson, University of Nevada
PONARS Eurasia Annual Conference 2019
POLICY CONFERENCE
September 12-13, 2019 | Washington, D.C.
Language and Seperatism in Eurasia: Survey Results from Two Post-Soviet Regions
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
May 7, 2019 | Washington, D.C.
Kyle Marquardt, University of Gothenburg
Video: Presentation
Local Control and Worldwide Access: How Russian Elites Have Come to Use the Global Financial System to Defend Their Wealth
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
April 17, 2019 | Washington, D.C.
Igor Logvinenko, Wellesley College
Video: Presentation
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
April 12, 2019 | Washington, D.C.
David Szakonyi, Jordan Gans-Morse, Sarah Wilson Sokhey, Igor Logvinenko, Hannah Chapman, Ora John Reuter, Yuval Weber, Lauren McCarthy, Emily Holland, Jean-Francois Ratelle, Egor Lazarev, Kyle Marquardt
Soft Power and Media Effects in Russia’s Near Abroad
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
March 28, 2019 | Washington, D.C.
Hannah Chapman, Miami University (Ohio)
Video: Presentation
ACADEMIC WORKSHOP
March 14-15, 2019 | St. Petersburg, Russia
With the Higher School of Economics (HSE) and the European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP)
The Politics of Information Manipulation: State-Controlled Media in Russia
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
February 27, 2019 | Washington, D.C.
Arturas Rozenas, NYU
Video: Presentation
Russia in 2019: What Lies Ahead?
POLICY WORKSHOP
February 1, 2019 | Washington, D.C.
David Szakonyi, Brian Taylor, Nikolay Petrov, Kirill Rogov, Marlene Laruelle, Maria Lipman, Henry Hale, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Andrey Makarychev, Kelly McMann, Sarah Wilson Sokhey, Judyth Twigg, Wayne Merry, Kelly McMann, Nigel Gould-Davies, Irina Busygina, Anders Aslund, Ivan Kurilla, Dmitry Gorenburg, Robert Orttung, Jesse Driscoll, Christopher Walker
The Loyal Middle Class of Putin’s Russia
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
January 17, 2019 | Washington, D.C.
Bryn Rosenfeld, University of Southern California
Video: Presentation
Cracking the Nest Egg: Reversing Pension Reforms in Russia
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
November 28, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Sarah Wilson Sokhey, University of Colorado Boulder
Political Developments in Russia in 2018 and Prospects for the Next Five Years
IERES-PONARS EURASIA EVENT
November 10, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Nikolay Petrov, Higher School of Economics
Building States and Nations in Turbulent Contexts
POLICY WORKSHOP
November 8-9, 2018 | Yerevan, Armenia
Video: Keynote Address by Georgi Derluguian, NYU Abu Dhabi: “The Armenian Anomaly”
Russian Extremism and the Forms of Ethnic Violence
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
October 23, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Richard Arnold, Muskingum University
Video: Presentation
PONARS Eurasia Annual Conference 2018
POLICY CONFERENCE
September 21, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Videos | Agenda | Biographies & Topics
The Sources of Russia’s Economic Durability and the Kremlin’s Economic Strategy
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
September 12, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Chris Miller, Tufts University
Video: Presentation
From Triumph to Crisis: Neoliberal Economic Reform in Postcommunist Countries
BOOK LAUNCH
September 6, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Hilary Appel, Claremont McKenna College
Mitchell A. Orenstein, University of Pennsylvania
Video: Presentation
POLICY CONFERENCE
May 10, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Keith Darden, Dauren Aben, Polina Sinovets, Mikhail Troitskiy
Videos: Panel 1 and Keynote Lecture by Andrei Kozyrev
Why Control Immigration? Strategic Uses of Migration Management in Russia
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
May 1, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Caress Schenk, Nazarbayev University, Astana
Video: Presentation
Russia’s Challenge: A Declining Power’s Quest for Status
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
April 19, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Andrej Krickovic, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Video: Presentation
Conflict, Contestation, and Peacebuilding in Eurasia
ACADEMIC WORKSHOP
March 23-24, 2018 | London, U.K.
Co-sponsored by LSE and King’s College London
How Capital Inflows Transformed Rural Russia
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
March 1, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Susanne Wengle, University of Notre Dame
Video: Presentation
Assessing the Terrorist Threat in Russia After the Islamic State
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
February 13, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Jean-François Ratelle, University of Ottawa
Video: Presentation
Any Hopes or Changes From Russia’s Next Presidential Election?
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
January 18, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Yuval Weber, Woodrow Wilson Center; Davis Center; HSE
Video: Presentation
Tug of War: Negotiating Security in Eurasia
BOOK LAUNCH
January 5, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Mikhail Troitskiy, MGIMO; EUSP
Video: Presentation
Property Rights in Post-Soviet Russia: Violence, Corruption, and the Demand for Law
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
November 27, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Jordan Gans-Morse, Northwestern University
Video: Presentation
U.S.-Russian Relations One Year After The U.S. Election
POLICY CONFERENCE
November 8, 2017 | New York City
Co-sponsored by the NYU-Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia
Video: Presentations (4)
See: Policy Perspectives Booklet
Mass Repression and Political Loyalty: A Dual Legacy of Stalin’s Famine in Ukraine
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
October 12, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Yuri Zhukov, University of Michigan
Regime Stability and Elite Corruption in Putin’s Russia
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
September 26, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
David Szakonyi, George Washington University
PONARS Eurasia Annual Conference
September 14, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Gala: 20th Anniversary of PONARS Eurasia!
See: Policy Perspectives Booklets
Ukrainian Politics in Comparative Perspective
ACADEMIC WORKSHOP
June 22-23, 2017 | Karazin National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
State-Business Relations in Putin’s Russia
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
June 9, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Stanislav Markus, USC
Video: Pesentation
Political Participation in Russia: Can Putin Be Constrained?
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
May 23, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Danielle N. Lussier, Grinnell College
Communism’s Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes
BOOK LAUNCH
May 22, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Grigore Pop-Eleches, Princeton University
Joshua A. Tucker, New York University
Regina D. Faranda (Discussant), U.S. Department of State
Steven A. Grant (Discussant), U.S. Information Agency
Rethinking Russian Media Strategy and Influence
ACADEMIC WORKSHOP
April 28, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Samuel Greene, King’s College London
Theodore Gerber and Hannah Chapman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tomila Lankina, LSE
Marlene Laruelle, GWU
Chair: Peter Rollberg, GWU
Workshop Panels & Abstracts: Day 1 (April 28) | Day 2 (April 29)
The Fragmentation of the Global Economy and U.S.-Russia Relations
April 24, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Co-sponsored by the Working Group on the Future of U.S.-Russia Relations
Rawi Abdelal, Harvard University
Igor Makarov, HSE
Elections and Authoritarianism in Putin’s Russia
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
April 20, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Ora John Reuter, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Historical Memory and Politics in Russia 100 Years after the Revolution
April 6, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Ivan Kurilla, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia
The Police and the Public in Russia Today
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
March 29, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Lauren McCarthy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post Soviet Eurasia
February 14, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Samuel Charap, International Institute for Strategic Studies
Timothy J. Colton, Harvard University (by skype)
Priests of Prosperity: How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World
BOOK LAUNCH
January 23, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Juliet Johnson, McGill University & EU Centre of Excellence-Montreal
EU-Eurasian Relations at the Crossroads
POLICY CONFERENCE
December 1-2, 2016 | Montreal, Canada
Co-sponsored by the European Union Center of Excellence, McGill University
See: Policy Perspectives Booklet
Beyond the Euromaidan: Comparative Perspectives on Advancing Reform in Ukraine
ELLIOTT SCHOOL BOOK LAUNCH SERIES
October 11, 2016 | Washington, D.C.
Henry E. Hale and Robert Orttung, George Washington University
PONARS Eurasia Annual Conference
POLICY CONFERENCE
September 23-24, 2016 |Washington, D.C.
Video: Russia’s 2016 Parliamentary Elections
Video: Economy and Society in Eurasia
Video: Political Culture and Identity in Russia
See: Agenda, Abstract & Bios Booklet
April 5, 2016 | Washington, D.C.
Arkady Moshes, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
Audio: Presentation
The Life and Legacy of Boris Nemtsov
March 8, 2016 | Washington, D.C.
Henry E. Hale, GWU
Andrey Makarychev, University of Tartu
Robert Orttung, GWU
Video: Presentation by Henry E. Hale
Video: Presentation by Andrey Makarychev
Video: Voice of America (“Настоящее Время”) Segment
Trends in Russian Public Opinion Under Putin: New Findings
February 22, 2016 | Washington, D.C.
Theodore P. Gerber, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Henry E. Hale, GWU
William Mishler, University of Arizona
William Reisinger, University of Iowa
The Disappearing Shadow of Local Democracy in Russia
February 8, 2016 | Washington, D.C.
Ivan Kurilla, European University at St. Petersburg
Pavel Kononenko, St. Petersburg State University
Audio: Presentation
Russia in International Affairs
February 4-6, 2016 | Istanbul, Turkey”
Special Event: “Making Sense of Russia’s Syria Intervention” at the
Hollings Center for International Dialogue, Istanbul (February 5, 2016)
The U.S. and Russian Interventions in Syria: Room for Cooperation or Prelude to Greater Conflict?
January 28, 2016 | Washington, D.C.
Co-sponsored by the Working Group on the Future of U.S.-Russia Relations
Yoshiko Herrera, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Andrew Kydd, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Fyodor Lukyanov (by Skype), Russian in Global Affairs; Council on Foreign and Defense Policy
Audio: Presentation
European Identity as Cultural Strategy: Countering Russia in the Post-Soviet Borderlands of Urkaine, Georgia, and Estonia
December 2, 2015 | Washington, D.C.
Alexandra Yatsyk, Kazan Federal University
Audio: :Presentation
Putin and Putinism Two Years after Euromaidan
November 24, 2015 | Washington, D.C.
Nikolay Petrov, Center for Political-Geographic Research
Brian Taylor, Syracuse University
C-SPAN Coverage: Presentation
Russia’s Emerging Conventional Long-Range Capability and the INF Treaty
October 28, 2015 | Washington, D.C.
Co-sponsored by James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Nikolai Sokov, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Video: Presentation
Authoritarian Russia: Analyzing Post-Soviet Regime Changes
September 22, 2015 | Washington, D.C.
Vladimir Gel’man, European University at St. Petersburg
Video: Presentation
PONARS Eurasia Annual Conference
POLICY CONFERENCE
September 18-19, 2015 | Washington, D.C.
Video: Ukraine: War and Identity – Part One
Video: Ukraine: War and Identity – Part Two
Video: Nature of Putinism
Video: Ukraine: Reform and Reconstruction
Video: Russian Military Power After Ukraine
Video: Caught in the EU-Russia Crossfire: Belarus, Caucasus
Video: Power and Conflict in Central Asia
Video: Ukraine: Politics and War
Video: Economics and Society
Understanding Opposition in Russia: Sources and Structures of Authoritarian Rule and Resistance
September 17, 2015 | Washington, D.C.
Video: Presentation
Security and Regional Integration in Eurasia
June 14-17, 2015 | Astana, Kazakhstan
Memo Book: Eurasian Visions: Integration and Geopolitics in Central Asia
War, State, and Society in Ukraine
May 18, 2015 | Washington, D.C.
Dominique Arel, University of Ottawa
Keith Darden, American University
Georgi Derluguian, New York University Abu Dhabi
Comparative Political Development in Post-Soviet Eurasia and the Middle East
POLICY CONFERENCE
December 8-10, 2014 | Abu Dhabi, UAE
PONARS Eurasia Annual Conference
POLICY CONFERENCE
September 22-23, 2014 | Washington, D.C.
Memo Book: Policy Perpectives
Political Economy of Russia and Eurasia
May 30-31, 2014 | Washington, D.C.
Pluralism by Default: Weak Autocrats and the Rise of Competitive Politics
BOOK INCUBATOR
May 1, 2014 | Washington, D.C.
Nationalism, Minorities, and Migration
Workshop
March 21-22, 2014 | Washington, D.C.
Volodymyr Dubovyk, Odessa National University
Oleksandr Fisun, Kharkiv National University
Dmitry Gorenburg, CNA & Harvard University
Viatcheslav Morozov, University of Tartu
The Future of the EU-Russia Neighborhood
December 6-7, 2013 | Chisinau, Moldova
Memo Book: The Vilnius Moment
May 24, 2013 | St. Petersburg, Russia
Memo Book: Ambiguous Relations: Russia’s Post-Soviet Neighborhood
Memo Book: Russia’s Global Engagement
PONARS Eurasia Annual Conference
POLICY CONFERENCE
September 23-24, 2013 | Washington, D.C.
Memo Book: Policy Perspectives
Rethinking the Sources of Russian Foreign Policy
March 16-17, 2013 | Washington, D.C.
What Now? Politics and Foreign Policy in Contemporary Ukraine
November 5, 2012 | Kyiv, Ukraine
PONARS Eurasia Annual Conference
POLICY CONFERENCE
September 14, 2012 | Washington, D.C.
Memo Book: Policy Perspectives
Continuity and Change: Examining Regime Trajectories and Security in East Europe and Eurasia
May 7-8, 2012 | Tartu, Estonia
In partnership with the University of Tartu
Memo Book: Bridging Divides in Eastern Europe
Memo Book: Dividing Lines in Russian Politics and Foreign Policy
PONARS Eurasia Annual Conference
POLICY CONFERENCE
September 9, 2011 | Washington, D.C.
PONARS Eurasia Academic Workshop
June 12-15, 2011 | Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
Security Challenges in Russia and Eurasia
March 19-20, 2011 | Moscow, Russia
PONARS Eurasia Academic Workshop
June 9-10, 2010 | Odessa, Ukraine
PONARS Eurasia Annual Conference
POLICY CONFERENCE
October 22, 2010 | Washington, D.C.
Memo Book: Kyrgyzstan: Recovery and Reformation
POLICY CONFERENCE
February 2010 | Washington, D.C.
Memo Book: After the Color Revolutions: Political Change and Democracy Promotion in Eurasia