June, 10−11, 2019
V International Forum "Primakov Readings"
The Forum 2019
Confrontation Revisited: Any Alternatives?
Confrontation Revisited: Any Alternatives?
We ensure that each year the Readings focus on the most topical issues on the current international agenda. Therefore, in the "Year of Primakov" we have had our annual meeting named Confrontation Revisited: Any Alternatives?
The 5th Readings were taking place in the year of the 90th anniversary of the birth of Evgeniy Primakov. On February 16, 2019 the Munich Security Conference already hosted a Primakov Readings roundtable called Russia, the West and the Rest of the World and aimed at reflecting on the challenges and threats facing the modern world. The round table was addressed by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Chair of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs Konstantin Kosachev, directors of the world’s top expert centers (Think Tanks) from Russia, Germany, Italy, India, the US and France.
This year’s event would be attended by more than 80 leading foreign experts.
This year’s event would be attended by more than 80 leading foreign experts.
Primakov Readings 2019
09:00—09:30
09:00—09:30
REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS
09:30—10:30
09:30—10:30
OPENING CEREMONY
Opening Remarks by the Head of Organizing Committee, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation, Yuri Ushakov
Opening Remarks by the President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, Sergey Katyrin
Opening Remarks by the President of Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Alexander Dynkin
Opening Remarks by the President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, Sergey Katyrin
Opening Remarks by the President of Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Alexander Dynkin
10:30—12:00
10:30—12:00
PANEL DISCUSSION 1. Retreat of Western Liberalism and New Competition of Great Powers
Moderator: Alexander Dynkin, President of IMEMO, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (Economics), Professor
Speakers:
Speakers:
- Thomas Graham, Managing Director at Kissinger Associates, Inc. and Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University
- Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Polish statesman and politician
- Mikulas Dzurinda, President of Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies (WMCES)
- Carl Bildt, Co-Chair European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)
- Fyodor Lukyanov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs journal
12:00—12:30
12:00—12:30
COFFEE BREAK
12:30—14:00
12:30—14:00
PANEL DISCUSSION 2
Special panel in cooperation with the Munich Security Conference chaired by Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman of the MSC
"EU as Emerging Global Strategic Actor"
Special panel in cooperation with the Munich Security Conference chaired by Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman of the MSC
"EU as Emerging Global Strategic Actor"
Moderator: Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference
Speakers:
Speakers:
- Nathalie Tocci, Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Rome
- Pierre Lellouche, Associate Partner of the Agora Strategy Group, President of the NGO ”Les Chantiers de la Liberté”
- Reinhard Krumm, Head of the Regional Office for Cooperation and Peace in Europe
- Mathew J. Burrows, Director of the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Foresight Initiative
- René Nyberg, Finnish diplomat
- Andrey Zagorsky, Head of the Department of disarmament and conflict resolution of the international security Center of IMEMO, Cand. Sc.
14:00—15:00
14:00—15:00
LUNCH
15:00—16:30
15:00—16:30
PANEL DISCUSSION 3
Special panel dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
"Middle East Paths to Stability: Risks and Opportunities"
Special panel dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
"Middle East Paths to Stability: Risks and Opportunities"
Moderator: Vitaly Naumkin, Academic Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (History), Professor
Speakers:
Speakers:
- Joost R. Hiltermann, Program Director, Middle East & North Africa, at the International Crisis Group (ICG)
- Romain Grandjean, Regional Director, Middle East and North Africa, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
- Hassine Abbassi, Secretary General of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) (2012−2017)
- Seyed Mohammad Kazem Sajjadpour, President of the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS), Iran
- Samuel Charap, Senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation
- Irina Zvyagelskaya, Head of the Center for the Middle East Studies of IMEMO, D.Sc. (History), Professor
16:30—17:00
16:30—17:00
COFFEE BREAK
17:00—18:30
17:00—18:30
PANEL DISCUSSION 4
Asia Pacific: Prospects for Growth and Rise of Contradictions
Asia Pacific: Prospects for Growth and Rise of Contradictions
Moderator: Anatoly Torkunov, Rector of MGIMO University, Full Member of Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (Politics), Professor
Speakers:
Speakers:
- Yang Cheng, Professor in the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Shanghai International Studies University (SISU)
- Robert Daly, Director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- Vasily Mikheev, Deputy Director for Scientific Work of IMEMO, Head of the Center for Asia Pacific Studies, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (Economics)
- Nobuo Shimotomai, Professor at Faculty of Law and Politics Hosei University, Tokyo
- Hwang Jaeho, Director of Global Security Cooperation Center at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul
- Alexander Panov, Head of the Department of diplomacy of MGIMO University
18:30
18:30
WORKING DINNER
Presentation by Liana Fix, Programme Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung Foundation "German Public Opinion Between East and West — The Berlin Pulse 2018/19"
09:00—09:30
09:00—09:30
WELCOME COFFEE
09:30—10:00
09:30—10:00
SPEECH BY THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION SERGEY LAVROV
10:00—11:30
10:00—11:30
PANEL DISCUSSION 5
New Cold War: How Long till a Thaw?
New Cold War: How Long till a Thaw?
Moderator: Alexander Grushko, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Speakers:
Speakers:
- Angela Stent, Director, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University
- C. Raja Mohan, Director, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore
- Guan Guihai, Associate Professor and an Executive Vice President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies at Peking University (PKU)
- Matthew Rojansky, Director of the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.
- Feodor Voitolovsky, Director of IMEMO, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (Politics)
11:30—12:00
11:30—12:00
COFFEE BREAK
12:00—13:30
12:00—13:30
PANEL DISCUSSION 6
World Without Rules — the End of Arms Control System?
World Without Rules — the End of Arms Control System?
Moderator: Sergey Ryabkov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Speakers:
Speakers:
- Sergey Rogov, Academic Director of the Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (ISCRAN), Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (History), Professor
- William Potter, Founding Director of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Professor
- Rakesh Sood, Distinguished Fellow at Observer Research Foundation (ORF), New Delhi
- Michael Kofman, Leading researcher at the Center for Naval Analysis in Arlington, Virginia
- Alexey Arbatov, Head of the Center for International Security of IMEMO, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (History)
13:30—14:30
13:30—14:30
LUNCH
14:30—16:00
14:30—16:00
PANEL DISCUSSION 7
Special panel in cooperation with the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR)
Divided Societies in a Divided World: Values, Identities and Ideals
Special panel in cooperation with the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR)
Divided Societies in a Divided World: Values, Identities and Ideals
Moderator: Irina Semenenko, Deputy Director for Scientific Work of IMEMO, Head of the Centre for Comparative Socio-Economic and Political Studies, Member of Russian Academy of Science, D.Sc. (Politics)
Speakers:
Speakers:
- Oksana Gaman-Golutvina, Head of the Department of Comparative Politics of MGIMO University, D.Sc. (Politics), Professor
- Zhang Shuhua, Director of the Institute of Political Science, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- Alexander Lomanov, Chief Research Fellow of the Center for Asia Pacific Studies, D.Sc. (History), Professor
- Hubert Seipel, German journalist, documentary filmmaker, writer
- Alexey Gromyko, Director of the Institute of Europe, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (Politics)
- Sunjoy Joshi, Chairman, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), New Delhi
16:00—16:10
16:00—16:10
BREAK
16:10—17:30
16:10—17:30
SPECIAL PANEL
Special Panel on the Russian Economy
Special Panel on the Russian Economy
Moderator: Alexander Dynkin, President of IMEMO, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (Economics), Professor
Speaker: Anton Siluanov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation — Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation
Speaker: Anton Siluanov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation — Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation
Findings and Conclusions
Organizers and Partners
