Ambassador Michael McFaul - 'A New Cold War? Explaining Russia's New Confrontation with the West'

On March 16, 2015, at 4:30 pm in Statler Auditorium, Ambassador Michael McFaul gave the 2015 Bartels World Affairs Lecture entitled, “A New Cold War? Explaining Russia’s New Confrontation with the West.”

Michael McFaul is the former director of Center on Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law, and director of Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He is also the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he co-directs the Iran Democracy Project, as well as Professor of Political Science at Stanford University.

He is also a non-resident Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Eurasia Foundation, the Firebird Fund, Freedom House, the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy, and the International Research and Exchange Board (IREX).

He is the author and editor of several monographs including but not limited to, with Anders Aslund, Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough (2006) with Nikolai Petrov and Andrei Ryabov, Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Postcommunist Political Reform (2004); with Kathryn Stoner Weiss, After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of Transitions (2004) with Timothy Colton. He serves on the editorial boards of Current History, Journal of Democracy, Demokratizatsiya, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Post-Soviet Affairs, and The Washington Quarterly. He has served as a consultant for numerous companies and government agencies.

Michael McFaul was also the U.S. Ambassador to Russia (2012-2014). McFaul is the second non-career diplomat in 30 years to be U.S. ambassador to Russia.

Dr. McFaul's current research interests include democracy promotion, comparative democratization, and the relationship between political and economic reform in the postcommunist world.

The Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellowship was established in 1984, to bring prominent international leaders to Cornell. The mission of the fellowship program is explicitly educational-to foster a broadened world view among Cornell students by bringing to campus persons who have distinguished themselves as international public figures.

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