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PONARS Eurasia Policy Conference 2015

  • September 18, 2015
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September 18-19, 2015 | GW Elliott School of International Affairs | 1957 E Street NW, Washington, DC

 

Agenda

 

Day 1 – Friday, September 18, 2015

 

8:15-8:45 am  Registration (1957 E St. NW, 7th Floor)

 

8:45-10:45 am  Welcome & Panel 1: Ukraine: War and Identity

City View Room, Elliott School 7th Floor

Mikhail Alexseev, San Diego State University

War and Sociopolitical Identities in Ukraine

Volodymyr Duboyvk, Mechnikov National University, Odessa

Odessa: A Local Dimension of Ukraine’s Revolution, Crisis, and Conflict

Volodymyr Kulyk, Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 

One Nation, Two Languages? National Identity and Language Policy in Post-Maidan Ukraine

Kimberly Marten, Barnard College, Columbia University

The Security Costs and Benefits of Non-State Militias: The Example of Eastern Ukraine

Chair: Henry E. Hale, The George Washington University

 

10:45-11:15 am  Coffee Break

 

11:15-1:00 pm  Panel 2A: Ukraine: Reform and Reconstruction

City View Room, Elliott School 7th Floor (Breakout session)

Andrew Barnes, Kent State University

Tenth Time’s a Charm? IMF Loans and Conditionality in Ukraine

Yuriy Matsiyevsky, Ostroh Academy National University (Ukraine)

Breaking Out of Hybridity: Ukraine’s Survival and the Role of the West

Robert Orttung, The George Washington University

Can Ukraine Effectively Fight Corruption? 

Oxana Shevel, Tufts University

Decommunization Laws in Ukraine: Assessing Implementation

Oleksandr Sushko, Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, Kyiv

Ukrainian Reforms after the Euromaidan: Content and Drivers

Chair: Elise Giuliano, Columbia University

 

11:15-1:00 pm  Panel 2B: The Nature of Putinism

Lindner Commons, Elliott School 6th Floor (Breakout session)

Hilary Appel, Claremont McKenna College, and Vladimir Gel’man, European University at St. Petersburg 

Revising Russia’s Economic Model: The Shift from Development to Geopolitics

Scott Gehlbach, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Is Putin’s Popularity Real?

Mark Kramer, Harvard University 

High-Level Corruption in Russia

Nikolay Petrov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Decision-making in Post-Crimean Russia

Brian Taylor, Syracuse University 

The Code of Putinism

Chair: Graeme Robertson, University of North Carolina

 

1:00-2:00 pm  Lunch Break  

 

2:00-3:30 pm  Panel 3A: Security Challenges for Russia and the West

City View Room, Elliott School 7th Floor (Breakout session)

Keith Darden, American University 

Is There a Non-West for Russia to Lead?

Alla Kassianova, Stanford University

US-Russian Lab-to-Lab Nuclear Cooperation: How It Started 25 Years Ago and Why It Matters Now

Ekaterina Stepanova, Institute of the World Economy & International Relations (IMEMO), Moscow

“Islamic State” as a Security Problem for Russia: The Nature, Scale and Limits of the Threat

Chair: Yulia Nikitina, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

 

2:00-3:30 pm  Panel 3B: Power and Conflict in Central Asia

Lindner Commons, Elliott School 6th Floor (Breakout session)

Natalie Koch, Syracuse University

Why There Were No Water Wars: Water Cooperation in Central Asia and Lessons from the Aral Sea Disaster

Eric McGlinchey, George Mason University

Problems of Central Asian Pluralism

Sebastien Peyrouse, The George Washington University

Is Religion Challenging the Legitimacy of the Political Authorities in Uzbekistan?

Chair: Marlene Laruelle, The George Washington University 

 

3:30-3:45 pm  Coffee Break

 

3:45-5:30 pm Panel 4A: Russian Military Power after Ukraine

City View Room, Elliott School 7th Floor (Breakout session)

Pavel Baev, Peace Research Institute Oslo

Russian Air Power is Too Brittle for Brinksmanship

Dmitry Gorenburg, CNA & Harvard University

Russian Naval Shipbuilding: Is It Possible to Fulfill the Grand Expectations?

Sergey Minasyan, Caucasus Institute, Yerevan

“Hybrid” vs. “Compound” War: Lessons from the Ukrainian Crisis   

Polina Sinovets, Mechnikov National University, Odessa

The Nuclear Element in Russia’s Hybrid Warfare

Chair: Ayse Zarakol, University of Cambridge

 

3:45-5:30 pm  Panel 4B: Caught in the EU-Russia Crossfire: Belarus, Caucasus

Lindner Commons, Elliott School 6th Floor (Breakout session)

Andrey Makarychev, University of Tartu (Estonia)

Tête-à-tête with the Kremlin: Georgia’s Insecure Identity vis-à-vis Russia’s Soft Power

Arkady Moshes, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki

Can EU-Belarus Relations Be Reset?

Nona Shahnazarian, Institute for Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia

“Here Is Not Maidan, Here Is Marshall Bagramian”: Understanding the “Electric Yerevan” Movement

Chair: Cory Welt, The George Washington University

 

Day 2 – Saturday, September 19, 2015 

 

8:45-9:15 am  Registration, 1957 E St. NW, Lindner Commons, Elliott School 6th Floor

 

9:15-10:30 am  Panel 1: Ukraine: Politics and War

Oleksandr Fisun, Kharkiv National University 

The Formal and Informal in 2014-2015: Ukraine's Neopatrimonial Democracy

Elise Giuliano, Columbia University

The Origins of Separatism: Popular Grievances in Donetsk and Luhansk

Chair: Cory Welt, The George Washington University

 

10:30-10:45am Coffee Break

 

10:45-12:30 pm  Panel 2: The Ideology of Russian Power    

Ivan Kurilla, European University at St. Petersburg 

New Historical Politics in Russia: From Crimea to Victory Day Celebration and Beyond

Marlene Laruelle, The George Washington University 

Why the Term “Russkii” is Not a Sign of Ethnonationalism

Viatcheslav Morozov, University of Tartu (Estonia)

What is the Meaning of “National” in the Russian Debate about the National Interest?

Sufian Zhemukhov, The George Washington University 

Is There A Link? The 2014 Sochi Olympics and the Annexation of Crimea

Chair: Samuel Greene, King’s College London

 

12:30-2:00 pm  Lunch & Panel 3: Economics and Society

Theodore Gerber, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Housing and Political Grievances in Four Post-Soviet States

Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, King’s College London

Economic Crisis, Regional Finance and Federal Response in Russia

Chair: Regina Smyth, Indiana University

 

 

Please note: Slight changes may be made to the Agenda. Abstracts of the proceedings, based on Policy Memos authored by panelists, will be available at the conference. All Policy Memos will be published in full after the conference.

 

For more information, please contact: ponars@gwu.edu

 


See our recent Policy Memos, many derived from a June 2015 PONARS Eurasia policy workshop in Astana, Kazakhstan.

 

 

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