Join us for an open discussion of why Putin started that war in the first place. Was the war inevitable, or was it just another unfortunate flux of history? Finally, what is Putin’s end-game?
Professor and Principal Research Scholar, Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Visiting Scholar and Lecturer, Princeton University; Associate, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Dr. Steiner will propose specific ways to actualize her proposals. Her understanding and recommendations are presented in two non-psychological contexts -- accountability through international law and power politics -- within which international conflict resolution must be forged.
As an expert on authoritarian regimes and dictatorships, he has thought deeply about trends in political life in Russia during the first year of the war. He will discuss these trends at the seminar and, with the aid of photographs, will offer commentary on a funeral he witnessed for a Wagner Group mercenary who was killed in Ukraine in December 2022.
