RES Events
Lectures and Events AY 2012-2013 Sept. 12, 2012Robert 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?" Sept. 26. 2012Mark Katz, Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason University . "
Russian Policy toward the Syrian Crisis – Recipe for Failure?" Oct. 3, 2012Shannon 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 ". Oct 31, 2012Matthew Rojansky, Deputy Director, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
"Skating on Thin Ice: Risks and Rewards for U.S.-Russia Cooperation" Nov. 7, 2012Lilia Shevtsova, Senior Associate, Moscow Carnegie Center; Associate Fellow, Chatham House (London). "
Russia: The Crisis and Awakening" Nov. 28, 2012Pavel Khodorkovsky, President, Institute of Modern Russia; Co-founder, Enertiv.
"Trade in Your Rights: Russia's Circuitous March to Democracy". [U:\Academic\Classroom\R812\1_Fall_2012] The title of the video is: [2012_11_28_Trade in Your Rights Russia's Circuitous March to Democracy.
Feb. 6, 2013Nadia 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?" Feb. 13, 2013Charles 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?"
https://128.220.242.235/portal/views/media/extPlayRequest.jsf?mediaId=26482&type=false&fileId=26500&locale=en_us Feb. 20, 2013Fiona Hill, Director, Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution. "Back to the USSR? Vladimir Putin as Kremlin Operative".
http://youtu.be/hGY8nHzKYNY March 13, 2013Marie Mendras, Professor at Sciences Po University, Paris, and Associate Fellow at Chatham House, London.
"Authoritarian Russia and European Democracies: A Battle of Wills". March 13, 2013"
Ukraine, Past and Future: A Debate". 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.
March 27, 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.
April 3, 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".
The following events were held in Bologna:
Nikolai Petrov from Carnegie Moscow spoke on "The Fall of Putin's Micromanaged Democracy" on December 10, 2012. You can find the summary, 3-question video interview and full audio here: http://www.jhubc.it/BIPR/seminarreportsall.cfm (search Petrov). Otherwise if you are just looking for the short video interview here is the direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZWsZJQVPnM&feature=youtu.be
Andrew Weiss on "Russia and the Crisis in Syria". Weiss is Director of the RAND Center for Russia and Eurasia and former member of the National Security Council Staff in the Clinton administration. The event was part of our spring seminar series on "Europe and the Arab Spring". Here is the video of that event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCBaNhC2KuE&feature=youtu.beù.
Click on the links below for previous years' events: