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Regime Change, Institutional Evolution, and Social Transformation in Russia: Lessons for Political Science

Event time: 
Saturday, April 28, 2018 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: 
Henry R. Luce Hall (LUCE) See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Day 2 of Two

8:45-10:00 am—Panel IV: The Role of Political Culture

Chair: Ian Johnson, Yale University

“The ‘Monumental Politics’ of Post-Soviet Russia: How the Soviet Collapse Revitalized the Study of Symbolic Politics in Political Science,” Juliet Johnson, McGill University
“Republicanism in Russia: Recovering or Reinventing a Tradition?” Oleg Kharkhordin, European University of Saint Petersburg
“Cultural Studies and Their Role in Understanding Russia’s Political Regime,” Marlene Laruelle, George Washington University
10:00-10:15 am—Coffee Break

10:15-11:45 am—Panel V: Political Discourse, Identity, and Legitimacy

Chair: Dan Mattingly, Yale University

“The ‘Hard’ 1990s vs. the ‘Stable’ 2000s: Making Sense of the Post-Soviet Transition in Russian Political Discourse,” Olga Malinova, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
“Institutions, Discourses, and Uneven Development: the Material and the Ideational in Russia’s ‘Incomplete’ Europeanization,” Viacheslav Morozov, University of Tartu
“From Nation Building to Managing Ethnicity,” Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University
“Masculinity, Misogyny, and Political Image Crafting in Russia and the U.S.,” Valerie Sperling, Clark University
11:45-1 pm—Lunch Break

1-2:30 pm—Panel VI: The Politics of Institutional Reform in the Post-Soviet Context

Chair: Milan Svolik, Yale University

“Coalitions and Cohorts: Network Analysis of Elites in Autocratic Regimes,” Noah Buckley, NYU Abu Dhabi
“Politics vs. Policy: Technocratic Traps of the Post-Soviet Reforms,” Vladimir Gel’man, European University of Saint Petersburg
“Substitutionalization of Politics,” Nikolai Petrov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
“The Weaponization of Law and Regime Dynamics,” Maria Popova, McGill University
2:30-2:45 pm—Coffee Break

2:45-4:15 pm—Panel VII: Public Opinion in Russia and the West

Chair: Alexander Coppock, Yale University

“Tit-for-Tat: US Democracy Promotion versus Russian Populism Promotion,” Valerie Bunce, Cornell University
“Putin and the West through Russian Eyes,” Henry Hale, George Washington University
“Putin and Populism,” Steve Fish, UC Berkeley
“Autocratic Politics and Public Opinion,” Tim Frye, Columbia University
4:15-4:30 pm—Break

4:30-6:15 pm—Panel VIII: Russia, the West, and the Future of Global Order

Chair: Thomas Graham, Yale University

“Ukraine and Russia: The Peace, the War, the Future?” Volodymyr Dubovyk, Odessa Mechnikov National University
“What Russia Teaches Us Now: Re-Conceptualizing ‘Power” in International Relations,” Kathryn Stoner, Stanford University
“What Happened to Russian Security Studies?” Brian Taylor, Syracuse University
“The Political Economy of Russian Coercive Diplomacy,” Stanislav Tkachenko, Saint Petersburg State University
“Leveraging Ambiguity in Russian Foreign Policy: Implications for Theories of Status and Negotiation,” Mikhail Troitskiy, MGIMO University
This conference is supported by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation; the Department of Political Science; the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; the European Studies Council at the MacMillan Center; and the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs