The virtual seminar will be held from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. (E.T.)
The Ukrainian conflict has wrecked the long standing political foundations of Russia–U.S. strategic stability and revived the threat of a nuclear war that seemed to have been completely eliminated in the early 1990s. More broadly, the current relationship between Russia and the West marks a turning point in the evolution of European and global politics over the last fifty years. This presentation will consider how this crisis has emerged, its influence on views of strategic stability, nuclear deterrence and arms control. It will consider how Russia and the U.S. might resume their dialogue on arms control, if nuclear escalation of the conflict is avoided and the conflict in Ukraine resolved peacefully or as part of moving to that goal.
About the speaker: Alexei Arbatov is the head of the Center for International Security at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the official Soviet delegation for START I negotiations, vice chairman of the liberal Yabloko Party (Russian United Democratic Party), and deputy chairman of the Duma Defense Committee. He has written widely on global security, strategic stability, non-proliferation and disarmament, Russian domestic and foreign policy issues.