Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest

We know what we need to do, how to do it and at what cost. And we will absolutely accomplish all of our plans – Russian President Vladimir Putin on the war in Ukraine.

On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Russian forces have been reported in major cities across Ukraine, including Berdyansk, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Sumy, and the capital Kyiv and the conflict only continues to worsen.

How did Russia get to this point of conflict, invasion, and war? And what are the likely outcomes for Russia, Ukraine, the United States, and the rest of the international system? What is Putin’s end game?

Join the World Affairs Council of Charlotte virtually on Wednesday, May 4 as we listen to Dr. Angela Stent, a leading expert in Eurasian, Russian, and Eastern European Studies. She will share her expert insight into Putin’s ongoing rampage against western powers, Russia’s turbulent past, and the Russians’ understanding of their position on the global stage. Stent will also foreshadow Russia’s future geopolitical ambitions under Putin’s leadership — and their conviction that the West has tried to deny them a seat at the table of great powers since the USSR collapsed all amidst the current Russian-Ukraine War.

Program Information: 

Date:
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Presentation and Q&A: 
2:00 – 3:00 PM ET
Cost:
WACC Members and UNC Charlotte students/faculty/admin: Free (via Zoom)
$10 (Non-Members)

*Zoom link will be provided to you with registration confirmation

 

 

 

Biography: Angela Stent
Angela Stent is Senior Adviser to the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies and Professor Emerita of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is also a Senior Nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-chairs its Hewett Forum on Post-Soviet Affairs. From 2004-2006 she served as National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council. From 1999 to 2001, she served in the Office of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State.

Stent publications include: From Embargo to Ostpolitik: The Political Economy of West German-Soviet Relations, 1955-1980 (Cambridge University Press, 1981); Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, The Soviet Collapse and The New Europe (Princeton University Pres, 1999); The Limits of Partnership: US-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University Press, 2014), for which she won the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Douglas Dillon prize for the best book on the practice of American Diplomacy. Her latest book is Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and With the Rest (Twelve Books, 2019) for which she won the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy’s prize for the best book on U.S-Russian Relations.

She was a member of the senior advisory panel for NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe for Admiral James Stavridis and General Philip Breedlove. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is a contributing editor to Survival and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Cold War Studies, World Policy Journal, Internationale Politik and Mirovaia Ekonomika i Mezhdunarodnie Otnosheniie. She has served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for Russia and Central Asia. She was a Trustee of the Eurasia Foundation. Dr. Stent received her B.A. from Cambridge University, her MSc. with distinction from the London School of Economics and Political Science and her M.A. and PhD. from Harvard University.