Great Power Competition Series: Flashpoint Ukraine

Jane Vaynman, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Temple University and the 2021-2022 Lightning Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House, moderates a conversation with retired Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, USA (Ret.) and his research assistant at the Lawfare Institute, Dominic Cruz Bustillos. Discussing the most recent developments concerning tensions over Ukraine as well as US-Russian relations. The discussants also expand upon Lt. Col. Vindman and Mr. Bustillos’s recent article in Foreign Affairs, with updated analysis, predictions, ramifications, and policy prescriptions for an expanded conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

Panelists:
Alexander S. Vindman, Lieutenant Colonel U.S. Army (Retired), is a doctoral student and a Foreign Policy Institute Fellow at Johns Hopkins, School of Advanced International Studies, a Pritzker Military Fellow at the Lawfare Institute, a non-resident fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House, and the author of the memoir, Here, Right Matters.

Dominic Cruz Bustillos is a Research Assistant for Lt. Col. (Ret.) Alexander Vindman at the Lawfare Institute. He has a B.A. in Russian Language and History from Vanderbilt University.

Moderator:
Dr. Jane Vaynman is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Temple University. Dr. Vaynman’s work focuses on security cooperation between adversarial states, the design of arms control agreements, and the effects of emerging technology on international institutions. She is the co-founder of the Nuclear Studies Research Initiative, a project that promotes intellectual exchange and cross-fertilization for emerging research in policy, history, and political science. Previously, she was the Associate Director of the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. She was also a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and has held positions with U.S. Department of State and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She was a Fulbright Fellow at the Carnegie Moscow Center in 2006-2007. She received her PhD in political science from Harvard University.