Adaptation Game: Russia’s Wartime Foreign Policy

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) present “Adaptation Game: Russia’s Wartime Foreign Policy” with Dr. Hanna Notte.

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 produced a rupture with the United States and Europe not seen since the Cold War. As a result, the Kremlin refocused Russia’s entire state machinery on one purpose: To outlast the West. Dr. Hanna Notte’s lecture will address how Russia adapted its global statecraft—that is, the art of wielding power abroad through economic, military, political, and propagandistic means—to serve the needs of a long war. From procuring Iranian drone technology, via championing the BRICS, to fueling fears of nuclear escalation, Russia has emerged as an actor that learns, improvises, and exploits global fractures, within and beyond the West. Notte will reflect on the implications of this endless adaption game for the war in Ukraine, for Russia’s future, and for global order.

Dr. Hanna Notte is the director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS). She is also a senior associate (non-resident) with the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and an associate fellow with the Kennan Institute. Her expertise is in Russian foreign policy, the Middle East, and arms control and nonproliferation.

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