RSI Connect: Comparing Russian & Chinese Theories of Victory
Date: May 19th, 2022 at 17:00 CET / 11:00 EDT Platform: Cisco Webex Events
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RSI will host an expert panel on Comparing Russian and Chinese Theories of Victory. Panelists include Oriana Skylar Mastro and Andrew Monaghan.
Biographies
Oriana Skylar Mastro
Title: Center Fellow Affiliation: Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Oriana Skylar Mastro is a Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, where her research focuses on Chinese military and security policy, Asia-Pacific security issues, war termination, and coercive diplomacy. She is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
She continues to serve in the United States Air Force Reserve as a strategic planner at INDOPACOM. For her contributions to U.S. strategy in Asia, she won the Individual Reservist of the Year Award in 2016. Her book, The Costs of Conversation: Obstacles to Peace Talks in Wartime (Cornell University Press, 2019), won the 2020 American Political Science Association International Security Section Best Book by an Untenured Faculty Member.
Andrew Monaghan
Title: George F. Kennan Fellow Affiliation: Kennan Institute; Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI; Non-Resident Associate Fellow, NATO Defense College
Andrew Monaghan is a George F. Kennan Fellow at the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute. He is also a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London and a Non-Resident Associate Fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome.
Since 2006, Dr. Monaghan has served as the Director of the Russian Research Network Limited. He has held positions at Oxford University, NATO, and Chatham House. He has written extensively on Russian grand strategy, Russian domestic politics, and the Russian way in war. His latest book, Russian Grand Strategy in an Era of Global Power Competition, was recently published.