The Transatlantic Forum on Russia

AGENDA

8:00 am: Registration and Light Breakfast

8:30 am: Welcome Remarks by

Ms. Heather A. Conley
Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia and the Arctic, CSIS

Dr. Sławomir Dębski
Director, Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding

8:45 am: Introduction to the Panel

Professor Adam Daniel Rotfeld
Co-Chairman, Polish-Russian Group for Difficult Matters (Invited)

9:15am: Panel I: False history is the mother of false politics: history as a means of Russian foreign policy

Featuring

Dr. Andrzej Nowak
Professor, Jagiellonian University, Cracow (Confirmed)

Dr. Timothy Snyder
Professor, Yale University (Confirmed)

Dr. Andrei Zubov
Professor (Confirmed)

Moderated by

Dr. Sławomir Dębski
Director, Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding

11:15 am: Coffee Break

11:30 am: Panel II: If George Kennan wrote the Long Telegram today, what would it say?

Featuring

Dr. Ulrich Speck
Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Academy (Confirmed)

Ms. Olga Oliker
Senior Advisor and Director, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS (Confirmed)

Dr. Marek Menkiszak
Head of the Russian Department, Centre for Eastern Studies (Invited)

Moderated by

Ms. Heather A. Conley
Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia and the Arctic, CSIS

1:30 pm: Buffet Lunch

2:00 pm: Luncheon Keynote Address

Featuring

Professor Walter Russell Mead
James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities, Bard College (Confirmed)

2:30 pm: Concluding Remarks

Please join us for the fourth joint conference of CSIS and the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding (CPRDU), entitled, "Transatlantic Forum on Russia." Since 2012 CSIS and CPRDU have partnered to examine the impact of Polish-Russian reconciliation and its wider regional and transatlantic implications. Significant structural cracks in Europe's security architecture - crafted at the end of the Second World War and refined by the Helsinki Final Act - have appeared since Russia's March 2014 annexation of Crimea and its incursions into eastern Ukraine. As a result, the principal challenge to the transatlantic community is to formulate a new foreign policy approach towards Russia. Our expert panelists will discuss the nature and scope of this new policy while considering historical relations between Russia and the West.

This conversation is made possible by support from the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding.

This event will be ON the record.