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PONARS Eurasia Policy Conference 2016

  • September 1, 2016
  • PONARS Eurasia
 

September 23-24, 2016

GW Elliott School of International Affairs

1957 E Street NW, Washington, DC

 

Agenda

 


Day 1 – Friday, September 23, 2016

8:30-9:00 am   Registration  (1957 E St. NW, Ground Floor Lobby)

 

9:00-11:00 am   Welcome & Panel 1: Russia’s 2016 Parliamentary Elections

Lindner Commons, Elliott School, 6th Floor

   Vladimir Gel’man, European University at St. Petersburg & University of Helsinki

   Correction of Errors: How the Kremlin Re-equilibrated Authoritarian Elections in 2016

   Tomila Lankina, London School of Economics

   The Kremlin-controlled Media’s Coverage of Protest in Russia and Ukraine

   Nikolay Petrov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

   The End of the Chapter: 2016 State Duma Elections and Political Development

   Regina Smyth, Indiana University

   Russia's 2016-2018 Election Cycle: Popular Engagement and Protest Potential

 

11:00-11:15 am  Coffee Break

 

11:15-1:00 pm   Panel 2A: Russia’s Strategic Outlook

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

   Samuel Charap, International Institute for Strategic Studies

   Russia’s Use of Military Force as a Foreign Policy Tool

   Dmitry Gorenburg, CNA & Harvard University

   Russia's Strategic Calculus

   Mikhail Rykhtik, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod

   Values in Contemporary Foreign Policy: Russian Perspectives

   Mikhail Troitskiy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

   Massaging Egos: Can Status Politics Facilitate US-Russia Cooperation?

 

11:15-1:00 pm   Panel 2B: Economy and Society in Eurasia

State Room, Elliott School, 7th Floor (Breakout session)

   Andrew Barnes, Kent State University

   Beyond the IMF and “Political Will”: The Emerging Political Economy of Ukraine

   Natalie Koch, Syracuse University and Anar Valiyev, Azerbaijan Diplomatic

   Academy, Baku

   Restructuring Extractive Economies in the Caspian Basin: Too Little, too Late?

   Eric McGlinchey, George Mason University

   Succession in Uzbekistan

   Georgi Derluguian, New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD)

   Ending the Post-Soviet Restoration in Armenia

 

1:00-2:00 pm   Lunch Served, 7th floor lobby

 

2:00-3:30 pm   Panel 3A: Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism

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

   George Gavrilis, independent consultant

   Counter-Radicalization Policies in Central Asia: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

   Mariya Omelicheva, University of Kansas

   CSTO and SCO: Stuck on the Old Ways of Dealing with Security Threats

   Ekaterina Stepanova, Institute of the World Economy & International

   Relations (IMEMO), Moscow

   Directions for the US-Russia Cooperation on Countering Violent Extremism

 

2:00-3:30 pm   Panel 3B: Assessing European and Eurasian Partnerships

State Room, Elliott School, 7th Floor (Breakout session)

   Kornely Kakachia, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University & Georgian

   Institute of Politics

   Reluctant Partner: Georgian-German Relations Revisited

   Arkady Moshes, Finnish Institute of International Affairs

   Lukashenko’s ”Drift to the West”: Why Moscow Does Not Need to Be Worried

   Scott Radnitz, University of Washington

   Strategic Solidarity: How Central Asia Responds to the Kremlin's Exhortations

 

3:30-3:45 pm  Coffee Break

 

3:45-5:30 pm   Panel 4: Taking Stock of Ukraine Today

Lindner Commons, Elliott School, 6th Floor

   Mikhail Alexseev, San Diego State University

   A Poisoned Chalice: How the Minsk Accords Destabilize Ukraine

   Volodymyr Dubovyk, Mechnikov National University, Odessa

   Is Ukraine Becoming a Client State of the United States?

   Oleksandr Fisun, Kharkiv National University

   The Changing Nature of Ukrainian Politics

   Volodymyr Kulyk, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv

   Memory and Language: Explaining the Post-Maidan Ukrainian Government’s

   Different Policies on Two Controversial Issues

   Oleksandr Sushko, Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, Kyiv

   Two Years after the First Minsk Agreements: Is There a Way Out of the Deadlock?

 


Day 2 – Saturday, September 24, 2016

8:30-9:00 am   Registration  1957 E St. NW, 6th Floor

 

9:00-10:45 am   Panel 1: Russia’s Foreign Relations

Lindner Commons, Elliott School, 6th Floor

   Pavel Baev, Peace Research Institute Oslo

   Mistrust Sets Low Ceiling for Russia-China Partnership

   Serghei Golunov, Kyushu University

   Russia's Cross-border Cooperation with Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and

   North Korea: China as a Third Force

   Elizabeth Wishnick, Montclair University

   Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming…US-Russia Relations in the Arctic

   Ayşe Zarakol, University of Cambridge

   Turkey and Russia, Erdoğan and Putin

 

10:45-11:00 am   Coffee Break

 

11:00-12:30 pm   Panel 2: Trends in Russian Strategic Approaches

Lindner Commons, Elliott School, 6th Floor

   Sergey Minasyan, Caucasus Institute, Yerevan

   Russian Conventional Deterrence: from Warfighting to Political Strategy

   (There and Back Again?)

   Polina Sinovets, Mechnikov National University, Odessa

   European Missile Defense and Russia: Any Chance for a Dialogue?

   Nikolai Sokov, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

   Emerging Russian Modern Conventional Strike Capability: Implications for Eurasia

 

12:30-1:00 pm   Lunch Served, 6th Floor Lobby

 

1:00-2:45 pm   Panel 3: Political Culture and Identity in Russia

Lindner Commons, Elliott School, 6th Floor

   Theodore Gerber, University of Wisconsin-Madison

   Political and Social Attitudes of Russia’s Muslims: Caliphate, Kadyrovism, or Kasha?

   J. Paul Goode, University of Bath

   Patriotism without Patriots? The Limits of Patriotic Mobilization in Russia

   Mark Kramer, Harvard University

   Public Sentiment in Russia about the Status of Chechnya

   Marlene Laruelle, George Washington University

   The Kremlin’s New Headache: How to Celebrate the 1917 Commemorations?

 

 

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. Policy Memos will be published in full over the next few months. 

 

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

 

 

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