Workshop Chair: Roger E. Kanet, University of Miami
Location: Salon 4, Sheraton
Time: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Workshop Summary

This Workshop focuses on the case of the Russian Federation and seeks to understand the interplay of different levels of analysis in the shaping and making of foreign policy. As the foreign policy agenda is broad, this exercise will focus on political and security issues, with particular emphasis on energy, transnational terrorism, and transnational organized crime. The main goal is to confront different theoretical perspectives on foreign policy in Putin‟s and Medvedev‟s Russia, and to determine how these perspectives influence the analysis of Russian policies, in its neighborhood and further afield. This intertwining suggests a diverse setting and will bring up matches and mismatches in foreign policy analyses, having as a starting point the co-constitutive nature of the domestic context and the international setting in the shaping and making of foreign policy. The organizers expect that the workshop will help to bring to the attention of analysts of Russian foreign policy the importance of the general theoretical debates about the theoretical underpinnings of foreign policy analysis now widespread in the broader field of international relations.

Workshop Participants (tentative)

• Berryman, John, University of London
• Blank, Stephen, U.S. Army War College
• DeBardeleben, Joan, Carleton University
• Feklyunina, Valentina, Newcastle University
• Freire, Maria Raquel, University of Coimbra
• Kanet, Roger E., University of Miami
• Lomagin, Nikita, St. Petersburg State Univ.
• Nygren, Bertil, Stockholm University & Swedish National Defence College
• Priego, Alberto, Univ. Pontificia de Comillas
• Sakwa, Richard, University of Kent
• Simao, Licinia, University of Coimbra
• Tsygankov, Andrei P., San Francisco State University
• Ziegler, Charles E., University of Louisville