Jeudi 24 Novembre 2016
de 09:00 à 17:30
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Débats Séminaires et tables rondes
Ifri Paris

 

PROGRAM

 

9.00-9.15. Welcome address

Philippe Errera (DGRIS), Thomas Gomart (Ifri)

 

09.15-10.45. Panel 1: Russia’s strategy: Goals, means, decision-making process

Chair: Thomas Gomart, Director of IFRI

  • “The world's evolution viewed by Kremlin”, Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)
  • “Reforming Russian power structures: which tools for which purposes?”, Céline Marangé, Research fellow, Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM)
  • “Comparative advantages and structural fragilities”, Tatiana Kastueva-Jean, Head of Ifri’s Russia/NIS Center

 

10.45-11.00 Coffee break

 

11.00-12.30. Panel 2: Use of limited war and state of military tool

Chair: Isabelle Facon, Senior Research Fellow, Fondation pour la Recherche stratégique – FRS

  • “The Russian ‘art de la guerre’”, Arnaud Kalika, Head of Security, Compliance and Intelligence, Meridiam
  • “A modernized military tool for limited interventions : Ukrainian and Syrian lessons”, Bettina Renz, Associate Professor, School of Politics & IR, University of Nottingham
  • “The nuclear tool: a new grammar?” Anton Khlopkov, Director, Center for Energy and Security Studies (CENESS). Editor-in-Chief of “Nuclear Club” journal.

 

12.30-14.00 Lunch

 

14.00-15.30. Panel 3: Russia’s tools and channels of influence

Chair: Pavel Baev, Research Director at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Associate Research Fellow at IFRI

  • “Come-back of agitprop : Old game with new rules?”, Stephen Dalziel, Independent Russia Analyst, formerly BBC correspondent and Executive Director, Russo-British Chamber of Commerce
  • “Russkiy Mir”, Mikhail Souslov, Researcher at Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
  • “Russian influence in the German context: Multiple entry points”, Susan Stewart, Senior Associate Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

 

15.30-15.45 Coffee break

 

15.45-17.15. Panel 4: What responses to the Russian challenge ?

Chair: Bobo Lo, Associate Research Fellow with IFRI’s Russia/NIS Centre

  • “Washington’s approach: is Russia’s problem a regional one?”, Stephen Szabo, Executive Director, Transatlantic Academy
  • “Beijing’s view: paper marriage with Moscow?”, Zhang Hong, Researcher at the Centre for Russian Studies, East China Normal University
  • “Europe’s input: between engagement and deterrence?”, Hanna Smith, Researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute

 

17.15-17.30 Conclusions

Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, Head of the Office and Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations - ECFR, and Tatiana Kastouéva-Jean, Head of Ifri’s Russia/NIS Center

 

This seminar will be held in English, French and Russian with simultaneous translation, under the Rule of Chatham House.

 

This event will be held within the framework of the “Observatoire Russie, Europe orientale et Caucase” with the support of DGRIS (Directorate General for International Relations and Strategy), French Ministry of Defence.