• Date: October 25,  Friday, 2019 10:00 – 17:30
• Place: Room 303, SNUAC (Bldg.101)

Opening ceremony (10:00-10:15)

Session 1 (10:15-12:15)

Moderator: Soo Heon Park (Kyung Hee University)

Presentation 1: Power in Russia under Putin and Russian Politics  (Dong Joo Suh, The Institute for National Security Strategy)

Presentation 2: Power Elites in Russia under Putin (Seho Chang, The Institute for National Security Strategy)

Presentation 3: The Putinist Model of Political Economy: Between the curse of resources and developing nation (Sunwoo Lee,  Political Science & Diplomacy, Chonbuk National University)

Discussion: Soo Heon Park (Kyung Hee University), Yoon Hee Kang (Kookmin University), Seongjin Kim (Duksung Women’s University)

Lunch (12:15-13:30)

Session 2 (13:30-15:30)

Moderator: Bong Gu Kang (Hanyang University)

Presentation 1: State-Society Relationship in Russia under Putin (Beom-Shik Shin, Political Science & Diplomacy, Seoul National University)

Presentation 2: Diplomatic Embodiment of Putinism: Practice and implications (June Mo Woo, International Relations, Sunmoon University)

Presentation 3: Putinism and the Korean Peninsula (Sung Hoon Jeh, Russian, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)

Discussion: Bong Gu Kang (Hanyang University), Seongjin Kim (Duksung Women’s University), Yoon Hee Kang (Kookmin University)

Break (15:30-15:50)

Session 3 (15:50-17:15)  Comprehensive Discussion: Putinism and Future of Russia

On October 25th, there was an academic conference held by the Center for Eurasian and Central Asian Studies on ‘Scrutinizing Putinism and The Future of Russia’. This conference took Putinism that rose along with Vladimir Putin’s long-term rule as an important lens through which to examine contemporary Russia and inspected the politics, economy, society, and diplomacy of Russia that connect to Putinism. The participants discussed the implications that Russia gives to the Korean peninsula through Putinism and the future of Russia.

In the first session, Dong Joo Suh, a researcher at The Institute for National Security Strategy, talked about the political reform and the verticality of power in Russia under Putin, and Seho Chang, a researcher at The Institute for National Security Strategy, examined the recruiting and fostering of power elites in Russia under Putin. Professor Sunwoo Lee (Chonbuk National University) examined the political-economical characteristics of countries rich in resources with the Putinist model as a case and inspected the possibility of such nations evolving into new developing nations. In the second session, Professor Beom-Shik Shin (Seoul National University) examined the state development of post-socialist Russia in the context of the state-society relationship.  Professor June Mo Woo (Sunmoon University) examined the diplomatic intentionality and its case based on a conceptual understanding of Putinism, and Professor Sung Hoon Jeh (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) examined the changes in Russia’s policies on the Korean peninsula after 2000. Finally, in the comprehensive discussion in session 3, all participants discussed whether Putin’s rule would continue on to the 5th term and the future of the Russian economy, thus attempting to picture the overall future of Russia.