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August 25th, 2020 at 1530CEST/0930ESTvia Cisco Webex Events
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Format: Each panelist will present for 15 minutes followed by 30 minutes of Q&A
Agenda
1530-1545CEST/0930-0945EST: Presentation on Russian Strategic Culture
1545-1600CEST/0945-100EST: Presentation on Russian Military Culture
1600-1630CEST/1000-1030EST: Question & Answer Session
Abstract
This panel will examine the key themes of Russian strategic and military culture, and the extent to which they may be distinct. The lens of strategic culture can help to mitigate mirror imaging in decision making by contextualising the activity of a state by highlighting historical experiences, distinctive political and institutional relationships and different strategic dilemmas the better to understand how that state's leadership may respond in times of crisis. This panel will examine a range of aspects of Russian strategic culture and features of Russian military culture.
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).
Professor, School of Government Diplomacy and Strategy
IDC Herzliya, University, Herzliya, Israel
Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky is a Professor at the School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the IDC Herzliya University, Herzliya, Israel. His research interests include international security, cultural approach to IR, and American, Russian and Israeli national security policies. He has published on these topics in Foreign Affairs, Security Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies, Intelligence and National Security, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Washington Quarterly and Survival. His books Operation Kavkaz and The Culture of Military Innovation (Stanford UP) earned the annual (2006 and 2012) prizes for the best academic works on Israeli security. His book Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy: Religion, Politics and Strategy (Stanford UP) won the 2020 ISA best book award in the category of Religion and IR.
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