We invite you to participate in our upcoming PONARS Eurasia Fridays event series. This online panel series will give you the the opportunity to discuss important policy issues with leading and up-and-coming scholars from North America, Russia, Europe, and Eurasia.

Fridays from 10:00-11:30 am US Eastern Time

This Week

Authoritarian Governance and Reform in Russia
Friday, October 9

"How Autocracies Build Regulatory States"
Dinissa Duvanova (Lehigh University)

"Explaining Bad Governance in Russia: Institutions and Incentives"
Vladimir Gel'man (University of Helsinki; European University at Saint Petersburg)

"Digital Technologies and Authoritarian Regimes: A Case of Pothole Management in Moscow"
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova (King's College London)

"What Does 'Health Reform' in Russia Mean, and How Has COVID-19 Changed the Conversation?"
Judyth Twigg (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Hosted on Cisco Webex
Event Number: 120 308 2021
Event Password: PONARS

Upcoming
What's New Under the Sun? Military Affairs in U.S.-Russian Relations
Friday, October 16
Polina Sinovets (Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, Ukraine); Adam Stulberg (Georgia Institute of Technology); Mikhail Troitskiy (Moscow State Institute of International Relations); Dmitry Gorenburg (CNA; Harvard University)
Center-Periphery Politics in Russia: Instability and Adaptation
Friday, October 23
Irina Busygina (Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg); Stephen Crowley
(Oberlin College); Ekaterina Koldunova (Moscow State Institute of International Relations); Andrei Semenov (Perm State University, Russia)
Toward the Rule of Law in Eurasia?
Friday, October 30
David Szakonyi (George Washington University); Emilbek Dzhuraev (OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan); Ivan Gomza (Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine); Maria Popova (McGill University)
Eurasia's Newest Leaders: How Are They Doing?
Friday, November 20
Azamat Junisbai (Pitzer College); Alexander Iskandaryan (Caucasus Institute, Armenia); Oleksandr Fisun (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine); Jennifer Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh)
Shaping a Usable Past: Memory Wars in Russia and Central Europe
Friday, December 4
Alexei Miller (European University at Saint Petersburg); James Richter
(Bates College); Ivan Kurilla (European University at Saint Petersburg); Marlene Laruelle (George Washington University)
Economic Challenges Facing Eurasia in the COVID-19 Era
Friday, December 11
Vladimir Popov (Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute, Berlin); Anar Valiyev (ADA University, Azerbaijan); Peter Rutland (Wesleyan University)
Electoral Authoritarianism in Eurasia: Continuities and Transformations
Friday, December 18
Kirill Rogov (Liberal Mission Foundation, Russia); Nikolay Petrov (Chatham House, London); Danielle Lussier (Grinnell College); Igor Okunev (Moscow State Institute of International Relations)
This event series is on the record and open to the media.
PONARS Eurasia is an international network of scholars advancing new approaches to research on security, politics, economics, and society in Russia and Eurasia. The program is based at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. PONARS Eurasia is supported in part by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.