Formulating a New Foreign Policy Approach toward Russia

Please join us for an important discussion that will assess the new dynamics in Europe’s security landscape and evaluate the challenges of the past year in light of the upcoming one-year anniversary of the Euromaidan revolution in Ukraine. Twenty-three years of policy efforts to integrate Russia into Western structures after the collapse of the Soviet Union have come to an end. The principal challenge to the transatlantic community is to formulate a new and long-term foreign policy approach by directly engaging, for the first time, Poland as well as the Baltic and Central European countries. This conference will address these new challenges, examine the potential impact on the region, particularly within Russia’s neighborhood, and discuss how the United States and Europe can reformulate their foreign policies in order to better understand Russia’s motivations today, predict its future behavior, and ensure the security and stability of Europe. Our expert panelists will address these issues and offer their perspectives on what transatlantic dialogue with Russia will look like in the future, as well as examine the implications of Russia’s actions on the future of the international system.

 

CONFERENCE AGENDA

8:45AM Registration and Light Breakfast

 

9:00AM Welcoming Remarks by

 

Heather A. Conley, Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia and the Arctic; Director, CSIS Europe Program

 

Dr. Slawomir Debski

Director, Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding (CPRDU)

 

9:05AM Opening Keynote: The Future of Dialogue and Understanding with Russia

 

Featuring

 

Dr. Adam Daniel Rotfeld

Co-Chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters

and Former Foreign Minister of Poland

 

9:20AM Panel One: Understanding Russia Today and Predicting Its Future

 

Featuring

 

Dr. Angela Stent

Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University

 

Dr. Marie Mendras

Professor, School of International Relations, Sciences Po

 

Sergey Utkin

Head of Department of Strategic Assessment, Centre for Situation Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences

 

James Sherr

Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, Chatham House

 

Moderated by

 

Dr. Slawomir Debski

Director, CPRDU

 

10:50AM Panel Two: How Does Europe and the U.S. Reconstruct Its Policy Toward Russia and the Region?

 

Featuring

 

Ambassador Paul Jones

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

 

Roman Kuźniar

Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Poland

 

Ambassador John Herbst

Director, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council

 

Moderated by

 

Heather A. Conley

Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia and the Arctic, CSIS

 

12:30-1:00PM Buffet Lunch

 

1:00PM Luncheon Keynote: Russia and the International System

 

Featuring

 

Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Counselor and Trustee, CSIS

 

1:30PM Panel Three: The View from the Region: Russia’s Neighborhood and the Future of the International System?

 

Featuring

 

Ambassador Tedo Japaridze

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs and Former Foreign Minister of Georgia

 

Dr. Mykhailo Kirsenko

Professor, National University of ‘Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’

 

Dr. Jeffrey Mankoff

Fellow and Deputy Director, Russia & Eurasia Program, CSIS

 

Moderated by

 

Ernest Wyciszkiewicz

Deputy Director, CPRDU

 

The conference is co-hosted with the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding (CPRDU) and is possible through their generous financial support.

 

Lunch will be served.

 

Please RSVP to Caroline Rohloff at CRohloff@csis.org.

The conference will be ON the record.

 

Programs

EUROPE PROGRAM, EUROPEAN DEFENSE INTEGRATION, EUROPEAN FOREIGN POLICY

Topics

DEFENSE AND SECURITY, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, MILITARY STRATEGY

Regions

EUROPE, RUSSIA, RUSSIA AND EURASIA

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