HSE Russia Strategic Studies Working Group - Introducing Second Stage Research
On the 3rd of February, the Russian Strategic Studies Working Group has conducted its fifth seminar in the framework of our HSE Working Group on Russian strategic studies that will support student-led research on Russia's security strategy in the twenty–first century. This seminar examined the results of the students’ research work submitted the week before. Ph.D. candidates Artem Maltsev and Pavel Devyatkin led discussion of best practices, recommendations for future submitted work, opportunities for publication, and further contextualized the stage work in the research project as a whole. The timeline for the rest of the research project from February 2023 to May 2023 was outlined. Prof. Iain Ferguson discussed the logic to the rhetoric behind “strategic stability,” Russia’s peacemaking, and the contribution of the research to the academic field of strategic studies.
This Working Group on Russian strategic studies aims to facilitate seminar discussions with leading Russian and international practitioners and academics on the bases of cooperation and the challenges of competition for the governing of interconnected 'regions' in today’s global governance system.
Our practical and theoretical focus is on the institutional organisation and strained relationships between Russia and other powers in global governance, especially in regional arrangements for governing the Arctic and for securing the Euro–Atlantic and Eurasian space.