Where Is Putin Taking Russia: Implications For US Foreign Policy

Where is Putin Taking Russia: Implications for US Foreign Policy

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Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 12:00am-1:30am (ended)

223 Moses Hall 

Thomas Graham
Managing Director, Kissinger Associates and Senior Fellow Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University

Since he rose to power over a decade ago, Russian President Putin has striven to reassert Russia as a great power.  His recent initiative on Syria has put it back on center stage, at least in the Middle East.  But Russia's slowing economic growth and a range of foreign policy challenges raise questions about its future as a great power.  What does Putin's Russia need to do domestically and abroad to fulfill its great-power ambitions?  And can it succeed?

Co-sponsored by the Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies.