Crisis and Bargaining Over Ukraine: A New US-Russia Security Order

Join us for a meeting of the New York-Russia Public Policy Series, co-hosted by the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and the New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia.

As Russian troops have amassed on Ukraine’s border, talks aimed at resolving the standoff between Russia and NATO appear to have collapsed. Poland’s Foreign Minister warned that “it seems that the risk of war in the OSCE area is now greater than ever before in the last 30 years.” Russia has been seeking a new European security agreement that would include formal binding pledges to limit NATO’s expansion and military activities across Eastern Europe. US and NATO officials respond that they will not give up on NATO’s principles, especially its “open door” policy towards membership. Ukrainians are bracing for a renewed conflict amidst domestic political turmoil.

Are the Russian and Western positions irreconcilable? How did we get to the brink of another conflict? And how would a Russian-Ukrainian war affect Russian and Ukrainian domestic politics? How would it impact Ukrainian identity and foreign policy goals?

This event is supported by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Speakers

Keith Darden, Associate Professor, School of International Service, American University
Olena Lennon, Adjunct Professor of Political Science and National Security, University of New Haven
Olga Onuch, Associate Professor in Politics, University of Manchester
Mary Sarotte, Kravis Professor of Historical Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Maxim Suchkov, Director of the Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University

Moderated by:
Alexander Cooley, Claire Tow Professor of Political Science, Barnard College
Joshua Tucker, Director of the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, New York University