{"id":4378,"date":"2015-05-22T16:03:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T23:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ellisoncenter.washington.edu\/?p=4378"},"modified":"2016-09-21T20:33:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T20:33:01","slug":"reecas-nw-redux-on-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/news\/reecas-nw-redux-on-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"REECAS NW Redux | On Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #808080\"><em>This post is part of a series on the 2015 Northwest Regional Conference on Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies. This annual event was hosted\u00a0by the Ellison Center at\u00a0the University of Washington.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>By David Wishard and Greta Starrett<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine loomed large over the 2015 Northwest Regional Conference on Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies. The plenary session\u00a0focused on <em>East-West Relations During and After the Ukraine Conflic<\/em>t, while the session immediately following addressed the ongoing <em>Conflict in Ukraine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Which will win out, the\u00a0refrigerator or the freezer?<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_4455\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ellisoncenter.washington.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSCF1948.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4455 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ellisoncenter.washington.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSCF1948-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF1948\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The plenary panel, from left to right: Chris Jones, Volodymyr Lysenko, Oleksandr Fisun, and Scott Radnitz .<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The plenary session of the 2015 REECAS NW Regional Conference featured a panel of scholars\u00a0hoping to\u00a0diagnose the crisis in Ukraine, including <a href=\"http:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/faculty\/cdjones.shtml\">Christopher Jones,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/srad\/\">Scott Radnitz<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tascha.uw.edu\/people\/volodymyr-lysenko\/\">Volodymyr Lysenko<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilsoncenter.org\/staff\/oleksandr-fisun-0\">Oleksandr Fisun<\/a>. The panelists focused on two themes: deducing what the Crimean and Donbass situations\u00a0indicate about Putin&#8217;s\u00a0future ambitions, and how to reconcile\u00a0Russia\u2019s recent aggression with the last three decades of relatively peaceful Russo-Western collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Radnitz reflected in his opening remarks that &#8220;&#8216;\u2018East and West,\u2019 \u2018class of civilizations,\u2019 these supposedly old-fashioned notions seem unexpectedly relevant today,&#8221; and questioned whether\u00a0&#8220;all hopes for a single space for norms and values have become quaint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oleksandr Fisun mentioned the general concern over\u00a0Russia&#8217;s\u00a0willingness to enter other former Soviet states if NATO does not hold\u00a0fast, but was more focused\u00a0on the future of the domestic power struggle within Ukraine. He spoke about the historical Russian influence on\u00a0the Ukrainian oligarchs, as well as the disinformation surrounding the violence in the East.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4456\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ellisoncenter.washington.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSCF1945.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4456 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ellisoncenter.washington.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSCF1945-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF1945\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The plenary panel attracted a strong audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">When considering Russian aggression and the propaganda machine within Russia, Volodymyr Lysenko asserted\u00a0that sanctions would do their work and that increasingly empty Russian refrigerators would eventually be the deciding factor in the average Russian&#8217;s relationship with the Kremlin and the West. Chris Jones quickly countered that assertion by saying that the refrigerator may\u00a0not be the symbol for the new dynamic between East and West, but the freezer, alluding to a frozen conflict and a new Cold War.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jones, a self-described Atlanticist, described\u00a0three decades of \u201cremarkable cooperation\u201d between Washington and Moscow, and the equally remarkable swiftness with which Russia has recently\u00a0this partnership. Jones enumerated the diplomatic triumphs that undergirded the three decade\u00a0\u201cpillar of peace\u201d between Russia and NATO. Russia\u2019s cooperation in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osce.org\/library\/14087\">Treaty on Conventional Forces<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalcoldwarexhibition.org\/schools-colleges\/national-curriculum\/detente\/helsinki-agreement.aspx\">Helsinki Accords<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blogs\/up-front\/posts\/2014\/12\/04-budapest-memorandum-us-obligations-pifer\">Budapest Memorandum<\/a>, and the incremental\u00a0drawdown of nuclear stockpiles under the<a href=\"http:\/\/fas.org\/nuke\/control\/npt\/text\/npt2.htm\"> Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty<\/a> supported the \u201cAtlanticist\u201d profusion of democratic governance and rule-of-law across Europe, NATO and the OSCE\u2019s raison d&#8217;\u00eatre.<\/p>\n<h3>Ukraine in conflict, perpetually?<\/h3>\n<p>The Conflict in Ukraine panel featured\u00a0second-year UW MAIS\u00a0candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sarahlynnmcphee\">Sarah McPhee<\/a>, University of Oregon masters student <a href=\"http:\/\/reees.uoregon.edu\/people\/graduate-students\">Alekcander Zhdanov<\/a>, and UW Anthropology Ph.D. candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/anthweb\/users\/jencarr2\">Jennifer Carroll<\/a>. Each panelist presented a different facet of conflict within Ukrainian society.<\/p>\n<h4>The politics of nuclear energy<\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_4454\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ellisoncenter.washington.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSCF1992-Copy1-e1432329575856.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4454\" src=\"http:\/\/ellisoncenter.washington.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSCF1992-Copy1-e1432329575856-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"Sarah McPhee discusses her conception of the Russian Energy Troika while Jen Carroll looks on.\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah McPhee discusses her conception of the Russian Energy Troika while Jen Carroll looks on.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sarah McPhee presented\u00a0&#8220;The Competition for the Ukrainian Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Rosatom, Westinghouse, and Implications for Nuclear Energy in the Near Abroad.&#8221; She explained her\u00a0concept of an Energy Troika, comprised of Gazprom, Rosneft, and Rosatom (the Russian state nuclear corporation), which strategically coordinates efforts toward energy dominance in the Near Abroad. To illustrate the effectiveness of the Troika, she offered the narrative of the competition between Westinghouse and Rosatom for Ukaine\u2019s nuclear fuel cycle.<\/p>\n<p>According to McPhee, Ukraine has 15 Russian-built &#8220;VVER&#8221; nuclear reactors, and Ukraine is Russia&#8217;s biggest customer for nuclear fuel. Fortunately, the\u00a0reactors are largely in the West, away from the fighting in the Donbass. She explained that Ukraine was a hub for physics in the 1930s and was known for its uranium and zirconium deposits, but has been dependent upon Russia for nuclear fuel due to a lack of fuel fabrication capabilities and the differences between Russian and Western fuel rod assemblies.\u00a0She explained that in 1998, the State Department initiated a project called the Ukraine Nuclear Fuel Qualification Project, utilizing Westinghouse to challenge\u00a0Rosatom\u2019s monopoly on VVER fuel in Ukraine and Central Europe. The United States hopes that the success of this project\u00a0will help diversify nuclear fuel sources, increase competition, and improve nuclear products and services.<\/p>\n<h4>On borders and hegemony<\/h4>\n<p>Alekcander Zhdanov presented &#8220;The Ukrainian Donbass Territorial Crisis: Internal Civil War or Readjustment of Global Hegemony?&#8221; Examining the\u00a0conflict through a geopolitical lens, he cited scholars such as John Agnew, who questions the territorial traps of the nation-state and the arbitrary nature of borders. Zhdanov also cited Samuel P. Huntington\u2019s theory about the clash of civilizations, concluding that the conflict in Ukraine is not about ideology or the economy, but about cultural incompatibility. Zhdanov stated that Ukraine was not culturally homogeneous and cited\u00a0a bifurcation when faced with\u00a0Western values.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4453\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 335px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ellisoncenter.washington.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSCF2084.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4453 \" src=\"http:\/\/ellisoncenter.washington.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSCF2084-e1432329734128-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF2084\" width=\"335\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The panel discusses Zhdanov&#8217;s controversial assertions.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Most controversially, Zhdanov alleged that the West was directly involved in the Euromaidan Protests and ousting of President Yanukovich, going so far as to call it a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat. He cited Victoria Nuland&#8217;s infamous tapped phone call and as many as twelve sources from Kremlin-backed\u00a0<em>Sputnik<\/em>. The panel moderator, Volodymyr Lysenko, challenged him on this point, and the audience quickly became involved. Zhdanov defended his assertions by returning to the concept of borders, explaining how they are often viewed as inviolable without considering ethnicity, language, and political identification.<\/p>\n<h4>Controlling the narrative<\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_4452\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 302px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ellisoncenter.washington.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSCF2018-e1432329339461.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4452\" src=\"http:\/\/ellisoncenter.washington.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSCF2018-e1432329339461-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF2018\" width=\"302\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jen Carroll presents her research.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jennifer Carroll presented her work on\u00a0\u201cImage and Meaning: Narratives of the Crisis in Ukraine,\u201d discussing how powerful images may\u00a0be read in multiple ways, and how the perception of events may be manipulated by the media disseminating carefully constructed scenes. Images contain signs and symbols, semiotics, and rhetoric which create significance and visceral reactions, and the use of modern technology increases the reach and impact of propaganda in an already volatile environment. She explains that the Russian public is constantly fed a supply of staged news, which results in skewed support for Russian intervention in Ukraine and high approval ratings for the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4463\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 196px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ellisoncenter.washington.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-22-at-2.24.06-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4463 \" src=\"http:\/\/ellisoncenter.washington.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-22-at-2.24.06-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-05-22 at 2.24.06 PM\" width=\"196\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The blue and yellow paint is a clearly crafted message&#8230;these tires are stacked haphazardly, and perform no actual purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Carroll\u00a0described the use of random tires as props in scenes\u00a0crafted by pro-separatist spin doctors, which capitalize upon well-documented tire fires intended to create a noxious barrier and diversion in combat. Carroll also offered staged scenes of pro-Kyiv forces looting, carrying poorly constructed wooden riot shields. She debunked these images by showing the difference between a &#8220;lovingly-crafted&#8221; shield carried in a legitimate images versus the hastily-made shields for the purposes of propaganda. Carroll was actually in Kyiv studying medical anthropology during the Euromaidan protests, so many of her examples and images were from her own experiences.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>David Wishard<\/strong> is a graduate student in the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies (REECAS) and the Evans School of Public Affairs. His research focuses on Russian environmental policy and international development in the Russian Arctic. He recently completed an internship at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em><strong>Greta Starrett<\/strong> is a first-year graduate student at the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies.\u00a0Her research interests include territorial conflict, democracy building, and minority rights in the Caucasus, particularly in the Republic of Georgia. This summer she is participating in a State Department internship in Tbilisi, Georgia.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>The Ellison Center staff is pleased to present the work of contributors on the Ellison Center blog. Their work is their own and does not necessarily represent the views or positions of the Ellison Center.<\/em><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine loomed large over the 2015 Northwest Regional Conference on Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies. 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