Building Bridges over Troubled Waters: Polish-Russian Relations in the Spotlight

The event that will focus on fostering Polish-Russian dialogue, reconciliation, and cooperation, and examine the impact on trans-Atlantic interests.

Please RSVP to Besian Bocka if you plant to attend at NEDP@csis.org

Friday, June 15, 2012

8:30-9:00am
Registration & Breakfast

9:00-9:05am
Introductory Remarks
Janusz Bugajski, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Slawomir Debski, Director, Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding (CPRDU)

9:05-9:15am
Opening Keynote
Bogdan Zdrojewski, Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage

9:15-10:45am
Panel One: Lessons of the Polish–Russian Dialogue: From Rapprochement toward Reconciliation
Moderator:  Janusz Bugajski, CSIS
Andranik Migranyan, Director, Institute for Democracy and Cooperations
Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Co-Chairman, Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters
Matthew Rojansky, Deputy Director, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

10:50am-12:30pm
Panel Two: Polish-Russian Dialogue in a Broader Strategic Framework
Moderator: Janusz Bugajski, CSIS
Slawomir Debski, CPRDU
Andrey Kortunov, President, New Eurasia Foundation
Lily Gardner Feldman, Senior Fellow, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies

12:30-1.00pm
Geopolitical Setting: Significance of the Polish-Russian Dialogue
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
 
1:00-1.30pm
Buffet Lunch

1.30-3:00pm
Panel Three: US-Russia Strategic Dialogue and the Impact on Europe
Moderator: Ernest Wyciszkiewicz, CPRDU
Ivan Safranchuk, Director, Institute of Contemporary Foreign Affairs of Russian Diplomatic Academy
Richard Kauzlarich, Deputy Director, George Mason University
Stephen Flanagan, Kissinger Chair, CSIS

3:00-3.15pm
Special Presentation
Rose Gottemoeller, Acting Under Secretary, U.S. Department of State

3:15pm: Concluding Remarks
Janusz Bugajski, CSIS
Slawomir Debski, CPRDU