The RES program has extensive experience in organizing and disseminating research on post-Soviet Eurasia. Six years ago SAIS inaugurated the Project on Eurasian Security. The participants in the project seminars include SAIS faculty and students, U.S. officials, journalists, and scholars and diplomats from the region. Participation in the project meetings offers students the opportunity to meet and talk with leading analysts and policymakers. Materials from the meetings are posted on this website. Click here to read seminar working papers. Project Overview The project's three overarching concerns are Russian internal political and economic affairs; relations among Russia and the other post-Soviet states; and security relations with countries beyond the borders of the former USSR. Paper-presenters include both senior academics and younger scholars conducting advanced research on the post-Soviet states. By involving officials and opinion makers in regular exchanges on these broad themes, the project seeks to foster public understanding and helps generate effective U.S. policies toward the countries of Eurasia. Participation in project conferences and other meetings offers SAIS students the opportunity to meet and talk with many leading scholars on the region, as well as with U.S. government officials and diplomats from the countries themselves. The work of the Russian and Eurasian Studies program is complemented by the activities of SAIS's Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, which has become a major clearinghouse for public analysis and discussion of contemporary developments in southern Eurasia. Institute meetings are open to RES students.
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