Please join the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School for a lunch talk by Professor Robert Legvold (F67) of Columbia University. He will discuss the current state of U.S.-Russia relations and the threats of the new nuclear age. Attendance is by registration only on Eventbrite.

Robert Legvold is Marshall D. Shulman Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, where he specialized in the international relations of the post-Soviet states. He was director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace-sponsored “Euro-Atlantic Security Initiatives” (2009-2012) and project director for “Rethinking U.S. Policy toward Russia” at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008-2010). He also served as Director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University (1986-1992). Before that, he served on the faculty of the Department of Political Science at Tufts University and as Senior Fellow and Director of the Soviet Studies Project at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Social Sciences. Legvold’s areas of particular interest are the foreign policies of former Soviet Union states and U.S. relations with them. His most recent book is Return to Cold War (2016). His work has been published by Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution, Routledge, The National Interest, and Foreign Affairs. He received his Ph.D. from The Fletcher School in 1967.