20200729 Maritime Mondays (4of7): Russia's Naval Theatres: Pacific Ambitions and Their Implications

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.

Professor Geoffrey Till

Emeritus Professor of Maritime Studies at King's College, London

Dudley W. Knox Chair for Naval History and Strategy, U.S. Naval War College

Once Dean of Academic Studies at the UK Joint Services Command and Staff College, Geoffrey Till is Emeritus Professor of Maritime Studies at King’s College London and Chairman of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies. Since 2009 he has also been a Visiting Professor and Senior Research Fellow and Advisor at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore. He is also adjunct Professor at the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, Hainan China. He now holds the Dudley W. Knox Chair for Naval History and Strategy at the US Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. His Understanding Victory: Naval Operations from Trafalgar to the Falklands was published by ABC-Clio in 2014 and he has recently completed a fourth edition of his Seapower: A Guide for the 21st Century.

Professor Lyle Jared Goldstein

Research Professor

Strategic and Operational Research Department, U.S. Naval War College

Lyle J. Goldstein is research professor in the China Maritime Studies Institute at the Naval War College and was its founding director. He is also an affiliate of the college’s Russia Maritime Studies Institute. He is the author of dozens of articles on Chinese security policy and focuses on Chinese undersea warfare. On the broader subject of US-China relations, Goldstein published the book Meeting China Halfway in 2015. Over the last several years, Goldstein has focused on the North Korea crisis. He also devotes his time to working on both Russian and Chinese foreign policy and defense issues. Major areas of current focus include Russia-China relations, North Korea, undersea warfare, the Arctic, and the imperative to develop cooperative relations with other great powers. He has made several research trips to Russia and speaks Russian as well as Chinese.

Dr. Sarah Kirchberger

Head of the Center for Asia-Pacific Strategy and Security

Institute for Security Policy, Kiel University

Dr Sarah Kirchberger is the Head of the Center for Asia-Pacific Strategy and Security at the Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University. She was previously an Assistant Professor of Sinology at Hamburg University and a naval analyst with shipbuilder TKMS. She is the author of Assessing China's Naval Power: Technological Innovation, Economic Constraints, and Strategic Implications (Springer, Berlin 2015). Other recent publications analyse the military-technological co-operation between China, Russia and Ukraine; China's defence-industrial development; and the strategic importance of the South China Sea for China's naval and space strategy. Her earlier work includes a monograph on informal institutions in the Chinese and Taiwanese political systems, as well as articles about the reform discourse within the Communist Party of China and the perception of Taiwan's transformation among Mainland Chinese elites. Kirchberger holds an MA and a PhD in Sinology from the University of Hamburg.