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SUMMARY:Workshop - The soviet legacy: political economy\, conflict\, and en
 vironmental change
DESCRIPTION:January 18-19\, 2027Theme and ScopeCurrent geopolitical tension
 s have renewed attention to the enduring legacy of the Soviet Union in sha
 ping contemporary patterns of political conflict\, economic integration\, 
 state capacity\, and environmental vulnerability across Eurasia and beyond
 . By bringing historical and geoeconomic perspectives into dialogue with c
 urrent policy debates\, the workshop aims to deepen our understanding of h
 ow Soviet-era institutions\, infrastructures\, and political dynamics cont
 inue to influence present-day economic\, environmental\, and geopolitical 
 outcomes.This event aims to bring together leading and early-career resear
 chers working on the economic\, environmental and political legacy of the 
 Soviet Union\, with a particular emphasis on political economy\, internati
 onal\, and environmental economics. We welcome contributions from empirica
 l\, theoretical\, and policy perspectives.ProgrammeMonday\, 18 January8:30
  Registration and coffee9:30 Welcome by the organizersSession 1: State Rep
 ression and the Hidden Costs of Soviet AuthoritarianismChair: Alexey Makar
 in09:15 - 09:55 Viktor Veterinarov (Sciences Po)Under Soviet State Repress
 ion: The Lasting Impact on Inventive OutputDiscussant: Nikita Zakharov (Un
 iversity of Freiburg)09:55 - 10:35 Kampui Tsang (Hong Kong Baptist Univers
 ity)Hidden Soviet Military-Industrial Contamination Shaped Long-Run Health
  OutcomesDiscussant: Olga Shemyakina (Georgia Institute of Technology)10:3
 5 - 10:55 - Coffee Break10:55 - 11:55 Keynote: Volha Charnysh (Massachuset
 ts Institute of Technology)Title to be announcedChair: Alexey Makarin11:55
  - 13:00 - LunchSession 2: Beliefs and Values: Legacies of Repression and 
 TransitionChair: Jean-François Maystadt13:00 - 13:40 Daniil Starikov (Uni
 versity of Chicago\, Harris School)&nbsp\;The Threat of Faith: The Determi
 nants and Legacies of Soviet Anti-Religious RepressionDiscussant: Amma Pan
 in (UCLouvain)13:40 - 14:20 William Pyle (Middlebury College)Russian Socie
 ty\, Democratic Values\, and the Legacy of the Early-1990s Economic ShockD
 iscussant: Natalya Naumenko (GMU)14:20 - 14:40 - Coffee BreakSession 3: In
 stitutions and State-Building after the Soviet CollapseChair: Natalya Naum
 enko14:40 - 15:20 Leonid Polishchuk (Indiana University)Post- Communist Tr
 ansition as Critical Juncture: Theory and Empirical EvidenceDiscussant: Wi
 lliam Pyle (Middlebury College)15:20 - 16:00 Berkeren Büyükeren (Univers
 itat Pompeu Fabra)&nbsp\;Remaking the State from Below: Local Government F
 ormation in UkraineDiscussant: Anders Olofsgård (Stockholm School of Econ
 omics\, SITE)16:00 - 16:20 - Coffee BreakSession 4: Conflict: National Ide
 ntity and the Economic Costs of WarChair: Jean-François Maystadt16:20 - 1
 7:00 Serhii Abramenko (Rome Economics Doctorate)&nbsp\;War and Nation-Buil
 ding: Evidence from Ukraine&nbsp\;Discussant: Roya Talibova (Harvard Kenne
 dy School)17:00 - 17:40 Timo Wochner (KOF\, ETH Zurich)&nbsp\;Economic Dev
 elopment in the Shadow of WarDiscussant: Andrey Tkachenko (Nazarbayev Univ
 ersity)19:00 - Workshop dinner (Table L) - (Upon invitation)TUESDAY\, 19 J
 ANUARY 202709:00 - 09:20 - coffeeSession 5: Media\, Propaganda and Disinfo
 rmationChair: Jean-François Maystadt09:20 -10:00 Yaroslav Prokhorskoy (ES
 SEC Business School)Transmitting Terror: Radio and Repression in Stalin’
 s Soviet UnionDiscussant: Maria Petrova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barc
 elona School of Economics)10:00 - 10:40 Anders Olofsgård (Stockholm Schoo
 l of Economics\, SITE)Countering Disinformation in a Geopolitical Battlegr
 ound: Experimental Evidence on Information\, Civic Appeals\, and Source Cr
 edibility in MoldovaDiscussant: Alexey Makarin (MIT)10:40 - 11:00 - Coffee
  Break11:00 - 12:00 Keynote: Maria Petrova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and B
 arcelona School of Economics)Title to beannouncedChair: Natalya Naumenko12
 :00 - 13:00 - LunchSession 6: Aggression\, Sanctions and Geoeconomic Tools
 Chair: Alexey Makarin13:00 - 13:40 Alena Gorbuntsova (University of Chicag
 o)The Domestic Political Economy of War: Evidence from RussiaDiscussant: L
 orenzo Trimarchi (University of Namur)13:40 - 14:20 Andrey Tkachenko (Naza
 rbayev University)&nbsp\;Speaking the Aggressor’s Language: Identity and
  Sanctions EvasionDiscussant: Konstantin Egorov (University of Antwerp)14:
 20 - 14:30 - Closing remarksOrganizing CommitteeAlexey Makarin (MIT)\,&nbs
 p\;Jean-François Maystadt (UCLouvain)Natalya Naumenko (GMU)With the suppo
 rt of the MIT-Belgium International Science and Technology Initiatives (MI
 STI) Global seeds Funds&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Download the PDF versio
 n of the programme
URL:https://uclouvain.be/en/calendar/ires
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