INVITATION: PONARS Eurasia Annual Fall Policy Conference 2021

PONARS Eurasia Annual Fall Policy Conference 2021

We hope you will join us at our Fall Policy Conference on

Friday, September 24, 2021

This online event will give you an opportunity to discuss important

policy issues with leading and up-and-coming scholars from

North America, Russia, Europe, and Eurasia.

10:00-11:25 am: Welcome & Panel 1: US-Russia Relations

Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University, Mikhail Rykhtik, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, Polina Sinovets, Odessa Mechnikov National University, Ukraine, Adam Stulberg, Georgia Institute of Technology, Mikhail Troitskiy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Russia

11:30 am-12:45 pm: Panel 2: Shifting Patterns in Grand Geopolitics

Pavel Baev, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway, Alexander Iskandaryan, Caucasus Institute, Armenia, Irina Kobrinskaya, National Research Institute of World Economy & International Relations (IMEMO), Russia, Elizabeth Wishnick, Montclair State University

1:15-2:30 pm: Panel 3A: Russian Foreign and Security Policy (A)

Irina Busygina, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia, Arkady Moshes, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland, Mariya Omelicheva, National War College, National Defense University, Dmitry Gorenburg, CNA and Harvard University

1:15-2:30 pm: Panel 3B: Conflicts (B)

Richard Arnold, Muskingum University, Tetyana Malyarenko, National University Odessa Law Academy, Ukraine, Eric McGlinchey, George Mason University, Shairbek Dzhuraev, Crossroads Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, Anar Valiyev, ADA University, Azerbaijan

2:45-4:00 pm: Panel 4: U.S. Policy in Ukraine and Central Asia

Mikhail Alexseev, San Diego State University, Volodymyr Dubovyk, Odessa Mechnikov National University, Ukraine, Sebastien Peyrouse, George Washington University, Oleksandr Sushko, International Renaissance Foundation, Ukraine

Friday, September 24, 2021

10:00 am - 4:00 pm (Online)

Agenda & Registration

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.