Bear at the Border: Russian Foreign Policy in Europe
Feb. 5, 2019, 4:00-6:00pm
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Room S354, Cambridge, MA
Join Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies for a seminar on the Russian government’s strategy toward Europe, the levers of influence at the Kremlin's disposal and how it wields them in Eastern vs. Western Europe.
Speakers:
Irina Busygina, professor of political science, department of political science, National Research University—Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg
Alina Polyakova, David M. Rubenstein Fellow for Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution; adjunct professor of European studies, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
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