RAND: Russian Grand Strategy - Reality and Rhetoric
Date: December 2nd, 2021 at 15:00 CET / 09:00 EDT Platform: Cisco Webex Events
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Overview
Samuel Charap and Dara Massicot from the RAND Corporation joined RSI for an in-depth discussion of the August 2021 RAND report, Russian Grand Strategy: Reality and Rhetoric.
The discussion focused on understanding Russia's grand strategy to help U.S. decisionmakers anticipate Moscow's actions and reactions, avoid strategic surprises, and assess the depth and nature of potential conflicts between Russia and the United States.
The authors reviewed Russia's declared grand strategy, evaluated the extent to which Russian behavior aligns with stated strategy, and outlined implications for the United States.
Agenda
- Presentation by Samuel Charap and Dara Massicot
- Moderated Discussion
- Question & Answer Session
Biographies
Dara Massicot
Title: Senior Policy Researcher Affiliation: RAND Corporation
Dara Massicot specializes in Russian military strategy, combat operations, and escalation dynamics. Before joining RAND, she served as a senior analyst for Russian military capabilities at the Department of Defense. She is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Security Studies Program and holds an M.A. in national security and strategic studies from the U.S. Naval War College.
Samuel Charap
Title: Senior Political Scientist Affiliation: RAND Corporation
Samuel Charap focuses on the foreign policies of Russia and former Soviet states, European and Eurasian regional security, and U.S.-Russia deterrence and arms control. He is the author of Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia (2017). Charap holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Oxford and is fluent in Russian and proficient in Ukrainian.