Speakers on the Conflict
Notable perspectives about the conflict from thoughtful individuals.
Tony Blair, former British PM
John Bolton, former national security advisor
Bill Browder, US businessman
Yuval Noah Harari, history professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Fiona Hill, former senior director for European and Russian Affairs, National Security Council
Vladimir Kara-Murza, Russian dissident
Garry Kasparov, former Russian world chess champion
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former Russian oligarch
Martin Kimani, Kenyan envoy to UN
Stephen Kotkin, history professor, Princeton University, and senior fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Kotkin counters John Mearsheimer’s argument that NATO is responsible for the conflict in Ukraine. Another critique of Mearsheimer’s foreign policy realism is offered by Ross Douthat.
Lee Hsien Loong, Singaporean PM
John Mearsheimer, political science professor, University of Chicago
Mearsheimer has argued that NATO was responsible for the conflict in Ukraine leading up to the invasion of 2014. After the repeat invasion of 2022, in an interview with Isaac Chotiner, Mearsheimer appears to misread Vladimir Putin, as pointed out by Daniel Drezner.
Kevin Rudd, former Australian PM
[Program starts at 3:35]
Discussion of China, Russia, and Ukraine.