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"Lost Opportunities in Russian-American Relations"
Dr. Roger Kanet
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Planned Remarks:
Throughout the 1990s, the specific issues that increasingly divided Moscow and Washington, after the very brief period of Russia’s virtually identifying its policy with that of the United States, concerned a growing series of issues that continue to divide the two countries today. They began with NATO expansion and the more general incorporation of former Soviet dependencies and constituent republics into what Moscow views as a U.S.-dominated political and security sphere. After a brief attempt to reestablish a collaborative relationship on the basis of equality after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States and after the beginnings of the turnaround in the Russian economy, President Putin seemingly decided that Russia should ‘go it alone,’ that continued efforts to gain acceptance as an equal participant in the various ‘Western clubs’ would fail and that Moscow would always be treated by the West as an outsider.
Dr. Kanet will discuss the lost opportunities in U.S.-Russia relations during the last two decades, the continuing challenges to the Obama Administration and possible future scenarios for the relationship.
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Speaker's Biography:
Dr. Roger E. Kanet is a professor in the Department of International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, at the University of Miami. His major teaching and research interests focus on post-communist Europe, on questions of European and global security, democratization and nationalism, both in a comparative perspective, and on aspects of U.S. foreign and security policy.
He joined the faculty at the University of Miami in 1997. From 1997 to 2000, he served as dean of the School of International Studies. From 2002 to 2004, he was director of undergraduate studies in the Department of International Studies.
Prior to 1997, Kanet spent 24 years at the University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign. From 1989 until August of 1997, he served as associate vice chancellor for academic affairs and director of international programs and studies. A leading authority on the politics of Russia, the other Soviet successor states, and Eastern Europe, he continued to teach political science, though most of his university effort was in administering programs at Illinois.
Kanet also has taught at the University of Kansas, United Colleges of Central Kansas and the Army Command and Staff College, and was a joint fellow at the Research Institute on Communist Affairs and Russian Institute at Columbia University. He has made more than 300 presentations to universities and various professional and civic organizations in the United States and abroad.
His non-academic experience includes consultancies for United States Information Agency, the U.S. State Department and the Institute for Public Policy Development. Kanet also has served on advisory committees for the Hudson Institute’s Center for Central European and Eurasian Studies, the University of Maryland’s East – South Project, the Republican National Committee and Interaction Systems Inc., to name a few.
His professional memberships include the Council on Foreign Relations; International Political American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; International Committee for Soviet and East European Studies; Association of International Education Administrators; and others.
Kanet earned a PhB at Berchmonskolleg in Pullach-bei-München, Germany; an AB from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio; an MA from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Penna.; and an AM and PhD from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.
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World Affairs Council of the Florida Palm Beaches
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