U.S. and Russia: How It Came to This

Michael McFaul, professor of political science, director and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and author of From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018), draws on his experience as Obama's ambassador to Russia to examine how the U.S./Russia relationship went from the thaw at the end of the Cold War to the current tensions over Syria, Ukraine, and the interference in the 2016 elections.

→ Event: He’ll be speaking at the Columbia-NYU New York Russia Public Policy Series on May 9 from 5-7 PM. More information and tickets here.