Nuclear Intimidation, A Russian Success Story

Nuclear Intimidation, A Russian Success Story

Speaker: Mr. Keir Giles (Chatham House) Date: 5 September 2023 Speaker Session Summary Russia’s long-term information operations (IO) and influence campaigns have altered how US and Western decision makers perceive the risk level of Russia using a nuclear weapon....
Concepts of Influence Beyond Punishment and Denial: A Combined Effect Analysis of China, Russia, and Iran

Concepts of Influence Beyond Punishment and Denial: A Combined Effect Analysis of China, Russia, and Iran

Speaker: Brig Gen (Ret) Thomas Drohan (Professor Emeritus of Military and Strategic Studies, U.S. Air Force Academy; Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies) Date: 29 August 2023 Speaker Series Summary Authoritarian states more frequently use a whole-of-society...
Safety and Security of Nuclear Installations in Ukraine and Implications for Future Conflicts

Safety and Security of Nuclear Installations in Ukraine and Implications for Future Conflicts

Speaker: Ms. Darya Dolzikova (RUSI) Date: 1 August 2023 Speaker Session Summary The war in Ukraine is raising questions about the security of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants and the safety of civilians who are in their proximity. Military and civilian leaders in other...
Back to the Future: Trajectories, Simulations and Alternative Futures of Great Power Competition

Back to the Future: Trajectories, Simulations and Alternative Futures of Great Power Competition

Speaker: Dr. Mark Abdollahian (Claremont Graduate University; Acertas) Date: 12 July 2023 Speaker Session Summary The US and China have been locked in a great power competition (GPC) that will decide who has more political influence among both developing and developed...
Spheres of Influence in the Coming Decades: Four Alternative Scenarios

Spheres of Influence in the Coming Decades: Four Alternative Scenarios

Speakers: Dr. Mathew Burrows (Stimson Center), Mr. Collin Meisel (Stimson Center), Mr. Caleb Petry (Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures), Dr. Jonathan D. Moyer (Josef Korbel School of International Studies; Frederick S. Pardee Center for International...
Russian Uncrewed Systems in Ukraine

Russian Uncrewed Systems in Ukraine

Speaker: Mr. Samuel Bendett (Center for Naval Analyses) Date: 6 July 2023 Speaker Session Summary The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is having a significant impact on the war in Ukraine, changing how Russia and Ukraine are actively fighting and carrying out...