Events 2012-2013 > Russian and Eurasian Studies
Russian and Eurasian Studies Events AY 2012-2013
12 September 2012
Robert Orttung, Assistant Director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University
"The Putin Regime and the Sochi Olympics - Will the Dark Predictions Come True?"
26 September 2012
Mark Katz, Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason University
"Russian Policy toward the Syrian Crisis – Recipe for Failure?"
3 October 2012
Shannon Ewan, SAIS Alumna, Class of 2009, Nonproliferation Graduate Fellow, Europe Program Manager, National Nuclear Security Administration nonproliferation program
"Life After SAIS: Nonproliferation Graduate Fellowship Program Seeks SAISers"
31 October 2012
Matthew Rojansky, Deputy Director, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
"Skating on Thin Ice: Risks and Rewards for US - Russia Cooperation"
7 November 2012
Lilia Shevtsova, Senior Associate, Moscow Carnegie Center; Associate Fellow, Chatham House (London)
"Russia: The Crisis and Awakening"
28 November 2012
Pavel Khodorkovsky, President, Institute of Modern Russia; Co-founder, Enertiv
"Trade in Your Rights: Russia's Circuitous March to Democracy"
10 December 2012 (Bologna Campus)
Nikolai Petrov, Scholar-in-Residence, Society and Regions Program, Moscow Center, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
"The Fall of Putin's Micromanaged Democracy"
6 February 2013
Nadia Diuk, Vice President of Programs for Europe & Eurasia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, National Endowment for Democracy
"The Next Generation in Russia: Youth as an Agent for Change?"
13 February 2013
Charles Gati, Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute and Professorial Lecturer at SAIS
"Reading the Tea Leaves Again: How Will Obama Deal with Russia and Eastern Europe in His Second Term?"
20 February 2013
Fiona Hill, Director, Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution
"Back to the USSR? Vladimir Putin as Kremlin Operative"
13 March 2013
Marie Mendras, Professor at Sciences Po University, Paris, and Associate Fellow at Chatham House, London
"Authoritarian Russia and European Democracies: A Battle of Wills"
13 March 2013
Sergiy Kudelia, SAIS Ph.D. alum and Assistant Professor of Political Science Department at Baylor University, and Adrian Karatnycky, former president of the Freedom House and currently a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Program on Transatlantic Relations and managing partner of Myrmidon Group LLC
"Ukraine, Past and Future: A Debate"
27 March 2013
Martin Gilman, Director, Centre for Advanced Studies at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation
Martin Gilman has been closely involved with Russian macroeconomic policy for 20 years. At the IMF he worked on Russia for a decade, including several years as head of the IMF's Moscow office. He is the author of a recent book: No Precedent, No Plan: Inside Russia's 1998 Default, published by MIT Press. His analysis of Russian trends in a comparative framework challenges some of the most pervasive myths.
3 April 2013
Celeste Wallander, Associate Professor & Director, International Politics Program, School of International Service at American University; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia
"Russian Security and Defense Policy: Why Russia is NOT stuck in the Cold War, and Why that is a Problem".
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