Peter Slezkine is Senior Fellow and Director of the Russia Program at the Stimson Center and host of The Trialogue Podcast, a series of one-on-one conversations featuring guests from the United States, Russia, and China. He has expertise on US foreign policy, the former Soviet Union, and Sino-Russian relations.
Prior to joining the Stimson Center, Slezkine was Director of the Monterey Trialogue (USA-Russia-China) at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. He received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and has held fellowships at East China Normal University, the Wilson Center, the Clements Center at the University of Texas, Austin, the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School, and International Security Studies at Yale University.
His writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The National Interest, The New Republic, and Russia in Global Affairs, among others. He is currently completing a book on the ideological origins and political impact of the American concept of the “free world.”
