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PONARS Strategic Conversations
May 13th, 2024 | In-Person
Nargis Kassenova, Eric McGlinchey, Mariya Omelicheva, and Ryhor Nyzhnikau
The Effect of Sanctions on Russia’s Natural Resources Revenues after February 2022
NEW VOICES ON EURASIA
April 9th, 2024 | Hybrid
Delgerjargal Uvsh, University of Texas at Austin
PONARS 2024 Virtual Spring Policy Conference
March 29, 2024 | Online
Marlene Laruelle, Andrei Semenov, Liubov Chernysheva, Vsevolod Bederson, William Hill, Ivan U. Klyszcz, Bidzina Lebanidze, Oleksandra Keudel, Mikhail Alexseev, Hilary Appel, Madeline Dornfeld, Gene Fishel, Danielle Lussier, Kornely Kakachia, Peter Rutland, Ivan U. Klyszcz, Eric McGlinchey, Hilary Appel, David Szakonyi, Anton Shirikov, Danielle Lussier, Maria Snegovaya, Graeme Robertson, Peter Pomerantsev, Irina Busygina, Mikhail Filippov, Mary Glantz
PONARS Strategic Conversations
March 19th, 2024 | In-Person
Olga Oliker, Crisis Group
Samuel Charap, RAND Corporation
Chechen Demographic Growth as an Indicator of Unresolved Conflict
NEW VOICES ON EURASIA
March 5, 2024 | Hybrid
Marat Iliyasov, Miami University, OH
The Electoral Effects of Decentralization: Evidence from Ukraine
NEW VOICES ON EURASIA
February 13, 2024 | Hybrid
Anastasiia Vlasenko, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
NEW VOICES ON EURASIA
January 23, 2024 | Hybrid
Emma Mateo, Columbia University
Belarus at War: Domestic Crisis and Relations with Russia
NEW VOICES ON EURASIA
November 16, 2023 | In-Person
Ryhor Nizhnikau, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
PONARS Eurasia Fall Policy Conference
October 30, 2023 | In-Person
David Szakonyi, Henry Hale, Polina Sinovets, Kristina Hook, Tetyana Malyarenko, Uliana Movchan, Melinda Haring, Marlene Laruelle, Peter Rutland, Volodymyr Ishchenko, Ilya Matveev, Oleg Zhuravlev, Marat Iliyasov, Margarita Zavadskaya, Hannah Chapman, Alexander Iskandaryan, Ryhor Nizhnikau, Mikhail Troitskiy, William Hill, Edward Holland, Natalia Forrrat, Katie Stewart, Irina Busygina, Richard Arnold, Miriam Lanskoy
Opportunities and Constraints for Russian Activists-in-Exile After Russia’s 2022 Invasion of Ukraine
NEW VOICES ON EURASIA
October 5, 2023 | Online & In-Person
Elizabeth Plantan, Stetson University
Political Reforms and Transitional Justice for Postwar Russia
NEW VOICES ON EURASIA
September 27, 2023 | Online & In-Person
Mikhail Turchenko, Indiana University
Civil Society and Ukrainian Resilience: A Discussion with Ambassador John E. Herbst
September 22, 2023 | Online & In-Person
Amb. John E. Herbst, Cornell University
Moderator: Sarah Wilson Sokhey, University of Colorado Boulder
A Rock and a Hard Place: The Russian Opposition in a Time of War
NEW VOICES ON EURASIA
April 11, 2023 | Online & In-Person
Jeremy Vogel, Cornell University
NEW VOICES ON EURASIA
March 9, 2023 | Online & In-Person
Sasha de Vogel, Harvard University
PONARS Eurasia Spring Policy Conference
March 3, 2023 | Online & In-Person
David Szakonyi, Henry Hale, Tymofii Brik, Oleksandr Fisun, Ivan Gomza, Tetyana Malyarenko, Borys Kormych, Michael Keays, Mikhail Troitskiy, Hannah Chapman, Emil Dzhuraev, Cole Harvey, Valerie Sperling, Laura Henry, Margarita Zavadskaya, Heather Ashby, Timothy Frye, Kristina Hook, Marat Iliyasov, Jean-François Ratelle, Andrei Semenov, Miriam Lanskoy, Marlene Laruelle, Antonina Berezovenko, Ivan Fomin, Ivan Grek, Azamat Junisbai, Katie Stewart, Eva Busza
Ukrainathon | 24 Hours of Expert Lectures Related to the Invasion
February 24-25, 2023 | Online
A Year Living Dangerously: Dynamics of Ukraine-U.S. Wartime Relations
February 17, 2023 | Online & In-Person
Volodymyr Dubovyk, Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University (Ukraine)
NEW VOICES ON EURASIA
February 9, 2023 | Online & In-Person
Volha Charnysh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pro-Kremlin Propaganda’s Failure in Ukraine: Evidence and Lessons Learned
NEW VOICES ON EURASIA
January 19, 2023 | Online & In-Person
Aaron Erlich, McGill University
Winter Worries: Impending Concerns for Ukraine’s Civilians
November 15, 2022 | Online & In-Person
Ambassador Daniel V. Speckhard
Sean Roberts, George Washington University
Roundtable Discussion: Cultural & Heritage-Led Postwar Reconstruction of Donbas
November 8, 2022 | Online & In-Person
Victoria Donovan, University of St Andrews
Iryna Sklokina, Center for Urban History, Lviv, Ukraine
Stephen Crowley, Oberlin College
Sophie Lambroschini, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany
Sofia Dyak, Center for Urban History, Lviv, Ukraine
Marlene Laruelle, George Washington University
Volodymyr Kulikov, University of Texas at Austin
The Moscow Factor: U.S. Policy toward Sovereign Ukraine and the Kremlin
BOOK PRESENTATION
October 19, 2022 | Online & In-Person
Eugene Fishel, George Mason University
The Kremlin’s Echo Chambers: Why Russians Trust Propaganda and Reject Independent Media
NEW VOICES ON EURASIA
October 12, 2022 | Online & In-Person
Anton Shirikov, Columbia University
Is the War on Message? Political Communication in Russia Before and After February
NEW VOICES ON EURASIA
October 6, 2022 | Online & In-Person
Maria Sidorkina, University of Texas at Austin
PONARS Eurasia Fall Policy Conference
September 30, 2022 | Online & In-Person
Polina Sinovets, Olexiy Haran, Volodymyr Dubovyk, Tetyana Malyarenko, Melinda Haring, Susanne Wengle, Adam Stulberg, Mariya Omelicheva, Maria Snegovaya, Nigel Gould-Davies, Jean-François Ratelle, Margarita Zavadskaya, Ivan Kurilla, William Pomeranz, Emil Dzhuraev, Pauline Jones, Regina Smyth, Shairbek Dzhuraev, Eric McGlinchey, Paul Stronski, Alexander Iskandaryan, Sufian Zhemukhov, Anar Valiyev, Kornely Kakachia, Mary Glantz, Peter Rutland, Ryhor Nizhnikau, Mark Kramer, Pavel Baev, Hilary Appel, Ambassador Eric Rubin
Between the EU and Russia: Domains of Diversity and Contestation
April 29-30, 2022 | Online & In-Person
In partnership with the BEAR Network
Event Recording | Policy Briefs
The View from the South: The War from a Central Asian and Caucasian Perspective
March 28, 2022 | Online
Kornely Kakachia, Georgian Institute of Politics; Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Alexander Iskandaryan, Caucasus Institute
Anar Valiyev, ADA University
Shairbek Juraev, Crossroads Central Asia
Caress Schenk, Nazarbayev University
PONARS Eurasia Spring Policy Conference
“Domestic Politics in the Shadow of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine”
March 25, 2022 | Online & In-Person
Serhiy Kudelia, Volodymyr Kulyk, Mikhail Alexseev, Olga Onuch, Marat Iliyasov, Scott Radnitz, Henry Hale, Olga Iakimova, Sarah Wilson Sokhey, Theodore Gerber, Samuel Greene, Yulia Khalikova, Katie Stewart, Richard Arnold, Kirill Melnikov, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Maria Snegovaya, Azamat Junisbai, Dinissa Duvanova, Irina Busygina, Stephen Crowley, Robert Orttung, Andrei Semenov
Ukrainathon | 24 Hours of Expert Lectures Related to the Invasion
March 16-17, 2022 | Online
Ukrainian Perspectives on the Current US-Ukraine-Russia Crisis
February 4, 2022 | Online
Volodymyr Dubovyk, Mechnikov National University, Odessa
Sergiy Kudelia, Baylor University
Tetyana Malyarenko, National University Odessa Law Academy; Uppsala Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Olexiy Haran, Democratic Initiatives Foundation; Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Oxana Shevel, Tufts University
Video: Presentation
Ukrainian Scholars Discuss Current Crisis with Russia (C-SPAN; GW Today; Elliott 360)
Statecraft in US-Russia Relations
November 10, 2021 | Online
Workshop with MGIMO on the special issue of International Trends
Andrey Baykov, Adam Stulberg, Mikhail Troitskiy, Anne Vigneau, Igor Istomin, Camilla Pagani, Michael Reynolds, Samuel Charap
Video: Presentation
PONARS Eurasia Fall Policy Conference
September 24, 2021 | Online
Peter Rutland, Polina Sinovets, Adam Stulberg, Mikhail Troitskiy, William Pomerantz, Pavel Baev, Alexander Iskandaryan, Irina Kobrinskaya, Elizabeth Wishnick, Peter Rutland, Angela Stent, Irina Busygina, Arkady Moshes, Mariya Omelicheva, Dmitry Gorenburg, William H. Hill, Richard Arnold, Tetyana Malyarenko, Eric McGlinchey, Shairbek Dzhuraev, Anar Valiyev, Samuel Charap, Mikhail Alexseev, Volodymyr Dubovyk, Sebastien Peyrouse, Oleksandr Sushko, Melinda Haring
Agenda | Video: Presentations
Europe in Illiberal Worlds and Illiberal Worlds in Europe
Academic Workshop
June 5, 2021 | Online
With the Centre for Eurasian and Russian Studies (CEURUS), University of Tartu, Estonia
Eurasia’s Newest Leaders: How Are They Doing?
April 9, 2021 | Online
Olexiy Haran, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy
Alexander Iskandaryan, Caucasus Institute
Azamat K. Junisbai, Pitzer College
Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, University of Pittsburgh
Launch of New PONARS Eurasia Website & Online Academy Videos
March 2, 2021
Electoral Authoritarianism in Eurasia: Continuities and Transformations
PONARS Eurasia Fridays
December 18, 2020 | Online
Kirill Rogov, Liberal Mission Foundation, Russia
Nikolay Petrov, Chatham House, London
Danielle Lussier, Grinnell College
Igor Okunev, Moscow State Institute of International Relations
Economic Challenges Facing Eurasia in the COVID-19 Era
PONARS Eurasia Fridays
December 11, 2020 | Online
Vladimir Popov, Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute, Berlin
Anar Valiyev, ADA University, Azerbaijan
Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University
Shaping a Usable Past: Memory Wars in Russia and Central Europe
PONARS Eurasia Fridays
December 4, 2020 | Online
Alexei Miller, European University at Saint Petersburg
James Richter, Bates College
Ivan Kurilla, European University at Saint Petersburg
Marlene Laruelle, George Washington University
Eurasia’s Newest Leaders: How Are They Doing?
PONARS Eurasia Fridays
November 20, 2020 | Online
Azamat Junisbai, Pitzer College
Alexander Iskandaryan, Caucasus Institute, Armenia
Oleksandr Fisun, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine
Jennifer Murtazashvili, University of Pittsburgh
Toward the Rule of Law in Eurasia?
PONARS Eurasia Fridays
October 30, 2020 | Online
David Szakonyi, George Washington University
Emilbek Dzhuraev, OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Ivan Gomza, Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine
Maria Popova, McGill University
Center-Periphery Politics in Russia: Instability and Adaptation
PONARS Eurasia Fridays
October 23, 2020 | Online
Stephen Crowley, Oberlin College
Ekaterina Koldunova, Moscow State Institute of International Relations
Andrei Semenov, Perm State University, Russia
Irina Busygina, Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg
What’s New Under the Sun? Nuclear and Military Affairs in US-Russian Relations
PONARS Eurasia Fridays
October 16, 2020 | Online
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
Authoritarian Governance and Reform in Russia
PONARS Eurasia Fridays
October 9, 2020 | Online
Dinissa Duvanova, Lehigh University
Vladimir Gel’man, European University at Saint Petersburg; University of Helsinki
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, King’s College London
Judyth Twigg, Virginia Commonwealth University
Challenges Facing Ukraine in Domestic and International Politics
PONARS Eurasia Fridays
October 2, 2020 | Online
Elise Giuliano, Columbia University
Sergiy Kudelia, Baylor University
Oxana Shevel, Tufts University
Oleksandr Sushko, International Renaissance Foundation, Ukraine
Mikhail Alexseev, San Diego State University
Russia’s Foreign Policy: Soft, Hard, Smart Power
PONARS Eurasia Fridays
September 25, 2020 | Online
Maria Snegovaya, Virginia Tech
Alexandra Yatsyk, University of Tartu, Estonia
Pavel Baev, Peace Research Institute Oslo
Kimberly Marten, Barnard College, Columbia University
How Has COVID-19 Impacted Regime Legitimacy in Eurasia?
PONARS Eurasia Fridays
September 18, 2020 | Online
Pauline Jones, University of Michigan
Sarah Wilson Sokhey, University of Colorado, Boulder
Henry Hale, George Washington University
Volodymyr Kulyk, National Academy of Science, Ukraine
Olga Onuch, University of Manchester
Gwendolyn Sasse, Center for East European and International Studies, Berlin
Black Lives Matter: Reverberations in Eurasia
PONARS Eurasia Fridays
September 4, 2020 | Online
Volodymyr Dubovyk, Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, Ukraine
Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon, University of Pennsylvania
Viatcheslav Morozov, University of Tartu, Estonia
State Responses to COVID-19 in Eurasia: What Have We Learned?
PONARS Eurasia Fridays
August 28, 2020 | Online
Mariya Omelicheva, National War College, National Defense University
Lawrence Markowitz, Rowan University
Yulia Nikitina, Moscow State Institute of International Relations
Robert Orttung, George Washington University
Ekaterina Schulmann, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences
PONARS Eurasia Members’ Pandemic Workshop #3
June 19, 2020 | Online
The Russian Power Vertical and the COVID-19 Challenge: The Trajectories of Regional Responses
May 29, 2020 | Online
Regina Smyth, Indiana University
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, King’s College London
Timothy Model, Miami University
Tracing Russia’s (Post-pandemic) Future: Public Opinion and the Crisis of Late Putinism
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
May 27, 2020 | Online
Aleksandar Matovski, Williams College
PONARS Eurasia Members’ Pandemic Workshop #2
May 22, 2020 | Online
PONARS Eurasia Members’ Pandemic Workshop #1
May 1, 2020 | Online
Order After Conflict: The State, Custom, and Sharia in Post-War Chechnya
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
April 23, 2020 | Online
Egor Lazarev, Yale University
PONARS Eurasia Spring Policy Conference
POLICY CONFERENCE
March 27, 2020 | Washington, D.C.
Postponed / Cancelled | Draft Agenda
Thieves, Opportunists, and Bureaucrats: Authoritarian Foundations of the Russian Regulatory State
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
February 27, 2020 | Washington, D.C.
Dinissa Duvanova, Lehigh University
Public-Private Partnership and Russia’s Vocational Education Revolution
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
January 30, 2020 | Washington, D.C.
Israel Marques, Higher School of Economics in Moscow
Levers of Power: Russia’s Domination of the Global Nuclear Reactor Market
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
December 5, 2019 | Washington, D.C.
Emily Holland, United States Naval Academy
Social Media and Russian Disinformation Operations
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
November 14, 2019 | Washington, D.C.
Steven Wilson, University of Nevada
PONARS Eurasia Annual Conference 2019
POLICY CONFERENCE
September 12-13, 2019 | Washington, D.C.
Language and Seperatism in Eurasia: Survey Results from Two Post-Soviet Regions
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
May 7, 2019 | Washington, D.C.
Kyle Marquardt, University of Gothenburg
Video: Presentation
Local Control and Worldwide Access:How Russian Elites Have Come to Use the Global Financial System to Defend Their Wealth
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
April 17, 2019 | Washington, D.C.
Igor Logvinenko, Wellesley College
Video: Presentation
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
April 12, 2019 | Washington, D.C.
David Szakonyi, Jordan Gans-Morse, Sarah Wilson Sokhey, Igor Logvinenko, Hannah Chapman, Ora John Reuter, Yuval Weber, Lauren McCarthy, Emily Holland, Jean-Francois Ratelle, Egor Lazarev, Kyle Marquardt
Soft Power and Media Effects in Russia’s Near Abroad
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
March 28, 2019 | Washington, D.C.
Hannah Chapman, Miami University (Ohio)
Video: Presentation
ACADEMIC WORKSHOP
March 14-15, 2019 | St. Petersburg, Russia
With the Higher School of Economics (HSE) and the European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP)
The Politics of Information Manipulation: State-Controlled Media in Russia
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
February 27, 2019 | Washington, D.C.
Arturas Rozenas, NYU
Video: Presentation
Russia in 2019: What Lies Ahead?
POLICY WORKSHOP
February 1, 2019 | Washington, D.C.
David Szakonyi, Brian Taylor, Nikolay Petrov, Kirill Rogov, Marlene Laruelle, Maria Lipman, Henry Hale, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Andrey Makarychev, Kelly McMann, Sarah Wilson Sokhey, Judyth Twigg, Wayne Merry, Kelly McMann, Nigel Gould-Davies, Irina Busygina, Anders Aslund, Ivan Kurilla, Dmitry Gorenburg, Robert Orttung, Jesse Driscoll, Christopher Walker
Video: Panel 1: Russia in 2019: Putin’s Fourth Term
The Loyal Middle Class of Putin’s Russia
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
January 17, 2019 | Washington, D.C.
Bryn Rosenfeld, University of Southern California
Video: Presentation
Cracking the Nest Egg: Reversing Pension Reforms in Russia
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
November 28, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Sarah Wilson Sokhey, University of Colorado Boulder
Political Developments in Russia in 2018 and Prospects for the Next Five Years
IERES-PONARS EURASIA EVENT
November 10, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Nikolay Petrov, Higher School of Economics
Building States and Nations in Turbulent Contexts
POLICY WORKSHOP
November 8-9, 2018 | Yerevan, Armenia
Video: Keynote Address by Georgi Derluguian, NYU Abu Dhabi: “The Armenian Anomaly”
Russian Extremism and the Forms of Ethnic Violence
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
October 23, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Richard Arnold, Muskingum University
Video: Presentation
PONARS Eurasia Annual Conference 2018
POLICY CONFERENCE
September 21, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Videos | Agenda | Biographies & Topics
The Sources of Russia’s Economic Durability and the Kremlin’s Economic Strategy
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
September 12, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Chris Miller, Tufts University
Video: Presentation
From Triumph to Crisis: Neoliberal Economic Reform in Postcommunist Countries
BOOK LAUNCH
September 6, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Hilary Appel, Claremont McKenna College
Mitchell A. Orenstein, University of Pennsylvania
Video: Presentation
POLICY CONFERENCE
May 10, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Keith Darden, Dauren Aben, Polina Sinovets, Mikhail Troitskiy
Videos: Panel 1 and Keynote Lecture by Andrei Kozyrev
Why Control Immigration? Strategic Uses of Migration Management in Russia
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
May 1, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Caress Schenk, Nazarbayev University, Astana
Video: Presentation
Russia’s Challenge: A Declining Power’s Quest for Status
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
April 19, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Andrej Krickovic, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Video: Presentation
Conflict, Contestation, and Peacebuilding in Eurasia
ACADEMIC WORKSHOP
March 23-24, 2018 | London, U.K.
Co-sponsored by LSE and King’s College London
How Capital Inflows Transformed Rural Russia
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
March 1, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Susanne Wengle, University of Notre Dame
Video: Presentation
Assessing the Terrorist Threat in Russia After the Islamic State
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
February 13, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Jean-François Ratelle, University of Ottawa
Video: Presentation
Any Hopes or Changes From Russia’s Next Presidential Election?
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
January 18, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Yuval Weber, Woodrow Wilson Center; Davis Center; HSE
Video: Presentation
Tug of War: Negotiating Security in Eurasia
BOOK LAUNCH
January 5, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Mikhail Troitskiy, MGIMO; EUSP
Video: Presentation
Property Rights in Post-Soviet Russia: Violence, Corruption, and the Demand for Law
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
November 27, 2018 | Washington, D.C.
Jordan Gans-Morse, Northwestern University
Video: Presentation
U.S.-Russian Relations One Year After The U.S. Election
POLICY CONFERENCE
November 8, 2017 | New York City
Co-sponsored by the NYU-Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia
Video: Presentations (4)
See: Policy Perspectives Booklet
Mass Repression and Political Loyalty: A Dual Legacy of Stalin’s Famine in Ukraine
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
October 12, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Yuri Zhukov, University of Michigan
Regime Stability and Elite Corruption in Putin’s Russia
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
September 26, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
David Szakonyi, George Washington University
PONARS Eurasia Annual Conference
September 14, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Gala: 20th Anniversary of PONARS Eurasia!
See: Policy Perspectives Booklets
Ukrainian Politics in Comparative Perspective
ACADEMIC WORKSHOP
June 22-23, 2017 | Karazin National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
State-Business Relations in Putin’s Russia
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
June 9, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Stanislav Markus, USC
Video: Pesentation
Political Participation in Russia: Can Putin Be Constrained?
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
May 23, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Danielle N. Lussier, Grinnell College
Communism’s Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes
BOOK LAUNCH
May 22, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Grigore Pop-Eleches, Princeton University
Joshua A. Tucker, New York University
Regina D. Faranda (Discussant), U.S. Department of State
Steven A. Grant (Discussant), U.S. Information Agency
Rethinking Russian Media Strategy and Influence
ACADEMIC WORKSHOP
April 28, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Samuel Greene, King’s College London
Theodore Gerber and Hannah Chapman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tomila Lankina, LSE
Marlene Laruelle, GWU
Chair: Peter Rollberg, GWU
Workshop Panels & Abstracts: Day 1 (April 28) | Day 2 (April 29)
The Fragmentation of the Global Economy and U.S.-Russia Relations
April 24, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Co-sponsored by the Working Group on the Future of U.S.-Russia Relations
Rawi Abdelal, Harvard University
Igor Makarov, HSE
Elections and Authoritarianism in Putin’s Russia
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
April 20, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Ora John Reuter, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Historical Memory and Politics in Russia 100 Years after the Revolution
April 6, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Ivan Kurilla, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia
The Police and the Public in Russia Today
NEW VOICES ON RUSSIA
March 29, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Lauren McCarthy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post Soviet Eurasia
February 14, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Samuel Charap, International Institute for Strategic Studies
Timothy J. Colton, Harvard University (by skype)
Priests of Prosperity: How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World
BOOK LAUNCH
January 23, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Juliet Johnson, McGill University & EU Centre of Excellence-Montreal
EU-Eurasian Relations at the Crossroads
POLICY CONFERENCE
December 1-2, 2016 | Montreal, Canada
Co-sponsored by the European Union Center of Excellence, McGill University
See: Policy Perspectives Booklet
Beyond the Euromaidan: Comparative Perspectives onAdvancing Reform in Ukraine
ELLIOTT SCHOOL BOOK LAUNCH SERIES
October 11, 2016 | Washington, D.C.
Henry E. Hale and Robert Orttung, George Washington University
PONARS Eurasia Annual Conference
POLICY CONFERENCE
September 23-24, 2016 |Washington, D.C.
Video: Russia’s 2016 Parliamentary Elections
Video: Economy and Society in Eurasia
Video: Political Culture and Identity in Russia
See: Agenda, Abstract & Bios Booklet
April 5, 2016 | Washington, D.C.
Arkady Moshes, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
Audio: Presentation
The Life and Legacy of Boris Nemtsov
March 8, 2016 | Washington, D.C.
Henry E. Hale, GWU
Andrey Makarychev, University of Tartu
Robert Orttung, GWU
Video: Presentation by Henry E. Hale
Video: Presentation by Andrey Makarychev
Video: Voice of America (“Настоящее Время”) Segment
Trends in Russian Public Opinion Under Putin: New Findings
February 22, 2016 | Washington, D.C.
Theodore P. Gerber, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Henry E. Hale, GWU
William Mishler, University of Arizona
William Reisinger, University of Iowa
The Disappearing Shadow of Local Democracy in Russia
February 8, 2016 | Washington, D.C.
Ivan Kurilla, European University at St. Petersburg
Pavel Kononenko, St. Petersburg State University
Audio: Presentation
Russia in International Affairs
February 4-6, 2016 | Istanbul, Turkey”
Special Event: “Making Sense of Russia’s Syria Intervention” at the
Hollings Center for International Dialogue, Istanbul (February 5, 2016)
The U.S. and Russian Interventions in Syria: Room forCooperation or Prelude to Greater Conflict?
January 28, 2016 | Washington, D.C.
Co-sponsored by the Working Group on the Future of U.S.-Russia Relations
Yoshiko Herrera, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Andrew Kydd, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Fyodor Lukyanov (by Skype), Russian in Global Affairs; Council on Foreign and Defense Policy
Audio: Presentation
European Identity as Cultural Strategy: Countering Russia in the Post-Soviet Borderlands of Ukraine, Georgia, and Estonia
December 2, 2015 | Washington, D.C.
Alexandra Yatsyk, Kazan Federal University
Audio: Presentation
Putin and Putinism Two Years after Euromaidan
November 24, 2015 | Washington, D.C.
Nikolay Petrov, Center for Political-Geographic Research
Brian Taylor, Syracuse University
C-SPAN: Presentation
Russia’s Emerging Conventional Long-Range Capability and the INF Treaty
October 28, 2015 | Washington, D.C.
Co-sponsored by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Nikolai Sokov, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Video: Presentation
Authoritarian Russia: Analyzing Post-Soviet Regime Changes
September 22, 2015 | Washington, D.C.
Vladimir Gel’man, European University at St. Petersburg
Video: Presentation
PONARS Eurasia Annual Policy Conference
POLICY CONFERENCE
September 18-19, 2015 | Washington, D.C.
Video: Ukraine: War and Identity – Part One
Video: Ukraine: War and Identity – Part Two
Video: Nature of Putinism
Video: Ukraine: Reform and Reconstruction
Video: Russian Military Power After Ukraine
Video: Caught in the EU-Russia Crossfire: Belarus, Caucasus
Video: Power and Conflict in Central Asia
Video: Ukraine: Politics and War
Video: Economics and Society
Understanding Opposition in Russia: Sources and Structures of Authoritarian Rule and Resistance
September 17, 2015 | Washington, D.C.
Video: Presentation
Security and Regional Integration in Eurasia
June 14-17, 2015 | Astana, Kazakhstan
Policy Memo Book: Eurasian Visions: Integration and Geopolitics in Central Asia
War, State, and Society in Ukraine
May 18, 2015 | Washington, D.C.
Dominique Arel, University of Ottawa
Keith Darden, American University
Georgi Derluguian, New York University Abu Dhabi
Comparative Political Development in Post-Soviet Eurasia and the Middle East
POLICY CONFERENCE
December 8-10, 2014 | Abu Dhabi, UAE
PONARS Eurasia Annual Conference
POLICY CONFERENCE
September 22-23, 2014 | Washington, D.C.
Policy Memo Book: Policy Perpectives
Political Economy of Russia and Eurasia
WORKSHOP
May 30-31, 2014 | Washington, D.C.
Pluralism by Default: Weak Autocrats and the Rise of Competitive Politics
BOOK INCUBATOR
May 1, 2014 | Washington, D.C.
Nationalism, Minorities, and Migration
WORKSHOP
March 21-22, 2014 | Washington, D.C.
Volodymyr Dubovyk, Odessa National University
Oleksandr Fisun, Kharkiv National University
Dmitry Gorenburg, CNA & Harvard University
Viatcheslav Morozov, University of Tartu
The Future of the EU-Russia Neighborhood
December 6-7, 2013 | Chisinau, Moldova
Policy Memo Book: The Vilnius Moment
May 24, 2013 | St. Petersburg, Russia
Policy Memo Book: Ambiguous Relations: Russia’s Post-Soviet Neighborhood
Policy Memo Book: Russia’s Global Engagement
PONARS Eurasia Annual Conference
POLICY CONFERENCE
September 23-24, 2013 | Washington, D.C.
Policy Memo Book: Policy Perspectives
Rethinking the Sources of Russian Foreign Policy
March 16-17, 2013 | Washington, D.C.
What Now? Politics and Foreign Policy in Contemporary Ukraine
November 5, 2012 | Kyiv, Ukraine
PONARS Eurasia Annual Conference
POLICY CONFERENCE
September 14, 2012 | Washington, D.C.
Policy Memo Book: Policy Perspectives
Continuity and Change: Examining Regime Trajectoriesand Security in East Europe and Eurasia
May 7-8, 2012 | Tartu, Estonia
In partnership with the University of Tartu, Estonia
Policy Memo Book: Bridging Divides in Eastern Europe
Policy Memo Book: Dividing Lines in Russian Politics and Foreign Policy
PONARS Eurasia Annual Conference
POLICY CONFERENCE
September 9, 2011 | Washington, D.C.
PONARS Eurasia Academic Workshop
June 12-15, 2011 | Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
Security Challenges in Russia and Eurasia
March 19-20, 2011 | Moscow, Russia
PONARS Eurasia Academic Workshop
June 9-10, 2010 | Odessa, Ukraine
PONARS Eurasia Annual Conference
POLICY CONFERENCE
October 22, 2010 | Washington, D.C.
Policy Memo Book: Kyrgyzstan: Recovery and Reformation
POLICY CONFERENCE
February 2010 | Washington, D.C.
Policy Memo Book: After the Color Revolutions: Political Change and Democracy Promotion in Eurasia