The Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia
and the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
cordially invite you to
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The Storming of the US Capitol:
Views from Eurasia
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Thursday, February 4, 2021
10:00 - 11:30 am (EST)
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On January 6, 2021, protestors carried out a violent attack at the US Capitol in an attempt to overturn Donald Trump's defeat in the 2020 United States presidential elections. In this upcoming PONARS Eurasia event, scholars from the United States and Eurasia will explore how the recent storming of the US Capitol was viewed across Eurasia, and what comparisons with Eurasia can teach us about American democracy. |
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Volodymyr Dubovyk is a Professor of International Relations at the Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University in Ukraine. He received his PhD in Political Science and International Relations at Odessa State University. Among his research interests are U.S. foreign policy, US-Ukraine relations, Black Sea regional security, international conflict studies, foreign policy of Ukraine
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Mariya Omelicheva is a Professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College, National Defense University. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Purdue University and JD in International Law from Moscow National Law Academy. Her research interests include international and Eurasian security, counterterrorism and human rights, democracy promotion in the post-Soviet territory, Russia's foreign and security policy, and terrorism/crime nexus in Eurasia. |
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Jessica Pisano is an Associate Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research. Currently, she writes about contemporary and twentieth-century politics and property rights in Eastern Europe. She is also interested in what people in North America can learn from people in Eastern Europe, and wrote a series of articles on impeachment and Ukrainian and Russian politics for the online Washington Post. |
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Edward Schatz is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Acting Director, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto. He is interested primarily in identity politics, social transformations, social movements, anti-Americanism and authoritarianism with a focus on the ex-USSR, and particularly Central Asia. |
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Mikhail Troitskiy is the Dean of the MGIMO School of Government and International Affairs and Associate Professor of International Relations at MGIMO's Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia. His areas of expertise include international security, negotiation theory, Russian foreign policy, Russia’s relations with the neighboring states, the European Union, and the United States. |
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This event is on the record and open to the media. |
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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.
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