Conference: “A Response to the Crisis in Ukraine”

Event time: 
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 2:45pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Auditorium See map
1 Prospect Street, SSS Room 114
New Haven, CT 06520
Event description: 

A one day conference is hosted by the MacMillan Center on International and Area Studies and organized by Natasha Chichilnisky-Heal of the Yale Department of Political Science. 

Keynote Address:

Valery Kuchinsky, former Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations

Panel 1: The Politics of Ukraine: Nationalism, Secessionism, and East-West Relations

The first panel will address the local and regional politics of the crisis, addressing such topics as nationalism, secession, and the international legal disputes between Ukraine and Russia.

Panelists will include

Chair: Stathis Kalyvas, Dept. of Political Science, Yale University

Colonel Scott Manning, Chair of Aerospace Studies, Yale University, USAF, Program Advisor. Colonel Manning has extensive NATO connections and recently participated in a closed NATO panel hosted by MacMillan.
Philip Roeder, Department Chair, Professor of Political Science, UC San Diego, specialist in Nationalism, Soviet Successor States. Dr. Roeder is a long-standing Russia and post-Soviet expert whose recent research focuses on secessionist movements in the region.
Hannah Thoburn, Senior Research Assistant at Center on the United States and Europe and Brookings Institution and Foreign Policy Institute Eurasia Analyst. Ms. Thoburn has recently been on the ground in Ukraine analyzing the EuroMaidan protests and the Crimea.
Jeremy Friedman, Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, Yale University. Dr. Friedman is a post-Soviet expert and spends much of his time as Associate Director of the Grand Strategy Program focusing on the Eurasian sphere, including Sino-Russian relations.

Panel 2: Energy Security, International Security, and Long-Term Strategies in the Post-Soviet Sphere

The second panel will focus on energy and security issues in Ukraine, the EU, and the post-Soviet republics.

Panelists will include

Chair: Ed Chow, Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies, international energy expert.
Aigerim Shilibekova, Director of the Department for International Cooperation and the founding director of the Center for International and Regional Studies at Gumilyov Eurasian National University in Astana/Kazakhstan.
Shamil Yenikeyeff, Research Fellow at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, and is also a Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. Dr. Yenikeyeff’s research focuses on the political economy of Russian oil & gas interests. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Battle for Russian Oil: Corporations, Regions, and the State.
Jenik Radon, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, founder and director of the Eesti and Eurasian Public Service Fellowship, Columbia, School of International and Public Affairs. Professor Radon is an expert on pipeline politics. He negotiated the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline with BP on behalf of the government of Azerbaijan, contributed to the writing of the Estonian constitution, and now advises governments on natural resource negotiations around the world.
Admission: 
Free
Open to: 
General Public