Join the Working Group on the Future of U.S.-Russia Relations and PONARS Eurasia for the launch of the Working Group on the Future of U.S.-Russia Relations' latest expert paper, which contextualizes the bilateral relationship in Central Asia, points of friction, and potential areas for cooperation amid an extremely tense relationship between Washington and Moscow.  Central Asia stands out as a comparatively “nontoxic” region where there are limited, but not insignificant, opportunities for U.S.-Russia collaboration both bilaterally and within multilateral frameworks: in the space industry, civil security, job-creation mechanisms and rural human capital, and knowledge sharing, for instance. Any proposal of U.S.-Russia cooperation in a concrete domain will have to be made in a tri- or multipartite way with the Central Asian state(s) concerned, under its/their supervision and leadership.

RSVP is requested; lunch will be served.

Speakers:

Marlene Laruelle, associate director, research professor, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), George Washington University

Andrey Kortunov, director general, Russian International Council

Nargis Kassenova, senior fellow, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University; associate professor, department of international relations and regional studies, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan