Join the The Harriman Institute of Columbia University and New York University’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia for a panel discussion of Putin's political future after the 2018 presidential election.

This event is part of the New York Russia Public Policy Seminar, co-sponsored by The Harriman Institute of Columbia University and the New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. The joint initiative, supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, establishes a regular forum for academics and professionals in New York city to engage with pressing issues informing U.S.-Russia relations. The sessions seek to bring innovative and impactful scholarship and analysis to bear on key trends and related policy questions and to create an informed network for open dialogue and debate.

While perhaps not everyone is waiting on pins and needles to see who wins the 2018 Russian presidential election, the question of what comes next remains wide open. Please join the NYU Jordan Center and The Harriman Institute of Columbia University for the next event in our NYC-Russia Political Policy series for a panel discussion looking forward once the election is behind us. Will Putin actually become a “lame duck” in the conventional sense of term-limited presidents? If so, when?  If not, why? What does this hold for policy – both foreign and domestic – in the coming years? And what does it mean for Russian politics in Putin’s “last term”? If Putin really is going to be stepping aside, then what comes next?

Speakers:

Henry Hale, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University, and Director of the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia) 

Yoshiko M. Herrera, Professor of Political Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Director of the UW-Madison Partnership with Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan.  

Kimberly Marten, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University, and the Director of the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations at Columbia’s Harriman Institute.

Graeme Robertson, Professor of Political Science at UNC at Chapel Hill. 

Moderators:

Joshua A. Tucker, Director, NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia

Alexander Cooley, Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia University