Foreign Area Officer Association (FAOA) Panel Series
Context is Everything: Russia and Ukraine
Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 1 PM U.S. Eastern Time
The panel will be on Zoom. Link to the webinar will be shared with registered participants.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the largest military event in Europe since the Second World War. Alleged atrocities are mounting, and the war is a turning point for the continent that will have far reaching effects. Refugees are fleeing for safety, rhetoric includes mentions of nuclear war, and oil prices are going up by the day. The immediate and second order effects of the invasion are not clear as the war’s intensity increases. With tensions high, off-ramps seem out of reach in the near-term and the longer the conflict goes on, the risks of war spilling over Ukraine’s borders rises. The United States continues to ramp up sanctions against Russia, to consolidate support at the United Nations, and to provide support and assistance to the Ukrainians, but the effects of the U.S. and international response are not fully understood.
The Context is Everything Panel will provide just that, expert context on this dire crisis. The FAOA is proud to bring together the following distinguished panelists for an in-depth discussion on the diplomatic, economic, and security dimensions to the conflict:
Featured Speakers
Dr. Mark N. Katz (moderator)
Mark N. Katz is Professor of Government and Politics at the George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government. He is also the Chairperson of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He has received fellowships from the Brookings Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Kennan Institute, and the U.S. Institute of Peace. He has also been a Fulbright Scholar at the School of Oriental and African Studies and a Sir William Luce Fellow at Durham University (both in the United Kingdom). He writes on Russian foreign policy; Russian-American relations; American foreign policy; great power competition; transnational revolutionary movements; relations between revolutionary and status quo powers; and relations between revolutionary actors. Links to many of his publications can be found at:
www.marknkatz.com
Ambassador William Courtney
Ambassador Courtney was appointed by President Bill Clinton as Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasian affairs in 1997. He served as ambassador to Kazakhstan, Georgia, and the U.S.-Soviet Bilateral Consultative Commission to implement the Threshold Test Ban Treaty. He was special assistant to the president for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia; deputy U.S. negotiator in the U.S.-Soviet Defense and Space Talks; deputy executive secretary of the NSC staff; and special assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. Earlier, he served in the Nuclear and Space Talks in Geneva and at the American Embassies in Moscow and Brasilia. Ambassador Courtney is a member and former member of the board of directors of the American Academy of Diplomacy and was a member of the board of directors of the former World Affairs Council of Washington D.C. He belongs to the Council on Foreign Relations, where in 1977–78 he was an international affairs fellow. He graduated from West Virginia University with a B.A. and Brown University with a Ph.D. in economics.
Richard Nephew
Richard Nephew is the author of The Art of Sanctions and an expert on the use of sanctions for deterrence and impact. Nephew most recently served as the deputy special envoy for Iran in the Biden-Harris administration. He previously served as Principal Deputy Coordinator for Sanctions Policy at the Department of State and as the lead sanctions expert for the U.S. team negotiating with Iran during the Obama Administration. Nephew served as the Director for Iran on the National Security Staff where he was responsible for managing a period of intense expansion of U.S. sanctions on Iran. Earlier in his career he served in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation at the State Department and in the Office of Nonproliferation and International Security at the Department of Energy. Nephew holds a Masters in Security Policy Studies and a Bachelors in International Affairs, both from The George Washington University.
Rear Admiral (ret) David Manero
RDML (ret) Manero spent over 32 years as a United States Naval Aviator and served over 15 years overseas as a Foreign Area Officer. He served two tours as the Senior Defense Official/Defense Attaché in the United Kingdom and Russia, where previously he also spent a tour as the U.S. Naval Attaché to the Russian Federation. Additionally, he served in multiple capacities on joint duty with the United States European Command, where he was simultaneously assigned the NATO Deputy J3 for NATO Ready Force (NRF) 14. He served = as the Navy's Senior Foreign Area Officer for the last three years of his career. Mr. Manero holds a Master of Public Policy specializing in International Affairs and Security from Harvard University, a Master of Strategic Studies (with distinction) from the United States Air War College, a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and he is a designated Developmental Test Pilot with nearly 4000 flight hours in over 38 different aircraft types. He resides with his wife and extended family in McLean, Virginia.
When:
Thursday, March 10, 2022
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time
Where: The panel will be on Zoom. Link to the webinar will be shared with registered participants.
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