Please join Harvard's Davis Center and Russia Matters for a talk by Samuel Charap to discuss his new book on the conflict in Ukraine. 

Disorder erupted in Ukraine in 2014, involving the overthrow of a sitting government, the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula, and a violent insurrection, supported by Moscow, in the east of the country. This crisis has yielded a ruinous outcome, in which all the parties are worse off and international security has deteriorated. The upshot has been systematic losses for Russia, the West, and the countries caught in between.  In this new book, Samuel Charap and Timothy J. Colton examine the roots of the Ukraine crisis, offering a coherent narrative of Western and Russian policies in post-Soviet Eurasia since 1991 and providing a balanced assessment of both Russia and the West’s actions post-2014. They argue that all governments involved must recognize the failure of current policies and commit to finding mutually acceptable alternatives.

Copies of Everyone Loses will be available for purchase at the event.

Speaker 

Samuel Charap, senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia, The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)