Russia’s foreign policy with Sergei Karaganov

Russia’s foreign policy is undergoing the most momentous and historic shift, comparable not only to the early 1990s but arguably to the seventeenth century when Russia first turned its gaze to Europe under Peter the Great. In this webinar, Professor Sergei Karaganov, the foremost and most influential foreign policy and nuclear doctrine expert in Russia is interviewed by Professors Richard Sakwa, Oleg Barabanov and Radhika Desai. PARTICIPANTS Sergei Karaganov is a Russian political scientist who heads the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, a security analytical institution founded by Vitaly Shlykov. He is also the dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics. Karaganov was a close associate of Yevgeny Primakov, and has been Presidential Advisor to both Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. He is considered close to Putin and Sergey Lavrov. Karaganov has been a member of the Trilateral Commission since 1998, and served on the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has also been Deputy Director of the Institute of Europe at the USSR (now Russian) Academy of Sciences since 1983. Oleg Barabanov is a programme director of the Valdai Discussion Club (since 2015), he is coordinating the professional programmes on Global Commons, Global Alternatives; Academic Director of the European Studies Institute at MGIMO University (since 2015); Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2015). He has a Ph.D. in political science (1997). Graduate of the Faculty of History of the Lomonosov Moscow State University (1993). He is also a lecturer in the Faculty of History of the Lomonosov Moscow State University (1994–1996); Senior Research Fellow, Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (1997–2004); Associate Professor, Professor at MGIMO University (since 2000); Head of Directorate for Research Policy at MGIMO University (2005–2008); Head of Department of EU Politics at the European Studies Institute at MGIMO University (2007–2014); Professor at the Faculty of World Economics and Global Politics at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow (2009-2019). He is co-author of the Valdai Discussion Club publications on global right-wing and left-wing protests, on creating Greater Eurasia, on relations between Russia, China and the US, and on the “nuclear fears” following the Ukrainian crisis. Mr. Barabanov is the author of six research monographs. Richard Sakwa is a British political scientist and a former professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent, a senior research fellow at the National Research University-Higher School of Economics in Moscow, and an honorary professor in the Faculty of Political Science at Moscow State University. Radhika Desai is Professor in the Department of Political Studies and Director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group at the University of Manitoba, Canada, and Convenor of the International Manifesto Group. SPONSORS International Manifesto Group Orinoco Tribune Valdai Discussion Club