Wednesday, March 2, 3:30-5pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Why is Ukraine under threat of invasion from Russia? We will dig into this with featured speaker Gerard Toal, professor of international affairs at Virginia Tech. This discussion provides a thick geopolitical description of the Ukraine crisis and illustrates how it is a multiscalar conflict that entangles low intensity war in the Donbas, national identity conflict between Kyiv and Moscow, energy infrastructure and climate, as well as great power perceptions of geo-strategic encroachment. Toal will offer some arguments as to why Russia’s leadership decided to initiate the threat of invasion now, and what are its likely consequences.

Join us Wednesday, March 2 from 3:30pm to 5pm for this virtual discussion.

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Hosted by Mershon Center for International Security Studies.