Day 1 – Friday, September 23, 2016
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?
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
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
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
Strategic Solidarity: How Central Asia Responds to the Kremlin's Exhortations
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
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
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
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?
