Please join us noon on Thursday, November 13, 2025 for a lunch seminar with Dr. Thomas F. Remington, Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard University and Goodrich C. White Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science at Emory University. He will discuss whether and how Russia may be held accountable for the war against Ukraine.

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Whether Russia will be held accountable for the crimes it has committed in the Ukraine war will depend on the conditions under which the war ends.  An armistice freezing hostilities along the current front line, accompanied by a cessation of drone and missile attacks by each country, leading to negotiations over Ukraine’s postwar relations with Russia, appears at present to be the likeliest outcome.  If, as a condition of ending Western sanctions, the Russian leadership agrees to take responsibility for its actions in Ukraine, what forms might accountability take and what would be their consequences for Russia and its international relations? What light does the research on transitional justice in other cases  of postwar settlements in ancient and modern times shed on these questions? 

Dr. Thomas F. Remington is Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard University and Goodrich C. White Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science at Emory University.  He is author of a number of books and articles. Among his books are The Returns to Power: A Political Theory of Economic Inequality (Oxford University Press, 2023); Presidential Decrees in Russia: A Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2014); and The Politics of Inequality in Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2011). His research concerns the political sources of economic inequality in the United States, Russia, China and Germany. Currently he is writing a book on the role of competition law in the reconstruction of Europe after World War II.