Program | Schedule

Feb28
Time 9:30am
Location
Cabot Auditorium

Ruling Russia: Governance in the 21st Century

• Ilya Ponomarev, Member of Russian Parliament, State Duma; Chairman of Innovation and Venture Capital Subcommittee, Economic Policy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Committee; one of the leaders of the left flank of Russian politics
Thomas F Remington, Goodrich C. White Professor of Political Science, Emory University; Author, Presidential Decrees in Russia: A Comparative Perspective and The Politics of Inequality in Russia
Anna Vassilieva, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey; Author, The Russian Émigré Press on Democracy in Russia, 1980-1990s, Co-author, Influence on Russian Culture on Russian Negotiating Style; Co-editor, Russia and East Asia: Informal and Gradual Integration, Crossing National Borders

Student Presentation: Grigory Khakimov, EPIIC Colloquium Member; Junior, majoring in International Relations with a thematic concentration on Europe and the Former Soviet Union; Former Member, Russian Democratic Party Yabloko

Feb28
Time 11:30am
Location
Cabot Auditorium

Beyond the Barrel: The Russian Economy

Ari Axelrod, Senior Fellow, Council on Emerging Market Enterprises, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; Partner, Banyan Family Business Advisors
Birgit Hansl, Lead Economist for the Russian Federation and Country Sector Coordinator in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network in the Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank
Matthew Murray, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce

Stephan Vitvitsky, International Economist, Office of Europe and Eurasia - US Treasury

Feb28
Time 2:30pm
Location
Cabot Auditorium

Security Strategy: Military Reform and Nuclear Capability

Lt. Gen Arlen Jameson (USAF, ret.), Former Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. Strategic Command; Vice Chairman, Air Force Academy Board of Visitors
Michael Kofman, Russia/Eurasia Security and Defense Public Policy Scholar, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center, Adviser for military to military engagements for senior officers at National Defense University
Brigadier General Kevin Ryan (U.S. Army retired), Director, Defense and Intelligence Projects at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Svetlana Savranskaya, Director, Cooperative Projects with Russia and Editor, Russian and East Bloc Archival Documents Database, National Security Archive
Major General Pavel Zolotarev (Russian Armed Forces, ret.), Deputy Director, Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (confirmed in principle)

 

Feb28
Time 4:30pm
Location
Cabot Hall, Olin Hall

Expert-led, Small-group Discussions

Frozen Conflicts, with Joseph LePage Varuolo, former director, Air University, Air Command and Staff College; Director, Joint Warfare Exercises; convened in collaboration with ALLIES 
Ukraine, with Lubomyr Hajda, Associate Director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute 
Russian Internet and Society Research, with Russian Delegates to the Berkman Center for Internet and Society from The Center for the Study of New Media and Society (Russia) 
The Black Sea, with Carol Saivetz, EPIIC INSPIRE Fellow and Research Fellow, Security Studies Program, MIT 
Human Rights, with Joshua Rubenstein, EPIIC INSPIRE Fellow and former Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International USA 
The End of the Cold War Wasn’t the End of History, but the Beginning of the War over History, with Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, and James Hershberg, former director of The Cold War International History Project 
 
Feb28
Time 8:00pm
Location
Cabot Auditorium

Geopolitics: Russia and the Post-Soviet Sphere

Maxim Bratersky, Professor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Igor Istomin, Lecturer, Department of Applied Analysis of International Crises, MGIMO; Executive Editor, International Trends
Carol R. Saivetz, Research Fellow, Security Studies Program, MIT; Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Shorena Shaverdashvili (EPIIC’99), Partner and Editor, Liberali, Georgia
• Oxana Shevel, Associate Professor of Political Science, Tufts University
Maxim Suchkov, Fellow, Institute for Strategic Studies, Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University
• Dmitri Trenin, Director, Carnegie Moscow Center; former Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Europe, Moscow; served in the Russian Armed Forces, 1972-93