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PONARS Eurasia Fall Policy Conference

  • September 25, 2022
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Thank you for joining us! Stay tuned for the policy memos and event videos.


Friday, September 30th

The Elliott School of International Affairs, 1957 E St. NW, Washington DC or Online
9:00 am-5:00 pm


The PONARS Eurasia Fall Policy Conference convenes international experts from North America, Russia, Ukraine, and other parts of Eurasia for a series of panel discussions. This hybrid event offers an opportunity to hear from experts on important shifts in international affairs both locally and globally in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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Conference Agenda

9:00 am   Opening Remarks and Coffee

9:00-10:45 am   Panel 1: Russia’s War on Ukraine
Location: Elliott School, Lindner Commons, Room 602
Polina Sinovets, Odesa Mechnikov National University
“The Nuclear Weapons Factor on Interstate Politics in the Russia-Ukraine War” (Published)
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Volodymyr Dubovyk (virtual), Odesa Mechnikov National University
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Tetyana Malyarenko, National University Odesa Law Academy
“The Changing ‘De-facto State Playbook’: From Opportunism to Strategic Calculations” (Published)
Discussant: Melinda Haring, Deputy Director, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council

10:45-11:00 am   Coffee Break

11:00-12:45 pm   Panel 2: Russian Strategies and Consequences
Location: Lindner Commons, Room 602
Susanne Wengle (virtual), University of Notre Dame (co-authored with Vitalii Dankevych, Zhytomyr National Agroecological University, Ukraine)
“Russia’s War on Ukrainian Farms” (Published)
Adam Stulberg, Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)
“Deciphering Russia’s Playbook: Lessons from the Lead Up to Putin’s War in Ukraine”
Mariya Omelicheva, National War College
“United We Stand? How Russia’s ‘Soft’ and ‘Smart’ Power Shaped Countries’ Positions on Moscow’s War in Ukraine”
Maria Snegovaya, Georgetown University
“Fighting Yesterday’s War: Soviet Influences in Putin’s Foreign Policy”
Discussant: Nigel Gould-Davies (virtual), Editor, Strategic Survey; Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia, International Institute for Strategic Studies

12:45-1:45 pm   Lunch

1:45-3:00 pm   Panel 3A: Russia’s War at Home
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Jean-François Ratelle, University of Ottawa
“The North Caucasus and the Russian War in Ukraine”
Margarita Zavadskaya, University of Helsinki, Finland (co-authored with Emil Kamalov, EUI, Italy; Ivetta Sergeeva, EUI, Italy; and Nika Kostenko EUSP, Russia)
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Discussant: William Pomeranz, Director, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center

1:45-3:00 pm   Panel 3B: Central Asia in the Shadow of War
(Breakout Session) Location: Room 505
Emil Dzhuraev, Soros Foundation-Kyrgyzstan
“Putin’s Language of the War and Central Asian Neutrality”
Pauline Jones, University of Michigan, and Regina Smyth, Indiana University
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“What Does Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Mean to Central Asia?”
Discussant: Paul Stronski, Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

3:00-3:15 pm   Coffee Break

3:15-5:00 pm   Panel 4A:  The Caucasus Between Russia’s War and Its Own Conflicts
(Breakout Session) Location: Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
Alexander Iskandaryan, Caucasus Institute, Armenia
“The War in Ukraine and the Reformatting of the Post-Soviet Space”
Sufian Zhemukhov, The George Washington University
“Abkhazian and South Ossetia: Second-order Effects of the Russia-Ukraine War”
Anar Valiyev, ADA University, Azerbaijan
“Two Years After the Karabakh War: Can Azerbaijan and Armenia Reach a Peace Agreement Amidst the Ukrainian Crisis?”
Kornely Kakachia, Georgian Institute of Politics, Georgia, (co-authored with Bidzina Lebanidze, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)
“Georgia at the Crossroads: Paths of Risk and Resilience” (Published)
Discussant: Mary Glantz, Senior Advisor, Russia and Europe Center, US Institute of Peace

3:15-5:00 pm   Panel 4B: Shifting Global Geopolitics
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Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University
“Why the West Is Losing the Global Information War Over Ukraine, and How It Can Be Fixed”
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