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Joshua Yaffa

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Andrey Bartenev

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Nina Khrushcheva

Jeffrey Sachs

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Karen Dawisha

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Andranik Migranyan

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Fiona Hill

Book talk with Fiona Hill, co-author of “Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin.” Fiona Hill is director of the Center on the United States and Europe, and senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at The Brookings Institution. She is a frequent commentator on Russian and Eurasian affairs, who has researched and published extensively on issues related to Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, regional conflicts, energy, and strategic issues. She is also the co-author of the forthcoming book, Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin(Brookings Press, 2013). Discussant: Stephen Sestanovich, Columbia UniversityThis talk was part of this year's “Corruption and Patronage” core project. The project examines these issues both within Eurasian societies and comparatively, and asks a provocative question: do corruption and patron/client favoritism always impede progress, or instead are they a way to get things done in societies that lack well institutionalized legal systems?For information on Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin(Brookings Press, 2013), follow the link below.

Book talk with Fiona Hill, co-author of “Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin.” Fiona Hill is director of the Center on the United States and Europe, and senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at The Brookings Institution. She is a frequent commentator on Russian and Eurasian affairs, who has researched and published extensively on issues related to Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, regional conflicts, energy, and strategic issues. She is also the co-author of the forthcoming book, Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin(Brookings Press, 2013). Discussant: Stephen Sestanovich, Columbia University This talk was part of this year's “Corruption and Patronage” core project. The project examines these issues both within Eurasian societies and comparatively, and asks a provocative question: do corruption and patron/client favoritism always impede progress, or instead are they a way to get things done in societies that lack well institutionalized legal systems? For information on Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin(Brookings Press, 2013), follow the link below.

Book Talk with Fiona Hill April 11 2013 “Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin” .audioonly

Thane Gustafson

Two decades after the end of the Soviet Union, the legacy of Soviet-era oil assets is beginning to run down. The next generation of Russian oil will be more demanding and higher-cost. This has serious implications for the Russian state, which depends on oil revenues as never before. Is there a crisis ahead, or will higher global prices, arctic offshore, and/or US-style ‘tight oil’ come to the rescue?Thane Gustafson is Professor of Government at Georgetown University and IHS Senior Director for Eurasian Energy.Co-sponsored with the Center on Global Energy Policy, School of International &amp; Public Affairs.WHEEL OF FORTUNE: THE BATTLE FOR OIL AND POWER IN RUSSIA (Harvard University Press, October 2012). Electronic books are available for Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo, Google, and in PDF. Watch the video trailer at the link below. Link to website

Two decades after the end of the Soviet Union, the legacy of Soviet-era oil assets is beginning to run down. The next generation of Russian oil will be more demanding and higher-cost. This has serious implications for the Russian state, which depends on oil revenues as never before. Is there a crisis ahead, or will higher global prices, arctic offshore, and/or US-style ‘tight oil’ come to the rescue? Thane Gustafson is Professor of Government at Georgetown University and IHS Senior Director for Eurasian Energy. Co-sponsored with the Center on Global Energy Policy, School of International &amp; Public Affairs. WHEEL OF FORTUNE: THE BATTLE FOR OIL AND POWER IN RUSSIA (Harvard University Press, October 2012). Electronic books are available for Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo, Google, and in PDF. Watch the video trailer at the link below. Link to website

Thane Gustafson Wheel of Fortune Challenges Ahead for Russian Oil.audioonly

David Holloway

A a lecture by David Holloway, Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford University.Discussant: Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor and Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.The first thermonuclear weapons tests (1952-1955) had a profound impact on the political leaders of the three nuclear powers of the time including the Soviet Union, leading them to view a general nuclear war as unacceptable in some profound if ill-defined sense. In this talk Dr. Holloway will make use of some newly available materials to examine the development of military strategy in the Soviet Union from 1953 up to the SALT agreements of 1972. What is the appropriate strategy for an unacceptable war? How did Soviet thinking about war change over this time? What shaped the development of Soviet military strategy? This paper draws on a larger project on the international history of nuclear weapons. Dr. Holloway will therefore discuss Soviet military strategy in the context of the US-Soviet arms race and explore the impact of American policy and American ideas on Soviet thinking.

A a lecture by David Holloway, Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford University. Discussant: Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor and Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. The first thermonuclear weapons tests (1952-1955) had a profound impact on the political leaders of the three nuclear powers of the time including the Soviet Union, leading them to view a general nuclear war as unacceptable in some profound if ill-defined sense. In this talk Dr. Holloway will make use of some newly available materials to examine the development of military strategy in the Soviet Union from 1953 up to the SALT agreements of 1972. What is the appropriate strategy for an unacceptable war? How did Soviet thinking about war change over this time? What shaped the development of Soviet military strategy? This paper draws on a larger project on the international history of nuclear weapons. Dr. Holloway will therefore discuss Soviet military strategy in the context of the US-Soviet arms race and explore the impact of American policy and American ideas on Soviet thinking.

David Holloway Soviet Nuclear Strategy in the Shadow of Nuclear War.audioonly

Leonid Parfyonov.audioonly

Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen Book Talk, "The Man Without a Face"

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