Dr. Andrey Sushentsov, Program Director of the Valdai Club and international relations scholar at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), will visit MIIS this week as part of the Visiting Experts program of the Graduate Initiative of Russian Studies. Dr. Sushentsov, whose field-based research pays special attention to the collision of US and Russian interests in the post-soviet space, particularly in Ukraine and in the South Caucasus, will present a series of three lectures.
The first lecture, titled, “Scenarios of US-Russia Relations,” will take place on Tuesday, February 14, and will be given in Russian. The second, titled, “Foundation of US-Russia Disagreements,” will take place on Wednesday, February 15, and will be given in English. The third, titled, “Analyzing Strategic Documents in Russian Foreign Policy,” which will take place on Thursday, February 16, will be given in Russian. These lectures will all take place in the VC room at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS).
In addition to his work with the Valdai Club and MGIMO, Dr. Sushentsov is a managing partner with the Moscow-based consulting agency Foreign Policy Advisory Group. He holds a diploma in history from Lomonosov Moscow State University and a PhD in international relations from MGIMO-University. His publications include books on U.S. politics and the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, “America’s Small Wars,” and “Essays on U.S. Politics and Regional Conflicts,” both published in Russian in 2014, as well as articles and reports on U.S.-Russian relations and Russian policies toward Georgia and Ukraine. In 2015, he edited a volume of Russian perspectives on international security issues looking ahead to 2020 titled “Contours of disturbing future. Russia and the World in 2020.” Dr. Sushentsov is participating in a Working Group on the Future of U.S.-Russia Relations established by Higher School of Economics (Moscow) and Harvard University.