02: EU-Russia relations: Attempting a cool-headed analysis
In cooperation with CEPS - Centre for European Policy Studies and Public Diplomacy. EU and Russia, an initiative of the Delegation of the European Union to Russia and RIAC - Russian International Affairs Council
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in englischer SpracheRussia and the EU share a geographical neighbourhood that has recently become an area of increased contention. Growing competition between the European Neighbourhood Policy and Russia’s policy of Eurasian integration escalated over Ukraine in 2014. How do the countries ‘in the middle’ navigate in the context of geopolitical tension and how are the competing policies perceived? The session explores the Russian and EU approaches towards specific countries, unresolved conflicts, and potential spaces for cooperation. The discussion will be continued at the plenary session ‘European Union – Russia: What to do?’ on August 27.
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Sergey UTKIN
Head of Strategic Assessment Section, Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
| Sergey Utkin since 2016 heads Strategic Assessment Section at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences. From 2016 until June 2018 he also headed Foreign and Security Policy Department at the Moscow-based Centre for Strategic Research. He holds a PhD in political science (international relations), which he received at IMEMO in 2006. His research is focused on foreign and security policy of the EU, the EU’s relations with Russia and the US, Russia’s foreign policy in the Euro-Atlantic area. |
Oksana ANTONENKO
Director for Global Political Risk Analysis, Control Risks and Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London
| Oksana Antonenko is Director for Global Political Risk Analysis at Control Risk consultancy. She advises businesses and governments on political trends and crisis-management in Europe and Eurasia. She is also a Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economic and Political Science. In 2011-2016 Ms. Antonenko was a Senior Political Counsellor at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. In 1996-2011 Oksana was Program Director for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Oksana has degrees from Harvard University and Moscow State University. |
Dr. Sabine FISCHER
Head, Research Division Eastern Europe, Eurasia, SWP - Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin
| Sabine Fischer is the Head of the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. Previously she worked at the EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris. Her research focuses on Russian foreign policy and unresolved conflicts in Eastern Europe. Her publications include: “A Permanent State of Sanctions?”, SWP Comment, April 2017 and “Not frozen! The unresolved conflicts over Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh in light of the crisis over Ukraine” (ed.), SWP Research Paper 9, September 2016. |
Ph.D. Alexey GROMYKO
Director, Institute of Europe, and Corresponding Member, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
| Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS). Professor of RAS. | |
| Graduated from the Faculty of History of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU). Doctor of Sciences (History). | |
| Associate researcher at Ruskin College and associate visitor at St Antony’s College at Oxford University. | |
| Since 2000, works at IE RAS. | |
| President of the Association of European Studies (Russia) | |
| Academic focus: British studies, European integration and security, international relations. |
Dr. Ivan TIMOFEEV
Director of Programs, RIAC - Russian International Affairs Council; Program Director, Valdai Discussion Club, Moscow
| Ivan Timofeev has been a Director of Programs at the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) since 2011. He is responsible for the intellectual performance of RIAC, managing its programs and projects. Since 2015 he also heads a "Euro-Atlantic Security" program at Valdai Discussion Club. Dr. Timofeev is an author and co-author of more than 80 publications, issued in Russian and foreign academic press. He is a member of editorial board at the "Comparative Politics" an academic journal on International Relations and Political Science and an Associate Professor at MGIMO-University. |
Steven BLOCKMANS
Senior Research Fellow and Head, EU Foreign Policy, CEPS - Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels
| Steven Blockmans is Head of EU Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), a Brussels-based think tank which has been consistently ranked among the 10 best in the world. He is also Professor of EU External Relations Law and Governance at the University of Amsterdam. His latest book deals with "The Obsolescence of the European Neighbourhood Policy" (Rowman & Littlefield 2017). Steven is the (co-)editor of 15 academic volumes, including "The EU's Role in Global Governance" (Oxford University Press 2013). He served as the leading author of Task Forces on "More Union in European Defence" chaired by Javier Solana (2015) and "Regroup and Reform: Towards a More Responsive and Effective European Union" chaired by Danuta Hübner MEP (2017). For the past 20 years, he has advised governments of countries in wider Europe and in Asia on their relations with the European Union. Blockmans holds a PhD in international law from Leiden University. |
