[Daviscalendar-list] Updated Conference Agenda: Reassessing Post-Soviet Energy Politics

[Davis Center Calendar of Events]

Conference co-sponsored by
The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and The Davis Center for 
Russian and Eurasian Studies

*Reassessing Post-Soviet Energy Politics
Ukraine, Russia, and the Battle for Gas from Central Asia to the 
European Union

7--8 March 2008*
*Center for Government and International Studies
1730 Cambridge St., Case Study Room S020, Cambridge, MA

Register at:  http://www.huri.harvard.edu/calendar.html#2008_3_7-8

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*Session 1. Actors and Interests in the Aftermath of the 2006 Gas Crisis
Friday, March 7, 2008
9:15 a.m.--12:00 noon*

*Chair: Oxana Shevel* 
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Tufts University
Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and 
Eurasian Studies

*Welcome and Opening Remarks*
Timothy Colton
Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

*"The Gas Crisis of 2005-2006: A Retrospective View"*
Lubomyr Hajda
Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute

*"In the Wake of the 2006 Ukrainian--Russian Gas Agreement: New Rules of 
the Game"*
Margarita M. Balmaceda
Associate Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and 
International Relations, Seton Hall University
Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and 
Eurasian Studies

*"Russia and the Rise of Gazprom"*
Rawi Abdelal
Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Faculty Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

*"RosUkrEnergo: The Unexpected Guest Settles in for a Long Stay"*
Roman Kupchinsky
formerly Coordinator of Corruption Studies, RFE/RL, Inc., Prague

*"The Missing Pieces? Central Asia and Its Neighbors"*
Carol Saivetz
Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies


*Session 2.  Gas Trade and Energy Schemes: Their Role in National and 
International Politics
Friday, March 7, 2008
2:30--5:00 p.m.*

*Chair: Lisbeth Tarlow*
Associate Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

*"Current Issues and Challenges in Ukraine's Energy Economy"*
Volodymyr Saprykin
Director of Energy Programs, Ukrainian Centre for Political and Economic 
Studies, Kyiv

*"How the Gas Issue Plays in Ukrainian Politics and How Ukrainian 
Politicians Play the Gas Issue"*
Taras Kuzio
President, Kuzio Associates (an independent consultancy and government 
communications company),  Washington DC and Kyiv.

*"Private Interests and the Russian State: Gazprom and Power"*
Mikhail Zygar
Energy Specialist, Special Correspondent, Kommersant, Moscow

*"Energy: A Case Study in Russia's Political Gamesmanship"*
Marshall Goldman
Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus), 
Wellesley College
former Associate Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies


*"Gas Trade and Politics: The Chain of Political and Econonomic 
Interests from Central Asia to the European Union"*
Martha Brill Olcott
Senior Associate, Russian and Eurasian Program,Carnegie Endowment for 
International Peace in Washington DC

*"Main Current Issues in European--Russian Energy Relations"*
Ferdinand Pavel
Research Associate, German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin
Member, German Advisory Group with the Ukrainian Government, Kyiv

*"The Former Soviet Union and European Energy Security: A View from 
Washington"*
Gene Fishel
Senior Analyst, Bureau of Intelligence and Research,  U.S. Department of 
State (on leave).




*Session 3. From Producer to Consumer: Pricing Mechanisms, Transit, and 
Informal Institutions
Saturday, March 8, 2008
9:30--12:00 noon*

*Chair: Lubomyr Hajda *
Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute

*"Putting a Price on Gas: Pricing Mechanisms---Transparent and Opaque"*
Andrei Konoplyanik
Deputy Secretary General, Energy Charter Secretariat, Brussels

*"Getting the Gas from There to Here: Transit and Transit Competition"*
Christof van Agt
formerly Office of Non-Member Countries, International Energy Agency,  Paris

*"Transition, Weak Institutions, and Intermediary Companies: Filling 
Gaps, Filling Pockets"*
Margarita M. Balmaceda
Associate Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and 
International Relations, Seton Hall University
Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and 
Eurasian Studies

*"Plus a change:  Continuity or Change in Intermediary Company Schemes?"*
Alla Yeremenko
Senior Correspondent, Section of Economic Security, Dzerkalo Tyzhnia / 
Zerkalo Nedeli, Kyiv

*Concluding Remarks*
Margarita M. Balmaceda
Associate Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and 
International Relations, Seton Hall University
Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and 
Eurasian Studies

Lubomyr Hajda
Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute

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