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How Has the Russia-Ukraine War Changed the International Security Environment?
February 27, 2023 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Please join the Russia and Eurasia Program and the Center for Strategic Studies at The Fletcher School for a panel discussion marking the one-year anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine war. The conversation will focus on the international security lessons of the war. The event will be chaired by Professor Monica Toft, and the panelists will include Professor Daniel Drezner, Professor Kelly Greenhill, and visiting scholars Pavel Luzin and Volodymyr Dubovyk. The event is open to the public. Please make sure to register via myFletcher to participate in the event in person. The panel discussion will be followed by a reception in the Hall of Flags.
Daniel Drezner is Professor of International Politics, a nonresident senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and Co-Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School. Prior to joining Fletcher, he taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has previously held positions with Civic Education Project, the RAND Corporation, and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and he has received fellowships from the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Harvard University. He has written seven books, including All Politics is Global (2009) and Theories of International Politics and Zombies (2011), and edited three others, including The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence (2021). He has published articles in numerous scholarly journals as well as in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Politico, and Foreign Affairs, and has been a regular contributor to Foreign Policy and The Washington Post. He received his B.A. in political economy from Williams College and an M.A. in economics and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. | |
Monica Toft is Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies at The Fletcher School. She is also a research associate at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford and at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. While at Harvard, she directed the Initiative on Religion in International Affairs and served as Assistant Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies. Toft’s areas of research include international security, ethnic and religious violence, civil wars, and demography. Her most recent books include Securing the Peace (2011), Political Demography (2012), and God’s Century (2012). Her forthcoming book is Dying by the Sword: The Militarization of US Foreign Policy (2023). Toft holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. | |
Volodymyr Dubovyk is an Associate Professor, Department of International Relations and Director of the Center for International Studies, Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University in Ukraine. He is one of the preeminent Ukrainian experts in the fields of international affairs, security studies, and foreign policy analysis. Dubovyk has conducted research at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1997, 2006-2007, the latter being his first Fulbright), and at the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland (2002). He taught at the University of Washington in 2013 as well as St. Edwards University and the University of Texas from 2016-17 (his second Fulbright). He is co-author of Ukraine and European Security (1999) and has published numerous articles on U.S.-Ukraine relations, regional and international security, and Ukraine’s foreign policy. Dubovyk's areas of expertise include Black Sea regional security, Ukraine’s foreign policy and security, transatlantic relations, and U.S.-Ukraine relations. | |
Pavel Luzin , Ph.D. in international relations (IMEMO, 2012), is a researcher of Russia’s foreign policy and defense, space policy, and global security issues. Luzin is a contributor to the Foreign Policy Research Institute (USA), the Jamestown Foundation (USA), and Riddle (Intersection Foundation, Lithuania). In 2017–2018, he was a consultant on armed forces, law enforcement agencies, and defense industry issues for Alexei Navalny’s presidential campaign. In 2016–2018, he was a consultant on Russia’s domestic politics for the “Nations in Transit” project at Freedom House (USA). In 2013–2014, Luzin was a research fellow at IMEMO (Russia). In 2013, he was an assistant to the editor-in-chief of the Security Index journal at PIR Center (Russia). Luzin was also a lecturer and senior lecturer at Perm State University (Russia) in 2010–2017, a senior lecturer at HSE (Perm campus, Russia) in 2011–2013, and a visiting assistant professor at HSE (Perm campus, Russia) in 2018–2019. | |
Kelly Greenhill is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. Her research focuses on foreign and defense policy, the politics of information, the use of military force, and "new security challenges." Greenhill is author of Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion and Foreign Policy (2011). Her research has also appeared in a variety of other venues, including the journals International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, Civil Wars, Political Science Quarterly, European Law Journal and International Migration; media outlets such as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post and the British Broadcasting Company; and in briefs prepared for argument before the U.S. government. Before coming to Tufts, Greenhill held pre- or post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard's Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and Belfer Center, Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation, and Columbia University's Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. She holds a Ph.D. and an S.M. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a C.S.S. from Harvard University, and a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. |