"Formulating a New Foreign Policy Approach toward Russia" - third joint conference organised by the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding and American think-tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Important discussion that assesses the new dynamics in Europe’s security landscape and evaluates 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 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.

Video available

Panel 1

Panel 2

Keynote speech by Zbigniew Brzeziński

Panel 3

PROGRAM
Washington, 14 November 2014
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
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
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?
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
 
1:00PM Luncheon Keynote: Russia and the International System
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?
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

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