September 18th, 2020 at 1500CEST/0900ESTvia Cisco Webex Events
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Format: Each panelist will present for 15 minutes followed by 30 minutes of Q&A
Agenda
1500-1530CEST/0900-0930EST: Presentation on The Russian Understanding of War
1530-1600CEST/0930-1000EST: Question & Answer Session with Moderation to include other panelists
Panel Abstract
This panel session will examine Russian understandings of war - what war is for, and how success and failure may be understood. The first part will examine historical examples to see what lessons may be learnt, the second part will explore the economic aspects such as resilience and economic statecraft.
Panelist: Andrew Monaghan, Ph.D.
Director, Russia Research Network Ltd
Non-Resident Associate Fellow, NATO Defence College, Rome
Dr. Andrew Monaghan is Director of the Russia Research Network Ltd. Additionally he is a Non-Resident Associate Fellow of the NATO Defence College in Rome (where he is also the Commissioning Editor of the Russian Studies publication series), Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. He has previously worked for the Oxford Changing Character of War Centre, Chatham House, NATO and the UK Defence Academy. He has advised various governments and international organisations, as well as major companies. He has served as an expert witness to several parliamentary committees, including the UK’s National Security Strategy Committee, the House of Commons Defence and Foreign Affairs Select Committees, and NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly. He is widely published and is the author of several books, including Dealing with the Russians (Polity, 2019), Power in Modern Russia (MUP, 2017) and The New Politics of Russia (MUP 2016).
Panelist: Dr. Richard Connolly
Director of Eastern Advisory Group
Director of the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies (CREES)
Senior lecturer in political economy at the University of Birmingham
Richard Connolly is director of the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies (CREES) and senior lecturer in political economy at the university of Birmingham. His research and teaching are principally concerned with the political economy of Russia and Eurasia. In the past, he has carried out research on Russia's energy, defence and high-technology sectors, as well as on Russia's role in the global economy.
He is also an associate fellow on the Russia and Eurasia programme at Chatham House, visiting professor on the Master of Global Public Policy (MGPP) programme at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, and he is editor of Post-Communist Economies.
Dr. Connolly has presented his research to a wide range of academic and non-academic audiences, including UK and US government officials, the International Trade Committee of the European Parliament, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Organisation for Cooperation and Security in Europe (OSCE), and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
He is currently working on assessing how Western sanctions are affecting the Russian economy and its place in the global economy. His most recently-published work on this subject is the monograph, Russia's Response to Sanctions, published by Cambridge University Press in July 2018.
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