A panel discussion on the impacts the Ukraine war has had on Central Asia, hosted by Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

The Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) will host its 2023 Fall Conference on December 5th at CSIS. The conference will explore the impact of emerging technologies on nuclear security.

Join the Davis Center for a seminar on the clandestine activities of Soviet-bloc intelligence services from the late 1960s through the late 1980s.

Join Russia Matters and the Davis Center for a book talk by Thomas Graham, a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. In his new book, “Getting Russia Right,” Graham offers a practical vision of U.S.-Russia relations.

The Ukrainian response to the 2022 Russian full-scale invasion has inspired a new appreciation for their country both within and beyond Ukraine. The steadfastness of Ukrainians in the defense of their country has surprised many. The stories presented in Blair A. Ruble's newest collection, The Arts of War, highlight the ways in which Ukrainians have long explored the meaning of their country and culture through the arts; and the manner in which the arts and their creators have empowered Ukrainians to confront the Russian invaders. Dr. Ruble will explain how these developments also offer intriguing clues about the culture, society, and politics of a post-war Ukraine.

This event will feature introductory remarks by Ukrainian Ambassador to the US H.E. Oksana Markarova.

Leading experts on Russia’s constitutional law, history, civil society, and politics, together with representatives of the Russian democratic forces, will analyze the controversial origins of the Russian Constitution, its guiding principles, further amendments, and how it has entered into and influenced Russian law for the past 30 years. The participants will examine the legitimacy of Russia's constitutional order and make suggestions for policy experts and thought leaders in the audience. The discussion will be followed by forming a working group of experts to prepare a white paper on the suitability of parliamentary democracy in Russia and the constitutional parameters of the future Russian democratic transition.

Join Harvard's Davis Center for a seminar on the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) and the attempts by Soviet bloc rulers to prevent CSCE from being invoked by human rights activists and organizations to press for greater freedom.

Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine and the associated surge of calls to decolonize research and teaching on Russia within American universities have posed significant challenges to the existing paradigms of Russian studies. Professor Ted Gerber will examine the impact on the field because of the war and push for decolonization, as well as COVID-19, based on an assessment by Gerber and Michael Zaslavsky conducted on behalf of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies in 2022 with funding from Carnegie Corporation of New York. The project is the result of interviews, focus groups, and two surveys of researchers in various disciplines who have worked on Russia during the last five years from within the United States.

Dr. Andrei Yakovlev will discuss the composition of Russia's ruling coalition and the incentives its main elite groups — including top-level bureaucracy, oligarchs, and senior officers of the security services. He will present evidence of the unexpected resilience of the Russian economy after the introduction and escalation of international sanctions and will elucidate some of the factors that explain this phenomenon. The talk will also explain the causes of improvement in Russia’s bureaucratic apparatus during the last decade and assess the effects of foreign firms’ exit from the Russian market, the increase of military spending, and the role of payments to families of soldiers.

Join the Jordan Center and the Center for Global Asia at NYU for a global launch of Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper’s new book, Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia. Light refreshments will be provided.