CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Clashing Visions: Russian Foreign Policy in the Age of Xi & Trump
St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
25-26 May 2017
Thursday May 25th
9:00 | CONFERENCE REGISTRATION & COFFEE |
9:30 | OPENING REMARKS |
9:40 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS Professor Richard Sakwa, University of Kent |
10:30 | CONTRASTING CONCEPTIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER Ian Bond, Centre for European Reform, “One lens or two: Do Russia and China see the world in the same way?” Professor Rosemary Foot, University of Oxford, “Official Chinese Visions of Global Order: How “Alternative” Are They?” Professor Neil MacFarlane, University of Oxford, “Russian Perspectives on International Order” Chair: Professor Roy Allison, University of Oxford |
11:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
12:00 | A NEW STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP? SINO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS UNDER XI & PUTIN Dr. James Henderson, Oxford Energy Institute, “Energy relations between Russia and China – it’s a buyer’s market” Dr. Natasha Kuhrt, King’s College London, “China’s place in Russia’s Asian ‘pivot’” Dr. David Lewis, University of Exeter, “Russia, China & ‘Greater Eurasia’” Chair: Professor Rosemary Foot, University of Oxford |
13:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
14:15 | GEOPOLITICAL REALITIES IN CENTRAL ASIA Professor Roy Allison, University of Oxford, “The Eurasian Economic Union & the Central Asian States: Geopolitical & Economic Interests” Dr. Alisher Ilkhamov, SOAS, “Perspectives of Central Asian Integration: 3+2 or 1+5-2?” Dr. Anna Matveeva, King’s College London, “Russia and Central Asia: What is Really Changing?” Chair: Professor Neil MacFarlane, University of Oxford |
15:15 | COFFEE BREAK |
15:45 | DOMESTIC DRIVERS OF FOREIGN POLICY Professor Paul Chaisty, University of Oxford, “The International Dimension of Nationalism in Russian Public Opinion during the Putin Era” Dr. Peter Duncan, UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies, “Domestic Drivers of Russia’s Integrationist Policies in Post-Soviet Space” Dr. Alexander Kupatadze, King’s College London, “Post-Soviet Eurasia: Variation in Political Corruption & Organised Crime” Chair: Samuel Ramani, University of Oxford |
16:45 | THE FUTURE OF TRANSATLANTIC COOPERATION Professor Christopher Davis, University of Oxford, “Russia’s Changing Economic and Military Relations with Europe and Asia: 2000-2020” Dr. Sam Greene, King’s College London, “Russia and the West: Is Conflict Structural?” Professor Richard Sakwa, University of Kent, “The New Atlanticism in the Light of the Trump Presidency” Chair: Dr. Julie Newton, University of Oxford |
17:45 | CONCLUDING REMARKS |
18:00 | RECEPTION IN HILDA BESSE |
16:30 | RUSSIA IN A CHANGING WORLD ORDER Mher Sahakyan, Nanjing University, “The Strategy of Russia’s Return to Global Big Policy” Maksim Kulaev, University of Tartu, “Challenge to Stability Inside & Abroad: Internalization of the International Factors in the Russian Discourse” Vasif Huseynov, University of Göttingen, “Russia’s Shrinking Sphere of Influence” Chair: Kyle Walter, University of Oxford |
17:30 | CONCLUDING REMARKS |
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