On September 24, 2018, CERES hosted an international, day-long conference entitled, “Putin’s Fourth Term: What Lies Ahead.” Undergraduate SFS student Tamara Evdokimova recapped the panels for the journal The…
On March 22, 2018, CERES hosted a conference entitled, “A Changing Central Asia in Greater Eurasia.” The conference brought together Central Asian ambassadors, foreign policy experts, and practitioners for…
On February 5, Andrei Soldatov gave a public lecture discussing his book: The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries. The Internet in…
On February 8, Dr. Marlene Laruelle delivered the 2018 Annual Nava’i Nalle Lecture titled “Kazakhstan’s Nationhood: Politics and Society on the Move.” Kazakhstan offers a multifaceted state narrative about…
On November 10th, Dr. Andrew Kuchins discussed his impressions of the 2016 meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club and presented the key takeaways from the meeting, which took place in…
On October 13, Sergey Rogov and Valery Garbuzov, experienced analysts of US politics from the Institute for the USA and Canadian Studies, shared their insights on the political mood in…
September 30, 2016 marked the first anniversary of Russia’s military intervention in Syria. However, the occasion was marred by the breakdown of the US-Russian ceasefire agreement negotiated just two weeks…
On September 22, CERES Visiting Researcher Amy Gordon discussed the positive cooperation between the U.S. and Russia eliminating Syria’s chemical weapons in 2013. Amy Gordon previously directed the International Security…
On February 5, 2016, CERES hosted a one-day conference on “The Evolution of the Eurasian Union: Economics, Politics, Geopolitics.” Over one hundred attendees listened as panelists from a wide range…
On Thursday, January 29, Dr. Ali Igmen of California State University – Long Beach delivered his talk, “The Threat of Nomadism in Central Asia” for the 26th Annual CERES’ Nava’i-Nalle…