MIT Focus on Eurasia: Putin’s War Against the West

Schedule

Mon Mar 16 2026 at 04:30 pm to 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

MIT Building E25 | Cambridge, MA

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A conversation with John J. Sullivan, former US deputy secretary of state and former US ambassador to the Russian Federation.
About this Event

Speaker:

Ambassador John J. Sullivan is the former US deputy secretary of state and former US ambassador to the Russian Federation. His career spans four decades in public service in prominent diplomatic and legal positions under five US presidents. He is a non-resident distinguished senior fellow with the National Security Law Program as well as a partner in Mayer Brown’s Washington DC and New York offices. He co-leads the firm’s National Security practice.


Co-chairs:

Carol Saivetz is a senior fellow in the MIT Security Studies Program at the Center for International Studies (CIS). She is the author and contributing co-editor of books and articles on Soviet and now Russian foreign policy issues.


Elizabeth Wood is Ford International Professor of History at MIT. She is the author most recently of Roots of Russia’s War in Ukraine as well as articles on Vladimir Putin, the political cult of WWII, right-wing populism in Russia and Turkey, and U.S.-Russian Partnerships in Science. She is director of the MIT-Ukraine Program at CIS.


This event is co-sponsored by the Center for International Studies, the MIT-Eurasia program, and the MIT Security Studies Program (SSP).


This event is part of our . Each semester, the series brings together the MIT community and the general public to investigate ongoing issues in Eurasian domestic and foreign policy. Join our mailing here to learn about upcoming seminars in the series.

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