{"id":12351,"date":"2018-02-13T22:34:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T22:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/?p=12351"},"modified":"2018-02-22T21:55:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T21:55:30","slug":"ellison-memorial-lecture-kennan-institute-director-matthew-rojansky-u-s-russia-conflict-new-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/news\/ellison-memorial-lecture-kennan-institute-director-matthew-rojansky-u-s-russia-conflict-new-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellison Memorial Lecture | Kennan Institute Director Matthew Rojansky: U.S.-Russia Conflict: The New Normal?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Dangerously dysfunctional relations between Washington and Moscow have been blamed by the press, pundits and politicians on the failure of U.S. policymakers to properly \u201cread\u201d Vladimir Putin and thus to predict the Kremlin\u2019s supposedly strategic foreign policy agenda. However, rather than attempting to predict Putin\u2019s next move or to de-code the meaning behind personnel shuffles at the Kremlin, policymakers and the analysts who support them would do better to pay more attention to Russia in a much broader sense. From the incompatibility of the \u201cEuropean Project\u201d with the worldview of the country\u2019s ruling elite, to the geopolitical reality Russia faces as a sprawling multi-ethnic state surrounded by dynamic rising powers, to worsening military tensions between Russia and NATO, there are deeper trends that are likely to shape Russian policy regardless of who is in the top job at the Kremlin. An appropriate U.S. strategy to address these challenges will emphasize not only strength and deterrence, but also adroit risk management, dialogue, and leadership by example.\u00a0 In other words, now is not a time to panic about the predictably unpredictable Russian threat, but rather to keep calm and carry on.<\/p>\n

Matthew Rojansky<\/strong>\u00a0is Director of the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC.\u00a0 He is an expert on U.S. relations with the states of the former Soviet Union, and has advised governments, intergovernmental organizations, and major private actors on conflict resolution and efforts to enhance shared security throughout the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian region.<\/p>\n

From 2010 to 2013, he was Deputy Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.\u00a0 There, he founded Carnegie’s Ukraine Program, led a multi-year project to support U.S.-Russia health cooperation, and created a track-two task force to promote resolution of the Moldova-Transnistria conflict.\u00a0 From 2007 to 2010, Rojansky served as executive director of the Partnership for a Secure America (PSA). Founded by former congressman Lee Hamilton (D-IN) and former senator Warren Rudman (R-NH) with a group of two dozen former senior leaders from both political parties, PSA seeks to rebuild bipartisan dialogue and productive debate on U.S. national security and foreign policy challenges. While at PSA, Rojansky orchestrated high-level bipartisan initiatives aimed at repairing the U.S.-Russian relationship, strengthening the U.S. commitment to nuclear arms control and nonproliferation, and leveraging global science engagement for diplomacy.<\/p>\n

Rojansky is an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and serves as U.S. Executive Secretary of the Dartmouth Conference, a track-two U.S.-Russian conflict resolution initiative begun in 1960. He has lectured at colleges and universities throughout the United States, Russia and Europe. He is frequently interviewed on TV and radio, and his writing has appeared in the The New York Times, the Washington Post, and Foreign Policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dangerously dysfunctional relations between Washington and Moscow have been blamed by the press, pundits and politicians on the failure of U.S. policymakers to properly \u201cread\u201d Vladimir Putin and thus to predict the Kremlin\u2019s supposedly strategic foreign policy agenda. However, rather than attempting to predict Putin\u2019s next move or to de-code the meaning behind personnel shuffles<\/p>\n

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