THE WAR IN UKRAINE: DINNER AND CONVERSATION WITH PROFESSOR MARK BEISSINGER, HENRY W. PUTNAM PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES - NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Russia’s war in Ukraine ranks among the most momentous geopolitical events of the 21st century. Enjoy in person an authoritative analysis by noted scholar Beissinger, an expert on the former Soviet Union, of what is happening, why, where things are headed and what it means for Russia’s relationship with the West and the East.
This is a rare opportunity to gain powerful insight into and nuanced understanding of the evolution of Russia and Ukraine, a former Soviet state, from one of the leading authorities in the field. Beissinger’s talk will be of deep interest to alumni/ae interested in global politics, history, Russia, the former Soviet Union, International affairs, economics, democracy, autocracy or culture.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2023
5:30 - 7:30 PM CENTRAL
5:30 - 6:00 PM: ARRIVAL
6:00 - 7:00 PM: DINNER AND PROGRAM
7:00 - 7:30 PM: RECEPTION
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300 N LASALLE
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$20 for Members, $25 for Non-Members
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Three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the former Soviet bloc, what’s known as "the new Cold War” has emerged amid Putin’s invasion of Russia’s long-time neighbor, Ukraine. With a complex, centuries-old history that at various times has either united or divided them, the two countries and their relationship hold significant consequences for global political stability and Eurasia.
Since the demise of communism, both countries have lurched through privatization, corruption and rapidly shifting relationships with the West, China and former allies. Amid the rise of Putinism, Russian has become more autocratic. Meanwhile, Ukraine has wrestled with a sharp divide between its Europe-leaning West and Russia-disposed East.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s illegal annexation of Crimea in March 2014, one month after the Maidan Revolution in Kiev ousted the pro-Russia president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, was the first chapter of Putin’s grand plan to bring a country larger than France and its 44 million citizens — both regarded by the Kremlin as Russia’s historical patrimony — back into the fold. With the future of democracy and Europe at stake, Prof. Beissinger will explain why things have unfolded the way they have — and what lies ahead.
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Prof. Mark Beissinger is the Henry W. Putnam Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Politics at Princeton University.
In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, Beissinger is author or editor of six books. His book, Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State (Cambridge University Press, 2002), won multiple awards, including the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book published in the United States in the field of government, politics, or international affairs, and the Mattei Dogan Award for the best book published in the field of comparative research. His new book, The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion (Princeton University Press, 2022), deals with the impact of urbanization on the incidence, practice, and consequences of revolutions around the world over the past century. Beissinger's research has been supported by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the Wissenshaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Science Foundation, the United States Institute for Peace, and the Ford, Rockefeller, and Olin Foundations. He received his B.A. from Duke University in 1976 and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1982.