The Russian invasion of Ukraine constitutes the first major land war in Europe in decades. It threatens lives across the region, the post–Cold War international order—and the stability of the global economy, as the United States, European allies, and countries around the world have imposed severe sanctions on Russia and supplied varying levels of aid to Ukraine.

In cooperation with the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and College of Arts and Sciences, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies has convened this expert panel to respond to the injustice and massive violation of sovereignty, human rights, and peace.

Join us for a wide-ranging discussion of Russian domestic and foreign policy, Ukrainian nationhood and security response, human rights and migration, economic sanctions’ impact, and international and European consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The panel includes Dmitry Bykov, a Russian dissident and Open Society University Network threatened scholar sponsored by Global Cornell and hosted by the Einaudi Center's Institute for European Studies (IES), in partnership with Ithaca City of Asylum.

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Panelists:

Mabel Berezin (IES Director; Professor, Department of Sociology/A&S)Dmitry Bykov (Russian writer and dissident; scholar at risk hosted by IES)Cristina Florea (Assistant Professor, Department of History/A&S)Nicholas Mulder (Assistant Professor, Department of History/A&S)Bryn Rosenfeld (Assistant Professor, Department of Government/A&S)Stephen Yale-Loehr (Migrations faculty fellow; Professor of Immigration Law Practice, Cornell Law School)Moderator:

Rachel Beatty Riedl (Einaudi Center Director; Professor, Department of Government/A&S and Cornell Brooks School)

Introduction:

Wendy Wolford (Vice Provost of International Affairs; Professor, Department of Global Development, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences)

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Live Screening: Statler 196

Students: Join the campus community in Statler 196 at 4:30 to watch the panel live. Sponsored by the Einaudi Center, A&S, and Cornell Brooks School.

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About the Series

The new Einaudi Center Critical Conversations Series brings together world-class regional, historical, and comparative experts to promote deeper understanding of global current events and emerging crises on the world stage. The stakes for our shared future have never been higher—so please join us for these critical conversations.

This is a hybrid event. Registration information is below.

This panel discussion, based on the book Drones and Global Order: Implications of Remote Warfare for International Society (Routledge, 2022), will explore the implications of drone warfare for the legitimacy of the global order. Since 2002, when the first use of an armed drone for the targeted killing of a terrorist was authorized in Yemen, the literature for drone warfare has evolved from studying the proliferation of drones, measuring their effectiveness, and exploring their legal, moral, and ethical impacts. However, these "three waves" of scholarship do not address its implications for the global order. The panelists argue that drone warfare imposes contradictions on the structural and normative pillars of global order. The panel discussion will point to the emergence of a "fourth wave" of scholarship to better contend with the social and political implications of drones.

About the speakers

Paul Lushenko is a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and General Andrew Jackson Goodpaster Scholar at Cornell University, where he is pursuing a PhD in International Relations.

Keith Carter is U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and Director of the Defense and Strategic Studies Program at the United States Military Academy.

William Maley is an Emeritus Professor at The Australian National University, where he was Professor of Diplomacy from 2003-2021.

This seminar is part of the spring seminar series with the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS).

Cosponsored by the Department of Government, and the Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University.

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Talk by Sharif Hozoori

Analyzing the situation of Afghanistan, its past struggle and instability, war and displacement, peace and conflict, scholars would argue that the external forces and power politics are influential and effective in articulation of events but the current research highlights a different scenario by proposing the role of political elites in bringing changes to the political environment. However, such change has a profound effect on domestic and foreign policy transformation as well. This study deals with the role of political elites in the changing domestic politics and transformation of foreign policy of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2014. It deals with two concepts: the political elite disunity and the political elite consensus. Accordingly, it tries to explain the two regimes: the Taliban’s first theocratic regime (1996-2001) and the democratic establishment after 2001. This study looks to answer that how political elite disunity contributed to the instability of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 which led to civil war and Islamization of foreign policy and how elite settlement and elite consensus led to democratic political establishment, domestic stability and caused for inclusionary foreign policy initiative post 9/11 in Afghanistan.

Sharif Hozoori is originally from Afghanistan. He holds PhD in International Relations from Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament (CIPOD), School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His PhD thesis entitled Role of Political Elites in Foreign Policy Transformation: A Case Study of Afghanistan from 2001-2014. Mr Hozoori has earned his Master degree in International Relations from Department of International Relations, South Asian University in New Delhi. His dissertation was Radicalization of Muslims in South Asia: Implication for regional security. Upon his return to Afghanistan in 2019, He started teaching both in undergraduate and post graduates. At the same time, he has done administrative works as he was Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of Afghanistan University until recently before leaving the country in August 2021. Currently Mr. Hozoori is the IIE-SRF fellow and visiting scholar at South Asia Program, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University. His area of research is Afghanistan politics and foreign policy, ethnic identity, South Asia politics, cultural studies and conflict resolution and peace.