WACH Young Professionals present: The New Cold War?: Ukraine, Putin & the European Union

The World Affairs Council of Houston Young Professionals present The New Cold War?: Ukraine, Putin & the European Union.

Featuring:
Nadiya Kravets (pictured)
Harvard University

With increasing violence in Ukraine, thousands of Russian troops amassed near the border and the U.S. sending hundreds of troops to Eastern European NATO allies, this is the highest level of tension and potential conflict between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War.

How did Ukraine become so divided, and why is it so vital to Putin? Are covert Russian special forces already operating within Ukraine? Will the European Union and the U.S. be willing to take any serious economic sanctions? And what are the energy implications for the region and could exported U.S. natural gas make much of an impact?

Nadiya Kravets is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. She received her PhD from the University of Oxford. Her dissertation dealt with the domestic sources of Ukraine’s foreign and security policy since independence. Kravets also has an MPhil in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Oxford.

Her areas of expertise include: Soviet and post-Soviet Russian foreign policy, foreign policy of the European Union, Ukraine's foreign and security policies, and relations between former Soviet republics. Currently Kravets is coordinating three collaborative research projects: on the Black Sea Security in a Changing Global Order, on the Economy and Politics of Energy Intermediaries in Ukraine, and on the Making of Ukraine's Foreign Policy.

Please register in advance as this event may reach capacity. Heavy appetizers served. Please be sure to register.