Please join the Fletcher Eurasia Club for a lunch seminar about the state of Russia’s military with Ariel Cohen, Senior Fellow and Managing Director of the Energy, Growth, and Security program at the International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC). He will discuss the current state of Russian foreign policy, how it has been shaped by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and Russia’s broader ambitions to compete with Europe and the West.

We encourage you to read in advance the following articles by Cohen and other scholars on the Russia-Ukraine war, with particular attention to Moscow’s pressure points, disinformation campaigns, Ukraine’s economic policies, and how energy revenues have fueled the war. 

The Eurasia Club weekly lunch seminar series engages with students, faculty, staff, and researchers to foster a better understanding of the region among members of the Fletcher community. Members of the wider Tufts community are also welcome to attend. Please register via myFletcher to attend the event in person. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like to submit discussion questions for the speaker in advance.

Lunch will be served following the conversation. Please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions, and we will do our best to accommodate you.

Ariel Cohen, L.L.B., Ph.D., is an internationally renowned expert on energy policy, Russia, Eurasia, Eastern and Central Europe, and the Middle East. He is a recognized authority on political and security risk management, economic development, investment policy, the rule of law, crime and corruption, market entry strategies, and other aspects of state-business relations. Cohen is a Senior Fellow and Managing Director of the Energy, Growth, and Security program at the International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC). He also serves as a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He is a member of the prestigious Loisach Group at the George Marshall Center in Garmisch, Bavaria, Germany. Until July 2014, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. He conducts White House briefings and regularly lectures at the request of U.S. government institutions: the U.S. Department of State, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Training and Doctrine and Special Forces Commands of the U.S. Armed Services, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Cohen frequently testifies before committees of the U.S. Congress, including the Senate and House Foreign Relations Committees, the House Armed Services Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, and the Helsinki Commission.