Please join the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School for a conversation with James Mackey, Director of Security Policy and Partnerships in the Political Affairs and Security Policy Division at NATO Headquarters. He will discuss NATO’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Please make sure to register via myFletcher to participate in the event on Zoom.

Speakers:

James H. Mackey is the Director of Security Policy and Partnerships in the Political Affairs and Security Policy Division at NATO Headquarters. In this capacity, he is responsible for overseeing NATO’s political relationship with Allies, partner countries, and other international organisations. During his eighteen-year career with NATO, Mr. Mackey has held a wide variety of positions focusing primarily on NATO’s political dialogue and practical cooperation with partner countries. He is a former Luce Scholar, and spent 2000-2001 teaching international relations theory at the Beijing Foreign Affairs College. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from Princeton University and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Chris Miller is Assistant Professor of International History at The Fletcher School and Co-Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program. He has previously served as Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale, a lecturer at the New Economic School in Moscow, a visiting researcher at the Carnegie Moscow Center, a research associate at the Brookings Institution, and a fellow at the German Marshall Fund's Transatlantic Academy. He has written three books, The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR (2016), Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia (2018), and We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin (2021). He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Yale University and his B.A. in history from Harvard University.