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Conf/Prog - Clashing Visions: Russian Foreign Policy in the Age of Xi & Trump, 25-26 May 2017, University of Oxford, UK

Publish Date: May 17, 2017

Event Dates: from May 25, 2017 12:00 to May 26, 2017 12:00

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 SakwaUniversity of Kent
10:30 CONTRASTING CONCEPTIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER
Ian BondCentre for European Reform, “One lens or two: Do Russia and China see the world in the same way?”
Professor Rosemary FootUniversity of Oxford, “Official Chinese Visions of Global Order: How “Alternative” Are They?”
Professor Neil MacFarlaneUniversity of Oxford, “Russian Perspectives on International Order”
Chair: Professor Roy AllisonUniversity of Oxford 
11:30 COFFEE BREAK
12:00 A NEW STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP? SINO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS UNDER XI & PUTIN
Dr. James HendersonOxford Energy Institute, “Energy relations between Russia and China – it’s a buyer’s market”
Dr. Natasha KuhrtKing’s College London, “China’s place in Russia’s Asian ‘pivot’”
Dr. David LewisUniversity of Exeter, “Russia, China & ‘Greater Eurasia’”
Chair: Professor Rosemary FootUniversity of Oxford
13:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:15 GEOPOLITICAL REALITIES IN CENTRAL ASIA
Professor Roy AllisonUniversity of Oxford, “The Eurasian Economic Union & the Central Asian States: Geopolitical & Economic Interests”
Dr. Alisher IlkhamovSOAS, “Perspectives of Central Asian Integration: 3+2 or 1+5-2?”
Dr. Anna MatveevaKing’s College London, “Russia and Central Asia: What is Really Changing?”
Chair: Professor Neil MacFarlaneUniversity of Oxford
15:15 COFFEE BREAK
15:45 DOMESTIC DRIVERS OF FOREIGN POLICY
Professor Paul ChaistyUniversity of Oxford, “The International Dimension of Nationalism in Russian Public Opinion during the Putin Era”
Dr. Peter DuncanUCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies, “Domestic Drivers of Russia’s Integrationist Policies in Post-Soviet Space”
Dr. Alexander KupatadzeKing’s College London, “Post-Soviet Eurasia: Variation in Political Corruption & Organised Crime”
Chair: Samuel RamaniUniversity 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 SakwaUniversity of Kent, “The New Atlanticism in the Light of the Trump Presidency”
Chair: Dr. Julie NewtonUniversity of Oxford
17:45 CONCLUDING REMARKS
18:00 RECEPTION IN HILDA BESSE

Friday May 26th

9:00 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
9:30 OPENING REMARKS
9:40 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 
Professor Alexander LukinHigher School of Economics
10:30 RUSSIA’S SHIFTING RELATIONS WITH ITS NEAR NEIGHBOURS
Joseph Heath, University of Oxford, “Minority Rights in Eastern Europe: How Slovakia’s Rusyns can help Ukraine with the E.U.”
Kacper WancyzkUniversity of Oxford, “Russian-Belarusian economic relations after 2014”
Thomas BrewisUniversity of Oxford, “To Forge a Nation? Narratives Behind Russian Passportization in the Near Abroad”
Lisa Yasko, University of Oxford, “Combating Myths of Russian Propaganda in Ukraine”
Chair: Joe BarnesUniversity of Oxford
11:30 BREAK
11:45 THE DRIVERS OF RUSSIA’S POST-2008 MILITARY ADVENTURISM
Connor TaylorUniversity of Oxford, “Russia as a Great Power in the Middle East: How Status Concerns Drive Moscow’s Assertiveness in Syria and Yemen”
Joana Borges-MoronUniversity of Oxford, “Status and Russia’s Military Interventionism, a Comparison of Georgia and Ukraine”
Ivan Klyzcz KentrosUniversity of Glasgow, “Russia’s Normative Dependency and the War on Terror”
Chair: Samuel RamaniUniversity of Oxford
12:45 LUNCH BREAK
13:45 UNIVERSITY CONSORTIUM WEBINAR
Samuel RamaniUniversity of Oxford, “Russia’s Responses to Popular Revolutions in the Middle East”
Benjamin RimlandUniversity of Oxford, “The Northern Territories Dispute – Dimming Prospects for Swift Resolution”
Jack SteinColumbia University, “Rivalry in the East: Chinese Influence on Russian Military Reform Since 2008”
Nicole GrajewskiUniversity of Oxford, “Material & Perceptive Drivers of Russia’s Great Power Assertion in the Arctic”
Anatoly MateikoUniversity of Oxford, “The English School Meets the Cognitive Revolution: A Theoretical Discussion of Russia’s Perception of Threats from State Actors (the case of NATO)”
15:00 BREAK
15:15 CLASHING ALLIANCE NETWORKS: THE SOUTH CAUCASUS & CENTRAL ASIA
Kaneshko SangarUniversity College London, “From Normalization of Relations to the Integration of SREB and EEU”
Clemence LizeLondon School of Economics, “China’s interest in the Central Asian Natural Gas Pipeline for its Energy Security and Diplomatic Strategy”
Mirbahram AzimbayliUniversity of Oxford, “Azerbaijan-Russia relations after 2008”
Boris Ajeganov, London School of Economics, “The European Union in the South Caucasus: What Russia Won’t, What China Can’t”
Chair: Nicole GrajewskiUniversity of Oxford
16:30 RUSSIA IN A CHANGING WORLD ORDER
Mher SahakyanNanjing University, “The Strategy of Russia’s Return to Global Big Policy”
Maksim KulaevUniversity of Tartu, “Challenge to Stability Inside & Abroad: Internalization of the International Factors in the Russian Discourse”
Vasif HuseynovUniversity of Göttingen, “Russia’s Shrinking Sphere of Influence”
Chair: Kyle WalterUniversity of Oxford
17:30 CONCLUDING REMARKS

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