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On 3 June at 1500 CEST, Chatham House will continue a multi-part webinar series on their handbook on "Myths & Fallacies in the Policy Debate on Russia: Why misperceptions occur, how they affect policy, and what can be done." This event will cover two of the myths identified and addressed in the handbook:
- Russia and The West Want the Same Thing, Keir Giles- Russia is not in a Conflict with the West, Mathieu Boulegue
Abstract:
Many baseline assumptions guiding Western policy toward Russia are commonly accepted, but entirely mistaken. The roots of repetitive failures in engagement with Russia lie in readily identifiable false premises that have become ingrained in policy and analytical communities outside Russia. Overcoming these fixed beliefs is a precondition for any meaningful discussion on Russia, but doing so is a repetitive task because of their ubiquity. The result is a substantial proportion of analytical bandwidth being expended on repeatedly demolishing the same misconceptions before addressing more substantive issues. Chatham House's "Myths and Misconceptions" project provides a learning aid for policy-makers, designed to help overcome misapprehensions regarding Russia, its aims, and the means by which it can be engaged with or deterred.
Keir GilesSenior Consulting Fellow, Russia-Eurasia Programme, Chatham House
Keir Giles is a senior consulting fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme. Keir spent the early 1990s in the former USSR. With the BBC Monitoring Service, he reported on political and economic affairs in the former Soviet Union for UK government customers. He also wrote for several years as a Russia correspondent for UK aviation journals. Other professional experience in Russia includes a period with Ernst & Young working on intricate and constantly shifting Russian business law. While attached to the UK Defense Academy's Research and Assessment Branch (R&AB), he wrote and briefed for UK and overseas government and academic customers on Russian military, defense and security issues; Russia's relations with NATO and with its neighbors in Northern Europe; and human factors affecting decision-making in Russia. In addition to Keir's work with Chatham House, he leads the Conflict Studies Research Centre, a group of subject matter experts in Eurasian security.
Mathieu BoulègueResearch Fellow, Russia and Eurasia ProgrammeChatham House
Before joining Chatham House, Mathieu was a partner at the risk management and strategic research consultancy AESMA, where he worked as director of Eurasian affairs.
In his research, Mathieu focuses particularly on Eurasian security and defence issues as well as on Russia’s domestic and foreign policy. Having trained as a policy and security analyst in the field of post-Soviet affairs, Mathieu regularly publishes articles and papers on Eurasian security & foreign policy questions. He is also a frequent invited speaker at conferences and events around the world.
He graduated from Sciences Po Toulouse in France and King’s College London (M.A. International Conflict Studies).
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