The Alexander Dallin Lecture in Russian, East European and Eurasian Affairs
The Annual Alexander Dallin Lecture was founded in 1998 to honor Professor of History and Political Science Alexander Dallin, a founder of Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Stanford and CREEES director, 1985-89 and 1992-94. The Dallin Lecture is co-sponsored by the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
2009-10
"Russia, Its Neighbors, and the U.S. Since 1991"
Thomas W. Simons, Jr., Visiting Scholar, Davis Center for Russian and
Eurasian Studies, Lecturer in Government, Harvard University, and Consulting
Professor in 20th-Century International History, Stanford University
Thursday, November 5th from 5:00-6:30 pm in Cranston/McDowell Room, Fisher
Conference Center in the Arrillaga Alumni Center
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Ambassador Simons will seek to honor the broad scholarship of his friend
Alexander Dallin by situating a discussion of emerging states within a
vision of Eurasia as a world region equally shaped and driven by its own
internal dynamic(s). Simons will argue that across the region shared
experience and shared features are just as weighty as differences: civil
societies are weak, markets are distorted or incomplete, politics features
struggle among elites over resources and tends toward semi-authoritarian
rule even where democratic forms take hold. Yet there is cause for hope.
Simons focuses on states, but he sees states consolidating almost
everywhere, so that as resurgent Russia presses on its neighbors, they can
now press back. Stable development of strong state institutions within which
new civil societies can take root and grow is possible and should be the top
priority, but it will come only if the nationalism that gives content to
these new states is civic and inclusionary rather than ethno-religious on
the East Central European model. The U.S. can help or hinder its emergence
everywhere in Eurasia, but if it wishes to help it must realize that in this
part of the world the path to democracy leads through state development, and
that it can best act as a City on the Hill if its policy centers on today's
emerging new states, since they must be the incubators of tomorrow's new
civil societies.
2008-09
"The Unstable Politics of Russian Diarchy: Some Preliminary Thoughts"
Lecture Transcript
Peter Reddaway - Professor Emeritus of Political Science and
International Affairs, George Washington University
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Professor Reddaway received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Cambridge University and did graduate work at Harvard and Moscow Universities and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies and taught at George Washington University before his retirement in 2004. His principal publications include Uncensored Russia: The Human Rights Movement in the USSR (1972), Psychiatric Terror: How Soviet Psychiatry is Used to Suppress Dissent (with S. Bloch, 1977), Soviet Psychiatric Abuse (with S. Bloch, 1984), Authority, Power and Policy in the USSR (ed. with T.H. Rigby and A. Brown, 1980), The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against Democracy (with D.Glinski, 2001), and The Dynamics of Russian Politics: Putin's Reform of Federal-Regional Relations (with R. Orttung, vol. 1, 2003, vol. 2 due in 2004). Reddaway contributes articles and interviews to the international media, and provides consultation for government bodies concerned with foreign affairs.
2007-08
“Russia before the Parliamentary and Presidential Election: Towards a New Authoritarian Regime"
Lev Gudkov, Levada Center Moscow
2006-07
“Perspectives on Boris Yeltsin in History”
Tim Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies and Director of Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
2005-06
"Gorbachev Revisited"
Archie Brown, Emeritus Professor of Politics, Oxford University
2004-05
"Russia's Foreign Policy after the Ukrainian Revolution"
Dmitri Trenin, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Moscow Center
2003-04
"Russia after the Presidential Election "
Yuri Levada, Director Levada Center (Formerly VTsIOM-A)
2002-03
"New War, New Allies: If the US Can't Go It Alone, Whom Should It Go With?"
The Honorable Stephen Sestanovich,
George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Former US Ambassador at Large for the New Independent States: Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Moscow Center
2001-02
"Russia and the World after America's Autumn of Tears "
Robert Legvold, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
2000-01
"Vladimir Putin: Opportunities and Constraints"
Lilia Shevtsova, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Moscow Center
1999-2000
"Transitions in Imperial Russian and Soviet Public Culture"
Jeffrey Brooks, Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
1998-99
"What is Central Asia and Can It Be Integrated?
S. Frederick Starr,
Chair, Central Asia Institute, John Hopkins University