Ongoing tensions between Russia and the United States and its allies pose a major challenge to global peace and security. The lack of communication between the U.S. and Russia increases the risk of an unintentional armed conflict and hampers the resolution of important international security issues where Russia’s constructive engagement is essential. Amid the transition to a more multipolar world, bridging this ever-widening divide remains a critical task.
The Russia program provides a non-partisan platform for non-governmental dialogue between American and Russian experts and retired military leaders with the aim of overcoming strategic divides and addressing issues of common concern. This program was founded during the Cold War at the EastWest Institute (EWI) and relaunched at the Stimson Center in 2021. The program brings together leading representatives of the diplomatic, military, business, academic, and other professional communities from the U.S. and Russia for joint efforts to clarify mutual misperceptions, reduce the risk of inadvertent military confrontation, and develop constructive solutions to major security challenges
Emma Ashford, Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center, joins us to discuss the extent of American interests and the logic of a multipolar world.
May 16, 2025
Da Wei, Director of the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University, joins us to discuss tariffs, the prospects of a trade deal, Russia’s global role, and the coming multipolar order.
May 9, 2025
Robert Agee, President of AmCham Russia, joins us to discuss American business in Russia since the 90s, who left and how after the start of the war in Ukraine, who suffered and benefited from Western sanctions, and the outlook for American (and Chinese) business in Russia going forward
April 25, 2025
Alexander Dynkin and Feodor Voitolovsky, President and Director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations at the Russian Academy of Sciences, join us to discuss their return to Washington, the war in Ukraine, and Sino-Russian relations, among other subjects.
April 18, 2025
Reinhard Krumm of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung joins us to discuss Germany’s reversal on Russia and a new American Ostpolitik.
April 11, 2025
Writer Christopher Caldwell joins us to discuss the legacy of Ronald Reagan, the rise of a “New Right,” and the fate of the West.
April 4, 2025
We discuss the possibility of the US splitting Russia from China and China peeling Europe from the US with Zhao Long, Deputy Director of the Institute for Global Strategic and Security Studies in Shanghai.
March 21, 2025
Anastasia Likhacheva, Dean at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, discusses strategies for surviving sanctions, the prospect of sanctions relief, and the appearance of a new generation of Russian elites.
March 14, 2025
