BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Missouri State University/Calendar of Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7bf8c1e1-a0ba-4794-8a0d-09545707819f.234069@calendar.missouristate.edu CREATED:20240126T220132Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240126T220132Z LOCATION:Roy Blunt Hall 345 SUMMARY:SEES Seminar: "Revisiting Arguments about the Breakup of the Russi an Federation" DESCRIPTION:Dr. Edward (Ted) Holland\, associate professor of geography\, University of Arkansas\, has research interests that range across a varie ty of topics\, including political violence\, religion\, migration and cr itical geopolitics. His research is generally focused on Russia and the f ormer Soviet Union.\n\n\nThe likelihood of Russia going the way of the So viet Union declined prescipitously in the first two decades of Vladimir P utin's rule. However\, with the outcome of Russia's war in Ukraine undete rmined\, this possibility should again be explored given the uncertainty that revolves around the war and Russia's larger place in the interstate system. This presentation will revisit arguments\, first put forward in t he early to mid-1990s\, about the possibility of the breakup of the Russi an state. Though often viewed as the locations from which such a process would originate\, Russia's republics - regions in the larger federation t hat are territorially defined and represented areas where non-Russian eth nic populations are concentrated - have been generally quiescent during t he two decades of Putin's leadership. Despite Putin's centralization effo rts\, the instability resulting from Russia's war introduces a host of un knowns about the future of the federation as a unified state. This presen tation reviews the current situation in Russia's republics and considers the possibility these regions could serve as the points of origin for the breakdown of the Russian state.\n\n\nThe photo image shown with this sem inar announcement is: the view of the old part of Kubachi\, Dagestan\, fr om a window of the town's tower. Settlements in Dagestan were often built on a ridge line to protect against enemies. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head><title></title></head><body><p><a href="https://geosciences.uark.edu/directory/index/uid/echollan/name/Edw ard+C.+Holland/">Dr. Edward (Ted) Holland</a>\, associate professor of ge ography\, University of Arkansas\, has research interests that range acro ss a variety of topics\, including political violence\, religion\, migrat ion and critical geopolitics. His research is generally focused on Russia and the former Soviet Union.</p>\n<p>The likelihood of Russia going the way of the Soviet Union declined prescipitously in the first two decades of Vladimir Putin's rule. However\, with the outcome of Russia's war in U kraine undetermined\, this possibility should again be explored given the uncertainty that revolves around the war and Russia's larger place in th e interstate system. This presentation will revisit arguments\, first put forward in the early to mid-1990s\, about the possibility of the breakup of the Russian state. Though often viewed as the locations from which su ch a process would originate\, Russia's republics - regions in the larger federation that are territorially defined and represented areas where no n-Russian ethnic populations are concentrated - have been generally quies cent during the two decades of Putin's leadership. Despite Putin's centra lization efforts\, the instability resulting from Russia's war introduces a host of unknowns about the future of the federation as a unified state . This presentation reviews the current situation in Russia's republics a nd considers the possibility these regions could serve as the points of o rigin for the breakdown of the Russian state.</p>\n<p>The photo image sho wn with this seminar announcement is: <strong>the view of the old part of Kubachi\, Dagestan\, from a window of the town's tower. Settlements in D agestan were often built on a ridge line to protect against enemies.</str ong></p></body></html> DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240216T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240216T153000 SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.geosciences.missouristate.edu CATEGORIES:Public,Alumni,Current Students,Faculty,Future Students END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR