Crisis Between Ukraine and Russia
This Center for Preventive Action Contingency Planning Memorandum examines how crisis scenarios between Ukraine and Russia could unfold, the...
Speaker: Steven Pifer, Visiting Fellow, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution; Senior Adviser (Nonresident), Center for Strategic & International Studies
Presider: Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program and Outreach, Council on Foreign Realtions
February 26, 2009
Listen to Steven Pifer, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, discuss Ukrainian-Russian relations with students as part of CFR's Academic Conference Call series.
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