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Matching ambitions and realities: what future for Russia?
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- Conferences
- Matching Ambitions and Realities, What Future for Russia? (Conference) Ottawa, Ont.) (2009
- Summary
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"On 6-7 May 2010 and in partnership with Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada and the Privy Council Office, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) hosted a two-day conference o...
"On 6-7 May 2010 and in partnership with Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada and the Privy Council Office, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) hosted a two-day conference on Russia. The event ... pursued three objectives: to foster the analytic community of the Government of Canada, to improve the participants' understanding of the country's domestic challenges and its foreign relations, to explore its future prospects, and discuss related implications for Canada"--page 1.
Details
- Other Title
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- Entre ambition et réalité, que réserve l'avenir à la Russie? Also published in French under title
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- [Ottawa, Ontario] : Canadian Security Intelligence Service, 2010
- Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2014
- Physical Details
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- 1 electronic text (55 pages)
- OCLC
- ocn872591760
- "Published September 2010"--page [2] of cover.
- "Highlights from the conference, 6-7 May 2010, Ottawa"--cover.
- The conference and its objectives -- Executive summary. What future for Russia? -- Highlights from the experts' presentations -- Power and politics: What is Russia? Power relations and decision-making in Moscow ; Russia's views towards the West ; How Westerners (and others) view Russia, and why it matters ; Discussion -- Double perspective. Is Russia bound to remain an authoritarian country? ; Discussion -- Russia in the world. Bitter fruits of history: Russia and the United States ; Fearful necessity: Russia's relations with China ; Energy as currency: the Kremlin's approach to Europe and the European Union ; Discussion -- Opportunities and challenges of the Russian economy. Diversification efforts ; Relationship between the private sector and the political class ; Foreign direct investment into Russia ; Discussion -- Implications for Canada of Russia's evolving place in the world -- Raw force: military and security considerations ; Current and prospective state of the Russian armed forces ; WMD programs: proliferation risks and Russia's plans ; The role of the security services ; Discussion -- Looking inwards: domestic issues and society. Moscow's relations with local power centres ; Contained or brewing? Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia ; The security consequences of democratic decline ; Discussion -- Uncertain neighbourhood: regional issues. The Moscow-Kyiv dynamic ; Unruly neighbourhood: the South Caucasus ; Moscow's ambitions in Central Asia and role in Afghanistan ; Discussion -- Security stakes in the Arctic. The economic, political, and strategic stakes of an accessible Arctic, and Russia's ambitions in the region ; Discussion -- Annexes. Annex A - Conference agenda ; Annex B - Academic outreach at CSIS
Subjects
- Internal security -- Russia (Federation) -- Congresses.
- Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- Congresses. -- 21st century
- Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations -- Congresses.
- Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations -- Congresses. -- Canada
- Canada -- Foreign relations -- Congresses. -- Russia (Federation)