Hannah Arendt Center presents:
Russia invades Ukraine: Disruption of the World Order?
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Online Event
9:00 am
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A panel with:
Walter Russell Mead, Malia Du Mont, Frederic Hof, Maksimas Milta and Allison Stanger
Moderated by Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director, Hannah Arendt Center
Tuesday, March 1st, 9:00 am EST
Register for Zoom Webinar here
(after registering you will receive webinar link)
In a recent column in the Wall Street Journal, Walter Russell Mead writes: "Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin has claimed his place in history. Not since Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in 1941 has a European leader committed an act of aggression as brutal or as nakedly cynical as Mr. Putin’s utterly unprovoked attack on Ukraine. He has made himself an international outlaw and turned the great nation of Russia into a rogue state.” But the criminal nature of Russia’s war and the justice of the Ukrainian cause does not guarantee that Putin’s war will fail. Whatever the outcome in Ukraine, it is likely that the Russian war of aggression will reshuffle the post WWII world order and threaten The United States's global leadership. In this panel, Walter Russell Mead alongside Frederic Hof, Malia Du Mont, and Allison Stanger will seek to put the stakes of the Russian-Ukrainian War in context and offer ideas for how the United States and the world can respond.
Sponsored by: The Hannah Arendt Center, Open Society University Network, The Russian and Eurasian Studies Program at Bard College, Bard Center for Civic Engagement and The Alexander Hamilton Society
About the Panelists
Malia K. Du Mont is Chief of Staff and Vice President for Strategy and Policy at Bard College. Previously, she was Co-President of Amur Equipment Finance, a nationally ranked Top Five independent equipment finance company, and also held multiple positions in the Pentagon, including Director of Strategy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. She served as a senior intelligence analyst in Afghanistan and at NATO, and worked on special operations policy and homeland defense policy in OSD and on the Joint Staff. An Afghanistan veteran, Malia chairs the NY-19 Veterans Advisory Council for Congressman Antonio Delgado. She is on the board of the World Affairs Council Mid-Hudson Valley and on the Advisory Council for Arts in the Armed Forces.
Walter Russell Mead is the Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at Hudson Institute, the Global View Columnist at The Wall Street Journal and the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College in New York. He is also a member of Aspen Institute Italy and board member of Aspenia. Before joining Hudson, Mead was a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations as the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy. Mead's new book is entitled The Arc of A Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People.
Allison Stanger is Russell Leng ’60 Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College, Research Affiliate at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, and a Senior Advisor to the OSUN Hannah Arendt Humanities Network. She is the author of Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump (Chinese edition to appear in September 2022) and One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy, both with Yale University Press. Stanger’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, New York Times, USA Today, and the Washington Post. She has been called to testify before Congress on five occasions and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Frederic Hof is Diplomat in Residence at Bard College. He has had a distinguished career with the U.S. Army, Department of State, and the international consulting firm AALC, specializing in the Mideast region. He served as ambassador and special adviser for transition in Syria under President Obama and as special coordinator for regional affairs in the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Special Envoy for Middle East Peace, where he advised Special Envoy George Mitchell on a range of Arab-Israeli issues. In 2001, he directed the Jerusalem field operations of the Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee, headed by George Mitchell, then Senate Majority Leader, and was lead drafter of the committee’s report. Awards and honors include the Purple Heart, Department of State Superior Honor Award, Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Medal, and the Defense Superior Service Medal. At Bard since 2018.
Maksimas Milta is a ReThink.CEE Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and an Associate Analyst at the Eastern Europe Studies Center. He is a frequent commentator on Belarus affairs for the international media and hosted an award-winning 10-episode documentary exploring the role of women in mobilizing the Belarusian society. Recognizing his on-the-ground reporting from Belarus during the first months of the 2020 protests, Maksimas received an annual Titan award by Delfi, the largest media outlet in the Baltic states. Currently, Maksimas is a graduate student in European & Russian Studies at Yale.
Roger Berkowitz is Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center and Professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights, Berkowitz writes and speaks about how justice is made present in the world. He is author of The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition, co-editor of Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch (2017), Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2010), The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis (2012), and editor of the annual journal HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center. Berkowitz is the 2019 recipient of the Hannah Arendt Award for Political Thought given by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Bremen, Germany
Tuesday, March 1st, 9:00 am EST
Register for Zoom Webinar here
Walter Russell Mead, Malia Du Mont, Frederic Hof, Maksimas Milta and Allison Stanger
Moderated by Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director, Hannah Arendt Center
Tuesday, March 1st, 9:00 am EST
Register for Zoom Webinar here
(after registering you will receive webinar link)
In a recent column in the Wall Street Journal, Walter Russell Mead writes: "Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin has claimed his place in history. Not since Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in 1941 has a European leader committed an act of aggression as brutal or as nakedly cynical as Mr. Putin’s utterly unprovoked attack on Ukraine. He has made himself an international outlaw and turned the great nation of Russia into a rogue state.” But the criminal nature of Russia’s war and the justice of the Ukrainian cause does not guarantee that Putin’s war will fail. Whatever the outcome in Ukraine, it is likely that the Russian war of aggression will reshuffle the post WWII world order and threaten The United States's global leadership. In this panel, Walter Russell Mead alongside Frederic Hof, Malia Du Mont, and Allison Stanger will seek to put the stakes of the Russian-Ukrainian War in context and offer ideas for how the United States and the world can respond.
Sponsored by: The Hannah Arendt Center, Open Society University Network, The Russian and Eurasian Studies Program at Bard College, Bard Center for Civic Engagement and The Alexander Hamilton Society
About the Panelists
Malia K. Du Mont is Chief of Staff and Vice President for Strategy and Policy at Bard College. Previously, she was Co-President of Amur Equipment Finance, a nationally ranked Top Five independent equipment finance company, and also held multiple positions in the Pentagon, including Director of Strategy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. She served as a senior intelligence analyst in Afghanistan and at NATO, and worked on special operations policy and homeland defense policy in OSD and on the Joint Staff. An Afghanistan veteran, Malia chairs the NY-19 Veterans Advisory Council for Congressman Antonio Delgado. She is on the board of the World Affairs Council Mid-Hudson Valley and on the Advisory Council for Arts in the Armed Forces.
Walter Russell Mead is the Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at Hudson Institute, the Global View Columnist at The Wall Street Journal and the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College in New York. He is also a member of Aspen Institute Italy and board member of Aspenia. Before joining Hudson, Mead was a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations as the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy. Mead's new book is entitled The Arc of A Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People.
Allison Stanger is Russell Leng ’60 Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College, Research Affiliate at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, and a Senior Advisor to the OSUN Hannah Arendt Humanities Network. She is the author of Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump (Chinese edition to appear in September 2022) and One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy, both with Yale University Press. Stanger’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, New York Times, USA Today, and the Washington Post. She has been called to testify before Congress on five occasions and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Frederic Hof is Diplomat in Residence at Bard College. He has had a distinguished career with the U.S. Army, Department of State, and the international consulting firm AALC, specializing in the Mideast region. He served as ambassador and special adviser for transition in Syria under President Obama and as special coordinator for regional affairs in the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Special Envoy for Middle East Peace, where he advised Special Envoy George Mitchell on a range of Arab-Israeli issues. In 2001, he directed the Jerusalem field operations of the Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee, headed by George Mitchell, then Senate Majority Leader, and was lead drafter of the committee’s report. Awards and honors include the Purple Heart, Department of State Superior Honor Award, Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Medal, and the Defense Superior Service Medal. At Bard since 2018.
Maksimas Milta is a ReThink.CEE Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and an Associate Analyst at the Eastern Europe Studies Center. He is a frequent commentator on Belarus affairs for the international media and hosted an award-winning 10-episode documentary exploring the role of women in mobilizing the Belarusian society. Recognizing his on-the-ground reporting from Belarus during the first months of the 2020 protests, Maksimas received an annual Titan award by Delfi, the largest media outlet in the Baltic states. Currently, Maksimas is a graduate student in European & Russian Studies at Yale.
Roger Berkowitz is Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center and Professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights, Berkowitz writes and speaks about how justice is made present in the world. He is author of The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition, co-editor of Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch (2017), Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2010), The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis (2012), and editor of the annual journal HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center. Berkowitz is the 2019 recipient of the Hannah Arendt Award for Political Thought given by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Bremen, Germany
Tuesday, March 1st, 9:00 am EST
Register for Zoom Webinar here