Episode S3 | E8
Is the Bear Back in the Woods, and How Should the Eagle Respond?
Air Date: Jul 08, 2018
About the guests

Dr. Stephen Kotkin
Historian & Director of the Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University
Professor Kotkin has been teaching in the Princeton history department since 1989. He holds a joint appointment in the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton. He is also a Research Scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Professor Kotkin established the Princeton department's Global History...

Dr. Alina Polyakova
David M. Rubenstein Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution
Alina Polyakova is the David M. Rubenstein Fellow in the Foreign Policy program's Center on the United States and Europe and adjunct professor of European studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She specializes in European politics, far-right populism and nationalism, and Russian foreign...

Ambassador Alexander Vershbow
Former Deputy Secretary General of NATO & Former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation
Ambassador Alexander Vershbow was the Deputy Secretary General of NATO from February 2012 to October 2016. Ambassador Vershbow took up his position in February, 2012 after serving for three years as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. In that position, he was responsible for coordinating U.S. security and...