This will be a conversation about the notion of the free world, stemming from a May 6, 2022, Foreign Affairs article published by Peter Slezkine (East China Normal University). In this article, Slezkine argues that the Cold War idea of the free world maps only inaccurately onto the current war in Ukraine. Joining him to debate this idea are Anatol Lieven (Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft) and Jeffrey Gedmin (American Purpose), who will offer their perspectives on the connections between the Cold War past and the 21st-century present, asking whether the free world is itself in trouble or is once again salient and ascendant.

• Panelists:
  • Peter Slezkine, Postdoctoral Fellow, East China Normal University
  • Anatol Lieven, Senior Research Fellow on Russia and Europe, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
  • Jeff Gedmin, CEO/Editor in Chief, American Purpose
• Moderator: Michael Kimmage, Professor of History, The Catholic University of America

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