Friday, February 25th, 2022 Russia's Attack on Ukraine: An Expert Roundtable

Description

As Russian troops advance and Ukraine fights off attacks, a pandemic-weary world watches as war breaks out in eastern Europe. On Friday, February 25 at 2 p.m. ET, celebrated broadcaster and Munk School Distinguished Fellow Peter Mansbridge will examine the latest developments with a roundtable of experts including Columbia University’s Timothy M. Frye, and the University of Toronto’s Janice Stein, founding Director of the Munk School, and Lucan Way, Co-Director of the Munk School’s Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine and Tymofiy Mylovanov, KSE President, Associate Professor of the University of Pittsburgh, former minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine.

About our Moderator

Peter Mansbridge
Distinguished Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs

Peter Mansbridge is an award-winning journalist, a Distinguished Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and a member of numerous boards and committees. He is best known for his five decades of work at the CBC where he was Chief Correspondent of CBC News and anchor of The National for thirty years. He has won dozens of awards for outstanding journalism, has thirteen honorary doctorates from universities in Canada and the United States, and received Canada’s highest civilian honour, the Order of Canada, in 2008. He is the former two-term Chancellor of Mount Allison University, now its Chancellor Emeritus, and is the President of Manscorp Media Services where his work includes documentary film production.

About our Speakers

Timothy M. Frye
Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy, Columbia University

Timothy Frye is the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy. His research and teaching interests are in comparative politics and political economy with a focus on the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. He is the author of Brokers and Bureaucrats: Building Markets in Russia, which won the 2001 Hewett Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and Building States and Markets after Communism: The Perils of Polarized Democracy, which won a Best Book Prize from the APSA Comparative Democratization section in 2010; and Property Rights and Property Wrongs: How Power, Institutions, and Norms Shape Economic Conflict in Russia, which was published in 2017. His most recent book is Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia. He co-directs the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development at the Higher Economics School in Moscow and edits Post-Soviet Affairs.

Olexiy Haran
Professor of Comparative Politics, Kyiv Mohyla Academy and Research Director, Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation

Olexiy Haran is a professor at NUKMA’s Department of Political Science, specializing in 20th and 21st century Ukrainian history with a focus on trilateral relations among the EU, Ukraine and Russia, and on comparative politics between Ukraine and other European countries. In 1991–2 he organized the Faculty of Social Studies and became its dean at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In 2002, he founded the School of Political Analysis at NUKMA and is currently its director of research. He has lectured abroad at Harvard, Berkeley and Stanford Universities, the Carnegie Endowment for International Security, the RAND Corporation, the Brookings Institution, and many more. His analytical briefs have been printed, among others, by the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, and the Federal Institute of Eastern European Studies in Cologne.

Janice Stein
Professor and Founding Director, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto

Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the Founding Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was the Massey Lecturer in 2001 and a Trudeau Fellow. She was awarded the Molson Prize by the Canada Council for an outstanding contribution by a social scientist to public debate. She has received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from four universities and is a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario. She is a frequent contributor to CBC, BBC and TVO.

Lucan Way
Professor, Political Science, University of Toronto and co-director of the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine

Lucan Way is professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and co-director of the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and has held fellowships at Harvard University (Harvard Academy and Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies), and the University of Notre Dame (Kellogg Fellowship). Way’s research focuses on global patterns of democracy and autocracy—with a special focus on the former Soviet Union. He is the author of Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War (Cambridge University Press 2010, with Steven Levitsky), and Pluralism by Default: Weak Autocrats and the Rise of Competitive Politics (Johns Hopkins, 2015). His new book, Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (with Steven Levitsky) will be published by Princeton University Press in September.

Tymofiy Mylovanov
President, Kyiv School of Economics, Associate Professor of the University of Pittsburgh, former minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine.

Tymofiy Mylovanov is President of Kyiv School of Economics. He graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (Management) in 1997 and from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy majoring in Economic Theory in 1999. In 2004 he got his PhD in Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). During his professional career, he has been teaching for a long time at the European and American universities, including Rheinische Friedrich–Wilhelms–Universität Bonn, University of Pennsylvania and University of Pittsburgh. From August 2019 to March 2020, Tymofiy Milovanov held the post of Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine.