The Spoiler: The Systemic Roots of Russian Revisionism
Date: June 11th, 2020 at 15:00 CEST / 09:00 EST Platform: MS Teams Live Events
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Format
The panelist presented for 30 minutes followed by 30 minutes of Q&A.
Agenda
1500-1530 CEST / 0900-0930 EST
The Spoiler: The Systemic Roots of Russian Revisionism Russia’s domestic politics and foreign policy are deeply interconnected.
Key points:
- The conflict between Russia and the West is a clash between two normative systems:
* The Western system is based on institutions, transparency, accountability, and the rule of law. * The Russian sistema is based on patronage, institutionalized kleptocracy, the subordination of the law to power, and personalized arbitrary rule.
- Russia’s authoritarian kleptocratic system predisposes Moscow toward a revisionist foreign policy.
1530-1600 CEST / 0900-1000 EST
Question and Answer Session
Presenter
Brian Whitmore
Title: Director, Russia Program Affiliation: Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)
Brian Whitmore specializes in Russian domestic and foreign policy. He is the Director of the Russia Program at CEPA.
Before joining CEPA, Whitmore was Senior Russia Analyst at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He has worked as a foreign correspondent for The Boston Globe in Moscow and Prague, as a graduate instructor in the Department of Government and International Studies at the University of South Carolina, and as a visiting lecturer at Mechnikov National University in Odessa, Ukraine, and St. Petersburg State University.