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Abstract:
Dr. Hanna Notte and Dr. Chen Kane will join RSI to discuss their research on Russian-Turkish Relations and Implications for US Strategy and Operations. The DTRA-funded project, conducted by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), analyzed the Russia-Turkey relationship and its impact on U.S. and NATO interests in the USEUCOM, USCENTCOM and USAFRICOM areas of responsibility. Building on an analysis of Russian and Turkish mutual interests, vulnerabilities, red lines, and leverages in these theatres, the project assessed likely Turkish courses of action across AORs going forward, assuming three scenarios in Russia's war against Ukraine: (1) a war of attrition; (2) Russia retreating, and (3) Russia consolidating (occupying Ukraine's Black Sea access). The study derived implications for U.S. interests from each scenario and developed recommendations for the Warfighter, DoD and DTRA.
Biographies
Dr. Hanna Notte is a Senior Research Associate with the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. Prior to that, she was a Senior Political Officer with The Shaikh Group, an NGO focused on informal diplomacy in the Middle East. She completed her doctorate at Oxford University in 2018 on the topic of Russian foreign policy in the Middle East. Notte was a visiting researcher in 2015–16 with the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Carnegie Moscow Center in Moscow, Russia. Other visiting research stints have included the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation’s Syria/Iraq office in Beirut, Lebanon and the International Institute for Strategic Studies Middle East office in Manama, Bahrain. Her research focuses on Russia-West relations, Russian foreign policy in the Middle East, Russian military innovation, challenges to the Chemical Weapons Convention, and arms control in the Middle East. Notte’s articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, The Nonproliferation Review, War on the Rocks and The Washington Post, among others. Dr. Notte holds a BA in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University and an MPhil in International Relations from Oxford University. She is based in Berlin/Vienna.
Dr. Chen Kane is the Middle East Nonproliferation Program Director at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) at the Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey. Dr. Kane is also the Project lead of the Middle East WMD Free Zone at United Nations Institute For Disarmament Research and a founder of the Middle East Next Generation Arms Control Network. Dr. Kane has held research positions at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, as well as the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Dr. Kane was an adviser to both the Jebsen Center for Counter-Terrorism at Tufts University, the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, as well as an adjunct professor with the National Defense University. Prior to joining CNS, Dr. Kane worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She was the Director of International Affairs at the Israel Atomic Energy Commission. She holds a PhD and MALD from Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and MA and BA from Tel Aviv University.
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