Russian Strategic and Military Culture
Date: August 25th, 2020 at 15:30 CEST / 09:30 EST Platform: Cisco Webex Events Hosted by: Russia Strategic Initiative
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Format
Each panelist presented for 15 minutes followed by 30 minutes of Q&A.
Agenda
1530-1545 CEST / 0930-0945 EST
Presentation on Russian Strategic Culture
1545-1600 CEST / 0945-1000 EST
Presentation on Russian Military Culture
1600-1630 CEST / 1000-1030 EST
Question & Answer Session
This panel examined the key themes of Russian strategic and military culture, and the extent to which they may be distinct. The lens of strategic culture can help to mitigate mirror imaging in decision making by contextualizing the activity of a state by highlighting historical experiences, distinctive political and institutional relationships and different strategic dilemmas the better to understand how that state's leadership may respond in times of crisis. This panel examined a range of aspects of Russian strategic culture and features of Russian military culture.
Panelists
Andrew Monaghan, Ph.D.
Title: Director; Non-Resident Associate Fellow Affiliation: Russia Research Network Ltd; NATO Defence College, Rome
Dr. Andrew Monaghan is Director of the Russia Research Network Ltd and a Non-Resident Associate Fellow of the NATO Defence College in Rome. He is also Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. He has advised governments, international organizations, and major companies, and served as an expert witness to parliamentary committees. He is widely published and the author of several books, including Dealing with the Russians (Polity, 2019), Power in Modern Russia (MUP, 2017) and The New Politics of Russia (MUP 2016).
Dmitry Adamsky
Title: Professor Affiliation: School of Government Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya University, Herzliya, Israel
Dmitry Adamsky specializes in international security, cultural approach to IR, and American, Russian and Israeli national security policies. He has published in Foreign Affairs, Security Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies, and other leading journals. His books Operation Kavkaz and The Culture of Military Innovation (Stanford UP) earned annual prizes for the best academic works on Israeli security. His book Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy: Religion, Politics and Strategy (Stanford UP) won the 2020 ISA best book award in the category of Religion and IR.