The PONARS Eurasia Fall Policy Conference will be held online on Friday, September 24, 2021.
Agenda
10:00-11:25 am Welcome & Panel 1: US-Russia Relations
Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University, “US-Russia Relations: Two Blind Men in a Dark Room”
Polina Sinovets, Odessa I. I. Mechnikov University, Ukraine, “Russia’s Foreign and Security Policy: The Evolution of the Escalation Strategy”
Adam Stulberg, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Sanctions & War: Contending Western-Russian Approaches and Prospects for Strategic Stability”
Mikhail Troitskiy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Russia, “Smoke and Mirrors: How Domestic Regime Concerns Made Strategic Stability Meaningless and Why It Still Matters Nevertheless”
Chair: Marlene Laruelle, George Washington University
Discussant: William Pomerantz, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center
11:25-11:30 am Break
11:30 am-12:45 pm Panel 2: Shifting Patterns in Grand Geopolitics
Pavel Baev, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway “The Arctic Test for Russia’s ‘Stable and Predictable’ Policy”
Alexander Iskandaryan, Caucasus Institute, Armenia, “The Epoch of Regional Powers: Why Russia Lost and Turkey Won in Nagorno-Karabakh”
Irina Kobrinskaya, Primakov’s National Research Institute of World Economy & International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO), Russia, “Russian Strategy in Greater Eurasia: between the European Union and China”
Elizabeth Wishnick, Montclair State University, “The Collapse of the Afghan Government Provides a Challenge for China and Russia, Not a Windfall”
Chair: Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University
Discussant: Angela Stent, Georgetown School of Foreign Service; Brookings Institution
12:45-1:15 pm Lunch/Dinner
1:15-2:30 pm Panel 3A: Russian Foreign and Security Policy (Breakout Session)
Irina Busygina, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia, “Russia and Its Two ‘Shared Neighborhoods’”
Arkady Moshes, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland, “Forever Together: Relations between Moscow and Minsk after the Belarusian Revolution of 2020”
Mariya Omelicheva, National War College, National Defense University, “COVID-19 ‘Humanitarianism’: the Geopolitics of Russia’s Coronavirus Assistance”
Dmitry Gorenburg, Harvard University; CNA, “Russia’s Foreign Military Basing Strategy”
Chair: Elizabeth Wishnik, Montclair State University
Discussant: William H. Hill, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center; Former Professor of National Security Strategy, National War College
1:15-2:30 pm Panel 3B: Conflicts (Breakout Session)
Richard Arnold, Muskingum University, “The Role of Cossacks in Frozen Conflicts”
Tetyana Malyarenko, National University Odessa Law Academy, Ukraine, “Transnistria Writ Large? The DPR and LPR in the Context of Russia’s Coercive Diplomacy in its Near Abroad”
Eric McGlinchey, George Mason University, Shairbek Dzhuraev, Crossroads Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, “Identifying the Drivers of Cross-Border Conflicts between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan”
Anar Valiyev, ADA University, Azerbaijan, “Karabakh After the 44 Day War: Russian Peacekeepers and Patterns”
Chair: Henry Hale, George Washington University
Discussant: Samuel Charap, Rand Corporation
2:30-2:45 pm Break
2:45-4:00 pm Panel 4: U.S. Policy in Ukraine and Central Asia
Mikhail Alexseev, San Diego State University, “U.S. Policy toward Ukraine: What Wins Hearts and Minds?”
Volodymyr Dubovyk, Odessa I. I. Mechnikov University, Ukraine, “Partnership Framework and Sources of Friction: U.S.-Ukraine Relations in the Times of Biden-Zelenskiy”
Sebastien Peyrouse, George Washington University, Emil Nasritdinov, American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, “Understanding the Emerging Role of the Muslim Civil Society in Central Asia”
Oleksandr Sushko, International Renaissance Foundation, Ukraine, “Anti-Western Isolationism in Ukraine: A Viable Political Option?”
Chair: Irina Busygina, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia
Discussant: Melinda Haring, Atlantic Council
ZOOM Meeting Link:
https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/j/92058099258?pwd=ZkRaNHo3WEVrVS8xMDdVaUxiQ2h2UT09
ZOOM Meeting Link for Panel 3B:
https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/j/92436639213?pwd=SUc1cGt5OUw5eEJ4ZWdleVRRWWZ1QT09
