The Seeds of Conflict with Russia

compacts underpinning the US-led world order. Now, the relationship between Russia and the West is so fraught some commentators are drawing comparisons to the Cold War. How did we reach this impasse? Is the root of the current conflict Russian bellicosity or heavy handed Western hegemony? Join us for this timely discussion, hosted by the Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security Chapter of the Alexander Hamilton Society. 
Discussants – Dr. Yuval Weber and Ian Brzezinski 
Ian Brzezinski is a Resident Senior Fellow with the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and is on the Atlantic Council's Strategic Advisors Group. Brzezinski worked on national security and foreign policy issues for seven years on Capitol Hill, and served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO policy (2001-05). He  was a legislative assistant for national security affairs to the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Bill Roth, (1995–2000) and then served as a senior professional staff member on the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (2000–2001).
Dr Yuval Weber is the inaugural Daniel Morgan Graduate School – Kennan Institute Fellow Most recently, Dr. Weber taught at Harvard University, where he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department on Government and a Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Research Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. He is on leave from National Research University–Higher School of Economics in Russia, where he is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs. He has also served as a researcher at the Carnegie Moscow Center and the New Economic School in Moscow.