The Transatlantic Forum on Russia 

Friday, November 13, 2015
8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
2nd Floor Conference Room
1616 Rhode Island Ave., NW, Washington DC 20036

8:30 am: Welcome Remarks by
Heather A. Conley
Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia and the Arctic, CSIS
Sławomir Dębski
Director, Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding, Warsaw

8:45 am: Introduction to the Panel

Adam Daniel Rotfeld
Professor, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, Co-Chairman, Polish-Russian Group for Difficult Matters

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

Featuring

Andrzej Nowak
Professor, Jagiellonian University, Cracow

Timothy Snyder
Professor, Yale University

Andrei Zubov
Professor, columnist "Novaya Gazeta", Moscow

Moderated by

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

11:15 am: Coffee Break

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

Featuring

Ulrich Speck
Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Academy

Olga Oliker
Senior Advisor and Director, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS

Marek Menkiszak
OSW Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy, Washington DC

Moderated by

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

1:30 pm: Buffet Lunch

2:00 pm: Luncheon Keynote Address

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

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.