The geopolitical situation has changed drastically in the last several months. The news feed is overwhelming and disorienting: the rules on which world diplomacy has operated since the end of WWII seem to have evaporated. The transatlantic allies are at odds, while the victims of aggression are bullied by the leadership of ‘the free world’. Flows of disinformation, often fuelled by generative AI, cause havoc and obstruct the formation of rational political discourse perpetuated in the theories and practices of modern democracies. Can we imagine the future order in this context? As we rapidly crash through previous boundaries, what will the parameters of this new era be? What will it mean for relations between Russia, the UK, the European Union, the United States, and Ukraine?
Join Sir Laurie Bristow, former British Ambassador to Russia (2016-2020) and Afghanistan (2021, during the fall of Kabul to the Taliban), and Dr Julie Newton, Research Fellow at the University of Oxford specialising in EU-Russia relations, for a conversation that will address the roots, present, and possible futures of geopolitical entanglements and the global order.
Based at Oxford University, Dr Julie Newton is Principal Investigator (Director) of the University Consortium, funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, bringing together universities in the US, the EU and formerly in Russia. Newton is also a Research Fellow at the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, where her research focuses on Russian politics and Russia-US-EU relations. Newton holds a BA from Princeton University, a master's from Columbia University, and a DPhil from Oxford. Newton is an Associate Professor at the American University of Paris; in the US, she is a Visiting Professor at Colorado College; and in Russia, she was a regular lecturer for the MGIMO-MGU International Master’s Program in Post-Soviet Politics. Besides published articles, her books include: Russia, France, and the Idea of Europe (Palgrave, 2003), Institutions, Ideas, and Leadership in Russian Politics (Palgrave, 2010)
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