August 21st, 2020 at 1500CEST/0900ESTvia Cisco Webex Events
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Format: The panelists will each present for 15 minutes followed by 20 minutes of panelist discussion on Economic viability, with the remaining 30 minutes dedicated to Q&A
Agenda
1500-1545CEST/0900-0945EST: Presentation on Russia's Central Asian Goals and Economic Capabilities
1545-1630CEST/0945-1030EST: Question & Answer Session
Abstract
The panel will provide an overview of Russia's relations with the Eastern Partnership and Central Asian countries since 1991 and its current policies towards them. It will focus on Moscow's strategy and goals in these countries, as well as the main vectors of its influence: elite interconnection, minorities, regional conflicts and security, media etc. The panel will also analyse the depth of Russia's economic integration with these countries and the extent of their economic dependence on Russia.
Annette Bohr
Associate Fellow
Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House
Annette Bohr is an associate fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House. She has more than 30 years’ experience as an analyst of Central Asia, specializing in the domestic, energy and foreign policies of the region. She regularly advises corporate investors and has prepared briefings and reports on political risk and strategies of engagement in the Central Asian states for international financial institutions, oil and gas companies, UK and US government departments and non-governmental organizations. Annette has provided expert witness services and has testified to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs committee in connection with its inquiry into Autocracies and UK Foreign Policy. She acts as an expert for the Bertelsmann Stiftung, and is a frequent panellist at international conferences and events and a regular commentator on a wide array of global media outlets.
Annette is the author of a number of monographs, book chapters, journal articles and Chatham House reports and papers, including Turkmenistan: Power, Politics and Petro-Authoritarianism and, most recently, Kazakhstan: Tested by Transition. For ten years she wrote for Freedom House’s annual research publication on democracy, Nations in Transit. Her research has been supported by grants from the Leverhulme Trust, the Nuffield Foundation, Open Society Foundations and IREX. Annette holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Cambridge and Harvard University.
Anaïs Marin
Consultant on Belarus
Anaïs Marin is an independent Belarus expert who joined the the Russia and Eurasia programme as an associate fellow in December 2019. An IR scholar specialising on post-Soviet Eurasia, since 2014 she has been investigating the foreign policy of authoritarian regimes (“dictaplomacy”), first as a Marie Curie Fellow (Collegium Civitas, Warsaw), now with a grant from the Polish National Centre for Science (University of Warsaw).
Her current research focuses on how Russian “sharp power” impacts European democracy and regional security. Anaïs has been involved in policy expert and advocacy networks on Belarus, and published for various think tanks, notably the Finnish Institute of International Affairs and the EU Institute for Security Studies. She regularly participates in OSCE/ODIHR election observation missions in the region. In 2018 she was appointed UN special rapporteur on human rights in Belarus. She received her PhD and MA from Sciences Po Paris/CERI.
Richard Connolly, Ph.D.
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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