Join the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) for an online talk with Amy Woolf and Andrey Baklitskiy on issues addressed by the CSIS and the Moscow-based PIR Center's virtual Track 2 Dialogue on strategic stability with leading Russian and American arms control experts.

On January 21, the Biden administration announced that the U.S. would seek an unconditional, five-year extension to the New START arms control treaty with Russia. After the Kremlin welcomed this news and following a call with President Putin, the Duma ratified the treaty extension. Now the hard work begins. The New START Treaty remains the only bilateral arms control treaty between the United States and Russia following the withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Further transparency measures, such as those contained in the Open Skies Treaty (OST), have also ended with the U.S. withdrawal and subsequent announcement that Russia would also withdraw from the OST.

At the end of 2020, CSIS and the Moscow-based PIR Center hosted a virtual Track 2 Dialogue on strategic stability with leading Russian and American arms control experts. The Dialogue explored how the U.S. and Russia would use the extension of New START to begin to construct a new and modern arms control framework that would address a range of new technologies, cyber and space-based assets, doctrinal changes, particularly in relation to use of non-strategic and low-yield nuclear weapons, and the multilateral context in which these negotiations must now take place. These issues must be discussed against a background of deep distrust and a growing list of bilateral tensions. How will Washington and Kremlin use the next five years to achieve greater strategic ability and what are the prospects for a new arms control architecture or paradigm?

Registration information is available on the event page.

Speakers:

Amy Woolf, specialist in nuclear weapons policy; Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division of the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress

Andrey Baklitskiy, senior research fellow, Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University of the Russian Foreign Ministry