One day Round Table
“The Prospects for Russian-Western Relations after the Georgia Crisis”
October 29, 2008
International Institute for Strategic Studies, London
Agenda
10:00-10:10 Opening remarks:
Nigel, Inkster, Director of Transnational Threats and Political risk, IISS
10:00-11:30 Session One: The prospects of Russia’s modernization
Speakers:
Gleb Pavlovski , Adviser of RF President, political scientist, Head of the Fund ‘Effective Politics’
Richard Sakwa, Professor of Russian and European Politics, University of Kent
Alena Ledeneva, Professor of Russian Politics and Society, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Chair:
Oksana Antonenko, Senior Fellow, Programme Director (Russia and Eurasia), IISS
11:30-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-1:30 Session Two: Russia and the Global Financial Crisis
Speakers:
Valery Fadeev, Head of Commission on enterprise and industrial policy of Public Chamber of the RF, Director-general of the Institute of Public Projects (IPP), Editor-in-Chief of "Expert" magazine,
Alan Rousso, Director for Strategy and Analysis, Office of the Chief Economist, EBRD, London.
Georgy Derlugyan, Professor of Macro-sociology of North-Western University (USA)
Chair:
Charles Grant, Director, Centre for European Reform
Discussant:
Nicholas Redman, ‘Economist’ Intelligence Unit
1:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Session Three: Russian-Western relations after Georgia crisis
Speakers:
Vladimir Pligin, Chairman of the RF State Duma committee on constitutional legislature and state building;
Bobo Lo, Director of the Russia and China programmes, Centre for European Reform, UK
Nicu Popescu, aResearch Fellow on the EU's Eastern neighborhood and Russia, ECFR London office.
Chair:
Oksana Antonenko, Senior Fellow, Programme Director (Russia and Eurasia), IISS
3:30-4:00 Coffee break
4:00-5:30 Session Four: The future of European security architecture and Russia’s proposal on the new comprehensive Security Treaty
Speakers:
Alexey Chesnakov, former Deputy Head of the Home Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration Director-general of the Centre for current Politics in Russia;
Mikhail Rogozhnikov, Deputy-director of the Institute of Public Projects (IPP);
Oksana Antonenko, Senior Fellow, Programme Director (Russia and Eurasia), IISS
Miloš Koterec, Member of the EP Committee for Regional Developmentmember of the EP Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly , former Representative of Slovakia to the NATO Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council at ambassadorial level (2003-2004);
Chair:
Christopher Langton, Senior Fellow for Conflict & Defence Diplomacy, IISS
