How the Peace Was Lost, with Richard Sakwa

Sunday March 10th @1:00 PM (after return to Daylight Saving Time)

Come hear the prolific chronicler of recent Russian history, Richard Sakwa, describe how the post-Cold-War peace was “lost” due to U.S. pursuit of unipolarity under the moral banner of “liberalism contesting with autocracy.” Sakwa explores both the continuities and discontinuities since the end of the Second World War, but particularly since 1990, around this tension between a security order centered in the West, on the one hand, and one based on the UN Charter and sovereign internationalism, on the other. After the recent eruption of both cold and hot wars out of that tension, is a peace agenda possible and realistic?

Richard Sakwa is Professor Emeritus of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent, England. He has written extensively on the Putin regime (The Putin Paradox; Putin and the Oligarchs), Ukraine (Frontline Ukraine: Trouble in the Borderlands), and Russian relations with the West (Deception). His most recent book, The Lost Peace: How the West Failed to Prevent a New Cold War, explores the crucial issues of “liberal hegemony,” UN Charter internationalism, and the realistic path to creating a secure and peaceful world.