The Center for the Humanities  at Tufts University is hosting a book talk with Tufts’ Assistant Professor Rachel Applebaum (History) over her latest book, Empire of Friends: Soviet Power and Socialist Internationalism in Cold War Czechoslovakia (2019). The familiar story of Soviet power in Cold War Eastern Europe focuses on political repression and military force. But in Empire of Friends, Rachel Applebaum shows how the Soviet Union simultaneously promoted a policy of transnational friendship with its Eastern Bloc satellites to create…

Please join the Initiative on Religion, Law, and Diplomacy and the Program in International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University for a book talk with Dr. Pamela Steiner of Harvard University. Please make sure to register via Eventbrite to participate in the event on Zoom.

Please join the Institute for Business in the Global Context (IBGC), the Russia and Eurasia Program, and the Edward R. Murrow Center for a Digital World at The Fletcher School for an IBGC Speaks fireside chat with author and journalist Astrid Wendlandt, F99, about the secretive world of fashion and luxury. She will discuss her latest book How Luxury Conquered the World: The Inside Story of its Pioneers (2019). The conversation will be moderated by Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business at The Fletcher School,…

The Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School is pleased to award its second annual U.S.-Russia Relations Book Prize to Professor Norman Naimark of Stanford University for his new book Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty (2019). The award recognizes an outstanding book on historical or contemporary foreign policy discourse pertaining to the past or present of U.S.-Russia relations. Please join us for a book talk by Naimark about the Cold War division of…

Please join MGIMO University's Center for Advanced American Studies Book Talk Series with Chris Miller, Assistant Professor of International History at The Fletcher School, for a discussion on his book, We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin. Chris Miller’s We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin studies many attempts to chart an Asian policy—from bold imperial dreams of a thriving Russian Far East to…

Please join the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School for a book talk with foreign affairs specialist and academic Fiona Hill on her latest work There is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century (2021). Hill's book is a Trump-era memoir that highlights the contemporary social and economic parallels between the United States and Russia, the rise and threat of populism to American democracy, and a prescriptive path forward. Please make sure to register via myFletcher…