Join the author Mitchell Orenstein for a discussion of his book "The Lands in Between. Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War" (Oxford UP, 2019). Orenstein is Professor and Chair of Russian and East European Studies … Read more
Larry Diamond will speak on the vital issues he addresses in his major new book, Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition and American Complacency (Penguin Random House). The book has been described as a “personal, passionate call to action … Read more
Dr. Celeste Wallander is President and CEO of the U.S.-Russia Foundation. She served as Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior Director for Russia/Eurasia on the National Security Council (2013-2017). She's held several teaching positions as professor at American University … Read more
Join us for a presentation and discussion with the authors Sam Greene and Graeme Robertson of their book "Putin v. the People The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia" (Yale University Press, 2019). About the book What do ordinary Russians … Read more
Prof. Hiroaki Kuromiya (Indiana University); author of Stalin (2005) & Conscience on Trial: The Fate of Fourteen Pacifists in Stalin's Ukraine, 1952-53 (2012) Prof. William Taubman (Amherst College); Pulitzer Prize winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era (2005) … Read more
Talk by Ambassador Deborah McCarthy with welcome remarks by Ambassador Ronald Neumann, president of the American Academy of Diplomacy, and Barbara Stephenson, vice provost for global affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill and a former U.S. ambassador. Graeme Robertson, director of the … Read more
The Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs will host a virtual roundtable on Friday, March 26 from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. to discuss a new partnership with the American Academy of Diplomacy and the podcast, The General and … Read more
Amb. John Tefft, former U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation, Lithuania, Georgia and Ukraine, will address Russia’s near abroad policy and the implications of Russia’s increased military and diplomatic power on the international stage. Amb. Deborah McCarthy, senior fellow at Harvard University and member … Read more
Dr. Gulnaz Sharafutdinova is Professor of Russian Politics at King’s College London. Her research interests focus on Russian national and regional politics, political economy, and social psychology. She is the author of The Red Mirror: Putin’s Leadership and Russia’s Insecure … Read more
Ambassador Kent D. Logsdon currently serves as the US Ambassador to Moldova. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Head of the US Embassy Mission in Berlin, Germany, serving as Chargé d’Affaires from January 2017 to May 2018. His previous … Read more
