On 17 March, NYU Prague will host NYU Professor Mark Galeotti for a talk on current affairs related to Russia and the Ukraine crisis. The premise for the talk is that the crisis in Ukraine is as much as anything else a crisis in relations between Moscow and the West. Professor Galeotti will consider what brought us to this place and how this “hot peace” will develop. This event is open to the public and members of the community will also attend.
Mark Galeotti is Professor of Global Affairs at New York University and an expert on modern Russian politics and security. He has worked for the British Foreign Office, consulted for the US State Department, NATO and other government agencies, and been a visiting professor in Moscow at MGIMO, the Russian foreign ministry’s university. He has published widely, with 15 authored and edited books to his name–his most recent, a study of the Russian Spetsnaz special forces, comes out in June–as well as numerous articles in the academic, professional and popular press.He studied history at Cambridge University and took his doctorate in Russian politics at the LSE and now lives in New York.