20200817 Maritime Mondays (7of7) - Russia: What Kind of Maritime Power?

The Russia Strategic Initiative & the International Institute for Strategic Studies

Present

Maritime Mondays

A seven part in-depth dive into Russia's future in the sea

Nick Childs

Senior Fellow for Naval Forces and Maritime Security

International Institute for Strategic Studies 

Nick is responsible for the Institute’s analysis of naval forces and maritime security, and for the data on sea power capabilities published in the flagship annual Military Balance. It is also his job to formulate and deliver research projects in these areas, and contribute to other Institute publications and activities, including conferences and consultancy.

Prof. Andrew Lambert

Laughton Professor of Naval History,

Department of War Studies, King's College 

Andrew Lambert is Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies at King's College, London, and Director of the Laughton Naval History Unit. His work focuses on the naval, strategic and cultural history of the British Empire between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, the evolution of naval historical writing and the history of technology. He has lectured on aspects of his work around the world, and made several television documentaries. He widely published, and his latest book, Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the conflict that has shaped the modern world, Yale University Press 2018, won the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History.

Prof. Katarzyna Zysk

Professor of International Relations and Contemporary History

Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS), Norwegian Defence University College

Katarzyna Zysk is Professor of International Relations and Contemporary History at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS), which is part of the Norwegian Defence University College in Oslo. She holds PhD in history with specialisation in international relations (2006). At the IFS, she has served as Deputy Director of the IFS (since 2017) and Head of the Centre for Security Policy (since 2019); in 2017–19 she was Director of Research at the IFS. Zysk was Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and subsequently Visiting Research Fellow at the Changing Character of War Centre at the University of Oxford (2016–17). She is a member of the Hoover Institution’s Arctic Security Initiative (since 2013) and was Research Fellow (resident and non-resident) at the Center for Naval Warfare Studies – Strategic Research Department at the US Naval War College, where she also cooperated closely with the War Gaming Department (since 2010). In 2016, she was Acting Dean of the Norwegian Defence University College, where she also teaches regularly. In 2015, she won the first Chief NDCU teaching award voted by students.

Dr. Richard Connolly

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.

Tomas Malmlöf

Senior Researcher

Division of Defence Analysis, Swedish Defence Research Agency

Tomas Malmlöf is a senior researcher at the Division of Defence Analysis at the Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI. He holds an M.Sc. in Political Science and a B.Sc. in Economics from Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. His research focuses on the Russian defence industry and Russia’s armament programmes, including armament acquisition and deliveries to the Russian Armed Forces.