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Russian Strategic Deterrence: A Reality Check

June 16th at 17:00 CET/11:00 EDT
via Cisco Webex Events

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RSI will host a panel of scholars to discuss Russian theory of deterrence, how it met the current war, and outlook for the future. Panelists include Katarzyna Zysk, Dima Adamsky, and Roger McDermott.

Biographies

Katarzyna Zysk
Professor of International Relations and Contemporary History
Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS)/Norwegian Defence University College (NDUC)

Katarzyna Zysk is Professor of International Relations and Contemporary History at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS)/Norwegian Defence University College (NDUC) in Oslo (since 2007). At the IFS, she also served as Deputy Director, Head of Centre for Security Policy, and Director of Research, as well as Acting Dean of the Norwegian Defence University College.

She was Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Visiting Research Fellow at the Changing Character of War Centre at the University of Oxford, and Research Fellow at the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the US Naval War College.
Currently, she is Visiting Professor at Sciences Po in Paris and serves also as Core Group Member of the Russia Transatlantic Forum at the Center for a New American Security; Advisory Board Member of the Transatlantic Deterrence Dialogue Initiative; Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States; and Governing Board Member of the European Initiative for Security Studies.

Following her 2006 PhD thesis on NATO enlargement, her research has focused on security, defense and strategic studies, including Russia’s armed forces, military strategy and doctrines, nuclear strategy, the Russian Navy, maritime security and geopolitics in the Arctic, as well as defence innovation and disruptive technologies. Her published research has appeared in SAIS Review of International Affairs, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Journal of Strategic Studies, Asia Policy, RUSI Journal, Politique Etrangère, International Relations, Jane’s Navy International, War on the Rocks, and others, including in books published by Cambridge and Oxford University Presses.

Most recently, she has co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Strategic Studies: Defence Innovation and the 4th Industrial Revolution: Security Challenges, Emerging Technologies, and National Responses (2021), where she also contributed an article on Russian EDT strategies.

 

Roger N. McDermott
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Department of War Studies, King’s College, London
Research Associate, Institute of Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus Studies, University of St. Andrews
Non-Resident Research Fellow, ICDS, Tallinn, Estonia
Senior Fellow in Eurasian Military Studies, Jamestown Foundation

Roger N McDermott is a leading authority on the Russian military. He is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Department of War Studies, King’s College, London, Research Associate, Institute of Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus Studies (MECACS), University of St. Andrews, Scotland, Non-Resident Research Fellow, International Center for Defense and Security, Tallinn, Estonia, Senior Fellow in Eurasian Military Studies, Jamestown Foundation, Washington, DC, and guest lecturer on Russian military strategy, Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr. McDermott is also assistant editor, Journal of Slavic Military Studies. He publishes widely and frequently on issues related to Russian military strategy and military modernization.

Dmitry Adamsky
Professor, School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy
Reichman University, Israel

Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky is a Professor at the School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Reichman University, Israel. His research interests include international security, cultural approach to IR, and American, Russian and Israeli national security policies. 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 last book Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy (Stanford UP) won the 2020 ISA best book award in the category of Religion and IR. His forthcoming books deal with cultural sources of the Russian art of coercion and with the role of political officers in the Russian military and society.

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