CSS Evening Talk: Russia, the West, and the Future of the International Order

The question as to how democratic Western countries can engage with the autocratic Russian state stood at the center of our last evening talk on 18 January. Speakers included Celeste Wallander, President of the US-Russia Foundation in Washington DC, who previously held various positions within the Obama Administration, as well as Professor Jeronim Perovic, Director of the Center for Eastern European Studies at the University of Zurich. Both speakers agreed that while US-Russian relations will remain a source of conflict in the future, opportunities to identify common interests must not be missed.