When: 11 June, 2020 at 1500CEST/0900EST
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Format: The panelist will present for 30 minutes followed by 30 minutes of Q&A
Agenda - Panelist will present for 30 minutes followed by 30 minutes of Q&A
1500-1530CEST/0900-0930EST - The Spoiler: The Systemic Roots of Russian Revisionism
It is impossible to separate Russia’s domestic politics from its foreign policy. The nexus between the two is central to Moscow’s behavior. The conflict between Russia and the West is a clash between two normative systems: a Western one based on institutions, transparency, accountability, and the rule of law; and a Russian ‘sistema’ based on patronage, institutionalized kleptocracy, the subordination of the law to power, and personalized arbitrary rule. Russia’s authoritarian kleptocratic system predisposes Moscow toward a revisionist foreign policy.
1530-1600CEST/0900-1000EST - Question and Answer Session
Brian Whitmore
Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)
Director, Russia Program
Brian Whitmore is Director of the Russia Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis. Before joining CEPA he was Senior Russia Analyst at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He also worked as a foreign correspondent for The Boston Globe in Moscow and Prague; as a graduate instructor in the Department of Government and International Studies at the University of South Carolina; and as a visiting lecturer in the History Faculty at Mechnikov National University in Odessa, Ukraine and the International Relations Faculty at St. Petersburg State University.
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