Saturday May 4, 1:40 - 3:40 PM
CHAIR
Aaron Erlich
(McGill U, Canada)
PAPERS
Henry Hale
(George Washington U, US)
Support for Territorial Expansion
Luyang Zhou
(Brown U, US)
Tearing up Empire: The Military Breakup of the Soviet Union
Thomas Sherlock
(United States Military Academy, West Point, US)
Russian Society and Foreign Policy: Mass and Elite Orientations after Crimea
Dumitru Minzarari
(U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US)
Re-assembling a Russian Empire:
Annexing Territories through Deceiving Hearts and Minds
Ruslan Dokhov
(Moscow State U, Russia)
Empire or Nation? Post-Soviet Dynamics of
Basic Geopolitical Concepts in Russia: Semantic Analysis
DISCUSSANT
Carolina de Stefano
(U of Eastern Finland, Finland)